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Show Page 14 Thursday, August" 7, 1980 The Newspaper Heel Wood-M Kick Brough THE I PRESENTS JTERMOIMAIN ACTORS JNSEMBLE ONCE UPON A JULY 31, AUGUST I AUGUST 78,9 $H.OO TICKETS 52.50TIETS FOR STUDENTS $ SENIOR CITIZENS IN THE TENT AT PROSPECTOR SQUARE muMyuy uay I no rn p s o r , J Marshall 1W, Dean Fuller ) Mu By Man RoJgers Lyncs By Marshall Barer Sfamrvj " Oder Affiance DdVid Gomes, Connie. Jeah Bole, Mfrc EUJn. Jean A. Pfctt, CUcfc Fclkerl4hJ.m& J Roperl JarvTs, Geno Pfrrlfo John LeW, Mary Ausftn ) r - . . . 't I Came Mmwft. Mary Elk Dtrecjeol By Ron Burnett Assl. Dnrector-Mftt Dnrector-Mftt Mann ProJuc4?Oh Designer Jen KVfr' Musical Krcctcr CosfurneS Choreojraprff Amifr Burnett. VharTon, Anne Burnerf Prsaenld By 5pac!!a AtrdremenT" Vffh M&J TWre, nterrsiforval If you wish to be listed in our Professional Services please call 649-9014,. DENTAL Dr. Pamela K. Hilbert Located in the Brent C. Hill Building across from the Holiday Inn. 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Suite 204 Silver King State Bank Building Call for Appointment Office 801-649-6653 Home 801-649-7475 Strother Martin: 'Scummy' Character Actor There are only three people who have won three acting Oscars. Two of them are grand ladies of the screen Katherine Hepburn and Ingrid Bergman. The third is gimpy, toothless, , irascible Walter Bren-nan Bren-nan one of the best character charac-ter actors to hit the screen. Brennan won the first award ever given for Best Supporting Actor in 1936. He won it again in 1938 and 1940, and then Hollywood went cold turkey and broke the habit of giving him gold statuettes. Nowadays, the supporting Oscar doesn't often of-ten go to the practicing character actor; more often it's awarded to the star on the way up (Walter Matthau, George Kennedy) ot the ' star-in-a-small-role (Melvyn . Douglas, Jason Robards.) The number of character actors ac-tors who never were recognized is legion: Basil Rathbone, Harry Morgan, John Carradine, Slim Pickens, Victor Buono, Ned Beatty, Ward Bond, Claude Rains ... All this is by way of introduction in-troduction to Strother Martin, Mar-tin, who died last week without an Oscar. He didn't really want one. What he wanted, he said, was a part that would "give me a chance to reveal a great deal of me." "And I'm not saying I'm hoping to win an Academy Award," his obituary quoted him from an old interview.,; "I think that's the surest way to a coronary. (He got the coronary anyway. A heart attack killed him early Friday at the age of 61.) "I would settle for being nominated and losing. Then people would say for the rest of my life, 'I think you should have won'." So who the hell is Strother Martin? I'm not playing Trivia Corner here. Strother Martin was the prison warden war-den who ordered the stuffings stuf-fings whipped out of Paul Newman in "Cool Hand Luke" because, as he put it, "What we have here is failure to communicate." In "Butch Cassidy and the Sun- 1 r-jLxnvv ... '' If .' . dance Kid," he was a colorful color-ful mine foreman who came by his character naturally. "Bout the only thing you can do down here is get colorful." he told Butch and the Kid. He forgot you could also get dead, and two seconds later was shot out of the saddle. People like Martin get the best lines. Maybe his finest came in the ludicrous western . "Hannie Caulder," whose premise was that Racquel Welch is raped and left for dead by the most scrofulous scro-fulous trio of outlaw brothers imaginable Martin, Jack Elam, and Ernest Borgnine. Clad in nothing, but a poncho, , Welch is found by shootist Robert Culp, who teaches her to be the West's fastest semi-nude gunslinger. She picks off Elam, first of all, and after the two remaining brothers have buried him, Martin pipes up with what must be, for him, a bright thought. "That woman," he realized, "is trying to bust up our family!" Strother Martin specialized in playing what he called "prairie scum," but over a 30-year career 100 movies and 500 TV shows he went from a bit part in his first movie, "The Asphalt Jungle" to the host of "Saturday Night Live" in one of his final