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WEEKEND ENTERTAINMENT GUIDE Douglas: Dad (Kirk) scorned 'Countdown' idea i. V.T- 11 "SO, I SUPPOSE that background and the idea of the story really Just thrilled me to the point that I thought it was important to make the film." He began the task of acquiring an aircraft carrier by calling the Navy public information office in Los Angeles. "I picked up the phone and said, 'Hi. Listen, I want to make a movie about an aircraft carrier. Who do I talk "I was told that I'd be put in touch with ensign somebody or other.

It went on from there. "I didn't feel there would be any benefit by first trying to do an end run trying to go to somebody high up to help out. That would have put everybody else's nose out of joint. 1 THINK THAT THE largest percentage of the time I spent making the film was in convic-ing the Navy that I could be trusted." "The Final Countdown," largely filmeC aboard the Nimitz, also features Martin Sheen, Katherine Ross and James Farantino. "The real star of the film is the Nimitz," Peter said.

"The actors were secondary particularly to the carrier. "The Nimitz is the finest carrier in the U.S. fleet, and believe me I've been on most of them. The Elsenhower is the Nimitz" sister ship, so there's a little bit of prejudice by me By HARRY VESSEL Kflttfd Mows Swfcv HOLLYWOOD "My father asked for a great deal of money," said Peter Vincent Douglas, producer of "The Final starring Kirk Douglas. "I was shocked to see that I gave it to him," the 24-year-old filmmaker added with a smile.

In "The Final Countdown" Kirk plays the skipper of a nuclear aircraft carrier, the USS Nimitz, time-warped back to the day before Pearl Harbor. The younger Douglas, tall, slim and blond, recalled that three years ago he first approached his father about making the film. "I DJDNT REALLY show him the script," Peter said, "but I told him the idea. "He thought I was nuts. We had a huge fight He was rather angry that I should come in and waste his time on a venture that could not possibly come to fruition.

And I don't blame him for that. "He wanted to have me thrown out of the office. It was like 'God, get him out of "It's kind of funny in afterthought, but here was a 21-year-old kid who says he's going to get an aircraft carrier "Well, when you're 21 you have nothing to lose, and I believed in the picture very much. Douglas said that an Important factor in the filming was the creation of special cameras "that could be attached to F- 14s (fighter-interceptors) to give an additional perspective to carrier aviation. "Everyone said it couldn't be done, It couldn't be done.

But not knowing any better I kept pushing the point until finally it was done. WAS HIS CAREER aided because he is Kirk Douglas' son? "I don't believe that just because you are someone's son really helps or gives contacts. "It really hurts you in balancing things out when you get in the door because that's when people look at you like 'Ah, that's Kirk's And you've got to fight that image all the way down the line until you can prove yourself. "I have three talented brothers Michael (who produced 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'), Joel (an associate producer on a new filmX and Eric, who is attending the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London." Douglas went to high school at a military academy in Southern California, and attended the University of California at Santa Barbara for a year and a half. HE LATER WORKED at his father's production company, Bryna, where he "broke down budgets and spent a lot of time on foreign sales and auditing.

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(Cecil) De Mille," the late movie director. But Heston was gracious no matter how he was addressed during a Charlotte stop in his current publicity tour. The 1959 Academy Award winner for best actor for his title role in "Ben-Hur" was in town to promote his 53rd film, "The Mountain Men," which opened Aug. 1 in various theaters across the country. HESTON SAID HE DOESN'T KNOW why other film stars of his stature don't usually make similar tours, but the ones who don't "are mistaken.

I think they're either stupid or ill-advised. I think it's a combination of laziness or short-sightedness. "I've always done tours except for pictures that I really have no faith in or when I'm doing something else. It's very much in my interest that a picture succeed. There's something to be said for having some kind of contact with the people that go to the movies.

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