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. BROADWAY PROHIBITING PORNOGRAPHY in the Times Square area was the object of a three-da] rally by a group called SOS (Stamp Out Smut). Ending Wednesday (13), the campaign had clergymen and members of Broadway shows banding together against X-rated films and sex book shops. The cast of the musical "Godspell" asked the audience to join in a march down Broadway in protest following the matinee performance. Alfred Drake. Ben Gazzara, Colleen Dew hurst and Jerry Orbach were among the personalities speaking out against pornography during the three days. Meanwhile, the Embassy on 49th Street has reopened as a hard-core house. Pussycat Cinema, with the debut of Alex De Renzy's "Babyface." • Producer Raymond R. Homer gave a lavish spread for the press Tuesday (12) to celebrate the filming of his new adventure drama. "Sharpies." The place was the penthouse pool atop I Lincoln Plaza, or 20 West 64th St.. where the action to be used under the credits was shot silent. Star David Broadnax, who portrays a sort of black James Bond, was there as were a bevy of beauties clad in bikinis and later in stylish Army fatigues. While the buffet and champagne luncheon was outstanding, the graciousness of the cast was also gratifying. Broadnax and fellow stars Stella Stevens. Sheila Frazier. Charles McGregor and Lionel Hampton made themselves available for lengthy interviews and autograph sessions all afternoon. Among the lovelies in the cast were Viju Krem. Nai Bonet, Catherine Reilly. Christina Ekman and Sally Beck. Publicists Harold Rand and Chuck Jones and Homer, who also directed the dtry's takes, saw to it that everyone was satisfied. • Bob Hope is to appear in person at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, L.I., for one performance only Friday evening, May 13, at 8 p.m. The comedian will be accompanied by Les Brown and His Band of Renown, Janice Harper and the New York Police Department Emerald Society Pipe and Drum Band. • "Audrey Rose," a United Artists release of the Robert Wise production, had a smash opening day gross Wednesday (6) of $23,- 365 at seven local theatres. The thriller about reincarnation, based on Frank De Felitta's best seller, opened at Loews' State 2, Loews' Cine and the Eastside Cinema in Manhattan; Plainview. Plainview. and Lynbrook, Lynbrook, in Long Island, and Cinema 46, Totowa, and the Middletown I in Middletown, N.J. Wise directed from De Felitta's screenplay. Marsha Mason. Anthony Hopkins. John Beck and Susan Swift (as Ivy) star. • "Portrait of Nicholas Ray" was the topic on CBS-TV's "Camera Three" Sunday morning (17) at 11 a.m. The famed director, writer and producer was interviewed by author-critic Cliff Jahr. Recently turned actor and teacher, Ray spoke of his friendship with James Dean during the making Of "Rebel Without a Cause" (1955) and his current experiences working with young students at the Lee Strasberg Studios. • The Brooklyn Home Reporter and Sunset News carried an article in its April 1st edition about the 50-year-old Dyker Theatre. due to close Tuesday 126). Renovation will begin next month for a September or October reopening as a series of one-story shops. Among the new tenants will be a Hillman-Kohan Vision Center. Fava Shoes. Liberty Travel, a discount drug company and several highfashion clothing stores. The possibility of erecting a twin movie house on the second level is being considered. The new owners. Developers Realtors. Inc.. of West Hartford, Conn., will dispose of the furnishings and fixtures of the Dyker (located on 86th Street near Fifth Avenue), including the organ which was located under the stage. Theatre manager John Concilia and assistant manager Anthony Schiano hope to move on to other RKO houses in the borough. • "An Unmarried Woman" has begun principal photography here. Written and directed by Paul Mazursky, the comedydrama is being co-produced by Mazursky and Tony Ray for 20th Century-Fox. Jill Clayburgh, Michael Murphy, Cliff Gorman and Kelly Bishop star in the tale of a woman and her daughter after the breakup of the woman's 15-year marriage. Much of the production will be done on Manhattan's East Side and in Greenwich Village (site of Mazursky's recent "Next Stop, Greenwich Village," also for Fox). A nine-week shooting schedule is expected to be completed by June 8. • The Thalia Theatre's Midnight Special Film Program got under way Friday (15) with two satires released by Troma, Inc.. "The Battle of Love's Return" and "Delora." Saturday night (16). the filmmakers were on hand to talk to the audience. Unusually, both also star in the films they directed: Lloyd Kaufman, with Lynn Lowry, in "Battle" and Kenneth Lane, with Chryse Mail, in "Delora." • In the magazine: The Monday (11) issue of Newsweek Magazine had a cover story on