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Wednesday August 1,1979 The Pharos-Tribune, Logansport, Columbia Pictures Beats Competition With 'Skatedown' UPI Cardinal John J. Carberry, the spiritual leader of half a million St. Louis area Roman Catholics since 1968, resigned as archbishop Tuesday, his 75th birthday. A report from Vatican City said Carberry's resignation, required of all priests at the age of 75, has been accepted by Pope John Paul II. The resignation age of 75 was established by Pope Paul VI but the pope could have asked Carberry to stay on.

HOLLYWOOD (UPI) It was only a-matter of time before the movies jumped on the current roller skate craze and Columbia Pictures has beat the competition to production with "Skatetown, U.S.A." Universal Pictures hasn't yet put its roller-skate epic, "Xanadu," before the cameras. Fred Williamson and Jim Brown are also scheduled to play a pair of skaters in another But Columbia already is rolling its movie and as added box-office insurance the studio has Incorporated disco dancing on wheels. Producer-director William A. Levey, under the aegis of Rastar Productions, converted the Hollywood Palladium into a vast roller rink with profusion of neon, flashing strobes and twirling mirrored balls for the gaudiest possible setting. Some 300 skaters, about 50 of them professionals, whirled around the rink stunting, dancing and sprawling to a driving disco beat as Levey hollered directions through a bullhorn.

Associate producer Nancy Youngblood, a comely blonde who hired the skaters, sat to one side observing the dizzying scene with pride. She spent a couple of months combing Southern California roller rinks, attending professional exhibitions and judging amateurs for acting talent, expertise on skates and physical attractiveness. Most of the male skaters were muscular young bucks in shorts and T-shirts. The women skaters, mainly in their teens and 20s, were shapely and dressed in jogging -shorts, tank tops or leotards almost all of which revealed startling vista of uncovered backsides. Nancy and assistant directors were constantly reminding female ska'ers the picture is rated PC, as! the girls to cover up bottoms.

The skaters complied briefly, later hoisting their drawers to reveal their buttocks, "For some reason the girls like to reveal as much as possible," Nancy sighed. "A good many of them are wearing their own outfits and it's a problem trying to keep them modest. "We don't have that trouble with the professionals, a lot of whom were ice skaters before switching to roller skates." Nancy, who doesn't skate herself but has become a minor authority on roller skating, says there are about 30 million Americans rolling around the country on sidewalks, city streets and In about 4,000 rinks. A fine distinction Is drawn between outdoor and indoor skaters. The elite skaters are Tinkers.

The amateurs skate outdoors. Some of the plot of "Skatetown, U.S.A" the rame for the disco skate rink involves the conflict between street skaters and rink skaters. Almost everyone in the cast, heroes and villains alike, are on wheels excepting comedian Paul Lynde who plays the, owner of the rink. "The main core of skaters in our movie is composed of three touring professional groups who give exhibitions," she said. "They are the Jerry Nesta Skaters, The New Horizons and Hot Wheels.

"You can tell the difference. The stars of our picture are Scott Baio and Kelly Lang. While a lot of big stars skate for fun, we had to find topnotch skaters who could also act. We couldn't use doubles. "Our director, Bill Levey, has been skating for years.

He was ready to make a skate picture in England a year ago but dropped the project to do 'Skatetown, U.S.A.' "The pros have made a real art of skating. It's become an American subculture. Everyone has his own technique and style. Some are dancers and some specialize in stunts. A new language is developing.

"Good professional skaters talk about 'rex' skating which is skating backwards in a set pattern or 'spot rexing 1 which is backward skating figure eights in one tight spot on the rink. "The pros have managers now. In addition to exhibition tours they teach new skaters. Some of the pros pay as much Ann Doran: Never A Star But Back This Fall HOLLYWOOD (UPI) Ann Doran made herdebut at age 11 In a scene with Douglas and Wallace Beery the silent 1922 version of Hood" and has been Acting ever since. In the past 57 years Ann has -clayed more than 600 roles In of movies and TV "shows without ever seeing her In lights, much less "above the title.

