Banner Graphic, Volume 12, Number 90, Greencastle, Putnam County, 22 December 1981 — Page 10

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The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, December 22,1981

People in the news 'Reds/ Lancaster

NEW YORK “Reds,” Warren Beatty’s epic portrait of the Americans John Reed and Louise Bryant and their role in the Russian Revolution, was voted the best film of 1981 Monday by the New York Film Critics Circle. The group chose Burt Lancaster as best actor for his portrayal of an aging numbers runner in “Atlantic City.” Glenda Jackson was named best actress for her performance as the poet Stevie Smith in “Stevie." Mona Washbourne, who played Miss Smith’s aunt in the same film, was voted best supporting actress, while John Gielgud was named top supporting actor for his portrayal of the fatherly, acid-tongued butler in “Arthur.” Sidney Lumet was named best director for "Prince of the City,” and the year’s screenwriting award went to John Guare for “Atlantic City.” "Chariots of Fire" was cited for best cinematography. The foreign-film award went to the Brazilian “Pixote.” A special resolution was passed, presenting an award “in recognition of the artistry and independent spirit of the Polish film makers Krzysztof Zanussi and Andrej Wajda, as demonstrated in Zanussi’s films ‘Contract’ and ‘Camouflage,’ and Wajda’s films ‘Man of Marble’ and ‘Man of Iron.’ ” Another special award was given to Abel Gance’s 1927 “Napoleon.” The group, meeting at the offices of the New York Newspaper Guild, arrived at each choice on the second ballot, though in past years it has usually required three, four or five ballots for agreement to be reached. In each category, each of the 27 critics who voted was allowed three points for a first choice, two for a second choice, and one for a third. “Reds” was named best film with 37 points, followed by “Prince of the City” with 25, “Atlantic City” with 24 and “Chariots of Fire” with 23. In the directing category, Lumet won with 33 points. He was followed by Louis Malle for “Atlantic City” (26 points), Hugh Hudson for “Chariots of Fire” (25), and Warren Beatty for "Reds” (20). Guare’s “Atlantic City” screenplay won with 48 points, followed by 25 for “Prince of the City,” written by Lumet and Jay Presson Allen. There were 10 points each for “Arthur,” written by Steve Gordon, and “Pennies From Heaven,” written by Dennis Potter. In the best-actor category, Lancaster won with 58 points, followed by Henry Fonda for “On Golden Pond” (27) and Robert Duvall for “True Confessions” (12). Miss Jackson, with 36 points in the best-actress category, was followed by Faye Dunaway with 34 points for “Mommie Dearest,” and Diane Keaton with 15 points for “Reds.” Gielgud won as supporting actor with 36 points, followed by Jack Nicholson in “Reds” (29), Jerry Orbach in “Prince of the City” (28) and Howard E. Rollins in “Ragtime” (21). Among the supporting actresses, there were 52 points for Miss Washbourne, followed by 19 each for Marilia Pera in “Pixote" and Maureen Stapleton in “Reds,” and 15 for Elizabeth McGovern in “Ragtime.” • BOSTON (AP) “Star Wars” composer John Williams, who succeeded Arthur Fiedler as conductor of the Boston Pops, says he has signed a new two-year contract with the orchestra. “My first two seasons with the Boston Pops have been periods of great musical satisfaction for me,” Williams, who took over after Fiedler’s death two years ago, said Monday. “With the full sense of the history of this unique institution, one works with the feeling that we are building toward a future which will be as bright as that glorious past has been.” He is the 19th conductor of the Boston Pops, which is part of the Boston Symphony Orhcestra. The Pops became world famous under the direction of Fiedler, who was conductor for 50 years.

