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Susan Lucci and Tony Curtis star in the upcoming TV movie, Mafia Princess.
It's the true story about this woman. Her dad was one of the most powerful mafia leaders in America.
The daughter of Sam Giacana talks about her personal relationship with her notorious father.
Then we'll go to exotic India where man's best friend is the elephant and see why these majestic creatures are treated like kings.
You love Paul McCartney's music, but wait until you see his other talent.
That's all coming up tonight on Thursday's PM Magazine.
And tonight's PM Magazine is coming to you from downtown Providence where you are just taking a look at the brand new Eternal Flame.
Hi everybody, I'm Sprague Theobald.
And I'm Sheila Martinez. Of course, the Eternal Flame will burn throughout the year 1986 to symbolize Rhode Island's 350th birthday.
Right now in our first segment we're going to talk to a young lady who wrote a book about her dad.
Now that's not all that uncommon.
Nancy Sinatra just published one about the chairman of the board.
But this young lady is Antoinette Giacana.
She wrote about her father Sam and life inside the mafia.
Now two years ago she published this book, Mafia Princess.
And this Sunday it airs as a made for TV movie starring Susan Lucci and Tony Curtis.
Right now Pam Thompson has that story.
She struck me as a daughter that should have been taking over my knee and giving a couple of good patches,
a kiss on the cheek and give her 50 bucks as I go out and buy a night stress.
No, I think she's somebody who absolutely adored her father and who wanted to please him very much.
Susan Lucci and Tony Curtis are talking about the Mafia Princess Antoinette Giacana.
Her father Sam Giacana was once the most powerful mafia leader west of the Mississippi.
In the TV movie based on Antoinette's autobiography, Tony plays Sam and Susan is Antoinette.
It's the story of a dominating father, a distraught daughter and their volatile relationship,
which ended with Sam's murder in 1975.
Today Antoinette lives here in the Chicago suburb of Elmwood Park.
It's been over 10 years since her father was murdered.
But she'll never forget the terrifying impact he had on her life for 40 years.
My father and I were so much alike.
We loved and we hated each other in both ways.
I mean he loved me and hated me and I loved him and hated him.
And we were always in conflict.
We were very rarely together, really together on anything we thought of or I thought of doing.
It was always no, that isn't for you.
So you've been spying on me?
Well good, I'm glad.
I love him.
You don't even know him.
One ongoing disagreement they had was over Antoinette's boyfriends.
According to Sam, none of them was ever good enough.
Antoinette remembers one violent incident when she actually pulled a knife on her father.
That happened to be the most vicious fight my father and I had had in all of our days,
you know, living together as father and daughter.
We hear about a lot of the rougher incidents.
What's the most wonderful incident that you remember between you and your father?
One Christmas Eve, Phyllis McGuire was at the house.
And naturally, Christmas Eve we all exchanged gifts.
All of a sudden, Phyllis walks out with this huge box and she said,
this is from your father.
So I opened it up and there was a gorgeous leopard coat.
A lot of people would say that Antoinette was a spoiled little rich girl.
She had money, good looks, and a father who'd give her anything she wanted.
However, the one thing she really wanted from him, she didn't get.
All I wanted from my father was love and recognition.
That need for recognition has not ended with Sam's death, thus the book and now the movie.
However, she is concerned about how her family and friends are going to react to the film.
They will see live scenes or acted live scenes of my father and I and our bitter battles
and probably an affair that I've had and things like that.
So it no longer is a book in black and white.
It becomes living color.
I don't know how they are going to react.
I don't know how my friends are going to react.
And it's just the gamble I had to take for my own career.
Antoinette would like to start an acting career.
As a matter of fact, she has a cameo role in that movie.
You can look for her in the communion scene.
Next up on PM Magazine, Paul McCartney will tell us about one of his secret passions,
and it isn't music.
Welcome back to PM Magazine.
In our second story tonight, we are going to catch up with musician Paul McCartney.
Now after 20 years of fame and success, he really is one of the world's most accomplished musicians,
but you are going to find out he is still as charming as ever.
Not to mention just about as cute as he was in the early 60s,
and tonight he and his wife Linda talk with PM Magazine about some of their private pursuits,
including a talent that very few people know about.
I think, you know, when you have had a kind of hectic use like I did in The Beatles,
you do wonder who has got it right, you know, the fellow who stays at home gardening with his kids,
or the fellow who runs around the world making a fortune.
His fortune is astounding, but making money is just one of the many talents of Paul McCartney.
We all know about his fame with The Beatles, his split with songwriting partner, the late John Lennon,
and Paul's later musical success, including duets with stars like Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder.
But there are loves in Paul's life other than music and money.
As he grows older, his wife Linda and their four children have become even more important.
And I think what's happened in more recent years is that I've settled down a bit, you know,
and I do see a little bit more of life, and I spend quite a bit of time with my kids and stuff.
It's nice.
It is.
Those times with his kids on his Sussex, England farm are rarely seen or photographed by outsiders,
but lately some of Paul's other talents have been uncovered.
