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Gayle Top Female Vocalist Milsap Sweeps Country Music Awards ite for both Entertainer of the Year and top female vocalist, won nothing. Nominees for Entertainer of the Year were Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings, Miss Parton, Rogers and Milsap. Milsap won top male vocalist over Larry Gatlin, Jennings, Rogers and Don Williams. Miss Gayle was selected top female vocalist over Emmylou Harris, Miss Lynn, Barbara Mandrell and Miss Parton. Jennings, who led with nominations with five, won nothing.

He had tried unsuccessfully to withdraw from the competition be- writers, Roger Bowling and Hal Bynum. Merle Travis, a guitarist-songwriter-singer, became the 30th member of the Country Music Hall of Fame. He is probably best known as a pioneer guitarist and as writer of the classic, "Sixteen Tons." Jim Ed Brown and Helen Cornelius were named top vocal duo; the Statler Brothers won No. 1 vocal group for the sixth straight year; the Original Texas Playboys were chosen top instrumental group, and Roy Clark won Instrumentalist of the Year for the first time in his career. Dolly Parton, considered a favor cause he objects to musicians competing for awards.

He was arrested recently on cocaine charges but they were dismissed last week. Selections were made by the 5,000 members of the CMA, comprised primarily of singers, songwriters and record company executives. An exception was the Hall, of Fame winner, who was chosen by an anonymous 250-member committee. The awards show has traditionally stirred controversy. Last year Jennings refused to appear and three awards he won or shared were accepted by his close friend and frequent singing partner, Willie Nelson.

Two years ago, Charlie Rich was announcing an award when he burned a slip of paper and made a rambling, disoriented presentation. He said later he was on medication. Three years ago, Olivia Newton-John was chosen No. 1 female vocalist, triggering complaints that she was not a genuine country singer. The awards show launched a week of country-music-related activities in Nashville.

There are parties and awards banquets sponsored by various licensing agencies, concerts, a disc jockey convention and a Grand Ole Opry birthday celebration. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Ronnie Milsap was named Entertainer of the Year and was selected Male Vocalist of the Year for the third time Monday night at the nationally televised Country Music Association awards show. Milsap, blind from birth, also was named male vocalist in 1974 and 1976. He won a third award Monday night, Album of the Year, for his "Ronnie Milsap Live" album.

Crystal Gayle, Loretta Lynn's younger sister, was chosen Female Vocalist of the Year. "Lucille," recorded by Kenny Rogers, was selected Song of the Year and Single of the Year. The Song of the Year honored its Abdul-Jabbar By TED GREEN Th Loi Angelei Timet HOLLYWOOD Hoping to capitalize on his fame, add to his fortune and secure his future when his National Basketball Association days are done, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is testing his talents for a career in acting. This past summer, he was the life of the party on television's Laugh-In and on talk shows hosted by Merv Griffin and Dinah Shore. And he portrayed an alien prospector as guest star on a soon-to-be-aired seg Wants an Acting Career K', A.

fvf a chair next to Merv and Dinah, or whiling away the tedious hours between takes on the Atlantis set near Palmdale, the Lakers center was halfway around the world working on an article for Encore magazine. Subject: sports and culture in Turkey. He recently had pieces in Coast magazine (on how it felt to move back here from Milwaukee, where he played for six years) and in the New York Times (on how 5-foot-10 Calvin Murphy makes it in the NBA). Associated Press Wirephoto HIS WIFE, ACCEPTS AWARD top male vocalist three times Mick Jagger Proud of 'Love You Live' By CHET FLIPPO Rolling Stone NEW YORK Mick Jagger, looking almost anonymous in his black leather flak jacket and jeans, settles into a back table at his favorite Chinese restaurant here and, armed only with chopsticks, prepares himself to fend off questions about the Rolling Stones' reappearance in the public eye. The Stones have returned with a flurry, bringing with them "Love You Live," the long-awaited live album, plans for a new studio LP and an American tour next year, and a spate of Jagger pronouncements on other subjects.

But first, along with appetizers, Jagger wants to get the new album out of the way. "A lot of alien journalists have said to me," he says, you just did this live album 'cause it's the last album in your contract or I worked harder on this pick? And we decided to go with the latest shows rather than the American ones, because I just preferred to put out the things we recorded later, rather than earlier. "What we tried to do is make the sides have to stand up on their own. People aren't going to pay a hell of a lot for a live album. So each side should stand on its own, have a pacing just like the show has a pacing." There is a moment before the encore "Sympathy for the Devil" when what sounds like gunshots are heard.

