The Salt Lake Tribune from Salt Lake City, Utah • 15

Gordon Parks: Call Him a Renaissance Man The Salt Lake Tribune. Saturday. May 22, 197(1 A 15 BANNED IN CALIFORNIA 0N0E wg AT THE COMPLAINT OF "SQUEAKY" FROMME despite terms in Southern prisons for, among other which, in Boston, was running in seven movie houses things, murder, wrote such perennial songs as Roc to "Leadbellys one This success, however, did not Island Line and "Good Night, Irene, which made seem to impress the movie executives anymore than hm the idol of such singers as Peter Seeger, Josh the Critical acclaim. White, Boh Dylan and Woodie Outline "This isn a sex film, a cheap film or, for that His Idols matter, just a blai film, saj Parks with an angry Leadbelly was one of my idols, too," says Parks, edge on his voice. It will, we believe, play as well at pouring himself a cup of tea to go with his English Yaje and Harvard as it will on 120th St And that's the muffins "I knew him Greenwich Village in the late way we want it 19-JO's.

He was a broken old man then, but I was UTA I II III IIS Manson 1 40, 5 25, 9 "Mean Streets" 3 20, 7 05 At ng i). i lrn Cou ncls i ci ciilcjh oF I tc re (i i)l i tiio i vi 0 Hi tj rot nun i i i 'I i oL nb ty i i vi ii ly Bv now, Parks has made and received several calls from California, hut the fate of the film is still far from settled. Si Manson" 15 5 00. 40 Mean Stieets' 2 55, 6 40, 10 00 "'-V itNOMCKSON soo By Judson Hand New York News Wnter NEW YORK Gordon Parks, a blue towel wrapped around his middle, stares at himself in the lathroom mirror and splashes cold water on his listraught face. It's 10 a m.

He's been up until 4 am. the night before fighting, mostly via long distance cails to California, to rescue "Leadbelly, the movie he regards as his masterpiece, iff from the clutches of some; executives at Paramount Pic-turns who, he says, are trying UW to strangle it. The fight is still on As he buttons his sports Gordon Parks shirt, the phone rings. California again. He answers bluntly, monosyllables Finally, he hangs up.

Too Much at Stake "Can't get a straight answer, he says, patting the phone. Seems theyve put out a contract on the Leadbelly story, but I can't let them murder it. Too much is at stake: art, integrity, black power. What elaborate premiere with spotlights, red carpets and else is here? celebrities all over the place. To Parks these are not empty words.

He has lived Instead, something Parks isnt sure exactly by them all his life. If anyone in these days of what happened at the studio where, he says, Specialization and gimmickry deserves to be calleed executives began stalling and giving him doubletalk 3 Renaissance man, its probably Parks. Hes Nn Fanfare internationally known and respected as a novelist. p.wt, composer, photographer and movie director The movie opened with practically no fanfare for 2JJS3 all olhlrSvie? Sing to SStmi 01 smllamaa ol the old sdmol. lie F1ew Over the Cueto's Seat," wiin iei Clearly, hes deeply involved, artistically and jf emotionally, in "Leadbelly.

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