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Cj f m ir ' v "Ti'f '1 t r ii.riytiijnr TV Salt Lake Tribune, Wednesday, No ember I' 3, 1976 Restrained Look at 50s After some explaining. He ward catches Miller, one of televisions hottest scriptwriters, suddenly cant get a job Anywhere. Bui he has an idea. Howard will be a front. Miller would continue to write the scripts, .hat Howard would submit them in his name For his job By Randy Peterson' Tribune Staff Writer on ... or faice? The 1050s. Tragedy The decade dredged up a good deal of both. It Wai ? eni of Hlln Hnniw , movies and I Was a Teen age Werewolf U'nnld receive a cool io peicem of the money ; nooh cnnrit I- But on the flip side, the nation was McCar-th- ; dancing to a duierent tune ism, bomb sneltcrs and the blacklist. The Front, a film produced and directed by Martin Ritt (Hud, Sounder) and written by Walter BernsPans Blues,), takes a tein (Fail Safe, rather restrained look back at the nation as it searches its closet for Red Skeleton. (Personally, 1 always preferred the Marx Brothers). An interesting element behind the making of tins film is that Ritt, Bernstein, Zero Mostel and Herschel Bcrr.aidi were all accused of having Communist ues and were blacklisted (Whether Ritt was a a. y cant Red I . The idea Howard starts wonts. for three other writers. Suddenly, this man, who would have trouble a grocery list, much less a enmpos-ntelevision script, is the darling of the New Yolk literary set. He makes the talk show circuit He is invited back to his elementary school to lecture. Howard Pnnce has arrived fronting lining Acting The acting is strong Woody Alien m his fust dramatic roie rates high marks The character, though, is the same as Woody always plays, the loser. Im not sure audiences are ready to go see Woody Alien, Serious Dramatic Actor. When I pay to see him on the screen, I laugh Reflex Maybe But somehow, when he isnt up there to make me laugh, I fed cheated say). x full-tim- One day, Prince, the perennial pauper, is appmarhed by an old school Alfred Miller, who has a problem r, he tells Howard, about co-- iiriliLK" !De tme story or ie (pfjrvxtBfy f PARLEY SWAY MadDogAtonun a rrn.txy No Is taJj&MQ i.durod adimuion iS ?-- t. mA; Israf SV r L3 p5 1 ' if pfr'-e- 'i : 1 h tn .nti K SiAF z-- i fy'mf'-- j .if ,v1- - -- :r.s.'j " Vr YL'ISUS U-?(- fii v mim -- Vjp '"LS cf - ' mm B85 f a w i , nnRSSTI I f r 5 v-- ir m! c'l WNtMMMM m.x RRLSTPtatO MOVED OYER!! Rowdy, natty entertainment. THE GREATEST AFRICAN ADVENTURE EVER FILLED. s,v r ?Lk $4 role Wolf tick. iaisis!mmmm 3 Cardboai d Rule Herschel Bemardi, portraying n television producer caught between the victimized writers, the fearful network and the does his best in a cardboard -- W'llllam FOOTHILL Showtimes Thursday will be 7:30, 9:30 brings his usual outrageous, mamc energy Andrea Marcovicei, hi her film debut, is appealing as an uncompromising script editor, and shows definite promise if given molt substantial senpts If you seek to feel the pulse of the 50s, and experience totally the persecution of the artist during that decade, stay away from The Fiont. Youll be disappointed But you wont find ii .1 on Happy Days, either. The Front opens Wed at the Centre Theatre 81 ENGAGEMENT OPENS TOWORROWi REGULAR to the part. Also, as usual, he is delightful STARTS FRIDAY . ' Purchase tickets at the riser. 6:30 OPEN Zero Mostel, m a somewhat smaller role, flag-wavin- g who has no idea what Miller is talking A BENEFIT FOR BALLET WEST MOVED OVER!! Would anyone have paid to see W C. Fields in a straight roie, exceptmg, perhaps, The Lost Weekend Paying the Bills Meanwhile, the writers slave away, out of sight, out of mind, but at least paymg the bills patriots Eventually, however, the start checking out Howard for any Communist sympathies Ironically, this film is best when oporat-ui- g on the perimeter of the blacklist issue, as when u idioms ine rise and tall ot Howard Prince. It is less successful when trying 10 translate the atmosphere and emotion of the McCarthy years to a generally younger audience that grew up when artists we.e given complete (some claim too much) license to express their political views Clearly, Ritt and Bernstein did not want to preach about the evils of the blacklist. The writers in the film are not patnots They admit to and embrace, to varying extents, Communism. x. " MftWJj'Yl Howard accepts the offei (Foi a guy who cant type, and lacks Elizabeth Ray's obvious assets, it isnt a bad job') Lighter Side When Mostel was called to testify before the House Activities Committee in 1305, he was asked what studio he worked for. His reply: 18th Century-FoWhen asked if that was his final word Zero said No. make it lihh Cpntnrv-FoThe blacklist did have its lighter side But back to the movie. The plot centers around a schlemwl named Howard Prince (played by Woody Allen), who works as a saloon cashier, e part-tim- e bookie and loser. Ive been blacklisted, - . Wot wliRo th.is 111::, often otrivi L,r understatement, and masks much ot the pain felt by the wrPers and actors with comcdv. too often it falls to a level of What is meant to be sad or funny (or both) often falls as flat as a Richard Pryor joke at a Ku Klux Klan o. er.ucn. tousiTmT 73H nm umpt n DDrMii:!?? I llbllNl.lt. I CmJavmr Today 12.30,2 15,4 05, 6 00,7.50,9 35 Exquisite 1 entertainment. ha.d bthitkel Iinv M.vwni1 Ku ' v if A An imme ist!y TBOUET km r EXCLUSIVE mponant cinematic 3 15.' 10 6.30, The him work plunges raut'v inio a vortex of emonon.il hreworks that is likely to leave the audience gasping tor breath a s as good anti otn n lx lie than anything Hitchcock nas eve r done recommend OL session enthusiastically WALT F H S , ,1 D4R FILM I ROJFCT - TED KNEELANiD GLLAK CLAUDIA CORDAY FRANK J. HALE i 'H I CAJ SELLING' tILEEN ELLIOTT kU J..V1 V I lj0nn, ' LM , fj' &JV It ) t j K V ii . Jr- - 'V m&UM a nuurnv EXCLUSIVE OPENS TODAY! rm l & 521 8181 ,2V TiSUHfZ Tl o ft r 4 'S. 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