The Sacramento Bee from Sacramento, California • 35

Lively Arts Food Fashions TV The Sacramento Bee SECTION Friday August 1 1980 Friday The Sfreet Is A Stage un YOU HAVE GOOD sidewalks in my mother asked in a letter from Paris I smiled thinking that was a very French question French people walk a lot by necessity for pleasure and out of habit When my family moved from Normandy to Paris our greed for walks was never quenched I remember our enthusiasm not so much for the famous places but for the anonymous streets the pompous city halls the little-known churches and the gigantic glass-domed railway stations I enjoy walking Sacramento too to see an Italian movie at the Tower to drink an early coffee at Pancake Circus to see Old Sacramento tinged as orange as the bridge nearby at dusk to borrow books at McClatchy Library to buy my wool at The Building on the tracks to look for some groceries (like any Frenchwoman I have always a shopping bag with me) A waste of time? Most of my walks have a practical purpose Besides walking for me comes before any other kind of exercise for physical fitness Americans often talk about weight problems You see many overweight people in France although everybody eats a lot I am sure a daily walk makes the Air Carrier Sails Into Science Fiction trust of the Defense Department and the explains Peter Vincent Douglas the man most responsible for pulling it all off it was a matter of showing them that it was in their best Peter Douglas is the producer of the $12 million film He brought these assets to the task: 1 The unshakable optimism of youth (he is 25) 2 Experience in the film industry as an assistant director and production manager 3 Kirk Douglas as his father Not necessarily in that order Despite his youth Peter Douglas figured three years ago that he was ready to produce a movie He came across an original screenplay that juxtaposed a modern aircraft carrier in the Bermuda Triangle with events at Sarajevo in 1914 Douglas pounced on the idea and proposed it to the Pentagon Without offering much encouragement the brass told him to submit his final script at a later date "They are said Douglas turned down Francis Coppola for Now' and Cubby Broccoli for the James Bond movie about Richard St Johns who represents the Guinness Film Group of England backers of a number of independent films A strong charismatic figure was needed for the skipper of the Nimitz and Kirk Douglas was the obvious choice Also cast were Martin Sheen as a Pentagon observer James Farentino as a group comander Ron as executive officer Charles Duming and Katharine Ross as a 1940s senator and his assistant with all due respect to my father and the other actors this movie starts the USS said Peter Douglas United Artists was so convinced of the star qualities of the Nimitz that it made a distribution deal after seeing several minutes of early footage Peter is the third of four sons Michael 35 is the well known actor-producer Joel 32 is a production manager now turning to producing Both are sons from Kirk's first marriage full brother is Eric 22 an actor studying classic drama "I figured I had some good arguments on my side First of all the Navy was in trouble The biggest cuts in the defense budget had come out of the Navy One of the news magazines had done a cover story with the banner 'Sinking the most expensive item is the nuclear earner and the program is not being expanded I argued that we could show it off to best advantage I thought also that the movie might help in the problem of enlistment and re-enlist-ment The Navy has been unable to acquire and hold onto skilled personnel especially nucler experts who are being drained off into pnvate "The Final Countdown" underwent rewriting four writers are credited with the screenplay One of them David Ambrose contributed what Douglas considers two magic Pearl Harbor The producer tried to interest major studios in the project and was turned down everywhere Douglas found somewhat reluctant support from his father who funded development through his Bryna Productions Financing finally came from By Bob Thomas Assocfated Press HE USS NIM1TZ in a science-fiction movie? It has happened and the results can be seen on the nation's movie screens in Final (opening today at the Arden Madison and Forty Niner rated PG) Although the United Artists release is directed by Don Taylor with a sense of reality there can be no doubt that it is science fiction How else can you account for the largest nuclear-powered aircraft carrier being in a position to intercept the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor? Without giving away the intriguing plot it can be explained that some kind of mysterious time warp thrusts the carrier and its crew back 40 years to when Joe Louis fights and Jack Benny comedy come over the Tadio Such an outlandish premise is not uncommon in the movies But how did the US Navy become involved? "It took two years of developing the Dick Clark Has Many Pies For Sticking Of Fingers By Raymonde Griswold-Minois Special To The Bee Raymonde Griswold-Minois is a French citizen who received a degree in journalism at the Centre de Format des Journalistes in Paris She then worked in Normandy Paris Tunisia Algeria and Egypt Since last November she has been living in Sacramento with her American husband and their two sons Her comments on Sacramento life will appear periodically in Scene and there I think I am in New York with the crowds at the bus stops the pawn shops and the litter everywhere Evening is the time for walks in the parks I never saw a city more gifted with all kinds of trees Capitol Park is beautiful and well kept but there is also for example the small Mediterranean garden located at the corner of and 17th streets which adds a lively botanical lessen to its natural charms This garden has been planned for people who want to know how to create and maintain a landscape that conserves water and other resources A nearby store A Growing Concern at 1614 St gives away free a handsome illustrated map of the park Walking in Sacramento is far from being restricted to streets with nice Victorian houses or parks with luxuriant trees and flowers One day I drove in another world where blocks of houses were condemned or deserted Some buildings facing a park looked interesting return some day to this ghost city near McClatchy Park I am curious about it as well as about Alhambra or Stockton