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5 THE SUNDAY RECORD. OCTOSER 24. 1978 2S PI ARK LfifjC W-fMlIHt PAR -io Warn 'It was my first thriller' cuht USTWOOD "TUC Al ITI A 111 IPG JOSEY WALES" Musk Makers Ttoatrts. INTERSTATE ShOBBina Cnt. hiui: Route 17 Ramsey LI ".4 fa PARAMUS Bergman cAcMatterSg of lmej) poor student, played by Dustin Hoffman, knows too much via his secret-agent older brother, played by Roy Scheider.

The Nazi dentist who uses his probes and drill to torture is played, in a towering performance, by Laurence Olivier. The plot, full of twists and coincidences, benefits from at least two explanations within the movie. It's been criticized, as the book was, bor being ramshackle. "The people who complain about the story's being highly improbable," Schlesinger said, "aren't giving the actors a chance to make them believe it. Every film is filled with im--probabilities they wouldn't question.

That's what makes movies interesting. I've always been interested in character over technique. 'Midnight Cowboy had it both ways, though maybe it seems flashier now than I would like it to be. It was the characters that first drew me to 'Marathon It's a suspense film about Nazis and Jews in Manhattan today." Much of the action in "Marathon Man" takes place on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement in the Jewish faith. One of the most shocking sequences involves the fugitive dentist's visiting Manhattan's diamond district.

We watch his face quiver with disgust for the Jewish merchants. Out on the street, a woman who was in the concentration camp he served recognizes him and screams. To escape, the dentist must slash a man's throat. Schlesinger was born in Britain to German-Jewish parents. He grew up middle-class in Hempstead and would have become an architect if rheumatic fever and World War II hadn't intervened.

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His first feature films, "A Kind of Loving" and "Billy Liar," helped establish Alan Bates and Julie Christie internationally in the early Sixties, when London was swinging. Since "Midnight Cowboy," Schlesinger has increasingly lived in California. His last fill, "The Day of the Locust," was a box-office flop though one of the best American films of last year. His next film, "Yanks," will be shooting next summer in England if all goes well with the script that he and Collin Welland, an English TV and stage writer, are busy putting "Yanks" will be about American GIs stationed in England and their relationships with the townspeople. The freer acceptance of black GIs in British society is one of the topics in the film maker's kettle of ideas.

Before our interview, Welland and Schlesinger were discussing David Habe's "Streamers." "You know," Schlesinger says, "I don't know why people who know me are surprised at 'Marathon On stage, I've directed plays from Shakespeare to Shaw to Marguerite Duras. I don't want to be pigeonholed by those people who feel you mustn't surprise them. I'd like to do an outrageous comedy or a very black comedy. That would surprise these people." Meanwhile, like the rest of us, he reports being terribly fascinated by and at the same time very worried about violence. ONE FLEW OVER HE CUCKOO'S NEST' also "LENNY" EMERSON 261-1009 TAllfU fUSCAC VIII 150 I UVI SHOPPING ttMlt'j 346 Kindeihtmtcfc Roi4 "PAINFULLY FUNNY" TIMES "TUNNEL VISION" plus "TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN" QD TRADE'M'SELL 1 A If Ik Wl I EVERY SAT.

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He is a jolly, gracious man with Santa Claus eyes. Why so much violence from the director of such civilized, precise film dramas as "Darling," which won Julie Christie her Oscar, and, "Sunday Bloody Sunday," a melodrama of the heart in which an older Jewish doctor and a divorced older working woman competed, unseen but not unknown by each other, for the love of a young male artist? "I didn't set out to make a violent film," Schlesinger said. "People say it's gratuitously violent, that there's too much gore. But there's more going on in people'sheadsthan there is on the screen. Two shots, yes, a spurt of blood to show someone is hurt.

I'm not interested in titillating an audience, but it was my first thriller, a deliberate attempt to screw an audience up and put them under their seats. I think it's a terrific movie. "Going in I knew it would be a very theatrical kind of thriller. I think when violence is used so that it's comic or nicely palatable or very easy it's actually dangerous and finally pernicious. People don't worry about James Bond or people burning in 'Towering Inferno' they applaud the special effects.

I remember we debated endlessly how to shoot the two men in 'Sunday Bloody Sunday' meeting and kissing for the first time in the film. Should we do it in close-up, middle range, long shot, or silhouette? I was in favor of just doing it plain. It's the same with the way one of the men is killed in 'Marathon Man' as he walks down the street. It's a shock. The smile is wiped off his face.

It's enormously intriguing to find ways to tell a story visually." "Marathon Man" was scripted by William Goldman from his own best-selling novel, which concerns a graduate student who gets mixed up with a sadistic Nazi who's got millions in diamonds stashed in a bank on Manhattan's Upper East Side and thinks the fTT! S. 4 Sun. Cent. MAIN (Mil. J.

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Dynamic Gretchen Wyler, who played Doris Heller on "Somerset" a year ago, is currently touring in the Broadway-bound production of "Sly Fox." The comedy stars George C. Scott and his wife, Trish VandeVere. Some of you may remember her from her early career assignment as the original Meredith, Victoria Lord's sister on "One Life to Live," and she was once briefly Jo's daughter Patti on "Search for Tomorrow." 'High Time' Coincidentally, Mary Stuart (Jo on is touring the country with her musical concert, which she calls "High Time." She'll be in Sarasota and Lakeland, in November, and in Dayton, Columbus, and Cincinnati, Ohio, and Pittsburgh, in December. Michael Ryan, who's causing a stink as John Randolph on "Another World," is also Broadway-bound in the play "Best Friend," which opens this week. The character of Tom Baldwin, who returned from the dead on "General Hospital," is being played by Don Chastain.

Born in Oklahoma City, Don began a musical career as a youngster in his minister-grandfather's church. At Age 9 he was emceeing and singing on his own radio program. He later toured with blues bands around the country, and has appeared on Broadway in "No Strings" and "Superman." Bachelor Don had guested on many nighttime series, is a semiregu-lar bar owner on "Rhoda," this season and appeared briefly on "As the World Turns" seven years ago. (Send your questions about soap operas to "Tune In Tomorrow" in care of The Record. Questions cannot be answered personally, but those of general interest will be answered in future columns.) If By Jon-Michael Reed Editor ol Daily TV Serials Magazine Weddings are usually the most anticipated events in soap opera land.

There are usually weeks of preparation, and much fanfare, and the press is usually invited to photograph the on-screen event. Such was not the case with "Love of Life" when Cal Alcata married Rich Latimer last week. The show had quietly arranged for the nuptials to mark the final appearance of Deborah Courtney in the role of Cal. Miss Courtney has been playing the part for several years. Obviously the emotion on the set the day of the wedding was too much for outsiders to witness.

It's unusual for such a long-running actress to get canned, especially on her wedding day. When the bride returns from her honeymoon November first, Roxanne Gregory will be playing the newlywed. And this viewer, at least, is hopeful that Miss Gregory will add a bit of spark to a storyline that has been, to say the least, lopsided. Middle-aged Rick has been the romantic target of both early-twenties Cal and her venomous mother Meg. But mama seemed to have the upper hand since it was always painfully questionable why Rick would ever favor namby-pamby Cal to volatile and vivacious Meg.

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