appearances. His first professional job was as a leprechaun in an LA kiddie television show, which seems a far cry from rapist-murderer parts, if not for the child-like quality that he brought to those roles. When we talk about stars like Cary Grant and John Wayne, we often say the camera 'likes' him. Maybe no camera could ever like Strother Martin,' but it understood un-derstood him. In "scummy" roles his voice was a raspy howl, and he played it as brilliantly as Peter Lorre used his East European whine. It sounded like the kind of voice you might expect ex-pect to hear coming out of the moon-shaped hole in an outhouse seat. His hair was dead wheat; his face was soil erosion, and his belly loomed out over the sagebrush. You can't say he played a wide variety of parts, no more than you could claim the same for John Wayne. They both played a certain type of character, but, at their best, rendered some magnificent variations on it. As a matter of fact, for every star, there's usually a favorite character actor trailing along behind him. Gary Cooper and Brennan. Bogart and Lorre. Errol Kasla Words by Jack Rash Harry isn't a big reader. I'm not saying the guy isn't sharp in a lot of ways, it's just that the printed word in the long form is not an entertainment en-tertainment to Harry as much as an invitation to a narcoleptic fit. Show him a Sidney Sheldon novel just the cover and he'll tear into a sleep attack, awake refreshed in fifteen minutes and never remember a thing. Fin-negan's Fin-negan's Wake in hardback is like a hammer blow to the head and Harry is a closed question right through to tomorrow morning. . Then he wakes up smiling like a baby, with the appetite of a starving artist, and tells you he had a bad dream about confusion and he couldn't recognize any of the words. So you can see that Harry's basic response to a library would be about the same as the spiritual uplifting people born in 1960 are ' going through at the post office these days. Harry and his wife were coming back from somewhere when she spotted the branch library and said to stop here just for a minute. As the day was about as hot as the $330 television tele-vision set we got for one and a quarter, Harry thought he'd stroll around in the stacks a little while, instead of waiting in the car. So while she blew away like a metal filing to the magnetic attraction of the flaming romance section of the library, Harry headed into the big woods of the magazine and newspaper area. He saw people sitting in circles and it brought back his other library experience, when they sat in a circle for as long as it took the Rabbit with Red Wings to wish he looked; like every other boy and girl.' He picked up the Village Voice first. I told him you should never start with the hard stuff but work up to it gradually, loosen up with Mother Jones or the Wall Street Journal. (I told Harry that the New York Times called Meat Loaf, the rock star, Mr. Loaf, but he still wouldn't buy a subscription.) He read an atricle that started out Jorge Luis Borges and ended up a knifing in the projects. He said the women who wrote it said she was a cabalistic novelist and that she was writing a novel where the hero an eco-feminist commits an act of violence in retaliation against a male authority figure who is abusing his command over her. As she recorded the blood on the traffic island where the pimp or whoever had dragged himself for a last breath of fresh air she said this new insight into violence gave her fresh inspiration for her book, as I'm sure the drug runner in his ruined polyester shirt or whatever was glad to hear, said Harry. That article impressed Harry to the point where he leafed through to one about the film critic Pauline Kael, written by another film critic who said he was a friend of hers. Harry said the way he talked about her you wouldn't even think she was in the same business. In fact the way he worked at praising her you would think he was trying to arrange it so she wasn't. But when this guy said Greta Garbo was an example of a non-directorial auteur, Harry said he was going to write a letter to the editor. You shouldn't have to pick up