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Show unnr , rn Perathoiase Sets 'AAediym Cool' r By THE MOVIEGOER if the scenes of helmeted, massed police, marching four r and sit abreast in Medium Cool," one of the most controversial movies in en era of provocative and talked-abofilms, opens soon close-orde- forms er pher, Haskell Wexler, went into the Chicago , narks and the convention itself to film many of the graphic scenes in Medium Cool has the thread of a story. It doesnt have a beginning and ending in the conventional sense, and yet it has more continuity than many of the mod pictures. Although - of the intemperate language used fcy mobs as wjU as police, language which was heard on television at the time of the con- -, ention. j It stars Robert Forster, who looks like a young John Garfield. He is the television cameraman. He has made six Reflections In A movies Golden Eye, The Stalking Moon, Justine, Run, The facts that these obscenities (there are 83 by actual count) really were ottered and that the film has a long node scene has made it one of the controversial ones of the fall season. The provocative story Is played against the background of the convention, the park and surrounding tenements. The newsreel photographer seeks some local color and becomes involved with a family from the South who have moved into the tenements. The family includes a young widow who has been a school teacher, and her son. s ' I NEWS, Tuesday, October 28, 1969 A 13 Shadow Run," The Wine and the Music Medium and Cool." The pietire also introduces Verna Bloom to movie audiences. She is a Broadway-televisio- n uctre. who plays the teacher. Romantically, she is involved with the TV cameraman. Medium Cool opens with on a freeway which finds TV photographers covering the scene and then pulling away as the ambulance arrives on the scene. It ends with the same type of scene and one that haa even more stuttering impact than the initial one. an accident It features some unusual on the freephotoeraphy way, at the park and at the convention as well as In the poor section of Chicago. iwnuini i i A m " K!J Inds tonight! "Alfred Great' the usuimst Robert Forster stars in "Medium Cool" movie. KINO (IHt IUVID HEWMIHGS There are many touching scenes Involving these two. Several scenes take place In the tenement home of a Negro family. The TV cameraman and the reporter with him be- - come friendly with the family and attempt to make a documentary basd on their lives and how they are treated. The film has several scenes of confrontations that mount in suspense as the photographer attempts to gather information on living conditions. FILMLAND CLOSEUP & weapons not been television when he took place, they unbelievable. They real wallop when the wide screen in shown on convention would be pack a shown on Medium Cool. Ir JvTei5f - director - photogra- the movie. He recorded much sr. and with at the ready, had at the Penthouse Theater. The story deals with u television news cameraman during the Chicago Democratic conventiun of 1968, Its writer-produc- . DESERET The TERROR starts Kennedy Slows Up: Makes 7 Movies By MARILYN BECK HOLLYWOOD Its (NANA) time for He figures George Kennedy. seven pictures, at some fancy figures, in 18 months is enough for awhile, and has instructed his agent to give him a breather. Im laying odds that when George returns to the cameras, it will be in a sequel to False which t has just Witness, produccompleted recently tion. Thats the plot he and producer Bob Enders have been huddling abofit for the last several months. Kennedy w ill be seen soon ii) Tic . . . Tic . . . Tic, a great picture that features George as a southern sheriff who is beaten by a Negro (Jim Bibwn) in an election. slow-dow- n You think women are fussy about their hair? Paul Newman frets enough about his locks that he flies barber Jim Markham from L.A. to N.Y. for a neat little trim, at a neat little price wrhen hes in that city. Dont be surprised if its romance - patch - up - time for Faye Dunaway and Jerry Schatzberg now that theyll Be working together on Universals Puzzle of a Downfall Child, he as director and she as sta- -. Marcello natch the fellow who Mastroianni originally entered the scene to break up Faye and Jerrys enstill gives no ingagement p dication of wanting to with Faye again. This may not shake you up, Tomorrow RIALTO end OLYMPUS DRIVE !N OPEN 630 COME AND SEE THIS SPECIAL but business is down at The Factory, which has shaken the board members of that club quite a bit. The nightclub, which for the last two years was reserved for Hollywoods most elite, is finding those elite arent reserving many tables these days. HALLOWEEN HORROR! NO ONE SAFE... from these tm HN iliittiHaRiaHmmnHmLnanHi DEADLY VAMPIRES!! If and Roger Smith are out to prove things are nifty-keebetween them, BRIGITTE BARDOT n they couldnt pick a more ALAIN DELON it Togethpublic way of doing L.A. Music Center er at the the other evening, staging such a love-i- n that there be more people them than at the on stage. JANE FONDA they were two-part- y seemed to staring at performers David Eemmings and Gayle Himnicutt have been letting the Acapulco sun tan aw'ay their London pales. They must love the spot. They were there last November on their honeymoon. PETER FONDA dissect tiie anatsmy of TERROR in... 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