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Whs that at right Thats singeractor Kris Kristofferson minus beard and moustache posing with his singer wife Rita Coolidge in London recently where they were top ing television show for the BBC AP Photo Still part of Hollywood but Its life of change for Dean By STEVE ASEY opley News Service HOLLYWOOD With radiantly sincere smile and an affable easygoing manner actor Dean Jones slowly almost reluctantly talked about Dean Jones the man and the changes that have come in tohislife The reluctance was out of consideration for his com panions handful of jour nalists who he feared would fast become bored with the story of the new life he has discovered For Jones who once revelled in his role as the selfdescribed number one carouser at MGM about four years ago suscribed to Christianity of the born again persuasion and as consequence he said nothing in his life is unchanged Im still part of Hollywood he said but like to think Im not by OTTAWA CPi The Na tional Ballet School in Toronto is looking for ad ditional funds from private donors to take its leading students on more per formance trips across the country Betty Oliphant the schools founder and prin cipal said Wednesday Miss Oliphant here to pre pare for an appearance of 30 students at the National Arts entre May said that because the dancers are not in professional company the school does not qualify for Canada Council touring office grants The appearance here is at the invitation of the arts centre That means the governmentsubsidized cent re will pick up much of the cost guaranteeing the school against financial loss Miss Oliphant who came to Canada from England to found her own dance school in 1947 and who built it into the National Ballet School in 1569 said she believes it is important that the students travel Performing away from To ronto gives students ranging in age from 13 to their early as taste of touring life and also allows the school to show the rest of the country what it isdoing The school which has no corporate connection with the National Ballet of Canada though many of its students find place in the ballet company is heavily dependent on government and private financial sup port Its budget for 197778 with student body of I48 and teaching staff of 75 was $15 million It received $600000 through the secretary of state department that fiscal year Reasoner out NEW YORK AP ABC News chief Roone Arledge said Wednesday he is removing Harry Reasoner as an anchor of the ABC ambition making bigger picture or taking another 10 starlets to bed This is an empty city said Jones One of the worlds most successful producers told me dont know anyone whos not empty FULL LIFE By contrast Jones said his life has become full He and his wife became Christians together he said and its boggled my mind whats happened since then One of the things is that we were put into contact with refugees from Uganda and fwnd out what was going on there We found Idi Amin had been killing million people and about 800000 of them Christians Thats because it was Christians who were there If it were country filled with Jews hed be killinchws Jones wife Lory is writing book on Amins persecution of Evening News and will give Barbara Walters special role doing away with regular New York anchor person He did not fitinto the plan the way we were going Ar ledge said of Reasoner at news conference dont think hes made any secret of that Susan Anton beauty contestant Christians he said and the two of them went near Uganda for research was afraid for her to go into the country Before we got there the wife of one of the men shes writing about was picked up by Amins secret police and beaten They kept asking her what about the book what about the book So we set up shop in Kenya and people came across to see us Jones noted for his Disney films said his religious ex perience has brought order and serenity to his life used to run from one thing to another At first thought if could be film star it would satisfy me Then if could get enough money together Then if could have successful Broadway play opened in New York and the reviews came in and Time gave it eight pages should have been thrilled to death but showbiz Arledge said that Frank Reynolds would be the primary anchor based in Wshington Peter Jennings will anchor theforeign news desk in London and Max Robertson the domestic news desk in Chicago Barbara Walters hesaid will be regular on the show interviews and conducting HOLLYWOOD The King of Swingwil be 70 ears old next year but for moment at Carnegie Hall this year it was like time had stood still for Benny Good man and his magic clarinet The sounds that bounced around the venerable hall in anuary were the same ones hat had set feet to dancing the depression 19305 and he wartime 1940s Benny had with him Lionel Hampton Mary Lou Williams and Jimmy Rowles plus some great idemen for rollicking tour of the favorites of the Big Band era There was Lets Dance the Goodman theme song And Hoagy Carmichaels Stardust And King Porter Stomp the old Jelly Roll Morton song And How High the Moon Moonglow Lady Be Good Jersey Bounce Dont Be That Way Stompin at the Savoy And the Angels Sing north by Louis Armstrong was coming of age Art Tatum pianist legendary even then was playing in New York And the Big Bands were forming Miller Harry James the Dorseys was depressed He walked out on the play ran away really he said The producer explained his departure by saying he had hepatitis which was lie Suddenly he said of falsh of selfevaluation he had while performing in New Jersey the whole value system had didnt make sense felt if got standing ovation if the name Dean Jones was on every marquee light what would it mean His conversion he said imposes certain limitations on what films and plays he will do would play any role he said but if the picture as vehicle did not hold out some hope for the human spirit wouldnt do it could play desperate drug peddler but if at the final credits said there is no hope life is hell and theres no escape wouldnt do the picture gathering inside in formation On Reasoner Arledge said that discussions on his future were being conducted and that an announcement will be made when decision is reached Success story LOS ANGELES AP Susan Anton is member of what may be Americas smallest minoritybeauty contestants who have gone on to make it in show business Not that Susan Anton is household name Not yet anyway She has cut her first album for Columbia Records and stars in her first TV musical variety series with Mel Tillis called Mel and Susan Together which airs tonight on ABC Susan