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(Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) A-2 HERALD EXAMINER LOS ANGELES, CA Date: 2/18/80 Edition: Monday Latest

Title: WAITING FOR CHAPTER 2

Character: or SKYJACKING Classif[ication] Submit[ted] 164-497 Los Angeles b6 b7C

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Waiting for Chapter Two What would otherwise have been just a routine book-signing party proved something more Friday night when Casablanca Record and FilmWorks and Delacorte Press held a reception at Brentano's in Beverly Hills honoring novelist J. D. Reed for the publication of his new book, "Free Fall." A fictionalization of the nine-year-old D. B. Cooper skyjacking, "Free Fall" was guaranteed a place on the best seller lists last week when a portion of the $200,000 in ransom money missing along with Cooper was discovered near the Columbia River in Washington, reviving public interest in the case. Of just as much interest to tinsel-town sleuths was Tuesday's announcement by Neil Bogart, president of Casablanca, that he is selling his interest in the company to its parent corporation, Polygram, for considerably more than $200,000. A further announcement detailing the future of Casablanca's film operations is also expected — but as of Friday, Peter Guber, Casablanca's chairman, was keeping mum. So with two mysteries in the air, the reception's success was guaranteed — even though no answers proved forthcoming. Guber did make a quick appearance, but left before many of the guests had arrived. John Frankenheimer, who will direct the movie version of Reed's book, was stranded in Malibu and could not attend. Reed signed the necessary books and answered the inevitable questions, all the while maintaining that Cooper still lives. Everybody else did what people normally do at such affairs: For example, Herald Examiner astrologer Joyce Jillson told how the FBI told her she was too big a security risk to attend the Lake Placid Olympics, while publicist Carol Green introduced Craig Wasson, who stars in the new Paramount release "The Outsider," the story of an American who goes to Ireland to fight for the IRA. Meanwhile, Casablanca executive Chuck Ashman kept telling one and all that a really big announcement concerning Casablanca's future could be expected Wednesday. Pressed to tell more, Ashman responded, "Neil Bogart is the real D.B. Cooper!" ■

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