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Night of 100 Stars Producer Alexander H. Cohen says The Actors' Fund benefit (Feb. 14) should be "Night of 100 Stars and Then Some" [[image - eight portraits, alternating male and female, in two rows of four]] "Compared to the Night of 100 Stars, the Tony Awards are a sideshow." So says Alexander H. Cohen, and the Broadway showman should know what he's talking about. He's been producing the Tonys with no little hoopla for the last 15 years and now he is determined to turn the Night of 100 Stars--on February 14 at Radio City Music Hall-- into the kind of extravaganza people a decade hence will mention in awe and disbelief. The three-hour show, to be televised on ABC March 8, will celebrate the centennial of The Actors' Fund of America, the oldest continuously functioning theatre charity in the world. The Fund assists movie and television actors as well as every type of live performer, so producer Cohen is able to put together a cast that would bankrupt an oil company if stars were not contributing their services. And they are eager to take part because for once it will be a cause of their own: raising $2 million for a nursing home to be built next to The Actors' Fund Retirement Residence in Englewood, N.J. So eager are they, that the Night of 100 Stars, initially announced as featuring "exactly 100 stars, neither one more nor one less," has had to be renamed Night of 100 Stars and Then Some. "To limit it to 100 has proven impractical," explains Cohen. "When people call in, like Peter Allen did today, or Marlo Thomas, and say 'I'd love to help, what can I do?' -- you can't say, 'sorry.'" By this writing, the list had mounted to 122. Cohen has been releasing the names of participants a few at a time, beginning with Princess Grace of Monaco. She is not the only one coming from abroad. The others, so far, are Gina Lollobrigida from Rome, Roger Moore from Switzerland, Leslie Caron from Paris, Louis Jourdan from Nice, and Robert Morley and Peter Ustinov from London. Since travel expenses and accommodations for a week of rehearsals in New York for all the stars, their spouses and staff will be picked up by the producer, by Ralph Tyler [[end page]] [[start page]] [[advertisement]] [[image- drawing of a sitting room of a house, with two women and three men of various ages clustered in the background. Front right, a teddy bear holds a bottle of wine. Front left, a man in a tuxedo sits in a chair and faces the camera.]] Brideshead Revisited A World Remembered Jeremy Irons, Anthony Andrews and Diana Quick star in Evelyn Waugh's classic. With Sir Laurence Olivier, Sir John Gielgud and Claire Bloom. On Great Performances, Mondays at 8PM, January 18-March 29, PBS Television [[image - color drawing of EXXON logo]] [[image - silhouette drawing of four performers]] [[/advertisement]]