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occnn SECRECY ABC, already hurting in the ratings, is worried about the secrecy shrouding the March 25 Academy Awards. Marilyn Beck reports on page 3C. TfflinSDAY JANUARY 31, 1985 ROCHESTER NEW YORK SECTION 2C TELEVISION 3C COLUMNISTS 4C MOVIES 5C CLASSIFIEDS 11C COMICS 0 (Democrat anft (Chronicle Ml ra 3 r-i rn GJL GOT mMP 7n mm lt's a baby boy for Farrah, Ryan Actress Farrah Fawcett and actor Ryan O'Neal became the parents of a GeVa gets veteran of TV, film to step in for ailing 'dad' 7-pound, 2'2-ounce son yesterday, and her publicist said mother and baby were doing fine. Fawcett, 37, a former Charlie's Angel on ABC-TV, gave birth at 2:55 a.m. in an undisclosed hospital It was the first child for Fawcett, who pre- vinufilv uao mar.

Li Staging the Depression Back in the '30s, jobs were scarce, families moved in together, dreams were crushed. Living wasn't all that great in the Great Depression. Playwright Neil Simon recaptured the mood of the era in an award-winning comedy-drama, Brighton Beach Memoirs. The Broadway hit comes to the Eastman Theater stage for one performance at 8 p.m. Sunday.

The $19.50 seats are sold out, but tickets are available for seats at $17.50 and $15.50. Today Triumph, the Canadian heavy-metal group that won two U.S. gold awards for rec i-arran i-awceu ried to actor Majors. O'Neal also is the father of actress Tatum O'Neal, who co-starred with him in Pdper Moon. Oh, Mr.

Bill, the putty character who was invariably destroyed by archenemy Sluggo on Saturday Night Live, is returning to television on USA Network's Night Flight program (channel 30 on Greater Rochester Cablevision). The first of five new segments is titled Mr. Bill's Hollywood Report and will air Feb. 22. Actor 'stable but frail' Actor Sir Michael Redgrave, who is suffering from Parkinson's Disease, was All My Sons recently.

After discovering that Jeter had performed the part in Houston, Millman called Pat Brown of that city's Alley Theater and then contacted Jeter about coming to Rochester to take over the role on short notice. Jeter said he always has had an attachment to All My Sons, a powerful drama about a father whose company produced faulty airplane parts during World War II, which resulted in the deaths of 21 pilots. Twenty-nine years ago, Jeter said, he played the part of Chris, one of Joe Keller's sons. Now Jeter's Rochester performances will be his second run in the role of the father. "I see Joe Keller as a very moral man, with a tremendous sense of responsibility to his family, and that proves to be his downfall," Jeter said about the part.

"He never thinks beyond his own little world to the bigger responsibilities and the consequences of his actions. Now he realizes he has lost one son and is about to lose another." ALTHOUGH JETER is fortunate enough to have found steady work as an actor, he also has another profession to fall back on he is a practicing lawyer in California, where he lives. "About 11 years ago I got tired of sitting around waiting for the phone to ring, so I started going to law school on nights and weekends," Jeter said. "Part of the reason was that in 1951 1 took a year of law at the University of Houston. I always thought I'd go back, but I never did, and I always felt as though I had left something unfinished." Jeter said his law practice remains secondary to his acting career, but he still does legal work on the side negotiating deals for writers, writing wills and so forth.

"Up until the past year I never had a chance to play an attorney," Jeter said. "Then a show called Divorce Court came along and I finally got a part as a lawyer. I thought it was great." GeVa performances of All My Sons resume tonight at the GeVa Theater, 168 S. Clinton at 8 p.m. The show will run through Feb.

17. Ticket prices range from $11 to $18.50. For additional information, contact the GeVa box office at 232-1363. By Andy Smith Democrat and Chronicle Actor James Jeter has one of those faces you vaguely recognize, even if you don't know the name. Maybe you recognize him from his television appearances he has appeared in The Dukes of Hazzard, T.J.

