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ATLANTA<br />
Jt's a little early for Oscar talk, but Atlantans,<br />
after seeing "Nashville."' arc talking<br />
about the performance of Lily Tomlin,<br />
making what must be considered her<br />
motion picture debut, and Barbara Harris,<br />
who has all manner of awards for her sitage<br />
work. She has not made too many movies,<br />
but was nominated for an Oscar as best<br />
supporting actress in "Harry Kellerman."<br />
Atlantans are very much interested in<br />
the<br />
casting for "Lombard and Gable." Latest<br />
signing involved Morgan Brittany, a model<br />
chosen to play Vivien Leigh in the picture.<br />
It is a cameo role and her big scene is one<br />
in which Clark Gable (James Brolin) escorts<br />
her to the Coconut Grove night club during<br />
the filming of "Gone With the Wind."<br />
"Franny and Zooey," a play scheduled ai<br />
the Trinity Presbyterian Church for July 24,<br />
was canceled when the representatives of<br />
J.D. Salinger, author of the story upon<br />
which the play was based, "closed the door"<br />
on the production, according to Jim Peck,<br />
the play's director. Salinger does not grant<br />
rights for adaiptations of his work. Peck and<br />
Kent Stephens, who wrote the script, had<br />
hoped the small, nonprofit production<br />
would not be noticed. Turns out they were<br />
wrong.<br />
Georgia's Board of Natural Resources has<br />
issued a list of some 35 (out of 85) stateowned<br />
parks and historic sites that are to be<br />
closed as the result of slumping state revenues.<br />
This was an economy move aimed at<br />
saving $454,000 and eliminating 28 jobs.<br />
The bulk of these to be closed are "substandard,<br />
marginal" parks and sites<br />
the state<br />
should give up in order to save money. It<br />
is hoped that these locally oriented areas<br />
will be picked up and operated by local<br />
governments.<br />
Shirley Jones was in Atlanta recently.<br />
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Starring in a revival of "On a Clear Day<br />
You Can See Forever," a tour which followed<br />
her dramatic tperformancc in the title<br />
role of "The Lives of Jennie Dolan." the<br />
vehicle which marks producer Ross Hunter's<br />
initial venture into TV. This two-hour special<br />
was so special that both Paramount and<br />
the National Broadcasting Co. network<br />
withheld it from the end of the season runof-the-mill<br />
fare and reruns in order to spotlight<br />
it as one of its prestige fall film offer-<br />
WXIA-TV, Combined Communications<br />
Corp.'s Atlanta ABC-TV outlet, staged its<br />
"Blast Off" fall presentation to 400 guests<br />
at the Royal Coach Motor Hotel im. the<br />
Castle Ballroom last month and put plenty<br />
of stress on the film fare they will offer<br />
during the season, along with other goodies<br />
they will schedule. Their Sunday Night<br />
Movie slot will include "The Sound of Music."<br />
"Cabaret," "The Last Detail." "Five<br />
Easy Pieces." "What's Up. Doc?" "You<br />
Only Live Twice" and others. The Friday 9<br />
O'clock Movie will offer "Down Hill Racer,"<br />
"Bullitt," "Bonnie and Clyde." "Cool<br />
Hand Luke." "Number One" and others.<br />
Showing on the Saturday 11:30 p.m. Late<br />
Movie will be "The Organization." "Welcome<br />
to Hard Times." "The Brotherhood."<br />
"Five Card Stud." "Villa Rides." "Will<br />
Penny" and others. The network's Prize<br />
Movie, with its weekly prize format, moves<br />
to the 10 a.m. slot Monday/Friday and<br />
brings a new package of films, such as<br />
Susan Hayward Week, Mystery-Sus(pen,se<br />
Week, Romance Week and Musical Comedy<br />
Week. And. last, hut not least, the Sunday<br />
Matinee offers exciting features such<br />
as "Those Daring Young Men in Their<br />
Jaunty Jalopies." "Call Me Bwana," "Love<br />
Is a Ball," "Can Can," and "Up the Down<br />
Staircase."<br />
This year 1975 marks the 20th anniversary<br />
of Kirk Douglas' film company, Bryna<br />
Productions, which he organized so he could<br />
keep more creative control over his films.<br />
(Bryna was named after his Russian mother.)<br />
Douglas claims he has always been interested<br />
in the creative side of filmmaking<br />
from inception to completion. It was not<br />
until he made "Scalawag" that he got around<br />
to directing, although he spent a lot of lime<br />
peering over directors' shoulders. In town<br />
to promote his latest film "Posse," in which<br />
he stars, directs and produces, he told how<br />
he long wanted to film a "different" version<br />
of a western. He found what he was after<br />
in "Posse," which had been languishing on<br />
the "abandoned" shelf at Paramount Pictures.<br />
He doesn't think "Pos.se" could have<br />
shal he plays. With more than 50 films to<br />
his credit, Douglas has run the acting gamut<br />
from hero to villain and just about every<br />
shade in between. What's he going to do<br />
after "Posse" is on the road? "I'm going to<br />
take about six months off and do absolutely<br />
nothing."<br />
'Godfather' Combo for TV<br />
Upsets Theatre Reviewer<br />
ATLANTA—Scott Cain, movie reviewer<br />
for the Atlanta Journal and writer for the<br />
Sunday Journal, is highly indignant over<br />
Francis Ford Coppola's plani to merge "The<br />
Godfather" and "The Godfather, Part 11"<br />
into a new film.<br />
Cain, writing in the Journal, said he has<br />
no quarrel, per se, with the project but he is<br />
infuriated over the fact that Coppola is<br />
doing it directly for TV.<br />
"This has to be one of the worst insults<br />
to moviegoers, who made the first 'Godfather'<br />
the biggest boxoffice movie of all<br />
time and put 'The Godfather, Part 11' among<br />
the highest in coinage . . . It's also turning<br />
the back on the movie industry, which rewarded<br />
both "Godfather' movies with Oscars<br />
as the best of their years, the first time<br />
Hollywood has bestowed its top prize on<br />
both an original film and a sequel," he<br />
said.<br />
" "The Godfather' was created as a motion<br />
picture work. If Coppola wants to continue<br />
tinkering with his already notable achievement,<br />
that's entirely his prerogative. CertaiiOily<br />
there's plenty of money to do anything<br />
his heart desires. Everybody connected<br />
with 'The Godfather' has made {Wts<br />
and pans," added Cain, "but if Coppola is<br />
bringing forth a substantially different film,<br />
the moviegoing public is owed a first look."<br />
This creation of a mammoth Corleone<br />
story, using footage not incorporated into<br />
is the originals, the fulfillment of a dream<br />
that Coppola has mentioned a number of<br />
times. Cain noted, but "unfortunately he is<br />
doing it directly for TV for one of those<br />
multi-million dollar deals . . . not even a<br />
test engagement in theatres. No prestigious<br />
show dates in key cities. Just sitraight to the<br />
lube, perhaps as early as next year."<br />
Apollo Theatre Raided<br />
SPRINCiDAl.H. ARK..—Two men were<br />
chargL-il late last month with exhibiting an<br />
cbscene film here at the ,\pollo Theatre,<br />
Authorities viewed the film and then raided<br />
the theatres, arresting owner J.T. Hitt. Bentcinville.<br />
and projectionist Boyd Strickland.<br />
Both were released on $2,500 bond after<br />
pleading innocent to the charges rvlated to<br />
the film "Touch Mo."<br />
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