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Show 12 A By HAROLD HEFFERNAN (NANA) Movie research is constantly digging up sometiing new to confuse the historians: Would you believe Custer died laugh- :U - . V;; I L I X , , , "k V'S ing? Mortally wounded at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, he shot and killed an Indian as he fell, then rose up on xK'l JtV, ) i. J r New Christy Minstrels set Music Hall shows. ; his knees and tried to shoot again, but the empty pistol only c'icked. He laughed and New Christy Minstrels Open At VMH Friday died. That's vhat Sitting Bull told a reporter for the New York to the according Richard actor researches of Mulligan, who la giving CustHerald, to headline at the famous New York Copacabana. New Christy Minstrels, group a vrtilch has rejuvenated bouncy file music, open a stand at the Valley Music Hall la North Salt Lake Friday Th singing-instrument- er his first portrayal one hi n motion picture that may well bring Custer The Minstrels perform en and each individual masse, of the gioup has his or her own specialty which can bt performed as a solo. They acon company banjos, guitars and bass. two-nig- back demanding equal time. It is titled Little Big Man and shapes up as n satirical second look at how the West at the soldiers, was wc.i the Indians, the settlers, the con meu, and the girls. It Is the gospel, according to an old codger (Dustin Hoffman) who in the script claims to be the only white survivor of the famous last stand. The films producers at Cinema Center shudder to think themselves night. The group, which played around the world, will present concerts Friday and Saturday nights at 8:30 p.m. pThey were the first group t have their own regularly scheduled television show vjien they appeared on prime tipie on a weekly basis during the summer of 1964. They were also the first put it: the Variety assortment of instruments and voices give It (the force group) all a with a captivating drive. As wide n Their likeable, clean-cu- t, youthful and typically Ame-i-cappearance is an integral part of the New Christy Minan strels. folk-grou- p v "X Hamlet than Custer, and you know that old show business Never destroy a taboo: 1 -- HOLLYWOOD Joe OaJae, NEW YORK farmer vaudeville headliner, who has been out of the en- - Bed Cysteir , A Reunion In 'Norwood1 Roie NOW THEY TELL US: Thursday, August 21, 1969 DESERET NEWS, legend. You think I ought to get vest? myself a bullet-proo- f In the Mulligaa version, Custer isnt merely the glory hunter many think he wan, ! 'V but a cruel megalomaniac bent on sending the Indians f ' ? way cf the buffalo, winkf JK ing at the mnrder of their and ordering the women, slaughter of their ponies. Theres plenty of evidence, too, tlrnl Custer was a bum tactician who ignored all advice, Mulligan argues. And he wasnt as popular with his command as everyone supposes. For instance, what did his captain Benteen, who was off in charge of the regDustin Hoffman iments defached third battal. , . Indian film ion on the day of the battle, really think of him? of what may happen to legend When the battle was over and tradition when this one and Benteen located Custers comes out. Custer, long body, he said, There he is, enshrirC at West Point, and Damn him - Hell never fight on the again. And Benteen had prepreviously screen by Errol Flynn and viously written some very dis-- p other heroic types, emerges a r a g i n g letters about here as a defpdyed villain Custer. in fact The villain. 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Coster whether Anyway, dies laughing or not, one other When they thing Is certain restage that battle, the bravest man on the field has to be Richard Mulligan. hes grown Meanwhile, shoulder-lengthair. Doesnt he know that jast before Custer Wt Fort Abraham Lincoln for the Little Big Horn he got GUIP A iertainment held for 12 years, by director jack Pic- Hajey jr ( jn paramount tures Norwood. lTiiuns.,sEPT.4ihrusyilWJ falling all around him at Hie battle, which Penn will on the actual site In Montana, the Custer of the movie will dnounce President Grant, address Congress and die a raving paranoic. Justified? I think so, says Alvin Josephy, historian on Little author of The Big Man, American Indian Heritage of America and a recognized authority on Indian affairs. After Custers death, the Army whitewashed him and his wife named a biographer to perpetuate the legend he himself had begun by writing letters to the papers. 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