Oscar-winning "Rocky." The United Artists hit also was the first film to be serialized in the New York Post, Monday through Saturday (4-9). The May edition of Oui has an interview with Faye Dunaway, also an Oscar winner (Best Actress, for UA's "Network"). Films in Review for April features a career article on its cover girl, silent star Leatrice Joy, and one on actress Yvonne De Carlo. There are appreciations of scripter George Oppenheimer (by Ronald Bowers) and of the late Quincy Howe, former president of the National Board of Review (by ex-FIR editor Henry Har and also of the late Henri Langlois, fi archivist and founder of the Cinemalhe Francaise. • Openings: "Not a Pretty Picture," Mar Coolidge's documentary on rape, Thursi (14) for two weeks at Jean Renoir Cinen "Jabberwocky." a Cinema 5 release some of the Monty Python personnel. Frid (15) at Cinema I ; "Jacob the Liar," Genii drama in its Amreican premiere. Sunc'y (17) at the Plaza. "The Beast." X-rated f\ tasy, began its American premiere FriM (15) at two houses. 59th Street East her name, was introduced by Cinematht] head Gene Stavis and told a few anect about the film. Her daughter by fa\ John Gilbert, onetime actress Leatrice, Gilbert, was introduced by Miss Joy added that the junior Leatrice is wr%, a biography of her father. • Showcases Wednesday (13) offeree t- tle in the way of new attractions. Pla "Exit the Dragon, Enter the Tiger," 'lin With Dick and Jane," "Islands in be Stream," "Mr. Billion," "Audrey F (mini), "Network," "Black Sunday" (rrli) "Demon Seed," "The Late Show," "Voagi of the Damned," "Rocky," "King Kng' and "Airport "77." Ralph Bakshi Set io Mee Student Editors in NYC NEW YORK—Ralph Bakshi, whos turistic fantasy "Wizards" opens hel at month's end, will arrive Monday (II meet high school editors, college elors and graduate film students. Bakshi hasieen quite successful with college studentswith his past films, such as "Fritz the Cat§nd . "Heavy Traffic," both X-rated. "WizMs," his first PG film, is a 20th CenturFox release. In New York Bakshi will meet stijbts from Columbia University Film Sjool. SjooI. Pratt Institute, Brooklyn College, of Visual Arts and the New York Jhool Uiver- sity Graduate Film School, in additin to other college and high school editors.' Immediately following screening for each group, Bakshi will hold a seiinar, discussing films, animation and storyllling. !i]jfljj« E-2 BOXOFFICE April 18.1977
: Mandell. ; ! president > Pioneers 1 I Distributor Is Sought for Ballet Film Narrated by Princess Grace Bj ioiin COCCH1 thi dance Among the lamed graduates "I VI I IN MEETS MEDIA—Woody Allen, left, with Eric Pleskow, president of United Artists, met with more [li. ii i 150 members of the nation's print and TV media Friday (I) through Sunday (3) on behalf of his new film "Annie Hall." The writers, editors and critics represented leading publications and TV stations in the U.S. and Canada and were guests at a preview of the picture Friday evening (I). The film, which stars Allen, Dianne Keaton and Tony Roberts, is slated to open in late April in approximately 25 key situations around the country. 52,248 Film Budget Set For Camden County Jail CAMDEN. N.J.—An allocation of $2,- 75 was approved by the Camden County Freeholders to rent 40 feature motion pictures for showing to prisoners in the ounty jail. Among the films that the inflates will see are "Start the Revolution Without Me." "The Black Windmill." "Diamoni.lv'' Boxcar Bertha." "The Take." "Hell I p in Harlem." "The Black Bird." "Black Gunn," "Bite the Bullet." "Deep Thrust," Friday Foster." "Willie Dynamite." "Taxi l)n\er." "Foxy Brown" and "Bucktown SA." Sheriff Thomas J. O'Rourke acknowledged that the titles of some of the selected Ims had caused him some concern. However, he said, "that is what they like over there and we have had good success with Mgfphowing of films." IC ITC Films for Learning Is Releasing Art Series NEW YORK— Lord Kenneth Clark's of Modern Painting." is now bens; released as a 35mm color and sound tilmstrip series for the educational and cultural market by ITC Films for Learning, a inewly organized division of ITC Entertain- -jment, it was announced by Abe Mandell, of ITC Entertainment, an ATV iCo. "'Pioneers of Modern Painting' is the filmstrip series of our newly organized division. ITC Films for Learning." said "The series had had an unparal- Icled record of success, as a series of speon Public Broadcasting stations and as •' Ihnini series, subscribed to b> educational i Jnd cultural institutions." M W YORK- "A very special film" is a phrase perhaps too often used to describe something a bit out of the ordinary, but it does apply to "The Children of Theatre Street." a really exquisite ballet film. It tells of the training undergone by young students at the Kirov Ballet School, also called