She was a foil for Charlie -Chase, Andy Clyde, Harry the Three Stooges land Edgar (slow burn) Ken- 'nedy while under contract to Pictures. Ann worked with Loretta Young, Barbara Stanwyck, 'Katharine Hepbuin, Joan ICrawford, Gary Cooper, Tracy, Rosalind and Errol Flynn. She Kirk Douglas and Victor Mature make their first screen tests. While others went on to considerable fame and great fortunes, Ann remained all but anonymous. Evidently she was born a actress, the of actress Rose Allen who played glamor girls in the ancient Bobby Vernon two-reelers "I was on the set one day watching my mother work when a beautiful lady asked if I would like to play in another movie being made on the same lot," Ann recalled.

"Mother agreed because it would keep me out of mischief. "The next day I found myself, a knobby-kneed, Dutch-bobbed blonde kid playing a page to the king in The king was Wallace Beery who scared me because he was bigger, louder and more profane than my father. "The lady who got me involved was Mary Pickford. I saw the old picture not long ago and couldn't tell myself from the eight other little pages." Today Ann, 68, looks back on a unique career in movies and TV which has seldom seen her unemployed, although there were the usual actor's dry spells. An energetic woman with a keen wit and boundless ener- gy, Ann looks younger than her years.

Ann lives alone in the heart of Hollywood In a home she has occupied for the past 27 years. Her specialty over the years has been maiden aunts, nurses, mothers and mothers-in-law and, surprisingly, judges. Those parts, of course, came along In later years. "When I was a kid, I was put in westerns, usually playing orphans," she recalled. "I was always being rescued from terrible predicaments caught in barbed wire, endangered by stampeding cattle or tied to a windmill.

"I left the business during that horrible pimply adoles- cence to go to high school in San Bernardino. But, when Dad died in 1933. I went back to work in 'Zoo in Budapest' with Loretta Young and Gene Raymond. It was my first talkie. Again.

I was playing an orphan." "I never starred in a single picture," Ann said, smiling. ENTIRE STOCK OF SUMMER CLOTHES OFF E. Broodway TREE'S CAMERA August 2-3-4 OFF PICTURE FRAMES PHOTO ALBUMS COUPON File Boxes I Coupon good Tree's Camera Shop Aug. 2-3-4 Organize protect your photo REG. 1.25 99 TREE'S CAMERA SHOP 524 E.

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Nancy admitted there were not too many potential Rhodes scholars among top amateur and professional roller skaters who devote their lives to skating. "Like disco dancing, roller skating is a craze," she concluded. "But it looks as though it's going to be around a while. If all of the people who roller skate come to see our movie, we'll have a great big hit." Brooks No More Flame Spitting HOLLYWOOD (UPI) Filmmaker Mel Brooks, whose pictures include "Blazing Saddles" and "Young Frankenstein," will star in his first TV special, aptly titled "The First Mel Brooks Special." Writer-producer-direclor Brooks will feature segments from his films never seen before on commercial television, including his next movie, "The History of the World, Parti." Brooks describes the NBC special as an hour-long "melange of current insanities and past pluperfects." BRAINERD, Minn, (UPI) With second degree burns around his mouth and chin, 19-year-old Patrick Bachman says his flame spitting days are over. Bachman, a truck driver who learned flame spitting from a Minneapolis magician, tried Sunday to beat a 23-foot record set by England's Jack Sholomir two years ago.

During an exhibition in nearby St. Cloud, Bachman first spit flames 18 feet, then 20 feel. Theh he took a big mouthful of fluid, lit a small torch 3 feet from his face, took a big breath and spit. The fireball shot out 22 feet but it set fire to his hair and some of the fluid dripped down his chin. He rolled on the ground in pain.

Bachman was taken to a St. Cloud hospital where he was treated for first and- second degree burns and released. The young amateur magician, who took up flame spitting as a hobby, returned home to Bralnerd somewhat chastened. His mother said he told her, "Mom, I'm done. I'm not going to do it again." "And I'm glad," she said.

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