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Show my - F? MKvdj0att Jllffi iyfci' DESERET Noted Singer In 'Sounder' Movie Bv THE MOVIEGOER Taj Mahal, who makes his movie debut m "Sounder,"' says he really lived that pic- ture. In the film he put on a pair of aged overalls and a battered hat and took up a guitar that he makes sound like a banjo. He sings to black men and women working in the field. He sings the old country blues, of the black man in America, he savs. passionate young teacher to make something of himself in the world for his own sake and for the sake of his people. "Thats what I was told and why I have tried to make our people look good by my behavior. I have tried to make the traditions of our people live in my songs. He became a practitioner of the blues himself and has achieved recognition as a genuine blues musicologist. He said he discovered himself in 'Sounder." Taj is a native of New York, but was brought up in New England states. He had a feeling as a boy that he was out of tune with himself until he Actually, the picture means more than that to him. "When I was ?hown the script, he declares, that little black boy was me. He was about Kevin talking Hooks, the elder son of a sharecropper, who is the central figure in the story. heard the blues. It got in my blood so I studied the development of the blues at the feet of people like Cow' Cow DavWillie Leadbeilie, enport, Bo Brown. Diddleye and others, he said. The singer adopted his pro fessional name from the mausoleum Emperor Shan Jahan built in memory of his dead love. to "Sounder is expected figure in Academy nominations, possibly by being named to run for best picture and having its star, Cicely Tyson, nominated for best actress. Aw-ar- It is based on the William It. novel with the Armstrong same title as the movie. It won the American Library niut-'- Jt km Mahal sings blues Ta I felt nearly every emotion that little black boy, Taj of m continued. The little boy in the story is inspired by a corn- - Sounder." Rainbow Jam Extended INTERMOUNTAIN "m.i"Jari 1973 NEWS, Friday, January jt pjuinn Assertion's Newbery Medal of The title is taken from . the name of a hound the father help them hunt possum. They help them hunt posum. They hunt for food, since the story lakes place in the South during the Depression of 1932. The movie, which was made by Robert B. Radnitz, w ho has made many films, has been praised on all sides for its compassion and human warmth and the fact that entirely family oriented. it is Four college plays will be presented at Weber State Co- RObiRl BERKVlSt, llege next week in the Ameri- can Theater Association regional contest. The plays, winch are a part of an annual festival project by the John E. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Smithsonian Institution, and the American National Theater and Academy, will be presented at 8 p.m. each night in the Weber Fine Arts Center Jan. Woolf, Adams present Jan. 12. State College will Waiting For Godot, 13. INC.i486-744- 4 N CARL FOREMAN am RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH SIMON ROBERT SHAW WARD At Hansen Planetarium The Rainbow Jam Light Rainbow Jam is a Salt Lake Festival at Hansen Planetari- City light art group, headed um has been extended for anTaylor. They are acother week, according to Mark companied in the snow by Littmann. Planetarium direc- Wood, a local musical group, tor. The show includes projected The show, which is being in several variations, presented in the Star Chamber designs of the Planetarium at 15 S. several types of dancing, in addition to the music. Stale, will be presented toMr. Liltman' said Hansen and Jan. night and Saturday, 12 and 13 at 8 and 10 p.m.; Planetarium was the first and at 8 p.m. only Jan, 8 planetarium to present light shows. through 11. LORD RANDOLPH He might have been Prime Minister, but he lost his honor and then his life. SEMSi - AT THE MALL ENTRANCE '05' 13 . the They called him everything from a horse thief to a homosexual. , Musical the TONIGHT AT 8:00 P.M. EXCLUSIVE RESERVED SEAT ENGAGEMENT SUN. AT 2:00 & 8:00 P.M. PHONE RESERVATIONS ACCEPTED SAT. & Best Seller! SANOtRS ABCIV JACK HAWKINS IAN HOLM ANTHONY HOPKINS PATRICK MAGEE EDWARD WOODWARD and JOHN MILLS and Produced by CARL FOREMAN Based on "My Early L'fe" by Winston Churchill Directed by RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH ' ALFRED A RALSTON HIGHROAD 'HUGH FRENCH PRESENTATION Score by - Ao!obkl O" ngt acods' PANAVlSION fOgo S3vnO Lot 4367444 PFvASEBRATE PEACE PG deserter rthe CHARLES BRONSON fc V I. i r THE MECHHNIE ,.'T. in O' this ho are the tools ol his trade. in ' ,5 S She was said to have sold her favors to buy her son's career. KEVIN NEXT TO ZCMI 299-727- I JENNIE One of the 10 best pictures ever made! 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