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afl ENTERTAINMENT screen -stage-music Week in Review in Hollywood S. F. VALLEY TIMES. Monday, Ian. 12, 1970 Becomes Institution dont understand the first damn thing about it either Douglas starts off by saying that if critic Pauline Kael was sitting in a chair in the room, hed tell her: Dont crucify me because of what your idea of a movie star is, he said, pointing a finger at the chair.

I didnt start out to be a movie star. I started out to be an actor. You people in the East have no idea what goes on out here. He punctuated his speech with short thrusts of the finger. No awareness or knowledge whatsoever.

You lose track of the human being behind the Image of the movie star. HOLLYWOODIANA OF THE WEEK: And for the people back East, Tom Jenks wants you to know that Hollywood is a place where a person is doubtful what to do, especially after he has done it. But dont get me wrong. I love Hollywood. TOWN NOTES OF THE WEEK: The parties of the season are over and every motion picture eligible for an Oscar has been screened and played-for-a-week for an admission fee in L.A.

However, the race to be in contention for an Oscar nomination continues. Its about the most concentrated and biggest campaign ever for a nomination. But without the nomination you cant win an Oscar. There are screenings practically every night at studios, or special screenings (all advertised) at the Directors Guild Theatre, or, if tire films are playing in theatres, like Bob Carol Ted Alice or John and Mary to name two of plenty, there is a line in the advertisement which states: Academy Members: Your 1970 Card Admits You And A Guest To Any Performance Monday Through Thursday. The Academy members dont have to wait until after the nominations and view those nominated at the official two screenings (one matinee, one evening) at the Academy Award Theatre.

I dont know why, but the mention of John and Mary reminds me that Mia Farrows name is still up outside of the shabby wooden bungalow in the poorer section of the dressing rooms at 20lh Century-Fox There sitting FQXnunu A Notional General Company amr- NORTH HOLLYWOOD I EL PORTAL 52SS Unkwiki 7694041 in a far rear corner of a night spot the other night was a man wearing a red cap, a sports jacket, big square spectacles, smoking a cigar and holding court. The man was Bill Cosby, who enjoys the place as much as the points he owns in it There are only three male singers who are selling, in the hit division, single records. They are Tom Jones, Engelbert Humperdinck, and Elvis. And the only female singer who sells a hit single these days is Dionne Warwick. Im not talking about albums or groups.

With the groups its the Beatles, the Credences Clearwater Revival and the Rolling Stones Did you ever notice that actresses who play movie stars in pictures arent Googie Schwab says that according to the movies these days they measure how good you are by how bad a character youre playing. READING OF THE WEEK: And here are some samples of Kirk Douglas running off frank, very frank at the mouth for interviewer Roger Ebert in the current issue of Esquire. I remember meeting Tito once. The English ambassador had been waiting six months to present his credentials. Tito sent his private plane to pick me up, and we talked for three hours.

Turned out he'd seen just about every one of my movies. He sees one or two movies a night. He says they take his mind off his troubles. And thats where its at. Thats what movies do.

Take Lonely Are The Brave. There was a movie that communicated on all levels. Maybe it was anti-Establishment, or maybe it was about a kooky cowboy. A movie like that is so much better than some foreign (blank) about an actor chewing for twenty minutes. Well, why was Bullitt a success? Nobody understood Bullitt.

It had two good elements in it: the chase, and the killing in the bedroom. Otherwise, it was as hard to understand as Last Year at Marinebad. I didnt know what that was about either. The foreign directors are always fumbling about the juxtaposition of black and white and the existential dilemma and all that (blank), to disguise the fact that they Daily 7 9:30 101 DALMATIANS "HANG TOUR HAT ON TH WIND" PARTNERS Lee Marvin weighs gold dust preparatory to dividing it with his pardner, Clint Eastwood, in scene from Paramount release, Paint Your Wagon, continuing at the Pacific Cinerama Dome Theater. NORTH HOLLYWOOD GUILD 31(1 UokmiMi Dly 4 45 S-S 13:41 No ono Under 18 Admitted "CURIOUS YELLOW" (XI "LOVES OF A ILOND" JL SHEILAH GRAHAM STUDIO CITY 7 'STUDIO CIT J213S Ventm 769-4441 1 Dally 4:11 "HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE" (Ml "NUMBER ONE" SHERMAN OAKS LAREINA 14626 Venture 788-8311 Dolly 7 9:41 Barbra Straisand "FUNNY GIRL 1 Lovable Puppeteer Gives Her Opinions VAR NUTS FOX (417 Vis Nun 7854449 Daily 7 9:30 101 DALMATIANS "HANG YOUR HAT ON TH WIND" VAN NUTS CAPRI 42TI Ven Nun 785-3156 Doily 4:48 "CURIOUS YELLOW" (XI "LOVES OF A SLOND 101 DALMATIANS CAN0UI MW Dally 7 9:39 fallbrook 229 Vimoun 8834212 I "HANG YOUR earn HAT ON THI The most successful operation in the country is unlisted in the telephone book, has never taken out one line of advertising, yet has a waiting list of eager clients 20 times its capacity And, the business has no official title or name! Owner or sole Operator of this unique business enterprise is Jeff Corey.

