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McGavi in 'Ze By Davki Baker Gamccock FHm Critic Don Weis' Zero to Darren McGavin's first film since Airport '77 was two years ago. It was a \ movie for the veteran perl make because he and 1 producer Katherine Broi been involved with the from its inception, McGavin originally 1 planned to act in it. "We never prepare simply for me to act in or I to produce," McGavin s prepare scripts because they're good and because they have commercial ] By the time we realized tl going to play the lead rol< the part and what was re it, so it was very easy to m McGavin, however, is n with the finished film. "I spend another two month he said "I'd likf tr? Hn rf four scenes, add two, cut t change the' score. You*i happy with your finished because there's never time. "Francis Coppola, after a half years with Apocalyi is unhappy with it. I guara a. 1 a l m - 1 uiai ne wouia iiKe co go t play with this scene and r? scene." Although McGavin likes in films, he doesn't 1 restrictions filmmaking actors. "I like to rehea rehearse and rehearse," ...:iu r:i. OIIU UIC piuuicill Willi 1111 there's very little rehear between one set-up and tl And generally, the direc very much involved v rehearsal?he's intere: what's going on wi mechanics of the camera. . "So the way I function i the other actors into a co we ' rehearse?wheth director's there or not?ur ready to go in front camera." McGavin first became ii in acting when he was a t "My parents got divorce< was 11 and I really was . doned child," he said. "I i discovered in a school nla^ was about 13 or 14 years acceptance by an audien extraordinary thing. "I didn 't have the guts t( it, though. At first, I w architecture, but then I i hell with it. I wagfio be an Possibly Me^avin's famous work virafe in t television series* The Stalker, which is Still beir as a late night series c Because of an argument o\ direction the series wouJ ? McGavin thinks of The Stalker as "not one of my exjieriences," he said, add n a star i :ro to Six "I really wanted mythical monsters Sixty is ; feature and just concentri released them down through 'ery easy former to McGavin doesn'i his wife, one role to be hi; ivne, had favorite role, he s? ! project the dope pedd although Preminger's The lad not Golden Arm. "I rea Sinatra so itchy in McGavin said. scripts rnrifothi, "He didn't reali aid. "We wouldn't tell him u we think was over. We gol we think night and he said 4V potential, creepy in that I hat I was 'Frank, you may n< e, I knew 1 knew nothing at a quired of ?*! * ake." othappy I 'd like to I is on it," I *F ifalfoc rtn | ?/l ?" .p n I ,B ^ 1 'p ft I 2009 Ham| 1?1 J ftcS* mm / Pott g?|g88 / y ! hree and we never product enougn four and pse Now, Served with tntee you >ack and . 1L - A i r-i:ui mai working \" - ? ike the puts on rse and he said, m is that sal time , le other. CLTTll tor isn't i/ith the sted in ith the s to take Tl'Cdt i rner and er the (Iclicio itil we're p , r\( (ka I* (I 111 / I !i VI Ul^ ? " ' Top ?f iterested eenager. i when I an aban-* suddenly Wcdhc y, when I ,, old, that berVtH ce is an (). ()() J). ) go after ,en? in'0 Eiitert jaid, To actor.'" Ma, rily most ('(til X he 1974 ivigni ig rerun fl ABC. ^ rer what 71/ Id take, 1 He ? Night happier ing that in dope. All I k somehow was go j y back into gettini T\J way I could do it as a girl. So I sec to take three W 1 wanted to i , like Dracula, *te on tracking "It's kind < 41 ? " heavies " MoGa inetuuiiuy. ' . .? you can find the t consider any teresting enough, > best, but his lid, was that of McGavin is ur ler in Otto his next projec Man With the may," he said, lly made Frank three we're cu i that picture," with: The House, about the prehafc The Crazy Reb l - 1 V T? ? , ize wny ana 1 r?rn, aiiu i in III) intil the picture about that one; ; smashed one American Truck 1 yhy were you so film?' I said, The one he'll cl )t realize it, but "whichever one s 11 about dealing is best." 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