a family newspaper and contend with obscenities ob-scenities and filthiness, Harry said. You can do that at home. ' ; Then he comes to a long one about an Englishman named Auberon Waugh, who the writer of the article said is a profal cynic who puts out a satirical 'zine, said Harry, called Private Eye, in which some pretty mean things have been said about how President Carter's mother looks in a t-shirt. Harry said that during the interview the writer and Auberon Waugh laugh about the time back fn the war when Auberon almost became a monorchid person due to a gunshot wound. Harry said he couldn't see how having only one orchid was any funnier than having two of them. I told him you better look it up. Harry was about to reach for a new number called Christopher Street when his wife came back quivering like an old Pola Negri movie, hugging a couple of worn-out exhausted copies of Flaming Passion and Flaming Desire to her tupe top. Judging from the cover those books were too hot to hold as it was, said Harry, air-conditioning notwithstanding. As far as Harry is concerned you could turn 1 the whole place into spitballs. . .. m .hi... i- Hism vrmr I SOCCER CAMP August 18-22 For boys and girls 6-18. Cost includes expert coaching, t-shirt, insurance, refreshments and awards. Sign up at City Park. call 649-9461 Recreation Flynn and Alan Hale, Sr. Martin appeared in a number of John Wayne movies usually as the shrimp who gets knocked down in the first reel. In "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance," he stood on the sidelines while the Duke faced down his boss, Lee Marvin, and when he moved in, Wayne floored him with an off-hand kick to the head, as if he were booting away a mongrel dog. "I love playing dirty old men," he said, "especially ... the inept guy who gets one chance in life, makes a heroic effort, and then blows it." Martin never blew it, and neither did the legions of "forgettable" faces . . . Butterfly But-terfly McQueen telling Scarlett O'Hara she doesn't know nothing 'bout birthing babies . . . Slim Pickens riding the atomic bomb down to destruction in "Doctor "Doc-tor Strangelove" . . . Eugene Pallette as Friar Tuck, chewing a mutton joint the size of a horse's leg in "Adventures "Ad-ventures of Robin Hood" . . . and Strother Martin, as the human buzzard in "The Wild Bunch" who picks valuables off the dead heroes' bodies and rides away singing "Polly-Wolly Doodle." Hey! I've seen that guy somewhere before . . . .'Company' Tickets Available Tickets are now on sale for the Park City PlayersKim-ball PlayersKim-ball Art Center production of Stephen Sondheim's musical, "Company." This adult musical will run August 8 through 10 and August 15 and 16. The first three performances performanc-es will be held at the Winters Win-ters Middle School. An opening night reception will be held on the 8th at 6:30 at the Kimball Art Center. Tickets for the Winters School are $3 for members and $4.50 for nonmenbers. Curtain time is 8 p.m. On August 15 and 16, . "Company" moves to a dinner din-ner theatre at the Holiday Inn. Dinner will be served at 6:30 and the show is scheduled to start at 8 p.m. Tickets for the dinner theatre are $14.50 for Kimball Kim-ball Art Center members and $16 for nonmembers. Tickets can be reserved by calling the Kimball Art Center Cen-ter at 649-8882. There are no assigned seats at the Middle School, but dinner theatre seats will be assigned on a first come, first served basis. Acting Taught At KAC A special theatre class will be taught at the Kimball Art Center Tuesdays and Thursdays Thurs-days from August 19 through 27. The class, to be taught by Kimball Art Center Cen-ter Theatre Director Don Gomes, is for persons of all levels. The class is designed to teach people how to act on stage. Acting techniques, vocal interpretation, movement move-ment and singing will be covered. Some back stage techniques, including set design and lighting, also will be discussed. A staff of technical experts will assist. The class will meet from 7:30 to 10 p.m. Tuition is $25 for Kimball Art Center members and $30 for non-members. non-members. For information call 649-8882. |