Over the past two decades moviegoers have come to recognize Corey by face, if not by name But to film studios, producers and casting directors Jeff Corey is almost invariably on the top of their preferred During the past year Corey, as usual, has been in constant demand, appearing in eight major movies, including True Grit, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and his most recent, They Call Me MISTER Tibbs! This new Mirisch Production Companys mystery drama stars Sidney Poitier, Martin Landau and Barbara McNair, in a continuation for Poitier of his detective role from In the Heat of the Night Gordon Douglas directed in color, Herbert Hirschman producing for United Artists release. Despite the constant calls from studios, Corey operates his acting school, a course open not only to newcomers but to Established stars anxious to polish up their technique Around Hollywood, it is a mark of distinction to mention that you studied with Jeff Corey. Corey began his school in the re-vamped garage of his Hollywood Hills home, and has always limited his classes to twenty, ten male, ten female students. It began as a parking he laughs. Our home is in a residential district, and the police and the neighbors took a dim view of all Hie extra cars parked outside! i Applicants for Coreys school accepted only after an exhaustive interview range all the way from eager newcomers to internationally known stars.

Corey has a simple, yet apparently successful formula, telling all new enrollees to expect to do poor work, but come and do your best. Get excited! Acting, Corey believes, is intuitive, so dont look for a formula or method. The secret is excitement both in the role and yourself, with the main goal to gain self-esteem. Most young actors are nervous, and have little confidence in themselves or their ability. Its a question of time, adds Corey, to advance, to reshuffle old data, to learn more efficient ways to use what knowledges they already have.

On this angle, Corey recalls a remark made by the late Charles Laughton, who once declared, People know so little about themselves. I want to show them. But first, I must know how this man functions, what kind of human being he is. Then I can play the part. That Corey himself is a keen and observant viewer of human beings is evidenced in the many types of roles he has played on screen.

In In Cold Blood, for example, the script called for an old man. (Corey played the part without benefit of make-up, just by thinking the part.) In True Grit the character was described as a short, squat man cf twenty. In They Call Me MISTER Tibbs! the role Is that of a man sixty-five, hard yet fatherly. Corey, at six-feet-one-inch, is neither squat or short, and hes neither twenty nor sixty-fivei Yet somehow, he seems to get inside the character to the direct- tors satisfaction. Asked about the long list of his illustrious students, actors and actresses who have gone on to achieve prominence in motion pictures, Corey Well, theres Tony Quinn, Jane Fonda and here his voice trails off.

It would be presumptuous cf me to list the men and women who have worked with me, he says. Im no Svengali. Who's to say how much I contributed to their craft? When did they suddenly become skilled in their profession? All I did was to try to create that spark of excitement to get them to have confidence in themselves, give them a little prodding when they wavered. It would be arrogant, he adds, to say that I teach them. I merely emphasize what they already have, and ultimately help them to teach themselves! It must be a good system That well-worn path to Jeff Coreys garage door was not made by would-be mouse-trap buyers.

Goodnight, Sweet Prince, the Gene Fowler biography of the late actor John Barrymore, will be adapted for the screen by James Poe, Academy Award-winning screen writer My old colleague Les Hafner will produce the Joseph E. Levine presentation for Avco Embassy release An Oscar winner for his screenplay Around the World in 80 Days, Poe has an impressive list of credits including Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Toys in the Attic, Lillies of the Field, The Shoes of the Fisherman and The Bedford Incident. Janet Leigh was understandably looking forward to the release of her film The House on Greenapple Road filmed more than a year ago for ABC-TV The picture got caught up in a legal tangle between the producer and the network, but is finally getting on the air. Janet plays a very interesting woman who gets involved in some situations that will bring back memories of Psycho. Tony Newley gets to take on still another major project when he directs Summertree for Kirk Douglas Bryna Productions The deal has just been made and the picture isnt cast yet, but Tony is already making plans to do the film in a style that will make it one of the most talked about pictures of 1970 Meanwhile, Tony is packing em in at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas with his nightclub act.

BEST ACTOR OF 1969 London Evening Standard Honors Nicol Williamson Guardian; Milton Shulman, drama critic, Evening Standard; Playwright John Osborne; author Lady Antonia Fraser; and critic and broadcaster, Robert Robinson. Hamlet is a Tony Richardson production and co-stars Marianne Faithfull as Ophelia. Richardson directed the Wcodfall Film which Neil Hartley produced. Martin Ransohoff and Leslie Linder served as executive producers. Nicol Williamson has been named winner of the London Evening Standards drama award as Best Actor of 19G9 for his role in tire stage version of "Hamlet.

