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THE SUNDAY RECORD, DECEMBER 13, 1970 22 A Visit With James Earl Jones I lUIIMy, ILL, i I i Broadway if Emory Lewis I v. A I 11 I JAMES EARL JONES clared with fervor. As he left Sardi's for a mat-1 performance of "Les Blanc the great actor stumbled slightly over one letter m. I asked why. "I was a problem stammerer as a child.

I had a serious speech impediment, particularly over the letter m. It's the first letter of mother. I suppose it was a hangup. We all have them." Jones, is an actor of enormous distinction, with a long career in the theater. The senior Jones made his professional debut with Katharine Cornell in "Herod and Wife." In 1961, father and son appeared together in a memorable off Broadway play, "Moon on a Rainbow Shawl" Today his father operates a drama group in New York's Washington Square Methodist Church.

"My fathar and I don't always get a 1 Jones stated, with a momentary frown on his expressive face. "I didn't see him at various times in my life. He is a fine actor." After a brief stint at the University of Michigan, young Jones came to New York as understudy to Lloyd Richards (now a distinguished director) in an ill-fated Broadway play titled "The Egghead." Since that time, he has performed in 6 Broadway and 19 off-Broadway plays, including "The Blood Knot," "The Blacks," and "Boesman and Lena." He has appeared regularly on television and in several films, most notably the current cinematic version of "The Great White Hope." He has acted in several Shakespearean productions. But his most magnificent performance was his Othello in Central Park and later at the Martinique Theater. With his unusual combination of commanding physical power and a heartbreaking gentleness, he is the best Othello in my years of theatergoing.

lie a i his beautiful Desdemona, auburn-haired Julienne Marie. Though they are now estranged, he hopes she will do "Othello" with him in New York this spring. "She is the perfect Desdemona so utterly vulnerable," he de- J. Vr i-. AMPII MBKIHO 'ill a TANLEY IVARNER I There are perhaps a half-dozen great actors in America.

One of them is unquestionably James Earl Jones, who is 39, black, and strikingly handsome. He is currently the star of Lorraine Hansberry's posthumous play, "Les at the Long-acre Theater. Interviewed over lunch at Sardi's, the soft-spoken, bespectacled star was overflowing with praise for the Hans-berry play. "This is one of the major dramas of our time," he declared. "It is a parable, a warning, a study of man's multiple choices, a requiem.

Lorraine spoke for all humanity. The play has a liberating effect. Sometimes I feel only the blacks, with their spirituality, their suffering, are going to save this sick world." He is deeply touched by the effect of the play on his white co-star, Cameron Mitchell, an actor best known from the television series, "The High Chaparral." "Every night when I come off stage, Cameron is there in the wings, actually weeping," he said. "The beauty of the play has overwhelmed him. This play is important in the lives of all the actors." For Jones, this role is in startling contrast to his raging, rough-edged giant of a world boxing champion in "The Great White Hope." In "Les Blancs," he is an educated man mocking, ironic, sardonic.

He has lived in Europe with a white wife and a child. Returning to his African homeland too late for his father's death, he must make a choice to return to his unfocused life in Europe or to lead the struggle of his nation against the white colonialists. Here is a modern Hamlet, caught in an identity crisis. He is in a desperate search for his manhood. He is a complex character, and Jones plays him with a breathtak-ingly subtle and sinuous beauty.

"People quickly forget the varied roles an actor has 1 a he stated. "After 'The Great White I suddenly became a sort of black sex symbol. People put me into a stereotyped role on and off the stage. Sex is a sickness in this country. You know, that sick legend about the black man being a sexual superman.

It's the old racism in another form. That's why this role in 'Les Blancs' is so good for me. Tschembe, both African and European, is an intellectual called upon to get himself together. "Racism is rampant in America, and people expect me to be some sort of authority," he added. "Interviewers want big statements.

