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In Gorham, Kans., to shoot a new Peter Bogdanovich movie called Paper Moon, Ryan O'Neal carried on devotedly with his newest costar. That was only natural, since she is his nine-year-old daughter Tatum (by his first wife, Joanna Moore). The pair amused a group of school children by performing balancing tricks along a deserted railroad track, and when Tatum earned more applause than her father, O'Neal remarked, "I guess it's natural with her. Her mother was an actress and so was my mother. It's in the family." Asked for her own views on acting, Tatum ventured, "Yes, I like it, but I'd rather play with my kitty, Alley O."
With his attractive wife Hjördis on his arm, Actor-Turned-Storyteller David Niven flew into London to plug his autobiography, The Moon's a Balloon, and disclosed that he has nearly finished his first novel, which he calls his "secret project." Next month, armed only with "an absolutely appalling desire to be frightened," he comes to the U.S. for a tour of the college lecture circuit. His topics? "I haven't a clue to what I'll be talking about. I'll just improvise on the spot, I think."
THE TRUTH ABOUT MY MARRIAGE, said the headline of a story in which Joan Kennedy unburdened herself to the Boston Sunday Herald Traveler and Sunday Advertiser. On Ted Kennedy: "I am more in love with him than ever." On rumors about other women: "I am bored to tears with gossip about Ted and his so-called illicit romances. I simply go in and ask him about them and that's all." On rumors about Ted and Amanda Burden: "Pure nonsense. Of course I know Amanda. Not intimately, but we've met at parties." On sympathizers: "I am fed up with people who refer to me as poor Joan."
Outside the Soviet embassy in London, Hayley Mills joined in a demonstration for the liberation of Lyudmilla Prussakova, pregnant Russian Jewish woman who has been arrested several times since she and her husband tried to emigrate to Israel. Said Hayley, 26, now wife of Producer-Director Roy Boulting: "I am doing this for humanitarian, not political reasons. I am expecting a child in January, and I can understand the feelings of any woman who is in the same position."