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-776 News Thursday March 29 1984' almost Illestulos SECTION SECTION D' 44'4 lifestulos i 11m LIFE MOVIE GUIDE MOVIE REVIEWS THEATER HIKING DINING OUT THE ARTS CONCERT REVIEWS HOT TIPS LIFE MOVIE GUIDE MOVIE REVIEWS THEATER HIKING DINING OUT THE ARTS CONCERT REVIEWS HOT TIPS I L-20 4: 7 DRO DRO VANDROSS VANDROSS VANDROSP' VANDROSS VANDROSSVAND VANDROSSVAND VANDROSS VAND VANDROSS VAND VANDROSS YAND VANDROSSNAND VANDROSSNAND VANDROSSNAND VANDROSS VAND VANDROSSNAND VANDROSS VAND VANDROSS VANDROS' VANnr- VANDROSt VANDRO VANDRO VAN VAN VANDRO VANDRO -VANDROS ANDROS VANDROU 'VANDRO VANDRO VANDRO VANDRO VANDRO VANDRO 'VANDROS VANDROS 'VANDROSS 1OS' )Sgg boss OSS ROSS ROSS DROSS DROSS NDROSS AN DROSS AN DROSS AN DROSS "DROSS -g ROSS OSS OSS OSS ROSS ROSS DROSS DROSS ANDROSS '11190SSg "DROSS VAN DROSS VAN DROSS VANDROSS VAN DROSS VANDROSS VAN DROSS VAN DROSS VAN DROSS VAN DROSS VAN DROSS VAN DROSS VAN DROSS VAN DROSS VAN DROSS VAN DROSS ''DROSS lOSS 1SS VANDROSS VANDROS VANDROSS VANDROSS VANDROSS VANDROSS VANDROSS VANDROSS VANDROSS VANDROSS VANDROSS VANDROSS VANDROSS VVAANDROSS ''DROSS NDROSS rIOSS VANDROSS Concert tour flow of creative juices keep Luther Vandross hopping 0114 111 i IV: 7-' N- 1 -s 11 4 i By KATHY HAIGHT POPULAR MUSIC WRITER a '1 '1'4' Jersey" Mr Vandross said last week his voice soft and easygoing at the other end of the phone "But we were nine miles out of Fayetteville" The singer made it home to his Manhattan condominium at 4 am Tuesday By noon he was in the recording studio doing the final mixing and overdubbing on a cut from Teddy Pendergrass's new album the Philadelphia singer's first studio LP since an auto accident in 1982 left him partially paralyzed After two days in the studio Mr Vandross was back on the road Friday he brings his resonant tenor voice and smooth emotion ally vulnerable style to the Charlotte Coliseum for an 8 pm performance with DeBarge and The Deele Both groups have songs bulleting up Billboard's soul sin-: gles chart behind Mr Vandross's No 22 medley of Leon Russell's' "Superstar" and Stevie Wonder's' "Until You Come Back To Me" "I'm ready to have some time off" the 32-year-old vocalist' songwriter and producer explained speaking from a tour stop in Merrillville Ind But with six weeks of touring left and his creative juices already bubbling with thoughts of a new LP the title of Mr Vandross's latest release seems a more apt de-Continued on Page 3D Col 1 0 had been a week of unex- pected starts and stops and little sleep for soul-pop singer Luther Vandross whose latest LP "Busy Body" sits just below Michael Jackson's No 1 "Thriller" on Billboard's soul albums chart After a recent Sunday night show at the Carolina Coliseum in Columbia Mr Vandross's tour bus broke down en route to New York causing a frustrating eight-hour delay at an all-night NC truck stop to tackle problems with the oil filter "We woke up and said 'Where are thinking we would be in Luther Vandross will be at the Charlotte Coliseum Friday DEBARGE DEBARGE DEBARGE DEBARGE DEBARGE DEBARGE DEBARGE DEBARGE DEBARGE DEBARGE DEBARGE DEBARGE DEBARGE DEBARGE DEBARGE DEBARGE DEBARGE DEBARGE DEBARGE DEBAR DEB DEB DEB) 7 DEE A0 DErriltr AR 4 Et Er'ffrY DEBARS DEBARGE DEBARGE DEBARGE DEBARGE DEBAR DEBAR DEBAR 1 DEBAR DEB DEB 7 BAti- (IT'4' DEBARGE DEBARGE DEBARGE DEBAF1GE DEBARGE DEBARGE PtEBARGE D0014 BARGE li 'E ItBARGE i Ot11' A BARGE 41-14E ARGE DE BARGE 4 gARP7 0 DEBARGE DEBARGE NBARGE 1BARGE 1111! 