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FILM NOTES i I 1 Actors Signed Prod uctions distribution out side of Italy tt was an noonced in London fay Join Van Eyssea director of United Klngdom ind Euro vw Thursday April 9 197IT Citiiei News starring Jason Roberts and Katharine Ross Pat Rooney to executive producer tor the FILMING OF fim which i currently the Warner Bros in San Frandsco motion picture drama star- pean production" i RALPH DINO and John Seinbdlo have been signed fay executive producers Ronan and Lynn Raynor to compoae and the theme music tor Commonwealth which stars Ian McShane and Gayle DIRECTOR TERRY -Becker's TeBec Productions has purchased Impatient Years an original motion picture property by Giao' Scotti COLUMBIA PICTURES'' has acquired the Italian crime thriller "Investigation of a Private for 1 cna iMcnRUATlON lde 'I ring Marcello Mastrotanni Virna Lisi and Ttmothy Dalton has ben completed on location in London (The film teito -the story of a tortured husband Ms bored young wife end her teen-age STUART ROSENBERG Productions has begun final preparations tor filming of Dbuy of a for Warner Bros Robert Scblitt to writing the screenplay of the EvanSConnell Jr-novel which is set is San Francisco Production to scheduled tobegin SCOTT HIGHLANDS has been signed by producers Bob Yamin and Henri Bot- Hnger'for a featured role in a Cinerama release i XL HAL WALLIS wiH produce J'Red Sky At best-selling novel by Richard Bradford tor IMvenaL PanT Nathan wiil be associate producer and Marguerite Robert will write the script Production wffl start next' July hi New MexNco DIANA DORS has been signed to play in the Peter Seltae-GoUto' Hawn film a Girl in My the Frankovich pro- duction tor Columbia Pio hues release now filming at Shepperton Studios London JEFF SIGGENS has been signed tor a featured role a Bryna Co production which is currently shooting on location in Pasadena with Anthony Newiey directing- Michael Douglas' Jack Warden Brenda Vaccaro and Bar- ban Bel Gieddek star in-the Hume adaput- OWOfTKHKT ibpokwhmto ncniKtffiXft onHEJSSSS JHEvTWOlMOVIES iTHATiSTARTEDITALL! Hunt for Encolpius (Martin Potior) left and Ascyltus (Hiram Keller) are two' dissolute youths in Rome searching for excitement and adventure throughout the city in scene from Film by Italian director Federico Fellini opens today at Music Hall theater Beverly Hills7 MOVIE REVIEW CKSV RidER fftERFONDA DENNIS HOPPER-JACK NtCHOLSON POST OSCARISMS The Backstage Scene was where the action was' Trouble was there were too many wives girl friends and hangers on with badges culled from somewhere who just got in the' way of the real working press In fact the radio room was impossible to work in there were about ten active radio reporters but 40 others in the room under? some guise or other They really should do something about this impossible situa-: tion so it wonl occur again Cary Grant arrived at The Music Center in his Rolls' Royce but through theunderground garage Very few people in the audience evenknew he was on' the premises' as he went straight from the garage to his dressing room1 and remained there until he was called on stage to accept his Oscar Cary has gained a little weight but it suits him WHEN GEORGE JESSEL came' upstairs to talk to the press following his Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award he was besieged by of all people autograph seekers among the non-workers milling about the press room I have known George for many years and I have never seen him so visibly affected as ire was in