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leisure McALLENNTEXAS Sunday November 20 1983 1C I is must viewing By SCOTT LIND The ABC movie The Day After showing Sunday evening has already aroused contro versy in advance of its show ing Some of the complaints that the movie is one sided that it ovefjdranatizes what would happmtin a nuclear war lack real substance As for some concern over whether young children should see the movie that is a ques tion left up to discre tion ilm review Anyone concerned about the possibility of nuclear war should see this movie which is offered as a hope that the nations and peoples of the world work together to find ways to save humanity from self destruction While the after war scenes are horrific the showers of white radioac tive fallout falling endlessly like snow on the survivors the wounded walking dazed and hopeless in a nuclear waste land the creeping effects of radiation sickness the im ages in fact show a less catas trophic consequence than what would actually occur if the unimaginable did happen The Day After begins tonight at 7 pm lasting until 9:25 pm on Channel 5 Thereafter this controversial film will be discussed in its fairness and implications in Viewpoints which will last until 10:25 pm The Day After opens with a camera panning over gorgeous Kansas and Missouri country side leading eventually to Lawrence and then Kansas City At the same time a traditional melody plays com pounding our realization that this America in its finality the productive farms the still somewhat traditional lifestyles played there See TV ILM Page 8C 38 I I BErVMMBwraMSNMSMSnul nt vBp A aMS 4 1 MB kUti Ml Jhr Sni ah reg 'A'WLXfti jhg'SK'tffW 4 iWMy tf 1 1 BMfcMMWWL WR $js UCOiWniv J'Ap4 2 figr £shl ssr' 1 dMM wcftaS xr 'h IB A hi to WlSERl Bs Ail II HI I JL mu A minister consoles nuclear attack survivors in 'Day After' Jason Robards stars in 'The Day After' Actor paid his dues for role on 6The Day After9 By LUAINE LEE Knight Ridder Newspapers LOS ANGELES Actor Steve Guttenberg is new roy alty It been long since the 25 year old actor was star ring in such turkeys as To Race the Wind and Can 7 Stop the Music But that all changed with the low budget mirdcti? Diner In that little gem Guttenberg played Eddie the reluctant groom with a passion for foot ball He was so keen that' his wifedo be has to pass a football test before agree to marry her That really launched Gutten berg It helped him earn a part in controversial film about a nuclear explosion The Day After to be aired tonight such an awakening process People don't really want to think hbout it like a black sheep in the family or a skeleton in the closet We want to make believe not there But you know what? he says over a salad at Bar in Century City "It killed nie when I saw the picture I was Guttenberg plays a student who tries to hitchhike home Playing a role in this much heralded movie is a lucky break But it happen overnight chances 'of making it as an actor are so slim If you put a questionnaire out to a million people and said "Which job would you like: waitress doctor lawyer movie star rig driver carpen Everybody wants it But nobody really wants you to make it THEY want to make it "An acting teacher says it'd be great if you become But for the main part he's wishing HE got a the New York native says When he first came to Cali fornia he didn't land a part for five months He waited tables at arrell's Ice Cream parlor on Van Nuys Boulevard But his godfather' helped He does voice overs You know butter or Parkay' that kind of thing He makes a fortune at that And he knew a theatrical agent And he didn't sign me but he took me on Then there was Something for Joey and then Chicken Chronicles and then 1 went back to school in New Guttenberg says he didn like California "1 just got fed up I didn't like the people and 1 didn't like the business so I went back to school Before I knew it 1 gotta call from a casting director who wanted to put me in Boys from Brazil" So Guttenberg came back "I went and did a series called Billy for CBS It was about a Walter Mitty like kid who dreamed of being different things I did a coupla bad movies a coupla good mov He thinks for a moment over the thunderous din of the res taurant reality is it doesn't take much courage to go do Dallas as an actor If you're a creator different If an actor it take much brains or much courage to go do one of those shows You know what takes? It takes wanting to have a house and some nice clothes and some nice furniture and a decorator If what yod want out of a career then you' should go do Dallas and: Dynasty If you want some: courage and truth and to be adventuresome and try and make a contribution then go do something with Ex Taxi star back on stage Hirsch always speaks his mind See HIRSCH Page 3 Hundred East $64072396 in lease payments a filed peti Group seeking to buy KVEO the assets other than nor mal operating expense's were ordered frozen until the bankruptcy was settled A Dec 2 date has been scheduled on an application to sell the station's assets in Judge Bill Peden's United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas Recently the New York baseck eompany Hundred East Credit Corp filed a $6 million lawsuit in federal district court alleging that some station executives and stockholders defaulted on JUDD HIRSCH never given up my place here" says Hirsch a big bear of a fellow A scraggly beard not yet full grown droops from his chin and upper lip facial hair is pretty much a given for the Trigorm character jn The Sea Gull Last time Hirsch wore a beard it was for the part of the fast talking suitor Matt riedman in the Pulitzer Prize winning olly by Lanford Wilson That was also a Circle Rep play and Hirsch came close to win ning a Tony for his role in it (He lost out to John Rubinstein as the teacher of the deaf in Children of a Lesser God Hirsch is tall and zhis wide shoulders give him a rugged look' emphasized this cold morning by his brown tweed coat a carryall slung over one shoulder He wears sunglasses that are stained half way down so that he appears to be looking at the world through half shut eyes as sad as those of an abandoned beagle But Hirsch is not sad Not at all irst of all working which he likes with a need a taxi in the mornings be in the unch peop he he financial district where they re letting peo ple He smiles not really tated He did finally get a cab this morning it got him uptown on time residences in various