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Show uyi' AB DESERET HEWS. MONDAY. JANUARY 7. 1974 Cleef back from Van But back home hes still fighting his bad man image, an enemy almost as hard to vanquish as the High Noon lawman. By Nancy Anderson -HOLLYWOOD (CNS) When Lee Van Clee! walked down that dusty street in High Noon to take aim at Gary Cooper, he was making his first movie. Lee defines the modern screen hero as a leading man human enough to be jealous, have fears and show anger, unlike the perfect And, less fortunately, he was establishing a screen image which eventually drove him out of the country. For hero image of And earlier films. thats what hed like to play, a character whos not all bad, not all good and whos a challenge to an actor. 'pretty-bo- could any movie fan accept as a hero a guy whod try to gun down Coup? how . iay Nobody, as it turned out, could, and Van Cleef who is often a suave sweetheart of a fellow had to move to Italy to erase the onus. y But domestic film makers have been slov to offer such roles. In fact they are making so few pictures of late that theyre slow offering roles of any kind to anyor.3. Im in California now, Van Cleef said recently, in a San Fernando Valley restaurant, because I have a home here. 1 am an American, you There he was so successful that for some years now Europeans have accepted him as both romantic and heroic while demanding to see more and more of his films. know. I love America. I want to stay here hen Im not working in Europe, but I have to go where the works dont turn pictures down just to stay here. I only turn down scripts when they dont satisfy me." That Lee has reached a pinnacle from which he can pick and choose scripts is rather surprising considering the fact that he began his professional life as a time and motion study engineer in his home Bottoms was the young soldier who lost all his limbs during World War I Ln the film, Johnny Got His Gun. He was hidden by the army in dark hospital rooms all during his life, and they used the human vegetable to experiment on. Only his voice was heard, although he was seen in a couple of dream nquences at home before he had gone into tht war. That character was a It was only after some persuasion that, in the 1940s, he took a fling at amateur theatricals. However, having sampled stagecraft, he found that he liked it so much that whn he was introduced to producer Josh Logan and offered a chance to read for Timothy Bottoms broth- er to the hero of James Bottoms portrays wants to be is He Deans "East of Eden. And a good lawyer. many critics have Compared Bottoms to Dean ln appearance. The young men they portray do not want to destroy society, but live comfortably in it as long as they dont have to make the kind of compromises which would ruin their sense of inner decency. When the system bears down on them, however, they will rebel. In the film, the character In his next major role, Timothy was the sensitive young man stuck in a dying Tevas town in Last Picture Show." intelligent and a hard worker. But at the end of the film, he understands how the system of getting good grades at the expense of all else has robbed him of his humanity, and he makes his own personal statement of rebellion. The film also stars Lindsay Wagner, John Houseman and Craig Richard Nelson. The is a former Utahn. last-name- d S.L. woman elected A Salt Lake City woman student body of Marylhurst College, Portland, Ore. 928 Skanter, Margaret Blaine Ave., was elected to the position at the women's college earlier this year. won iop HMUouiriaoMi JLUNMY FROM - w' 440 DOUSli YOU PlEASURS "Well, he found out just how arrogant i was when he tried to cast me, because be wanted me to do the Lloyd Bridges part, that of the deputy sheriff to Cooper, ard I told him I didnt want it. Then he suggested I get my nose fixed, and I told him off again. 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GEORGE 4861 SO STATE 1 rs Typecast by High Noon, Lee had worked in more than 50 films and 150 television shows as a heavy before he fell into the heres role in For A Few Dollars More, Chariots of the Gods? a motion picture based on a controversial book by that name, will open Wednesday at Jie Regency, South East and Rialto Theaters. The book, one of three by Ench von Daniken, presents a theory that visitors from space were responsible for many ancient constructions, rums of which are being discovered on earth, and that tney were responsible for the sphinx as well as puzzling monoliths on Easter Island Scientists are divided in their support of theories developed by Von Daniken. Nevertheless, the fact remains that the structures are there and the film she vs those mentioned, as well as many others. The majority of scientific opinion holds that they were built by civilizations already on earth. The movie is an expansion of a television film presented under the ftle of "In Search of Ancient mwmmti ' mimmisir M EFFECT OF' .and Cleef has been elected Qthe tower Stanley Kramer saw me, Van Cleef remembered. "He saw me and said, This arrogant guy I need. and said he wanted me to said, play the villain, and Great Thats what Im bui't for. So the die was cast, and Van Cleef was launched on a career as one of the screens most consistently nasty killers. Chariots of the Gods? set for 3 theaters He also has been in a televiof "Look sion version Homeward, Angel. In The Paper Chase," Bottoms plays a Harvard Law School student. The role is in many ways a cousin to the boy Timothy played in The Last Picture Show." Mall. Thats where town, Somerville, N.J. Chase' Timothy Bottoms, a young actor who was unseen during one of his most dramatic films, has the starring role ut The Paper Chase, which opens soon at the Trolley Square and Fashion Place Mr. Roberts, he took it and got a part with the road company. Van Cleef had looked upon the tryout for the professional stage as a lark, but it led to tour which includan ed a stop at the Los Angeles Biltmore and from there on to High Noon. vyr I like living m California, but I Young actor star in 'Paper exile e villain-imag- Woodward film stays 1 The Effect of Gamma Rays on the will continue at the Marigolds," starring Joanne Woodward, Tower Theater. films Miss Woodward This is one of the several of critics, who are attention gam has been making. They attracted by their originality and the performance of Miss box ofWoodward, but they do not make the money at the fice of her earlier pictures. Miss Woodward manages to come up with prizes in festivals and winds up among the best actresses, but the top Wilder prize eludes her. This year, her Summer Wishes, Dreams is expected to be an Oscar contender. off-be- |