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Advertiser-Journal Montgomery, Alabama December 19, 1980 Inside Lee alumnus Teaching top of off -off-Broadway ''IN 1 i f' I f- i w. By VICKEY WILLIAMS Journal Staff Writer Lee High School graduates of 1967 might be a little surprised to hear what former classmate Vic Polizos is up to these days. The star of their senior play, "Father of the Bride," gets more for his performances than these days. Polizos is a New York City-baseti actor, who just wrapped up an "off-off-Broadway" play which will add to his resume of stage, movie and television appearances. The 31-year-old Montgomery native went to New York "six or seven" years ago, he said, where he learned most of what he knows about acting, "just by doing it." "When I was at Lee High, Julia Crittendon was my drama teacher there.

She was just great and encouraged met to get in the Thespfan Club. Then I went to Emory and it sort of stopped. "During my third year there, an old girlfriend persuaded me to try out for a play. I got a small part when the guy cast for it broke his leg. Then there was some problem with the lead actor and I got his part in "A Man for All Seasons." It was just like the old success story," Polizos said.

Polizos was a quarter away from a masters degree in school psychology, when the acting bug bit again and he left Atlanta to work towards a fine arts degree at Temple University. After Temple, Polizos decided to ignore the starving actor warnings from family and friends and headed to New York City. "That was where I really trained. I've taken a few lessons here and there, on voice or movement, but apart from that, most of my experience came by just doing it." Polizos landed a speaking part as a guard in the hit movie drama of prison life "Brubaker," last year, his first "big film," he said Since then, he has filmed a appeared in a Public Broadcast movie, "King of America," (to air sometime this winter) and in broad-Continued on 8 5 In April, 1978, a "bowling alley band" that built a loyal following at at Kegler's Cove on Atlanta Highway was on the threshhold of something big. Montgomery's own Harmony was on the brink of releasing its first album.

The LP was to be released in Canada. The album would be followed by a concert tour that summer. The group also appeared on the syndicated television show "RFD Hollywood." But the whole package collapsed, and so did the group. After two years, Harmony is back together, stronger, streetwise and hot as ever. VIC POLIZOS inter 111 Index eekends .................................10 Nashville People 2 Southeast What's Happening Around Montgomery! Editor: John Hasselwander are warmer at Callaway Gardens.

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