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B6 Asbury Park PressTues. May 25, 1982 Gossip Column Robin Adams Sloan 'Cowardly' casting confounds critic V- L. I J. 1 Voice of Broadway 1 i j. Q- Even though it's been several year 'errtce the death of comedian Freddie Prinze, rn't hit heln (till squabbling over the 4 "normou estate he left behind? I'.

'A. The Prinze estate is being fought over -all right, but not by the late Freddie's heirs but by the Internal Revenue Service. After Whe 22-year-old comic and TV star arid the shot himself in 1977, his family listed the worth of his taxable estate at about $92,000. The IRS came along and calculated that Freddie's worth at the time of his death was much more nearly $600,000, of which about $155,000 was owed in taxes. The disagreement will probably drag on for some time in court with Freddie's mother and widow on one side, Uncle Sam on the other.

The Prinze estate wasn't huge by Hollywood star standards, but the IRS figures it's worth fighting over netheless. Q- Liza Minnelli has been uncharacteristically quiet of late, and we haven't heard much about her. Is she pregnant again and 'taking things easy? A. After two miscarriages, preceded by extended periods away from the spotlight. Liza has decided to get back into professional high gear.

Latest word is that she is considering starring in a stage revival of the 1958 Broadway hit musical "Gypsy." In the original, a 49-year-old Ethel Merman played the hard-driving stage mother of Gypsy Rose Lee and June Havoc. Even though she's only 36, Liza-must figure she's ready to re-create the Wurman part and take it on the road. Meanwhile, she and husband Mark Gero still plan fo have a family. NEW YORK Here's Broadway's champion against-type-casting: George C. Scott in the veddy-Noel Coward high-comic autobiographical role in Deah Noel's "Present Laughter." George C.

also will direct it at the Circle in the Square, 50th and Broadway, June 18. George is an earthy eruptive pure American type and Noel's image (though he could and did play serious roles very oc-casinally) was sheer drawing room (the chic new critical term for such antique sophisticated high farcicalities is "boulevard comedy" to prove the critic's been to London and Paris); but it does seem a daring diversion from Scott's star size if hardly elegant or foppish acting past. Anyway, we'll be there opening night to check on George's Cowardy dressing robes, long-holdered cigarets, feathery persiflage, dashing dinner jackets and bou-tonnieres, all of which we've never seen on the George C. Scott of "Patton," "Death of a Salesman," "Andersonville Trial" and other grittier plots and tribulations. We're truly startled at the change of sartorial and mannered comedy pace remembering one stylish Broadway First Night wherein George turned up in a down-front seat, doffed a raincoat that would have done Peter Falk's Columbo trench-coat proud, to display his sole top under-costume a wrinkled white black sport-shirt; George amid the formally duded opening Night swells stuck out like an absent molar.

Ergo, this Noel Coward romp has to be unexpected, a total reverse of his award-winning style, unusual to the degree that George as Noel might even rate stunt pay; dahlings! Famed Rockefeller Center has announced a deal to peddle half its original 14 Radio City buildings to Prudential Insurance: Joseph P. Kennedy almost had an immediate-postwar deal to buy the same 14 for $400 million. The Rockefeller will keep the six subsequent skyticklers in the family. Henny Youngman's wife Sadie had exploratory surgery at Beth Israel Hospital; Henny told us all seems well Maggie Thatcher took her prime ministerial eye off the Falklands long enough to assign a Scotland Yarder to guard her international car-racing son Mark at California's Long Beach Grand Prix; Mark's incident prone got lost in the Sahara for days last year One of the most famous downtown jaz-zeries' owner had to write out an arrangement to pay a waitress a nice settlement for calling her (in front of customers) a "Nazi somesuch" Jackie Cannon, the late great columnist Jimmy Cannon's brother, was Woody Allen's very first press Jack O'Brian agent a few comic millions ago: Woody called to ask Jackie to act a small key cameo role in his imminent flick; nice memory. The New York Improvisation showcase-nitery keeps assembly-lining its grads into films: Paul Reiser's brightening the new sleeper-smash "Diner" and Rick Overton's due any ovation in "Young Doctors in Love" Vanessa Redgrave's tossing her own benefit in London's Roundhouse Theater for her minuscule British Trotskyite "Revolutionary Party's" youth-training cell.

