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tno oxamlnor Saturday Juno 1m Danny DeVIto stars In ABCs Taxi gDeviio can make bigger men iump HOLLYWOOD AP Dan ny DeVito the diminutive despot of ABC televisions Taxi admits he was bewildered when he first came to Hollywood Zfrom New York Devito 34 was about 22 then and had just raduated from the Academy Dramatic Arts He wanted to be movie star He arrived in Hollywood after detour downtown because he thought thats Iwhere movies were made wearing black raincoat hung around for two years he recalls wasnt exactly Ratso Rizzo but close Michael Douglas Id known him few years straightened me out When he next arrived in Hollywood after successful offBroadway stage career it was to make movie for Douglas He played Martini in stage version of One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest and was selected for the screen version Jack Nicholson who won one of the movies five Oscars ask ed DeVito to appear in Goin South He played Hog violin playing member of Nicholsons inept band of desperadoes GOT EATEPUL CALL DeVito hadnt thought much about television until as the saying goes he got fateful call They said they had part was right for he says hadnt sought this kind of employment before wanted to do movies go back to New York for play was clued in to the reputa tion of the guys behind Taxi They had done The Mary Tyler Moore Show The script was yeat the characters were well drawn really wanted the part He developed plan to land the role of Louie DePaIma the tyrannical taxi dispatcher walked into the audition and was introduced to everybody he remembers had the script in my hand said All right one thing want to know beforehand who wrote this garbage threw the script on the table There was moment of stunned silence then big laugh Louie had walked into their lives felt Louie had been written for me It was my role DeVito stands five feet tall His head seems to sit on his shoulders and his long black hair is losin out to his advanc ing forehea Hes little thick around the middle sI3 BARRIE DRIVEACAR 43 Essa Rd Barrie Alien scriptL failed to impress HOLLYWOOD AP With theatre receipts of Alien pushing into the rarified Star Wars territory Tom Skerritt is feeling good But the actor would feel even better if he owned percentage of the space thriller in which he stars Halfway through produc tion realized that it was going to be highly successful film he said offered to trade my entire salary for half percen tage point Ron Shusett the gatecutive producer just laugh Not that Skerritt believed in Alien from the beginning When first read the script was not impressed Im not fan of science fiction and anyway its not the kind of film that can be visualized from script And originally the pic ture was going to be made on fairly low budget Then Ridley Scott was assigned as director and Sker ritt reread the script with new perspective He was also encouraged when 20th Century Fox elevated the budget to $10 million Alien might well boost Tom Skerritt to the star status that has eluded him since his 1962 debut in War Hunt which featured another young actor named Robert Redford Skerritt almost turned the trick with MASH That was another script that wasnt impressive in the TOM SKERRITT feeling good reading said the Detroitham actor But knew Bob Altman and had faith that he would turn it into something that was wild crazy and delightful spent much of my time trying to convince Elliot and Don of that they thought it was crap The irony is that MASH brought new fortune to Elliot Gould and Donald Sutherland but nothing to costar Skeuitt The added irony is that Skerritt declined chance to play in the television version thought they would make it into just another sitcom he said didnt realize itWas go ing to be quality show They eliminated my character from the series so now people have CTV film wins Prague award PRAGUE Reuter film produced by the Canadian Television network CTV won the award for the best TV inter pretation of concert work at the Prague international televi LEASE I979 STNG MARTIN RAHSOHOFI an ARTHUR mumnm St molt MAHCUSODAVID flu momsmornea MARTIN ammme snAoAn rm cauz SMITH ceramic my MARTIN cauz SMITH momma CIIOII WARNERKATHRYN Mariam HAHCINI Erecutivc Emmott SI JOHNS rmmxea Directed sion festival Thursday The film won the award on the strength of using Igor Stravinskys ballet score The Rites of Spring as its background music IMPERIAL Show Timon 700 900 to ask me what role played in themovie Skerritts career continued with films like Run Run Joe and Big Bad Mama and he ap peared in dozens of television series Then came his Italian period was Italy for three and half years he said My agents at William Morris kept telling me that Clint Eastwood and Charles Bronson became stars by working in Italy But the whole situation had chang ed by the time got there On my ast film it took me mne months to get my salary Thats when decided to come back here And to change agents 731334 as 11 as Sooter Studios munI matteChem PROFESSIONAL COLOR PORTRAITS BIG LE TOUR NEW YORK CITY July Ist Weekend CALL BRISTO TRA VEL 73 70340 The Taming Point may have been just that for Tom Skerritt His performance as Shirley MacLaines husband proved one of the strengths of that film Afterward he played in Ice Castles and now in Alien story about an evermutating creature that feeds upon the crew of space vehicle What has happened to Sker ritt since Alien There was an immediate upsurge in scripts One of them IS Flash Gordon which dont think Ill do Who knows if the public wont be tired of space movnes by the time Flash Gor don comes out two years from now Now may 95 SPECIAL COLOR PORTRAIT PACKAGE ON IIlI JUNE 28 18 10 for parents 25 for grandparents walletsize for friends and relatives IMPERIAL CINA ENE 72834 WARNING Love can be hazardous to your health RECOMMENDED AS AN ENTERTAINMENT FIRST ARTISTS Presents BARBRA STREISANIJ RYAN ONEAL JON PETERS PRODUCTION BARWOOD FILM $53309 THE MAIN EVEN Childrens librarians from throughout Simooe County System featured informal 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