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S- i'V'-, Tuesday, December 9. 19B0 N9 THE DAILY OKLAHOMAN Voice' of Scat Cat in Disney Film Family Fun Gifts BAR STOOLS-20 off PINBALL' GAME TABLES Authorized Brunswick Dealer We are an authorized Sony service center which makes us 1 1 to consider when you buy FACT: It Saves you many dollars to hove good service to back the product you buy. CLOSE OUTS ON SOME GREAT VCR'S cameras 4 Portable VCR equipment TVs steroos radios lope recorders, cas- i clock radios. I "es You just have to- be yourself. "A lot of people in Hollywood are on that ego trip.

They think they're more than somebody else. I've told a lot of stars in my career, 'Hey, man you're looking down on the people who made you. jlf you keep doing that you're gonna fall back down Crothers, who turned 70 this year, has a simple reason for his sue-' cess and durability. "I love people," he said. "You've keep that love in your heart for your fellow "man.

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Strangelove." "But Jack Nicholson made a pitch: for. me and I got it," said Crothers, who had worked with. Nicholson on three previous films. Kubrick, is known as an meticulous director. Crothers said he once had to do 30-40 takes of one scene.

"All I did was' walk through the snow to the hotel door," he said. "I'd ask Stanley, 'What was wrong with that and he'd say, 'A little too much to the Crothers said he wondered "why Stanley had me killed off. In the book and screenplay I didn't get killed. I don'b know, but that's Stanley. When he's making a movie, he's in complete control.

Nobody tells him Crothers said he never watches the "dailies" or "rushes" of his scenes during shooting. "I don't want to mess up my concentration," he said. "My acting has got to be natural. I didn't go to any drama schools. It's a gift from God.

SSyBrkce Weitbrook Crothers is 'Character, actor a for Reading roles or acting SersatlHty but for his in color- wjisupppjting parts. a't'c)osely; reflect hts had a music, midioijTy.and film. His entrapvies Include ffieShiriiiigl'Vl'Bronco' Flew Over Shfe Cuckooi's Nest" and Ke-next' appears In a ssiie'fb'fi Disney's B3eAristocatsi" open-ffifg, in 'Oklahoma City Siat not actually, an g'ptp e'-a ra'ncc. jCfotberfeprbvides the de-156' family of felines who inherit a 1 "This was Walt Disney's last project before he. passed away," Crothers said in an interview.

"He didn't live to see it finished. Scat Cat, the one jyho. has. the musical band across the tracks. I meet O'Malley, who's Phil Harris, and we have jam.scssion." Thei role was conceived with Louis Armstrong in mind, but Crothers has his own background in music.

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