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it fit The Lively Arts 8D QUAD-CITY TIMES Sunday, Oct 25, 1931 fe-! Welles shares 'moclest wisdom have just heard that Orson is preparing a new movie; that is good news for everyone." Peter O'Toole recaUed Welles' advice on acting as "one of the most liberating experiences of my life." Welles simply referred the Irish actor to Hamlet's instructions to the players. Discarding the microphone, O'Toole delivered the soliloquy with an eloquence that mesmerized the Beverly Hilton Grand Ballroom audience. Welles' fellow Americans also paid homage. Director-writer Richard Brooks: "There's no one here who doesn't owe something to Orson Welles, and I'm one of them." Director Mark Rydell said, "He stands for things that are heroic for filmmakers." More praise came from director Richard Rush and performers David Car-radine and Joan Hackett mm i' $yj trMMON By Bob Thomas of The Associated Press HOLLYWOOD They gave Orson Welles a tribute the other night and it was the real thing. No fat jokes.

No wine-before-its-time jokes. Just a warm tribute to one of the great achievers of the American film. "There has never been such a night as this for me," Welles said, the famed bass voice rumbling with emotion. "I will cherish it to the last breath of my life." Ever since "Citizen Kane," Welles has operated outside and often in defiance of the Hollywood Establishment. The tribute was tendered not by officialdom, but by his fellow artists of the film world.

The evening was organized by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and was appropriately multi-national. FRANCE'S Roger Vadim God Created said he wanted to kill the legend that the French love only Jerry Lewis "We also love Orson Welles." Italy's Bernardo Bertolucci Tango in added his praise and remarked, "I real function. What is absent in the making of movies is the audience. It is the terrible burden of the director to fill that yawning "EARLY in my career I remarked that movies are the most expensive mistress a man ever had. I have been trying to support her ever "I think 'movies' are a better word than Nowadays directors are called which is kind of I may be accused of lowbrow Philistinism, but I actually prefer picture "Picture makers suffer an incurable vice: we can't stay out of movie theaters.

We ought to. Going to the movies can produce too much narcissism; There is too much imitation in films I mean' movies' today. Picture makers who copy other movies and add their own endings. If there is to be future picture making and there had better be picture makers had better spend more time looking at "As a man who is approaching maturity, I hope that the hero of the future in works of picture-making art will not be a warrior in the armor or rockets, but simply a man in a hang-glider." ANDAU-ER Orson Welles Nowadays directors are called filmmakers, which kind of high The 66-year-old Welles seemed genuinely moved as he approached the podium, his ample bulk supported with a cane. "Now I'm going to try to sound modest," he jested.

Speaking only with a few notes which he said made no sense to him, Welles delivered observations that evoked warm response from his listeners. Among them: "Directors are treated as though they were a separate breed. I take exception to that. Directors are all of them actors, just as writers are The director plays many roles, including loving mother and sergeant major. None of them is his THE BALLROOM was filled with Welles' fellow directors: Samuel Fuller, Peter Bogdanovich, Bob Ra-felson, George Schaefer, Jud Taylor, Sydney Pollack.

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Most said that if the science-fiction ending were changed, they would be will-' ing to book the movie. Luckily for Disney, the i movie's sets had not been destroyed but were in stor- i age at Pinewood Studios in London. Unluckily, the actors' strike made it impossible to shoot until late fall. Because of conflicts in the schedule of Miss Davis, who plays the mother of a girl who disappeared mysteriously 30 years earlier, her re vised scenes were shot separately last winter in California. The early good reviews for the revised "Watcher in the Woods" do not, by any means, solve all of Disney's problems.

The PG-rated movie is tense and scary enough to appeal to the teenage audience that the studio has been trying to woo for the last four or five years. But can any film with a Disney label attract teenagers? (In this case, the Disney label has been placed discreetly below the title.) "The only way to get to the point where the audience for a Disney film is wider is to consistently make movies that have more bite," said 28-year-old Tom Wilhite, who was recently named vice president By Aljean Harmetz of The New York Times HOLLYWOOD Walt Disney's "The Watcher in the Woods" opened in New York on April 17, 1980, and was clubbed to death by the critics. "I challenge even the most indulgent fan to give a coherent translation of what passes for an explanation at the end," Vincent Canby, The New York Times critic, wrote of the ghost story-science fiction hybrid, which starred Bette Davis, Carroll Baker, David McCallum and Lynn-Holly Johnson. It seemed that Disney's desperate attempt to attract a new and older audience had ended in still another failure. Eighteen months and $1 million worth of revisions later, "The Watcher in the Woods" opened in 240 theaters on Oct.

8. "A rattlingly good suspense yarn," wrote The Hollywood Reporter, an industry trade paper. "The ending is seamless, satisfying, resolving the mystery. The film is genuinely eerie and scary," said The Richmond Times-Dispatch." Equally satisfying to Disney, the movie earned a respectable $1.2 million during its first week. Why did Disney take the unprecedented gamble of withdrawing "The Watcher in the Woods" to invent and shoot a new ending? Films that have already opened in theaters have occasionally been shortened.

After "2001 A Space Odys: sey" had gotten hostile reviews, Stanley Kubrick flew from London to cut nearly 20 minutes from it. When reviewers complained about the length of "Dr. Zhivago," David Lean flew from London to cut 10 to 15 David McCallum, of "Man Fr6m U.N.C.L.E." fame, stars in "The Watcher in the Woods." minutes. "Isadora" was shortened by more than an hour. So was "Heaven's Gate." But no one can remember a movie that was withdrawn to go back into production.

"Why did we do it? We felt we had seven-eighths of a good picture," said Tom Leetch, the movie's co-producer. "But the ending confused people." "They had tried to blend science-fiction with a ghost story, and it didn't work," said Harrison Ellenshaw, who designed the shape and look of the new ending. "They tried to get a scary alien, but he came out looking like a large lobster with seaweed hanging off him. It was as though the audience had wandered into another picture. You can't break the rules that late in a movie without having the audience feel someone got the last reel mixed up." Canby had described the alien as "a creature that looks as if it had been stolen from a Chinese New Year's parade." Ellenshaw who had just finished supervising Z2 I SUNDAY PARTY A Slimmer You AND DANCE (Mk timni Hol 6 P.M.

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