receiving this award This is somethin! well deserves and has earned during his long career We need more like tleorge Jesse! in our business HILTONISMS The party following in The Grand Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton was a happy affair though it was my impression everyone was very subdued Perhaps they realized that in awarding an rated picture the Oscar for Best Picture of the Year the Academy membership has of Very few prognosticators picked this one as a winner But does it now mean we will have a flood of rated pictures? It 'is a distinct possibility Butit was a happyparty and the center of attention were Duke Wayne and Gig Young too in the business who will probably never get another 'chance for an Oscar Both of them deserved it it it it LIZA MINELLI arrived on the arm of her father Vincente looking none the worse for wear from her motorcycle accident Friday night But I did hear a faint cry of as she stepped down into the lower level to find her table followed by an army of photographers Few of us realize that Liza had made her break with Peter Allan just beforeOscar time She hid it very well Perhaps the most beautiful woman in the room of course was Liz Taylor something about Liz that stands out and even if you are fac-irig the other way when she enters a you 1 i 'Satyr Confused Dull nDEMINO 8LOWEROFAUTUET MStaq caagtt on fitaP Vfsssst Cssky ILY Thus pH i YOUfW POPlE lv -sssuior SHR-laAmlR-IMMZn K-laSiiMi'l7IS77l CHM-hadm-nUUl CMM-COHM-332-20G3 STMTN SMa urn rr cneU-IMM Hh-HMOIB uFasdnattngthe CALL THEATRE OH SSMIOO pecce mudc film STUNNING!" CMh CksnpH LA Tlsm content is emotionF IHOOPOMM CONTINUOUS SHOWS NOW! nwwaw inwnm UlfllHIRE WILSMIUAT LACliNCGA SIVINtT Hint Naak IRI IRI MIDHICMT COWBOY IS IRI HWStvarty HM11A 4:45 SAM FSIHAHBO YAllSY LAREINA Nika CAROL A TU A AUCS (Rl IBM Vantura 7tM)11 atidOEB NSnUIHI-taH-33U2B KOKIM-taM-ttMra nUNKM-lMAwta-SJUai insnnHio-witte-721-tm NMM SET-Wrack Wi-Bl-IUl Cmri-VNlUIMi MHW-Smalkaki-OMIKI mm Muam-NMkn-fenx "LAST John Austin i in Ldve- 'OanwslikikiiKjamdkf'CQiklryloeafatJi-cwARSMiwti wbgShhjldiiiwiniMtwidtoimSBnBahiMfcaShidamwi kywnrikrfewtwand0q000ahwbuhlpwvh i Mm tvmicbael wadleigh pioduced bob maria a wadleiglH tecMooloibomvwrnerbtos ISHl WINNER OFHACADEMYAWARDS! BEST PICTURE! BESTNRECIION BEST oSwATION) iharirwi MiraMI EXCLUSIVE ENGAGEMENT iV Sundaythru Thursday 11-00 3-30 7:00 1040 PM FftASat lto304d7iNllti)0PM Automatically turn around because your sixth i- i I ri r- if -4 a ufc- fr rr 1 -'Hr I i- 4 1 i lESIMJIANT eautkOkn umtMm VST NOW I SEE THE ACADEMY AWARD WINNERS! at NOC THEATRES LISTED BEIOW it CHINESE Hoaro Sait Hctnra msdnisht I Acad IASY RIDn Uat lapNaar FAIRFAX fait Hctara Bsum Good Tithe wander through a myriad of -adventures including bizarre eating orgy a slave ship wedding the kidnapping of a hermaphroditic albino god a live burial and a restorathm-of-potency rite Never is there any cause or effect Never is there any reason for the homosexuals to he somewhere or leave somewhere Always ysu have the feeling that FeUlnl to trying to tell us sometidng Or is It a Mg put-ou and Just having fun with his radt eaee? -Yea caa read most anything yea want into the obsessions Maybe I thought FelHni to parading die fears of mankind in picture form But then what to hb arfnttan hr fear? It bat on the screes After a period of puzzle-ment you come to the con- elusion maybe this is a movie you- think about Maybe you should just feel But why two hours of expensive filmmaking by a master if that is all that is required? After all