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Show Page 6 Thursday , September 1 1 . I WO I ho Newspaper at the Golf Course Openjor 'Dinner Tuesday thru Sunday o:00 to 10:00 tie 'Entertainment Friday & Saturday Featuring Tom Distad 649-7177 J&nT Claimjumper Restaurant 7JA7S1WEI1! S IJ WEEKDAYS S 11 WEEKENDS Main Street G49-B051 Actor, Businessman, Sports Fan, Denver Pyle Is Multi-Talented Iff W1 Serving Dinner 6-11 p.m. Tuesday - Sunday Reasonably priced dining featuring prime rib, nightly chef's specials and a unique variety of entrees. Minibottle and wine service available with dinner. 649-9486 649-9474 649-9338 438 Main Street in 3 THE LAMP Restaurant PARK CITY UTAH Open For Sunday Brunch served from y a.m. until : p.m. Serving Breakfast and Lunch Tuesday thru Saturday Dinner served Wednesday thru Saturday 1 1 A I l,RI(, I'RI.Ut RIB. StAfOOD AMJsItAKs s(H, I'. HOMIMAIX BRt AD & SAI Al) BAR IMQUDEO Open 8 a.m. Reservations Accepted 649-6466, S96 Main Street SERVICES' ' 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. Monday through Thursday, 9-5 Saturday by appointment. 04-oOod The Dental Clinic Dr. Richard Barnes North Park Avenue across from Golf Course Call for appointment We're Open Daily, Evenings & Saturdays 640-6332 For emergency call 649-678o Preventive Dental Service Dr. Dane Q. Robinson 405 Main Street Hours 2 to 10 p.m. daily Call for appointment 649-6116 CHIROPRACTIC Dr. Kelly 13. larvis 906 S. Main, Suite 3, Heber, Utah 654-3032 or 654-4468 MEDICAL DOCTORS Park City Health Center Holiday Village Shopping Mall Robert I. Evers. M.D. Family Practice Thomas L. Scnwenk, M.D. Family Practice Robert T. Winn, M.D. Pediatrics Monday thru Friday, 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. and on Saturdays 9 a.m. to Noon Office appointments and 24 hour emergency care Call 649-7640 optometrists; Dr. John Gleave 160 S. 100 W. Heber City, Utah Eye Examination By Appointment Contacts & Frames Available . 654-1863 ATTORNEY'S AT LAW; Palmer & Saunders P.C, Suite 204 Silver King State Bank Building Call for Appointment Office 801-649-6653 Home 801-649-7475 f :l - if f . ""! t Denv er Pyle By Kick Hiouli Denver Pyle can't watch the Late Movie like the rest of us. He'll be sitting in his living room with the TV tuned in to some Grade B Western, and after maybe 13 or 20 minutes, it hits him: "I think I'm in this one." And then, sure enough, "I step out from behind a rock." Pyle is many things. He's a regular in one of TV's top rated series, ""Dukes of Haz-zard." Haz-zard." He's a businessman with widespread interests, including some in Park City. (And he's left his mark here on more than business. Witness Wit-ness the Mad Jack's softball team, named after his trapper trap-per character on "Grizzly Adams." Most of us remember remem-ber him as one of the busiest and most popular character actors of the last 25 years in film and TV. Pyle can't remember all the movies he's made, and it still surprises him to see films where he's a major supporting player. "I worked for two days on some picture, and later I find I'm all through it," he told The Newspaper in a recent interview. inter-view. If he was shown all his pictures pic-tures stored in .a vault and given one picture, to save in a time ' capsule, and one to burn, which two would he choose? "Well, somebody would've already saved Bonnie Bon-nie and Clyde," (his most notorious role, as the Texas Ranger who riddled Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway with gun fire. '"I'd probably save one of the John Ford pictures," he said. "And the other . . . Who knows what I'd burn? I could probably just reach out blindly!" Despite his familiar face, Pyle is in a high-risk profession, where even a well-known actor doesn't find steady work. It was hard pinning him down to find how many days in a year' a free-lance actor is actually ac-tually working. "Who knows how many?" he answers. "That's like asking a freelance free-lance writer how many days he worked in a year." Touche! Open House Right now, said Pyle, it's hard to believe he worked at all in the last year. "It seems like the actor's strike has been going on forever." he said. The union troubles affect af-fect many other industries, though, and "the pressure is on everybody to get things going." Pyle began appearing in pictures in 1947, and from the first, he said, never nursed ambitions of being a handsome leading man. "I just wanted to be a good actor," ac-tor," he said. His acting heroes included folks like Edgar "Buck" Buchanan, Ward Bond, Paul Muni, and "that black-haired Irish fella," J. Carrol Naish. Naish, incidentally, became known for playing a wide variety of ethnics Japanese, Arabian, Indian, Mexican, And in turn, he commented. Uncle Jesse of "The Dukes of Hazzard'' is whatcha might call Mad Jack gone straight. Pyle studied under such acting teachers as Michael Chekhov and Madame Maria Ouspenskaya (the latter was a familiar '40s movie figure herself, as the grande dame or the old gypsy woman of the ""Wolfman" pictures). Such training is good, but it hardly prepares you for shoot-outs and cattle rustling, does it? ""It was invaluable." Pyle responds. "You learned your trade. All my work as a Shakespearean actor helps me work as a cowboy ! " The training was evident later, we fell to talking about two of his performances performan-ces from the late '50s. In John Ford's Civil War classic. ""The Horse Soldiers." Pyle portrayed a scummy Confederate Con-federate deserter, with his buddy played by the recently deceased Strother Martin. "Yeah, I said good-bye to old Strother a few weeks ago," he said. "We started out together. We'd sit around in the late-night coffee houses and encourage each other "Oh, you're gonna make it big one of these days.'" "The Horse Soldiers" was the first of a number of films Pyle made for John Ford, and the actor almost became one of the director's familiar stock company of actors. "I got into it late, though," he recalled. "Ford only made four or five more pictures." Ford was a brilliant man, he said, with a subtle sense of humor. He