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THE DENTON RECORD-CHRONICLE
Friday, June 18, 1970
Friday
omurements
Texarkana Site Of Filming
A Model 50-Year-Old
By VERNON SCOTT
HOLLYWOOD (UPI) — Paul Newman, wearing only a
pair of undershorts, lay in bed making love to bare-breasted
Melinda Dillon.
It was, of course, all in a day’s work for the superstar in his
new movie, "Slap Shot."
After three hours of closeups, reverse shots and master
shots, Melinda fell prey to the giggles. Newman, ever the old
pro, repeated his lines faultlessly.
Director George Roy Hill, a meticulous perfectionist,
finally gave the word to "cut and print." The long day’s
shooting was completed
Newman hopped out of bed, donned a blue bathrobe and
headed for his trailer dressing room just outside Universal’s
Stage 16. For Melinda, who had covered her charms in a robe
too, the scene was the last in the movie.
“Goodbye, Paul," she said.
“Hey, good luck," Newman replied, waving farewell.
“Have a nice trip back east.”
For a couple who had spent an afternoon in bed together
their parting was singularly impersonal.
It was the next to last day of the picture. In his trailer
Newman peeled down to his shorts again. He began packing
some of his clothes in cardboard boxes
“How about this,” he said, grinning "Here I am a movie
star and my luggage is cardboard boxes My daughters left
for our home in Connecticut with Joanne this wife Joanne
Woodward) yesterday and the little devils stole my suitcases.
"Ah. well, they can do no wrong."
Newman in his drawers is a model for all 50-year-old men.
He is well muscled, flat bellied and rock ribbed. For a man
who drinks 20 bottles of beer a day he is something of a
phenomenon.
—His physical condition doubtless may be attributed to a
fortuitous metabolism and the unrelenting demands of the
roles he plays.
In “Slap Shot" he portrays the player coach of a profes-
sional hockey team.
He spent endless hours on ice rinks learning to handle stick
and puck and to skate with the effortless ease of a
professional athlete.
"I did a lot of skating when I was a kid," Newman said as
he continued to stuff possessions in a flimsy container. "But
it was hard to go back to using the muscles all over again.
“I’d forgotten how much fun it was. And I think I got quite
respectable on skates. But on the 11th day of shooting the
hockey scenes I really ruined myself.
“It was a big fight sequence on the ice. You have to brace
yourself very differently when you get into a brawl without
solid footing. So I strained all the muscles on the inside of my
thighs and in my abdomen. They’re still sore.
"This has been the toughest physical film I’ve ever done.
And, believe me. I’ve done some rough ones."
During his career Newman learned to box for "Somebody
Up There Likes Me," the Rocky Graziano film biography.
His western films demanded that he ride horseback as if he’d
been born in the saddle.
He learned to handle rifles and pistols for a dozen pictures.
Newman mastered billiards and pool for "The Hustler."
He became a proficient trombone player for "Paris Blues."
Once a picture requiring special expertise is completed,
Newman walks away from his new found talent and doesn’t
look back — except for automobile racing.
He became hooked on car racing when he starred in
"Winning." Since then he has entered organized races whe-
never he can. 1
"I’m luckier than a lot of actors," he said, tying string
around a cardboard carton. “I’ve never had to do any period
pictures where I’d have to mess around with swords and
sabers.
"Costume films aren’t my cup of tea. I stay away from
them.
"I can handle the physical demands of my roles. It’s the
public demands that really tire me out.
PAUL NEWMAN
20 Bottles Of Beer A Day
“We had arenas full of crowds for hockey sequences, and
everybody in the place had cameras with flash atta-
chments. They’d come up to within five feet of me and flash
them off in my face.
“Now that’s really tough. Sometimes at the end of the day
my eyes were more tired than my legs."
Newman struggled into trousers and shirt and prepared to
leave. "I need a rest," he said. "And I just may take a year
off to spend with my family."
Bit Parts: NBC-TV will beam "Papa Hemingway" as a 90
minute special next season ... George Maharis has been
added to the cast of "Rosemary’s Baby II" ... William
Devane will star in "Rolling Thunder" filming in San
Antonio, Tex.
TV Westerns: A Sluggish Comeback
e
EDITOR’S NOTE - The fall
TV season will include one
Western series, on NBC. If it
does well in the ratings, the
Western might make a
comeback on all three
networks.
genre?
The key to this tran-
"There’s nothing taboo sformation is realism.
about it but you go at any "With ‘The Quest,’ " says
given moment with what you NBC programming
think your best show is,” executive John J. McMahon,
says Michael Eisner, head of “we are going to do stories
By LEE MARGULIES
prime time production at
ABC-TV.
Programmers at NBC and
LOS ANGELES (AP) — CBS say they also go with
This was supposed to be a : their most promising pilots."
story about the return of the But there is more to it than
Western to television. _ that.
The three commercial - What killed the television
networks developed nine Old Western was demographics.
West pilots as potential There were too many series
series for next fall. They and the plots became too
seemed certain to opt for at familiar — just as with
least one Western each as today’s cop shows. But the
relief from the police shows. biggest problem for the
But the comeback fell far profit-oriented net works was
short of what could be that the cowboys were
considered trend-setting. discovered to be lacking in
Only one Western made the appeal to the right audience,
fall lineup — “The Quest" on the 18-to-49 year old city-
NBC. dwellers who are the
That, of course, is one primary target of most TV
more Western series than advertisers.
was carried this past season. To make the Western
but it hardly compares to a competitive in such a
year such as 1959, when market, the networks and a
there were 32 horse operas variety of independent
on television. producers are trying to
Does television have a modernize the venerable
peculiar aversion to the form and broaden its appeal.
that have a contemporary
ring to them even though
they are set in a period 100
years ago."
Larry White, who will
oversee production of "The
Quest" at Columbia, says the
studio is concentrating on
making the series a more
accurate representation of
the way the Old West really
was, not the way it has been
fantasized for so many
years.
This approach certainly
was evident in the two-hour
TV movie that served as the
pilot for “The Quest," which
tells the tale of two young
brothers — one educated in
the city, the other raised by
Indians — who are combing
the West in search of their
sister.
The barroom girls,
bearing little relation to the
proper Miss Kitty of
"Gunsmoke," were scantily
dressed and openly solicited
the bar’s cowpoke patrons.
The streets of Cheyenne
were not only muddy but also
filled with cattle being
driven into town. The
Indians were depicted as
basically good; the U.S.
cavalry was shown un-
favorably.
Frid
FIBBER McGEE And FREDDIE INVITE
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OF
TEXARKANA, Ark (AP)
— Filming is scheduled to
start here Monday on
Charles B. Pierce’s newest
movie, "The Town That
Dreaded Sundown."
The movie will be about
the Texarkana, Tex., 1946
phantom killer cases.
Ben Johnson, who won an
Academy Award in 1971 for
best supporting actor in the
movie "The Last Picture
Show,” will star as Texas
Ranger M. T. Gonzaulles,
who headed the in-
vestigation.
The killer, who was never
caught, attacked at least
four couples in lovers’ lanes
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