The show will consist of readings from Lillian Hellman's dramaturgical whims and from several other playwrotes. One of the great and youngest just-postwar Manhattan beauties, Mary Prem-inger, wed happily to Otto Preminger before her very best friend Hope took her glamorous place, now is one of the most popular new sculptors in the world, never mind just America. Mary (who uses the middle initial to differentiate herself from her immediately preceding Preminger wife, the late Albert Schweitzer-aide Marian Mill Preminger) has sold her occasionally huge abstract constructions and beautifully modern-impressionistic and expressionistic pieces to such as the country's most recognized art connoisseur, the late Robert Lehman; the Billy Rose Collection (she was a Rose consultant when Billy in late life decided to become classy); Henry Fonda. The New York Museum of Modern Art collects Mary as have Tiffany's, Washington's Corcoran Gallery, status galleries in Denver, Palo Alto, San Francisco, Stanford Los Angeles, Fresno; other esthetically selective collections: banks (Lytton, Great Western Savings, Security Pacific, and many public companies with artistic ambitions toward institutional images. Mary was one of the cynosures of fotogs and admiring stares at the Stork Club, FJ Morocco, "21," and other tony cathedrals where Otto found and lost her.

She's still tall, shapely-slender, chic, blonde, huge-sunglassed, smashingly stunning. Jack OUrian's syndicated column appears Monday through Friday. LADY CHATTERLY'S LOVER (R) Daily 7:45 9:30 MIDNITE ROCKY HORROR ADM. $3.50 WW "1 I ill Ml $200 0N THRU AU SH0WIN BEFORE 6PM. 1 lA i LIZA MINNELLI who recently backed him on a world tour, sign releases before getting paid prohibiting discussion with anyone about the tour and Rod's personal life.

LADY LENA: When Lena Home takes her hit "The Lady and Her Music" on tour throughout the U.S.. Europe and Australia this July, there'll be a special new souvenir program featuring quotes of praise from a roster of celebrities. Our favorite is this one from Lillian Gish, the legendary actress, who says, "Lena Home makes me proud to be in the profession." It takes one to know one! Q. A friend swears that Frank Sinatra possesses a special silk jacket with the presidential seal. Fact or fiction? Reading Room THE SAFETY NET by Heinrich Boll.

Alfred A. Knopf. 314 pages. $13.95. By the time Heinrich Boll finishes weaving this tale of physical and psychological violence, the reader is drained and comes to better understand the illness that is paranoia.

"The Safety Net" is the compelling story of modern-day Germany, of the Baader-Meinhof gang and other terroristic armies, and, most of all, it is an interpretation of the effects of terrorism from the viewpoints of potential victims. The Nobel Prize winner traces Fritz Tolm from his ascension to the presidency of a National Association of Manufacturers-like organization, which controls virtually all commerce in West Germany, through his dealings with terroristic threats that bear a poignantly sharp point. Tolm's children, you see, took a walk on the wild side and are members of the "other side." The implication of even a family gathering turning into a bloodbath does much to dim all notions of socializing at holiday times. A perfunctory visit becomes a state occasion when the new head of the organization visits kin. This is so because his retinue engulfs all those around him.

Privacy and the right of the individual to live freely within the limitations of nature and manmade law are at crux in this story, which weaves from physical action to psychological action, from true reality to one's perception of reality. In the end, we come to learn what much of Europe already knows: Terrorism is as menacing when it is anticipated as when it actually occurs. And one other thing is learned here as well: Boll is a master storyteller, and his work loses nothing in translation. Bill McLaughlin Asbury Park Press GOD'S VOICE IN THE STARS: ZODIAC SIGNS AND BIBLE TRUTH by Kenneth C. Fleming.

Loizeaux Brothers, Neptune. 143 pages. $3.95. Most conservative Christians take quite a negative view of the 12 signs of the zodiac, particularly when people use the zodiac as a guide for their lives. Fleming, himself a conservative Christian, has stripped the zodiac of its astrological meaning and has found quite a different sign in the sky.

The zodiac, he maintains, is a pictorial presentation of God's plan of redemption for humanity through the coming of the Savior. Astrology is simply a satanic corruption, an effort to disguise the true message hidden in the stars. The Bible itself says that the stars 1991 I Any Crenna co-stars The Associated Press JULIE ANDREWS james garner VICTOR sari's. -r? NJLiJ ROBERT MITCHUM A. Sinatra, who's a close friend of President Reagan, does indeed own a black warm-up jacket which he wore while visiting the capital for the inauguration.

