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Show The Salt Lake Tribune 1QM 21, 1986 Friday, February Lee Marvin comes by his tough guy military image honestly by Richard Freedman Newhouse News Service When you meet Lee NEW YORK Marvin, youre prepared for the thatch of white hair (perhaps the most famous in the business, aside from Steve Martins). But you're less prepared for the bushy eyebrows and the gently witty, almost professorial manner. rather than military For in The Delta Force" Marvin soldier, Col. plays a Nick Alexander, who joins Chuck Norris in a commando offensive hiagainst Arab terrorists whove jacked an American plane. Famous for his rough, tough roles in such memorable movies as The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Donovans The Dirty Dozen, the cowReef," and Cat Ballou in boy spoof that won him an Oscar Marvin comes by his military 1965 bearing honestly. hard-as-nai- - quit St. Leos Benedictine Academy in Dade City, Fla., to join the Marines in to play fearless people, because the fear you suffer in combat is so severe. You could say it taught me how to play against my own cowardice But at 61, doesnt Marvin feel he's a bit long in the tooth as well as white in the locks to be playing a commando? 1943. I'd seen a lot of John Wayne mov-s- o enlisted at 17 because I Id get the girl, too. I never thought I les, saw one. They lied to me. there No, I guess I did see one was Miss Guadalcanal of 1944, who was a nurse in the hospital where I was taken after I was caught in an ambush. Thats when my hair started going grey (Marvin won the Purple Id say its unlikely, but the audience will buy a man of my age shooting people as long as he doesnt have to kiss an girl, Marvin says. Actually its OK as long as the age difference isnt more than 30 years. Im a puritan, you see, Marvin says, lighting a cigarette, but about things the puritans dont even talk about. Heart). Plays Against Cowardice shot in a tender, but not vital part of the anatomy. When youre in an ambush youre lying on your belly as flat as you can, and if a bullet gets you, its either in the head or there. If its in the head youre dead. My sciatic nerve was severed, but it got me pensioned out of the Corps. More important, it taught me how I was - Uphill Is Agressive Its true, I kept saying to Mena-heGolan, who directed The Delta Force, Why must all the action be uphill? Cant you just tilt the cam that it gets the hostility out on in a film screen. Anyway, if its its Hollywood waving the flag, not the U.S.A. Does an old pro like Marvin, who estimates he's made some 60 movies (not counting when I was anto extra), mind taking second billing a mere sprout like Chuck Norris? Billing Unimportant "Billing doesnt bother me thats what agents and attorneys worry about. So what if people say Delta Force' is a Chuck Norris movie? Bad Day at Black Rock was a Spencer Tracy movie, but Robert Ryan, Dean Jagger and Ernest Borgnine were all right in their roles (he modestly omits that Lee Marvin was more than all right in his). If I can make one picture every 10 years thats memorable, thats OK. It keeps you on the map, and if its a big money picture, that puts you in good with that studio. I read somewhere era? But he said if youre running downhill it looks like youre running away. Uphill is more aggressive Thats why I mostly give orders in the movie. Ive never seen too many colonels who did much running. My next step will be general. After the war, Marvin tried to go back to school, but at 21 1 was too old to raise my hand every time I had to go to the bathroom. So I never graduated high school. But you dont need much education to be an action actor and thats the way they see me. Its the way it is. Not Concerned Marvin doesnt worry too much about the bellicose attitude shown in and the other The Delta Force Rambo-derived movies flooding the market. The idea of the film is to say: Come on, come on, when do we do something? about terrorists. I dont think its a bad idea to buck authority of the 75 pictures Bogart made, maybe five were memorable. Thats the average. I have no favorite movie of my own; I have favorite people a collage of memories of people from different pictures youd consider again. flag-wavin- work-ing.wit- h One picture Marvin is eager to see here is Akira Kurosawas extraordinary "King Lear adaptation, Ran. Hes such a visual director Id rather they didnt even have English titles. Does Marvin know Japanese? I know the words for Stop and surrender. I used them all the time in the Pacific, but they never stopped and they never surrendered. I finally asked a Japanese if Id been saying them right, and he said my accent was pretty good. Its just that they were one tough bunch of soldiers. The son of a New York advertising executive and a fashion editor, he Billboard's list of hit records By the Associated Press 1985, by Billboard Publications Inc. Reprinted with permission Billboard's best sellers for week end-In- o Feb. 22 1. TOP SINGLES: KNOW Whitney Houston, HOW WILL Arlsto. KYRIE - Mr. Mister, RCA. WHEN THE GOING GETS (JEWEL OF THE NILE THEME) 2. 3. Ocean, Arista. TOUGH Billy - 4. SARA STARSHIP, RCA. 5. LIVING IN AMERICA James Brown, Epic. - - THE SWEETEST TABOO Sade, Epic. 7. LIFE IN A NORTHERN TOWN The 6. Dreom Academy, Warner Bros. 8. SILENT RUNNING Mike & The Mechanics, Atlantic. V. BURNING HEART Survivor, Epic. 10. 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