(Locally its playing at the UA Westwood.) Williamson also stars in the Columbia Pictures and Filmways presentation of Hamlet, in which he recreates on the screen his highly a 1 a i me interpretation of the title role. TW1' it LATE SHOW NIGHTLY FILM HONORED Alfred Hitchcocks production for Universal, Topaz, was selected by the South-, ern Calif. Motion Picture Council for its award of merit, with actress Karin Dor accepting scroll from Elayne Blythe, council president. World opens 2:15 pm FREE PARKING HOLLYWOOD would: t464-ftil3PIX opens 12:15 pm Alfred Hitchcocks I BUTCH CASSIDY THE SUNDANCE KID(M PLUS CHE (M) TOPAZ houywooo HOLLYWOOD American-lnternationl American International Pictures has entered into a coproduction agreement with Sir James Carreras, M.B.E. of Hammer Films in London for the filming of a feature production, The Vampire Lover, it has been announced by AIP heads, Samuel Z.

Arkoff and James H. Enters Agreement Nicholson. A major science-horror attraction to be filmed in London, The Vampire Lover will be produced by Carreras with Roy Ward Baker signed as director. Among Bakers directorial credits are A Night To Remeber and Dont Bother to Knock. ILVD, mar IAS PALMAS All-New Theatre HEW VIEW 444-1149 now.

The dirt, the violence. I went into the shop next door from here and the door was locked when I tried it. The owner explained that she was robbed every Saturday, so she keeps the door locked and looks at the customer first before opening. You cant live like that! Shari comes to New York now, as a stopping-over place before going cn to London, or to make television deals. Tve sold two specials that I wrote.

For the family market. I have made 25 shows for the BBC in England and Ill do more. Id live in London, but for my husbands business in Los Angeles. But I would never live in New York again. It is dead.

Battle to Return in City Run Battle of Britain, dramatic recreation of the greatest air battle of all time, filmed with one cf the most exceptional casts ever' assembled for a motion picture, will open at Southern California theaters and drive-ins Wednesday. Starring Harry Andrews, Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Curt Ian McShane, Kenneth More, Laurence Olivier, Nigel Patrick, Christopher Plummer, Michael Redgrave, Ralph Richardson, Robert Shaw, Patrick Wymark and Susannah York, the film co-stars more than 100 Stukas, Spitfires, Huiricanes, Messerchmitts and other legendary World War II aircraft resurrected for the occasion. Produced by Harry Saltzman and S. Benjamin Fisz, Battle of Britain was directed in Technicolor and Panavision by Guy Hamilton. Music for the United Artists release was composed by Ron Goodwin, with a special musical sequence, Battle in the Air, by the noted composer Sir William Walton.

All-New Theatre All-New Luxury Exclusive Showing Anthony Quinn in THE SECRET OF SANTA VITTORIA (M) Color 12 30 3:00 5:30 8:00 10:30 P.M. PACIFlClWAiK-lMiTHEATRES mu SttiiaaroTOtgro Only Walk-Te Theatre Shewing in tne Valley "EASY RIDER" (R) Calar Daily 6:30, 8:30, 10:30 tiii H' -M a Dally Barbra Streisand FUNNY GIRL" IG) Celar Htirk Daily 4:18 Uncut 9 Uncensarnd GOODBYI COLUMBUS" (RIDCIr. GYFSY MOTHS" (R) Color 1 The Gulf Stream is sinking, because its getting less sun, said Shari Lewis. And all because we won't buy oil Irani Indonesia. The pint size, five-foot, 98-pound performer was in New York to appear on some game shows, prior to leaving for London again.

She is a great favorite on British television and at" Royal Command performances. She flies over there for weekends, the way you and I go for a bus ride. Come to think cf it, I do a lot of flying myself. The last my husband came for a day, reminisced Shari, the lovable puppeteer who will soon be doing another weekly show. In the line-up for royalty, the last time in London, Princess Anne asked, How did you come to do what you do? To which Shari replied, My fathers hobby is magic.

Weve always had puppets and magic around. Yes, mused the Princess, one does tend to get involved in ones family business. Shari and I were lunching at Laurent, which adjoins The Lombardy Hotel on East 5Gth Street in New York. I noticed she was being careful. With my height, have to watch it or Im in trouble, she assured me.

Im always glad when other people have a diet, as well. I dance a lot, she continued, and that helps. Shari enjoys her flying trips. I fall asleep. Im only worried on the Freeways in California.

Ive lived in Los Angeles for three years. Ever since New York died. When I go to the airport in England, I pass through farms and forest the government has made it a green belt. Weve done nothing like that in New York; we should have made a green belt so that visitors would have a better impression. The smog gets worse in California.

Theyre waiting for people to die from it before doing anything, Pittsburgh wasnt cleaned up' until the deaths of 1949. London waited until the deaths in the early 50s. Twelve thousand people died in the last dark fog. Now you can breath there. We could do the same for California where the smog layer is stopping the sun rays from reaching the earth.

Because of this, there is more rain in California and in other parts of the country. In the last 10 years, its been getting wrose and worse. One of these days something will be done soon, I hope. It could be done now. This oil from Indonesia is cheaper and dees not give out the deadly fumes that have been causing the smog.

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