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Whitby Free Press, 8 Jun 1972, p. 3

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WHITBY FREE PRESS, Thursday, June 8, 1972, page 3 enteftaiq1meit guide - At Whitby's Brock Theatre 'Hot Rock' Glitters With Stars, Comedy, Thrills Take two of today's most in-demand y o u n g a c t ors- Robert Redford and George Segal. Add a script by Acad- emy Award-winner William Goldmna ("Butch C a s s id y a n d the Sundance Kid"). Season wi th the extraordinary talents of Zero Mostel. Leaven with a duo of the Broadway stage's brightest comedi c newcomer s - Ron Leibman and P aul San d. Spice up with feminine flavouring i n the person of the lovely young actress with the unconventional name - Topo Swope (daughter of Dor- othy McGuire). Mix and stir under the The World expert directorial hand of Peter Yates, whose " Bullitt " stands as the defin- Itive " chase " thriller of t h e 1960s. A r i o tous - misadventure about a quartet o f jewel thieves i n search of an e lusive diamond, "The Hot Rock" t u r ns the tables on one of filmdom's most popular genres. For example, instead fo having its h a r ried protagoni sts master-minding a jail-break out, the uhereosil of The Hot Rock break into prison. "The Hot Rock" blasts off with the big heist and then r a ces on to three m o r e , each one more ingenious than the preceeding. "The Hot Rock " germinated w h e n p r o d u c e r s Hal Landers and Bobby Roberts came across Donald E. Wesz- lake's novel and decided to turn it into the caper movie to end ail caper mov- i es. Redford readily accepted the role of John Archi bal d Dortmunder, the meticulous ex-con conniver, because "I always wanted to do a caper movi e. " And Segal, after completing his dra- matically exhausting role in Ivan Pas- se r s first American Film " Born to Win ", was look ing for something, "I i g h t and funny and enjoyableI" and eagerly signed on for the part of An- d r e w K el1 p - Redford's lockpicking expert of a brother-in-law. Under The Presto! You've got "The Hot Rock" the comedy-thr ill caper showing Thurs-- day, Friday and Saturday at the Brock Theatre, downtown Whitby. PULLOUT SECTIO entertainment sports Y Sea Whi le space-shots garner the head- I ines as man reaches further and further beyond th i s planet, equally important and exciting exploration is being car- r i e d o u t in less spectacular fashion beneath the oceans. Two-thirds of our planet consists of water and much of it is still a mystery to us. One of the few ships specially des- igned to carry out explorations of the deep is the Canadian oceanographic ves- sie C. S. S. Hudson, and the scientists who sail with her are gradually. uncov- ering more and more of the fascinating w o rd beneath the waves. On Wednes- day, Junel14 at 8:00 p. m. CBC-TV pre- sents The Sea, a National Film Board documentary made on one of the C. S. S. Hudson's recent voyages. Viewers will see the fish-rich pas- tures of the continental shelf, soaring underseamountains, and the regions of perpetual night i n the great deeps that hither to w e r e s h r o uded in mys tery. Microphotography i s employed to show the variety and beauty of plankton, the living 'jewels' on which sea life dep- ends. R e s e a r c hed and directed by Bane J o v a n ov i c, The Sea is narrated by Stanley Jackson and Joseph Mac Innis. RichardCastellanoplays Joe, the sup- e r i n t endent of a big ci ty brownstone, who settles tennant arguments and fixes b r o k e n windows wi th equal aplomb in The Super on CBC Television starting Sunday, June 18 at 7:30 p. m. Sales 72 CAMPER ON DISPLAY Service OWAS CO VOLKSWAGEN LTD. 4 WHITBY - OSHAWA Body Shop 1425 Q.UNDAS STREET EASTWHITBY ONTARIO TEL. 668-9383 - 4 People Need Trees. . . Our Trees Need People

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