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Show Juliet Weds Her Choreographer Speed, Action Hold Appeal At Boxottiee By HAROLD HEFFERNAN HOLLYWOOD (NANA) -Some of the more farsighted of the Hollywood pundits are predicting that Speed is on its way in to supplant Sex at the box office and that moviegoers who plunk down their money at the ticket window to demand are beginning more than a nude couple rolling around in a bed. Their surveys indicate that nudity, perversions and kinky characters are rapidly losing much of their attraction for the average audience, if not houses. The most successful box office attraction of the past three months is Bullitt, according to Varietys new computerized listings, points out Richard Gregson, who, after years as a talent is making his debut as producer with The Downhill last Racers. (Incidentally, I riday, Gregson married one of his most prominent former cJents Natalie Wood.) as Bullitt, Those Daring Young Men In attractions Without Their Jaunty Jalopies, and Winning, the smash hit 2001: A Space Odyssey, Little Fans and Big Halsey and The .Downhill Racers are all geared , to speed, excitement and action quite different than that attending a bedroom scene. taking anything away from Steve McQueens popularity, there is no doubt g auto that the chase up and down the hills of San Francisco contributed more to the amazing business piled up by Bullitt than any other single factor, Gregson explained. By training Joe Jay Jalbert, a member of the U.S. ski team, to handle a hair-raisin- Robert Redford stars in "Downhill Racers." JA sequelae in True Grit where John Wayne dashes through a charging hand of heavies, holding the reins of his horse in his teeth, whirling and firing away from both his si s h 0 oters and rifle, is expected to - electrically-operate- camera d while skiing down the slopes 0 at miles an hour we were able to capture footage which gives an audience the feeling of participating in the speed of the sport, he added. 70-8- While The Downhill is concerned with with Winning, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, focuses on the murderous competition of the Indianapolis 500 auto race. Racers NE'S 9 Monday, June 2, 1969 vate wedding at her home. Only a few relatives and close friends were present when the singer- - actress vows - dancer exchanged with her fiance. Columbia Rdures and Pas'ar Productions present Ba.bra Streisand and OmarShanlm, The Wiiham production Another flick on the Paramount card that fits neatly into the new popularity pattern is Little Faus and Big in which Robert Halsey, Redford will star with a chiller J. Pollard which has motorcycle crosscountry racing for its chief ingredient. Its Funny Girt' Technicolor SHOWTIMESr MATINEES WEEKDAY other movies stressing speed sequences are drawing boards at every major studio. EVES. 1:30 815 8 45 PRICES: AaMATlNfES...tl,75 WEEKDAY EVENINGS 2.50 FKE NCliar. Rl. 1 VE$..t3.CO ciLwsNwim)y;gViaY...ii.25 m. 91 no secret that at least a score AT DAILY EVENINGS PIU of t ACADEMY AWARD WINNER! similar on the BESTAGTRESS! iatmmb kiwih guess nearly All are designed to lift dollars out of at the pockets of the fans the same time lifting them out of their seats. SIDNEY POITIER TO SIR, VJITII LOVE toWner TECHNICOLOR pulse-poundi- Downhill Racers story of Olympic His bring cheers from moviegoers this summer as it did from a d sophisticated and audience at the preview Hollywood Directors Guild the other night. Is a star-studde- short-barrell- ed ' Without neglecting the dramatic possibilities of the Oakley Hall novel, from which it was adapted, we are introducing some very unique photogthe raphy to accentuate speed, danger and excitement V Redof downhill ford says. 15 aent, for the hard core voyeurs. Such current and coming x-- Because of Americas accelerating interest in that sport, Gregson and his partner, Robert Redford, who also stars in the Paramount release, are hopeful it will exert the same appeal to youthful (fans as The Endless Summer did to enthusiasts surfing young when it played to huge audiences two years ago. Even the venerable chariot race in Ben Hur is rousing viewers as much as ever during its currently successful third time around the movie BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF. Juliet Prowse mar(UPI) ried her choreographer, Eddie James, Sunday in a quiet, pri DESERET i TONIGHT ataclawtar. M if Sent am, cUr H4 Mi stMtMf njattn, I a hurt "KICK THE 1 'Longest Day' Back NwwrrtanM Onmt km MAN DOWN" IN COLOR The Longest Day, dramatized reenactment of the invasion of France that ended World War H, will return to the Rations screens this week. It opens June 4 at the Capitol and jlotor-Vu- . ; The production, by Darryl Zanuck, now president of 20th iCentury-Fopictures, saved that company from the bankruptcy that threatened because of Its disaster with Cleopa- rMME , -- Ffvf fxcifng x Co-H- it- "ALL THE tra. 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