This unique garment features Sinatra's last name embossed in gold on one side, and the inaugural seal on the other. A Sinatra aide hand-delivered the jacket to a leather repair shop in Manhattan, giving strict instructions to the proprietor to have zippers sewn in each pocket: and to be specially careful, because Frank values it highly. Robin Adams Sloan's syndicated column appears Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. Questions can be addressed to her co The Asbury Park Press, Press Plaza, Asbury Park, N.J. 07712.

HEINRICH BOLL "were given for signs and seasons" (Gen. 1:14) not seasons in the current meaning of the word, but in the sense of fixed times. The stars were to indicate what God would be doing in the world at various times throughout the course of history. The constellation Orion, which means "Coming as Light," contains stars named (named by God, incidentally, according to Psalm 147:4) Rigel, "The Foot that Crushes," and Saiph, "Bruised." Rigel is the star that marks the foot that is raised to crush the serpent. Even someone with a superficial knowledge of the Bible could see the significance in those names.

Genesis speaks of the Mighty One who is to come as the Light of the world, who will crush the head of Satan even as He Himself is bruise on the heel. Fleming's book includes a chart listing 24 stars in order of their brightness as they appear from earth, the constellation in which they appear, the English translation of the Latin na.uC, and scriptural references that apply to the concept contained in the name, plus a pull-out chart of the constellations and zodiac signs for reference while reading the book. Both are useful supplements to the text. As significant as their names may be, the individual stars are incomplete until they are connected with the eye to create a meaningful picture in much the same way that dot-to-dot pictures make sense once completed. And the one who has created the final picture is God, who challenged Job to bring forth the 12 signs of the zodiac.

That's a startling concept to those who think of the zodiac only in terms of the occult. Fleming states with no uncertainty that each of the 12 signs of the zodiac "pictori-ally represents a prophetic event in relation to the unfolding story of salvation in the history of the world." And he goes on to show how. What follows is a fascinating, intriguing and awesome revelation. It becomes difficult not to believe his premise. Marcia Edwards Asbury Park Press MOTORING MADNESS MEMORIAL WEEKEND TWO NIGHTS SAT.

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At 64. Mitchum appears in great shape. But looks can be deceiving. Bob is facing a tough physical role in the upcoming movie version of Jason Miller's hit play. "That Championship Season." It's about a reunion of members of a basketball team, and Bob plays the former coach.

He has a strenuous part and is trying to get in shape. Reports are that this former movie he-man is having trouble knocking out three pushups, much less the 15 or so he'll need to do in the movie. So the somewhat out-of-shape Mitchum is working hard these days. Q. Can you tell us how rock star Rod Stewart really feels about the published disclosures of former lover Britt Ekland about the couple's steamy private life? A.

At the time Britt's book, "True Britt," came out and told all about her long-standing affair with Stewart, Rod publicly grinned and shrugged off her revelations. But I've since learned that both he and his current wife, Alana Stewart, were privately furious about Britt's intimate kiss-and-tell. That's why Rod has insisted that members of his rock band, Movies 2 Fighting Back, 7:40, 9 40. MENLO PARK Cinema I Annie. PG.

12:15. 2:40. 5, 7:30, 9:45. Cinema II Porky's. R.

12:45. 3:25. 5:50. 8:10. 10:15.

MIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP UA Middletown Conan. R. 1:15, 7:15, 9:40. UA Middletown Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid. PG.

1:20. 7. 8:40. 10.20. UA Middletown If You Could See What I Hear, PG.

1:30, 7:45. 9:45. UA Middletown Chariots of Fire. PG. 1:15, 7:15, 9:35.

UA Middletown Texas Chainsaw Massacre, 7, 10. House Where Evil Dwells, 8:30. UA Middletown Porky's. R. 1:15.

7:45. 9:45. UA Middletown Arthur. PG. 1:30.

7:30. Body Heat. 9:30. NEPTUNE CITY Neptune City My Bloody Valentine, R. 7:30, Some Kind of Hero.

R. 9. OCEAN TOWNSHIP Middlebrook 1 Some Kind of Hero, R. 7:30. 9:30.

Middlebrook 2 VictorVictoria, PG, 7:15. 9:45. Seaview Sq. I Porky's, 7:30, 9:30. Seaview Sq.

II Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid. PG, 7:30, 9:30. OLD BRIDGE TOWNSHIP Sayre Woods Gangster Girls, 8:15, Please Mr. Postman, 7, 9 30. Madison 1 Some Kind of Hero.

7:30. 9.30. Madison 2 Quest for Fire. 7:20. 9:20.