feat you are stopped More erudite friends of mine said there is no story no narrative' ft is a poem If you can appreciate poetry then you can appreciate what FelHni to trying do But how can you break 'the picture-goer of the habits of a lifetime? From early childhood he says to his mother tail me a And by God Mama better make some sense or be explaining to him all night I say 'Fellini can't get away with just a procession of homosexuals freaks of gies deformed Romans and Italian architecture and no story If Fellini to trying to create a new art form for motion pictures then Ihere -should be a new rating sys-- for art There There is a hopelessness -v aa impotence even a taste- lessness about that I Hke mi t45 TM MATMBS- MMBMISMMl unimm IJOlUtPJL ZJ aMm muiu ret Km answ KUH mkw HUFSSSU ISHUl MH177 CMS mm mug By LEO GUILD I ctmfess to commiting the inexcusable sin for a reviewer of leaving before it was finished I lasted tor one hour twenty-nine minutes and eleven seconds The picture ran for two hours Once out in tiie air again I breathed deeply and sighed with relief How good it was to he had! in America and out of ancient Rome Nat that Fellini's Rome startling and brilliant in spots ft is But his picture is like sitting in a house watcb-' ing an endless procession of stereoptican slides In my Journalistic duties I have been aaaodated with a publishing house that printed the paperback Therefore I had to read the bode several times I thought FelHni did a remarkable Job transferring the from paper te celluloid but wondered why after Us briMant personal stories af and be even tried ft I recommend the picture to anyone interested in the arts I warn everybody else to stay away They will not be amused or even titilated by the adventure of two homosexuals fighting over a third homosexual in their travels through (Segregation and the grotesque --v The book was once ribald reading But FelHni fails to -shock in his verskn and I have a feeling he meant to Then if he'doesnt shock what does he do? Wellhe puts a sexual nightmare on screen with no beginning no ending and no middle All to confiislooryou shake-your head like a puneb-dnmk fighter trying to wrestle with his pastidrerf macabre If you will trust arid you I attempt to give you a hairline of a plot4 Ypius (Martin patter --and Asccykus (Hiram er) share a- handsome young boy (Max Born) They "THERE IS NOTHING' jf mojsr werk by sns ef the fsw trjia masters sf the film term" Omylt I 1mm MNSU MM771 MM MOHS START AT ATWft mss NOW PLAYING I school lJ sense tells you a star has entered But those who expected Liz to wear that diamond ring disappointed However it cost the $2500' in insurance premiums just for the night and a Security Guard was always close by and standing outside dressing room at the Music Center -it FRED ASTAIRE UNFORTUNATELY should not have tried to dance bn the' show He is a little -bit beyond that and they should also eliminate the film clips of interviews with nominated producers and directors They were a drag bn an otherwise excellent show There is no necessity for these and hope that whoever produces the show next year will eliminate the-dips But those film segments of old Cary Grant movies was an excellent editing job The prat falls face slapping and water dousing were very funny and showed the versatility of this great star and how many GOOD CLEAN pictures Cary has starred in for over thirty years fir NOWTjHE" 42ndACADEMYAWARl)Slire LT You want lb graduate from FOX-ITrdge MinRatm LUtJSK hit Hctara MDNieHT COWBOY 1X1 Alkali (Rl Failbrook