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v- Bidttzii SkaUlz vLz mi MWIWI HoUywords and Picturegraphs Hollywood! Raquel Loves You! s. f. valley times, sept 2 6, i8 PREPARED Alan Arkin plays a bumbling inspector in Inspector Clouseau, comedy-drama on view at several citywide theaters and drive-ins. representatives of better films councils, civic, educational and exhibitor organizations. Gangster Spoof Captures Award Wait Disneys gangster spoof feature, Never a Dull Moment, has won Boxoffice magazines blue ribbon award.

Of current offerings, National Screen. Council members found it to be the most outstanding. It was also considered fine family entertainment. The councilism ad eu pof motion picture editors, radio and TV film commentators, MNOfiA PARK FALLBROQKj 8834212 Dally Sun. 12 Closed Tuesday BOOM" "SECRET WAR OF HARRY FRIGS" With all that foofaraw in Spain over the fortunes and Affairs of Raquel Welch and her spouse, Pat Curtis, we can tell you now the lovely lady is sick to her tummy of all those rumors and that shes homesick for Hollywood and her husband and her delight youngsters and we know, because Raquel told us so herself via the long line from Almeria where she Is winding up her chores in 100 Rifles with co-star Jimmy Brown.

And more than that, Raquel tells us, Pat is on his way to pick her up and bring her back home. i After a year and a half of filming in Hollywood, I had forgotten how good we have it there. You begin to appreciate it, Abe, only when youve been away a little while from making pictures in good old L.A., said R.W. I had forgotten how tormenting the paparazzi can be over here, and how vicious some of the stories they concoct and build up from minor incidents. They make life truly unbearable.

Raquel explained she is followed everywhere by no less than two dozen of these paparazzi (photographers) who refuse to respect her privacy from the moment she goes out until the moment she returns to her house at night She has been badly bruised on two occasions when more than 50 shutter-bugs jammed in so close that some of the cameras were literally pressed against her. Then Raquel said something which was startlingly like Richard Burtons comment to us last year when he almost took a poke at a pestiferous fotog, then thanked me gratefully when I interceded and shooed the pest away. Movie fans and the press are so civilized in Hollywood, Raquel observed, "It is one of the few places in the world where stars can live private lives like human beings! CAMERA ANGLES Itll be Omar Sharif wholl portray Rudolph Valentino, according to an announcement from Columbia last night by Mike Frankovich who is planning to do a musical film version of the life story of the late, great lover one of the great Hollywood legends Omar, busier than hes ever been since his smasheroo performance in Zhivago, returns to Columbia where he recently starred opposite Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl and with Gregory Peck in Macken-nas Gold. How come Sandy Dennis makes movies every place but in Hollywood? Ever since she did Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at Warners, shes made films in New York and Europe (we ran into her last month doing Millstone at Shepperton Studios) in London and now that shes finishing that one, she jets over to Vancouver Oct. 15 to do That Cold Day In the Park for Robert Altman? How come? THE NIGHT THE TOWN TURNED OUT That could have been the title for the opening night of Captain Brass-bounds Conversion at the Ahmanson Theater on Tuesday when the movie colony, as if proud of its own, turned out almost en masse in tribute to Greer Garson, Darren McGavin, John Williams, Jim Backus (subbing for ailing Paul Ford) and half dozen other motion picture regulars who braved the legit stage to put on a sparkling presentation of the dated G.B.

Shaw comedy drama. And it was a well-deserved tribute to an excellent group of thespians who proved themselves as able and effective and professional on the stage as on the big screen. The principals and cast were toasted high, wide and handsome at a delightful wingding in the Founders Room at the Music Center hosted by the Kirk Douglases with the Jimmy Stewarts, Charlton Hestons, Mervyn Leroys, Gower Champions, Maureen Arthur and Richard Gully, Kathy Brown, Walter O'Malley, Robert Wise and the Lew Wassermans among a legion of celebrities. The town could use more glamour nights of this kind! Everybody talks about giving young screenwriters a break, but writer-producer Alan Jay Lemer, plans to do something about it From the Paint Your Wagon location in Baker, Oregon, I am reliably tipped that Lemer in conjunction with Paramount Pictures, will launch the first of a series of nationwide original screenplay competitions next year with the prize being a check for $15,000 Paramount will purchase the screenplay and the film, if made, will be a future Alan Jay Lemer Production. The studio will also have options for future screenplays from the writer selected.