Hooker, Little House on the Prairie, Hart to Hart, the Rockford Files, Quincy and many more. Or maybe it's from his movie roles, in Blowout, Mommy Dearest, Cool Hand Luke, The Sand Pebbles and others. At 63 he has a tough, weathered look and a deep, resonant voice that contains reminders of his native Texas. It is the kind of voice you would obey if it told you to pull over and show your driver's license and registration. So over the years, Jeter has played a lot of cops.

There have been kindly, fatherly cops. Mean, nasty cops. Redneck southern sheriff cops. But for GeVa Theater his current role is that of a welcome rescuer. Jeter arrived in Rochester Tuesday night after receiving an emergency phone call from GeVa Theater's managing director, Howard Millman, on Saturday.

THE LEAD ACTOR for GeVa's current production of Arthur Miller's play All My Sons, Gerald Richards, had been hospitalized with exhaustion. Performances had to be canceled. GeVa desperately needed someone familiar with the part to take over, and it just so happened that Jeter had played the role at Houston's Alley Theater last year. "Howard called and said we're doing All My Sons and he knew I'd done the role," Jeter said. "He said 'Jim, I'm desperate, my back is against the So Jeter said OK, managed to shuffle another commitment, and after a day-and-a-half of intense rehearsal he will appear on stage in the pivotal role of Joe Keller tonight.

"I immediately went out and got a copy of the script and started studying it," Jeter said. "I still had the lines pretty well down. The only thing that concerned me was whether my interpretation would be different from the way Howard (Mill-man) had been directing the play. So far, James Jeter to take over in All My Sons. in stable but very frail" condition at London's St Bartholomew's Hospital, a hospital spokesman said yesterday.

The 76-year-old actor and father of Vanessa, Lynn and Corin Redgrave, each of whom followed in his stage foot- stenn. urns finnni. ording Allied Forces and Never Surrender, takes over the War Memorial at 7:30 tonight. Tickets are $12.50. Jazz fans can hear 18 jazz bands from upstate New York, including Iron-dequoit High School's and Monroe Community College's, at a free two-day jazz festival today and tomorrow at St.

Bona-venture University, Olean. Today's program starts at 12:15 p.m. and ends with a 7 p.m. concert; tomorrow's opens at 9 a.m. and concludes with a 7:30 p.m.

concert. Singeractress Ronee Blakley, a regular on TV, brings her act to the Top of the Plaza tonight. Fans can see the 10 p.m. show with dinner, starting at 7:30 p.m., for $21.95, or with cocktails for $8. A new series, The Future: Fact or Fiction, a look into the future of science and technology, opens today at Rochester Institute of Technology City Center, 50 W.

Main St. The free Thursday Noon talks, each starting at 12:10 p.m., will continue through April 4. Tomorrow "STv Dance for Love, a 24-hour IsSl tance marathon to raise money for Camp Good Days and Special Times' Teddi Project, which grants terminally ill children a last wish, gets under way at 8 p.m. tomorrow in though, I think our understanding of the role is right in line." Jeter added that he realizes it's awkward to replace another actor in the middle of a run, but said it was probably tougher on the rest of the cast than on him. "We'll rehearse all day today, until about 6 p.m.," Jeter said in an interview yesterday at the GeVa Theater.

"I'll probably stay longer, because I want to walk around the set and become familiar with the set my house, my yard, my screen door GeVa had to cancel seven performances over five days after Richards became ill. Richards, who received fine reviews from local critics for his performances, is listed in fair condition at Genesee Hospital. GEVA FOUND Jeter after Millman went through programs from other regional theaters around the country, looking for actors who had played the lead in Kearney Hall Auditorium, St. John Fish RPO's 'Overture' gets under way BEFORE YOU GO Composer to open new series of preconcert lectures at 7 tonight self. I wrote Prism just before started on the opera, to test my thesis." Each of the three movements of Prism is based on an older operatic version of Medea.

The first and second contain bits of the 17th-century Medean music of Charpentier and Cavalli. The third flaunts a bit of Cherubini's later telling of the tale. Druckman says he'll bring tapes of the earlier works to the lectures to help patrons identify them in his own music. By Robert V. Palmer Democrat and Chronicle music critic Something new has been added to orchestra concerts, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer will initiate it tonight.

