The Daily Times-News from Burlington, North Carolina • Page 48

Burlington (N.C) TIMES NEWS Sept. 17, 1975 Makes 'Cheap Movie New Filmmaker Persists wasted money." Now, with that experiment behind him, he figures he knows a little something about what he's doing in the movie business. And so he's anxious to make another movie. "I want to do it," he says, "just so I can prove to myself that I can make a good film and a profitable one," long and noble career in movies and TV, has found peace and happiness in another field he is now one of our more successful novelists. "I don't miss the movie and TV business at all," says Sheldon, who wrote more than 23 movies and created The Patty Duke Show and I Dream of Jeannle for TV.

"I've been writing since I was 17 I actually sold my first thing when I was 13 "I lost around three million," Crean says, "so I decided I'd, better learn something about movie production I'm a production man from way back. So he gat a cheap script and made his own movie, at his ranch in San Juan Capistrano. It was never meant to be released, just sort of a production experiment. Crean watched every penny. "I discovered," he says, "that it only cost me around 1100,000 for the actual production, That compared to II million for 'Hammersmith' and $750,000 for 'Man and I realized that I had lost 1900,000 on the first one and 1650,000 on the second Just through HOLLYWOOD (NEA) Even if you're a tremendously successful businessman in another field, that doesn't automatically qualify you as a moviemaker.

John Crean found that out the hardway. Crean is hugely successful in his own field. He is chairman of the board of Fleetwood Enterprises, a company which owns the first, second and third biggest manufacturers of RVs mobile homes, motor homes, campers. Fleetwood is this year celebrating its 25th anniversary. A few years ago, Fleetwood went public "and Crean found himself with a lot of money to invest, so he invested some in making movies.

He financed "Hammersmith Is Out," with Elisabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, and "Man and Boy," with Bill Cosby. Neither was a big success. Sidney Sheldon, after a mm cneacn "'BLUE WATER, WHITE DEATH' INCLUDES SOME OF THE MOST SMASHING MANAGAINST BEAST FOOTAGE EVER FILMED! ZENITH Recuperated Elvis In Memphis, Tenn. Monday, an excited Elvis fan mobiles" of friends drove from his Memphis rushes to the singer for an autograph. Elvis.

home for an outing. The funmobile is a three Presley was released September 5 from a wheeled recreation vehicle. (UPI) Memphis hospital. Presley and three "fun Book Muses on Athletes Climactic sequence with the Great White Shark is unique. The film is superbly realized Vlncenl Canby, New York Times ABSOLUTELY BREATH TAKING, GASP PRODUCING!" Judllh Crisl, NBC Today Show "CAPTIVATING! An almost hallucinatory suspense.

It is more than just a cinematic high!" Slrlnn Kenfer, Time MOQdllno "SPECTACULAR! FASCINATING! 'Blue Water, White Death' is well worth seeing!" Sluarl Klein, contemporary society and the somewhat tenuous interrelationship between sports and politics. But, most of the time, what Green has to say as well as what he thinks is interesting enough and, as usual, he writes very well. MEET YOUR FRIENDS FOR THE NOON BUFFET AT THE RAMADA INN TONIGHT 1 I The AMHERST G4547M Early Americon styled full bate console. Concealed cotters. 23" diagonal Zenith 100 Solid State Chromacolor II, Energy saving Titan 300V Chassis, with Patented Power Sentry Voltage Regulating System.

Brilliant Chromacolor Picture Tube, Solid State Super Video Range Tuning System, Syncromatk 70 Position UHF Channel Selector. Chromatic One button 'Tuning'." "Automatic Fine a tk 41k 4 0 tuning Control. Simulated IP'IDXK Wood Graining with Wood Veneer Top. V4Q WT "WE SERVICE WHAT WE SEU HOLMES ft PUGH, Inc. 127 W.

Harden St. 226 2366 Graham I "W.W. THE DDUE I wswai DAXCEHINGS" ijggjjSgggB "DIRTY MARY jlffiE "BLUE WATER, WHITE DEATH" Ths hunt for the Great White Shark STARTS FRIDAY Cafeteria 11:00 3:15 4:30 8:00 7 Days A Week Holly Hill Mall 89 LB. $119 I LB. OPEN All DAY SATURDAY outside the Immediate game, what the fathers of the boys being battered about the field have to say and, in Green's they think.