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DU 01)Fr7 1 DU 7ritt DU' As( 1 DU' i AiAN '''''71 A 1- 1 A --4 A 'reIN' i 4 T4'1 Itt -o Li1 it Ikr A 1 4 4 0 tsti i 1::1 lit 4: -it 0 I At 7 LI 1 11'101k rVOr '''ll'- -i 40 AN :4: 117flagfilogimftimmtik 4 1 V4tlet1- Duran Duran's Greensboro performance Friday is already sold out Mew 7 tf) He's slight has French accent but no ye accent but no yejt By LOU CEDRONE BALTIMORE SUN wild the next" He is 26 and has wanted to be an actor since he was 12 "I just love movies" he said "I love them because in two minutes you have reality It's a wonderful life If you take it with humor it's great" He realizes the film business is precarious When asked if be was afraid he might go the way of Sam Jones or Klinton Spilsbury Lone he said that could happen but he is going to keep his feet on the ground "It's a job like any other" he said He says he is not overly impressed with himself "I tell myself that you are not a film star just because you've done one movie Paul Newman is a star You are not a star until you have lasted 20 years" Oh yes the Tarzan yell This $27 million production is from Warner Bros so the MGM yell the one used by Johnny Weissmuller is not used in the film "There was never any question" Mr Lambert said "This is a different sound" He makes various jungle sounds at times during the film When be becomes enamored of Jane (Andie Mac Dowell) he growls "That's a leopard's growl" he said "That is not mine" Ate" 6::" ::0 4i AI: v47-- ler-' eNto i e': 401' 't ta s'd 4til 11 Ilk ii '7: :::4 'Iti i dilP i '4 tAi '1 11t :1:::::1 'ivkitl -4- ilii :::1: 1:4 Ili-411 44: 1r- t' 31t- 4j ') S1 4 4 0 8 I'f''' :1 '1C4A f'''''A'''''' 814' 8''''' itti4r''' Itilti fYT411418'' i'''' ''I'' 7: IN e4 i 11 4 4 pl iti :41 ri- 4 -A 0 iii2'' clt '0'14 'l I 4 0 41: lit -i11 -4t kt 4' 1 t7 4 itru? 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''v'1 '-'1 it '14 I 1" i 0 K' 71 v' 4 ittT ti'F rf 00 1t4 4 0 ii iff 4 i NI'k: 104J V4 VAt 0 i tv k' I Nk' 1: 111 4i 0 I 4 0- 1 4 104 4' i'4111: ttk Loo I A -'04: i i VN i 4 4'' 7' 4 41'''''- 't I 1' 1 4 1 i A 6 51-4' ik's' I i'N N4 ''''iiibiiShifi2i' li 1: Aitk43(41k a After he won the role Mr Lambert went into a period of intense training For six months he worked with live apes and men in ape suits He also learned to swing on ropes and do at least two lines of dialogue without accent When Tarzan returns to his ancestral estate in Scotland Mr Lambert as the ape man is required to mimic several guests at a dinner his grandfather has arranged Elsewhere Mr Lambert speaks with some accent but that is what Mr Hudson wanted "It was important to Hudson that I have a French accent" he said "In the book Tarzan learns English from a Frenchman In the movie he is a Belgian but he is a French-speaking Belgian" Mr Lambert had not read any of the Tarzan books before he did the film and he had seen only one "Tarzan" movie He forgets which one it was "I did not even read the comic strip" he said He isn't afraid he will be typed by the film "It takes place both in the jungle and in Scotland so if I am going to be typed it can be either as an ape man or a gentleman" he said He was very careful when he trained with the real apes "I wasn't afraid but you must show them respect" he said "You must also be very careful with them They are playful at times destructive at others They have the intelligence of a 2-year-old child They may be tranquil one moment then te smokes He asked if he could then lit one He was born in the United States of French parents (his father was with the United Nations) but was educated in Geneva and speaks with a French accent He is of average height and is almost slight He is Christopher Lambert Tarzan in "Greystoke" (opening Friday at Capri and SduthPark) and he seems a most unlikely choice for the role Off camera that is On camera it is a different story Mr Lambert won the role after he tested in Paris where director Hugh Hudson of was interviewing actors for his film one that goes back to the first "Tarzan" book by Edgar Rice Burroughs Mr Lambert had done two French films but both Were minor "I was a gangster in them" he said "In France you either play a gangster or a cop" He thinks he won the role in "Greystoke" because Mr Hudson wanted "somebody who was 'Tarzan1 in definition and not in muscle tone He had to be quick He had to be somebody who was physically strong with long muscles 'Tarzan' grew up with apes and his muscles should be similar to those of apes Apes are incredibly strong but their muscles are long" Christopher Lambert stars as Tarzan in "Greystoke".