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Ad EN Al Cos Angeles gimes Wednesday December 21 1983 Television Listings Part VI THAT 'DAY AFTER' DOESN'T DAWN IN WARSAW estimates ABC estimates that 100 million US viewers watched it Los Angeles-based Producers Sales Organization says rights to show the film overseas primarily in theaters have been sold in 35 nations including West Germany The controversy over deployment of US missiles has helped United States and the Soviet Union focusing on the destruction of Kansas City and the hellish aftermath experienced in the nearby college town of Lawrence Kan Praised by nuclear-freeze advo theaters by the end of this week he added Other countries that have bought "The Day After" for theatrical viewing according to PSO include most of those in Latin America In England the film was shown on commercial TV earlier this month and was seen by about 15 million viewers according to British newspaper estimates A call to the Polish Embassy in Washington DC shed no light on why the Alm wasn't shown if it ever will be shown and whether the Polish government does or doesn't feel it made an agreement to rent the film for broadcast "I have received no information on that so far" said a spokesman who said he was puzzled by the whole thing "I didn't know it was going to be broadcast until I read about it today in a newspaper" Sales Organization which handles the film's foreign sales David Ensor ABC News bureau chief in Warsaw was quoted earlier Tuesday by the Associated Press as saying there had been discussions with Polish authorities about the film but that no agreement had been made to air "The Day After" on the state-run Polish TV network Kalish disagreed "Obviously it was our understanding there was an agreement" told The Times in a phone interview "Nothing would be served for us to falsely announce there was an agreement if there hadn't been one" Dick Connolly an ABC spokesman in New York confirmed Kal ish's statement "It's our understanding that there was an agreement between PSO and Polish TV to air the program tonight (Tuesday)" Connolly said "We've been told that Polish authorities have now decided not to show it" Had Poland aired the 214-hour film it would have been the first Soviet-bloc country to do so The Soviet Union which initially showed no interest in the movie recently requested several cassette copies of it Kalish said The governments of Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia also have expressed interest in the film he added The movie which aired in this country Nov 20 depicts the outbreak of nuclear war between the 'There was no explanation whyjust simply that they wouldn't show it and that a decision on the film would be deferred until after the first of the year HOWARD ROSENBERG IRKS TO YOU AND YOU AND EVEN YOU JOHN McENROE Awards in which the columnist skewers the media sinners 0'1983 and proves that he can keep a steady objective eye and a cool head under pressure By JAY SHARBUTT Dimes Staff Writer 4 he Day After" ABC's controversial nuclear war movie almost made its debut behind the Iron Curtain Tuesday night according to the film's American distributor But the made-for-TV movie proved a no-show on Polish TV after the Polish government abruptly changed its mind the distributor said "There was no explanation why just simply that they wouldn't show it and that a decision on the film would be deferred until after the first of the year" said Eddie Kalish senior vice president at Producers It's that month again As 19134 approaches it's time to give credit for meritorious work in 1983 It's time for the annual Is Rosenberg Kidding? awards The IRICs Competition was fierce this year and lobbying more intense than ads in the trade papers calls from big stars and their agents promises of sexual favors expensive gifts sent to my home passes to Disneyland Though tempting they didn't deter me from maintaining the integrity of the IRICs See for yourselves The categories and winners are: Best Way to Start World War visit to the People's Republic of China by the cast and crew of "The Love Boat" The government initially locks the press out of Grenada and these people can drop in on the Red Chinese? Best Continuing Performance by a Lead Rev Jerry Falwell Commercial Featuring Someone Whose Face You'd Most Like to Michael Jackson liQr A ot: i te It 4110 lee Nciii" Michael Jackson Bjorn create a good box office in West Germany where "The Day After" opened