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Friday, November 2, 1979 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Star-Phoenix Entertainment Latest Dracula no slick seducer American violinist bound for Russia and he believes it. There is nothing arrogant about it at all. Kinski is a great fan of the film. Its the only time in my life that I have loved a picture Ive made. Ive seen it 10 times.

And its not only be- cause Im in it. I simply enjoy watching it. Werner wanted to make the picture in Romania. The government knew his work and said, We have never allowed anyone to film Nos- -feratu in our country, but in your case, we would make an exception. That proved impractical, and Herzog found the atmosphere he needed in Delft, the Netherlands, and; Czechoslovakia.

The director decided that Count Dradulas makeup would follow the grotesque pattern Schreck used In the Murnau original. I thought it would be enough to shave my head and wear fangs and fingernails, said Kinski, but Werner wanted to go all the way." Both agreed on the portrayal of Dracula: Not human and not ani-: mal, but somewhere in between. Kinski was enjoying his first tour of the United States, so much so that he has decided to stay. "Everything is up to destiny and; right now I think that my destiny is here. I am tired of the European bull.

Except for Werner and one or two others, there is no serious work being done in films over there. HOLLYWOOD (AP) The latest in a long line of Count Draculas is no slick, smooth seducer. As played by Klaus Kinski, in Nos-feratu Tne Vampyre, the count has a head like a peeled egg, an ashen pallor, pointy ears, sunken eyes and two front teeth fit for piercing. Kinski diverges from the tradition started by Bela Lugosi in the 1931 Dracula and followed through the years by John Carradine, Francis Lederer, Christopher Lee, and most recently, George Hamilton and Frank Langella. Nosferatu The Vampyre, which 20th Century-Fox is bringing belatedly into the movie marketplace, harks back to the 1923 classic directed in Germany by F.

W. Mur-nau and starring Max Schneck. The new version was intended as a tribute to Murnau by the young German director Werner Herzog. Kinski, born 52 years ago near Berlin of Polish parents, is not all menacing without the makeup. He has strong features, wild white hair and talks in self-taught English.

Whats wrong with doing another Dracula? Hamlet has been done a thousand times, and nobody talks about remakes. Werner has his own answer. He says, Nothing in the past 50 years and nothing in the next 50 years will come even near to Nosferatu. Not with the same quality, he means, NEW YORK (AP) Swimming against the tide of Russian artists defecting to the West, one young woman is going the other way. Dylana Jenson of New Rochelle, N.Y., is going to Moscow in December, sounding much like the Russian musicians and dancers who havt sought asylum in the United States.

"All the Soviet musicians are emigrating, saying they want artistic freedom, the 18-year-old violinist says. "Look, I dont have freedom in my own country to play. There is a block against my career, so I have to go out and prove myself. Much as she yearns for recognition, the energetic young woman insists that it come on her terms. For her, recognition has come easier in Russia.

Far from defecting, Jenson sees Moscow as a back door to acceptance in the U.S. The door opened to triumph, then disappointment, last year. As the youngest violinist in the quadrennial Tchaikovsky Competition, she was described by TASS, the Soviet news agency, as "one of the lucky discoveries. But when CP Violinist Dyiana Jenson of New Rochelle, N.Y., is going to Moscow next month teaches herself and does without a professional manager who could get her the bookings she wants. She turned down management offers years ago, she says, and now managers are reluctant to work with her.

The United States specifically does not want to see any exceptions to the rule, she says. she won the silver medal, Jenson was furious. "I believed in the integrity of the competition when I came here and I realized 1 was too honest. Her hope that the medal would boost her career evaporated. She has no more than 20 dates on her calendar this year, she says, including seven in Russia.

That is frustrating for a former prodigy hailed by reviewers as astonishing, extraordinary, and the best new violinist to come along in years; who played with the New York Philharmonic at age 12 but not since and who has yet to play at Carnegie Haill. Its hard to be different. I dont go to Juilliard, I dont study with anyone but I give concerts. She Foxx sued for divorce Writer starts singing own songs siduals from the TV show Sanford and Son. Her attorney, Marvin Mitchelson, also asked for an injunction to pre- vent Foxx from harassing, molest- ing, abusing or otherwise disturbing the peace of his wife.