His flair for business has amassed vast wealth in the neighborhood of $500 million,
making McCartney the world's most successful musician.
He even tried screenwriting in last year's film Give My Regards to Broad Street.
But not many know that among Paul's golden talents lurks a closet cartoonist, a would-be Walt Disney.
So naturally, we asked him to draw something.
Terrific. She just thrown this on me, viewers.
So for all you art students who can do it better than I can, it's only a bit of fun. Remember?
How did you get interested in cartooning in the first place?
When I was a kid, I used to just sort of do things like that, and then I'd do a big sort of thing like that.
And then I'd do things like that.
He's done it since he was a kid. I've looked at all his old school books. They've got little drawings all over them.
Caricatures.
I was a kid in the class that used to draw the girls on the books for all the sex-starved young boys.
Say, draw us a girl, Paul.
Oh, come on. Draw us a girl, Paul.
No, I can't. I don't do those now.
Got married.
You want that one? Yeah.
Don't let him draw girls.
She won't let me draw girls now.
So I mean, I just do sort of stuff like that, you know. For what it's worth.
Go on, do another one.
Bit of a laugh, like.
Do another one.
And some people want to let in on the silly little talk. But I look around me and I see it in the soul for the whole. Some people want to fill the world with silly little talk. What's wrong with that? I'd like to know.
Here you are, art students. This is how to do it. The Walt Disney way. Now that's about all I do, really. That's the extent of my talent.
Well, maybe the extent of his talent hasn't been reached yet. But as the 43-year-old Paul McCartney settles into middle age, there are still some mountains left to conquer.
I'd like to do probably more in films, really. I think that's a very exciting.
How about some more music?
This is true. A little more music. A couple of songs yet to be written, I reckon.
Well, Paul's next movie will be an animated one of the British storybook character Rupert the Bear.
Now that's the film that he wanted the Beatles to do before they did Yellow Submarine.
Right now, you know, we're standing out here. There's a little bit of snow on the ground. We know you're thinking of warmer climates.
We have a Valentine's Day gift for a couple of newlywed couples out there.
What we're asking all of you to do is to help us select two couples who will receive a cruise aboard the American-Canadian cruise lines down to the British Virgin Islands.
That's a special boat that was designed and built by the Blanc Corporation right here in Rhode Island.
Now, to show you how devoted we are to the program and the contest, we're going to travel down to the British Virgin Islands for a few weeks and make sure everything's as it should be.
You're pretty excited, aren't you? Oh, yay!
Now, when we say newlywed couple, we mean that you have to have been married between Valentine's Day in 1985 and Valentine's Day in 1986.
Now, if your marriage came between these two dates and you have a marriage license that verifies this fact, then you can be an eligible contestant.
Go to the hat. I see you.
While Sprague dashes after his hat, I'll let you know that you can enter by sending us a letter telling us how you met and fell in love.
We're looking for the best love stories, so send in your love story with your name, address and phone number and where you can be reached day or night and your wedding date.
And send it to PM Magazine Newlywed Cruise 111 Doran Street, Providence, Rhode Island, 02903.
Okay, I'm back. Now, one entry per couple, but remember, your entry must be mailed and we must receive your entry by mail by January 31st here at WJRTV.
Now, that's by 12 noon.
And if you're not a newlywed couple, you can win a cruise on the Bay Queen for two.
If you send in an entry of a newlywed couple that you know.
Now, if we select your entry as a finalist, you will win a Sunday brunch cruise on the Bay Queen.
So you see, there's a chance for a lot of people to win, but you can't win unless you send us your love story.
So do it today and everybody will get a chance to help pick the winner because on February 14th, Friday night, we'll have a special live broadcast of PM Magazine.
Just like co-hosts for a day, you'll call in and tell us which newlywed couples you think should go on that cruise.
I think we should go, even though we don't qualify in one of the...
Okay, moving right along. Stay with us.
When we come back, we'll travel to India and find out why elephants are man's best friend.
Welcome back to PM Magazine.
Right now, we are going to continue our journey through India and we're going to take a look at that country's most respected animal, the elephant.
Lord Barry Nolan went to an elephant festival where people who call themselves elephant maniacs, for good reason, honor the beast.
There is a place in India where elephants are treated like members of the family, where they are as much a part of the landscape as the people and the palm trees.
In fact, in this part of the world, elephants are almost gods.
In the village of Kadagambara, thousands of people have lined the streets for festival known simply as the Big Day.
And a major part of that day are the elephants, especially for the people who are called the elephant maniacs.
The elephant maniacs are anacumbacarans as they are known in the state of Kerala in the southern part of India, are people who revere elephants.
Here, the largest animal on earth is given the respect of a superior being and no religious festival is complete without its presence.
With some 150 elephants in their region, some anacumbacarans have formed the only elephant owners association in the world, headed by C.A. Menon.
Anybody likes elephants. Some people have got a great fascination towards elephants because we respect the elephant. It has got a divinity.
Since ancient times, the image of the elephant has been part of the art, folklore and religion of India.