the Vaganova Choreographic Institute, in Leningrad. Princess Grace appears in and narrates the Mini for producer Earle Mack, a New York financier and patron of the arts responsible for the concept. As yet without a distributor and available in 16mm, the film will have a special benefit performance, open to the public, at City Center here May 9. Proceeds will go to the School of American Ballet, founded by George Balanchine, who will be present. In the early '20s, Balanchine left his native Russia after having been schooled at the Kirov institute. Balanchine, who also founded the School of American Ballet, once was associated with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, which links him indirectly with Princess Grace. Devoted Ballet Buff The princess, the former Grace Kelly of Hollywood, is a devoted ballet buff and agreed to participate in the venture when Mack promised to donate part of the film's proceeds to the Princess Grace School of Classical Ballet (formerly the Monte Carlo Ballet School) in Monaco and to other cultural outlets. This is not her first professional appearance since her Oscar-winning days as an actress, because she introduced the 1966 film "The Poppy Is Also a Flower" in its TV debut. She will be honorary chairman of the benefit May 9, although she is not scheduled to be present. Amy Phillips, an assistant to producer Mack, said that the Novosti Press was instrumental in getting the film (Mack's first) under way. Mack is credited with being the sole investor and with obtaining permission from the Soviet Cultural Ministry to produce a series of educational dance documentaries which evolved into "The Children of Theatre Street." Dairy m pie Associate Producer Associate producer is Jean Dalrymple. a New York producer, publicist and author. Artistic director and the supervisor of the film's dance sequences is Oleg Briansky. a ballet choreographer and teacher in this country, Director Robert Dornhelm. one of Austria's leading documentary filmmakers. is well-known in Europe. The "stars" of the film were chosen by the principals behind the scenes and include Angelina Armeiskaya, 11. Alec Timoushin. 12. and graduating student Lena Voronzova. Theatre Street is the name of the street on which the institute is located. The school teaches subjects which ordinary students would receive as well as intensive classes in the school are Rudolf Nureyev, N i Makarova and Mikhail Baryshnikov, regarded as three of the world's greatest dancers. Reference to them in the film's narration caused a cooling of relations between the Soviets and the American crew, since the three are defectors and their attendance at the school no longer is acknowledged. Mack, who runs a construction company in Secaucus. N.J.. intends to donate the bulk of any profits on the film to the arts. The well-known public relations firm. John Springer Associates. Inc.. is involved in publicizing the film, further proof of its power. Talks with agents regarding regular distribution lor the film have been initiated and Mack hopes for a theatrical outlet as early as June. Universal Will Film 'Wiz' In NYC Starting Sept. 30 NEW YORK—The theatrical motion picture version of the Broadway stage hit "The Wiz" will be filmed entirely on location in New York City, with production scheduled to begin September 30. Diana Ross stars as Dorothy in the musical based on "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," which Sidney Lumet will direct. The film is a Universal/ Motown production. The announcement was made at the Astoria Motion Picture and Television Production Center at a press conference attended by New York Mayor Abraham D. Beame, Queensboro President Donald Manes. Walter Wood of the Mayor's Office for Motion Pictures and Television and Sidney Lumet. Said Mayor Beame: "We are grateful to Universal Studios who will be producing The Wiz' and we also offer our thanks to Sidney Lumet, New York's own director who has brought a lot of movie business to New York City." The film version of "The Wiz" will have some members of the original Broadwav cast in roles they created on stage. Rob Cohen will produce "The Wiz." and Ken Harper, who was producer of the stage version, will be executive producer. Geoffrey Holder, who directed and designed the costumes for the Broadway hit. will design costumes for the film. "We have received outstanding cooperation from the movie industry in New York City and we look forward to the start of production." said Cohen who produced "The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings" and Universale "High School." scheduled for release later this \ear. Joel Schumacher wrote the screenplay for "The Wiz" and Tony Walton has been signed .is production designer. {li BOXOFTICE April 18, 1977 E-3
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