Banner Graphic, Volume 13, Number 119, Greencastle, Putnam County, 26 January 1983 — Page 7

People in the news

'Frances' movie inaccurate: N urses

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) The film “Frances," about movie actress F'rances Farmer, inaccurately portrays conditions at Western State Hospital in the 19405, say three former nurses. But the nurses praised Jessica Lange's portrayal of Miss Farmer, saying she reminds them of the actress they treated nearly four decades ago. The three made their comments after seeing the film. Miss Farmer, a Seattle native who rose to movie fame in the 19305, was an inmate at Western State from 1944 until 1950. “I never saw people naked there," said Mary Burchett, who worked at Western State from 1939 through 1972. “There were people who would jerk their clothes off, but somebody would run to them and cover them up with a sheet.” “And I never saw a soldier there at any time,” said Ethel Sass, who worked at the hospital at the time. In the movie, soldiers are shown raping Miss Farmer at the hospital. Beverly Tibbetts, who was at the hospital from 1947 to 1982, said, “I never heard of anybody bringing in a truckload of soldiers until the book came out (a biography of Frances Farmer entitled ‘Shadowland’).” Mrs. Tibbetts said men and women were kept strictly segregated at the hospital. Ms. Burchett saicLMiss Lange “behaved on the ward in the movie just like Frances did in real life. When things didn’t suit Frances, she was uncooperative and demanding and did iust what she saw fit.” • NEW YORK (AP) The movie “E.T.," declared offlimits to youngsters in three Scandinavian countries, doesn't scare kids as much as it touches them, say U.S. child psychiatrists who liken it to "The Wizard of Oz." “There is something in the film that has captured an important part of a child’s concern," said Dr. Kenneth Robson, director of child psychiatry at the New England Medical Center Hospital in Boston. “The feeling of being understood by someone else in an alien world is common in childhood. It's sharing on the same level, between two people or creatures who are frequently misunderstood, which is the rule of childhood anyway.” The Swedish Board of Film Censorship last week banned children under 12 from “E.T.. The Extra-Terrestrial." saying the fantasy film portrayed adults as enemies of children. Finland has set the age limit at 8 and Norway at 12. In the United States, where "E.T.” surpassed "Star Wars” last weekend to become the biggest moneymaker in movie history, the film is rated "PG." which means all ages are allowed but parental guidance is suggested. “Children’s anxieties are more likely to be increased by horror films than one as gentle as this." said Dr. Edward Futterman, clinical professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at the Yale Child Study Clinic. “Some of the most frightening movies to kids are Pinocchio,’ ‘Snow White' and Bambi,”' said Dr. Elissa Benedek. an Ann Arbor. Mich., child psychiatrist. "You can't predict when a movie will tap into a particular concern of a child, especially very young children." • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Readers of the Music City News give the highest marks this year to the song called. “I'm Gonna Hire a Wino to Decorate Our Home.” The song, recorded by David Frizzell and written by Dewayne Blackwell, was voted the favorite country music song of the year by readers of the Nashville-based music publication.

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MR. BLACKWELL: The worst? LOS ANGELES (AP) Fashion arbiter Mr. Blackwell has designed three outfits for Houston Mayor Kathleen Whitmire, two weeks after she was named as one of Blackwell's Ten Worst Dressed Women. At the request of two Houston newspapers, the Chronicle and the Post, Mr. Blackwell designed the outfits to carry the 36-year-old Ms. Whitmire through a variety of occasions. “She's been dressing like she's a warden in a women’s prison, said Blackwell, who on Monday released the sketches for Ms Whitmire’s makeover • NEW YORK (AP) Abbie Hoffman, the former Yippie radical turned ecologist, and folk singer Pete Seeger are teaming up to help clean up New York state's rivers. They will work with the New York Public Interest Research Group to stage a benefit "River Rat Ball" on Jan 31 at Studio 54. "When you talk about water," Hoffman told a news conference Tuesday, "you are talking about life itself. So this is a dance of life!" The S2O-a-ticket benefit will bring together as sponsors Seeger s Hudson River Clearwater organization and Hoffman's Save the River organization from the Thousand Islands area in the St. Lawrence River Hoffman calls the River Rat Ball “a cultural event of great importance He said 75 celebrities, including former New York Jets quarterback Joe Namath and high wire walker Philippe* Petit, are expected to be among 1,500 in attendance. NEW YORK (AP) Former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski is drawing sellout crowds on the lecture circuit at Columbia University. The Carter administration official is attracting so many students to his course that the meeting place had to be changed to a larger room in the School of International Affairs. A class of 100 is considered large at the university, but 400 turned out Monday to hear Brzezinski lecture in his course, l nited States National Security Policies for the 1980 s. He told the students not to expect a “standard academic enterprise" because he does not intend to be objective. “What you'll be hearing is what I think and why I think so. I hat is the purpose of this course," said Brzezinski, leaning over a lectern. Brzezinski said he was surprised by the turnout. But. he added. "It's better than being ignored."

