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LOU GOSSETT: Oscar favorite?

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Gossett's film success by no means an accident

By 808 VVISEHART Newhouse News Service LOS ANGELES - The fact that he still does his own stunts says a lot about just how stubborn Lou Gossett can be. While filming the climatic karate fight scene in “An Officer and a Gentleman,” where Sgt. Emil Foley, the hammerhard drill instructor played by Gossett, kicked the selfishness out of trainee pilot Zack Mayo (Richard Gere), Gossett took a painful fall, severely injuring his coccyx, or tailbone. Gossett could barely walk, but stayed on to finish the scene. The film grossed more than sllO million and made the 45-year-old actor-a favorite in the race for the best-supporting-actor Oscar. A few months after the "Officer” mishap, Gossett and costar Peter Barton were badly

burned on the set of their TV series "The Powers of Matthew Star.” Gossett was tied to a chair as Barton pulled him backward through a field of magnesium flares when Barton slipped and fell. The 6-feet-4, 180-pound Gossett landed on both his costar and the flares. Fortunately, Gossett was able to roll away. Both actors acquired second and third degree burns. “I still do most of my own stunts,” said Gossett over lunch in the Paramount Studio commissary during a break in the “Star” shooting. “I’m just not iso gung ho about it anymore. I’ve discovered that caution ain’t cowardly.” Gossett has at last grasped the kind of success always predicted for him but that proved so elusive. He took the lightweight “Star" accepted

before “Officer” was released only for the exposure. He agreed that the movie represents some of his best work, citing his Emmy-winning Fiddler in “Roots" as his other favorite. “I had no idea it would go through the roof the way it did,” he said of "Officer.” “1 thought we had just a nice little movie.” At a time when he should be seizing the opportunities that pour his way thanks to “Officer,” Gossett finds himself stuck in a TV series about a pubescent prince from outer space that has been renewed at least until the end of the season Failure would have been more convenient. “I’m not upset at all,” he said. “If I had my druthers, I’d be doing theater and feature films. But the worst thing that can happen now is that I’ll get rich. That doesn't displease me.

“What I do from here is very important. I need to choose very carefully. But after so many years in the business, saying ‘no’ doesn't come easy. “I still,” he laughed, “kind of stutter when I say it. It’s just not natural.” Born in Brooklyn, the son of a porter and a maid, Gossett won high school letters in track, basketball and baseball. An interest in acting blossomed when he won out over hundreds of auditioners for a role in the 1953 Broadway production of “Take A Giant Step” while still a high school teen-ager. Gossett remains active in sports. His career took a step backward several years ago when he injured his Achilles’ tendon in a basketball game. He had just signed to play Gayle Sayers to James Caan’s Brian Piccolo in “Brian’s Song.” With

the injury, Gossett withdrew. Billy Dee Williams got the part and the movie made stars out of Williams and Caan. Gossett was considered a character actor until on impulse he shaved his head in 1972 for a role in the film “The River Niger.” “Suddenly,” he shrugged, “I was a leading man.” He still shaves his head daily. Gossett believes Hollywood’s limited use of blacks and other minorities doesn’t come from overt racism. Neither producers nor actors are used to thinking in terms of blacks in mainstream roles, he said. Gossett is his own best example of how to tackle the problem. His role in “Officer” was written for a white actor, as were his parts in ‘Star” and a previous series, “The Lazarus Syndrome.”

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“You see a good role,” he said, “then you ought to go for it no matter what color you are.” Despite being tied up in the series, Gossett is convinced he can stay active enough to make the next few years uniquely his own. He signed a three-picture deal with Paramount, and next in line is a sequel to “Officer” focusing on Sgt. Foley. Already in the can is “Jaws 3D,” which Gossett shot in Florida. “I’m the manager of Sea World out on the Florida coast,” he said. “We get the first great white shark in captivity. It’s just a baby and his 45-foot momma comes lookin’ for him.” As you might expect, there were lots of stunts for Gossett to do. “But this time,” he laughed, “I was careful. No way I’m gonna blow it now.”

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