All I can say is that the major problem for the black man is to shake METRO-GOLDWYN MAYER PRESENTS A JACK SMIGHT PRODUCTION Week's Playbill QUINTESSENTIAL REDNECK Peter Boyle played the title Queens. Many passersby recognize him on the streets of New rule of "Joe," the hippie-hating hardhat from Astoria, York and assume he shares Joe's attitudes. Ho doesn't. 4Joe5 Fights His Identity m. Closed Monday.

TUESDAY: R-sumes "Zorha," nlahtly, Tuesday throuah Friday at p.m.; matinee WerMesday at 2 two shows Sat. urday at 6 and 9:30 D.m.; tinal performance Sunday (Dec. 20) at 7:30 p.m. fioth In Color tR) Between The Acts 1 levin pi 1 STPJtnsos Dan Leivis AMPII PAKKING Local staging of the popular Christmas holiday ballet, "The Nutcracker," featuring Ingrid Fraley and Mario Ignisci with the Irine Fokine Ballet highlights the week's live theater in the area. The ballet takes over the Playhouse on the Mall in Paramus starting Tuesday night.

The schedule is quite different; check the information here for times. This will be the final week for "Can-Can" at the Meadow-brook and for "Zorba" at the Paper Mill Playhouse. After next Sunday's shows, both those houses remain dark until after Christmas. The week's schedule: PLAYHOUSE ON THE MALL (Bprqen Mall) Paramus: TONIGHT Final performance, "Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris," with national tour company cast, 7:30 D.m. Closed Monday.

TUESDAY: Opens, "The NutcracKer," ballet by Irine Fokine Ballet starring Inand Fraley and Mario lonisclj Tuesday Dec. 15) 1 and 8 p.m.; Dec. 16-1710 a.m. and 1 p.m. Dec.

1810 a.m. 1 and p.m.; Dec 19 and 202 and 7 p.m. MEADOWBROOK THEATER RESTAURANT, Cedar Grove: TONIGHT "Can-Can," musical starrina Warilyn Maxwell, about 7:45 p.m. followinq dinner. Closed ttirouoh Wednesday.

THURSDAY: Resumes, "Can-Can' nightly, Thursday throuah Saturday ahout 8:45 p.m. followinq dinner. Sunday (Dec. 20). final performance.

7:45 p.m. PAPER MILL PLAYHOUSE, Millburn: TONIGHT "Zorba." musical starring Titos Vandis and Dolores Wilson, 7:30 Mil if x. I nnntn Strrct 641-0617 I See Movie Time JACK SHOT killer. I just wanted to show how people think and react. It happens.

Listen, since we made the movie, eight children they're all under 21 so I would call them children have been killed on campuses. Our ending (he satisfies an inordinate desire to kill hippies) doesn't seem less violent in terms of what's happened. That's what bothers me. "Now, with our economy in decline, the irrational takes over. People are looking for 'bad I think that's the important message of this picture the irrational behavior of people." There's a bar scene when Joe spouts his philosophy, denouncing hippies, blacks, liberals.

"A sweet, lovable old lady came up to me on the street the other day and told me I said a lot of things in that scene that she's always wanted to say," Peter said with bitterness. But another woman came up to him one night in a restaurant and inquired: "You're really not like Joe, are you?" "That's why I'm anxious to do something entirely different now," Peter sighed. umm mm JH IWSttMiiTWT IrrEOUT-OF-IDWSEBS Hi working as a host at actor Patrick O'Neal's New York restaturant (The Ginger Man). His major role was in the touring company of "Odd Couple," which kept him busy for two years. "Most of it was in Chicago my adopted home," Peter noted.

He auditioned for the role of the factory worker with the hard-hat attitude who hates hippies, worries about "niggers talking over," spouts patriotism over beer in the local bar, and slurps up his dinner while watching TV. It was a low-budget picture by the Cannon Group, which had gotten its start with sex flicks that did extremely well at the box office before the firm decided to venture into "more meaningful" production. "Joe" is the story of a rubberneck, blue-collar type who befriends then idolizes, an advertising exec after he learns the exec has killed a hippie who dragged his daughter into the dropout drug world. Out Of Character Peter is a liberal. He's anti-Nixon and anti-Agnew don't want to do a TV series.

