L^oiilo Y/iiHl^f8^ v/iQif^riQ i^pfw/o hottoi^ thsin thc* fp*>\ thinn*? By Marlyn Schwartz said Michael Stoddard of Candle Corp. in are marketed by several companies. Don "I even envision a video food tape that Syndicated Columnist Los Angeles. "It's based on published Kaufman of San Francisco, distributor of comes with its own frozen TV dinner. As studies at the University of Pennsylvania 4 slice . • • one, said: you watch the show, you eat the food that that show the significance of having a There's a whole new concept in home A fire that never needs tending, 'The tape is so real that the whole corresponds with a cooking lecture on the videotaping. Now you don't get just enter­ bond between humans and pets." room is brightened and made more cozy tape. tainment. You can get atmosphere. People sat in front of an aquarium for snow that doesn't need shoveling by it. I tried it out at a dinner party last hours and showed a noticeable reduction in year. Everyone was entranced. The next "If a videotape store doesn't want to Who needs a real fire with real wood in blood pressure and respiration. If watch­ a real fireplace? For $30, you can buy a day I just stretched out on the couch and stock a freezer, the food can be sold at the ing the fish was all that mattered, who grocery stores. There will be numbers so videotape that shows 60 minutes of roar­ needed a real aquarium? watched that tape for one hour. It was ing fire. No ashes. No embers. No drafts "Some dentists are already using our wonderfully relaxing. And I didn't have to you'll know which TV dinner goes with Stoddard's company did a test tape of which tape " from the chimney. one hour of fish and '^boiled that down to goldfish tapes," he said, "and one hospital keep running and throwing on more logs." Who needs pets?i'For $35, you can buy the best moments," he said. "Now you get in Florida is also using it to help soothe Kaufman is working on a video rain­ Kaufman is also considering video pets a tape that shows 30 minutes of nothing 30 minutes of the fish, with lots of relax­ patients' pre- and post-operative tensions. storm and a video snowfall. other than fish As he talked, a dog could but swimming fish. Instant aquarium. No ing shots of bubbles and water movement. And we're testing other 'natural' tapes, "Can you imagine how wonderful a be heard barking in the background. Real messy equipment. No fish food. The whole idea is to get rid of stress. And too. We've already done rough footage on video snowfall could be in the southern or video pet' it makes an attractive addition to any tapes of surf and of clouds." states during Thanksgiving and Both tapes can be played on home room in the house," though it was devel­ Christmas?" he said. "We might even •'Real." he said. "But the way I calm video cassette players. oped originally for "office concepts of the Different versions of the fireplace - arrange to put some Christmas carols in him down is to let him go to sleep in front Video Fish is "a bold, new concept," future" — video goldfish in every corner. the other hot "atmosphere" videotape — the background. of a videotape fire " have more fun • The April issue of Glamour magazine contains a survey that found the average man's Mud M. MLW-s£& W • JHC/k!5 Local scene B2 JHJP "ideal woman" is a curly-haired brunette with •• #/ — Movie clock „ B6 — a round bottom and a sunny personality. What Gannett Westchester Newspapers/Tuesday, March 29, 1983 happened to the flashy blonde who, according Television B5 SeCt'lOtl ^^^^^^^^^^^ to the famous Clairol YK ^^™il—^^"^""" advertising campaign, 4DD1G is supposed to have £, vr more fun? "We don't 1 9ailCe take sides," said Clairol spokesman Tom Petty: "^^^™^^^™ Jack Shor. "But the fact is, we are seeing more and more women who want to become blondes." Wait until they On his read Glamour! SPEAKING OF BLONDES: Actress Morgan own terms Fairchild — who has played the bad girl in "Flamingo Road" and "Dallas" - says she's By Don McLeese ripe for a change. Miss Fairchild currently is Independent Press Service negotiating with NBC for a new television om Petty's story is a familiar one. It series. Although she won't say what kind of starts with year's in the bars, first in his hometown of Gainesville. Fla.. part she'll play, Morgan told an Apple source, then throughout Florida, then across "I'd like to be a nice the South There's a cross-country .