Fort Lauderdale News from Fort Lauderdale, Florida • Page 64

a 14 Fort Lauderdale NewsSun-Sentinel, Friday, Nov. 4, 1983 O'Connor ri THIS WEEKENDS STOPS: SHERIDAN 7 RICHARD PRVOR: HERE AND NOW THE DEAD ZONE SCREAM HEAVY METAL DAWN OF THE DEAD APOCALYPSE NOW LAKES 6 ALL THE RIGHT MOVES SCREAM THE DEAD ZONE ENTER THE DRAGON DAWN OF THE DEAD MATINEE ft TWHJTi SHOW STARTWb BEFORE I P.M. UAH I told me, 'You alvays get such big money for a character actor. Vhy is datr When he first saw Brothers at the South Coast Repertory Theater in California, he casually mentioned that someday, if he could find the time, he would like to direct the play. "The play had problems, which we all knew, and I thought I would enjoy working with the author on editing it," O'Connor says.

"Then, when we were canceled, the producer called me up to remind that, well, now I had plenty of time to direct. I've been offered the leads in Inherit the Wind and Death of a Salesman, but the idea of doing something new and promising appealed to me. "I always said that if I went back to the theater, I'd never do matinees. Well, here I am, doing eight shows a week and not thinking much beyond getting the play into New York. If it works, we'll have a hit and maybe a movie after that, and who knows what else.

It's hard to tell, but I don't worry about it." pulted him to immortality. He entered acting while he was in school at the University of Montana, where he met Nancy, now his wife of 32 years. Later, when he traveled to Ireland with a younger brother, he enrolled at University College in Dublin and continued acting in productions there, until he was spotted and picked up for a professional company. He learned his craft in Ireland, working with such actors as Cyril Cusack, Hilton Edwards and Michael MacLiammoir. "It was a very gay life, in the old-fashioned sense of the word," he says, "and I fell for it completely." He made his New York debut in 1958 in an off-Broadway production of Ulysses in Nighttown, which starred Zero Mostel and was directed by O'Connor's good friend, Burgess Meredith.

In 1960, a part in A Fever in the Blood launched his movie career of 27 films. He did well in Hollywood, playing detectives and officers in the military in such movies as Cleopatra, Point Blank and Marlowe. "When I was doing In Harm's Way for Otto Preminger." O'Connor recalls, "he Continued from page 12 family was leading a good life. Then producer Norman Lear, who had nursed All in the Family along the network channels, phoned to tell him that the show had at last been picked up by CBS and that he should return to the States to begin taping the series. "Norman knew it would work," he reminisces, "but I didn't.

It was the fourth pilot fcr a TV series I had made, and none of the others including one called Nightwatch that Robert Altman had directed in Chicago had been picked up. All in the Family had bounced around for a long time. We made the first pilot in 1969, but nobody wanted to touch it. At one point, ABC was interested but later dropped the idea. I didn't bold much hope for it, but Nancy kept saying I should give it a try, so we went back to the States, leaving our car and most of our furniture in Rome, because I expected to be back there soon." Born 59 years ago in New York City, O'Connor had had a long and prosperous career as a film and stage actor before Archie cata BOCA 6 SHERIDAN 7 LAKES 6 441I0UUWK MHO.

ItsM LAKES NAIL 7396366 to M4 a. HO. BWT. HVOf MCHATtmiMU 368 2024 in wc bom ii houtwooo 9874680 HARD PRYOR "THE DEAD ZONE" HERE AND NOW" "SCREAM" (00 4 5:30 $2.00) A IK tram tm in nm (2:30 5:30 $2.00) "RUMBLE FISH" htub non Tnuc" A "THE DEAD ZONE" (1:45 ISMS $2.00) (1:48 1 8:00 92.00) (2:15 1 5:15 $2.00) "SCREAM" (230 5:30 B2.80) "THE BIG CHILL" "NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN" (130 4:30 $2.00) (2:30 5:30 $2.00) I "ALL THE RIGHT pb MOVES II (tt i MI "ZELIG" (2:00 5:00 $2.00) I "THE BIG CHILL" (20 4 5:15 (8 $2.00) "UNDER FIRE" (1:30 1 4:30 $2.00) "ALL THE RIGHT MOVES" (2K 5:30 $2.00) "BRAINSTORM" (00 5:00 1 4 7 "NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN PG "EASY MONEY" 1 430 3.00-T30-W38 "BRAINSTORM" 4 5:00 a $2.00) SUNDAY SAVERSI nn ALL SHOWS! TJ UU All DAY MIGHT! 1 EVERY SUNDAY! UNIV. AT SUNRISE.

