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Show "nryT rfpi ffwo1 hm P 'P "H" 'yn'nr. The Sail 4 By Terry Orme Tribune Staff Writer "The characters we write about are composites of the people we know," says Horton Foote. "Thats what happens to writers Thats what comes from living." Foote is a writer with a gift for d creating believable, characters for the stage and screen. Hes been honored for his ability with for "To Kill two Academy Awards a r 3 v A - i T Screenwriter Horton Foote, right, actor John Heard watch location filming during production of The Trip to Bountiful. On todays Weekend cover The Weekend cover today tea- tures actress Geraldine Page in a new film, The Trip to Bountiful. this page, Terry Orme inter- - Tribune Friday, January 17, l)WM3 iL. The grace and dignity of Horton Foote & multi-facete- - lake 1 views Horton Foote, who wrote the screenplay to this film, as well as those for To Kill and Mocking-O- n bird and Tender Mercies. (adapted from Mockingbird Harper Lees novel) and Tender Mercies." The themes and ideas that run through Footes work often involve family and the human capacity for compassion and goodness. A native of he grew up in Wharrural Texas he often ton, a town near Houston writes about what he knows best, the places and people of the rural South. "I think ideas and themes for films choose you more than you choose them, he said in a recent telephone conversation from his New York apartment. "Its true that I come from a very extended family. I have lots of cousins and aunts and uncles. I was always surrounded by family. And as you know, we Southerners are great storytellers. The oral tradition is very strong. Sometimes the people who were dead before I was born were as real to me as those who were alive," The writer also has a knack for creating strong female roles in his films: the forgiving and tough Rosa Lee (Tess Harper) in "Tender Mercies; and Elizabeth Vaughn, a strong, resilient woman played by Haile Foote, the writers daughter, in 1918. "I have known some strong women in my time, said Foote. His latest film includes one of the strongest female roles in recent memory. The Trip to Bountiful" is, as one critic said, about nothing, and about everything. On the surface it is a simple drama about an elderly woman (Geraldine Page in a luminous performance) who longs to return to the rural home of her past Under the surface, it is about much more. characters like few films do John Heard, Carlin Glynn and Rebecca I)e Mornay also appear in the film, which was directed by another Texas native, Peter Masterson Set in the 1940s, "The Trip to Bountiful" is a portrait of a woman who clings to a dream. Through a summoning of her energy, she manages to outwit sometimes comically her son and daughter-in-law- , with whom she lives, and escapes on a bus trip toward Bountiful, the home of her youth and of her dreams. Typical of Horton Foote's work, it explores (Produced by Foote and Sterling VanWagenen of the Sundance Institute, "The Trip to Bountiful" will open the United States Film Festival Friday w h a 7 30 p m. screening at the Regency Theatre. 2749 Parleys Way. A reception, with guests Gov. and Mrs. Norm Bangerter and Robert Redford, will follow at the Country Club, 2300 East and 2400 South II Director Peter Masterson also will attend the gala opening. For ticket information, call 328 FILM ) "The Trip to Bountiful" began as a teleplay, premiering in 1953 on the "Goodyear Television Playhouse." Lillian Gish starred, It later appeared on Broadway and on other stages. "I ve had offers," said Foote about the fact that it took 30 years for the play to become a film. Some people wanted to change it, update it. Others wanted complete control of it. 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