| Show 2 WV DESERET P3I NEWS THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE TUES I WED SEPT A141 1993 21-2- Koepp: Hollywood's hottest screenwriter Now on video: Mr Television! - ' By Denis Hamill New York Daily - - NrtkkN 1 NEW YORK — In the summer of 1990 David Koepp then a 27- year-ol- d screenwriter from Wisconsin was being shown around East Harlem by Edwin Torres the state Supreme Court justice Torres was also a former South Bronx street-tougand had written two novels "Carlito's Way" and "After Hours" that captured the life he had once known Film producers - - - 70 i'' N 1 A ' 7 LL - 1 4 :'t NA ! 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Uncle Millie sighs savoring a happy memory And her sister too It's hard to believe but "Mr Television" is 85 years old He doesn't really look it To be sure he moves carefully as old men do And he chooses his words with care And when he speaks of people from days gone by sometimes you can feel their ghosts in the room But Uncle Millie get old? No way! For those of you who just tuned in Berle was a vaudevillian who'd made the transition to a moderately successful radio career when the new medium of TV arrived On June 8 1948 at age 39 he launched "Texaco Star Theater" a comedy-varietTuesday nights on NBC Television's first monster hit made him a superstar and incidentally helped sell about a zillion TV sets Today at an age when many men are napping after lunchtime and easing into their 20th year of retirement Uncle Miltie is making yet another showbiz venture: Selling videos of his old TV show on cable's QVC shopping channel Back in June when the three videocassettes and one audiocassette first went on sale Berle went on QVC to promote them "Within 18 to 22 minutes I'd say they sold $200000 worth" he said "We had 505 people waiting on the telephone lines to buy them and we finally had to put up a sign: Sold out" His distributor is Direct to Retail (the same folks who bring you the Ginsu 2000 knife set and the Topsy Tail hairstyling tool) but Berle still owns the tapes reconstructed from old Kinescope footage of the show The comedy still works and some of the acts are priceless: Martin and Lewis Elvis Cole Porter Dozens of others And burlesque comedy that hasn't been seen on TV in decades 'Things are new if you've never seen them so this is new for a whole new generation" Berle said "I think the comedies and the comedy stands up" he said "If you go to see a Laurel and Hardy picture or a Three Stooges funny is funny if it's black and white yellow green or in color" Making television shows back then was a different business he said "We did them live There were no cue cards No TelePrompters No phony laugh tracks No stop and go with tape" he said "And when you were doing monologues and you were doing jokes "And if a joke bombed baby it BOMBED There was silence and you stood there withe egg on your face You always had to be 'May I see your library ready with a protective line like Spielberg only his opinion matters" A sly grin spreads across - 4 1 ) !' 7 ' t st tri z - I ' e - - t k d 4 k vc i ) ' : 71' '' ' s7 - 1 4 - 4 4'' It ' ' 4 4‘ k) I '''' 1 A'" l'81 t"? ' t:v1 - a 1 "it 1" ' s It - t1 a 14 f - 't 't - I bought the rights to the books and asked Koepp to adapt them into a movie script "This kid Koepp is young a tall skinny drink of water white as you wanna be" said Torres "We turned up 110th Street from Lexington past an open-ai- r drug scene The dealers are shouting — horse crack weed coke Koepp looks nervous This one persistent dealer is still trying to make a sale He runs through his list of drugs again Finally he takes a close look at Koepp sees efhe's nervous and as a fort he says: Valium?'" Torres said he Koepp and the dealer broke up laughing Torres at first skeptical that a kid from Middle America could successfully adapt his stories set in el barrio of the 1970s was now certain that Koepp had the guts and sense of humor to pull it off After 15 drafts and 18 rewrites Koepp pulled off "Carlito's Way" well enough to