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BOS<strong>TO</strong>N<br />
Queers «>f IATSE Local CE-3 were elected<br />
at the annual dinner meeting at<br />
Nick*s. They are Raymond Anderson, president;<br />
Donald Sandler, vice-president; Mary<br />
Donahue, financial secretary; Peter Miglicrini.<br />
secretary-treasurer and Grace Cardy,<br />
trustee.<br />
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Cathy Alphcn. booker for 20th-Fox, has<br />
returned to the office after a week with the<br />
flu Hunter, star of the 20th-Fox<br />
"Ape" pictures, was in town autographing<br />
The word is out that Joe<br />
her cookbook . . .<br />
Foley and Ralph Farhman jr., salesmen for<br />
20th-Fox. have become "wizards" at getting<br />
playdates in their respective territories.<br />
"A Bridge Too Far" will have its world<br />
premiere June 13 at the Sack Theatres' Music<br />
Hall as a benefit for the "Summerthing."<br />
Mrs. Joseph Levine (Rosalie) was in town<br />
last month to kick off the fund-raising plan<br />
and will be honorary chairperson for the<br />
benefit. Director Richard Attenborough will<br />
attend and it is hoped that Robert Redford<br />
and Ryan O'Neal also will be present.<br />
Tickets for the premiere will be $100 which<br />
will include a late-night celebrity-studded<br />
supper at the Ritz Carlton. A $25 ticket will<br />
get admission to the movie and a champagne<br />
reception prior to the screening and a $10<br />
ticket will bring admission to the pre-film<br />
activities.<br />
RHODE ISLAND<br />
fyjilion Stanzler, lobbyist for the Motion<br />
Picture Ass'n of America (MPAA),<br />
has reported to the secretary of state that<br />
he was given $4,000 for MPAA lobbying in<br />
the current session of the Rhode Island<br />
State Legislature. State law requires financial<br />
reports from lobbyists and the business<br />
or organization sponsoring them by the 35th<br />
legislative business day.<br />
George Favre, editor of the Providence<br />
Journal-Bulletin editorial pages, in a farranging<br />
commentary on violent and poor<br />
quality TV, was reminded that ABC-TV<br />
president Frederick S. Pierce noted few<br />
complaints over portrayals of violence in<br />
the network adaptation of "Roots." The<br />
editor continued: "As well defend pornography<br />
on grounds that the Bible contains incidents<br />
of rape, incest and fornication and<br />
CINERAMA IS IN<br />
SHOW BUSINESS IN<br />
HAWAII <strong>TO</strong>O.<br />
When you come to Waikiki,<br />
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Cinerama's Reef Towers Hotel.<br />
IN WAIKIKI: REEF . REEF <strong>TO</strong>WERS EDGEWATER<br />
Local people interested in attending Variety<br />
Clubs International 50th annual convention<br />
at Monte Carlo should make reservations<br />
through Bill Roster at the Statlcr Hotel<br />
headquarters. So far. 24 members of the<br />
local group have signed up.<br />
Suave and debonair Mike Rosenblatt,<br />
publicity man at Tom Coleman's Atlantic<br />
Releasing Co., returned to his office look-<br />
. . .<br />
ing tan and healthy after a relaxing vacation<br />
at St. Martin Island in the Caribbean<br />
Popular Karen Berch. file clerk at Warner<br />
Bros., left that office March 19 with<br />
the best wishes from her fellow employees.<br />
Justin Freed's Park Square theatre offered<br />
a four-week festival of Shakespeare classics<br />
during March while his Kenmore house<br />
scheduled a six-week program of "women's<br />
films" from the top European producers.<br />
The new popcorn machine at Sack Theatres'<br />
newest complex in Brockton has received<br />
enthusiastic comments from the patrons<br />
Members of National Screen's<br />
. . . bowling team, organized by Alice Pais, include<br />
Charlene Parker, Nancy Gorham,<br />
Mary Curtis, Joyce Christos, Speare Christos<br />
and Mary Doherty.<br />
Theatre Managers Corp., western Massachusetts'<br />
largest theatre circuit, has named<br />
Sam Fienstein's Film Booking Service as<br />
