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sity of iliberal mou nee er. esident can the jer than human ed the Sydow Scores Success U.S. Film Industry fAUir MQtWMO Saturday, March 12, ENTERTAINMENT HARLINGEN VISITOR Roy Trocey, left, star in "Joe Panther," which opened Friday in ABC Cinema, Harlingen, was a recent Harlingen visitor. He is shown here with another star of the movie, Brian Keith. The movie has district PTA endorsement as a non-violent film, suitable for viewing by all the family.

Film's Star Made Visit To Harlingen Recently Ray Tracey, star of Artists Creations and Associates' first film. which is now showing at the ABC Cinema in Harlingen was a recent Harlingen visitor. He visited several communities in the Valley with Mrs Juan Valdez of McAllen, district Parent-Teacher Association president. The PTA has endorsed the movie as and suitable for family viewing. Tracey was bom in Arizona, at Ft.

Defiance on the Navajo Indian reservation Tracey was attending Brigham Young University when he was selected for a movie part. He said he plans to continue his studies and obtain his civil engineering degree. Tracey lived in Arizona until the age of 6, and at 10 he became a participant of the Indian Student Placement Program for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. He completed high school in Salt Lake City where he was active in track, cross country running and student government. He served a two-year mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, following a year at the University of Utah, and then went to Brigham Young.

There, he auditioned for the movie, American and was given the lead role. He is married to Caroline Wauneka. Brian Keith plays a starring role in which was filmed in Florida Among others in the movie are Ricardo Montalban, Cliff Osmond and Alan Feinstein. HOLLYWOOD Max von Sydow first came to the attention of movie fans as a member of Swedish writer-di rector Ingmar acting stable And a formidable performing stable it is. Consider Gunnar Bjorn- strand.

Erland and the women Liv Ullman. Ingrid Thulin, Eva Dahlbert, plus Bibi and Harriet Andersson, to name a few of the best known. Of the group, only Von Sydow and Ullman have been prominently successful in American movies while Bibi Andersson has made a few appearances Thulin was in an unsuccessful remake of Four Hor- sement of the Apocalypse The reasons are twofold First there is the language barrier, although English is taught in public schools Then there is the American star system in which personality impact is rated higher than acting The theory is that most anyone can act in a film, given sufficient takes and Blacks Criticize TV Movie 'Roots' LADIES ENJOY THE GOLDEN SPUR GAME ROOM For Ladies With Escort-From 9 to 2 Am No Stag Men After 9 pm Dance to the Sweet Country Music Of "EDDIE CAROL" GOLDEN SPUR N. COMMERCE STREET HARLINGEN WASHINGTON (UP I) Three black panelists criticized the television movie Roots as a distorted picture of slavery that subtly tells Macks they must always submit. But a white panelist on a local television Sunday panel show praised it for exposing ugly Americans wanted to forget.

One black suggested that author Alex Haley the 300 grand and instead of holding out for a more accurate film. Another contended the movie was to make it acceptable to television. The charges were made on (WMAL) taped last week for showing Sunday. The program, the sought to gauge the long-range impact of the ABC movie, seen by 80 million TIP-O-TEX TRAIL RIDE! From Pt. Isabel to KICK OFF DANCE Sat.

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Geno Baroni, president of the National Center for Urban Ethnic Affairs; and Dr. Eugenia Collier of the University of Department of Af ro- American Studies Collier said the movie was very bold thing" for ABC to do but said it black history to make it acceptable to television. Bookbinder, on the other hand, said, is absolutely a fantastic phenomenon that 80 million Americans have been exposed for the first time to an ugly truth. And unless we know the truth, we re not on the way to setting ourselves free. And I think started.

Stone called the movie an Uncle Cabin. From Uncle Cabin, we America, not we freed the slaves. The question is, where do we go now, having been radicalized, or whites traumatized, what happens Hooks praised ABC for being enough to do this eight-day soap but added: an artist, a black person that knows a little about black history, I was disturbed by the production. It was a bit washed over from that Moderator Paul Berry ran a film clip in which Levar Burton, who played the young African slave Kunta Kinte, said that "as a young black American, there was nothing but a sense of overwhelming pride that this story was finally being done. That started the argument over again.