The great beast is worshipped by many Hindus in the form of Ganesh, the god of prosperity.
Near the city of Trichur, the center of elephant mania, there is even a life-sized monument of a noble elephant known as Keshavan, the king of the elephants, who live to be more than 60.
Today, the festivals are filled with lavishly decorated elephants who are lined up to compete for his title.
But the elephants aren't just for special events. Here in the small village of Trapurao, 30 miles outside of Trichur, the elephants play an important role in the daily lives of the people here at the Hindu Sri Rama temple.
Every morning at this temple, a deity is mounted on the largest elephant available, who parades three times around Sri Rama. It is a ritual that has gone on for centuries.
Another temple, the Ruvayar, has a compound that is home to more than 30 elephants. Here, trainers called Mahouts teach the animals to respond on command.
Despite their divine roles, elephants are also made to work.
An elephant does the work of 50 to 100 men a day.
An elephant's physical beauty is as closely examined as a thoroughbred horse's. To the anacombacarans, the height and bulk, the shape of an elephant's eyes and forehead all contribute to the beauty of the elephant.
And some elephant maniacs have been so taken by the beauty of the beasts, it's created something akin to cattle rustling.
But in Kerala, where the elephant is concerned, most activity is considered a sign of devotion.
After all, weighing four to six tons, an elephant is not easy to take care of and costing almost 10,000 U.S. dollars. Only a few temples and very few people can afford them.
Their high price comes from the fact that they are an endangered species and cannot be hunted in the wild.
Despite the fact that the creatures are so well loved, there is an element of danger. Between 30 and 40 Mahouts are killed each year training the elephants.
At Big Day, all eyes are on this elephant, who is always referred to as Gopi, the most beautiful elephant in the world.
He symbolizes the celebration of what elephant maniacs say is the grandest animal on earth.
Can you imagine life in this part of India without elephants?
Without elephants? We can't think about it. It's a very bad world without elephants, at least in this part of the world.
Yapur is one of the few cities in India where tourists are allowed to ride elephants. In other cities, it would be considered a sacrilege.
Tomorrow we are going to take a look at a martial arts ceremony. Now they have got fists of fury. They're absolutely lethal.
And when we come back, we'll try and warm you up and get you in the mood for the British Virgin Islands by looking at some hot swimsuits. So hot they sizzle.
Faye Francis knows a lot about bathing suits. Years ago she modeled them.
Then in 1963 she designed this bikini and made waves when she wore it in public for the first time.
And the lifeguard came over to me after he saw that I was scantily clad and asked me to leave the beach.
And that's just what I believe in. I wanted to wear something a little skimpy.
Body, body, body, body, body.
Times have sure changed. Today, Faye designed swimsuits that make that first bikini look positively tame.
Body to body. Body to body.
Body to body. Nobody does it like you do. Body to body.
The line of swimwear is called Exotic Originals. Many with Faye's trademark campaign the designs of jungle cats. And this is a preview of her 1986 styles.
They fit like a glove, like a second skin. They should not be baggy on the top or in the seat, you know, on the front.
And there's so many different styles now. For 1986 we have designed about 13 bikini styles and about 22 one-piece styles.
Dancing cocoa?
The business started as a hobby back in 1968 when Faye was sewing bikinis for her friends.
Today she has a retail shop in Daytona Beach featuring ready-to-wear and custom-made swimwear.
Plus they have a growing mail order business. Her son Steve has become her partner in both business and design.
A lot of people say, well, where do you get these ideas? How do you come up with these designs?
Again, we do work with the public so we have a good feeling for what people are looking for.
But besides that, to come up with new ideas constantly, it's just a matter of originality and your concept.
You have to have the idea. You have to have somewhere to start from.
Many of the ideas are inspired by Faye's other interests. Her backyard is a private zoo.
Faye raises exotic animals like her leopard Raja.
Yeah, yeah, he talks just like a baby. Yeah.
Faye likes to capture the beauty of exotic animals in the design of her swimsuits.
And the styles have names like the Tigress, the Leopardess, and for guys there's the Wildcat.
But many of the designs are simply feats of engineering.
This has a nickname we call the slingshot. Some might call it just a little risque.
And of course it is. It's not for everybody.
The slingshot suit is definitely not for everybody.
But what about the rest of the designs?
Well, I would have to say anybody can wear a suit if they want to.
And if they want to lose some weight and get into one of our suits, this will give them something to work on.
The less material, the more we sell.
Faye's exotic originals are worn all over the world by those who want something that isn't too tame.
Now of course with our trip to the British Virgin Islands coming up, I'm going to need a new swimsuit.
And I think if you win the PM Magazine newlywed cruise, you're going to need a new swimsuit too.
So I hope I got some good ideas from that.
Tomorrow night on PM Magazine we will talk with a young man who is carrying on the legacy of his father.
That's Julian Lennon, who will find out what life is like being the son of the famous beetle.
All of that and of course more of our India series right now.
Stay tuned for your lotta bucks.
Good night everyone.
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