attract director Brian De Palma and actors Al Pacino and Sean Penn As this movie was being shot anfilm "The other New by Koepp and Paper" his brother Stephen was in preproduction ("If we had to we could have started shooting immediately" said "The Paper" director Ron Howard marveling "I walked across the Universal lot one day to meet David Koepp and walked away with my next movie I'd work with him again in a ' t 1 n17- '1' ! l'- '- :'—: : - - 1 ' kNrl'-il:::- t' r tr ' ' first two meetings with Spielberg on 'Jurassic I still had a touch of awe and the fan in me I mean he was the movie maker of my generation! But after that it was work And in some ways he was the easiest director I've worked with This is a business in which absolutely everyone has an opinion on the script — producer actor studio caterer But when you work with - :t -0 - - iZ"-- :' :It -- ' 14 4 'I tN '1:--1-- 4 4 br fo ' A lk 3 11' 11- c- - a ' 6 0 A' 4 a tr ' ' Marty and Michael Bregman last-ditc- - - t h fair-haire- : ' i i- - -- e Koepp's face even before he's asked about "Carlito's Way" director De Palma "Not terribly communicative but I think a terrific director when the material is right" Koepp said "This was a brutal film to work on Pacino's life was defined by the '70s and he wanted it perfect De Palma was very faithful to the script I'm proud to say" Marty Bregman not known to toss praise around calls Koepp "versatile smart a real dramatist A true writer's writer" But Hollywood is notoriously indifferent to "writer's writers" Does this one think they get the credit they deserve? "Writers last longer in Hollywood" Koepp said "Directors are known for their latest work actors for their worst work and writers for their best work I've been so lucky I'm afraid I might have peaked So I'll take time off to think about what's next But the new technology will only free writers of tomorrow Writing 'Jurassic' showed me that there are no limits to the stories you can tell today in Hollywood" But Koepp may be telling Hollywood his stories from New York before long "New York has endless pockets of humanity and life" he said adding that the inspiration for "The Paper" came while he was walking down a New York street with his brother Stephen an editor at Time magazine "We came out of a restaurant in the Village and we said 'Hey we're both writers we should do something together You're in journalism Let's do a newspaper story' And we did This one is the most exciting because it's an original More exciting than even a $300 million movie where you've jumped on someone else's boat "You don't get ideas walking down the street in LA because you don't walk down the street Plus I think New York takes a bad rap Even that dealer who offered me Valium — I thought that was kind of sweet" one-ho- y one-line- rs cards?" Berle acknowledged that his videos are a part of his legacy to the television generation He reflected on it for a moment "This is a very tough business" he said "One of the greatest entertainers in the world outside of Al Jolson was Sammy Davis Jr Now tell me honestly have you so often recently heard Sammy Davis' name?" No "That's the name of the game Once you're gone what's coming next?" "There are monumental stars They are alone by themselves in their style and their personality Presley God love him was loved by everybody served his country died young and they're still mourning over him "Presidents leaders like Martin Luther King yes That's political But actors entertainers? They're forgotten" Preventing deterioration of photographs and other mementos national Center of Photography in New York City Swings in temperature and humidity wreak havoc on photographic emulsions making attics and basements the worst storage places A better bet is a bedroom closet where photographs can also avoid light For long-terdisplay the magnetic photograph albums consisting of sticky pages with adhesive plastic overleaves make conservators cringe As their pages leak adhesives and damaging chemicals these albums "will destroy your photographs