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Whitby Free Press, 6 Jul 1972, p. 5

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WHITOY3 FREE PRESS, Thursday, Jul /6, 972, pari en te taiqment About Clint Eastwood guide At Whitby's Brock Theatre DIRTY HARRY'S IN TOWN ! Don't let Clint Eastwood's violent screen demeanor fool you. He's a push- ove r for kindness and consideration. He respects every living thing from kids to kangaroos; he believes in peace and reasonableness, and he has been k n o w n to gently urge a common house fly out the window rather than destroy its fragile life with a violent swat. Eastwood's impenetrable toughness grew natural I y, out of those Italian ro les in such films as " A Fistful of D o I I a r s" a n d " For A Few Dollars "More in which an absence of humane- ne s s made him a disreputable but ad- mi red k ind of movie hero. With the international success that came to him in those roles, he stayed more or less in the same type when he resumed mak- pictures in America. He w as a tough cowboy, or a tough soldier, or a tough deputy sheriff, and right now he's a tough police detective in "Dirty Harry" a Malpaso Production for Warner Bros. , no\w at the Brock Theatre , produced and directed by Don al1 d Siegel. Clint plays t h e title role, the epithet indicating that Harry gets the d ir t y end of the stick rather than that he plies his profession in a less than admirable manner. Gradually Clint will probably water down h i s image of violence as he goes in other directions, expandinghis char- acterizations, whilehis continuing success a s an actor becomes a recog- ni zed as much as his original success as an actor who plays brutal roles. C l i n t Eastwood i s truly an animal lover and abhors any kind of cruelty in t h e wild kingdom, as well as in the domesticone. He is also a people lover and deplores inhumani ty in any respect. His wife feels the same way. For most of theyear they live a happy , respectable life in the resort communityof Carmel, Calif. , with their four-year-old son Kyle. Presently they are occupying a house of cottage dimen- sions, but Clint owns some beach pro- perty on which he hopes soon to build larger headquarters. Corwin presents - a program with Imagination Norman Corwin Presents, a new series of half-hour colour dramas taking its name from its host, a man whose name is legendary in Amer ican broadcast dr ama, begins on CBC-TV on Friday, July 7, at 8:30 p. m. , for eight occas- ions. Cor win, writer of such memorable radio dramas as On a Note of Triumph, introduces each of the teleplays toview- ers. Corwin also wrote a number of the scripts comprising the TV series, and d i r e c ted the premier offering -- You Th ink You've Got Troubles? -- one of his own scripts. For te lecast on July 7, You Think You've Got Troubles ? stars dwarf actor Micheal Dunn (of Ship of Fools fame) as an earth-wrecked Martian who makes a passionate plea for unity on earth. Norman Corwin Presents is produced byArjo Productions for syndication by G r o u p W Productions (Westinghouse Er o adcasting), and was taped in Tor- onto. Starring name actors, American and Canadian, the dramas feature Canadian supporting casts. Among the stars of the e ight episodes to comprise the CBC-TV summer series are Donald Harron, Beau B r idges, Diane Baker, Fred Gvvynne, Carl Setz, Leslie Nielsen and Forrest Tucker. The anthology series offers a wide range of subject matter and style, from c o medy and serious drama, to science fiction and fantasy. Sa id Corwin at the outset of the se ries, "We hope to come up with the imaginative: using our imaginations and allowing the viewers the same privilege. ltmaybe a fantasy one time, or looking a t r e ality from a new angle... or ad- venture, or the very dramatic... or the whimsical. " T h e second drama in the series, Pappy'sOasis (for telecast on CBC-TV July l4) tells the story of a lonely young man on the run, and his encounter with a girl working in a roadside cafe. Bon - nie Bedelia co-stars with Beau Bridges. Script is by Alvin Sargent. Odyssey in Progress, a musical fan- tasy by Norman Corwin, Ray Evans and Jay L ivingston, ail abouta boy "search- ing the heavens for his pet dog Il, will be telecast on July 2l. Steve Franken and Eileen Wilson star. Aunt Dorothy's Playroom (for tele- cast July 28) stars Diane Baker and Fred Gwy nne in a "parable for television", taking theform of a children's program in which ail the "children" are adults. Script is bv Don Balluck. PULLOUT SECTION entertainment sports Im SAE money on DI Premium Buality Fuel Gil DI OIL -a 668-3341 A>l

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