Show HBO premiering L’ Amour ‘classic Their wagon is so heavily laden with chests and tables and heirlooms that Susanna can’t part with that they can’t outrun them This is a cracking good Western Sam Elliott with his drooping moustache piercing eyes and slightly intimidating presence is the most charismatic gunslinger since Clint Eastwood He has starred in two other L’Amour movies “The Shadow Riders” and “The By JERRY BUCK AP television writer LOS ANGELES — Westerns are about horses and guns and stagecoaches and Inmen gaziig toward dians and the horizon But leave it to Louis L’Amour the foremost Western writer to come up with a story about furniture “The Quick and the Dead a Home Box Office premiere Saturday tells the story of a man and his wife and their son heading west across Wyoming in 1876 with all their belongings in a Conestoga Sdckctts wagon “Every woman who came West had some piece of furniture she didn’t want to give up” said L’Amour “There used to be a place in Nevada called Ragtown where they dumped the furniture before desert There were crossing the three or four square miles littered with books mattresses and furniture they couldn't carry any farther” Sam Elliott stars as Con Vallian a frontiersman with a slow drawl and a fast draw why befriends the couple Tom Conti is Duncan McKaskel and Kate Conti Kate Capshaw star in 'The Quick and the Dead’ on HBO Tom Capshaw is his wife Susanna Matt Clark is the leader of a group of prairie drifters attracted by McKaskel’s horses and possessions One particularly brutal member fixes his eye on Susanna The gang takes off after the McKaskels and that’s where the furniture comes in Matt Clark neatly fills the shoes of the late Strother Martin as the menacing whining prairie weasel “It’s a classic Western” said L’Amour “It’s the Easterners going West They came from a good family One thing I’ve wanted to correct and so many writers have perpetuated this myth is that the people who came West were poor They were not “A Conestoga wagon cost about $1500 You needed six head of oxen at $30 a head You had to have food for six to nine months You had tojiave a rifle for every man a Dutch oveiC a small stove I figured out by today’s prices that it cost 5 $30000 to go West” L’Amour is also one of the few Western novelists whose female characters are not just school marms and dance hall girls “The women who came West were as strong as the men” he said “I treat women with respect in my stories In ‘The Quick and the Dead’ Susanna is a very strong woman” L’Amour grew up in North Dakota the son of a frontier family He lived a life that is the stuff of fiction and has drawn upon it repeatedly for his stories of adventure around the world He was a longshoreman merchant seaman professional boxer and World War II tank officer He sailed between the Red Sea and the South China Sea for a year before the war and began writing adventure stories set in the East His first Western was “Hondo” which was made into a movie starring John Wayne “My books are all historically correct" he said “I think some time in the future some scholar will go through them and sort things out I put all kinds of things in my books about how people actually lived in those times-- Audrey Hepburn is starring in first movie for television By JERRY BUCK Associated Press fun that Hepburn gamin of cherished films “Roman Holiday" to “Funis 58 ny Face" to “Charade" now but the years have been kind Tall and slim with her dark hair piled up in a bun Hepburn is wearing a green dress with blue trim and blue shoes during an interview in her Bel Air Hotel suite The face that won the hearts of leading men like Cary Grant Gregory Peck Humphrey Bogart William Holden Rex Harrison and Sean Connery still inspires awe from 2 TV Prsviaw haven’t worked for six years You can imagine how nervous ‘I LOS ANGELES — After a long hiatus from films of any kind Audrey Hepburn is starring in her first television movie ABC’s “Love Among Thieves” In the movie to be broadcast Monday at 8 pm on Channel 4 s conshe plays a cert pianist who steals a trio of kidher ransom to eggs Fabergc napped fiance in Latin America “It’s not to be taken seriously" she says “It’s a lark “I hesitate to call this a romantic comedy It really isn’t Let’s say it's an affectionate comedy" The movie also stars Robert Wagner as a bearded lout who becomes her reluctant companion on the That’s casting against journey type for Wagner somewhat like Cary Grant in “rather Goose" “Love Among Regrettably Thieves" is not near as much Ogdon I was — Audrey Hepburn Penny her white terrier curls up on the sofa beside her Hepburn who lives in Switzerland says “I don’t like to leave home for too long Fortunately television doesn't take very long And I didn’t want to do anything sad or too serious" “Love Among Thieves" she says “seemed like it would be attending school in Rome She now lives alone Hepburn says much of the film was shot in San Frncisco and Arizona “I’ve made very few pictures in this country and I’d never done one entirely on location before” she says “It was all totally new to me “Penny is used to being in Switzerland with the other dogs I have a garden and she can chase rabbits in the countryside She was fascinated by the desert in Arizona Then she found a tortoise She couldn’t figure that out” The movie was made in 22 working days “In the old days" she says It’s her first film since “They with a laugh “we took up to six months to make a picture Then All Laughed" in 1981 Prior to that she was in “Bloodline” in little by little the schedules got 1979 “Robin and Marian" in shorter The cameras and the 1976 and “Wait Until Dark" in films improved so it took less time to set up the lights That re1967 The latter was her last really was what all the waiting was ally good film “1 haven’t worked for six about" Hepburn who was born in years" she says “You can imagine how nervous I was But I’ve Belgium made her film debut in 1948 in the Netherlands Her Before choice stayed away by this I also had long gaps between first English film was “One Wild films I more or less stopped Oat" in 1951 in which she was working on a regular basis when an unbilled extra After that she my first son was 6 He couldn't was in several forgettable movies come with me so I stayed home until “The Lavender Hill Mob" with him when he went to Her role was tiny but Alec Guinness made it memorable as school" That son Sean Ferrer from the bank clerk out to rob his own bank her marriage to Mel Ferrer is now 26 and a Her first American film was Her second "Roman Holiday" in which she movie producer son Luca Dotti from her secplayed a princess who runs off ond marriage to Italian physifrom the palace with reporter cian Andrea Dotti is 16 and Gregory Peck fun" Week of Feb 22 28 |