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THE ATLANTA 0TH I TION, 1 S. ,,1. 15-11 MACHINES, MYSTICISM IFF 1 1 Jtl unny and Confusing Film "irniwinJ A VERY FUNNY MOVIE Wl NOWSHOVVWG j3 "SECRET FANTASY" noticed a newsnarjer ad savino By GREGORY JAYNES Constitution Amusements Editor Two screen writers named Bill Cannon and Vernon Zimmerman were flat broke. This was in 1969. "So they started putting together the DAILY ssr it.

The only trick I tried to Garen gets carried awav Jl funky- pull off was to keep the audi- when he fries to exlin fbaiI-cky-countIy farce-ence constantly shifting. When The bigwigs 20t Ce tu amT' ShW funny' Andlhad to see it a second iust done for kinbt 6:00 7:40 biggest piece of schlock they could," claims Leo Garen, who bought it. What he laid his money out for, he admits, was "a Hell's' Angels versus Rosemary's' Baby." Garen toyed with it a year. "I was fascinated with the machines versus mysticism in it." He then rewrote the screenplay with Steve Kafz. They shot the movie in' South Dakota in the fail nf II 9:20 it would be playing here in a few days.

He thought he'd better stick around and ballyhoo it. "I'm totally bankrupt," he said. "Fox (20th Century, the studio) didn't pay my way down here." The film is set in Nebraska in 1919. It opens with a pastoral scene that dissolves into noise when a bunch of smoke-belching motorcycles top a hill and roar into view. The riders hook up with two sisters who run a farm.

The sisters also happen to possess Dowers of I COULD NEVER HIVEIHlFFilK WITH YMWH0HtS0 LITTLE REGARD FOR MT HUSBAND THE ATLANTA BALLET'S TGURIKG ENSEMBLE "STATE BALLET COMPANY OF GEORGIA'1 Dorothy Alexander, FounderConsultant Robert Barnett, Artistic Director and THE ATLANTA SYMPHONY Robert Shaw, Music Director John Head, Conducting witchcraft. (Here comes the Hell's Angels Vs. Rosemary's 1971. It was called "Grass Land." And from then until a couple of weeks ago it was cut and screened and scenes were put back in and taken out again and it was all one big mess. And that is the background on a funny and sometimes confusing movie called "Hex" that is playing at the Broad HatMli Hd, it Ml IttmhcmnM Al 1-20 241 253S .252 6888 I view u.

Garen brought the picture iiabypart.) "I wanted a funky legend with mythic images," says Garen, who directed the original New York stage productions of Norman Mailer's "Deer Park" and J. P. Don-leavy's "The Ginger Man." With Keith Carradine, brother of David, son of John, in the lead, Garen pulled out all the stops and put together a 1919 movie with completely contempary comedy. mro town to enter it in the Atlanta Film Festival. He put up his own money to enter it and it got a prize.

He was leaving the next day when he FALL REPERTOIRE Concierto de Aranjuez 1973 Rodrigo-Barnett Valse1973 nusa-Han Strauss-Gungl-Barnett Atlanta Premireres Minkus Pas de Trois Minkus-Balanchine Song of Love Suk-Noble A Citv Tom Apart Ir I A Cirv Tom Apart TODAY LOOK FOR YOURSELF! JUDGE FOR YOURSELF' FIND OUT WHY EVERYONE'S TALKING ABOUT every VL thing he was I tie. MM ine brass at 20th Century FZ jL, A oifmm KINO OF LOVE STORV tox couian understand it, he said. "They cut it for a year GUEST ARTIST: JAVIER CALDER0N, Classical Guitarist TWO PERFORMANCES ONLY SEPT 28th and 29th 8:30 PM SYMPHONY HALL JLCKETS AT SYMPHONY BOX OFFICE: 892-2414 $7 00 jfiQrs. Unuunn't SL A A 1 Da, 5 i nn ADULT ENTERTAINMENT-In COLOR FEATURE! AT: En.ly Show Sot, and Sun. 3:45 12:00, 1:20,1:40,4:00, (:10, 6:40, 0:00,8:20, 10:40, 12:00 niicil MCCOUnTS and made it a straight occult film.

I said, 'You cut out all the funny They said, 'Funny parts? There's nothing funny about this I said, 'See it with an audience, you'll The Fox version was previewed, according to Garen, and it bombed. After battling for weeks, he said he won the right to cut the picture himself. He slept in the cutting room for five weeks. Then he got an FM rock sta fci IJllllutTtTiVW VV I -w wvvwwrwiHBitJg PO Him fci I t- r-J 9 I a tion in California to advertise a free previewing for him and Li' MulT ENTERTAINMENT 1 1 "I i' J5T 9" jk ii J(i he went around passing out free tickets to people in the 15 to 25 age bracket. It scored with them, said Garen.

"They laughed in all the right places. F7T71 Atlanta Finost Ad ilt Movies "Now I'm aware that it is a tXPLICIT'i UNCtNSOKLU" IN LIVING FESTIVAL CINEMA very oddball item. But I'm hoping there will be some critical champions of the picture to come along He says his only intent was to "make a sort of carnival, snake oil, underground comic book entertainment It's a wacky entertainment thing and, as a piece of entertainment, it seems to work very Sprint; St Downtown Atlanta Phone ol'S-9109 For Tcaay Film rrnVs PARIS I 4 II THEATRES "320 Pcachtiue St. heatl ol Atlnnui Phone 524 1569 For Toridy Fitn) Titles ADULTS ONLY I II A i' I Cannon's Guests HOLLYWOOD (UPI) Geoffrey Deuel and Joel Fabiani will guest star in "The Obedient Killers," a Quinn Martin Productions episode of "Cannon," starring William Conrad. Perry as Host HOLLYWOOD (UPI) Simon Oakland and Joanna Barnes have been signed to guest star in "The case of the Ominous Oath" episode of "The New Perry Mason," starring Monte Markham and Sharon Acker.

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