TO LORD

• the
Oil
Jrest to Johnstown, since "Slap Shot" uses
[e people of the city and many locations
.is a backdrop for a plot about minor-
re
igue hockey.
One patron commented. "1 think a lot of
iple were worried the film would he a
tdown of Johnstown bill it wasn't at all.
ie\ showed the mills but they're part of
.hnstown. 1 thought it was very fair."
This Cambria Counts city is more than
sualh connected with motion pictures,
ice Charles Bronson (whose real name is
harles Buchinsky) dug coal in nearby
hrenfeld. Pa. Additionally, onetime Tarn
film star Johnny Weismuller was born
Windber, Pa., .1 short distance from
hnstown.
alph Bakshi's "Wizards"
lated to Bow April 20
NEW YORK— "Nothing I've ever done
fore will prepare anyone for what I'm atmpting
in my new film." says Ralph Baki
of his current 20th Century-Fox release,
\ i/ards." subtitled "A Tale of Sword and
ttcery in the Year 2.000.000 A.D." which
'ens Wednesday (20) at the Trans-Lux
ist and other theatres. Bakshi catapulted
the forefront of film cartoonists with
s controversial "Fritz, the Cat," "Heavy
raffic"
In
and "Coonskin."
"Wizards," Bakshi has taken an imagiitive
leap into the world 2,000.000 years
:nce—a world pervaded by mysticism and
.igic and peopled by wizards, elves and
PHILADELPHIA
Tim Brennan is now handling the neighborhood
theatre advertising tor the Daily
News, succeeding veteran salesman Moc
Verbin, who has retired . . . Fred Goldman,
head of the Exceptional Film Society,
repertory subscription series, and head ol
the Middle Atlantic I ilm Board here, has
been selected as regional coordinator by the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
to conduct competitions for the fourth
annual Student Film Awards program.
The local premiere of the 278-minute
documentary film. Marcel Ophuls' "The
Memory of Justice," took place Sunday (17)
at the Irvine Auditorium on the University
of Pennyslvania campus. The filmmaker
himself appeared at the opening-evening
showing to discuss the film.
Mel Blanc, the voice for hundreds of
Warner Bros, cartoon characters, told the
story of the cartoon industry to over 1,600
students attending his lecture at Lehigh
University in Allentown.
Temple University's Prof. Marie-Georgette
Steisel is directing a festival of French
films being shown at both the university's
Beury Hall and at the TLA Cinema. Opening
with "Nea." by the director of "Emannuclle,"
all the films are being shown at
both
houses.
United Artists Theatres reopened its
Boulevard Drive-In, Allentown, for the new
season with a triple feature offering "Let's
Do It Again." "Uptown Saturday Night"
and "Lucky Luciano."
Linda Goldenberg, publicity and promotion
director for Budco Theatres, is hosting
a series of tour preview showings ol "Islands
in the Stream" at the Top ol ilu
I
screening room in advance of its local premiere
at the Ritz 111 Iheatre WednesdaV
(27).
The showing of "Memory of Justice" at
Lafayette College, Easton. was followed by
a lecture by filmmaker Marcel Ophuls. who
discussed the format of his documentary
films.
Sylvester Stallone, in a telephone interview
broadcast with Don Cannon from the
West Coast on WFII. Radio here, said that
a sequel to "Rocky" will be filmed in this
city, as was the original film.
An exclusive franchise was given to Tilbury
Cable Co., headed by Edward Gronka.
to provide a cable TV service for Plymouth
Township in suburban Wilkes-Barre.
The company will pay the township 1 per
cent tax on all gross revenues.
Spiro & Associates, local advertising and
public relations agency, has been named to
handle public relations and publicity for
Variety Club Tent 13.
orough Ordinance Blocks
few Adult Theatres
COLLINGSWOOD,
N.J.—Commissions
here have approved an ordinance they
d would block the opening of any new
hilt bookstore or X-rated movie houses
the borough. The measure prohibits the
nation of any such establishment within
'KM) feet of any other such business or
sidentially zoned area.
Although the measure will not affect the
CO adult stores already in the borough.
i\or Brennan said the stringent zoning
ifli quiremenLs eliminate possible new oper-
*. ions. Mayor Brennan said the ordinance
as modeled after the one recently upheld
n.
U.S. Supreme Court.
TOO New Product Seminar
It NY Hilton Draws 150
(Continued from page E-l)
;fOA to making the new product seminar
|i annual event; a presentation of a watch
]• the past president of ITOA, Ron Lesser;
speech by Martin Newman, the newly
^pointed executive director of Will Rogers
"i exhibitor participation in the Will
ogers collection drive, and the awarding
f door prizes to four lucky winners.
The day concluded with a special screenig
of United Artists' "Audrey Rose." starng
Marsha Mason and Anthony Hopkins
tthe Bombay Cinema.
3XOFTICE ;: April 18. 1977
Philly Mayor Rizzo Backs
Antipornography Measure
PHILADELPHIA—Mayor Frank S.
Rizzo pledged his support for a new antipornography
bill that was introduced by
Councilman Joseph Zazyczny January 27
and for which public hearings were held
March 23. The bill, which is expected to
pass easily, would make it illegal for any
adult bookstore or adult movie house, pool
hall,
arcade or other such establishment to
operate within 500 feet of an area zoned for
residential or within 1.000 feet of another
such
establishment.
For further protection, a companion bill
recommended for passage by the city planning
commission flatly would prohibit such
shops and theatres in all areas of the city
except for parts of center city and West
Philadelphia, already zoned "heavy commercial."
The bill, while not applying to some 80
existing establishments in
the city, effectively
precludes openings at any new locations
in the city, according to the planning commission.
The ordinance is patterned after
the five-year-old Detroit ordinance that was
upheld last summer by the U.S. Supreme
Court in a 5-4 decision.
The only major opposition to the bill
came from the American Civil Liberties
Union (ACLU). Spencer Coxe. head of the
local ACLU, said the government had no
business "regulating zoning on the basis of
what kind of book a business is selling or
what kind of movie it is showing." Coxe
said he had "no problem" with existing city
ordinances which regulate what can be displayed
in the windows and on the marquees
of such establishments.
"Certainly the public has a right to be
protected from pictures that are displayed
in such a way that passersby can't help but
see them," Coxe said. However, he added.
the only reason there are adult bookstores
and X-rated films is that there are people
who want to read or see them. "If people
want it," he said, "they ought to be able to
get
it."
Griffith Subject of Film
MEDFORD, MASS.—"The Great Director:
D.W. Griffith," a documentary on the
first well-known American director, was
shown at the Medford Public Library on a
recent Tuesday night at 7 p.m. Admission
was free and open to the public.
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