I don't want to do anything that has to be approved by Ag-new," he says). In reality, his personal thinking is diametrically opposed to Joe's. "But I didn't want to make him a bad guy," Peter explained. "I didn't want to make him look like a nut PLUS 2ND BIG HIT Barbra Yves Streisand Montand iiHieii i rii 1 Pvwasttn' Technicolor' A Paramount Piduw IB! 427-2828 1 tuf the crap off his back. To be or not to be a man that's it.

The Panthers, all the black organizationsthat's where they're at. We got to get the Nixons off our backs." The road to Broadway stardom has not been easy for Jones. He was born in a farm in Tate County, Mississippi. His mother was a tailor. They moved to a farm in Michigan when he was 5.

His a Robert Earl Sun. At 1:30 "YOGI BEAR" I "RUDOLPH THE REDNOSED REINDEER" 7 AVlJil A BOLD AND INTERESTING FILM SMACKS OF BERGMAN IN INTENSITY!" OELON JEANCABM Movie Timetable couw to" HELD OVER 7th WEEK "THREESOME" Sot, Sun. Mats: "FLIPPER" JUJM 1 fcUkJMSl.WMSCV.Hi TL 327-2142 IVfBY TUISOAV NIGHT IS BOYS' NiCKT OUT AU MEN ADMITTED FOB II 00 ANO DON'T MONDAY NtCKT LAOlIS NlCHT ALL LAOItS ADMITTED FOR 2, A (tit fi PalmOS Pr 9W.10 COLOR BY TECHNICOLOR JUDY BROWN MARIANNE THOLSTED LOTTA HORNE OcytgeDuit imm TO Ml 9 DIRECT FROM DENMARK (X) NO ONE UNDER 18 WILL BE ADMITTED rra no V-30 9f05rWOd' WUSA' ROUTE FOUR CINEMA (Paramus) -Lovers and Strangers, 1:15, 3:30, 5:50, 8:05, 9:55, ROUTE 59 (Nanuet) Joe, 4, 6, 8:10, 10:15. SPRING VALLEY Threesome, 5:30. 7:25, 9:30.

STANLEY (Jersey City) Travelina Executioner, 12. 3:25 6:55, No Blade of Grass, 1:50. 4:15. 8:35. STANLEY WARNER (Paramus) Out of Towners, 1, 4:45, On A Clear Dav, 2:35, 6:25, 9:55.

STATE (Jersey City) Kiddie Show, 12, 2: Dorian Grav. 4:15, 7:15. Horror House. 5:55, 9. TEANECK Kiddie Show, Ann of 1000 Davs, 4:30.

6:50. 9:20. TOTOWA CINEMA Catch 22, 2. 4, 6, 8:15, 10:20. TOWN (Emerson) Kiddie Show, Lovers and Other Stranaers.

3:55, 5:55, 8, 10. TOWN (New Cltv) Fliooer, Buona Sera, Santa Vittoria, 9:20. NEW YORK As we walked through the i d-Manhattan restaurant during the peak of lunch hour, the whispers of other diners were proof of recognition. "There's 'Joe. Joe Everybody, everywhere-down 57th Street as we strolled to the producer's office stopped and stared at him.

Some nudged their own walking parners. Others couldn't resist saying hello to A string of posters, plastered across the boards protecting a construction site, brought doubletakes from pedestrians. The posters said: "The whole country's talking about Joe's picture overwhelmed each poster and you could see the startled glances as the eyes darted from the poster to the real-life "There's identification," said Peter Boyle who is "Joe" in this film. "But the problem Is if you ask those people what 'Joe's' real name is, they won't be able to tell you. All they know is 'Joe'." Impulsively, he turned to one of the startled passersby staring at him and said: "Hi.

