European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 10, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse January 1981 the stars and stripes Pago 19 despite Abc Pink Disney int giving up by Jerry Buck the associated press Ron president of Walt Dis Ney says there is no mystery about Why Abc is dropping Disney wonderful they didst negotiate a new contract because our performance against 60 minutes want that he and they move elsewhere because they Felt there is no longer a Market for an anthology Miller said negotiations Are now under Way to move the show to another i think 8 Oclock on Friday or saturday would be he if that int he the Disney Stu Dio has ready several situation dramatic miniseries and movies for Soninlaw of the late Walt said he began work on the series in its second id feel very sad if it went off the but i Haven Given up i feel that outside the 7 time Slot we will give adequate he said the studio had been aware for some time that Abc was unhappy with the series perform we tried to work out our he i just want a second he said Fred Abc seemed More interested in Disney film Library than new he also said Abc executives cringed whenever he mentioned the True life some of these award winning shows will be telecast later this season before the show goes off the air next septem viewers today dont seem to pay much attention to the wonderful world of soon to leave the but in the Early Days it was the pioneering television theres a lot More to the Disney series than Mickey Donald Duck and cute when Walt Disney brought As the show was first to Abc in october 1954 it was the first time a major movie studio had any thing to do with the upstart Disney of did it because Abc was the Only company willing to put up Money to Back that crazy idea he had for a theme Disney changed the face of television in Many wrote Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh in the Complete directory to prime time network to it was Disney who broke the Barrier and to the lavish movie style series so familiar today Disneyland was abcs first hit and Back in 1954 it presented the first Davy to say that Davy which starred fess Parker and buddy was a smash hit would be an the Ballad of Davy Crockett became a hit and Coonskin Caps became As commonplace on Young people As Long hair did a decade the Success of Davy Crockett led to Many other multiparty such As the Saga of Andy Bur the nine lives of Elfego and swamp the originally rotating Between Frontier tomorrow land and True life underwent Many changes during the it moved to Abc in Disney was the on camera Host until his death in Walt Disney with some close friends when his show first aired on Abc in she likes playing the Nasty and causing reactions a by Jerry Buck associated press Lison Arngrim of Little House on the Prairie inspires Strong emotional reactions in Little girls throw things at the to set when Shes people run up to me in restaurants and i hate you youre terrible but i love it when you do Nasty things the actress the cause of these outbursts is her role As Nasty Nellie who has been making life miserable for Laura Ingalls for six Shes a pin sized blackmailer and a people Eye me is that her said miss whose Flaxen hair is covered on screen by a wig of then i say something and they recognize my voice and Back i went to a movie theater and asked for a Pepper and the girl behind the coun Ter hot its Nellie Oleson Shes also a budding Joan she has been doing a standup comedy routine for several she has an album out As Amy her former Canadian actress Norma Macmillan was the voice of Caroline and Johnjohn Kennedy on the first family Arngrim is of icelandic her Thor Arn is a former actor who now a producer and person Al brother Stefan is an actor and was on land of the her Mother has completed an epic novel of she auditioned for the parts of Laura and Mary ing which were won by Melissa Gilbert and Melissa sue i didst get either she but there was some Quality they liked and they kept asking me to come when i read for Nellie they got there Alison Arngrim As Nasty and Alison without the were five men sitting there laughing at i thought 1 had done something Ive always had a Streak for that sort of i loved Vincent i read every horror Book i could get my hands at when All the other Little kids dressed up like Snow id put on my Vampire costume with the bloody Nellie comes by her Bratt iness her Mother is Harriet played by Katherine the town gossip and snob of Walnut when Nellie writes a school it May be about her Fine the finest in Walnut if she gets a doll its from in everything she owns is irom and her descriptions mangle the French i was 11 years old when i started playing Nellie and i took to it with said i got to stick out my Tongue on i got to beat up on Laura Melissa Gilbert and i became Good friends and we Al ways look Forward to our fight once she passed out from the heat at their outdoor location in the Simi Northwest of los Angeles i must have been out for a half she me Lissa was getting very anxious i was holding up the fight Arngrim 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 she just May be the Best teenage Meanie since Bonita she Hast done any guest roles but she has been on a 8et hysterical when i win she in very she also spends her time doing her comedy routine wherever let her in the when i was 15 i wanted to do something besides Little House on the Prairie she i was in a club heckling the he if you think it s so Why dont you try it so i put together an did some of the writing myself and tried ill perform on a stage anywhere let the joke is that ill leap to the top of a parked car and in the she said she Hopes to play Las vegas but also wants to act in movies and have her own television variety she admits that deep id love to play a heroic sympathetic i would like to be somebody somebody people perhaps someone who conquers a villain like Nellie my love scene with Percival was my first Opportunity to do something like Nellie had always faked her cries this when she thought Percival might she was really it was one of the few times she Ever showed genuine i loved
