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Whitby Free Press, 20 Jul 1972, p. 3

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WHITBY, FREE PRESS, Thursday, Julyý 20e 1972e page en.tef'taiijreij uide TELLY SAVALAS STARS IN RATTINOAN P LAY .Te re nce Rattigants play 'Man and Boy'1, a gripping drama about the last hours in the life of a scheming tycoon, wiIl bepresented on the CB3C television networkWednesday, July 26 at 9:30 p. m. in colour. TellySavalas plays the central role of Gregor Antonescu, a c ha rming and r ut hle s sfinanci e rwhose empire is crumbling about him as his shady deals a r e exposed. In a 1 a s t desperate at- tempt to rescue himself from his tangled a ff a irs Antonescu takes refuge in the G r een wic h Vill1age apartment of his s on , whom he has flot seen for years, and tries to arrange a business mer ger with an associate named Mark Herris. Antonescu ha s discovered that Herris is a homosexual and plans to use his own son as the bait that wil11 tempt Her- r i s i n t o the deal. But Antonescu has r ec ko n ed without the shrewd mind of Her r ri s's accountant, David Beeston, who- unilike his master - is not swayed by emot ion. This production, fromBritain'sAng- 1 ican TV, a 1 s o stars Gareth Forwood as Àntonesculs son, Basil Anthony; Gayle Hunnicutt as Basills girlfriend, C arol1 Penn; and Paul Maxwel11 as Mark Herris. Others in the cast include Ed- ward Bishop as David Beeston, the ac- count an t ; L iz Fraser as the Countess Antonescu; and David Bauer as Anton- e s c u 1 s trusted l ieutenant Sven John- ston. 'WET EARTH, WARM PEOPLE' The people , plac es and culture of Indonesia - an equator-straddling nat- ion of 1*1,000 islands and some 122 mil- lion inhabitants of a dozen ethnic back- grounds - are the subjects of 'Wet Earth, Warm People', a fulI-hour NFB documentary to be colourcast Wednes- day,ÀAugust 9at 8p.m. on the CBC- TV network. National F il1 m Board director Mike Rubbo employs much of the same tech- nique i n this sensitive documentary as he did in the acclaimed film 'Sad Song of elIow Skm'i, produced i n Saigon: A matter of Fat Montreal accountant Gilles Lorrain before and after his drastic weight r edu c tionprograml shown in the NFB f ilIm 'A Matter of Fat', to be repeated on th-e CBC television network Wednesday, JuIy 26 at 8:00 p.m. crowded (3 million) capital of Djakarta and a brief profile of the city's police chief who sings Hawaiian songs on TV and keeps wiId monkeys in his back yard becausehe says he prefers them to people; and a sequence illustrating the way o f 1 ife of Indonesian peasants who regularlyrisktheir lives on river rap- ids, delivering bamboo poles. 'PULLOUT rSECTION. entertainment sports' r-i i g s i ci upe ii r ri v LII 3 MinuteG& Downstairs Service HEEL BAR- REPAIR WHITBY MALL -----------------OnIy ONE in CANADA-...

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