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It’s been a while since we’re read much about Paul
Newman, the actor not the race car driver, so wouldn’t you
know we’d find the blue-eyed star sitting in an easy chair
wearing that I-Just-happen-to-have-a-new-movie look.
Newman’s a sort of no-nonsense guy who has to have
some reason to talk at all, and here he is the star of the new
winter special, “Quintet,” which opens in the Charlotte area
in early March. Winter special is right. It was made in below
zero temperatures in the Montreal area early last year, but
that noise you may hear is not Newman’s teeth chattering.
“I don’t mind the cold all that much,” he said in a group
interview describing his experiences. “1 like the cold. We
have a river in our backyard at home, and I swim in it the
year round. What I do is get the kids to crack the ice. Then, I
come out of the sauna and plunge into the water.
“I don’t think the weather affects my performance at all.
Not unless it gets really cold. I mean so cold I lose all the
flexibility in my mouth, and can’t form words very well.”
But Newman, who just reached the tender age of 54,
didn’t have any trouble mouthing the dirty words in “Slap
shot,” a 1977 flick about hockey players. The words were
bad and so was the picture. Newman had no comment on
that, but it’s interesting to note he took an 18-month sab
batical from the screen after he saw it!
Employ Older Worker Week Is Observed
citing a proclamation Manager of the
Issued today by President ployment Security
Chrter, Franklin L. Ware, mission’s Shelby
Superintendent
Urges Spring Oeanup
“I just decided to take some time off,” he shrugged, jump
ing the gun on a question he knew was coming. “1 did it
because it was time. I’ve been working since I was 13, and I
just figured it was time to put a bunch of time together. It’s
really funny because I found out that I didn’t do anything of
consequence.”
Five or ten years ago Newman was the biggest name on
the screen, thanks to such smash hits as “Hud,” “The
Hustler,” “Cool Hand Luke,” ““Butch Cassidy and the Sun
dance Kid,” and ‘The Sting.” It seemd he was a star who
couldn't be snakebitten bv a bad stnr. But “Slapshot” chang
ed his luck, and “Buffalo Bill and the Indians” didn’t help,
either.
Now he’s the star of “Quintet”, and maybe it’s no coin
cidence he’s a detective again, just as he was in a much
earlier success, “Harper.”
“Well, I guess you’d say Essex — that’s me — is a detec
tive,” Newman mused. “He’s a deducer. and no. I didn’t pro
nounce that wrong. Of course, he’s pretty well anesthesized
in an animal-survival way..A lot of human functions, like
making love, are simple, vague memories in the back of his
mind.”
If this sounds like a hogwash description of the movie,
that’s just the way Producer Bob Altman wants it to sound.
Altman, who produced “Buffalo Bill,” won’t say much about
the picture except that it’s about games people play.
“Quintet,” for all it’s worth, is one of the games.
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The movie could be the start of a new era for Newman.
He and his old buddy, Robert k, -Iford, have been looking
for something interesting to do, and we’ve heard talk they
might star in a flick based on the early days of their Cassidy
and Sundance characters. He and wife Joanne Woodward
will host a shot for the Ford Motor Company’s 75th anniver
sary next summer. And he’ll direct a play at Kenyon College,
the school from which he graduated some 30 years ago.
“Just the other day, someone asked me if the play will
celebrate a centennial or something,” he said. “No, it’s
nothing like that. TheyVe just got a new drama building
there, and 1 won’t let them call it Paul Newman Hall or
anything like that. 1 don’t suffer from the ‘edifice complex’. I
just don’t want it that way.”
Newman directed Miss Woodward in a movie, “Rachel,
Rachel,” several years ago. The movie enjoyed both critical
and box office successes, but even now people are saying it
had some “understated things,” meaning it was old-
fashioned because it didn’t take all the liberties permitted in
today’s pictures.
Newman isn’t having any of that. “You’re talking about
nudity and all that stuff, aren’t you?” he asked. “No, there
are probably some things that could have been done better. I
made some technical mistakes, but in “Quintet” Newman
worked with an international cast, including such names as
Italy’s Vittorio Gassman, Fernando Rey, France’s Brigitte
Fossey, and Sweden’s Bibi Andersson. Newman says simply
Altman “sent me a serin* ”
“t^intef is a game,” Newman said. “Me — I’m not really
that much for games. I don’t have the patience for them, but
I do enjoy bridge, if I have time to sit down adn play.”
Mountain Reat
Superintendent Ken
Jenklna la reminding
Klnga Mountain cltlaene
that It's time to begin the
spring elean-up of the
cemetery grounds.
"Please remove all
Christmas flowers from
the cemetery’’, says Supt.
Jenkins.
Faster Sunrise Services
will be held at the
cemetery on April IB. Supt.
Jenkins said that the
grounds are to be readied
by April 16th and that
Marshall
Examines
KM Fire
County Fire Marshall
Delane Davis Is In
vestigating possible arson
tai the destruction of two
structures on Stone St.
early Tuesday morning.
The former home and
business structure of
Avery McMurray were
completely destroyed by
fire about 12:30 a.m.,
according to Fire Chief
Gene “ngnor.
"By the time we
received the call and got to
the scene, both structures
were beyond saving,”
“ngnor said. “Both
buildings were unoccupied
and no one was Injured In
die blase.”
Easter flowers or seasonal
flowers should replace the
Christmas wreaths and
flowers on graves.
Service office, announced
his office's participation In
National Employ the Older
Worker Week, March 11-
17.
"As much as race, sex,
national origin or physical
handicap, age Is a
significant source of
employment discrim
ination today,” declared
Ware. "National Employ
the Older Worker Week is a
good time for us to
remember that capability,
not chronological age, is
the true measure of a
worker’s worth,” he ad
ded.
In addition, Ware cited
the Federal Age
Discrimination In Em-
Idoyment Act of 1967 which
prohibits any form of Job
or hiring bias by an em
ployer on account of age.
This law particularly
applies to persons between
the age of 40-66.
In fiscal year 1978, the
Employment Security
Cbmmlsslon placed over
14,000 persons 46 suid older
In Jobs. This figure
represented some 11
percent of all Job
placements made by the
agency that year.
In Shelby, the local Job
Service office pllaced 284
older workers In FY 1978,
about eight percent of the
office’s total placements.”
Ware stated that each
BSC office offers a trained
Older Worker Specialist to
aid persons 40 and older In
the Job search. In Shelby,
the local Older Worker ||
Specialist Is Karen ^
Hamrick.
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