Box-office winners and losers

c. 1983 N.Y. Times News Service HOLLYWOOD The results for 1982 are now in: The year was a box-office bonanza for movie makers. More than $3.4 billion worth of tickets were sold across the country, a box-office record. Records have been set in recent years because of increases in ticket prices. But the 1982 mark was 16 percent higher than the record set in 1981, while inflation of ticket prices was only 6.5 percent. Much of the credit goes to Steven Spielberg's homeless extraterrestrial in “E.T.,” which was. of course, the biggest box-office success of the season. But what were the runners-up and the disappointments? “E.T.” brought Universal $l9O million in film rentals in the United States and Canada, three times as much money as the second-place movie, Sylvester Stallone's “Rocky III,” which earned $63.4 million in film rentals. “On Golden Pond,” with Henry Fonda. Katharine Hepburn and Jane Fonda, was in third place with $63 million. Film rentals are the monies returned to a film’s distributor. They amount to roughly half of the money a movie takes in at the box office. The theater owner keeps the other half. However, when a movie does extremely well during its early weeks a time when the studio gets a bigger

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share of each box-office dollar the distributor earns a larger percentage. Universal has kept 60 percent of the $319 million “E.T.” grossed in 1982. According to Variety’s yearly film rentals chart, the rest of 1982’s Top 10 are “Porky's” ($53.5 million); “An Officer and a Gentleman” ($52 million); “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas” (S4B million); “Star Trek II” (S4O million); “Poltergeist” ($36 million); “Annie” ($35 million), and “Chariots of Fire” ($27.6 million). Mostly because of “E.T.,” "On Golden Pond,” “Conan the Barbarian" and “Best Little Whorehouse,” Universal Pictures earned an astounding 30 percent of all film rentals paid to the movie studios. A.D. Murphy, a film-industry analyst and a professor at the University of Southern California, believes the 30 percent share has never been achieved before by any single distributor. And what of the box-office failures? Among the unexpected losers by usually successful film makers were Woody Allen's “A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy” ($4.5 million) and Neil Simon's “I Ought to Be in Pictures,” starring Walter Matthau, <54.2 million). Randal Kleiser. the director of "Grease" No. 6 on the all-time rentals list made "Summer Lovers,” which earned only $3

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million. Another loser was the Rev. Sun Mvung Moon’s S4O million "Inchon,” with Laurence Olivier as Gen. Douglas MacArthur, which earned only $l.B million. The list of box-office winners and losers contains a number of surprises, as usual. As Adolph Zukor, the founder of Paramount Pictures, once said: “If we knew in advance when we made any picture how it was going to be taken by the public, we'd have to hire a hall to hold the money.” Few people in Hollywood would have bet; more than a nickel on the commercial success of movies about an elderly couple preparing for death or the spiritual crises of two runners preparing for the 1924 Olympics. But, in addition to the quality of “On Golden Pond" and “Chariots of Fire" the two movies competed for the 1981 Academy Award as best picture with “Chariots of Fire" winning both were cleverly marketed. There are always exceptions. Orion's “Amityville II" earned a bare $6 million in silo rentals in 1982, only 17 percent of the $35 million that AlP’s "The Amityville Horror" earned in 1979. But “Rocky III" did virtually the impossible. It was considerably more successful than the original 1976 "Rocky,’' which earned nearly $56 million. Only the long-running James Bond series has achieved this.

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