booking and buying agent for its 13 theatres.<br />
Harvey Appell and Paul Peterson of NFB<br />
Films are around town humming a tune,<br />
"Smooth Velvet. White Silk," which just<br />
happens to be the name of one of their new<br />
pictures due in May.<br />
gets no complaints from the clergy. Well,<br />
the Bible is not Hustler Magazine and<br />
'Roots' is not 'The Andros Targets' or 'Starsky<br />
and Hutch.' "<br />
Favre said, too: "The 90 million Americans<br />
who sat enthralled through eight evenings<br />
of 'Roots' were indeed exposed to<br />
violence—forcible rape, floggings, hangings,<br />
bodily dismemberment. But ABC had<br />
the restraint to keep these acts either offcamera,<br />
or, where they were portrayed, not<br />
to zero in on them with lingering, explicit<br />
close-ups such as are standard on TV copsand-robbers<br />
shows."<br />
The Rhode Island State Labor Department's<br />
latest<br />
revision of employment figures<br />
for 1976 indicates that although the 1975<br />
recession may have been the most severe<br />
since the Depression years of the 1930s,<br />
Rhode Island's recovery was more rapid<br />
than from any of the four other economic<br />
declines of the post-World War II era.<br />
Regional openings included 20th-Fox's<br />
"Wizards" and Paramount's "Bugsy Malone"<br />
. . . The General Cinema Corp.'s<br />
Warwick Mall Cinema, Warwick, screened<br />
"Tales of the Crypt" as a late show attraction<br />
on a recent Friday and Saturday, charging<br />
$1.50 for all seats . . . The Avon Cinema,<br />
Providence, with double-bill reissue<br />
program comprised of Warners' "The Adventures<br />
of Robin Hood" and "Captain<br />
Blood," both starring the late Errol Flynn<br />
and Olivia de Havilland, advertised: "See<br />
Why They Don't Make Movies Like They<br />
Used To!"<br />
The Ocean State Theatre (formerly known<br />
as Loews State), downtown Providence,<br />
adopted a new price policy of 99 cents<br />
admission for all scats at all times. The ail*<br />
showplacc for first-run MGM product a<br />
generation ago, the State in more recent<br />
years has been operated by a number of<br />
independent exhibitors with program policy<br />
markedly varied.<br />
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The General Cinema Corp.'s Warwick<br />
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Mall Cinema brought back UA's " Yeii<br />
Submarine" for 1 1 p.m. screenings on<br />
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recent Friday and Saturday, with a $1.5(<br />
admission . . . The Avon Cinema, Provi<br />
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dence, brought back Warners' "Dark Vic (t*^ 1<br />
tory" and "Now Voyager" on a double bil "(K0 '<br />
Openings included Avco Embassy'<br />
'The Domino Principle" and Universal<br />
"Airport '77.'<br />
NEW HAVEN<br />
Trouble features, common scheduling i<br />
area adult cinemas, are being expani<br />
ed. The Spodick Bros. College Street Cin><br />
ma, downtown New Haven, ran a recei:<br />
weekend triple-feature show of "Hot Sun<br />
mer in the City," "Cherry Truckers" ar<br />
"Once Over Lightly." Admission was $2<br />
5 p.m., and, for good measure, the Spodic!<br />
offered free parking for one hour at tl<br />
Crown Street Garage. The first-run bli<br />
in this area normally plays single-featu<br />
programs, with sub-runs and smaller tov!<br />
cinemas emphasizing double bills.<br />
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Muriel Kins;, 76, a fashion designer fi l^<br />
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both Hollywood and high society for ma<br />
Pre<br />
years, died at Danbury Hospital. She hi<br />
maintained a residence in nearby Beth.<br />
Her designed costumes were worn by sui<br />
"names" as Katharine Hepburn, Ginjr<br />
Rogers, Gail Patrick and Margaret Sullav.i<br />
in the 1930s. Ms. King once remarked, \<br />
good dress should last five years." Th
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