whether it takes two years or 20" Barth said Even nonmagnetic albums can do harm as they frequently employ plastics containing polyvinyl chloride or PVC which also leaks damaging substances and reacts highly with photographic chemicals Sarah Wagner a senior conservator with the National Archives in Washington said "If you spot that new-ca- r smell the material has probably got PVC" The absence of the vinyl odor doesn't guarantee By Laurel Graeber New York Times News Service I Photographs and other mementos often fade faster than the memories they're supposed to preserve Most of us have been unpleasantly surprised to find that color snapshots taken several vacations ago now look amber and that clippings in old scrapbooks give a new meaning to yellow journalism These changes are caused by chemical deterioration which can be brought on by a host of substances The best way to avert the damage is to be aware of the usual suspects Many household materials — glue masking and cellophane tapes and wood products — contain sulfur and other substances that can do harm So if you have stowed pictures in a shoe box or wooden drawer remove them now You can stash them more safely in a metal file cabinet or stainless-stee- l container "The optimum conditions are as cool and as dry as possible" said Miles Barth the curator of archives and collections at the Inter -' :- Ifilitait-- 70 it - e'"''' OOF HOUSEVIUNDS lin s ''' - 441171 cJtic-Alit- y 0100 HOUSEVF BLINDS TI-lr- ift it" For photographs with strong sentimental value it's best to use what archivists use: pages made from cotton rag or specially treated wood pulp and cover sheets made of safe inert plastics like Mylar polyethylene or polypropylene (Sleeves of the same materials can store negatives) Photographs can be attached to the album pages with archival corners available in packages of 100 or more starting at about $4 Another alternative is the nonreactive-plasti- c album page that has pockets for standard-sizphotos Some brand names to look for are Print File Pacific Foto and self-stickin- g e Pro-Lin- Sources with catalogues and free literature include Light Impressions in Rochester - 7 - Me ert ''''''L' 1 - ROUSE - E8 - - figarlokltat 14048 7588211t It's our tdowkige11 Stc : ialiti Shiéle-i-'' 70'Y 0 Ilt :n-4- Entligoirithegillorith 1 r r"--- 7- rr7--771- 1— 11 FINISH otty L r z 10 - wr ACCIPP1 PaR$4444 CHICKS reder alMaIMMIMMNION :11:06derlAeoszles29950 STORE HOURS: MON 11AM SAT 9PSA MOM WNW ALi Toys 7117 911A)11-81141 MIMS xi 90c 9 si f:11 11111 Mr )1r Houswaros Furniture 3135 South Harrison Blvd Ogden 392-540- 0 A and Much Moro 4097 West3500South WestVbileyaty (OCt OU from CruS Powt a flee to Fted 965-650- 0 Movlot) r111z2 b 2 — 0 4g Underiug 9H Potty raw than COBRA Double Action Adjustable S DOUG'S PRICE 3 199a Power OMM Single Action Blue Finish 13 t Magazine Included HI 44- - SAVAGE 110 BOLT $3 2995ACTION RIFLE viterso-- Cl berme Thumbhole i7r G 1--J News et butt -- PRICE with 3x9 SCOPE r-- z ' Nod Chen7trwr NEW SKS PRICE 7112x39 caL Complete with oiler sling magazine belt cleaning kit end bayonet smusMOSSBERG MAVERICK Six Shot 2 Barrels 18 12 Rlot Barre l 28 Vent Rib Choke Tube Barrel $211995 DOUG'S PRICE 4x $16995 4x12 2x7 S21995 35x10 254 S29995 55x20 3x9 $21995 AO AO AO -- 5 4 2ov-sho- q - $ s 762X39 ben wirocal pad oil claank-- 1 maps sbuuldat kit I iog Brand DOUG'S s is eit int 9 5 I $ v u) TA7E11 Tasco s4c00 3x9 utetimtentrvt BAUSCH & LOMB 171:!ICE i g 995 DISCOVERER SPottina ScoPls M60 Power uf tje1221)Mr15t $ 41" y k s mopmmounmelsompmemslontraliounamartekwourevwnwmpumntolummtramervDry 1 ' SCOPES $3599 799 5 4z2zz:: LELIPOLD 827995 S33995 6tio d — -sa $99w3 AIRMINIMEENIMIP 4 BOLT ACTION RIFLE STOCK cr mi000aiesietetworeseiemftidw1 P-1- 41 NORDIC° MAK cdnee REDHAWK '42995 WA STAINLESS 4 - SUPER IIUGEITI MAGNUM — SOIL L Flibt! r t 25995 HAGNum 357 :-' OUR HOTTE ST- SELLING 9h114 Double Action Compact L"—DOUCFS T nill magazines La LIMITED szturgs$38995 r-- i ncluded! 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