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THURSDA YCA LENDAR Thursday, February 4, 1982 Cos AttflClee SfanCS Part VI '2020' VISION OF MIDEAST: A BALANCED PORTRAYAL? swimming pool. Other Palestinian farmers are shown helplessly clutching paper titles to lands being bulldozed for new Israeli settlements. "That land is mine," said one. "Every time I see the bulldozer working, it's as if it's carving my body The West Bank is given its usual depiction as a place of spontaneous violence, only in this view it's the Palestinian who is victim. Using Norwegian and Canadian news film, the "2020" segment shows Palestinian schoolgirls being gunned down by members of the Israeli occupying forces.

There are Palestinian mayors whose legs have been blown off, allegedly by Israeli religious activists. A Palestinian youth is shown in a hospital bed with hemorrhaging kidneys after a working over by Israeli troops. He was suspected of throwing a rock at an Israeli jeep. And the beating wasn't the only punishment: The boy's father was jailed for six months, his sister was fired from her teaching job and the entire family was dispossessed and moved into a scorpion-infested refugee camp. Correspondent Tom Jarriel spoke to a Palestinian physicist who was arrested in a roundup of West Bank political activists and jailed for 45 months without being charged.

"Forty-five months because they were thinking that I am thinking that I will do something against them." It is certainly not the usual perspective of the West Bank story. But balanced? In the 16-minute piece, only one Israeli voice is heard that of a settler, blithely claiming title to disputed land. No view from the Israeli occupation government is presented. So, perhaps it was not unexpected when "2020" Executive Producer Av Westin heard from what he calls "a delegation of Israeli officials" to protest the approach of the "2020" piece. "They objected to the methods we used," said Westin.

"There's a certain concern in official Israeli quarters in the U.S. Westin said he couldn't remember exactly who was in the complaining delegation. Samuel Moyal remembers. Moyal, the Israeli press attache in New York, said he visited Westin several weeks ago "to tell him that we expect a network such as ABC to give a balanced story. He assured us that he would.

"(But) the crew went to the West Bank and didn't even bother to get the views of the military government." Westin said that "2020" tried to include Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon in the piece, but Sharon didn't want to be intercut with the Palestinians. ABC skipped the interview. Besides, said Westin, "it is a piece done from the point of view of Palestinians living under Israeli occupation. "I would not say that this piece ever set out to be one of those balanced pieces in which both sides get Please see'202ff VISION, Page 8 By PETER J. BOYER, Times Staff Writer In the 15 years since American television cast a fixed stare on the Middle East, the Palestinian has seldom come into focus except as a shadowy figure with a bomb in his hand.

Last fall, a crew from ABC's "2020" news magazine was sent to the Middle East in search of a new perspective on the story of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, in search of some balance. What they returned with was a grim portrayal of relentless Israeli LARRY DAVIS Los Angeles Times occupation, a picture of brutality and displacement forced on Palestinians by the Israelis. Some will argue with "2020's" notion of balance. The report, airing tonight, comes wholly from the Palestinian point of view (as suggested by its title: "Under the Israeli A Palestinian farmer is shown cutting his drought-parched grove for firewood, while a nearby Israeli settlement has enough water to irrigate its fields and fill the community WII WW I Pil IWMIfltMW ii 1'IMIWM1 I THEATER TRUSTEES RAISE FUND-RAISING QUESTIONS rf A i lyfels By LAWRENCE CHRISTON hen you think of the theater, you think of actors, playwrights, directors, costumes and lights, the feeling of sitting in watchful darkness and losing yourself in an action onstage. You never think of trustees.

After all, who are they? Names on a program? People who show up dressily for fund-raisers or intramural events? Without a board of trustees, however, most theater groups would be out in the street. It's the board that finances the theater, any way it can. And in the worst of times, it's the board that gets left holding the bag. That worse times are at hand for nonprofit theater groups, as well as everyone else, led to a symposium of trustees at the Huntington -Sheraton in Pasadena over the weekend. The symposium was organized by the Theater Communications Group, which invited representatives from the boards of 46 regional theaters around the country to meet and discuss their common problems.

They heard, among others, National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Frank Hodsoll tell how the Administration plans to help the arts. Not CRITIC AT LARGE Sandra J. Hale of the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis participates in symposium of regional theater trustees discussing common problems. POTHOLES COME, GO -BUT THE BIG APPLE HANGS IN WHY IS PAC-MAN HE'S SHARING HIS By PATRICK GOLDSTEIN No man is an island Adam had Eve, Antony his Cleopatra, Batman his Batwom-an, and now the king of the video games, Pac-Man, has a queen, Ms. Pac-Man.

Dubbed the first lady of video at is with much, was the sentiment after his speech. "Up to 8 or 10 years ago, trustees didn't raise money," observed Theater Communications Group Director Peter Zeisler. "What they did was approve and monitor staffs. Boards weren't really involved in fund raising. Now that's changed.

The field got so big that foundations started pulling out. "In some other arts there's been a 150-year history," he added. "We're only 20 years old and fighting for a share of the pie. Despite the rising expenses we face now, we have yet to feel the real impact of the reduction of public funding. Next year is the great imponderable.

