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l-Al. to CaKtw tL mm Htfkm 10 I Raising Kanin a SIXTH AVENUE CWNTOWN tmi CftEEN HILLS VIUACE A Man Called Horse' was games at summer camp compared with the exquisite natural tortures endured in 'Man in a the Wilderness Tim Mar. A mf. vr ys '1 "An excellent performance by Richard Harris that carries such emotional impact that the audience broke Into spontaneous applause." -TH MATIOMAL CtUftvt "Richard Harris is powerful "Aa Impressive as 'A Man Called Horse' was, 'Man In the Wilderness Is the superior film. Well written and directed with authority.

A provocative adventure film." -la. nun "Strong visual Impact." -nAtor magnificent" -THl Nt VOMKtN fncndsh'p. And it's Strang tribute to his delicata balance that one book reviewer will corr.pla'.n cf "jlossLnj op and while another ill accue bira of "betrtp-L-X." The word "betraying" brings a risible wince to Kanin's yes. "Clearly If I had mupivinps about doirg this book, I wouldn't have done it." he said. "A writer must i.se h.s best taste and best judgment and go on with it.

If Spence and Kate not trust me, our friendship wouldn't have lasted 2 7 minutes, much less 27 years." NOT FOR nothing does Ka-rin count himself a friend of these two. It shows in interview situations when adroitly dodges questions with anme fancy verbal footwork. During his seven hours in Nashville yesterday, he did "The Noon Show," a press interview, two radio shows and a Channel 2 taping Word on Words," which will be aired Feb. 17 at 7 p.m. end Feb.

19 at 3:30 p.m.). At each stop, the same question came up. It related more to what Kanin does not say in his book than what he does say specifically defining his subjects' off camera I a -tionship (one of Hollywood's lmgering mysteries). "Many years ago," their tactful Robwell began, "Ger- Though obviously Inspired by the success of 'A Man Called It's a better, truer movie." -CHICA90 DAILY NEI 6th BIG WEEK FEATURE TIMES Sat. Sun.

1-5-7- 7- Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn played husband-and-yife lawyers who found themselves in opposing corners of a courtroom in "Adam's Rib," a comedy bout that boasted an original, Oscarnominated script by the husband-and-wife writing team of Carson Kanin and Ruth Cordon. Twenty-two years later, Kanin is still writing Tracy and Hepburn material; this tims it's "an intimate memoir" which is the nation's Number Two bestseller. mains its most Oscar-nominated actor. Yet they maintained a remarkable life outside of their careers. Kanin isn't the only one who can learn from the quality of their lives.

And he is generous enough a friend to share it with others. him. He said ho felt it was like a distant cousin rather himself." Such clear-cut concentration and detachment kept things in proper perspective for Tracy and Miss Hepburn. She is the screen's most Oscar-nominated actress, and he re HQS tKl tCB KllIflMHa Ft IURKV nUN i Imxii rtrv (ir I UCnrCTR Trfy and Kali trir IjSini Uupht i re v.cr S-it cfm-i jixatpd rt cf Chan tBjNodj I'v etr mastered. FVotn iVm, I ta tat et rork erlcwly but rot tals Rrw'J I If arrd th of Gfir ijvskrr friend, Kar.ln.

li Nash villa dmmSMtirj: for rrr rwk "Trcy srvi r.d r.rr.n? rnov fvory t'cji of the 3V. I (i IV professional rrnvitiity with two of th jwti'i in formMahld lpridi Is one thirp; hfin? on terms with tfm in jtomthinj! And Kanin has had th host of bMh worlds. TVo of three Osear-rTiinatod ncroenplays wrote in collaboration with his w.fe (Academy Award-winning srtrrst Huth Gordon) were Tracy-Hepburn I 1 i "Adam's Rib" and "Pat and Mike." When Miss Gordon's eutohiopraphical play "Years A so' reaehed the screen as "IV Actress," Traeey was on hand to play her father. When the actor decided to make his one and Hroad-way appearance after his Kanin was the man ho chose to direct him. Professional relationships do tot always dovetail Into personal ones, and Kanin cites the late Judy Holliday as a case in point.

