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Show ' 6F DESERET NEWS, FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1 ' pr" -- 1 g mry irT" wr ign 973 Paul Williams hits Hollywood hard Triple-threat- er - to turning standards. old demand in television as a performer and also a composer of scores. He does his recordings and makes his other personal appearances. And the acting career he originally came to Hollywood to seek think if I write another 500 songs, Ill still be remembered fcr Weve Only Just And that hit came Begun. about in a pretty unlikely way itself. It started as a bank commercial, and took off from there. etown's past and says things like: I think people are re- . HOLLYWOOD (UP1) 'Paul Williams is perhaps the most unlikely triple threat talent to hit Hollywood in a long time. Singer, composer and actor, he stands five feet two, jumped into show business by way of a skydiving act, is nostalgic about movi- - He's 32. a Willi ims, warm and ingratiating fellow who looks like an intellectual cherub, contemplated his burgeoning success and said: I He was born in Omaha, but was living in Albuquerque w hen he decided on his move to Hollywood to become the John Garfield of the 1960s. He was not an overnight suc has snapea up. He has had roles in such films as The is in Williams Nowadays, The Chase Loved One, and the new Battle For The Planet Of The Apes. cess. I played delivery boys, geniuses (with my glasses on) and punks (with my glasses off). He began writing songs about five years ago, but the glamor that made movietown what it was To fully still enamors him of the fantasy appreciate Hollywood, you have to have been a housebo in Denver, which I was. for a says, 1 was working company, and title insuran I was terribly bored. It was the early 1960s, and I was on part of a skydiving act weekends. I made 44 jumps. I was making more money on weekends than with the insurance company. So I quit the job. I was making enough money to support myself with the skydiving, so my week- Williams days were free. I worked in In Albuquerque, As for filmtown, where Williams has succeeded in a way vastly different from that which he dreamed in AlbuHollyhe said: querque, woods greatest art, I think, is compromise. If you can master that art, you can not only survive, but you can do what you want to do. NATIONAL GENERAL THEATRES NATIONAL GENERAL THEATRES IIBSI Admiral Nelson and his Lady Hamilton Theyve come a long way since that summer of DOWNTOWN SHOWING FIRST and the love that defied the world! . . . s little theatre around Albuquerque and then made th move to Hollywood. T SHOWING DRIVE-I- N E1EQ1 RECORD MONTH! y Robert Redford .Jeremiah Johnson RIALTO FRI., SAT., SUN. 2:00,4:00, 6:00 MCHUWOONLr 8:00, 10:00 CANCEL ioohok lei $fFVTKr dQZ3H EUFagnS RKa'MRJIGRET Hes changed. TTinxra tub naczsrxs - 1HUM A -- Gicmb Jackson ivur Finch Quayle Leighton Margaret Michael Jayston Dominic Hi ILL K! JlOllLUiLtt The Nelson Affair Anthony kukVi frk " HAL WALLIS Produriiun vrirmr. 5600 S. I 8 StOCk Nigrl a difference. ft , 9lti IASI ST INCUNHNG BEST ACTRESS AWARD6 as Captain Hard) Starring TONIGHT AND SATURDAY 5J0,7:4S. TOMCHTtSAT. HMJO V 2121 5. 11th EAST 486-134- 1 10:00 SAT & SUN. OPEN 2:00 P.M. PG ! and DEBORAH WINTERS TECHNCXOR' anflminjRfeTOiiH3$ HELD OVER! 3RD WEEK! UTAH S FINEST SUPPER CLUB Once upon a time there was singing and dancing and all the world was in love! Shows 7:15, 9:15 A LIVE MUSIC I I i NITELY m rnhmm m LUNCHES DAILY - B SfwMt "Flipper's New Adventure" mrnmrnM CLIP THIS COUPON, IT'S GOOD FOR AN EXTRA FREE RIDE DINNER SERVED . . . ARBY.S )NV1TES FREE AT to You FUN LAGOON ride MARCH 31 OR ANY WEEKEND.. IN APRIL. 5 P.M. TO MIDNIGHT With every delicious ARBY'S SANDWICH you'll receive coupons good for a free ride on any of these favorites: Planes Flying Saucer Boats Octopus Ferris Wheel Tumbler Sky Fighter Paratrooper Helicopter NOON TILL 5 P.M. 266-097- 2 wbeacn j if" KIDS MATINEES SAT. & SUN. "il iMgllMUM SHI l J 5 AND DANCING N w 6:00, 8:00 GARY GRIMES JERRY HOUSER 5:40, 7:50, 10:00 f?G TONIGHT 5 s'" ACADEMY Two years can make pg WINNER Guard He hasn't changed. d Rockets Sky Slide Krazy Kups Animaland Train BEEF UP AT BRING THIS COUPON TO ARBY'S CAESAR'S Arby's 420 East 4th South 3430 South State ernac & Until tjj Wnmimi (0)kitiimt iJgcfn Vii " , - - . $1 Symphony office open until S ii 'I p.m. Saturday Tickets: $2.50, $3.50 & $4.50 6 On Sale at 55 West First South .i less tor Students and Sr. Citizens. $10 for entire family. 328-562- for special qroup discounts call Gloy Berwick 1328-562- 7 Acclaimed as'the most outstanding religious work ever written in the Western Hemisphere." 4 .Xrtr.) ' fcjct - RESERVE YOUR TICKETS TODAY Billboard, New York, reported to its vast readership, "This sweeping work brings into play the forces of organ, orchestra, chorus ana soloists in one of the more inspired contemporary liturgical compositions. The recording is top-drawp- r." 13S EAST 9th SO. SAIT LAKE |