I'm Peter Boyle." "You're Joe," said the elderly lady confidently, refusing to accept the fact that this man could be anybody else. Identity Crisis "I have a feeling that my next picture should be a Disney fantasy," Peter Boyle aid as we turned onto Fifth Avenue. "I want to do something different." Peter has already done different things to avoid being typed. He was a regular on Robert Klein's "Comedy Tonight" television summer replacement show. In case that escaped you, the reason is simple: he wore a hairpiece over his normally bald head.

The second starring role is always the most difficult-after the first has been a smashing success. He doesn't want to do commercials on television anymore, although this has been his bread and butter in recent years. In the TWA commercial, he was the father who raced with his kid to beat everybody to the customs counter. He also was the guy behind the mask who caught Tom Sievers' pitch in the Instant Replay commercial. If you didn't catch him in either of those, chances are you didn't see him, either, in his two previous movie roles, "The Group," and "Medium Cool." "It would have been hard to pick me out of the crowd.

I had bit parts in both," Peter explained. His role in "Diary Of A Mad Housewife" was a bit more substantial. He had one line of dialogue. Peter Boyle is not an inconspicuous figure physically. He is a little better than average height (about 6-1) and he goes through what he describes as his fat and lean periods.

"I feel myself getting into a lean period." he reported as he pinrhed the roll around the middle. At one point he studied for the priesthood. "I figured better I should be a horny actor than a horny priest," said Peter, who is a bachelor. Second Thoughts There is an orgy scene in which shows Peter and a young lady completely nude and copulating. "While shooting the scene, I kept saying to myself 'Wow! My mother's going to see this'," Peter recalled.

Actually, she still hasn't seen the picture. "My sisters saw it," Peter reported. "I guess they'll keep Mom away. She did want me to be a priest and if she sees that scene wow! Early in his acting career, Peter made ends meet by MON. NIGHT IS DATE NIGHT All Couples SI per person Tues.

Nite is Ladies Night. All Ladies $1. TWIN WAYNE (Route 46) Lovers and Strangers, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, U.A. CINEMA 304 (New Cltv) Kid-geVS, 8nd "TV Str8n9er'' WARNER (Ridgewood) NO PERFORMANCES WASHINGTON CINEMA (Washlnoton TownshiD) Kiddie Show, Lovers and Strangers, 5:30, 7:45, 9:45. WJYNE (Preakness) Kiddie Show, 2, Ann of 1000 Days, 7, 9:30.

WILLOWBROOK CINEMA (Wayne) -Hornet's Nest, 2, 4, 6, DRIVE-INS ANTHONY WAYNE (Wayne) Dorian Grav, 7, Oblong Box, 8:45. HACKENSACK (Little Ferry) Dolly, 8-30 Planet of Aces, PARAMUS Eaulnox, 6, Master of Terror, 7:30. 3 Rutherford) Clear Day, Out of Towners, 6. ROUTE 17 (Uooer Saddle River) War Gar9antu" ROUTE 46 (Saddle Brook) No Blade MJEV Tnweiina Exe- RG Lna Rid9 FORT LEE 115 ABBOn BUD. 94S-4 OO'fEALISA0tSMUSMINTm TJti 'eesome 'hS "ADULTS ONLY! S.SI BULU WLOH "LET'S PLAY DOCTOR" cna In color by Technicolor STARRING JUDY BROWN Color By Technicolor RATED MUST BE OVER 21 Free Parking E's Weekends L0 7-0004 "WUSA" Paul Newman Joanne Woodward PLUS "NORWOOD" Sunday Matinee "HEY THERE IT'S YOGI BEAR" "ODD TRIANGLE" ALLWOOD (Clifton) Move, 3, :35, Sicilian Clan.

1, 4:32 8:08. BELLEVUE (UDoer Montclair)Move, 2:15. 4:05, 5:55. 7:40, 9:30. BERGEN (Tenaflv) Kiddie Show, 2: WUSA, 6:15, Norwood.

6:10. CENTRAL (Passaic) Kiddie Show. El Condor, 3:10, 6:45. Babv Maker. 4:50.