HAMMING IT UP Alex Karras, left, with his prize rookie, Alan Alda, ham it up in Paper Lion, football epic bowing at Graumans Chinese OcL 4 for exclusive engagement. Guys and Dolls Burbank Winner By CHARLES FABER RODGERS HAMMERSTEINS ROBERT WISE Pessimism: Ask not for whom the bell tolls and you will only pay the station-to-station rate. Pat Boone had some friends over for a barbecue, and told wife Shirley, Progress is wonderfull. Thirty years ago, only hobos cooked their meals outdoors. Corbett Monica asked his younger, son why Robin Hood only robbed the rich.

And the kid answered, Because the poor didnt have any money. Ed Anhalt, whos writing and directing the Bugsy Siegel picture, "We Only Kill Each Other, says he wanted to change the title to just Siegel, but he was afraid people would think it was the Chekhov play. Starlet Googie Schwab says Hollywood is the place where executives tell you what they think without thinking. But dont get me wrong. I love Hollywood.

WESTS1DE ROOM Talented Checkmates Fascinate By NADINE EDWARDS If your personal seismograph registered an unusually high mark Tuesday night, its obvious you were in the vicinity of the Century Plaza Hotel the Westside Room, to be exact for thats where the exuberant, exciting and extraordinary new group, The Checkmates, bowed in for a stand. And if they sound new in your musical memory, they wont for long for nothing like The Checkmates has ever happened before, or will again. Consisting of five young gentlemen, all of whom are beautifully talented, they provide a rollicking, riotous romp, musically parading their diversified wares with such singular charm and professional aplomb, they have the audience bursting at the seams with laughter and delighted appreciation. Bobby Stevens, who bears a remarkable resemblance to Sammy Davis acts as the groups spokesman, and when he opens with Were here in living color, you just know the evening is going to be a gas and it is. In addition to Bobby, who also sings and doubles on the organ, there is Marv Sweet Louis Smith on drums, the uninhibited percussionist who is as funny as he is talented and thats saying something; Sonny Charles, who plays a mean organ, sings a good song, and doubles on the drums; plus the quiet two-, some of the fivesome, Harvey Trees, lead quitarist and Bill Van Buskirk on bass all of whom add to the fun and excitement and TALENT of The Checkmates.

Most popular of their varied repertoire was Outside Look-In In, Dock of The Bay Baby I Need Your Loving, the latter sung while Bobby went through the audience shaking hands. If you havent caught up with them before, then do so now. Its an evening you wont forget. And a name youll always remember. The Checkmates.

RICHARD HARRIS took Rita Hayworth to lunch. She bad a salad. He had three belts of booze. End of any romance rumors. Garbo has sold her Palm Springs real estate.

Dean Martins new drink, which is so good for him: Metrecal and Vodka. David Hemmings has writ- ten a play which will take to stage in London. Hemmings will act in but not with his fiancee (the word seems dated) Gayle Hurinicut. His leading lady will be Sarah Churchill. Inge Jaklin read that James Thurbers 13 Clocks will be made into a movie.

She says its about time. Paul Newman is considering directing a remake Ecstacy with Joanne Woodward doing the Hedy Lamarr role. Newman proved in his first directorical job, Rachel, Rachel, that his first is as good as any veterans latest. Estelle Parsons gives another superb performance. But I couldnt help flunking throughout the picture that she looked like Michael Pollard.

TV and ME: Johnny Carsons biography, And Now Heres Johnny, by Nora Ephron, will be out in an Avon paperback Oct. 20 Paramount tested Jeff Hunter and Diane McBain for their series, The Brady Bunch, based on Lucille Balls "Yours, Mine and Ours. They also tested Bob Holiday, who starred on Broadway in Superman. Gypsy Rose Lee taped a guest appearance with Donald O'Connor and told him, I hope your new show takes off the way I used to." The reason parents think yesterdays generation children were better behaved, Steve Allison told his radio audience, is because parents ARE yesterdays generation of children. LEE MARVIN, putting on Clint Eastwood, on the location set of Paint Your told the company, Clints so rich from Hang Em High hes just hired, somebody to play golf for him.

