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-entertainment. Elliot Gould Actor discu m ACTOR ELLIOT GOULD The actor of "MASH" \ 'Twilight Zone' By Allison Stein "You're traveling through another dimension. A dimension, not only of sight and sound, but of the mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundries are that of imagination. Next stop, the Twilight Zone!" If you walk in to this movie expecting to see the caliber of the original "Twilight j Zone" television series, you won't find it. ( With four directors, each directing a separate segment, the anthology remakes three original episodes and introduces a new s one. ' ] DAN ACKROYD and Albert Brooks star in the prologue, but Ackroyd does not do his famous "Saturday Night Live" imitation of Rod Serling. Instead, he says, "Do you want to see something really scary?" The first segment, directed by John Landis, stars the late Vic Morrow as a bigot who steps into the Twilight Zone. He becomes the object of the bigotry that he has practiced rwpr thf? UMrc Morrow and two young children were killed when a helicopter crashed during the filming of the segment. The existing footage was edited to salvage the story, but it was a waste of time, talent, and human life. i There is no script, no acting, and no story. Landis was trying to make a blatant message movie and produced a blatant piece of trash. , LANDIS AND four others were indicted by a grand jury last month on charges of inI voluntary manslaughter in connection with the fatal accident. Since the story was changed after the acci* dent, one can't help but wonder what role the children played in the original script. r\ - ^ U?i C#/ktfnri QtMolkarm \\ UITCCICU uy Oicvtn iiiv 3vi,uiiu segment stars Scatman Crothers as a magical visitor to an old folk's home. He grants the residents their wish to be young again. Thk cement is full of charm and is reminiscent of "E.T." Crothers gives a fine performance, though he seems sometimes to be addressing the audience rather than the old folks. m b sses chances 01 makinc ^^Rg| y ; Photo by Allison Stein I TALKS WITH REPORTERS DURING PRESS CONFERENCE Mas at USC yesterday discussing in state film possibilities r 4..U leans iu uci|jluits siyic I film review hHE SPIELBERG'S SEGMENT has been j .tars Kathleen Quinlin as a woman who befriends a boy with an activc imagination. hie creates a cartoon world and forces his This is the oddest of the four. James Hora photographed this segment in an expresWilliam Teegarden's set design is stylized and imitates the vintage cartoon home down Directed by Austrailian George Miller, the J fourth segment is the most highly acclaimed of the four. ! John Lithgow gives the best performance | of the entire film as an airplane passenger who is convinced there is a monster shred- I ding the wing of the plane, but only he can ! see it. Miller's direction is the finest of the four and has the certain quality for which the Aussies are famous. He makes the most of the suspense and the confined space of the cabin. His monster is endowed with a fingerwagging "naughty-naughty" attitude. original television scries* but while two , episodes come close to success, the other two , , A TERRIFIED In one of fc 1 film in state n.. All! Oa_" ny Hinsun dujiii Elliot Gould was at USC yesterday to announce the possibility of making a film in South Carolina. Gould, who has starred in many films, including the original "M-A-S-H," announced his interest in filming a movie in Charleston and possibly Columbia early next year. "There is interest in working here and making productions ? motion pictures ? perhaps more than just motion pic tures," Gould said. "IT IS possible that we can have a facility here that will not only produce a product like motion pictures but help local people to learn the craft of making pictures and editing pictures and scoring pictures." There is talk of a setting up a production studio, but there is no company involved as yet. - ! 1 1 A J _ _ _ A A I i, as an inuepenaeni producer, am interested in maKing my own picture here," Gould said. "We are working with the state government to possibly make a movie here." The script he has in mind is currently titled "For the People." which he calls a "Capra-esque piece of Americana that can work very well here." "IT'S A terrific script," Gould said. He also said he would like to use most of Charleston and possibly some of Columbia because he wants it all to look like the same city. " We would film it entirely in South Carolina," Gould said. The film is romantic comedy about "a man and a woman trvinc to live as we are without beine moved out."The orieinal title was "The Last Hold-out." "I've decided that Charleston can be a site for it. I like the architecture. What we would do is have the Old World of Charleston and the different social and economic areas and in the same picture have a more metropolitan area like Columbia seems to be." Gould would like to use as many local people as possible if he decides to film here. "1 would probably bring six or eight actors or less with me and use everybody locally." HF IS rr?ncirlf?rino fithfr Sallv nr Armctrnno tn play opposite him in the film, which he says has a budget of approximately $2 million. Robert Mahr is Gould's production associate and has worked in Charleston before, filming a documentary which aired on WNET in March of this year. of television show ^RHsSR v. mm . ' - "r--; WM ' 1 - - " ' . 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