on Dec 1 in 60 theaters To date it has grossed nearly $3 million Kalish said The film will be seen in a total of 180 West German MOVIE REVIEW 'CARMEN' IS THE LADY OF THE HOUR By SHEILA BENSON Times Film Critic Carmen is the lady of the hour it seems Now we have a flamenco "Carmen" choreographed by Antonio Gades in this film from Spain by Carlos Saura at the Royal) The simmering Laura del Sol is an up- to-the- minute seductress all right a young dancer picked by choreographerdancer Gades from among dozens of smoldering-eyed Danskinned students of classical Spanish dance their backs as regal as any Infanta's their castanets spitting like tiny machine guns If you can get past the audition scene "Carmen" may be just your movie All you need is absolutely nc sense of so much as a chemical trace You must take Gades as seriously as he (and Saura syndicated talk-show host Stanley Siegel now with KNBC in Los Angeles for badgering a teen-ager into admitting that she was not in school because it was summer and school wasn't in session All right Stan! Most Restraint by an Griffin for gritting his teeth and resisting his powerful instinct to hug the Reagans during his merciless grilling of the President and First Lady Yes He Was Great but Shouldn't He Move His Facial Muscles Just Mitchum as Pug Henry in "The Winds of War" Is 1-' lir7 tici 4 1 0 Joi -i 1 It: I 4 orara g'" c'4' 11! AtZ- ql (17 010411 lr Tiliarei4 I 1) 4:0 t1 "-) 1:: Borg Mery Griffin Robert Mitchum Larry Flynt John McEnroe Mery Griffin Robert Mitchum Larry Flynt John McEnroe STAGE REVIEW 'TARZANA TANZI' GOES 10 ROUNDS IN ROUSING STYLE cates and denounced by proponents of a strong US nuclear deterrent it proved the 12th highest-rated program ever shown on American TV seen in an estimated 385 million homes according to Nielsen ratings this what reviewers mean when they say "acting with Don't You Dare Typecast Me for his continued growth as an actor and refusal to be limited to strong-arm parts Here's one vote for as Paul Robeson Don't Let Your Guests Speak Because They May Have Something Intelligent to Say That Would Make You Appear as Dumb as You Patrick Buchanan the and Tom Braden the co-culprits of CNN's "Crossfire" interview show on which guests are asked questions then not nrowed to answer Buchanan is the sneering bully Braden the one who loses control of himself and blubbers Biggest saga of the so-called Vicki Morgan sex tapes Local and national media reported it in detail when attorney Robert Steinberg called a press conference and said he had the tapes then later said he didn't have the tapes then later said he had the tapes then Please see IRK Page 10 MARSHA TRARGER malist punk quartet to a celebrative biracial funk ensemble Visually they've applied their interests in modem danoe conceptual art and architectural design to produce an epic multimedia experience Each song offers a different visual tableau and a different character from method singer David Byrne "The movie will be a paraphrase of a fiction film" an ebullient Demme said after the performance "The show's got a narrative build It's got a thematic consistency And Please see FILM CLIPS Page 6 Smear With Peanut Calvin Klein jeans commercial showcasing the momentous Martha Yes He Can Play Tennis but Can He Sports for hiring Bjorn Borg as a tennis commentator Borg gave new meaning to quiet by showing that he could be drowned out by silence Yes He Can Play Tennis but Can He Change His Own razors for hiring John McE'nroe as its commercial spokesman assuming that consumers would believe that someone that infantile on the tennis court is old enough to shave Investigative Reporting and Brutal ration of Demme a former rock critic and the Talking Heads whose core members met as visual artists at the Rhode Island School of Design promised a special chemistrf The mixture fizzled opening night The six cameramen "fell all over each other" in Demme's words And their looming lenses unnerved the band By Thursday's show however the performers and cameramen had developed a unique choreography In the show's climax a cover version of Al Green's gospel-flavored "Take Me to the River" the two groups moved in a ballet-like flow that swelled with the song's joyous spirit Demme and Howard" the forthcoming "Swing Cronenweth Runner" "Altered and visual consultant Sandy McLeod supervised from a FILM CLIPS TALKING HEADS: DEMME'S VIEW OF THEIR WORLD take him as he prowls the Spanish dance studios in cashmere turtleneck