47X700 "RUMBLE FISH" (1:45 5:00 S2.00) 7.45-8:45 (2:15 4 $2.00) PO SIM MATINEE DAILY ROONCY DANOCnFlEXJ) EASY MONEY 1:30,88, 7:18, MS (R) SIM PIAZAOORA THE LONELY LADY 1:30, Js4S, 7:18, 928 (R) CB vo SEE MOVIE CLOCK FOR NO. SR. CIT. DISC. SAT.

HOLIDAYS 1LL SMOWTIMES 1 THE FINAL merry Christmas MR. MOM ZELIG OPTION MP-LAWRENCE 0 woody Altm r- wqiim-bwijiiujs fii David bwm-Tom Ccnu Tri Garr E3 Mi Farrow THE OSTERMAN REVENGE OF RISKY ROMANTIC I comedy NATALIE WOOO matinee BRAINSTORM DAILY 00, 4:15, 7:40, (PO) NICK NOLTE GENE HACKMAN JOANNA CASSIDV QO23BFE- "A gripping, full throttle story of political intrigue." -cndu ruii, ft. lauderdale newssun-sentinel big confident, powerful movie, exciting and entertaining. a terrific piece Of film-making." -David Denby. SEW YORK MAGAZINE JOHN TRAVOLTA matinee STAYING ALIVE DAILY 2O0, 4:15, 7:40, (PO) i ill MIDNITE JAM, FRI.

A SAT. ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW LED ZEPPLIN IN "THE SONQ REMAINS THE SAME" PINK FLOYD "THE WALL" PINK FLOYD AT POMPEII SEPARATE ADMISSION FOR ALL SHOWS a411' iii- lit 'Vnni'MJM; a its ft AT GATEWAY-SUNDAY thru FRIDAY $4 krn EARLY BIRD 2:30 PM AJ fi cati iDniv a -aa oaj HOLIDAYS tM 2:30 PM I 8 I I i NICK NOLTE I I fill GENE HACKMAN 151. i rviri "UNDER FIRE" A LION'S GATE FILM "UNDER FIRE" JEAN-LOUIS TRINTIGNANT RICHARD MASUR ED GOLDSMITH, PAT METHENY MhMl JOHN ALCOTT i t-M EDWARD TEETS RON SHELTON -CLAYTON FROHM AN CLAYTON FROHMAN JONATHAN TAPLIN ROGER SPOTTISWOODE I I iil'iiliil PG A FT. LAUDERDALE SOUTHLAND THUNDERBIRO CORAL SPRINGS LOEWS 6 CORAL SPRINGS HALL UNIVERSITY A SAMPLE 753-9700 TWIN tM SW 24 ST S25-6162 drive -in 1 mh.e wofi-h on sunrise blvo 583-7733 WOMCTCO GATEWAY SUMAlSf BLVD. AT NC AVE- 763-7994 6 Channel Stereo Sounl LAUDERDALE LAKES AMC THEATRES LAKES 6 OAKLAND BLVO.

A US 441 739-6366 STARTS TODAY I EPmSrS POMPANO MARGATE PLANTAT.ON 1 POMPANO I I tj WEEKEND niwn mm KVOMCTCO BOCA I RATON II TWIN 111 US 1 ST 1 1 392-4091 III! PALM-AIRE TRIPLEX LOEHMANN 6 1AZA AT PALM-AIRE 971-8151 LAKE SHORE MARGATE DRIVE-IN TWIN 1000 STATE RO 7 US 441 BETWEEN 972-3242 ATLANTIC 4 COMMERCIAL BLVO 971-4000 LAUDERDALE LAKES AMC THEATRES LAKES 6 OAKLAND PK BLVO 4 US 441 739-6366 MOVIES AT PLANTATION 1400 W. BAOWM.RO BLVO. 472-1108 SaSf" I 80CARAaTL I 946-7950 I V- tffl SATURDAY 'W8)PM PJ SUNDAYS nd fi HfK irvs lil pm i- ALBOAT SHERIDAN 1. HOLLYWOOD. i ALSOATiPUWA JWIN, HOLLYWOOD.

I CHECK TIME CLOCK FOR SHOW TIMES I I CHECK TIME CLOCK FOR'SHOW TIMES.