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8 the STAR-PHOENIX Saskatoon, Saturday, July 27, 1974 1 Mama Cass Elliott 1 She's got an appetite for food, life, love with it: I had an IQ of 165. than usual vigor, and added: I got into tne nabit or being "But I don't want to be every- independent, and the habit be body's mother. I'd rather be everybody's lover (c Chronicle Publisher! Co. 1974 came a design for living." Cass Elliott prodded a knife into the stilton with more 5 if By William Otterburn-Hall LONDON "Of course it's possible to love more than one man, and sometimes more than one man at a time. Women are only monogamous because we're told we should be.

"I'm not. It's a false, dishonest morality that makes us believe there's only one Mr. Right for us and that if we lose him we should all dress in widow's weeds." Whoever said: "Nobody loves a fat girl but oh, how a fat girl can love!" got it 'only half right, or else he never met Cass Elliott. Cass Big Mama Cass to those of us who remember the days of the now-defunct Mamas and Papas is the roly-poly 200-pound leather-lunged singer who lustily led the group to world fame. Now, at 33, she is solo.

But still the shadow of that name lingers on. Big Mama red hot and sexy. 8 I that's why I don't want any more children, "I think it's terribly, unfair when these show business mothers have four kids or whatever. It's nanny, nanny, nanny all the way. How much do they see of them? What kind of family upbringing can they really give them? "I don't think marriage is necessary.

But that's my personal, private feeling. Unlike some famous ladies I'm not going to take out a page ad in the paper and flaunt it around." Free-loving, free-living and free-thinking was all the vogue when the Mamas and Papas came up with their own brand of flower power, back in the Sixties. Cass would love to be called Cass Elliott, but everywhere she goes it's still "Hey, Mama!" "Nobody wants to kick fame in the teeth," she said, "and it made me what I am, gave me all the chances. Nobody realizes that for six years I was an actress off Broadway, and even directed live theatre. But people still think my first name is Mama and my last name is Cass.

"Mind you, I shouldn't complain. You work all your life for something distinctive, and that we sure were, even if it was almost a decade ago. Doesn't that sound longer than ten years? "But 1 never created the Big Mama image. The public does it for you. I didn't have a choice: They saw something in me, and that was it.

"But I've always been different, and I've always had this voice. I've been fat since I was 7. Being fat sets you apart, but luckily I was bright by movies and books and, yes, songs, to believe this ultimate immorality. The most immoral act you can do is to lie to yourself, "It's what a lot of my songs are about, I guess, and I'm not going to change my thinking for anyone. You're only as free as you make yourself: Freedom has to be taken, it's not given." Right now, after two marriages and a lot of loving, Cass Elliott is in love again.

The new man in her life is a 35-year-old American Indian called George Caldwell, who is now her road manager. "I love George more than I've loved any other man, ever," she said. "But it doesn't mean either of us feel the need to get married. At the moment I love him, and I haven't got the gift of seeing into tomorrow. "I respect him.

We say what we like to each other, and, above all, we say what we mean. We don't shelter behind false statements because we're afraid we might hurt the other person's feelings. That's insecurity. "We don't have a binding contract, a piece of paper to tell us we're stuck for life. We don't need it.

In fact, I don't think I'll ever get married again. Marriage to me means being trapped." Her first marriage, to songwriter James Hendricks, lasted six years; the second, to a Baron Donald von Wieden-man, lasted six days and ended in divorce 12 months later. She has a daughter, Owen Vanessa, by the first marriage "One is just right. I love that kid. I also happen to love my work, and Britain loves her, too, loves the warmth and rhythm that come pulsating across the stage, loves the honesty that shocks a few of the old-stagers but has the kids pounding the backs of the seats in front for more.

She was a hit at the plush Palladium, London's Carnegie Hall, when she opened with her new act. Songs, even dances, tripping the heavy fantastic with two chorus boys and her own drummer to back her, plus the house orchestra. She is a hit now in the less salubrious but gold plated working men's clubs in the north of England: places with names like Stockton, Sheffield, Workington, Leeds. In the flesh she is an awesome sight, baring down on you like a schooner under full sail. Under the red trouser tunic, a print blouse serves only to accentuate the rolling curves of Big Mama.