and cheekbones sweeping aside beauty after beauty obsessively searching for his perfect Carmen She may just be Del Sol who has just slipped into class "Carmen!" the teacher scolds: "You're late again" Golly but life has a way of dogging art in this movie or more precisely dogging Gales Everyone tells him Del Sol is not a strong enough dancer but there is something about her The best dancer clearly is Christina floyos After all wasn't she good enough to dance his lead in "Blood Wedding" the earlier GadesSaura film?) Gades is even kind enough to tell her so before adding "I need someone different Younger" Well Gades is a trifle long in the tooth and ropy about the muscles to be carrying on as Don Jose but we don't notice anyone pointing that out to him (Actually Gades does have one tiny moment when he threatens that this season will be his last but Please see' CAR MEN Page 2 the Atlantic to become "Teaneck Tanzi" all Nederlander Theatre The glare of its offbeat limelight proved a bit much for so traditional an arena Broadway was lukewarm to the lady wrestler But undaunted "Tanzi" moved west again this time to the CASTSafe Harbor where it opened Friday uh- Tanzi Not only is the event unique in the annals of theater which proves once more that it is the most agile and unshackled of the performing arts) but this Equity Waiver staging also boasts a list of producers and associates longer than some major musicals Would you believe nine? Among them are James and Charlene the first time the name Nederlander has come to a theater of 99 seats or less Please see 'TARZANA: Page4 Dailey's leg while Tony Travis Tanzi" at CASTSale Harbor o'''' A i---o 1 )) CI 1 1 it 1 et ct lis' 1 dr 4 seIA $1 i ik ti' AA AA A A AA By MICHAEL LONDON When the Pantages Hollywood movie palace opened its doors in 1930 no one could have envisioned the kind of performances that would be drawing in customers 50 years later Consider the two acts that played the Pantages last On stage nine performers and 15 stagehands created the Talking Heads' hyperkinetic musical collage for sellout crowds of 2500 Tuesday through Friday Off and around the stage a 48- member movie crew performed its own act as director Jonathan Demme and cinematographer Jordan Cronenweth captured the experience for a concert film entitled "Electric Guitar" Most rock documentaries have been a hapless lot But the collabo Jordan Cronenweth left Jonathan Demme Sandy McLeod watch monitors at Pantages during filming of Talking Heads concert By SYLVIE DRAKE Times Staff Writer I we visualize life as an ongoing wrestling parents teachers friends lovers spouses and not translate that into literal dramatic terms? Theater by definition is metaphor It is also an active verb Slice through the imagery concretize metaphor into an active tense That is exactly what Claire Luck-man did with "Tanzi" a "wrestling musical in 10 rounds" that started as an unscripted piece five years ago in the pubs of Liverpool The idea worked so well that "Tanzi" known then as "Tuebrook Tanzi" prospered beyond all expectation It developed a script It moved to London becoming "Trafford Tanzi" in deference to its new surroundings Soon after it crossed Connie Danese twists Elizabeth referees the match in "Tarzana 7 1010 7 I --ar- 1 "A -0-- 1 i 404x 40f 5: 1 7 '''11bb 1 A 1:" 1 10 0 11141411000ZM 404t console on the theater floor Six video screens each displaying the view from a different camera allowed Demme to place himself "inside the cameraman's head" His eyes glued to the monitors Demme stabbed his finger in delight when a striking image was caught on film whispering through his headset to the named Edward Dog Alpha Beta Fox and he wanted something different The Talking Heads' current tour is no typical rock show Musically the band has grown from a mini Ct un Tro1! I 5 11- CI: 4 -z Or Al lit it" :1 1 I ttize 1- '1 i 1 Vt' 4 1401 cC CZ 173 0i'' i En cc II 1'll or cr-- s4 Al -7 it 02e'er mei 1 0 vt 4 I je A I A et-mg Awe iRstaBirmoe-1411 INSIDE CALENDAR FILM: "Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?" reviewed by Kevin Thomas Page 7 Rock Hudson has emerged from exile to make another movie Page 3 MUSIC: The American Youth Symphony at Wadsworth Theater and the William Hall Chorale at Pasadena Civic Auditorium Reviews Page 5 TV: Primetime chart Page 9 Prime-time cable chart Page 11 Cameraman in foreground films Talking Heads Pantages concert led by lead singer David Byrne (in cap) for theatrical film.