8:25. CENTRAL (Pearl River) Kiddie Show, Lovers and Stranaers, 5, 7:15, 9.35. CENTURY (Paramus) Hornet's Nest. I. 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10.

CINEMA J3 (Cedar Grove) Kiddie Show, Goodbye Columbus, 4. Sterile Cuckoo, e. 10. CINEMA 45 (Sorinq Valley) Inqa, 7:10, Fanny Hill. 8:35.

CINEMA 4 (Totowa) Call theatre. CLIFTON Lovers and Other Stranners, 1. 3, 5, 7. 9. LOST ER Easy Pieces, 2, 3:40.

5:20, COLONIAL (PomDtnn Lakes) Mc-Kenzie Break. 2:45, 6:15 If It's Tuesday, 1:10. 4:35. 8. FABIAN (Paterson) Travelina Ee-cutioner.

1:10. 4:50, No Blade Of Grass, 3, 6:35. 10. Catch 22. 2.

5:50, Me Natalie, 4, 8. FOX (Hackensack) Joe. 1:25, 3:35, 5:50, 8. 10.05. GRANT-LEE (Fort Lee) Let's Plav sAW'tll! dd TrianQle' HAWTHORNE- Kiddie Show, 1-30; Lov-ers and Strangers, 3:30, 5:20, 7:10, HYWAY (Fair Lawn) Threesome, 2, 4, 6, 7:55, 9:50.

INTERSTATE? (Ramsey) Dav of Anger. 3:55, Latitude Zero, LAFAYETTE (Suffern) Kiddle Show, Interplay. 7:15. How to Succeed With Sex, 6, 8:55. LEE (Fort Lee), Lovers and Other Stranaers, 2.

4, 6. 8. 10. Lw Kiddle? Show. luons.sra- Santa Vittona, 5:20, 9:40.

LITTLE CINEMA (Wayne) How to Succeed With Sex, 4, 7:15, 10; In Adults Only jrvs. ink I Central PEARL RIVER' PES 2530 HELD OVER 8th WEEK! I UMW flfiDCTBIf! nnftfaGsu COLOR 11 1 KIDDIE MAT. TODAY AT 2 P.M. "MOON WOLF" Barbra Streisand Walter Matthau HACKENSACK DRIVE-IN 34 2 7400 HOUTf 46 CIRCLE 'MTTIE Km HELLO DOLLY" Charlton Heston James Franclscus "Beneath The Planet Of The Apes" KIDDIE MAT. TODAY AT 2 P.M.

"HEY THERE YOGI BEAR" PARAMUS DRIVE-IN ROUTE 4 I4S 11 J1 An Occult Barrier Between Goad And Evil "EQUINOX" (GP) plus "THE MASTER OF TERROR" Circus Rehearsing VENICE, Fla. Ringling Bros, and Barnum Bailey Circus has started rehearsals here for its 101st edition. Richard Barstow, director-stager, officially opens the drills at the circus's winter quarters here. In addition to many new acts, the show will highlight five major production spectaculars, with more than $1 million in wardrobe and scenic effects. The Greatest Show on a 's 101st season opens Jan.

8 at its Venice winter quarters. The spectacle bows in New York City's Madison Square Garden March 30. MOVIE AUDIENCE GUIDE TOTOWA DRIVE-IN ROUTE 46 256-15J5 ADULTS ONLY HER SHE AND HIM (X) Also Therese And Isabel (X) Barbra Streisand Yves Montand 'On A Clear Day You Can See Forever' (G) Jack Lemmon Sandy Dennis "THE OUT OF TOWNERS" 4 na iia ROUTE 3 DRIVE-IN SJ9 40JJ ROUTE i ROUTE 17 Di ARK LflrJ BROAD AVMUSDIS PARK I These ratings opply to films re leased after Nov. 1, 1968 THIS SEAL in ads indicates the film was submitted and approved under the Motion Picture Code of Self-Regulation. Jean Wallace Nigel Davenport "NO BLADE OF GRASS" (R) "THE TRAVELING EXECUTIONER" (R) MANAGEMENT DOES NOT RECOMMEND (GP) PICTURES FOR CHILDREN ROUTE 46 DRIVE-IN S4M92I WEST OF L00I CIRCLE mfi NOV I ALL ACES ADMITTED General Audiences I TOWN RED CARPET THEATRES I UKIVt'lN Eternal Youth! "DORIAN GRAY" (R) AND 'Horror House' (GP) Box Office.

