Cutting up with Beatles cutouts is fun for ex-teeny-bopper Susan Newman, 24, but she is a little concerned about her starring role in the film I Want to Hold Your Hand. "In my next role, I'd like to look a little more sophisticated, sexier, you know," says Paul Newman's daughter (by his first wife, former Actress Jacqueline Witte). Susan would like to leave Hollywood for New York, where she used to play off-off-off-Broadway. "Making movies has nothing to do with acting," she explains. She is serious about being an actress, "but I'm not sure I want to be a star the way my father is. That man is hassled to death." Says Susan: "If people ever recognize me the way they recognize him in the street, I'll go nuts." Hi, Susan.
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"It's wrong to say that the scripts are no longer being written for women," says Actress Catherine Deneuve, who is all fired up about her new role in the French thriller Listen Here. She plays a Bogart-like private eye who has gun, will travel. Her employer: a mysterious baron who has developed radio waves that can paralyze a whole town. Deneuve learned from the French flics how to shoot a revolver. She took to it quickly. Says she: "It's as exciting as a road show."
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It was the tenth anniversary of what Commander Lloyd Bucher calls his "footnote in history," but the former skipper of the U.S.S. Pueblo doesn't believe in brooding. "I'm not a morose type of person. The sharp edges of Korea have eroded," says Bucher, 50, who spent eleven months in a North Korean prison after the capture of his ship. Since his retirement from the Navy in 1973, Bucher has done a bit of writing and lecturing. His topic on the lecture circuit: "What's Right with America." He has also taken up an old hobby, painting with watercolors, and has enrolled as a full-time student at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. "I have a lot of images of the romance of the sea that I would like to capture in paintings," he says. Among them, the Pueblo.
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The U.S. Senate had been without a Humphrey for only twelve days when Muriel Humphrey accepted the appointment to take her late husband's seat. "I believe I can help complete some of the very important legislative business that Hubert had hoped to finish," she said. To the throng of reporters questioning her, she added: "Hubert was always my guide. I hope he is guiding me today."
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