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Ask Them Yourself
Catacombs Reference LibraryFamily Weekly was a Sunday magazine, added as a supplement to local newspapers (the second most popular in the US, after the market leader Parade). First published in 1953, it was renamed USA Weekend in 1985. It ceased publication in 2014. There was a regular "Ask Them Yourself" column in which the magazine forwarded questions to celebrities and printed the answers.
Are you related to Arthur Landau, Jean Harlow's agent? Mrs. Dorothy Marshall, Wichita, Kan.
No-and I can go further than that. I'm not a relative of David Landau. a 1930's actor who committed suicide. Nor of Martin Landau, the producer. He and I stayed at the same New York hotel once, in identical suites on the 10th and 11th floors. (We checked in and out at the same time. We got each other's calls and each other's bills.) In fact, nobody in my family is famous.
How do your children feel about your love scenes with others? -H.B., Fort Smith, Ark.
If I get into a clinch with another man, Susie and Julie don't bat an eyelid. But if Marty (husband Martin Landau) goes into a passionate embrace with another woman, the first thing the girls ask him is "Was that really in the script?"
Are there any stars who don't mold their children to follow in their footsteps?-J.R., Lima, Ohio
Barbara Bain and Martin Landau (stars of the new series "Space: 1999") told FAMILY WEEKLY why they've kept their daughters (Susie, 15, and Julie, 10) remote from show business: "It's O.K. for kids to take part in school plays, but that's all. We'd never let them perform professionally as children because the atmosphere in a movie studio or TV set is unreal. Children must grow up in the real world. If they act, their lives as children end. Something happens to a kid when she or he sits in a chair and gets fussed over with make-up and clothes. They're like gods on the set and expect to be bowed down to at home. We didn't want little gods for kids, because not only would their lives be ruined, but ours would be too."
FOR NICK TATE, star of TVs Space: 1999. What is the greatest personal challenge you've faced?
Steven A. Schmidt. Monmouth Beach, N.J.
Leaving my country (Australia) and family ties and going to work in England. It's not easy, even now, for an Australian in England, and never easy to leave homeland and move halfway around the world. It was necessary for my career, so I made the best of it, and that's when I first realized the truth and meaning of "business before pleasure.