A little wine with sparkling water was hooked on Coca-Cola once, but I managed to give it up when I found it was only the bubbles I and a lot of food passed by. Lobster. Stilton cheese, too. A healthy girl with a healthy appetite for food, for life. And for love.

"I'm independent. Not dominant, just free. I value my freedom to live and love as I want more than anything else in the world," she says, and a brief glare through tinted spectacles dares you to challenge it. "I've certainly loved more than one man. I'm just being honest.

But women have been programmed by parents, and Century Foi Presents RESTRICTED ADULT MAMA CASS still making a bit 3 Big Weekend Features SAT. fc SUN.) Liberty From the producer of "Bullitt" and "The French Children's workshop at library 'Cinnamon Circus', a local titudes about war, by the Strol- Amos Fortune, a sound film- HI: summer theatre group will con- ling Players at the library au- strip for Grade 3 and up will be duct a workshop of participa- ditorium, 8 p.m. July 30. Ad' presented at 2 p.m. Aug.

1 also in the children's dept. of the library. At the Westeate Plaza tion plays for Grade 3 and up, mission is free. in the children's department of stories and films for pre fir- the main uorary at i p.m., juiy schoo, flnd up tQ Grade 2 chil dren will be conducted at the l' 'fe num. uw uu na oeuy jaman win conduct a j.

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Aug. 2, when a film of the South Pacific will be presented in the library auditorium. Admission is free. piaywngnis revealing ineir at- a.m. Death blamed on film HONG KONG (AP) A 19- In the letter to her mother, year-old movie actress who said she said: "I regret having she waa menfallv ripnressed made this film it is too OD- mi fr ill 1 it ill A 111111 ill w1111.11 allelic.

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SOUTH 242-2552 RESTRICTED ADULT VIOLENCE MAY BE OFFENSIVE TO SOME ti. IMI 1 .11 lill A 652-6556 The wait is over! hic hrill again to the happiest sound inallthewurid. SATURDAY Ic SUNDAY They took away her baby, now she was back to get him. WALKING TALL "Might just turn out to be this year's sleeper and emulate the runaway success of BILLY JACK:" Kevin Thomas, LA. Times A True Story UCI HVPR Doon Open 1:31 "Harrad Experiment" 1:45, 5:33.

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in SPECIAL RUMSE ELIZABETH JAMES JEREMY SLATE WILLIAM WELLMAN, RUSSELL tl nlliiiiiiriiiiw.maniM v- sil Jlk natML 1 SATURDAY AND SUNDAY DOORS OPEN Feature 1:45, 5:25, 7:25. 1:35 Last Complete IS 244-6622 "The overwhelming energy and enthusiasm of Jon Voight Is a superb pleasure in itself." -David Sheehan, CBS-TV "Jon Voight's Conroy looms up as just about the lustiest, most joyful presence in current films." -Pauline Kael, THE NEW YORKER No one Under 11 Admitted AIR CONDITIONED MONDAY DOOR8 OPEN :0 Feature 7:25. 1:35. Last Complete 1:21 Drive-In Only Added Feature 127 2nd. AVE.

SOUTH SATILEOF'niE ANDY WARHOL'S "FRANKENSTEIN" A Film by PAUL MORRISSEY Starring Joe Oallesandro JON VOIGHT One beautiful man. Hisstor istrue. iiiiwi. "smm VarrVooren Udo Kier Introducing Arno Juergma Dalila Di Lazzaro Srdian Zelenovic ADULT A CARLO PONTI BRAUNSBERG -RASSAM PRODUCTION COLOR A BRYANSTON PICTURES RELEASE AIR CONDITIONED COMFORT i ffiMs SATURDAY AND SUNDAY Doors Open al 1:30 Complete Shows at 1:33, 3:31, 5: SO. 7:30 and Last Feature at 1:40 bi-'iiti-i'iiPj Next Attraction SPECIAL X' NO ONE UNDER 18 ADMITTED UinTHlAJKl DI A7A TL.

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