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4D ENTERTAINMENT MESSENGER-INQUIRER Friday, April 22,1983 Burt Reynolds is happy at 48 Spring plays OCHS students will present 'Bells are Ringing' this month X. 0 A Brando-type actor, Blake (Barry Oost); a dentist-turned-songwriter, Kitchell (Chris Hardy), and two bumbling cops, Barnes and Frances, portrayed by Tony Jones and Mary Ann Keelin. Students who have duel or multiple roles in the cast, ensemble or chorus, are Oost, Hardy, Jones, Carl McCarthy, Max Swift, Marty Hayden, Shelly Van Meter, Alicia Rumage, Joy O'Bryan, Jey Miller, Bill Mountain and Jeff Bohr. Nancy Head has the part of Gwynne and the maid is played by Gerri Ward. Members of the ensemble are Cathy Kramer, Tracey Osborne, Lisa Goff, Kim Hayden and Virginia McCarty.

Pianists for the production are Janet Eger and Tina Ebelhar. Student director is Cynthia Embry, and stage manager is Marty Hayden. Tickets are $2.50 per person are available by reservation only, by calling the Owensboro Catholic High School office. A Dessert Theatre will be featured during intermission Saturday night with an additional $1 charge. Massangar-lnqulrar Owensboro Catholic High School has more than class bells ringing these days, drama instructor Mary Hilda McFarland said earlier this week.

More than 30 students have been rehearsing since early February for the Betty Comden-Adolf Green musical, "Bells are Ringing." The two-act comedy is scheduled for production April 27-30 at 7:30 p.m. in Soenneker Hall at the high school. Set in the 1950s in New York, the musical brings together a variety of "characters" like Ella (Joella Montgomery), who works for Sue (Allison Whitten), who operates Susanswerphone, a telephone answering service. Then there is Jeff (John McNulty an aspiring playwright and customer of Ella and Sue. Just as the audience meets this trio, the Austrian-born bookie, Sandor (Jerry Kuntz), appears on the scene with plans to use Susanswerphone as a cover for betting on horse races.

In addition to Sandor and his fellow bookies there are such interesting characters as the Marlon 7 I 1 I v-- sr. He's also quieter and more wary of the press By Bob Thomas Associated Press MALIBU, Calif. Burt Reynolds stared vainly at his reflection in the mirror, then pulled on his elevator boots No. Not really. But that's the kind of interview the actor says doesn't give one an even break.

Reynolds talked about press relations and a myriad of other matters in his movie set motor home a leather-lined cocoon where he spends more of his life than in his own residence. He was in the middle of another movie, "The Man Who Loved Women," a Blake Edwards comedy with Julie Andrews. Reynolds was once the most accessible of film stars, a high-spirited charmer who rattled off self-deprecating quotes to the delight of interviewers. But lately the profile has been lower, the tone more somber. "When I first started riding high, I realized that the darlings of the press were the real quiet types," he said.

"They were the ones who were very polite and told reporters, 'I'd love to talk to you, but I'm going over to Jimmy Stewart's house to play in the "I realized that, but I liked to skate on thin ice. It was crazy to be on the edge of disaster, but I liked it out there." His attitude has changed, and so has the nature of entertainment reporting, he says. "Recently I came across a bunch of old movie magazines," he said. "They were silly and sweet and they don't exist anymore. Then I was reminded of the old Confidential magazine.

"Remember the massive lawsuit that put Confidential out of business? The major reason was a story that claimed Maureen O'Hara had had a tryst in Grauman's Chinese theater. That story wouldn't make page four of one of today's scandal magazines." Reynolds' disillusion stemmed from interviews with "people I thought I could trust but who sold me out not once but twice." "You know you're in trouble when you read in the story that says you 'looked in the mirror and smiled vainly' and 'put on elevator he says. "There's no way you're going to get an even break." Reynolds sometimes makes jokes about himself and later finds them used against him. "I told a reporter that I had a fish tank in my bedroom and at the end of a weekend I found two of the fish dead, their eyes popped out," he said. "I said that they died of boredom, but he didn't print the last part." The film star also talked about the current popularity of Tom Selleck, "who's got my old face.

He's so nice and so cooperative and working so hard that he's bound to trip soon. They won't allow him to be nice." Reynolds noted a TV review of Selleck's film, "High Road to China," which was described as "an old script filled with tired TV faces." 1 LT 'I? Mount St. Joseph schedules Tinian's Rainbow' production Associated Press Burt Reynolds 'It was crazy to be on the edge of disaster, but I liked it out America to cure his arthritis. Also appearing in major roles are Sherrie Clark as Woody, Ingrid Vargas as Og, and Caroline Zamo-ra as Susan the Silent. In the supporting cast are Anna Osborne, Audrey Barber, Dawn Gifford, Michelle Guziewicz, Wendy Lenart and Pilar Berny.

Portraying the people of Rainbow Valley are Chris Flomerfelt, Kathy Alderson, Amy Cates, Missy Elmore, Theresa Flomerfelt, Michelle Lucas, Jacki Paulson, and Joanna Thomas. Sister Joseph Marian is directing the production and musical director is Sister Catherine Marie. Admission at the door is $2.50 for adults and $1.50 for students. Massangaf-lnquirar Drama students at Mount St. Joseph Academy, Maple Mount, will present "Finian's Rainbow" at 7 p.m.

April 29-May 1. The Burton Harburg musical is set in Rainbow Valley in the mythical state of Missitucky. Finian McLonergan (M. Lee Herrmann) has stolen a pot of gold from a leprechan in Ireland and brought it to America to be buried at Ft. Knox in the mistaken belief that it will sprout new crocks of gold and make him rich.

Finian cannot reveal the real purpose of the trip to his daughter, Sharon (Joni Ruesewald), so he lures her to the new land on the pretense that he is coming to ceeded in burning myself out. Now I have adjusted. I believe I have earned everything I Of course he is still going to therapy three times a week," Reynolds recalled. "I've never been on the couch," he says. "That doesn't make me any better; maybe it makes me dumber.

But too, feel I deserved everything I got. Sure, I make a lot of money, but I also do more pictures and take more chances than anyone else." Besides films, Reynolds has two absorbing interests: the Tampa Bay Bandits of the United States Football League, and the Burt Reynolds Dinner Theater in Jupiter, where show business hopefuls can train. And with actress Loni Anderson as his best girl, he is a happy 48. "I can't lie about my age," Reynolds sighs. "I did a TV series in 1958 when I was 22.

Who lies about being 22? If I had it to do over, I could have said I was 13." "Don't they realize that we all came from TV Steve McQueen, Jim Garner, Clint Eastwood, Gold-ie Hawn, myself? Why, I was the only actor in history who was canceled by all three networks Does all this talk mean that Burt Reynolds is unhappy with stardom, unhappy with earning $5 million a movie? "Now is the best time in my life," he says happily. "The reason it's the best is because I'm smart enough to enjoy. Before, it was also the best time but I didn't know it. "Dustin Hoffman is that way now," Reynolds said. "He's got every reason to be happy: He has the No.

1 movie CTootsie'), he's making millions. Yet he's trying to stamp anybody who says he's a leading man. He doesn't want to believe it." Reynolds recalled a recent evening when he and comedian Richard Pryor spent with Miss Andrews and her husband, Edwards. They talked about Hoffman's refusal to accept his status. "Richard said, 'I did that, too, and I almost suc Rooney says he'll make more movies Friday and Saturday v.

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