\ guy for a change." | T van trip in hopes of a record con- f iss tract. bnTy to have the band break up before iilMk. ^ fairchild congratulations are completed. \ \. recently took a Another band, another shot - even some %^"~ successful stab at success this time around Then things start to 1 serious acting in the get weird. Because of various business entangle­ Off-Broadway play ments, years of threats and lawsuits follow. Wk "Geniuses." She must Music is still of paramount 909 have been serious. She importance, told our source she Gambit. Vmce Antoiini but music can Morgan Fairchild was paid a relatively Patient Gerard Hammond of White Plains indicates his choice to White Plains Hospital volunteers seem almost meager $198 per Cissy Shuman and Nelly Ammann peripheral week for her part. within the mu­ sic business. Morgan said she may stick with the play in a Too much Los Angeles edition, but only in between far time is spent more lucrative TV assignments —presumably Paintings for patients: in court and as that sought-after "nice guy." conference rooms; too ANTI'DRUG ENCORE: First Lady Nancy little in con­ Brightening a hospital stay cert or record­ Reagan is returning to the tube with the same should try to find the picture that does it" ing sessions. anti-drug message she delivered recently on By Kathie Boals Theater/Arts Editor At Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco, •a NBC-TV's "Diff'rent Strokes." Mrs. Reagan, a Pat Smith, director of volunteer services, says pic­ former actress, will act as hostess for two can't even remember the picture - it tures brighten rooms where there are no colorful Petty's stub­ Public Broadcasting System programs on drug may have been a vase of flowers or just window curtains. Landscapes are the most popular; bornness has one flower," Millie Verro said, sitting up abstract paintings the least desirable. "They upset been well-doc­ abuse. Taping is scheduled for April 13 in umented: his Pittsburgh; the programs will air in November. in bed at the White Plains Hospital. "But people who are coming out of anesthesia," she ex­ whatever it was, when I came to after my plained. On the whole, representational art is seen as refusal to let operation and saw it on the most comforting. record-compa­ nies trade his MEL'S FEELING SWELL: Country singer the wall said to myself, That Mel Tillis is feeling just fine after the hernia Another art cart enthusiast is a contract as if picture will make me well tt -director-of-volunteer-s-who-does re-eatt4e^ operation he underwent last Thursday in Such a reaction gladdens the Art has a way of have one. She is Margaret Ar­ his refusal to let his album be used as a trial- Nashville, Apple heart and lightens the load of chibald of St. Agnes Hospital in balloon for an industry-wide price hike. In both Sauce has learned. In every volunteer who pushes an reaching White Plains who visualizes a instances, he was risking everything he'd fact, the singer's first "art cart" through hospital halls people.. .and the strong and beneficial reaction, dreamed of. In both instances, he was right, he request on his way to and hangs pictures in patients' even if it were negative, along the stood firm, and he won. rooms. volunteer should lines of: "I can't stand that picture Tom Petty is now at the height of his recovery was for a and I'd like to get out of this bed whopping-big country The art cart service is offered popularity and touring America's arena circuit intermittently in area hospitals, try to find the and take it down." as a headliner with his band, the Heartbreakers. meal of fried chicken, depending on the availability of The tour comes to the metropolitan area this potato salad, fried picture that does Funding for the art carts comes volunteers who know something from various sources. At White week for two shows: Thursday. March 31. at the ochre, corn breadTa about art and are willing to orga­ it. 99 Plains Hospital the service is spon­ Nassau Coliseum; and Friday, April 1, at the cheeseburger and nize and maintain a hospital collec­ sored by the White Plains and Byrne Meadowlands Arena. milkshake. Tillis is tion. Jan© Uvesey Scarsdale auxiliaries, each of Petty was determined for as long as he can planning to continue Most of the pictures are repro­ which provided $1,500 for initial remember to be a successful rocker. So are a MelTHBs singing just as soon as ductions of commercial paintings funding. Tips given to volunteers lot of people. What sets Petty apart is not his made in Europe for the reprint market. The scenes . by grateful patients are another source of funds.