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Page THE HERALD Wednesday March 1990 BEST AVAILABLE COPY What makes Sammy run author Budd Schulberg does Try Breaking In STAR SPEAK Some fictional characters have be come such an indelible part of Ameri can culture they almost seem real Jay Gatsby Scarlett OHara George Babbitt Add to that list Sammy dick the antihero of What Makes Sammy Run the classic novel about a Hol lywood heel who makes it to the top of the movie business Written by Schulberg What Makes Sammy Run Is being after It first became a huge best mMR ScbulbesfffiM the son of former Paramount chief berg and child of Hollywood knew firsthand the kind of amoral studio executive he described memorably In his novel What Makes Sammy Run so en raged the powerful studio executives of the time that Schulberg was effec tively blacklisted from working as a screenwriter for years During that time he continued his career as a One of his books was turned into the classic Marlon Brando film On the Waterfront and the screenplay earned Schulberg an Academy Award Schulberg makes bis home on Long Island Y with his wife of years Betsy and their two chil dren He had previously been married to the late actress Geraldine Brooks Warner Bros plans to begin pro duction on a film of What Makes Sammy Run this spring with Sid ney directing THE WORLD ALMANAC DATE BOOK March 7 1990 Swfuksrk MARE ANY OCCASION SPECIAL Reserve new for Guelph St When What Makes Sammy Run was published yon became Public Enemy No 1 in Hollywood Why did it cause so much anger in the executive suites of the movie Industry A Louis Mayers generation was furious They were the dinosaurs in town They felt the book was an act of betrayal But what really infuriated them was that such a book was writ ten by the son of a studio head Q Since It is the quintessential Hol lywood novel why has it taken so long for What Makes Sammy Run to be made into a film A There was a TV movie made of the book in the early 1960s and a is the day of 1990 and the 77th day of winter TODAYS HISTORY On this day in Alexander Graham Bell was awarded the patent lor the TODAYS BIRTHDAYS Luther Bur bank botanist Maurice Ravel French composer Anna 1908 1973 Italian ac tress Janet Guthrie auto racer Daniel J Travanti1940 I Fran co Harris 1950 football player Ivan Lendl1960 player TODAYS QUOTE You drive the car you dont carry it Janet Guthrie on the importance of strength in auto TODAYS MOON Between first quarter March 4 and full moon March ON AN AVERAGE DAY American men receive nose jobs Sourc On An Average Day by Tom Columbine TODAYS BARBS BY PHIL PASTOfiET Some are superb at executing the art ol politics Others unfortunately distinguish themselves by doing nothing but graffiti Almost always the worst thing you can take for a cold is someone elses Budd Schulberg sical based on it ran for two years on Broadway I think the be felt the subject bad been covered But since the early 1970s Ive been get ting feelers about making it into a feature film Now I think Hollywood is eager to do it because the greed and power grabs of the 1980s are finally being discredited Look at the fall of Wall Street Who would you like to play Sam There were reallife Sammy Clicks when I wrote the book but they didnt like to be called that Now they consider it a badge of honor Budd Schulberg my in the forthcoming film version of your novel A Were quite fortunate we have a group of really talented young actors Four or five of them could play Sam my Tom Cruise Matthew Robert Downey Sean Penn maybe Were you shocked when a college student came up to you after a lecture and said Sammy Click was a role model for him A The first time it happened But he was just the first one That was in or 81 There s been a sea change in our social values Sammy is more accepted now There were reallife Sammy Gllcks when I wrote the book but they didn like to be SAME DAY TAX RETURNS 101 Guelph St Georgetown 8772217 called Now they consider It a badge of honor a sign of success Name a Sammy Click in pub lic life today A When Donald Trump was called an extreme egotist he said take that as a compliment because you cant succeed without an ego in Sammy would have said something like that This is a delicate question In 1951 identified fellow commu nists when called to testify before the House UnAmerican Activities Com mittee Other people went to jail rath er than name names Did you name names to avoid blacklisting in Hollywood A By that time I was a successful novelist and working in Holly