If the NEA (National Endowment for the Arts) budget is reduced, state and community level funding is sure to drop." "I don't see how we can absorb a downturn in the economy," said Pazel Jackson, a banker and the chairman of the board of the Negro Ensemble Company in New York. "What can we expect when some major industries may not be around? As for the new federalism, when money comes trickling down to the Please see TRUSTEES, Page 4 Its landmarks at least those built to human scale have a way of disappearing overnight. Triangulating off the towers like surveyors cutting a trail, you figure that Mai-son A. de Winter must have been about there and just beyond it, although no sign even of its shell remains, was the Three-G's, and a street below, Del Pezzo's, where many a lunch went on too long and the summer heat waited at the door like penance. West of 7th Avenue there seemed restaurants without number, all down three steps from the street, all crowded, noisy, friendly, cheap and, I remember, incredibly good, although there is nothing like a youthful appetite and a bad memory to improve the cooking.

I went back to one of them, I think, for a literary luncheon. The narrow, spongy stairs to the private dining room upstairs seemed as familiar as a house from childhood. The name was unfamiliar, but the lifespan of a restaurant tends to be no longer than the patron's good years. I wanted to ask if it had once been something else, but everyone looked too young to know. The reasons for my trip were bookish, and the parallels between the perils of publishing and the problems of the motion-picture business seemed even sharper and clearer than they had a year ago.

The besetting worry on both coasts is costs. Some dust jackets are now being printed without the Please see CRITIC, Page 6 By CHARLES CHAMPLIN, Times Arts Editor NEW YORK-I still see the drive from J.F.K. Airport into this city as having been designed by Bertolt Brecht as a graphic warning on the depersonalizing effects of modern society. The drive uptown from LAX is no picnic either, but at least the scenery moves faster. Yet those gray, tight-windowed tracts of Queens, stamped out by a bent cookie cutter, look, as you inch past in the pale late afternoon of winter, like perfect spots for breeding the kind of sullen aggression that makes commerce in New York so merry.

Then you come up a slight rise and there beyond the river, the topless towers and the plumes of steam silhouetted against the declining sun, stands Manhattan, like a steel Stonehenge that has got out of hand. It is at that moment impossible not to feel a quickening excitement at the prospect of a few days in this electric and irascible city, with its night-and-day noise and the ceaseless sirens that finally begin to sound like the mating calls of large and undoubtedly dangerous animals. It has been a long time since I first went to the city, with a mixture of fear and wonder, for its World's Fair, and I haven't yet stopped being amazed by the place by the splendor of its improbably tall buildings and the squalor of its streets, all in the same block; by its coldness to striving strangers, and the small-town intimacy of the sidestreet saloons and restaurants where the city takes its ease. 'AWWA-WJltt. fr mrrj, To woo the potential female video addict, Ms.

Pac-Man is outfitted with more fashion wrinkles than a new Halston. Pac-Man is a homely little yellow critter on a screen, but his female video counterpart is resplendent in red lips and eyelashes, with a bow above her brow. And there's even more to the Pac-Persons. If you win at Ms. Pac-Man by wiping out two or more mazes of Please see PAC-MAWS, Page 6 of a competitor offscreen as well.

years in the lives of two female athletes (Hemingway and former U.S. Olympic track star Patrice Donnelly) who meet as strangers at the 1976 Olympic trials, become lovers and then, four years later, find themselves competitors. To say that Hemingway took her role seriously would be the understatement of the year. Before the film even began she was working out daily at a track running, jumping, working with weights doing Please see HEMINGWA Page 2 GRINNING? QUARTERS games, Ms. Pac-Man made her debut Wednesday in typical show-business style at a press conference the Castle Park Entertainment Center in Sherman Oaks.

The game expected to appear in many video arcades during the next few weeks. their marks and become movie names overnight. One who did it the easy way was Mariel Hemingway. Before she was even 15, she made her film debut in "Lipstick," which starred her older sister Margaux. Margaux, you may recall, got all the publicity.

But it was Mariel who got all the notices. "Extraordinary!" "Fantastic!" The critics fought frantically to outdo each other with adjectives of praise. Since then, Hemingway has made one film for television, "I Want to Video games have so far attracted a predominantly male clientele, but what's the fun of having the guys without the dolls? "We've noticed a recent trend in our game pavilions that indicates a tremendous female acceptance of the Pac-Man game," says Castle Park marketing chief Michael Leone. "I guess it was only natural for Midway, the manufacturer of the game, to introduce a Ms. Pac-Man." "Personal Best," and something Keep My Baby," which prompted The Times' Cecil Smith to write, "She is an extraordinary talent," and one more feature film, Woody Allen's "Manhattan," which drew even greater raves from the critics.

That kind of start is enough to make some more experienced actresses choke with jealousy, but now it looks as if it's happening again with her third film, "Personal Best," the Robert Towne movie in which Hemingway, now 20, plays an athlete. Basically, the film details four Mariel Hemingway, center, obviously in fine fettle for her role in RODERICK MANN HEMINGWAY WEIGHS IN AT HER 'BEST Some actresses practice their craft for years before they are summoned through the august portals of a Hollywood film studio. Others breeze into town, look for INSIDE CALENDAR ART: Photo exhibit of rock art by Andrew Epstein. Page 3. MUSIC: Meredith Monk by Lewis Segal.

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