Anton was MISS Cali fornia in 1969 and second run nerup for Miss American in 1970 Few beauty contestants go on to fame after their one moment in the spotlight Only few names come to mind Lee Ann Meriwether Cloris Leachman Anita Bryant Phyllis George and Bess Myerson One reason is that most girls dont want it Miss Anton said Theyre from small towns and they enter for the fun and want to go on tocollege New group HAMILTON CPI An Ontario student broadcasting association is being planned as result of provincewide student radio conference conference spokesman said recently The conference at McMaster Universrty discussed regulations of the Canadian Radiotelevision and Telecommunications Commission program ex changes and the establish ment of provincial group to look into specific problem areas the spokesman said Herman Duke Woody Ellington London Records caught Goodmans 40th and tied up the highlights in tworecord set Its beauty Also getting applause in 78 Sta rga rd Which Way Is Up MCA fine rhythmandblues trio Rochelle Runnels Deborah Anderson and Janice Williams that was launched into musical orbit the the movie The girls have been singing around disco funk clubs for years so this is no overnight success Deborah was only 14 when she was singing with Virgin Spring Haggard Eleven Winners Capitol Country boy Merle wrote most of these himself in cluding Movin On Also on the LP are Always Wanting You Everybody Had the Blues Its All in the Movies and Old Man from the Mountain If vou like country Merles the man Elvis He Walks Beside Me RCA Presley the king of rock roll also was very religious person and loved do this kind of music far Robeson Jr Paul Robeson Jr is shown during interview in New York recently where he talked about the increasing public and Hollywood interest in the career and life of his father famed actor singerathlete Paul Robeson who died in I977 The younger Robeson says All per son has to do to find out about Paul Robeson is to read him The image of my father Is best obtain ed from his writings films and recordings AP Photo Hes not Gomer any more By DONALD FREEMAN Copley News Service HOLLYWOOD was frankly to tell the truth of it just plain flatout tired of the skedule said Jim Nabors in the cadence and tones of his Alabama roots which is namely the town of Sylacauga where he once sang in the high school glee club The skedule said Jim had me all over the place playing theatres and all on the road When my old variety show ended that was six seven years ago decided to hit the road but its been getting pretty thin lately all that livin in hotel out of suitcase so to speak Last year Jim says he was gone from home more than 40 weeks and that was too much Now Im not saying it wasnt lucrative What it was was very lucrative But you have to have life too when youre only home six weeks or so out of year something isnt going well although did like getting out and meeting the people face to face who have made your career Anyway said Jim went to my manager and said Id like to get back into TV again And then we started looking around Jim knew that variety shows were part of the longago past and he thought just ssibl that situation corn betheticket WOde Benny Goodman King of Swing Bunuels very small film Lil llglitiU Goodman album is beauty removed from things like Jailhouse Rock Backed by the Imperials Quartet and the Jordanaires Elvis made some moving recordings of such monuments to faith as How Great Thou Art Miracle of the Rosary An Evening Prayer and Hels My Everything Manhattans Theres No Good in Goodbye Columbia this classy quartet is devoted to romantic ballads so there is nothing here that is going to raise anyones blood pressure Its quiet soothing sentimental with lot of strings in the backup Highlight is the beautiful Tomorrow from the Broadway hit Annie 13 Rampal RAMPAL Greatest Hits Columbiai No one plays the flute like JeanPierre Rampal even though he started late at age 13 and was opposed by his father who wanted Jean Pierre to become doctor Father was wrong again however and JeanPierre grew up to cure more melan cholia playing the flute than he ever would have as doc tor fifth version of 1898 story By CAROL OLTEN Copley News Service HOLLYWOOD As Luis Bunuel filmed segments of That Obscure Object of Desire in Seville he observed that This will be very small film One needs just hole to look out of like spider that has spun its web and is remembering what the world outside was like At 77 and viewed from the perspective of this latest work the iconoclastic Spanish director seems very much like thatspider He has spun his mad web in some 30odd films in which prime concerns have been social injustice antivclericism George Gobel wears and political rebellion laced with themes of surrealism black humor and eroticism He has fought the censors nannies sitting on our shoulders Bunuel calls them inhibiting calm and destroying our phantoms He would have preferred to have lived in the Middle Ages he has explained because they were more introspective more spiritual and more rebellious THROUGH MAZE But now Bunuel the spider peers through that maze outrage transcended but with humor and supreme skills as craftsman intact in this latest work perhaps for its im maculate cutting and editing Behind the mask lies George Gobel piggish Halloween costume in this scene from Rabbit Test described as an outrageous comedy about the worlds first and deft treatment of subject his most perfect The new Bunuel piece represents actually the fifth movie version of Pierre Louys story about femme fatale La Femme et le Pantin published in 1898 Although first filmed in 1920 with Geraldine Farrar the most famous version did not come along until 1935 when Josef von Sternberg made The Devil Is Woman starring Marlene Dietrich Supposedly Bunuel wanted to do his version in the 19505 but he and the producer disagreed over the treatment and the star the result was that Julien Duvivier directed Brigitte Bardot with slightly altered title from 1935 Women Like Satan Bunuel waited and Better the delay because for the 705 Bunuel has concocted film that is near perfection He has elected to have the role of the beautiful coy young woman the object desired to point of frustration by proper grayhaired French aristocrat played by two actresses Carole Bouquet plays near porcelain or Hellenic Con chita Angela Molina reveals more fiery Spanish one Both dart in and out of scenes with surprising fluidity Molina enters bathroom pregnant man coauthered and directed by come dienne Joan Rivers Among those starring are Billy Crystal Paul Lynda Roddy McDowall im ogene CocaAlice Ghostley and Fannie Flagg