Foxx, who was divorced in 1975'; from his wife of 19 years, Betty, Jean, could not be reached for com- ment. LOS ANGELES (AP) The Korean-born wife of comedian Redd Foxx filed for divorce this week, saying that Foxx hit her, threatened her with a gun and refused to let her eat Korean food when she was sick. Yun Chi Foxx, 37, who married the 57-year-old Foxx three years ago in Las Vegas, sued for half of Foxxs assets accumulated during the marriage. That included real estate, eight cars and royalties and re survives through it anyway. I look at James Taylor, and hes got 11 albums, and hes still up there and he just sells out everywhere he goes and hes just got one of those kind of careers.

I hope that I can do that. low beat of people like Bonoff has more or less been elipsed by disco and the new rock roll resurgence. That concerned me a little bit, she admits. But I really think that anything thats really good have to hold on to it. These days the only cloud on Bonoffs horizon is the fact that singer-songwriters arent exactly the hot commodities they were a few years back.

The mel So when I first went out on the road, I was finding that people if I didnt explain on stage that I wrote them were thinking that I was playing songs I learned off a record, she said. As a result, Bonoff made it clear to all prospective buyers that she wasn't interested in selling any of the songs of her new second album. Restless Nights. Not that she regrets her experience with Ronstadt. It was a big break for me, and the big of confusion that came along was secondary.

But, she confesses, I have such a hard time writing anyway that I had to save them all for myself. Writings tough. If youre going to have a career as a singer and a performer, you have to say, LOS ANGELES (AP) -Karla Boroff, songwriter, was pleased as punch when Linda Ronstadt recorded three of her heartfelt love ballads a few years back. That is, until Karla Bonoff, performer, started singing them before audiences. Then the pleasure was somewhat tempered by the realization that most people thought she was copying Ronstadt.

It was an understandable misunderstanding. Bonoff recorded versions of Someone to Lay Down Beside Me, Lose Again and If Hes Ever Near were not nearly as well known as Ronstadts renditions of the same songs several months earlier on her Hasten Down the Wind album. Most people dont read the credits on records, or if they buy cassettes, they dont have any credits," says Bonoff 27. Sci-fi author critical of TV now think that that stuff is what science fiction is all about. Theyve missed all the really interesting things in science fiction.

Bova was science adviser for the short-lived CFTO-TV series, The Star-lost (now in re-runs). He termed the experience just one series of ludicrous events after another. Science fiction is a very difficult thing to do, especially visually and we were working with a group of people who, as far as I could see, had no experience in dramatic television. The whole organization, down to the smallest contributor, did their best to make the show as dull as possible. But Bova acknowledges that the publics fascination with sci-fi has had a positive effect on serious science fiction publishing.

What Star Wars did was to encourage pro-, ducers and, more importantly publishers, to pump money into science fiction projects. This, in turn, has allowed writers like myself to reach a broader audience. Omni (with a circula-ton close to one million), deals with science and technology in a way that anyone who can read can understand. We're showing lots of people that not only is this material important and interesting, its fun. Science is the most human thing human beings do.

It has a beauty and a logic all its own. TORONTO (CP) Ben Bova sees little resemblance between what passes for science fiction on television and the real thing science fiction in print. Of course, he may be a little biased. Bova is fiction editor for the glossy America science magazine Omni. Much of what you see on the screen today is taken from the comic books," he says.

Bova is a sci-fi veteran, having won five consecutive Hugo awards from the World Science Fiction Convention for his achievement while editor of log. Hes also written more than 40 fiction and non-fiction books and been science consultant for TV shows and movies incud-ing Woody Allen's Sleeper and the Canadian-made sci-fi series, The Starlost. The science fiction film has diverged into two routes the highly-preten-tious preachment and the gadget-happy, special effects extravaganza, he said. Hollywood learned early that it was the special effects that brought in the money. We're seeing films like Star Wars, Alien, Close Encounters.

and its awfully dull. These people are idiots, they behave stupidly. do stupid things and 80 per tent of the budget goes into the special effects. "What galls me is that many, many people millions of theatre-goers.