also had a reputation for needling actors ac-tors to the breaking point. But Pyle received none of that. "He very seldom picked on the little people," " worked for two days on some picture, and later I find Vm all through it. French practically every nationality except Irish. Such are the opportunities open to the character actor ! "You're lucky in that you could play a lot of different things," said Pyle. Still, Pyle could specialize. Many of us still remember him from the '50s and early '60s as a splendid heavy whose face could assume a look of parched evil. But Pyle gradually assumed the look of an oldish young man ("He'll be able to play the same kind of parts he plays now until he's 80," John Ford once was quoted about him ) , and started to play a character charac-ter he calls The Old Guy. "I've played him for years and years. He's been very good to me," said Pyle. The Old Guy is a lot like Mad Jack, Pyle said. after John he' said. "He'd go somebody like Wayne." Another of Pyle's finest moments came in the 1958 film, "The Left-Handed Gun," where he was a nasty deputy guarding Paul Newman, as Billy the Kid. When Billy's driven back to jail under guard after his sentencing, a cowboy asks what he got, and Pyle yelps with hellish exhilaration, "They're gonna hang 'im!" That was one of those memorable bits I thought only I remembered. But more than once, Pyle said, people have walked up to him, and whined in imitation, "They're gonna Hang'im!" "Years ago, I played a hillbilly (Brisco Darling) on the old Andy Griffith show. I might be in the supermarket now. and somebody will see me and yell, "Slack OFF'! "he said. "I don't know what they mean. Turns out to be from one of these old Griffith shows where I had my hand caught in a. rope or something, and I yelled, Slack Off!' And in the supermarket they expect me to remember I said this." Pyle has had his share of critical feedback over the years. "I take them for what they're worth, which isn't very much." he said. "'Most of them are nieces and nephews of somebody on the newspaper and they want to meet celebrities." He recalled publicity tours where the local interviewers greeted him with such thought-provoking questions as "How tall are you," and " What color are your eyes?" questions that were already answered on the profile sheets handed out to them. Currently, most Hollywood Holly-wood publicity is focused on the strike, but Pyle arises at actor's hours 6 or 7 a.m. to take care of business a few time zones away in areas like Kansas. Pyle said it's unique for an actor to be this involved in-volved in business. "But it's something to do, and it's something I like to do," he said. He's currently involved in a Denver oil concern called Otis Energy. Otis Johnson, the firm's namesake, is also his partner in Advance Reservations, a Park City wholesale booking agency for travel groups. "We're sold out already for Christmas," Christ-mas," he said. "Can you imagine people sitting by their air conditioners planning plan-ning ski trips?" In the past he's attended Mad Jack's softball games when his schedule allowed. Quaint old Main Street accommodates ac-commodates his love for antiquities. an-tiquities. (One of his prized possessions not from here is an 1840 handcarved tea plantation chair.) He has thought about buying a farm in the Heber Valley. And if it should be flooded by the Jor-danelle, Jor-danelle, "maybe I should start an ark." Pyle has thrown his energies beyond acting over the years. For three seasons on "Death Valley Days," he said, he directed the episodes that starred the show's host, Robert Taylor. He's written for "Gun-smoke," "Gun-smoke," its spin-off "Dirty Sally," and directed segments of his current hit, "Dukes of Hazzard." What's ahead? Every actor, ac-tor, he said, dreams of the perfect role, but realistically, real-istically, "You'll never play that part." If he finishes a role, and says "that's the best I'll ever do," what is left? Denver Pyle may never find his perfect character, but he can go on for another 20 years into his 80's, as John Ford predicted, entertaining us with numerous versions of Mad Jack and The Old Guy. He just don't slack off! Doilney's Delight Is Solar Power Whether you voted for him or not, you've got to give Gov. Matheson credit. He's well on his way to becoming the most enlightened governor govern-or in the state's history. Living up to his boast of having visited every solar energy project in the state, Matheson took time out from his WESTPO duties Friday afternoon to visit Jim Doilney's sun-powered home in the Holiday Ranch subdivision. sub-division. Doilney's home was designed to look conventional conven-tional from the street (north) (nor-th) side. But the south face of the building features wide expanses of glass designed to admit the sun's energy during the winter months, but reflect the rays during the summer. One feature of Doilney's passive design is a solid concrete con-crete "trombe" wall, painted pain-ted black and positioned just behind the glass in one of the first-floor rooms. Doilney explained that the wall absorbs ab-sorbs the heat from the sun, then transmits it into the room. To keep the heat inside in-side the house at night or on cloudy days, blinds made of a special reflective material drop down inside the glass. They are controlled by a' simple but efficient solar switch attached to the outside out-side of the house. Doilney's home also has an active solar system to provide hot water. Solar panels located on the roof feed through a complex system of controls into a tank on the first floor. For an added investment of about $10,000 when the home was constructed, Doilney estimates that he has cut his heat bills almost in half. He said it cost him $80 to heat the home from mid-February to late May this year. Local residents will be given a second chance to see Doilney's solar home at an open house set for Sunday between 3 and 6 p.m. The house is located at 1351 Moray Court near the Park City Racquet Club. I & & fa ( I ' f --mms 3" ' 1 Doilney and Matheson share solar secrets. |