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PIZZA a 442-9500 jma5 By BOB THOMAS AiMctated Pre Writer LOS ANGELES The happiest news of the fall movie season is Francis Coppola's return to top form with Sue Got Married," the time-warp fantasy starring Kathleen Turner, Nicholas Cage and Barry Miller. Not since his "Godfather" heyday has Coppola received such thunderous reviews. Critics have also delivered kudos for the gifted cast, and many cited Barry Miller for special attention. He plays Richard Norvik, the most honored graduate at a 25-year high school reunion; flashbacks to his school days reveal him as a bookworm shunned by his fellow students except for Kathleen Turner. Miller was here from his New York home for "Peggy Sue" festivities; actually, it was a homecoming for the 28-year-old.

He grew up in Hollywood, the son of entertainer Sidney Miller, best known as the songwriting partner of Donald O'Connor. Like Richard Norvik, Barry Miller is a serious-minded man, dedicated to his career. In "Peggy Sue Got Married," he is required to portray a 42-year-old tycoon and a science student of 16. He had his own theory about how to do it. "One of the fascinating aspects of the role was how to manage the 25-year age span," he said.

"I wanted to do it in a way that would not be traditional. Rather than rely on the makeup per se, I wanted to psychologically incarnate someone who had gone from 16 to 42. I don't believe he himself understands the changes that have taken place in him, especially since we are told he has become a success. "The other reason I was voracious to do this role was because I felt here was a chance to take an intelligent character, a science aficionado, and try to break down the 'nerd' stereotype that has been so prevalent in films in the last couple of years. I wanted to embody 'B2oad Blues," for which he won a Tony award as supporting actor, he spent his days studying films, especially those of Coppola and Frank Capra.

"Francis is one of the last of the great American gambler-risk-taker-entrepreneur-larger-than-life directors," Miller said. "He kind of relishes this flamboyance, this edge-of-the-cliff filmmaking. That was very charismatic to me. He is like the captain pf a ship, commanding great numbers of people around him." Despite his Hollywood boyhood, Miller said acting was not inevitable in his life. "I didnt come screaming out of the womb saying, 'I want to be an I wanted to be a lot of things.

At one time I thought of being an archeologist and a photographer. I very seriously considered becoming a sculptor at one time. "Then for some reason, I caught the bug. I think I must have seen a movie with an actor was dead. I thought, 'My God, this man has been dead for 30 years, and he's moving and speaking.

He looks, perfectly alive to me. In my own simplistic way, the immortality of film really struck me hard." At 18 he played one of John Travolta's buddies in "Saturday Night Fever," then the Puerto Rican comic in "Fame." His other films include "The Chosen" and "The Journey of Natty Gann." He recently did a New York workshop with Sean Penn and Madonna, "Goose and Tom Tom," the Barbara Ugeti-Hewtt-Fred Zollo production of the new David Rabe play. His future? "I would like not to repeat something I have done," Miller said. "I don't think that a unusual hope for an actor. I'd like to explore different themes and melt into the roles and take risks.

It's important to take risks. I don't want to remain complacent." -r AHjK )M!) Daily on Associated Press Actor Barry Miller, who portrays Richard Norvik in Francis Coppola's 'Peggy Sue Got actually has two roles a 42-year-old tycoon and a 16-year-old science whiz to perform. MorningEdition Monday Friday 5:30 9 a.m. MThings Considered Afternoons at 4 p.m. science in a romantic and passionate and idealistic and rather naive man.

I wanted to stay away from stereotype hands in my pockets, glasses falling down my nose, fall ing over furniture." Miller admits that he was thrilled at the opportunity to work with Francis Coppola. During his year's run on Broadway with Neil Simon's Actor understands film industry problems Award-winning news from NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO Worth every minute. IT'S TIME VOLUNTEER ten by Sterling Silliphant, who wrote the screenplay for "In the Heat of the Night," a picture that won Steiger the Academy Award for best actor in 1967. One of Steiger's personal favorites is "The Chosen," where he portrays a Hasidic rabbi. "I think' in 'The Chosen' I did better work than in "The he said.

"And I think that last speech in "The was pretty damn good. You know, when he explains to his son why he wasn't close to him, to teach him. I think it's one of the longest speeches ever given in a movie." CopjrigMlMS By MICHAEL HEALY The Denver Post BRECKENRIDGE, Colo. "It is a cruel business," Rod Steiger said of the movie industry. "It is a business that does not tolerate mental or physical weakness.

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