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East and West to meet at Nile arts festival sions built around contrasting traditions of East and West ancient and modern classical and folk "Egypt of course is the legendary mother of our culture" he said explaining the choice of site after the press conference at Lotus Club 5 66th St Tbday in Egypt performance theater music and dance are not separated from life" In the villages his said those expressions celebrate the harvest marriage or just plain happiness "Also mine and mine Egypt is again occupying the position of the crossroads of said Side Sisk is now official president of the newly formed Nile Festival Foundation and director el the festw vaL A simultaneous' announcement el the festival was made in Cairo yesterday by Abdel Moneim El Sawi Egyptian minister of culture and information So for plans for the two-week festival an only two-thirds finalized but in addition to the groups already mentioned featured performers will be: The Manhattan Quartet The Orchestra of the Conservatoire of Cairo violinist Erick Friedman and a still-to-be-announced mayor European Ballet Company ii By Amei Wallach Newsday Cultural Affairs Specialist Water Music will be played on a barge that plies the Nile At Luxor Temple in the imperial capital of Egypt's ancient Pharoaha a bonfire will be lit and contemporary dancers will perform time-honored rianrwa before it Musicians like Jazz great Dizzy Gillespie and dancers like Twyla Tharp will Join with the Yale Repertory Theater the Young Vic Company of London and the National Theatre of Egypt to fill the temples and streets of Luxor with their own sights and sounds From Oct IS through Oct 28 the first annual Festival of The Nile will take place in Luxor Egypt it was announced yesterday The idea for the performing arts festival came from the Egyptian government and Michael Sisk an American theater di- recto and international arts festival coordinator For the past three years with the help of about $50000 in seed grants from the US Information Agency the Ford Foundation the government of Egypt and private funds Sisk has been developing the idea into in his words "a program that will provide a serious comparison of varying artistic expres Twyla Tharp and Dizzy Gillespie will perform along the Nile The lad from Goose Creek takes his chances MUiua rewrote the script to make Buses character a transplanted Oklahoman and he sent the actor to learn surfing from a master That was Gerry Lopez a half-Japanese half-Cuban Hawaiian who lives on a mountaintop in Maui the better to spy the rising surf on the island "Jan-Michael and I lived with him for three weeks" Busey recalled "We slept on the floor and Gerry got ua up at dawn just so we could see the sunrise Then we ground beans for coffee did pushups and other exercises then started looking for Buaey recalled his first day in the water "The waves were 8-feet high and you could hear the boards snap as they broke in the The lessons were fast and bruising but by shooting time Buaey looked and surfed like a veteran He even took part in the climactic sequence at Sunset Beach where the waves mounted to 25 "and it happened on a Next Buaey plans to star in a modern re-creation of a Harold Lloyd comedy Tm taking a he admitted "but I also took chances with and 25-foot waves I figure that the guy who takes the biggest chances gets the biggest By Bob Thomas The Associated Press Gary Bujwy is a rangy Goose Creek Texas lad whose hour in show business seems to have arrived He has the title role in Columbia Pictured "The Buddy Holly portraying the brief life and singing the influential music of the rock and roll pioneer The film opened last Friday and performance was widely praised And he also is co-starring with Jan-Michael Vincent and William Katt in Warner "Big John Milius's fond reminiscence of his surfing years which opens locally tomorrow When I first met Buaey he along on an interview with Kris Kristofferson and he seemed like one of the tribe of hangers-on around rock stars Wrong impression Busey played a role in "A Star Is and has toured as drummer with Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge but he is his own man He is also something of a dynamo He talks nonstop and he is full of wonder at the changes in his career in the past year "The Buddy Holly came easy to he said "I was bom in Goose Creek and grew up in Tulsa where they loved Holly's music His were the first records I bought as a kid along with Little Richard and Elvis Presley "One thing I insisted on in the picture was recording the songs live not doing them pre-recorded the way its dime in most movies I think it worked out fine "Then came and I waa turfing 25-foot waves faced thousands of people at rock concerts acted on the stage with luminaries I played football for eight yean in Oklahoma but I never faced anything like rpriaed that Busey was surprised that Milius chose him as Gary Busey as Buddy Holly NYU closing Town Hall tomorrow IS The acoustically-praised hall succumbed to competition from Lincoln Cento as well aa the dedining atmosphere of the Times Square area The university acquired Town Hall in 1958 aa a gift and since that time has accumulated a rising deficit in operating costs which thie year totalled more than $150000 Though moat of Town administrative staff has been let go a handful will remain through Aug 31 to clean up details A small work force will also remain permanently to maintain the building a university spokesmen saiiLDespite the dosing Lessor said yesterday that he was hopeftil that the hall would eventually become active again still discussing possibilities with various one of the trio of dean-cut surfers "I was playing a hippie in 'Straight and somehow ne saw through the fat and the long greasy The actor admitted "When I first tried on the wet suit I suit Town Hall will dose its doors tomorrow and its owner New York University will turn the building over to the Town Hall Foundation the fund-raising organisation for the landmark Manhattan concert hall In a joint announcment NYU president John Sawhill and New York University Club president Stanley Lesser said that the transfer will become effective Aug 31 The dub occupies space in the West 43rd Street building and baa a lease which extends for several more years In the state- xnent Sawhill said that the university "deeply regrets that it is unable to maintain this valu-r able cultural resource and sincerely hopes that the Town Hall Foundation and the NYU Club will be successful in their endeavors to find an organization to operate the concert facilities in Town looked like a potato in a That soon changed Milius sent Him to a physical enltoHst and within throe weeks Busey had dropped from 195 to 160 pounds his waistline shrinking from 37 to 31 inches Jan-Michael Vincent and William are Californians and longtime surfers Busey speaks in Oklahoma tones and was a stranger to the waves Lesser said In i to a question ho 1 response said that there is absolutely no ehanea that the auditorium would be destroyed or converted for some other use Bill Kaufman 3 ft IJI 91 I 9 A 4.