Julie Andrews ex, Tony Walton, is seeing a lot of Warner Leroys ex. Gen. The Mel Franks, whove been living in England for years, have returned and will jive in Palm Springs for six months. It was Mel said, Take any kind of weather, add rain, and you have Instant London. Frank Worth, the Dodgers official photographer, who made a fortune with his camera, Traid, invested a quarter of a million dollars in The Silent Treatment, with Marty Ingels, and is the associate producer.

Its the first silent picture made in Hollywood in 30 years, and the dialogue is in subtitles. There are many cameos by Phyllis Diller, Rose Marie, Richard Deacon, Rudy Vallee, Paul Lynde, and Rowan and Martin. The picture was sneak previewed last Friday in Columbia, Missouri, before the students of the University of Missouri. They loved i Declared its the best camp weve had on the campus. From Prlce-Stern-SIoans The Power of Positive Dally 8:1 5 p.m.

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Canoga Park 340-7434 PACIFICXHASlTHEmiGlSHOWS OPEN ALL NIGHT! HOUYWOOO world: OOTH THUTRIS AT HOLLYWOOD A 60WER Cont. from 12:15 PM Free Parfung -Open All Ntglit WILD IN THFT Toylor-Burton STREETS BOOM The Young, Evil Secret War of The Savage Harry Frigg A 11 Continuous from 12:15 PM HOLLYWOOD BLVD. near LAS PALMAS counts, gives Sky Masterson, the debonair gambler, stalwart charm. His smooth singing voice is at its most persuasive entreating Luck Be a Lady tonight. The mission doll with whom he falls in love is played by Judith Lee, who makes beguiling the mixture of primness and adventurousness that is Miss Sarah Brown.

Miss Lee is a soprano of ability and taste, but her voice lends to change timbre when it goes from middle register to high. She keeps her prinia donna poise while effectively swinging If I Were a Bell, and "Marry the Man Today, duet with Miss Adelaide. Adelaide, the Hot Box nightclubs featured cutie, is played by tall, leggy Bunny Allen, a delectable blonde comedienne who sings the Lament with just the right note of sophisticated simplemindedness. The guy to whom shes been engaged for 14 years, Nathan Detroit, is played by Edward Enrich, who has excellent timing and a strong sense of characterization. Mike Sklar is bright, breezy and immensely likable as Nicely-Nicely Johnson, and he leads the gamblers and the mission folk in a rousing Sit Down, Youre Rockin the Boat.

At. the oilier end of the scale, Jim Cosligan scores with his singing of the More I Cannot Wish You to his granddaughter, Miss Sarah. Other Burbank favorites are Fred Derbyshire, as Benny Southslrect, and Pamela Kosh as the Missions general. The production would be still more enjoyable if the original single intermission were restored, since two intermissions slow the pace, and if the piano accompaniment were played in front of the stage instead of behind the scenes, where it tends to become muffled. Guys and Dolls plays Fridays and Saturdays at the Burbank Little Theatre, 1111 West Olive Ave.

Community theatre seldom gambles on a big one like Guys and Dolls, but the Burbank Little Theatre has put it on the nose of the 1950 Broadway favorite and come up with a winner. The musical inspired by Damon Runyon and his characters has five leading roles, of nearly equal importance and all unusually demanding, a challenge which Burbank has happily niet by acquiring the talents of Alson Schorr, Judith Lee. Bunny Allen, Edward Enrich and Mike Sklar. These attractive young guys and dolls can put over the wonderful Frank Loesser songs, and still sound, for the most part, like the genuine singers they are. They can act, and stil! be comedians without falling out of character.

They can dance enough to meet the shows minimum dancing requirements, but always they move with ease and assurance, thanks to the, effectively simple choreography by directors Barbara Weatherwax and David Pierce. Burbank or any theatre should be so lucky (as Nathan Detroit would say) to have so 1 many talented people in one show. Another thing they have in common is the flavor of New Yorkese, the pinched nasal and breathy guttural dialect to which the gangsters, gamblers and other bobbing corks in the Manhattan maelstrom, contributed their colorful slang and the rather touching formalities of the illiterate. The principals project Npw Yorkese by speaking the Jo Swerling Abe Burrows dialogue with correct rhythm and right thought behind it, an accomplishment shared by almost the entire cast. Meeting the speech requirements of a particular milieu, a comparatively rare achievement, is especially important to the full enjoyment of Guys and Dolls.

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