American composer Jacob Druckman is the first speaker for Overture, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra's new series of preconcert lectures. He'll talk about his work, Prism. "Some works might be more difficult to Michael Kedgrave talized eight days ago. Born into an acting family, Redgrave was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1959 for his services to the theater. Grant loves his exercise Cary Grant says he has a simple exercise program.

It consists solely of sex. Grant, 81, conducted a question-and-an-swer session before a full house of 3,000 in San Francisco Tuesday night and was asked how he managed to keep so trim and looking 20 years younger than his age. "I've never done a damn thing (to keep in shape), especially exercise," he said. "The best exercise I know of is making love." He also told his fans that he would never make an acting comeback. "That part of my life is over.

I've done it," he said. "I don't have the energy for it anymore. I loved my work, so I had fun making most of my films especially those I did for Alfred Hitchcock." Heiress names baby Athena, newborn daughter of Christina Onassis-Roussel, was moved to a children's hospital a few hours after her birth Tuesday, medical sources said in Paris. The baby, first grandchild of the late Aristotle Onassis, was moved from the American Hospital, where she was born, to Necker childrens hospital as a precautionary measure. Singer makes U.N.

pledge Rock singer Tina Turner has promised she'll never perform in racially segregated South Africa, says the United Nations' Center Against Apartheid in New York City. In her written pledge Jan. 15, the 43-year-old black singer said she had "turned down several lucrative offers to perform in South Africa." The center maintains a register of entertainers who have performed in South Africa as part of a campaign for a cultural boycott of that country. The latest list, published in December, contains 388 names, including 103 Americans. Compiled from reports by United Press International and Associated Press er College.

Dancers arrange for sponsors; onlookers can make a donation at the door. A free ballroom dance for Monroe County's senior citizens, aged 60 or older, is planned from 1 to 4 p.m. tomorrow in Vandemark Hall, Rochester Psychiatric Center, 1600 South Ave. Mahler's Symphony No. 6 in A Minor will be played by the Eastman Philharmonia at a free concert at 8 p.m.

tomorrow at Eastman Theater. The Fantasticks musical will be a dinner theater presentation at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow at State University College, Geneseo. Tickets are $14; $13 for faculty, staff and alumni; $12 for students. Zonta Club's annual benefit antique show will be from 5 to 9 p.m.

tomorrow and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at Corpus Christi Church, 880 E. Main St. Admission is $1.50.

A Saturday Garth Fagan's Bucket Dance Theater will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday in Strong Auditorium, University of Rochester, River Campus. Tickets are $6, $5 for faculty and staff, $4 for students. Cross-country skiing, sports equipment demonstrations and the Genesee Valley Nordic Ski Patrol's winter picnic will be part of a Winter Weekend at Rochester Museum Sci talk about than others," he said, speaking from the Connecticut home where he was Druckman is a thinking composer. His Medea, with libretto by contemporary British poet Tony Harrison, reaches further back into the legend than has been the operatic norm.

His version of the story is more concerned with the relationship between Medea and Jason. hammering out musical mayhem in his new opera, Medea. "But Prism, I believe, is fairly easy to discuss." to tonight's concert by the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra with bass Paul Plishka and conductor David Zin-man. If Plishka and Zinman hadn't decided to forego Mussorgsky's Songs and Dances of Death, the work might have been the jewel in the crown. As it is, Plishka will offer two arias by Verdi, one by Mozart and one by Tchaikovsky.

The most interesting part of tonight's program is the concert opener: Jacob Druckman's Prism, the RPO premiere of a 1980 work. Composer-in-residence with the New York Philharmonic, Druckman is one of America's most played contemporary composers. Listen for quotations of music from the past in his Prism. You may not specifically recognize the Baroque bits of Charpentier and Cavalli or the operatic tints of Cherubini, but you'll be able to hear the melodies buried deep within a contemporary texture. Notice, too, the large battery of added percussion and the mixtures of sound it produces.

