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Show WES.::;: amerjcana The highest paid actor in SL C FOR YOUR 'I love performing. I get such a kick from getting up in front of an audience." That's 1st Lt. Brian Willett talking about acting. He has alsd been known to quote another performer and say, 'I'm not good, but I've got ..gUtS.' " In a more v serious vein, HELR.. YOU CAN REDUCE CRIME! YOUAN i SEE I k A'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie," he explains. "The audience is led to believe that Brodie and I are going to get the sack because he have been in the sack. We have to meet the headmaster at the top of a flight of stairs. In all the; rehersals, Brodie and I had run up the stairs together. But on opening night, I ran up the ' , c V The great I ANY applause is but it's secondary Brian wasn't always on the bright side of the theater limits. His initial experience " Vvitn the stage was as a critic. His debut, when he left the audience to be part of the on ;stage,' was at 'Manhattan ON BASE 3056 College with a P production of "Promenade." OFF BASE 777 3056 R uW&as theater of the absurd, a musical," he says. "I played an aristocrat. It suited everyone's ego because each player had his own solo. I had a blast doing the whole thing, working backstage, rehersals. CB Stop It was very gratifying." At this . point, the cliche Brian J. by Sjl. Gracyalny e citizen band (CB) radio would be "the acting bug bit It's time to solicit all operator's to get involved and support the local Crime Stop him." Brian's analysis of what the allure of acting is for him team. All vehicles equipped with CB radios can serve as effective, goes beyond that simple tools in decreasing crime on Hill AFB, provided the operator phrase. "The applause is will get involved. great, but it's secondary. It's There are several CB radio clubs in the immediate area, definitely there, but it isn't such as REACT, who monitors Channel 9. All any member everything," needs to do is call in vehicle accidents, safety hazards, road I like to share with the conditions or suspicious activities to any REACT monitor audience whatever there is in station. The station in turn calls Base Security Police Division, that particular character I'm ext. 2151 or 3056, and relays the message. Then a member of. There have been a the Crime Stop team is dispatched to the problem area If a CBer happens to be driving on base and observes an lot of missed meals insecure building, a suspicious individual loitering near a fund and lost sleep. area, someone prowling through a parking lot or any other on 9 to for Channel call suspicious activity, Security. portraying. I guess you could relay Police. Your call can make Hill AFB a safer place to work and call it my act of creation. In ," live. "White Liars, Black All CBers can help prevent crime if they are willing to call and "The Prime of Crime Stop. Miss Jean Brodie" the No names or statements need be given, just get involved by characters I played were related, yet different.. My calling Crime Stop. friends who saw the two plays Support your police, they serve you.. lob YES ARE NEEDED! . aiiiiiiiiiip &s first couple of steps and then slowed down until I was barely creeping up the stairs. And then I realized that was the way that character wisuld have done it. Brodie's enthusiasm would have swept him along at first. Then he would have realized what K n radio helps Crime team on-bas- . Com-medy- r CONTENTS: The creative creature '-m- OER an changes. Winter recreation at Hill AF history.......! . .' I like to share with the audience. . . could happen and that would have made him suddenly humble." 1st Lt. Brian Willett checks the from APPROVES There is a carry-ove- r his acting to his job as a image in the TV camera while video taping W1MBO television director at the Week activities at Thornton Hall. (USAF photo by 1369th Photographic Squadron 2nd Lt. Kevin Gonzalez) (AAVS). "There's a definite relationship," he says. "The I had a blast doing highest paid actor in Salt Lake drama is left out, but there are similar elements: designing the . whole thing, City. Brian has the lead in - sets; planning movenjent; figuring out just what a light will do for an actor or a product when put in a specific place." Concerning his Air Force career, he adds, "I'm very satisfied. The Air Force has been good to me. Right after ROTC I was sent to Germany, which is pretty good for a kid who had never been east of Connecticut. 'I've prospered and I like to think the Air Force has as well." Brian spent one year in Southeast Asia, both in South Vietnam and Thailand. That was during "Operation Homecoming," some of which he helped film. For his part in page 2 page page 3 page 20 1 1 12-1- backstage, Theater rehersals. It was very production, on working the gratifying. aerial combat photography, Brian was awarded the Air Medal. He was also decorated by the South Vietnamese Air . Force. his schedule is a Right now, one. are Rehersals from busy 7:30 through 10 p.m., seven days a week, three to four weeks before opening night. -- And there are .. definite drawbacks iwith his heavy involvement with the theater. "There have been a lot of missed meals and lost sleep," says Brian.- "I lose about an hour and a half each day commuting. I'm kind of a gypsy at work and at the theater. I don't really get to know people very well at either place." While the time Brian is spending with the theater could be filed under "Dues Paid," he is finding out just how much talent he has. And since Theater 138 is the only theater that pays its actors ( 2.50 a performance) at $15 a week. Brian could well be the - I've prospered and Vol. 27 No. 45 n M11D Gvuii u 138's current "6 Rms Riv Vu." following dates: November 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 14, 15 I like to think the Air Force has as well. DLL X : . either." JjMMEDIATELY. v "Take the confrontation generous with him. But he also admits of his experience with Theater 138, "I've never been big on public humiliation EPORT ft scene with the headmaster in Brian explains the local theater critics have been r-- AN D said they never saw me, Brian Willett- They saw the characters. My act of creation came across to them." In finding out what a part has that he can share with an audience, Brian's approach is instinctive, not intellectual. By 2nd Lt. Kevin Gonzalez CRIME STOP ASKS Ogden, Utah and 16. . I know I have some talent in the arts," he says, "and I'm finding out just how much while I'm here. I like to paint. I know I can put together a sentence on paper and then there's my work, directing for T.V. have some talent the arts and I'm finding out fust I know I In how much while I'm here. ' . But in theater work, I lack certain instincts. Like my composure. I have to work on that. There are actions that should be theatrically correct for both the audience and the character. That's what I am trying to learn." The possibility of a flop doesn't dampen any of Brian's enthusiasm for the stage. "My ego Is stronger now. My success doesn't hinge pn what other people think." "But," he smiles, "if I do have a flop, I want it to be a big one - so I can ha ve a great comeback." November I. 1974 The Hill Top Times is an unofficial newspaper published weekly in the interest of personnel at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, of Air Force Logistics Command. It is published by Mor Media Sales, Inc.. a private firm, In no way connected with the Department of the Air Force. 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