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Show E f Wyoming youngster wins lead in Red Fern film - ;' A TAHLEQUAH, OKLA. Mormon boy who lives oa a farm in Wyoming has been selected to star in a movie about a youth on a farm in Oklahoma. Stewart from Petersen Cokevill" Wyo., wa named to the cast of Where The Red the Wilson Fern Grows, Rawls story which has been a r for over a decade. best-selle- Lyman Dayton, producer of soon to be shot on the film .location near Tahlequah said that selection of the boy to play the role of Billy Coleman was not easy. A major talent search for just the was conducted right boy over a wide area of the na- of tion. A large number youths tried out for the part and many of those appearing showed great potential." Only after much review and discussion by Dayton and Director Norman Tokar and Jim McCullough was the final decision made. Xk Thirteen-year-ol- d Wyo., will star in in the Doty-D- a Production will be James Whiteinore, Beverly Garland and Jack Ging. vton Stewart Peterson , Cokevilie, Where The Red Fern Grows. is in a' Chapman featured role. Numerous residents of Oklahoma will be used as extras in the film. Lonny Petersen came to Tahlequah with his mother for a final try-obefore the selection was to be made. I really didnt think I had much chance, the farm boy reflected in an interview. But 1 figured it would be a good experience to at least try. Young His ambition .has been to be a rancher, like his dad, Robert Petersen. But now? If he finds actmg to be satisfying he may divert his attention to becoming an while still doing some actor ranching on the side. Stewart is a small town boy, and does not ever think he could be happy living in large cities, such as Los Angeles. Instead, he would like to live around Cpkeville, where his family and friends are to be found. Born in Montpelier. Idaho, young Petersen is one of six children. He has two brothers life-lon- g Steven, After 18 years, its still 'James Dean By Harriet Choice Chicago Tribune ' CHICAGO James Dean in the died 18 years ago in the early years of my adolescence. Without a Cause and, yes, he was wearing the red waterproof jacket. Oh, for the red jacket! I spent hours writing a letter to Warner Bros., outlining the reasons why the studio should send me that jacket. Mother read the letter and thought it convincing. But she felt that something as important as that red jacket should go to mid-1950- I the last of day September, he drove his new $7,000 white Porsche Spyder head-ointo a Ford driven by On n one, Donald Turnipseed, outside of Paso Robles, Calif. the At particularly understandman ing gave me a picture of Jimmy from Rebel One HARMAN CAFES HARMAN CAFES HARMAN with only three When he has been working with the pipe it has been necessary for the youth to be on the job at 5:30 or 6 in the The Madwoman of Chariot opens Tuesday night at Theatre 138 for a three-wee- k run. The drama, directed by Glen Camomile, runs Tuesdays and Wednesdays through Sept. 26, while the companys other Promises. Promproduction, ises, will continue on weekends. mornings. Despite his work on the farm and his school work during the winter ninths, Stewart still has found time for fishing, hunting, othr outdoor pursuits and He attends Cokevilie School, .which has about 100 students in all grades. There are 19 fellow students in Stewarts eighth grade class. If the boy had his way hed be attending the very same school always because you get to know all the kids and a small school is betttr. 4-- At school Stewart plays the trumpet in the band, performs So imagine Except in those moments 1 lighted his cigarettes. There was always a cigarette barely hanging from the corners of his oh so sensitive mouth, the mouth that spoke of loneliness and restlessness and the need to be loved and the desire to really be somewhen f, Kentucky W. NORTH TEMPLE ARMAN CAFES HARMAN CAFES is a genuine masterpiece staggering proportions. -- Edward Behr, Newsweek jffi0sgpinfpaiis is stark, movie. The not a film is dirty sensitive and completely shattering in its intensity. Yes, by all means, see Last Tango. "j3$teItoSpa6s is a rich, resonant ... a magnificent one. -- Bruce Cook, The National Observer SAIT LAKcC.TV THflTgF Starts WEDNESDAY Peaders Oh, for (JJT2DAYsQ X 1 VDigest presents A No, never! 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OGDEN ' HARMAN CAFES HARMAN CAFES HARMAN AlUCAiM.MiTD CAFES CO Produciton COPPOLA AUNVYI?SALPlCTWtIlCtfiCaOO t0 Glossy Photos Instead, I haunted local movie houses and persuaded theater managers to give me the glossy promotion pictures that they used out front. fistcjan&inSPatfs of LOCATIONS O 1412 WASHINGTON Another year went by before I left his memory in peace. Meanwhile I clipped every picture, every word that was printed about him in the fan magazines. Despite the tempting offers of more pictures. I never joined a he James Dean fan club was not to be shared. rr fried thicken. 