last Hctara MIDNICHT this COWBOY (XI I AUf-t (Rl history What they portend for the future is guess The biggest question mark of cmirse is why of the Thousand got lost in'the shuffle withtwo minor awards when received lOnominationsT raa HMSIm COWSOT un Alica'i I 40401 (U vpw SIyogue IHI WSHoll AN NHa-Uatti I ajn Daily Wfeal Da Yaa Say Ta A MahaS Laky 4f Hoilywoei MSlIWSMfc- I 4 Acad Nom IUA BOB CAROU TIB UN Hoi wood a ALKR (R) 4W41S4 12:11 IU pm BSVOIT HIUS WESTWOOB cuLvn cm NATIONAL Motrr ciowLirs SOYS IN THI SANS hlSIr4thS0 liltA ISiSB paL I Tons Undbl MW YILUGE Lilt Ntjht Inah Lattar (CPI MS 1 lllt pai 47ttsn BRUIN tCaaM-R SattiaHaad MASH IR 2 4-SS hit iaiKis M40 9 StMWItaMrp unto Mmm Lava-Mnic-raapla fill WOOMTOCK 4SI7M lipm Walt niaaV'i -SIA IS) FANTASIA lll 1pm rv-jj K54 Wlkhlrt I UDO Sait Acta r' 'Joha Way oSw I KS7W Pica umx ti nut MIT (SI StarNaCatfcao(SF) CULVER nwp HMlUfctf' -Sait Hctara MIDNISHT COWBOY (X) Muft- IRI WtSTCHtSTlS INSLSWOOD LOYOLA ISSaauMda Salt Sapp Actar xt Sapp Sly Tat IWv SkMt Hmh pan O-VIWylOPl TakattMMwwy aad Saa (OF) ACADEMY bit Actrari Mandi 7S1-51S1 L' SPOBIE 4 Awardi BUTCH CASSIDY FOX tlMHI 12:15 sSayF" ait Hctara MIUNWHT -COWSOY 1X1 AHca'i ni lt Sips Actrau CACTT CTUS IMI OddCaapla IMi AMandi 73M149 SANTA MONICA 0 VENICI Criterion kto 1HS Third St 12:15 Sait Hctara MIDNieHT -Us C0W10Y IX ASca'i IRI Therein lies the only mystpry of the Oscars of 1970 Women nnst: CiJW inMVMtpra Yfeay Hanaa Taka Maaay aad Ra (DPI StwBiCty Portal Sait Hctara-MIDNICHT tarn LankWiha WF404I COWBOY (XI Alkali (Rl bifActraii WSW41 IRODII -4 Aarardc SUTCH CASSIDY GUILD FOX laft Sa Ml Van Navi 7114401:0 howii lep Odd Caapta CAPRI lAcad Nam IASY RIDUIRI 1 LAST SUMMER HVanNwa 704154 PASADINA ftUNDAU MICHLANP PARK Acadnqf 1MECOC 73114:0 ait Hctara MIDNICHT 1 COWBOY 1X1 (Rl STATE Sait Actrau Mat8- 770 Cata 4 Award! SUTCH CASSISY RIALTO ONLY CAMS IN -TOWN I CPI (SI ISO Fair Oak 7tM347 4:0 ALEX 2M1I Brand S0-41H 4:0 Beat Tkay (CFI Taka tkaMaaay aad Raa (CFI tail Sapp Actar ClfTauaa Tkay I 6lwdale bit Hctara MIDNICHT COWSOY in R2L Brand HIGHLAND AN Saatt ISa SIN HIM- -MM Flpuaraa Ckaritaa Haitaa JupaulMa Yaaw (Cl FAIOS Yttbsi FININSUU Opens At Fine Arts -Atoq Bates Oliver Reed Glenda Jackson and Jennie Linden' Star in in opemng an exclusive engagement Friday April 17 at the Flrje Aits Theater in Beverly Hills The fihn version of controversial C- classic was directed by Ken tkmal relationships in was first published 50 years ago It" followed a four year delay created by censorship vice trials and law suits filed by female friends of the author who suspected he was writing about them The -stay deals witb-two AnAUEKIDGItlMMn "CALVIN LOCKHART tosUrring JANET MacLACHLAN JAMESAWATSONJr JEFF BRIDGES MiAic-DJVEGRUSIN Written byJOHNSHANER and ALRAMRUS ExecutNsPloducer WAITER MIRISCH Produced by HERBERT HIRSCHMAN Directed by PAUL BOGART COLOR by Delias SATYRICON' GCXORbyDduie MNASIQN Russell and written and pro-euced fay Larry Kramer It has been nominated tor ten jRsssrvsd Fisrfermoncts Guaranteed Soots sisters in a bleak mining town who seek fulfillment in British Acadreny kive'affairs witii two men including best pirture direc- whose own friendship adds tor actor actress and to the ambiguity of -the screenplay inter-relationship One o( the -Considered men is a visionary school of supeaiaotwhileth8 other Hr ttffl-revolutionary ideas is believed to be Lawrence's on human sexual and emo- self-pbrtrait UCUNM INSMCMWT eXClUSIVE ENGAGEMENT! starts TOMORROW! 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