See if you can determine why Druckman isolates about a third of the string section at the back of the stage. A final note: Today, Tchaikovsky's melancholy Symphony No. 6 is the most popular and most often played of the 19th-century Russian composer's symphonies. It is also one of only a handful of symphonies that both begins and ends with slow and soft music. Robert V.

Palmer LIKE HIS new opera, the 21-minute opener for this week's pair of Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra concerts revolves about the Greek legend of Medea the sorceress who betrayed her father, killed her brother, stole the golden fleece and eventually murdered her own children all for the love of a very mortal man named Jason. Prism was commissioned and pre miered by the Baltimore Symphony Or Jacob Druckman than with the murderous jealosy of a Medea who rides away from her crimes in a chariot drawn by dragons. "My opera looks less at those last throes of jealousy," he said. "It's more concerned with the change from matriarchal to patriarchal society the struggle between male and female. The importance of the fleece is that it is a male-god symbol, as opposed to that of the older godesses." TURN TO PAGE 5C chestra in 1980.

The New York Philharmonic will carry it to Europe this June. ence Center's dimming Nature Center, Gulick Road, south of Honeoye. Events run from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday and It was a sort of trial balloon tor the opera," he said. "My Medea is a new treatment of the legend braced by older versions of the same story.

It's the kind of theater that sort of looks in upon it children. i Show-stoppers from hit musicals, such as Showboat, will highlight the Greece Performing Arts Society's Winter Blahs Party at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow at Greece Arcadia High School, 120 Island Cottage Road. Admission is 'Killing Fields' a about humanity compelling film amid the horror on FILM $2.50. A Sunday Black History Month will be 7, celebrated with storytelling, a one-act play and jazz concert By Jack Garner Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m.

at Rochester Museum Science Center, 657 East Ave. The event is free with museum admission: $1.50, $1 for seniors, 50 cents for students through grade 12. 'CX fi lib s. A tree recital, featuring violinist Charles Castleman, will be Sunday at 3 p.m. in Kilbourn Hall, Eastman School of Music, 26 Gibbs St Music by Mozart and Brahms will be featured at a free concert at 3 p.m.

Sun Democrat and Chronicle film critic The Killing Fields is a powerful and humane motion picture about the endurance of a friendship through the horrifying collapse of Cambodia in the mid-1970s. Adapted from a series of Pulitzer Prize-winning articles by New York Times correspondent Sydney Schanberg, The Killing Fields depicts his relationship with a Cambodian assistant, both before and after they are forced to separate during the Khmer Rouge takeover of Phnom Penh. "I began the search for my friend Dith Pran in April of 1975," wrote Schanberg. "Unable to protect him when the Khmer Rouge troops ordered Cambodians to evacuate their cities, I had watched him disappear into the interior of Cambodia, which would become a death camp for "millions. Dith Pran had saved my life the day of occupation, and the shadow of my failure to keep him safe to do what he had done for me was to fol- day at Memorial Art Gallery, 490 University Ave.

The Killing Fields The true story of a friendship that withstands the horrors of war in Cambodia. It opens tomorrow at the Todd Mart and Loews Ridge Road theaters. Directed by Roland Joffe, it stars Sam Waterston, Haing S. Ngor, John Malkovich, Julian Sands and Craig T. Nelson.

Running time: 2:23. Rating: with the violence and aftermath of war. Excellent Good Average Fair Poor low me for four-and-a-half years." The Killing Fields focuses on the relationship between Schanberg and Pran, as they reported on events in Cambodia for the Times. As the capitol falls, they decide to stay to report news back to the West, but eventually become captives of the violent Communist rebels, the Khmer Rouge. Though Schanberg finds his way to freedom through the French embassy, TURN TO PAGE 3C Author Susannah Heschel's book, On Being a Jewish Feminist, will be the topic of her free talk Sunday at 8 p.m.

at Temple Beth El, 139 S. Winton Road. Kay Fish Big Events This Weekend appears each Thursday on the People page. Look for your guide to daily events. The Big Event, other weekdays on this page.

Today What's Doing events column is on page 4C. Reporters Julian Sands, Sam Waterston and John Malkovich under arrest in Killing Fields..