Bookbinder declared that Roots brought home to American whites of those ugly they had chosen to that the victims of that period are still suffering because of the legacy of difficulty and discrimination. Hooks retorted that the problem was it (the series) was not done right. Collier agreed. is it when we look at black life we have to tone it she asked. mean, this was our history; this began with some real, real people, and these are people who suffered Stone cut in.

tone it he said. white people toned it Ms. Collier said. facts of black life accuse white people. When you look these things in the face, you have to admit a sort of collective responsibility for all this.

I felt many of the changes that were made from the novel were made in order to subdue this kind of collective responsibility. She said the slave ship captain, who had only a minor role in book, came out in the movie as4 resisting the slave trade and all I felt that this was, again, kind of making the thing acceptable for She also criticized a sequence in which Kunta Kinte is savagely whipped until he submits to being called Toby. me what it was doing, she said, teaching blacks that sooner or later got to teaching them that sooner or later the white man wins, Hooks said. astute editing Currently Von Sydow is playing Gustav Schroeder, captain of a German liner, which in 1939 carried 937 Jewish refugees to Havana only to learn that their landing visas, issued by a corrupt official, would not be honored Schroeder. a sympathetic anti-Nazi, tried to find refuge for his passengers rather than return them to Germany and concentration camps The movie, "Voyage of the has a cast that reads like a talent roster.

It includes Faye Dunaway. Oskar Werner, Orson Welles, Malcolm McDowell, James Mason, Lee Grant, Katharine Ross and Ben Gazzara plus 16 other names ranging from Luther Adler to Sam Wanamaker. Von Sydow, bom April 10, 1929, in Lund, Swtxlen, is the son of a professor of comparative folklore After military service, he enrolled at Stockholm's Royal Academy where his biggest problem was his south Sweden accent, the equivalent of a Swedish roles I could play were limited unless I could conquer my countrified accent, which I eventually Von Sydow said Von Svdow's parents were dubious about his choice of profession. exactly discourage men from becoming an actor but they certainly like the idea. was warned that I wouldn't get a pension and that there would be what they mysteriously called, pitfalls along, the which made it sound more exciting Von Sydow apparently skirted the pitfalls along the way, He has been married to actress Katerina Olin since 1951, when he made his movie debut in a Swedish version of Following such Bergman classics as "The Seventh Seal," Strawberries" and "The Virgin Von Sydow was cast as Jesus Christ in 1965 Greatest Story Ever by the late director, George Stevens.

Von Sydow followed that by playing Julie austere missionary husband in His American films since have been Quiller "The Kremlin "The Exorcist" and JUAREZ "Three Days of the Condor "When you are filming, you are continually acting in a difficult environment, acting a story very often shot out of sequence "In the legitimate theater, so much easier If I had to make a final choice. 1 would certainly stay in the legitimate theater There you have a decent period of rehearsal and you have While Von style and appearance have kept him in serious film roles, he has a sense of humor When "The Greatest Story- Ever Told" was filming at Py ramid lake near Reno, Von Sydow stopped by director Stevens' portable office for a conference. Told by Stevens secretary that the boss was out but she would take a message. Von Sydow replied, "Just tell him I hat his son was here 'Star Trek' Actress Space Enthusiast WASHINGTON (UPI) Actress Nichelle Nichols has become a space enthusiast She says her role as Communications Officer IJhura on spaceship Enterprise of television "Star senes has changed her life "Since I met and created her she simply let me alone Every single other character that ever created from Broadway theater to films and television all had the good grace to allow me to return to my own true identity But. alas, not Uhura "It seems she very much likes that Trek" universe where infinite diversity and infinite combinations are respected and related to for their differences, not in spite of their differences.

"She enjoys this world where advances in technology are appreciated as natural tools, as an extension of humankind's genius. She has no other frame of reference but to go forward in the service of her home planet. United Federation of Earth, with dignity and peaceful exploration of other worlds and other galaxies. "And so she reaches back and prods me, implores me, urges and pulls me into action in my present world, and fairly indicts me that I might find ways in this century to help insure the existence of her universe and Miss Nichols said at a recent meeting of the National Space Institute, formed two years ago to promote space, that the image of the space program is tarnished and needs to be improved to attract the support of the public. got to dramatize it, glamorize it even, humanize it, but we must validate it." she said "The taxpayer must be willing to pay for the achievements that all enjoying from space exploration got to show that the space program is as essential to our future as any other great technological breakthrough the steam engine, the wireless, electricity, manned flight itself "If the space program stands for anything, it must stand for hope." Miss Nichols said space must be brought to the level of all the people so they can appreciate it.

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