Show Surprised! by “The picture has assumed the proportions of a litany or a mass The audience knows all the lines else that “The Rocky Horror and music by heart They sing Show” in which she starred more along with the music and shout out than four years ago has become the dialogue before the actors on the nation’s leading cult movie the screen can do it Hundreds of theaters around the “I don’t know what it means love it’s a totally irrational Like run the country grotesque rock psychodelic opera dealing response The picture’s popularity with transvestites homosexuals is insane There’s no explanation and other oddments involved in an for it It’s like trying to explain a invasion of the planet by weirdos joke without a point GAVE A PLAQUE from outer space “The Rocky Horror Show” is a “One of the big theater organizafor my permanent midnight and 2 am tions gave me a plaque It’s film the in in fixture kept many theaters on Friday participation and Saturday nights attracting some theaters from going banyoung people homosexuals and krupt They run new pictures too is the dope smokers who have seen the but ‘The Rocky Horror Show’ seats all their fills film uncounted numbers of times only one that FEW EARTHLINGS “It was discovered first by the then college kids “I understand it’s the biggest gay community s I think it’s a healcult film ever made” said Saran- and don who plays one of the few earthl- thy fantasy certainly better than ings in the picture The theaters killing and violence on the screen “It’s unpretentious and original are sold out for every Very few movies these days are as By VERNON SCOTT HOLLYWOOD (UPI) — Susan Sarandon is as surprised as anyone teen-ager- Ogden Thursday Morning Nov Standard-Examine- r 2 fn J '' - 22 1979 j g ' p ft ef FS Urn's unique I’ve seen it twice myself But then I’m totally neurotic and crazy The world being what it is I don’t think I’d want to fit in totally MALADJSTED “The world’s a mess and being maladjusted in this society is fine for me” Sarandon displays a few neuroses in her latest film “Something Short of Paradise” in which she plays a New York magazine writer costarring with David Steinberg On screen and off Sarandon typifies young womanhood deeply impressed by Woodstock and the drug culture of the ‘60s She grew up the eldest of nine children in New York City concerned with the malaise of humankind ' ' ' guy (Steinberg) who owns a New York art theater PERSONAL 'SPACE' They love each other sleep boy-meets-g- irl boy-gets-g- to- huDd boy-loses-g- irl irl IB© SUSAN SARANDON is as surprised as anyone else that “The more she which in than four Horror starred Show” Rockey years ago has become the nation’s leading cult movie The film is scheduled at the Country Club Theatre in Ogden at midnight this Friday and Saturday Cinillir®veirsDffliS Yet the music is perhaps the best the father of young children I beg HOLLYWOOD (UPI) — By any rock ever blasted in motion picture lieve this is really an measure “The Rose” a quasi biog- theaters with Midler delivering a picture” he said raphy of rock star Janis Joplin bravura performance both as sinRydell was offered the screenshould be the most controversial ger and actress equal to or surpas- play of “The Rose” eight years Hollywood movie of the year sing Barbra Streisand in “Funny ago at which time the director said It stars entertainer Bette Midler Girl” Bette Midler could play the famed for her vulgarities in con“The Rose” is sure to delight the only certs in the title role ana she is children of the ‘60s and repel with part At that time 20th Century-Fovirtually assured of an Academy a sort of fascinating horror older was not interested in Midler Award nomination and perhaps the generations “I walked away from the proOscar itself The man responsible for “The Rydell said “Fox wanted to “The Rose” is a scuzzy story of Rose” is Mark Rydell the innova- ject” use an established actress and then the thrills and tragedy of the 1970s tive director of “The Fox” and dub in a singing voice They tried drug culture replete with heroin “Cinderella Liberty” He employ- several other directors before comspeed booze sexual promiscuity ed several of the world’s great ing back to me two years ago lesbianism and brutality caught up cinematographers in the film — that time I’d done ‘Cinderelin the driving beat of rock Vilmost Zsigmond Haskell Wex-le- r la “By using Marsha Mason in The soaring heights of rock starLaszlo Kovaks Conrad Hall herLiberty’ first major screen role Marsha dom as experienced by the charac- and Bob Burns won an Oscar nomination Maybe ter of Rose is accompanied by utter Rydell is an intense hyper active that convinced Fox I could do the of the human degradation spirit former actor who was curiously same with Midler The gutter patois of the characters qualified to direct the film “I’d seen Bette in concerts and spews forth like emanations from “Having been through the drug on TV and was convinced she was the sewer culture as a musician and now as right for this part She had director By VERNON SCOTT ' approval and we met in Chicago to size each other up “The first thing I said to her was ‘This must be very awkward for anti-dru- ''r V'v ise” Susan plays a liberated woman who falls in love with a nice pergether and quarrel aboutasthe indian needs she sonal “space” vidual She doesn’t want to marry the nice guy because she’s unwilling to make a long term commitment When they break up she is miserable The film has a happy conclusion but the theme appears to demonstrate that liberated ladies are no better adjusted than their conformist sisters of yesteryear “The story is really about two people trying to make contact with each other” she said “They finalOBLITERATION ly find the courage to accept each She is convinced society is on the other’s imperfections which have brink of obliteration and that she made life difficult for them” FILM MAINSTAY must contribute to its salvation as It’s the old best she can on screen Her convictions are fairly representative of plot which other actresses approaching their flickered on screens in the ‘20s and 30s these days has been a film mainstay for 50 Sarandon who has made 17 pic- years But discretion weighed tures in the past decade is a far against mention of the fact Sarandon who counts drug culcry from stars of the ‘40s and ‘50s who were concerned mainly with ture guru Timothy Leary among making entertaining films and en- her friends opposes the materiallife istic attitudes of the ‘70s although joying the good “Actresses — or movie stars — she clearly enjoys the materialistic can no longer be isolated from the rewards of her work world around them” Sarandon “I’m a child of the ‘60s” she said in her hotel apartment on the said “I’m proud to be a member of Sunset Strip “You have a responsi- that generation When I was a stubility to your fellow human beings dent at Catholic University in INVOLVEMENT Washington DC we were looking “I believe in social involvement for new values The ‘70s have not For that reason I try to live my life been as productive as an art form So I choose my “I hope the ‘80s will be more movie roles carefully to project an of in I believe the extension interesting and challenging” things If not Sarandon and other advoshould “A good picture have peoof ‘60s philosophies can alcates ple examine their values and persto “The Rocky Horror turn ways pectives” Show” for of Parad In “Something Short inspiration ‘’UP k SuGGess x BETTE MIDLER famed for her vulgarities in concerts stars in the title role of “The Rose” you’ — meaning sort of audition- ing And she said ‘It must be awkward for you too’ — implying the same thing The mutual sensitivity made it work for us both “As a director working with Bette was like turning the ignition on a finely tuned Ferrari She has all the equipment All you have to know is which buttons to push She’s an angel to wrork with “The result is one of the finest performances I’ve ever seen She pulled out 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