Goodbye, No. 7

Breaking tip's not hard to do for Liz Taylor

NEW YORK (AP) “The sun came out and smiled on us,” Elizabeth Taylor said on the day of her marriage to Sen. John Warner on a hilltop at his Virginia farm five years ago. But the skies have darkened and what long had been rumored was made official Monday the oft-married movie queen and her Republican husband had agreed to a legal separation. “Each party accepts this change in their relationship with sadness, but with no bitterness between them,” Miss Taylor’s spokeswoman Chen Sam said. A divorce was not immediately being considered. Irene Ford, a spokeswoman for Warner in Washington, said the 54-year-old senator will “spend some time over the holidays with Mrs. Warner...lt’s not like they won’t see each other again.” Earlier this year the Warners sought retraction of a National Enquirer article that said their marriage was “crumbling.” The March 31 issue of the Enquirer said on its front page, “Liz Taylor, bored to death with her role as a senator’s wife, is flying back to the arms of her first love show business.” Miss Taylor, 49, had been married six times before marrying Warner, a youthful-looking Washingtonian who was divorced from Pittsburgh heiress Catherine Mellon in 1973. The film star’s marriages became an issue in Warner’s Senate campaign. “It’s nobody’s concern,” Miss Taylor said in an interview with The Associated Press at the time. “I think it’s fairly obvious why I was married. As strange as it may sound, I am a very moral woman. I was taught by my parents that if you fall in love, if you want to have a love affair, you get married. I guess I’m very oldfashioned.” At the age of 18, she married Conrad Nicholson (Nicky) Hilton, the 23-year-old heir to his father’s hotel fortune. Eight months later, Liz was in divorce court, tearfully complaining that Nicky was more interested in gambling than in her. She was 19 when she married 39-year-old Michael Wilding, the British actor. They had two sons, Michael Jr., and Christopher Edward. Miss Taylor was single again Vk years later. This time, she attracted the flamboyant film producer, Michael Todd also 20 years her senior. They had a daughter, Elizabeth

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SEATTLE (AP) Morris 11, the successor to that quintessentially finicky star of cat food commercials, boasts the same feisty personality and humble origins as his predecessor, his trainer says. Morris, who whirls through supermarket promotions and cocktail parties for cat food buyers on his business trips with trainer Bob Martwick, was in Seattle this week to promote a new line of cat food. The cat responded good-naturedly to pats from reporters and editors at a Seattle newspaper. But he drew the line at tricks. Placed at a video terminal keyboard, the big orange cat eyed a newspaper photographer balefully and refused to perform. “I do train animals but nobody trains a cat,” Martwick said. Morris has the run of the house at Martwick’s Chicago estate, eats once a day and sleeps “anywhere he wants.” The second Morris was discovered in a New England animal shelter two years after the original Morris died in July 1978 at the age of 17. Obituaries in newspapers across the country reported the passing of the aloof feline. • “There’s not a picture left, not a chair, a trophy, anything,” form* r Gov. Jimmie Davis of Louisiana said Monday from Baton Rouge as he described a fire that drove him and his wife, both in their 80s, from their home late Sunday. Neither was injured, but some of the items destroyed were priceless, Davis said. “I had some things you couldn’t replace,” he said. “Like trophies from the Country Music Hall of Fame. I had a rocking chair from President Kennedy. It had his name on it.” He said the fire also destroyed the original recordings of the songs that made him famous: “You Are My Sunshine,” “Nobody’s Darling” and “Someone to Care.” Davis, who has recorded 45 albums, was already a popular country singer when he was elected Governor in 1944. He was elected a second time in 1960. • LONDON (AP) West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt has made his debut as a recording artist. Schmidt recorded Mozart’s “Concerto For Two Pianos” with the London Philharmonic Orchestra for charity Monday and told a British Broadcasting Corp. interviewer that he found the experience “thrilling.” “But perhaps not too thrilling for the orchestra,” Schmidt added. The concerto, played by the Chancellor with German pianist Justin Frantz, was recorded by the BBC. Part of the performance and a brief interview with Schmidt was shown during BBC’s main evening newscast.

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Frances. Little more than a year after their marriage, Todd was killed in a plane crash. Six months after his death, Miss Taylor began seeing singer Eddie Fisher, who was best man at Todd’s wedding Miss Taylor, who had embraced Judaism, married Fisher a few hours after his divorce from actress Debbie Reynolds became final. The Fishers moved to London and Miss Taylor began work on “Cleopatra.” She fell in love with her leading man, British actor Richard Burton. He became her fifth husband in 1964. She was 32; he was 38. They divorced and then remarried each other. Miss Taylor met the multimillionare Warner a few months after a brief romance with Iran Ambassador Ardeshir Zahedi, according to a recent biography by Kitty Kelley.

