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-entertai Glamor; t '' x .j.rj.v - 'flr^ ' 'i^Kt I i ^wBCTffiTiBW i JM j Jagg i . -iaHP ~'"~ Jrr~ ---1- * -! Wr ::;:^[^x;:;:;?^y|^j|^^Wpjr.:^ /; ji7\-~:'^ Lana Turner, one of Hoilywoi quality on stage in "Murder An Movie ad By Doug Bell Movies made from bestinevitably provoke a standan "the book is better," "th makers) left out the best changed it around too much." Such predictable derision me ? it's all so prejudicial an I try not to be annoyed w made in the transition from i Books are books and movies the film adaptation is good ? movie ? I try not to care viuiciiuj 11 win iu> auurcc. WHILE WATCHING "Sof however, I found myself same old platitudes I once fot William Styron's "Sophie' huge, haunting novel na struggling, young Southern Stingo, newly transplanted to Stingo builds an extraordii with a strange but dazzling Nathan, a suave, brilliant, medical researcher, and Sopl fratfilo PaIicIi imtviirtwnn* ...i a* jl WIIOII AAIAlAli?l Cllll W1 centration camp number U arm. Styron expertly we autobiography (Stingo obvioi Styron) and social history ( South as well as Nazi Gern tragic fictional narrative. His sensitive authorial involvenr book its artistic unity and emc THE FILM version is wril and directed by Alan Pakula the President's Pakula's approach to adapl from the books he produced (such as "To Kill a Mockin remain as faithful as possibli even to the point of doggedne; strengths must be the movi and the weaknesses must also nment ins ! ana 1 . s_;. xV-' KP ^ ... T_ir; n.r.iT. ~~~t. M -j" t01~ ---;- -1, ,~~:.v r" WL_ . S >^H~ , '" 71- -fp ~z-;--'^y^'zji.z~r-t -X^"~ MHK^HiKr < <:? r'- ~_T + >~_ j. y\:ii'. TUT? ~ j." - ' $ - - "i <:"V:::!: W:^i&--?'-* - T-~ r^-V.- - - 7 _I"'- "JT-"- ' < > :-::>'-:j^B.: i'.-Iv^-1"'''fnJA - ,-~- r r r *V 1 >.5^^Rr .-" "" :"-v-;^r. .v7Vfj^.-ITO. ^r;f-1-- ';i^H Dd's most glamorous actresses for many long Friends," playing tomorrow and Frid laptation of selling novels film i d controversy: ey (the film- ????i parts," "they "To Kill a Mockir earnest, straiehtfor usually bores well acted, but t yhow. creative personalit) ith alterations rather impersonal ii )age to screen. The same could are movies; il Choice." if it works as a ! if it departs PAKULA HAS ad in a conventional structure, conder >hie's Choice," scenes, switching 1 mumbling the one character rathe md irrit.atincr aHanhtinn t\( ito .n . VTA lio 1X111 s Choice" is a My deepest re, irrated by a narrative voice i writer named diminished here th Brooklyn. the real author is lary friendship excised. pair of lovers: It could have b violent Jewish teresting, provocat lie, a beautiful, there been back-< th a Nazi con- Styron's career. F ittooed on her formance as the : dimensionless and u aves semi- Of course, the f isly represents mature Stingo (the i the American but that voice is as nany) into his convincing as the on ? deep, acutely Walton's Mountain e tent gives the >tional depth. SINCE SOPHIE is however, it is my ] fpri _i 1 |/>uuu\.bu mci jr i ou ccp piays i ("Klute," "All Streep is a marvel perfect: a delica nation, judging simultaneously in for the screen vulnerable and gbird"), is to withstanding increc e to the novel, and guilt, able to lov is. The novel's In her first long < ie's strengths, meets Stingo at hi be parallel. dual nature is eviri "urnpr hrin h h m u ' By Pamela S If author Gray really aged for hin "! a similar po Alter 46 3 ner, now 62 i charm that Hollywood's Turner is tour with I Among Fri< Series will \ The Town production three years. Turner exhi jl^L a legend dui as MGM ar |b|M more abou |?L "Murder Ai .. she wanted i a very egoti take on a lo MK^jWaBHlSaKMISr remain a pu /..'V ; i;--best is yet to T establish Ti the majorit; silvery blom _BF opera "Fal ; - Jane Wyms from a you IHF familiar wit hnsskt tiipwi/ij f 1 JLJ A V pigf the series. ' jjpBp long hours glf end up worl What Tur dropped froi .... , day on the years, still exhibits that despite the i ay at The Township. tension on tl novel may s review MNMl lgbird," for example, is I -ward, entertaining and itterly devoid of real y Tf in in J? -> r. 11 lOy 111 UU1C1 wuius, a , nterpretation. be said for "Sophie's lapted the lengthy novel manner, retaining its ^ ising and combining mWJ ^ ocales, and focusing on IJrJr t than three. It is a good Wjf d. / >? gret is that Stingo's j|tf and presence are so m lat any resemblance to jf carefully, and stupidly, I een a much more in- SH ive and sly movie had ,jMsK. ihatting references to JgBr eter MacNichol's per- : ;.?K young writer is weak, ; V mF nconvincing. ilm is narrated by a MpaPmil voice of Josef Sommer), gura remote, hokey and une that used to waft down ?the movie's true focus, HHHHH pleasure to report