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"Nasty" Nellie Olsen
inspires reactions
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By JERRY RUCK
AP Takvltlon Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) -
Alison Arngrim of NBG-TV’s
“little House on the Prairie”
inspires strong emotional
reactions in people.
*. Little girls throw things at
the TV set when she’s on.
/ - “People run up to me in
restaurants and say, ‘I hate
you! You’re terrible! But I love
it when you do nasty things!’"
the actress said.
The cause of these outbursts
Is bar role as "Nasty” Nellie
Olsen, who has been making
life miserable for Laura Ingalls
(or six years. She’s a pint-sized
blackmailer and a cheat.
"People eye me — is that
her?” said Miss Arngrim, 18,
wljose long, flaxen hair is
covered on screen by a wig of
curls. “Then I say something
and they recognize my voice
and back off. I went to a movie
theater and asked for a Dr.
Pepper and popcorn The girl
behind the counter said, ‘Hot
damn, it’s Nellie Olsen!”'
She’s also a budding Joan
Rivers. She has been doing a
standup comedy routine for
several years. She has an
album out as Amy Carter. Her
mother, former Canadian
actress Norma Macmillan was
the voice of Caroline and John-
John Kennedy on “The First
Family” album.
Miss Arngrim is of Icelandic
descent. Her father, Thor
Arngrim, is a former actor
who’s now a producer and
personal manager. Brother
Stefan U an actor and was on
“Land of the Giants.” Her
mother has completed an epic
novel of Canada.
Nellie comes by her brat-
tiness naturally. Her mother is
Harriet Olsen, played by
Katherine MacGregor, the
town gossip and snob of Walnut *
Grove, Minn. When Nellie
entertainment...
...people, screens and books
After the devil
writes a school essay, it may be
about her “fine home, the finest
in Walnut Grove.” If she gets a
doll it’s from “Paris, France.”
In fact, everything she owns is
from “Paris, France," and her
descriptions mangle the
French language.
“I was 11 years old when I
started playing Nellie and I
took to it with relish," said Miss
Arngrim. “I got to stick out my
tongue on television. I got to
beat up on Laura. Melissa
Gilbert and I became good
friends and we always look
forward to our fight scenes.”
Miss Arngrim’s adolescent
villainy brings a refreshing
touch of tartness to “Little
House on the Prairie," and
helps save it from lapsing into a
goody two-shoes sweetness. She
just may be the best teenage
meanie since Bonita Granville.
She hasn’t done any guest
roles, but she has been on a lot
of game shows. "I get
hysterical when I win,” she
said. “I’m very competitive.”
She also spends her time
doing her comedy routine
wherever they’ll let her in the
door.
Patriotic song wins
writer a big contract
By YARDENA ARAR
Associated Pros* Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) -
There probably are several
ways to go about getting a
record contract, but writing a
patriotic song isn’t generally
considered one of them.
It worked for Michael
Brogan, however. But then, his
patriotic song, "Let’s Make
America the Beautiful Again,”
is hardly a stock, my-country-
right-or-wrong kind of ditty.
Maybe you’ve heard it:
“We buy toys and cars from
other folks
But we don’t buy our own
Foreign factories we helped
to build ,
Outdo us here at home.
Why don’t we make our own
stuff better
And buy it from ourselves
We might save our own
economy
And our self-respect as welL”
Served up in a catchy country
setting, these and other timely
lyrics impressed Arista
Records’ president, Clive
Davis, so much that he signed
Brogan to a record deal on the
basis of the song.
A singer-songwriter’s dream-
come-true — but Brogan, a
sturdy-looklng Texan who had
dabbled in music for 15 years
while gradually making his
way to San Francisco, wasn’t
thinking record contracts when
he penned the tune. For that
matter, he hadn’t been giving
patriotism much conscious
thought, either.
“Let’s Make America the
Beautiful Again” was, in fact,
the product of a fairly
straightforward business
agreement.
The 31-year-old San Fran-
cisco Bay Area musician
needed $1,000 to finance a
recording that he planned to
sell in the club where he was
working.
FUNNYMAN WAS PAIRED with funnywoman when
Elliot Gould recently escorted Gilda Radner to an
opening night on Broadway. The two may have been
forced to provide most of their own laughs; the musical
comedy they attended received such had reviews that
it closed after one performance.
Charlie Daniels takes
on the Russian bear
By JOE EDWARDS
Associated Prsss Writer
NASHVILLE, Term. (AP) -
Having subdued Satan in “The
Devil Went Down to Georgia,”
flesty Charlie Daniels is
waning the Soviets to leave
America alone or the Russian
bear might become a cuddly
cub.
The message, in Daniels’
traditional graphic language, is
delivered in his lively hit tune,
"In America,” hia follow-up to
last year’s bouncy fiddle song,
“The Devil Went Down to
Georgia.”
America has stumbled but
not fallen, the new song says.
The country is "walkin’ real
proud and talkin’ real loud
again.” And if the Russians
don't believe that, they can go
straight to — well, it’s not
heaven.
All this is in the aftermath of
a controversial line in his last
song in which he called the
devil an S.O.B.
"I’m tired of people runnln’
America in the ground and
talkin’ about us,” the beefy
Daniels said during a break at a
recording studio, where he was
wrapping up his 11th album.
“I just got tired of hearing
people treat us as a third-rate
country. There’s a lot wrong
with us, but this happens to be a
pretty good country."
The song, which Daniels
wrote with other members of
his band, is his first since he
broke his right arm in
February when his sleeve got
caught in an hydraulic augur on
his farm east of Nashville.
For Daniels, a fiddler and
guitarist, it was nearly
catastrophic. He spent a week
in the hospital and required two
hours of surgery to repair five
breaks.
“My arm Is about 75 per-
cent,” he said. “It’s weak but
getting better. One of my first
projects was simply touchin’
my nose." He now shakes
hands with his left hand.
"I’ve decided I’m going to
come back 110 percent and be a
better musician and a better
person. The accident made me
appreciate my arm and there's
a special thanks to God on the
album for healin’ my right
arm,” he said.
Daniels said he’ll be able to
play as well as before, because
recovery is as much mental as
it is physical.
“Old habits are in your
brain,” he said.
In “The Devil Went Down to
Georgia," the devil challenged
a Georgia whlppersnapper
named Johnny to a fiddlin'
contest. At stake were the
devil’s fiddle and Johnny’s
soul. Johnny won.
The song is one Daniels and
his band play in the current
John Travolta movie, “Urban
Cowboy.”
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movies. Much of it is
misdirected, but enough
remains to please less
demanding movie patrons.
Especially those who cherish
car crashes — never has the
Detroit product been
demolished so spectacularly.
Die paper-thin plot concerns
two shady brothers seeking to
save their old orphanage by re-
forming their jazz band. On this
fragile framework are hung the
gargantuan stunts and splendid
musical numbers by Aretha
Franklin, Cab Calloway, Ray
Charles and James Brown. The
major weakness of the film is
the characters of John Belushi
and Dan Ackroyd, who dress
like hip morticians throughout
and seem undertalented to
carry such a heavy load. The
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