Jane won't 'roll over'

c. 1981 N.Y. Times News Service NEW YORK da is the most popular, well-known actress in America. It may be she’s a symbol to millions of women and men for her personal and political forthrightness. It may even be that she’s one of the handful of major talents in American cinema. But she’s not a celebrity and she’s not a star, at least not in the Mick JaggerElizabeth Taylor sense of the word. No, not this thin, wan woman sitting across from me in a hotel banquet room, draining cups of coffee and talking virtually nonstop to the gathered reporters as if she actually enjoyed her mission. Instead, she seems as vulnerable yet oddly assured as her more fragile, complex characters: The call girl in “Klute,” the loyal but frightened co-conspirator in “Julia,” the estranged daughter of an irascible old poop of a father in the forthcoming "On Golden Pond.” This is despite the fact that the interview has turned into something of a lecture, an offense that is compounded by the previous night’s screening of “Rollover,” Fonda’s latest film, in which she once again does double duty as star and coproducer; The lecture topic is the same as the film’s message which is the same as Fonda’s latest cause which is the same as, well, you get the idea. The point, simplified to the extreme, is: “Americans have lost control of the American economy.” So what? “It is the issue of our times.” Umm. Here I had thought nuclear power was the issue of our times. “Ahh, but it is, you see,” she says, removing her gradiated, tortoise shell sunglasses for emphasis. “Because the issue of foreign domination of our monetary system affects the average person where? At the gas pump. And the pump is where our energy dependence is most evident. We wanted more of that in the movie, but it would have meant sacrificing the drama. You can only do so much in a movie.” This, too, is apparent in “Rollover,” which uses the fast and fluctuating world of banking as the setting for its apocalyptic, doomsday diatribe. The scenerio has Fonda as Lee Winters, a former movie star who finagles the chairmanship of a petrochemical empire when her industrialist hubby is murdered. She maneuvers her way into the power circle with some help from a maverick banker, quaintly named Hub Smith and played by Kris Kristofferson, who, in turn, turns her on to the spigot of Arab money. Unbeknownst to both of them, they are merely pawns in a plan by the Arabs to wreck the world economy. Why the Arabs want to wreck the world economy is unbeknownst to the moviegoer. For the movie’s part, the Arabs actually, they’re never identified as Arabs, “but if it walks like a duck...” are never pegged as the true villains. Fonda is as

Worry Clinic

By George W. Crane, Ph.D.,M.D

Andy is typical of the usual functional stutterer. Rely on the “Stutter Triangle” to break your slavery to the embarrassing 3-point original neurological habit. CASE A-708: Andy K., age 18, has a common teenage problem. “Dr. Crane,” his mother began, “Andy has always been rather quiet and especially shy around girls. “Apparently, he made a slip of the tongue in class one day when he was in the 7th grade. “The children all laughed so Andy blushed in confusion and humiliation. “Dr. Crane, from that day till now he has been a confirmed stutterer! “Several speech therapists have worked with him but he still tries to avoid people lest he still stutter. “So how do you recommend that such victims overcome their stuttering?” STUTTER TRIANGLE Most cases of stuttering are functional, like Andy’s, and not due to brain damage! Go to your public library and turn to P. 845 of my college textbook, “Psychology Applied”, for there you will find the “Stutter Triangle”. It charts exactly how functional stuttering begins and also how to stop it INSTANTLY. The 3 corners of that triangle show the 3 neurological links in the brain . pattern that was active at the time of the first stuttering, as: (1) Conversational voice: (2) Speaking to human beings;

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JANE FONDA Feisty, for sure

hesitant as her movie to finger the Saudis or any other outsiders as the fall guys. Instead, she blames our government. “Don’t get me wrong, this is not a Republican problem,” she says. “I’m no particular fan of the current administration, but the events that made a scenario like the one in ‘Rollover’ possible were in motion long before Reagan was president. And it’s now a generally acceptable notion, this overpayment, extortion actually, for foreign oil. What do we do about it? We try to make our money back by selling arms That’s what I mean about the problem beginning and ending at the gas pump. We will never be free of the problem until we are energy independent. We’re going to have to go cold turkey. And it’s going to be hard. Real hard. But to survive as a country, we’ll have to do it. “We (the United States) have the external trappings of power, of being the most powerful country on earth, but we’ve been reduced to a house of cards. We have no foundation. “You know what I’ve discovered through the years,” she asks rhetorically, not pausing for breath, “is that people in this country usually know what’s the right thing to do, but have a hard time uniting to do it. Look at the nuclear power plant issue. In many ways, we’re winning. New plants are not being licensed. New plans for plants are not being approved. So now comes the hard part. What do we do instead?” “Well, just look at the simple things, for a beginning. Weatherproofing 37,000 homes could save (environmental ravaging of) the entire south coast of Alaska. What movies do, hopefully, is get people to reexamine attitudes. So I want to make movies that move people to do that. Movies that entertain, but are about something. I don’t think that’s propaganda. If I wanted to make propaganda movies, I could and I would. I think that’s making good movies.” But if industry predictions hold true, “Rollover” will be, the first failure produced by IPC films, the company Fonda owns with her daughter's

