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Show 'Hit! Is Far From Being A Hit Benjamin Changes Image? Maybe By David Elliott Chicago Daily News Writer CHICAGO Richard Benjamin thinks that his latest Westworld movies, and The Last of Sheila, are also his best. Not only are they better movies but, with a little luck, the making of a better Benjamin. It has been so hard for me to do something duferent, he reflects, looking and talking like a .born New Yorker, a man destined for a life of cabs in Goodbye, Columbus, but 1 never thought so, at least when I made the movies." and cocktail parties who has nevertheless spent years hang- ae ' ing ViOund swimming pools, hoping to convert to California. He does have a fine tan, but he will never be one of the sun people. Changing this career of mine" is like moving a big, heavy object, he continues, with the dry, dapper touch of irony- we know from his movies. You need a big machine to do anything." Wrong Type I talk to the men with the money and they say, Benjamin? su.e hed like to do a western but we dont see him in that. Or they say, You make it, and we'll take a look. Finally he got the part in !Westworld, playing at least a science-fictiocowboy because I needed something with a little action. And for once he plays an appealing person, instead of a bully n of a Mad (Diary Housewife), a voyeur (Ad- Murder-Myster-y A The Last of Sheila," the written witty murder-mysterhis friends by Anthony Perkins and Steven Sondheim.' Again he played a creep, but at least a bright creep. y It was good for me, he and also peat fun admits, because it was made with friends. Perkins and Sondheim just like the story very clever, always playing games, especially Tony. Hes constantly setting up some kind of silly competition. Like the foot game. We were all standing in front of the Carlton Hotel in Cannes and Tony demands that everybody stand on one foot as long as possible." And I won! The victorious voice is that of Benjamins wife, Paula Prentiss, a tall, sexy girl he met at Northwestern University, before they went on to success in the theater, TV and movies. I read her comments with great interest," he says. I remember Segal George Have called me and said, you read the New Yorker? Its about us!" So I got it and read it and the next day I like James Somebody Mason is very subtle, says Benjamin. Sure, but even he is usrng the image all the time. That I really respect Pauline Kael, but her remarks did surprise me a bit. She said I was a very funny actor but that I had no sex appeal. 328-269- SPECIAL al- - MAU INTIANU NUT sMONOAV THRU THURSOA DCXOfTiCE OPENS G30 ' I 6 30 to the tower till Ufc : fittest, &8 IMN8cR i I :: ONE (A If WE fWI OPEN 2 THE BEETLES aHw 328-268- ROlI Ml ' In ah (Mm HITS HORSE . 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HOUR TWI-U- 3 Jcngo Infpatfs HURRY ENDS KMI TO : THE MECHnMID Tbm TNI CO-HI- T nmmn.J NO RESERVED SEATS At (Copyright) all L. w w ikl 328-268- lliams). subscribed. TATUM O'NEAL know, he comments. Dyan Cannon is based on our agent The James Cobum part is based on producer Hal Prince, who took us all for a Mediter- - that Portnoy or the stockbroker was like the WwCMA ACAOCMV n HERE COMES M Paula preens happily, returns to Sheila," which Benjamin admits is something of a giant I pess all the characters are based on real people we - 1 f Thomas Crown Affair) and David M. Wolf, but it looks very much like the sort of movie that was made up as it went along to match its Angeles, landscapes (Los Seattle, Marseilles). The story ts about a black federal agent (Billy Dee Wi- (The goods His new film, Hit!, is a was that movie caper apparently designed as esup-is- t entertainment, though bv the time it enters its third hour you may well tink youve been trapped. Hit! has a screenplay, credited to Alan R. Trustman Sidr. 'y J. NEW YORK diFurie, the Canadian-borrector who made a couple of good, concise films early in his career (The Leather The Ipcress File), Boys, now seems to be turning out movies as if they were yard While ways neurotic. The idea that here was a sameness to my characters really was news to me, he says, with apparent conviction. People would tell me ENDS give a performance! I mention that Raquels major problem is the same as Yul Brynners, who appears in a maximum of Westworld mapetism and an absolute minimum of subtlety as performers. talk of ventures a Young Stockbroker) or a moron (Portnoys Complaint). For a long, losing stretch he was stereotyped as a young often Jewish, better day dawned with By Vincent Canby New York Times Writer voice, for Gods sake. Otherwise he wouldn't have lasted for 30 years. Benjamins own image as a star took something of a setback when he read an analysis of young actors, including himself, by the Pauline cntic formidable Kael. Ms. Kael felt that he himself m was destroying shallow, bitchy parts. ranean cruise on his yacht, which is why the story is on a boat. 1 dont know who Im supposed to be, but of course Raquel Welch plays herself." Paula: She knew it, too! Just Raquel Yeah, one day she said to Perkins, I know what youre up to here. You want me to just be myself. But I will still j itfiiud) ( September 24f lij73 ijiuimt, wuii - ..I T WALT . MARSHAL t croc 5 ItMWifal scot, arsssdt, 8 30 6641 A 4 4 DISNEY mm ; i v : ; U cs'15 S |