3 CONVENIENT O 250 What will he do with his Save them film earnings? for college' and my . . . mission, Stewart explains. Films Our young dreams die hard. Maybe its not too late to send that letter. HARMAN CAFES AMERICA LOVES What the Colonel Cooks body. He said all this without ever taking the cigarette out of his mouth. And so I lighted thousands of Jimmy Deans cigarettes, as I thought, All he wants is someone who understands him. I knew I was the person he needed. He knew it, too, and loved me for it. If it bothered him that I wore braces, he never said a word. calf. 4-- spend time doing things outdoors and I want to get back to Wyoming. And about the Would he? BRING THE WHOLE FAMILY BARRIX Everything has happened so fast that young Petersen has not yet come to realize that he will soon be making a substantial amount of money. The most he has earned to date was $664 from the sale of his Ah, I don't think things Stewwill be much different, I still want to art replies. Surely he wouldn't have been just another celebrity who joined the Democrats for McCarthy and sat in the Hilton in 68 and watched the Grart Park riots. He wouldnt have sent Sacheen to pick up his Oscar. He wouldnt have headlined the gossip columns with his broken marriages. fpthmigiFE intimacies. nle. Ball ab ifitmne I Of course his death helped the make him a legend total hero. But what is to say he wouldnt have fulfilled the promise we found in him? 138-2n- d CAFES people . . . WeD, they'll just think Im a country kid and will soon forget that they saw me in the movies. the Stewart, in fact, only brought a few clothes, expecting his stay in Oklahoma might be very brief. Does the boy expect that his new movie life will alter his ov.m future too much? And what about being the focal point of public attention? the uncertainties about film the indignation r Aaron Schindler, Family Circle felt recently when a friend suggested that Deans death was the greatest thing that could have happened to him. Curtain time is i.30 p.m. The theater is at East. HARMAN g Spanish-speakin- 4 Little-feath- Jean Giraudoux CAFES As a member of the Latter-da- y Sainfs Church and the Cokevilie Ward, young Petersen has been active in religious activities. When he gets older hed like to serve as a in a Mormon missionary area" like Mexico. He also wants to attend Brigham Young Unischool versity," at Provo, Utah. When Stewart was first made aware of the movie role and given encouragement to try out for it by his family, he journeyed to California to read for Tokar. Later he did some video taped scenes in Provo and ultimately was invited to come to Tahlequah and final interviews for tryouts. Even though his father, brothers, sisters and fnends wished him well prior to his for Tahlequah, departure there was not too much excitement back home due to non-scho- 50s, because 24, at special activities with the pep band, plays football, plays some basketball and also does some wrestling (he weighs almost IOC). His three sisters are Diane, 9; Suzanne, 7; and Julie, 4. Living on a large Wyomirg farm means plenty of work for all concerned. For example, Stewart has devoted time to much of his cow'ooying, changing pipe, helping in the hay field and doing many other odd jobs that have to be done." I love you Tuesday Growing Disenchantment Jimmy was worshipped by thousands of young people in HARMAN CAFES ... 11. 138 to Open 'Madwoman Almost 20 ye?rs later, I try to understand my fascination foi still Jimmy (hes Jimmy to me). A psychoanalyst might say that at a very early age I feared any real commitments and so I had this crush on a dead man. James Dean Fallen Hero and Scott, East of Eden, movies, Rebel Without a Cause, and Giant," he told us in his own inarticulate but defiant way that the sileqt generation would not be silent much longer. Convinced by her sentiments, I put the letter in with all my other Jimmy Dean housed in a memorabilia, white Marshall Fields box (bathrobe size) that is still in one of Mothers closets along with my collection of trading cards. At the New Years party at my house, I outwardly jomed Bonnie, Fern, Natalie, and the other girls as they enviously stared through fronted windows at Wxveland Park. The still, gleaming tail lights said the older kids were parked out there necking. Maybe even petting or, oh God, French kissing. James Dean Fantasy 16, he symbolized their growing disenchantment with the world, would that explode in protest a decade later. Jimmys relatives. The newspapers said he was 'kiied instantly. Three months liter, I still hadnt buried him Privately I scorned their conversation and nursed a fantasy: Jimmy Dean wasnt really dead. After all, he and I were spending our frnst New Years Eve together at his aunts and uncle's farm in Fairmount, Ind., where he grew up. We spent the whole night talking. 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