wood It was not a happy thing but I see how I could refuse to an swer on the grounds of incriminating myself If the Ku Klan had been Investigated the communists would have been all for it I was only a mem ber of the party for a short time Your onetime writing partner F Scott Fitzgerald wrote about the antiSemitism be witnessed while studying at Princeton When you were at Dartmouth did you feel any Semltism directed at A It was very polite Semi tism My freshman year I roomed with a Jack Patrick During rush they come into our room to recruit him and not me Jack said he was embarrassed because he knew they didnt want me because I was Jewish But there was a Jewish On the other hand I did be come editor of the Daily Dartmouth and I was inducted into a secret cam pus society The Sphinx As someone who worked in toe film industry on and off for more than half a century what do you think of the current state of filmmaking A The average film today is not as well written or structured as in the past But there are some outstanding films today like Field of Dreams Driving Miss Daisy Born on the Fourth of July Oliver Stone s work in particular shows that it possible to make a personal statement in films today The fact that personal film as Driving Miss was No at the box office is also a hopeful sign By NADEAU Herald Special Breaking In This is the latest work from Scottish director Bill Forsyth As with Housekeeping Forsyth has set the story in America unfortunately the soil is not quite as fertile as Scotland for Forsyths quirky charms and ec centric characters Breaking In stars a grey haired Burt Reynolds as Ernie Mullins a 61yearold thief a safe specialist who encounters young Mike LeFevre Casey Slemaszko while robbing a house Ernie is opening the safe Mike has broken in to eat short sheet the beds and read the mail Emie decides to take him on as a partner better a partner than a witness All proceeds well until Mike disregards Ernies advice and starts spending money wildly doing jobs on his own hanging around with the wrong woman The police close on him and his brief career is put on hold Ernie walks off to start a new life but theres money waiting m the bank There is a lot of charm quiet humor and steady pleasure to be found in Breaking In Reynolds is wonderful as Ernie although he just doesnt look revealing a capacity for understated acting not apparent in the string of macho drivel he s starred in for the past 20 years Casey is charm ingly flaky as Mike The Firestone Kid and Canadian Maury Chaykin does a good turn as his lawyer The script was written by John Sayles The Brother from Another Planet This is a good film but it just isnt as delightful as Gregorys Girl or Local Hero Forsyth has to watch that his laid back whimsy doesnt lay down so low you lose interest Twister Look out Cleveland storm is coming through The song is about the town this movie is about the family the moneyed Clevelands of Kansas where a twister is coming They have a mansion they have a livein maid they have millions theyre also completely batty Dad is Harry Dean Stanton a single father who has made his money in soda pop and mmigolf his loopy family consists of Howdy Crispin a given to feminine hairstyles satin outfits and whips Daughter Maureen Amis is a tired 24yearold given to drink and asking her eight yearold to fetch it Violet Lindsay Christman is the precocious child resigned to the ways of her bizarre household The only sane voice belongs to the housekeeper Woodard a student with a wry but loving relationship to the family Two outsiders intrude on the blitzed out Clevelands Violets father Chris Dylan McDermott returned from Canada and deter mined to rescue Maureen and Violet from the debilitating inanity of the household and Miss Virginia Lois Chiles a religious kiddies show host engaged to Dad The twister leaves the house intact but the family has disintegrated by the end Dad gives up and runs off in the hope of restoring some bit of sanity Twister is an odd film featuring an excellent cast but it is not for everyone A little slow and very strange Twister will interest Harry Dean Stanton fans especial ly he is wonderfully tired and resigned here All videos were supplied through the courtesy of Country Video March is Red Cross Month A Uni ted Way Agency R OVER 30000 BOOKS IN STOCK ALL COMPUTER CATALOGUED St Rear Entrance Georgetown Saturday Special TRANSMISSION TUNEUP Service Includes trans filter sump and pan New trans fluid New pan 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