parts of the country New York is what he calls home where he votes and has his license Hirsch resume is long and impressive On Broadway he was in Neil Barefoot in the Park and Chapter as well as olly or the he played in Hot 1 Baltimore originating the part of the night clerk and in Knock Knock and Prodigal He took an Oscar nomination for his role as the psychiatrist in the movie Ordinary People and appeared in Without a Trace and King of the Gypsies On TV there was naturally' Taxi which won him a couple ofgmmys for Best Actor in a comedy series as well as Delvecchio and various others Classical roles though are almost nota ble by their absence on the list There is no Shakespeare No Ibsen No No Shaw No costume or period pieces Hirsch always has been strictly a man for this century So what brought him to The Sea GulP love the he says simply I love the part Trigorin is a writer just like Chekhov and about as close to Chekhov as he could be a romantic and he was itchy itchy and discontented like most artists His people were the monied class They do anything anymore (at the time pf the play) except rest on their laurels They sit around the summer house and it's right at the begin ning of the Industrial Revolution Russian Revolution too In a lew years someorieTs' going to fly Up in the air In a machine And there will be cars Motor cars It was a time when science was poking its head up like a mushroom but science was some thing for others not them things they adored They loved things sturdy things made of metal or wood heavy stuff for example If you notice they keep talking about everything they had to them the past is terrific the future is horrific These people are going out of style out ofdate But this is a play about the human condition And these are very human people They seem to have everything but tap just below the skin of ariy character and you see someone who is 1 desperately unhappy or feels inadequate maybe seven years ago Lwanted to do this part I was even cast in it for a production at the Manhattan Theater Club Joe Chaikin was going to direct it and Leueen McGrath was to be the star I had By JERRY URBAN SAN BENITO A Mil waukee based group of investors entered into an amended purchase contract with KVEO TV a contract which is expected to solve many of the station's finan cial problems attorney representing KVEO TV Roy Dale said Guadalupe South Tekas Communications has amended a contract to pur chase the station from Tierra Del Sol Broadcasting lease agreements for the Corp whose station assets tower and equipment As of are currently up in a Sept 8 the station owed kAAb A Ur4r4 79Q GA in Udiusj upicy bun Guadaluoe has aereed to pay $1825 million to the tion says The 10 year lease corporation which is pri marily owned by local stock holders That money will be used to pay off some of the $2 to $3 million the attorney said Money is Owed to more than 180 creditors across the country However some of these debts are disputed by Tierra Del Sol The purchaser also will assume the debt of more than $600000 to a New York company which leased KVEO TV its transmitting tower near La eria and studio equipment Guadalupe is incorporated in Texas under the name of Guadalupe South Texas Communications but is owned by Santa Communications In April Guadalupe agreed to A1 iiAl U4 purenase ine svauvu uui mt deal stalled after allegations of' impropriety evolved Three of the Tierra Del Sol board members were ac cused of diverting station assets to a separate produc contracts which were accel erated in the lawsuit amounted Jo about $6 mil lion: Dale said that since Gua dalupe will assume the debts of Hundred East and take over the lease of its tower and equipment 4he Hundred East suit is effectively being dismissed Under the con tract agreement Guadalupe Twill assume the 10 year $6' million lease contracts with? Hundred East for the tower and equipment Guadalupe also seeks an option to buy the toyver and equipment Assuming of the lease con tracts coupled with the $1825 million basically ac counts for the reported $8 million purchase amount re ported by Valley media The attorney added that part bf the $1825 million would be used to pay the 'Bank of Southwest Browns ville who has a second lien on the station's building in Brownsville Earlier this tion company even though month the bank filed suit cigauiai xa ueieuuains naviug an interest in KVEO for weire ordered frozen untfi the defaulting on loans? By PATRICIA New York Daily News NEW YORK Judd Hirsch is as opinionated as a New York City cabdriver Appropriately spent the last five years as one of that fraternity in the TV series TaxiBroach a subject he has arw opinion just like a hackle broach a subject he has an opinion about it anyway Nq need to draw this man out: he's ready and willing to talk about everything Hirsch mind voicing his opinions in very public places He did so at the Emmy Awards ceremony wheri he picked up yet apoRier statue for his work on Taxi There was a peculiar irony about the situation which was not lost pn him In his acceptance speech Hirsch pojntedout plearly that the critically acclaimed Taxi was abandoned by one network and can celed by a second are people I wish tc thank at all he said sharply Hirsch is in town right now to plhy the role of the writer Trigorin in The Sea Gull which is being produced by the Circle Repertory Company Richard Thomas another refugee from TV The Waltons of course has the part of the sensitive young Konstantin whose actress mbther is in love With Trigorin) Circlip Rep has long been hangout in New York down on Sheridan Square been a member of the company since 1972 he used to be able to walk to work there and now that no longer being Alex in Taxi hes back living in his old apart ment working the Circle again Only this play be at Sheridan Square a hit show in that theater right now Sam ool for Love so the company had to find a new space The Sea Gull is being performed at the Ameri can Place Theater on 46th St And that means that Hirsch has to take a cab to work these days his first complaint Re throws out his arms palms up and points his face toward heaven find a cab he says echoing the rest of New York get out on the street and if going uptown going down town Or on radio call have to move farther downtown so that when I home again back in the eity where he grew up (the Bronx) and went to school (De Witt Clinton City College Te has a degree in physics of all things) Evert though he has 4' 7 W3.