Opens 6:30 P.M. Electric In Car Heaters I ML JH 1000: micl I PISCICK VllLtr SHOPPINC CENTER I ML 10001 4G Kind.rklm.cli P1SCICK VllLtr SHOPPINC CIN 5TKlfJGHI color Nusii limit i 41ft inn AU AGES ADMITTED Parental Guidance Suggested CHILDREN 75c AT AIL TIME GP PARAMUS WllJff.00K ROUTE 11 MA4-2330 GarO-n tfintmA fatiarUnwdl SUN. I NIW Cll 1. 1 843-3830 Wvn" 78S-1327 2M-9000 terplay, 3:0, 5:30, clry Eoulnnx, 12:35 3:45, 6:55, 10; War of Gargan-tuans, 2:05. 5:20.

8:30. WALL (Paramus! Kiddie Show, 1-20. 6-50; l'o103' WONTAUK (Passaic) How to Succeed With Sex, 4 05. 7. 10; Interplay, 2:25, 5:20, 8:30.

ORANGEBUR6 Sicilian Clan. Virgin and Gvnsv, 7, 10:45. ORITANI (Hackensack) Travelina Executioner, 1:20 4:55, No Blada of Grass, 2:55, 6:30, 9:55. PALACE (Bergenfield) Kiddle Show, uia 750' 810011 Drac" PARI5 Park) Jno' 2, 4:30, 7:05, 9:40. PSCACI (Westwood) Kldrtle Show, 2, Dorian Gray, 6:30, Hor.

ror House, 8:05. PEARL RIVER Kiddie Show, Threesome, 7:20. 9:10. MON. TUES.

(14 iioo Mil. SI RESTRICTED Under 17 requires accompanying Parent or Adult uuardian Anthony CL ARKSTOWN SHOPPING PllM CHILDREN 70e AT ALL TIMES NEW DIMENSION THEATER PRESENTS AT EMERSON TOWN KIDDIE MATINEE SUN. AT TOWN NEW CITY KIDDIE MATINEE SUN. I- "HEY THERE, IT'S YOGI BEAR" FLIPPER" THE FABULOUS DOLPHIN NO ONE UNDER 17 A0MITTE0 (Age limit may vary in certain areas) SPRING VALLEY, AT "AMERICA HURRAH" TlicAMBERARCIl Kiddie 6:30. 9.

SO; PLAZA (Enolewood) 2, Dorian Gray ror House. 8:05. JO? XO SI (t J. II, JV v. lvA CREST SHOPPING PUJ PARKING 1 PI'B LOr.NT.E MUSIC-DANCING NITES THE SWISS CHALET RT.

77, RAMSEY, N.J. Use of these symbols in advertising is at the discretion of the theater. This guide published as a public service by this INGA TONIGHT AT 7 1 30 P.M. PERFORMANCES ALSO DEC. 19th 20th THE YM-YWHA OF BERGEN COUNTY Special Rates For Students Senior Citizen! 211 Essex Street Hackensack For tickets Call 4S9-5900 PLAZA (Paterson) Kiddie Show, 1: Move, Sicilian Clan, 3.35, 7 0S OUEEN ANNE (Bogota) Her and T'nl B-'S: Therese RAMSEY CINEMA Hioor, 4-Lovers and Strangers, 6.

7:45, 9 30 P.IALTO (Ridqefield Park) Fellinl Satyricon, 2:30. 4:55. 7:15 9 35 RIVOLI (Rutherford) Kiddie Show, 327-0800 AT CINEMA 45 KIDDIE MATINEE SUN. "FLIPPER" THI FABULOUS DOLPHIN.