PLEASANTVILLE Towne 4 Wrong is Right, 7:30. 9:30. Towne 4 Conan, R. 7:45. 10.

Towne 4 Porky's. R. 8. 10. Towne 4 Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid.

PG. 7:45. 9:30. Atlantic Drive-In Vice Squad, Seduction, Women for Sale, starts at dusk. RED BANK Movies 1 Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid.

PG, 7:45, 9:40. Movies 2 VictorVictoria, PG, 7:20. 9:35. SAYREVILLE Amboy Cinema 1 Wrong is Right, 1:55. 7:25, 9:50.

Amboy Cinema 2 Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, PG. 2:10, 7:50, 10:10. Amboy Cinema 3 Conan, 1:40. 7, 9:40. Amboy Cinema 4 Frankenstein in 3D.

R. 2:15, 7:35, 9:50. Amboy Cinema 5 Fighting Back, 1:45. 7:15, 9:25. Amboy Cinema 6 Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

R. 1:55, 7:25, 9:35. Amboy Cinema 7 Porky's, 1:55, 7:55. 9:55. Amboy Cinema 8 AC-DC Let There Be Rock.

PG, 8. 10. SHREWSBURY Cinema I If You Could See What I Hear. PG. 7:30, 9:30.

Cinema II Fighting Back, 7:30, 9:30. Cinema III Wrong Is Right, 7:20, 9:30. TOMS RIVER Cinema I Porky's. 1:30, 3:30, 5:30. 7:30.

9:30. Cinema II If You Could See What I Hear. PG, 1:45, 3:45, 5:45, 7:45, 9:45. Cinema III Fighting Back, 2, 4, 6. 8.

10. Cinema Alley I Dead Men Don't Wear Plain, PG, 7:30, 9:30. Cinema Alley II Quest for Fire, 7:30, 9:30. Dover 1 Wrong Is Right, 7:30, 9:45. Dover 2 Conan, 7:20, 9:45.

VENTNOR Twin I Sword and Sorcerer, 8, 10. Twin II If You Could See what I Hear. PG, 7:30, 9:30. Margate A VictorVictoria, PG, 7:30, 9:45. Margate Paradise, 8, 10.

WOODBRIDGE Movie City 1 Deathtrap, PG. 7, 9:30. Movie City 2 On Golden Pond, PG, 7:10. 9:40. Movie City 3 Some Kind of Hero, 7:20, 9:45.

Movie City 4 Quest for Fire, 7:30, 9:50. Movie City 5 Amateur, 7:45, 10. Cinema I Wrong Is Right, 2, 4:15, 7:30. Cinema II Fighting Back. 2, 4, 6, 8, 10.

Classification and Rating Administration (CARA) ratings: (G) General audiences; (PG) All ages admitted (parental guidance suggested); (R) Restricted, with persons under 17 not admitted unless accompanied by parent or adult guardian; (X) Adults only; (NR) Not rated. HOLLYWOOD Richard Crenna will co-star with Jon Voight in "Table for Five" for CBS Theatrical Films. Rob Lieberman will direct from a script by David Selzer on location in Greece. Mill 3 THIEF 2ND SMASH WEEK! WARRIOR GLADIATOR KING If You What I H.r Mo.lt Will IlKtOT Cl AM Bsfto 1 If You Could See What I Hear (pq) 1-44g-T45 Could See I Hoar po) Tao-sao PORKY'S b) FrGHTtJG BAOIm 2-4-a-t-lo WRONG IS RIGHT 740-940 -Movie Timetable Notice to Readers Movie schedules are based on information provided by theater owners. Because movies are subject to change, it is suggested that you call theater to confirm correct times.

ABERDEEN TOWNSHIP Cinema 34 Lady Chatterley's Lover, R. 7:45, 9:30. Twin Cinema I Quest for Fire, R. 7:20, 9:20. 2 Twin Cinema II Hero.

7:30. 9:30. Some Kind of 3 ASBURY PARK Fourth Avenue Theater The Dancers. X. 7:30.

10. Sexual Heights. X. 8:45. Lyric Blue Ecstasy.

X. 12:05. 2:30, 7:15. 9:30. Virgin and Lover.

1:15. ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS Atlantic VictorVictoria, PG, 7:20. 9:45. BEACH HAVEN Colonial Chariots of Fire. PG.

7.30. BERKELEY TOWNSHIP Cinema 1 Some Kind of Hero. R. 7:30, 9:30. Cinema 2 On Golden Pond, PG.

7:30, 9:35. BRADLEY BEACH Beach Cinema Victor Victoria. PG. 7:05. 9:30.