that Nathan (K ler to the hilt. Carpet slide I to watch. Her Sophie is te, haunting beauty, chanting yc telligent and naive, fatale. durable, capable of One bool lible measures of pain revealing < e and prone to lie. unpredictal ilose-up shot, when she same misU s apartment door, her film is an lent: she's both an en- story, boli ins nlav tn T r,%*f w haw Rumors r Oscar Wilde's fictitious Dorian ^ complel had a portrait of himself that weekend, o n, surely Lana Turner possesses Turner app rtrait. endings we 'ears in the film industry, Tur- know what itii . onf nro of ill t , stiu nas ine oeauty, grace ana ?ww?o?wm? earned her the nickname of "Sweater Girl.'' TUKNEF in Columbia to begin a six-city w:th thf> the comedy/mystery "Murder ?<n jnds," which the USC Cultural draped or >resent tomorrow and Friday at a fr ship. This is the seventh 1*3 of the play Turner has done in cltffhanger Long bef r ,, , Turner ms RE press conference Monday, dnrint? thp bited the glamour that made her her Contra( ring her career with studios such id Warner Brothers. She spoke ^ t her many films tha about Vpnr anH n mong Friends," simply because ^ sort Q'f [n IcPPn thp mvstprv a mtictorv - - ?- ^ ~ ^* training. very wealthy woipan married to Turner si stical actor. And I'm bored, so I studios tra ver," she said of her character, tresses wo h a mischievous smile, "and along slowl n going to tell you. to the publ i, the play's director, who ac- ceptyou fo Turner to the conference, would .p^ner s. /ague references to plot twists, hnnpfnU u urder plots and "red herring" i? h Murder Among Friends" will ctnop hntn izzle until tomorrow night. "The ' > come," Turner promised. has done well enough to re- 4'CERTA irner as a box office draw, but necessary. y of audiences today know the actors and de from the CBS nighttime soap she said, con Crest." Playing opposite Unlike ne in, Turner has won admirers the chanc inger generation generally un- Hollywood' h her movies. as Gable Barrymore SAID she enjoyed working on Garfield. \ 'I like television, hut I hatp th*? plnccin ,,ri ? everyone does, because you Twice." king late. All in all, though, it's "We did swearing," ner intensely dislikes about her "Postman, ^alcon Crest" is the story cir- mean, we ? x)ut Wyman wanting Turner butwhypul m the show ? or else. Turner di t horrible? I like Miss Wyman a with Jack P hard worker and works every did she wai show," Turner said. She said that to it' rumor's falseness, it still caused alone? " Tu: le set. m ** wtter by comp< ""'\| ^ ^ levin Kline), Sophie (Meryl Streep) end Stingo (I i at Coney Island. Inset: director Alan Pakula. rnng lover and a doomed femme (Kevin Kli lover, Nath c reviewer was castigated for photograph too much of the novel's rich, dros). t>le plot. I'll avoid making the It won't p ?ke by reporting simply that the most view< absorbing, highly tragic love pointed wh stered by fine performances powerful sc ownship lotwithstanding, "Falcon Crest" :e filming of its season finale last ne of the few episodes in which >eared. She said seven different ire shot, so only a few people ; the cliffhanger will be. The ion't know. t COMPARED the final episode ho shot J.R.?" story from the TV lias," but said it would not be 1 as long as "Dallas" was. She ained vague on any specifics, it was to be waited on in the , she said "Aha!" mischievously, ore "Falcon Crest," of course, ide her name as a movie star studios' golden age. She signed :t at age 16, and in four years she ring with Clark Gable at MGM. an average of four films each t the same time, was involved in "learn as you earn" type of lid she believes the old method of ining their own actors and acrked quite well. "We were led [y, given the proper introduction ic. And if the public doesn't acrgetit," she said. N lid the main problem with young >day is their lack of training; ; taken classes or worked on nany more have not. INLY SOME sort of training is Unfortunately, lots of young actresses don't have enough," sophyte actors today, Turner had :e to work with some of s true legends, leading men such ;, Spencer Tracy, Lionel , Robert Taylor and John Vith the latter, she filmed the The Postman Always Rings n't have to have nudity and she said of her work on " "Everything was implied. I ill know how to curse and when, t the words on film?" id not see the film's 1980 remake, Nicholson and Jessica Lange, nor it to. "Why take a classic and do ' Why not leave well enough rner asked. See "Lana Turner," paga 9 irison WW; 'ater MacNichol) ride the Magic ne is also excellent as Sophie's lan), solid direction and luscious y (courtesy of Nestor Almen lease all readers of the novel, but srs at least will not be disapen they witness the film's most ene: the "choice" itself. I