boulevards The same way long ago I preferred to explore some remote Parisian (districts) and to forget about the Champs Ely-sees I HAD TO LEARN HOW to walk in Sacramento in America There is no problem with cars in crossing the streets They are not like in France wild horses ready to jump on you I managed to discipline myself not to cross anywhere as I used to The problem is with the company I have been harassed or followed often enough In Cairo I could always walk home at midnight from my work on a newspaper without trouble and now here I am bothered at 4 pm in a big Californian city So I learned I noticed in America that people look at each other while walking I do the same passing as though between I walk fast with a determined look no alleys no short cuts through parking lots and preferably in the morning instead of afternoon very easy to understand why one is bothered So few people walk except in some concentrated areas I ask myself: where is everybody?" Working offices sure but I imagine also in cars shopping centers or in front of the TV In the evening very few families enjoy the parks although the weather is beautiful As I find Americans remarkably efficient I wonder if they go to the extreme and avoid walking just because too slow! perhaps why jogging is so popular Scene Editor 446-9591 Mike Dunne 446-9595 Lee Smith 446-9581 Bob Sylva 446-9592 Jean Towel! 446-9217 ALKING IS ALSO FUN much more than any TV show The street is a permanent stage where you are actor and audience a way to take time to look at a way to listen to a way to feel our surroundings My walks I think make me more involved in the city I am as interested in the arrival of the Indo Arch as in the redevelopment plans for downtown Sacramento My first steps here were rocky On the Mall it seemed like I was always bumping into bums and didn't know if I was more sorry for them or for me When we looked for a house everybody would warn us about living downtown not like in France you know In our house on Street a few weeks later I happened to read a newspaper story in which a man explained why he too had settled downtown In substance he said: real life for the children and the way I feel From the small market to the large factory from the dilapidated house to the Victorian mansion I find the widest variety is downtown The people and their activities are just as disparate And subsequently any walk has charm and interest The Palm Iron Works at 15th and streets intrigues me There in the middle of Sacramento you can see into the open sheds where men work with giant cranes and huge steel beams The railway tracks are nearby always playing with the straight design of the city I meet them everywhere When you are in a hot car not fun to wait for a long train to pass by When you walk you help but like it as much as the children waving energetically Life around my street is filled with activity smells and noises: numerous printing and repair workshops a wholesale flower store and a newspaper several glass factories and a radio studio just to name a few For some shopping I go to the Street Mall I walk along the magnificent Capitol Park glancing at the Senator Hotel and waiting for it to be reborn I stop at which as a foreigner I find to be the most exotic place a mixture of everything a kind of Ali cave with its unusual lunch counter in the middle of the store to me it seems like At another pause I look at bookstore or admire the brass and marble in the main hall of the post office Street is on my way Dr Seuss the wizard of children's books is now 78 but still puts in eight hours a day at his desk Page C3 Show Biz Person Takes Of What Is Happening By Mel Shields Special (o The Bee Reno Who better to comment on the current state of affairs in entertainment than a man who has his fingers into just about every area of it movies television pay television nightclubs records? Dick Clark turned 50 this year and 37 of those years found him interested in show business 33 of them found him actively engaged in it Clark was caught at Sahara Reno where he is currently running his Rock show through this weekend featuring Bo Diddley Freddy Cannon and the Coasters The nightclub business has been good to him: engagements across the country for this show more to come for a lounge revue producing called But hardly living in a time warp aware of the current economy and sees dismal times ahead for high-charging entertainment whole entertainment business might warns Clark a crying need for inexpensive forms of entertainment why pay television is doing so well Some guy says Til pay $20 a month and watch television at home have my wife cook dinner and entertain used to pay to see a multitude of movies a month some movies four or five times Now they see about one At $4 a shot they do what they used to the first time the new generation is going to know what the old folks are by Lynn Johnston A Bleak View To Entertainment talking about when they get on the hard times they grew up Clark sees some promising hap penings in current music that tie in with this need for cheaper entertainment one thing a mistake to believe that just because out that means death to dancing No such thing Dance is a cheap form of entertainment and should be popular You pay a small amount and meet people and spend several hours where you dance also ties in with the routine of a mating game Whether a guy wanting to meet a girl a girl wanting to meet a guy a guy wanting to meet a guy whatever you can meet that person on a dance floor "Dance actually has everything going for it If logic prevails one would think that form of entertainment can only be on the If dead what do people dance to or what will they? swing is definitely popular I know And new wave" What exactly is new wave? be perfectly honest I really know son of punk an amalgamation of late and early rock basically simple music Billy Joel has a good lync about it in All Rock and Roll To wave ties in with the back-to-simple-things movement a reaction to disco which was all automation Disco relinquished control to the producers See CLARK Page C6 And Inside Summer Suitables The French bikini is back but with some changes Page C2 A Diet Problem At Camp Can a hyperactive child be sent to camp? The Pharmacist answers Page C2 Kindergarten In China How it's done in the Republic Dick Clark I For Better or For Worse IF THERE UMTS BOMB DROPPED ON USDRDDy WOULD U)EGO TO HERVEN.