"For ix frtralpht years." he Mid, "Judy Holliday did not utter a line on stajre or acreen that I had not written. There was the play, 'Born then the movie 'Adam's then the movie of 'Horn Yesterday, end two other movies, Tho Marrying Kind' and 'It Should Happen to The funny thing is that, despite all of this, I nrvor really got to know her." WITH TRACY and Miss Hepburn, however, tho opposite was true. Kanin's friendship with them extended 27 years and, in the book Just published bv Viking 309 pages. It is not a biography per Be, but a series of anecdotes intended to provide human dimension for his legendary subjects. The book might be considered a tightrope act Kanin in that he is both exploiting and protecting a rlchord harrls irfman In the wilderness" a sanford howo'd-lirt-bridge p-cdjcon CjPi--1-' and John button as'captam henry written by jack aewtt p'oduced by sanford toward directed by richard c.

sorafian ponovision technicolor warrer kIpj company $1 Billion in Drugs Said Seized in 71 trude Stein told me 'If you're poing to be a writer, write what you know not more than you know or less than you know just what you That's what I did with this book. I wrote only what I know no more, no less. I stayed away from gossip and speculation and fantasizing and Just reported tho facts. An intelligent reader, I think, can draw inferences from what I've written." KANIN CANNOT begin to predict what Tracy's reaction might have been to the book and says that Miss Hepburn hasn't read it yet and doubts If she ever will. "That's par for Kate," he said.

"She has never read reviews of interviews about herself. She feels about them the way Tracy felt about Most actors fall all over themselves getting to the screening room I Detective Harry Callahan, 1 You don't assign him to murder cases; You just turn him loose. WASHINGTON (UPI)-The Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (BNDD) re-reported Wednesday it siezed almost $1 billion worth of narcotics In illegal world markets last year in an intensified effort to dry up U. S. street supplies.

"I feel that while there are substantial amounts of drugs available (in tho I'nited States), it mav be leveling off," said Rnn Director John E. Ingersoll. "I think now we are hitting our stride In controlling it." He told a news conference that BNDD'S "unprecedented" removal of $920 million worth of drugs in 1971 compared with just $382.7 million worth in 1970. Both figures were based on the "street" or final retail value of tho illicit narcotics. In addition to his agency's seizures, Ingersoll said hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of drugs were seized by U.

S. Customs agents at borders and ports last year. 1 t-tfl (f. I 1 415 UiUIXil SI. J'J 74i bl 6 7TH DAZZLINC WEEK 1 7:30 to see the footage that lias been shot the day before.

Hut not Tracy. There was no way be could bo persuaded to sit down and look at himself. I learned much later that he didn't even 6ee his movies after they were made. It wasn't until his last few years when he was ailing and not working that he worked up an attachment for television and caught them then. There he'd be, watching movies he'd made 25 years ago, taking back to that guy on the screen, coaching him, complimenting Aw III ail "lay Ganon Kanin 'Only whtt I know" 'Deadhead Miles' Geis Sneak Tonight VvPw is HELD OVER 6th BIG WEEK ns an entry in Tho U.S.A.

Film Festival, which will bo held In Dallas in March. The country-soundtrack, composed by Tom T. Hall and sung by Dave Dudley, is scheduled for release soon m3 FANAYISION- TECHNICOLOR! United Artists Oairltiflnlairrj by Mercury Records. of episodes and encounters along the way. Also featured in tho movie are Paul Benjamin and Hruco Bennett.

Several weeks of filming on tho picture were done in Nashville during October of 1970. (George Raft and Ida Lupino put In cameo appearances for a sequence shot here.) Production began in Knoxville and was completed in New Mexico. Paramount plans to put "Deadhead Miles" into national release in early spring. Next month the picture will be submitted for consideration Director Vernon Zimmerman, producer Tony Hill and officials of Paramount Pictures and Mercury Records will bo present tonight to check audience reaction to a special sneak-preview of tho Tennessee-filmed "Deadhead Miles." The advance showing Is slated for 9:15 p.m. at the Green Hills Theater, and the public is invited.

ALAN ARKIX stars in the offbeat comedy-drama as a free-wheeling truck-driver on a cross-country haul. Essentially, the storyline is a string I III I 3ki mtMimmUUiUkmmmmm I Feature Times fT-7. IJ SHuWINC I be the. bpst American picture in the last.ten Aubrtf I CLINT EASTWOOD in "DIRTY HARRY" A Malpaso Company Production Co-Starring HARRY GUARDINO REM SANTONI ANDY ROBINSON 'JOHN LARCH and JOHN VERNON as "The Mayor" Executive Producer Robert Daley Screenplay by Harry Julian Fink R. M.

Fink and Dean Reisner Story by Harry Julian Fink R. M. Fink Produced and Directed by Don Siegel PANAVISION" TECHNICOLOR Warner A Kinney Company FEATURES 2nd WEEK ONE OF THE GREAT FILMS "PURE DYNAMITE!" -NY Daily News OF OUR TIME! A TRUE GIANT 4IO-1V UNFORGETTABLE THE ACTING IS rvrn innnim rr -NY. PILV MW wi- mmo story ml ifmfK. as a 1 kCjprS3TS Info" awnnmw is i felH" RARE AS i taw a RUDY DURAND pCT SbpE RICHARD THOMAS -a MARY LAYNE as cissy 20th CENTURY-FOX PRESENTS "THE FRENCH CONNECTION" A PHILIP OANTONI PR00UCTI0N vmm GENE HACKMAN FERNANDO REY.

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