European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 15, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Itt and cockroaches survive but surviving with dignity in a Tell them the thing that s hard is that when you re i rejected it s you that s rejected. Not the Way you play i he piano. Youl your face. The sound of your voice. I i m saying get ready for Hal. They re Gonna get i you where you live Ujj but of course Abraham concludes ruefully to packing up his briefcase it does t make any clicking out the Light he Calls his wife. Me and Ujj Kate and their two children have lived in the same i building in Crown Heights for 14 years. I t sweetheart i m still Here. Ill be Back a Little after 6." t Scono throw f. Murray Abraham gels into an " argument he is walking across Campus and past the flight of Steps where his students calling themselves the bards of Brooklyn last year performed one of their Street theater pieces. They d invented a sort of Brooklyn even woman named Juanila Rabinowitz and dramatized her j continuing struggles to acquire an education j afterwards we collected Money he is saying. And they kept there is a thud and a communal gasp trom the Street beyond the Steps a Blond kid wearing a tie is lying motionless on the Asphalt next to the bicycle that must have struck him and the Bike s frightened rider. Attar a Lew seconds freeze someone runs to Call an ambulance. Someone Unkn ots the victim s lie and throws a jacket Over him. And Abraham suddenly noticing that the Bike rider is about to leave the scene unleashes that voice. This is a Man who has played Abraham Lincoln. Cyrano an inquisitor and a Demon. He knows something about projecting authority. Don t you leave Man. You Knock a Man Down and walk away you wait for a cop1" the rider tries to argue thai the victim walked right in front of him. That he can t help the Guy anyway. He s edging away. " expletive you Man he carps. " expletive Abraham thunders eyes Boring,1 Handa now planned on the handlebars. Cowed the rider stays put until the Campus police and an ambulances arrive. Was that acting Abraham striding toward the parking lot where he left his Toyota glares. How can you ask Hal a Man is lying in the Street a Don t act offstage \ no sense of responsibility to one another he is muttering As he walks. It s a shame. That kind of thing has got to scan four. F. Murray Abraham grabs a Beer. What Shirley Maclaine whispered to him with million of people watching As she handed Over the coveted Statuette was Don t take the first thing they offer so i Hdldn Abraham says leaning against a Fence to pose fora photographer i waited. And it was hard sometimes. We be done without that kind of Money and when it started to be offered to us it was hard to Gay he stretches out one Arm warding off the Bounty " nope. I won t take $750,000 for six weeks work i could have made in a year and a half one and three quarters million dollars. According to my agent who said Here s what you be turned Down and Don t Ever complain again " a interrupt the photo session suddenly to j intercept an errant softball before the 10-year-old who s i chasing it plows right onto Flatbush Avenue. Abraham also pauses to Duck into the Corner newsstand and i emerges with a can of Beer in a paper bag. School s Lover it s Miller he May not have grown Rich playing perverts but Abraham s tile has gotten a bit easier. The family eats lout a Lillie More often. It acquired a second television land with two teen agers around a second phone. 1 Abraham bought a second car a Volvo he says a bit abashed. And he Gol to hold his head up at a family reunion in Pittsburgh a Lew months Back. I that s one of the Best things about the Oscar the i tremendous Pride it gave my family he says. Kim Novak with husband or. Robert Malloy. The actress is now working in to Levi Lor. Kim Novak returns by Vernon Scott United press International k in Novak one time Glamour Queen who starred in More than 20 movies in the 1950sand 60s, has returned to Hollywood briefly to work in , More slender than in her movie salad Days but is ill equipped with her Smoky voice and a suggestion of flirtation in her eyes has joined the cast of Falcon Crest this season. The tall Blondo Beauty has not made a commitment to the series beyond 16 episodes this year nor does she plan to resume living in Hollywood. I left Here years ago to change my lifestyle and to establish who i really am she said the other evening Over dinner in a quiet Corner of a san Fernando Valley health food restaurant. Life Here was threatening to me. I had no identity. Really i had no life of my own. I was trying to be what other people expected of me there was no reality left. I was hemmed in and suffocated. I found myself lighting a Public image the Glamour girl. I was t Kim Novak the sen Symbol. But neither was i Marilyn Pauline Novak who came to Hollywood As a naive and frightened girl. People thought of me As one or the other. But somewhere in Between was the woman i had Novak left for a spectacular Clifside Home on the Pacific Ocean South of Carmel calif., to write poetry paint and sculpt. She never returned except for occasional roles in films or to. Always an animal Lover who collected cals dogs and horses Novak married veterinarian Robert Malloy a decade ago. They live on three acres outside Carmel with 20 Llamas three horses and a dozen Small Pels. They also have a 120-acre ranch in Oregon where they enjoy backpacking in the wilderness. It s the sort of life i always wanted Novak said. Now when i come to Hollywood it s fun to fit the Kim Novak image for a Little while As King As i keep it in its although she has been asked to Star in Many to series Novak has politely refused unwilling to commit to a six or seven year run. When i was approached to do a con Crest the producers said in would be Lor Only six episodes with an option Lor an additional 10," she said. They be already exercised the option they have asked me to return next season but i Haven t made up my mind. I Don l think Bob would like my spending that much time away from Home. As it is. I Fly Back to Carmel every weekend.", Novak starred in the Pilot show Tor last year s Alfred Hitchcock presents series. She also appeared in the two hour Malibu to film. I come Here to work occasionally for the discipline it gives me she said. I enjoy doing now what used to drive me crazy then. I can see growth in my work which gives me pleasure. The things i m doing now Are in theatrical. I have nothing to prove. Bob in t keen about the Lime i spend in Hollywood but he understands it was part of my life. I think he has a Good attitude about it. I m not a Parl of the social whirl i guess i never was but i sure made news in the old Days Wilh Frank Sinatra the Aly Kahn Ramfis Trujillo Andary Grant. I was Young and ii was altar a Day at the studio in Falcon Crest Novak retires to her rented apartment near the studio to work on her autobiography. I Haven t Many Iri Endi nere she said. I see a couple of girlfriends and i stay in shape by Riding my Bike and roller skating on he lot Between she is. I love working on my word processor but writing about my career in Hollywood is the Moat difficult part it s hard to remember everything. But it s easy and pleasant to write about my childhood in Chicago and my family. I saved All my letters and scrapbooks and mementos including such things As my first Corsage. So much has happened in my life that i think i May write two biographies. This one ends when i meet Bob. The second Book would be easy to write. 11 can t express How wonderful i feel about the Way 1 live now. Part of the year in Carmel working with animals and part of the year on the ranch in Oregon la s Paradise. Sometimes i feel guilty about enjoying life As much As i do. But i must be doing something right or i would t deserve the stars and stripes Page 15