Mnst nf the lime it takes Green back to when he was a youth, and those readers whu enjoyed his charming "To Brooklyn with Love," will be more than happy to find a number of the scenes and characters from that book retold and expanded upon in "My Son the Jock." Least interesting are Green's varied musings on such things as the role of the "machD mystique" in Wholesale murder by mo.mnn taino fu orrnv uKuirG Tirbf Last Day Thurs. 7:25 9:00 STARTS FRIDAY SONNY CHIBA in "RETURN OF THE STREET FIGHTERS" l.T.C. presents aBlakeEdoMrdsfilm Julie Omar Andreujs Sharif Si MOW RAYING Finavltftn end Eastman Color IPG; Embw ntut A The Tamarind! led iW rasr ZHRt SHOPPING CENTO jBjj immmmsmm in TheTrial HI By ASSOCIATED PRESS MY SON THE JOCK, By Gerald Green. Praeger. 192 Pages.

$6.95. When he Isn't writing, Gerald judging from "My Son. the Jock," seems to spend a good bit of his time watching sports events, professional and amateur, live and on television. Never much of an athlete himself by his own accounting Green stands in admiration of those gifted with the ability effortlessly to sink a basket, batter to a touchdown or whang the puck past the goalie and Into the net. Such a one is Greeks youngest son, David, and this engaging little book is devoted In large part to a recent losing season in which the young man won a number of honors while cocaptaining his high school football team.

Green's blow by blow accounts of the games that made up that season are moderately interesting, although the reader's interest grows shorter as the season grows longer. More interesting are Green's narrations of what goes on sank HELD OVER 8th 1ND FINAL WEEK COME EARLY FOR THE BEST SHOWS: 7:00, SORRY NO PASSES Western Charcoal Steak SPECIALS PRIME RIBS Crtoto. Onion SO DO Mar 3W BREAKFAST SPECIAL 2 EGGS, MEAT, GRITS POTATOES Attn HOMEMADE $100 ISCUITS A WT House Rillv Jack "PT rD II a a III Li anavision D1MG.H,L.inu5 jni iPRpDUCEj Cabbage 9 I MEAT Cube Steak $1 3 S133 "MQNTY PYTHON ShowtStorl 5:00 8:30 ind ifii iWy trill" PHONE 226 8434 Jj 39 Bananas 19V CELEBRATE AMERICA WITH THE ALLANERICAN HEAL Rod Whlte Bluo Grapes UK 16 01. Pepsi WITH FOOD ORDER New Crap Va. Ground Chuck Pork Chops Wilson AH Meol Bologna 99.

1JOZ. WITH PORK Sheffield Pork Apples 2 ib. 25' Kratr aal. Orange Juice 79' GROCERY STEAK APPLE PIE IS OZ. WITH PORK Oft Sheffield Pinto Beans 389 15 01, WITH PORK ftftfc Sheffield Biackeyed Peas 389 IS OZ, WITH PORK ifttUt Sheffield Kidney Beans 389' IS OZ.

WITH PORK Sheffield Great Northern Beans 389 Sirloin steak, baked potato, salad, toast, and apple pie 4 ROLl PACK Charmin Tissue 69 FOODLAND 19 OZ. CAKE MIX 299 DOWNY 64 OZ. A Fabric Softener ra BLUE BONNST Margarine m. 49g DUI 9 19 Detergent giant size fOODlAND Dog Food a. bag 89 Biscuits 225 NESCAFE OR MAXWEU HOUSE Instant Coffee ,002.

2 IUNCH SPECIAL ONE MEAT AND TWO VEGETAILES SJ49 499 Beans Lima Beans 389 399 HUNQRY1 YOURS MOW FOR OMLY $9.88 BULL. FAMILY STEAK HOUSE 15 OZ. WITH PORK Sheffield Large era mm am it SATURDAY Mk PM WESTERN Charcoal Steak Homo 143 H. Orohom.HoptdaU M. 337 7431 Ownm John Tarry takath.

OUR STEAKS ARE A CUT ABOVE South Church Street, Across from Burlington Bank 15 Oi. WITH PORK Sheffield Navy Beans.