That was, I assume, a very deliberate inclusion that gives the song a very menacing tone. Jagger smiles: "Oh, that was just on the tape. Cherry bombs going off." But it sounds as if the explosions were mixed way up on the album. Jagger smiles widely: "I maybe turned it up a little. Are you ready to order?" After the next studio album (tentatively to be recorded in Paris starting in October), what will be the Stones' plans? "Oh, there are definite tour plans.

We haven't booked the halls yet, though. We hope to tour the U.S. in the spring, when the studio album is out, and then I'd like to tour Australia and Japan." But, I remind him, you still have your lead guitar player going to trial RONNIE MILSAP, WITH he has been chosen MICK JAGGER worked very hard in Toronto in December. "Oh well" another wave of the chopsticks "it rests obviously on the fact that Keith will still be roaming the streets of New York as he is at the moment. I think one's gotta be positive and you've got to hope positively that Keith gets off.

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4Sf 'THE 11 AND 'STAR WARS VTjvAwRAPPED A UP IN 'JE ONEI IP1 a IvTatI I I ma II. "I've tried other lights.ButI can't believe this is a light" The 'Wonder Woman' ment of The Man From Atlantis. He could have been even busier in Hollywood than a 1960s Flower Child. But he stuck to his resolve to do nothing undignified and turned down a monster role on the Six Million Dollar Man, as well as a session with Tom Snyder. "The monster part was too stereotypical and demeaning," Abdul-Jabbar said.

"And I avoided Snyder because he asks a question, answers it and then comments on the words he put in your mouth." When he wasn't stretched across album than I do on a studio album. I'm not boasting or anything, but I did and Keith did work harder, mainly because it's a double album. It was not in any way a throwaway thing. It was really important, 'cause we had made only one really live album before ('Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out'), so this one had to be good. I mean, people have annoyed me a bit intimating that it's the last album.

Nine months of listening to the Rolling Stones is not my idea of heaven." With chopsticks waving in the air for emphasis, he buries his nose in the menu: "Got to do a radio interview in an hour. I just got back from England and I did a week of interviews: 'What do you think of punk rock? Who are you sleeping I did that for six people a day for five days. They all ask the same thing in different languages. The Japanese said, 'What do you think of I said, 'Oh, you mean who am Warning: The Surgeon That Cigarette Smoking Is FTC Method. OU) GOLD 1 1 I I vcrn Rolling Stone going to bed with? My wife, of The Stones had listened to about 80 hours of live shows before picking material from Paris in 1976 and Toronto in 1977.

Some of the songs, comment, sound completely different from the versions done in the 1975 Tour of the Americas. "Different from what?" Well, "Tumbling Dice" in Paris becomes almost a gospel song. "Oh yeah, it does. You see, we've got so many ways of doing 'Tumbling Dice' I mean, which one do you General Has Determined Dangerous to Your Health. 1 7l HOLLYWOOD If you read the recent national magazine cover story on "Wonder Woman" Lynda Carter and her husband-manager Ron Samuels, you likely got the impression she's a man-made success that he's the Wonder Man responsible for all she's achieved, for all she ever hopes to achieve.

However, if you speak to Lynda Carter you get the distinct impression she's solely responsible for having made the leap ZAP! POW! from being Miss World U.S.A. beauty winner of 1973 to star of one of TV's most popular prime-time kid-vid series. With only three bit television acting parts in the interim. "People have referred to Ron as my Svengali before," conceded the statuesque brown-haired, blue-eyed beauty. "I try not to let it bother me, though." She tries to keep in mind that, "Some people just have to find a way to justify a woman's success.

And so they tend to say, 'The reason she's accomplished this is because she's being manipulated by someone else. "That's easier for them than facing the realization that a woman can make it in this male-dominated business. The simplest thing for them to believe is that whatever she does is a direct cause of the man in her life." Lynda met the man in her life long after ABC had signed her to star in a series of "Wonder Woman" specials but long before that network dropped the show the end of last season. It was just about the time, in fact, that Ron and Lynda were planning their wedding that he negotiated with CBS to pick up "Wonder Woman" this fall for a full 26 episodes that will reportedly earn his bride $1 million. Lynda's celebrity status also has earned her such star-like accoutrements as a chaffeur-driven limousine and a motor home-dressing room of such impressive proportions that Oscar-winner Louise Fletcher, on the Warner Bros, lot filming 'The Cheap Detective," commented, "Makes me wonder why I studied so long and hard to become an actress." But Lynda doesn't let barbs like I Tirft B79-0600 TONITE AT 6:4519:15 ACADEMY AWARD (BEST SONG) TONITE AT 7:00 I 9:15 i (Ik The Wort leitMevte THE NEW ACROPOLIS The original Monday thru Thursday PRIME RIB SPECIAL $95 with potato, vegetable, salad bar Featuring Friday and Saturday Only KEITH Happy Hour Monday thru Friday, 4-6 with hors d'oeuvres Pearl St.

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