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Show tHajy , . wruii rr ,.. i fiilmliasatlPs lititle di'amp will find elaaaages by Bob Thomas Associated Press Writer THE LITTLE TRAMP" is returning to the Hollywood he helped make famous. He'll find the old place changed. Charlie Chaplin, 83, will be the guest of honor when the 44th awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences are given at the Los Angeles Music Center on April 10. lie will be handed an honorary Oscar for the incalculable effect he has had in making motion pictures the art form of this century. and THE COMEDIAN with Mary cofounder Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D. W. Griffith of United Artists will find a different film industry from the one he left 20 years ago. In 1952, when Chaplin went to Europe, then found his U.S. visa revoked, the American film industry was still operating full tilt. All the major studios had large rosters of contract stars. Today, two of the studios have disappeared, others are merging their facilities. All are limping along with a minimum of production. Perhaps it is natural that this months Academy Awards will concentrate on the past. The accent this year will be on glamor and nos- talgia, says the shows producer, Howard Koch. Well start out with a big production number called Lights Camera Action. There will be film about Chaplin, and were returning to some of the traditional concepts of the Oscar presentations. ONE LONGTIME tradition will be broken. Bob Hope will not appear, due to a conflict in television sponsors. The show will feature such emcees as Sammy Davis, Alan King, Jack Lemmon and Helen Hayes. The central attraction of the Oscar cast remains the awards themselves. Each year brings greater suspense, because there are rarely cinch winners anymore. That makes the predicters work ever harder. But predict we must, so. . . BEST PICTURE A - Clockwork captured honors Orange from the New York Film Critics, its raw violence and sex do not turn on the Academys mature voters. The race appears to be between The Last Picture Show and The French with the forConnection, mer favored because of its more artistic pretensions. If those two films split the vote, the award could go to Fiddler on the Roof. A wdnner less likely split-vot- e is Nicholas and Alexand- ra. Choice: turc Show. The Last BEST ACTOR Pi Last years winning George C. Scott is up for The Hospital, in which he played another strong role but not as compelling as Patton. Walter Matthau won many hearts with Kotch, as did Fiddler on the Topol in Roof. THE REAL contention seems to be between Peter Finch as the homosexual doctor in Sunday Bloody Sunday and Gene Hack-mathe relentless cop of The French Connection. Because of the voters distaste for the Finch role, Hackman seems favored. Choice: Gene Hackman. Charlie Chaplin, shown in this exclusive picture, in his home, Manoir de Ban, in Switzerland, is pleased to be welcomed back to United States n, BEST ACTRESS -- Not a strong race this year. Jane Fonda, the resourceful call girl of Klute, faces four British actresses: Julie McCabe and Christie, Mrs. Miller; Vanessa Redgrave, Mary, Queen of Scots"; Glenda Jackson, Sunday Bloody Sunday; in children s Nicholas Miss Alexandra. Jackson is the strongest of the foreigners, but she won last year. Choice: Jane Fonda. BEST SUPPORTING A wide open conactor test among Jeff Bridges of The Last Picture Show; Leonard Frey, Fiddler on Choice: Ben Johnson. BEST SUPPORTING actress Another race with no sure fire winner. The Oscar could go to any of these performers : Ellen Burstyn, The Last Picture Show ; Barbara Harris, Who Is Harry Kellerman, and Why Is He Saying Terrible Those Things a Sometimes Jaeekel, Great Notion; Ben JohnThe Last Picture son, Show; Roy Sheider, The French Connection. The Last Picture Margaret Leigh- Janet Suzman, and the Roof; Richard About Me?; Show; ton, Ann-Margre- The t, Cloris Leach-ma- n, ; Carnal Choice: Ellen Burstyn. BEST DIRECTOR Again its a race betweea The French Connection," directed by William Fried-kin- , The Last Picture and Show, directed by Peter Also in the Bogdanovich. running are Stanley Kubrick for A Clockwork Orange, Norman Jewison for Fiddler on the Roof" and John Schlesinger for Sunday Bloody Sunday." Choice : Peter Knowledge. iv programs new cartoon is a liopciul sign by Cynthia Lowry The Associated Press Writer Salt carANIMATED toon, long a television staple THE apparently impervious to the sharp attacks of vociferous critics, is quietly climbing back into the sunlight of the experts smiles. For a while, as stations and even networks loaded almost any old theatrical into childrens cartoon hour time peri parti Charlie Chaplin in one of his memorable film roles, that of little tramp in The Gold Kush. ods Saturday eularly they were mornings ammunition to standard fire at program practices. It seemed that only Mickey his Disney Mouse and friends were acceptable defenders of the genre. While television used cartoons simply as entertainment, they have been turned out for the military service as training' 'and educational, films' since before World War II. They have been castings Sesame Street which used cartoon devices used in schools as educato illustrate many of their tional aids for years. And Walt Disneys feature anipoints, stung all three netmore works into reform. They mations gathered Oscars than any other sinhave been gradually improving their Saturday gle persons or studio. CARTOONS on television, morning programs. however turned sets into Now, one team of quality electronic babysitttrs. They animators, hitherto concentrated on theatrical films were a bonanza buy for used in and cartoons sponsors purveying to the schools and libraries, is kiddie market. about to jump into the teleParent groups, better vision channels. broadcasting organizations, WE FEEL THAT the the Federal Communicaairwaves should be used to tions Commission and even Congress complained about help us understand the the low quality and crudeworld we live in, John Hubley ness of childrens programexplained who, with his wife and colming, the exploitation of the laborator, Faith, have won youth audience and the violence often implicit in the three Oscars for their I dont think we cartoons. work. ' . The .criticism, plug . fhe . ..can AffdrtTta time just turning' out low- example of Public' Broad level entertainment." The Hubleys first cartoon made-for-T- V arrives Lake April 8, on CBS. The spe- cial occupies a spot normally filled by reruns of The Monkees. The Hub-ley- s would prefer to see their product occupying a family period, which in television land means early evening, but its a start. THE CARTOON is Dig, a fantasy about a journey through the layers of the earth's skin by a boy, his dog and a chunk of rock, able to talk and describe the successive strata they pass through. All of it is accompanied by rock-typ- e music and lyrics which, along with Rocky, the tour billion-year-o- .giUdp.VjfylaiA. strate. ld auddpiripoV. April 2, 1972 |