(3) In English (or native tongue). Alter any one of those corners and the victim will NOT stutter! Demosthenes put pebbles in his mouth and thus didn’t stutter, for pebbles were not a part of his original conversational voice. Also, he altered No. 2, by talking to the ocean waves, thus breaking that 2nd link in the 3-link chain. Stutterers can talk to animals, for the original onset of their stuttering was not while talking to birds, beasts, flowers or to a ventriloquist’s dummy but to human beings! Let the stutterer bite down on the edge of his tongue and hold it imprisoned as he starts to speak and he will not stutter, for this alters No. 1, which was normal conversation. “Oh, but Dr. Crane’s method is too simplistic!” some speech teachers will exclaim. So what! It works INSTANTLY. And is FREE! Stutterers also need to regain social confidence, so if they join my “Compliment Club” and focus on their companions for merits on which to voice a bit of praise, that takes their attention off themselves and gives them more self assurance. Send for the “Compliment Club” booklet, enclosing a long stamped, return envelope, plus 25 1 , and thus become free from social fears. (Always write to Or Crane. Hopkins Bldg., Mellon, Indiana 47951, enclosing a long stamped, addressed envelope and 25 1 to cover typing and printing costs when you send for one ot his booklets )

former teacher, Bruce Gilbert. All of the company’s projects so far have been politically motivated. “Coming Home” was about the victims of Vietnam, both those who fought and those who stayed at home. It was a melodrama. “The China Syndrome” was about the dangers of nuclear power and the collusion between government and business. It was an adventure. “9 To 5” was about job discrimination. It was a screwball comedy. “Rollover” attempts to be a mystery-love story, with all the glamor trappings - glittering gowns, wellappointed townhouses and enough elegance for a Nancy Reagan tete a tete of a 1940 s Joan Crawford weeper. IPC’s next film, however, will undoubtedly return the company to the black side of the ledger. It’s called “On Golden Pond,” and though it too features Jane Fonda, the only politics on display are the family variety. The story’s as simple and direct as “Rollover’s” is complicated and obtuse. “On Golden Pond” has Jane Fonda playing the once resentful yet admiring daughter of a strong and aloof man who appears to be close to death. Two days before, her co-star in “On Golden Pond” her father, Henry Fonda has been returned to an intensive care hospital. He is better, she says, but old and weak. But she says working with him in “On Golden Pond” fulfilled a dream for her, somehow bringing them together as equals. “Don’t misunderstand, I’m not talking in terms of talent. My father has been so good in so many good films. I could count on one and half hands the films I’m in that I’m proud of, and I’ve been making movies for 25 years. ‘On Golden Pond’ meant something very special to both of us. My father is not a demonstrative man. He’s painfully shy. So is the character in this movie. And we were apart when I was a child, and I did have some resentment. Not from how he treated me, but from his absences. I think Peter was more affected by it than I, but I don’t deny being affected. “Now I can look at my father as a whole man. That’s what the film is about. Accepting weaknesses as well as appreciating strengths. My dad never looks at himself in the movies, but he watched this one before he went back in the hospital, and he was very moved when he saw it. It really meant a lot to him. How wonderful to know that your last film was your greatest! “Well,” she muses, “what does the public see in me? A feistiness, maybe? People like that, I think. I think women perhaps might see a woman who wants to be loved, be part of a family, but still expresses herself through her work. I hope they see somebody who loves her job I do love to act and wants to make the world a better place for her kids to live in. Young people do need role models, so people in the public eye should be aware of it. They don’t have to live by it, just be aware of it.”

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