BRICK TOWNSHIP Brick Plaza 1 Porky's R. 7:45. 9:45. Brick Plaza 2 Wrong Is Right. R.

House Where Evil Dwells. 9:35. Mall Cinema 1 If You Could See "What I Hear. PG, 7:30, 9:35. Mall Cinema 2 Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid.

PG. 7:45, 9:40. Mall Cinema 3 Fighting Back, 7:30, 9:30. Circle 1 Arthur, PG, 7:45, Body Heat, R. 9:35.

Circle 2 Texas Chainsaw Massacre, 7:45, 9:30. Circle 3 Conan, 7:20. 9:45. EAST BRUNSWICK Brunswick Sq. I Lady Chatterley's Lover, 2, 4, 6, 8.

10. Brunswick Sq. II Chariots of Fire, PG. 2. 4 50, 7:30.

9:45. Movie City 1 Deathtrap. PG. 7. 930.

Movie City 2 On Golden Pond. PG. 7:10. 9:40. Movie City 3 Some Kind of Hero, 7:20, 9:45.

Movie City 4 Quest for Fire. 7:30. 9:50. Movie City 5 Amateur. 7:45.

10. EAST WINDSOR TOWNSHIP East Windsor 1 Richard Pryor Live on Sunset Strip. 7:45, 9:30. East Windsor 2 Deathtrap. PG.

7:20. 9:35. EATONTOWN Community 1 Conan, 7:30, 9:50. Community 2 Arthur, PG. 7:45, Body Heat.

9:35. Drive-In Texas Chainsaw Massacre, 8:40, 11:30, Massacre Central High, 10:15. FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP Quad 1 Fighting Back. 7:30. 9:35.

Quad 2 If You Could See What I Hear.PG, 7:30, 9:30. Quad 3 Conan, 7:15, 9:45. Quad 4 Porky's, 7:45. 9:45. Park Avenue Cinema VictorVicto-ia, PG.

7:30, 9:45. Pond Road Cinema Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, PG, 7:30. 9:30. HAZLET TOWNSHIP UA Cinema Quest for Fire. 7, 9.

UA Cinema Some Kind of Hero. R. 7:15. 9:15. Plaza Fighting Back.

7:30, 9:25. Route 35 Drive-In Conan, R. 8:30. 12. Cheech Chong's Next Movie.

R. 10:45. HOWELL TOWNSHIP Country VictorVictoria, PG. 7:15. 9:45.

Town Some Kind of Hero, 7:30, 9 30. KEANSBURG Midway Deathtrap, PG, 7, 9. KEYPORT Strand The Dancers, 12:05. 2:30, 7:15, 9:30, Desiree Cousteau Miss Magnificent, 1:15, 8:30. LONG BEACH TOWNSHIP Beach I Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid.

PG, 7:30. Beach II Conan, 7:30. LONG BRANCH Movies 1 If You Could See What I Hear, PG. 7:40, 9:40. THE BArMRJM (IBM r- raami Dead Men Don't DriDITVC Wear Plaid pg KUHIv is here TODAY! 1 QUEST FOR FIRE Every Eve.

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The movie is based on the French comedy "Le Jouet." Pryor plays a jobless journalist, with Gleason as a domineering tycoon who hires Pryor as a toy for his son. The movie also introduces 11-year-old Scott Schwartz, who has appeared in more than 100 commercials and on and off Broadway. aamm" from rastar coimmu MctvNii Mama, mc ENGAGEMENTS PRESENTED IN 70MM SIX-TRACK DOLBY STEhIoT CENTURY GENERAL CINEMA SEVENPLEX MENLO PARK (201 487-7909 MENLO PARK (201) 549767 8th ANNIVERSARY PARTY May 25 May 26 Complimentary Midnight Buffet MUSIC DANCING DOOR PRIZES Remember The THE MOVIES AT MIDDLETOWN ROUTE 35 at Palmer Ae. 671-1020 Briefly The Associated Press HOLLYWOOD Richard Benjamin, who just finished directing Peter 0'-Toole in "My Favorite Year," will direct a movie for United Artists based on the French comedy "Charles and Melissa Manchester will sing the theme song for "A Little Sex," which she composed with Alice Willis and David Paul John Hillerman plays a New York society columnist in the NBC miniseries "Little at Last." AH, THE GREAT enjoy fishing, hunting and the outdoor life with John Geiser's column. Look for it daily in the Asbury Park Press.

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