Potpourri From the Film Capital

By HERBERT LUFT

(Copyright 1979, JTA, Inc.)

HOLLYWOOD — Susan
Strasberg co-stars with Tom
Berenger and Karen Black
in the provocative love
story, "In Praise of Older
Women." Most of the action
is set in Hungary and the
theme is very French — but
the picture,was actually
produced in Canada, with
George Kaczender directing
from a screenplay by Paul
" Gottlieb based on Stephen
Vizinczey's modern classic.
Stephen J. -Roth and Harold
eenberg sign as execu-
_yes for the picture set in
Budapest in the aftermath
of World War II with the
focus on an adolescent boy
seeking early sexual ful-
fillment. • The epic
encompasses 20 years and
ends up with escapades of
the young man in his
newly-found home in the
Canadian metroplis of
Montreal.
Miss Strasberg is in-
volved in a major sequence
as, a Hungarian patriot who
first sacrifices her youth on
the altar of love with the
handsome young man (a de-
lightful portrayal by Tom
Berenger) and finally sac-
rifices her life in order to
protect his escape from
Budapest after the 1956 up-
rising.
MOSHE MIZRAHI'S
latest motion picture, "Mo-
ments," a truly interna-
tional production involving
Israeli-French-German fi-
nancial interests, has been
completed on location in
Jerusalem and now is in the
process of scoring and dub-
bing at the Studio Boulogne
in Paris.
Michal Bat Adam, who
took part in four of Miz-
rahi's movies: "I Love You
Rosa" and "Daughters
Daughters" (both Oscar-
nominated), the Academy
Award winning "Madam
Rosa" and "The House on
Chalouche Street," wrote
the screenplay, co-directed
and portrays one of the two
female leads in the love
triangle between two young
women and a man.
Brigitte Catillon, the
Swiss actress who starred in
France's official entry to the
Cannes Festival in 1978,
"Moliere," co-stars with
Assaf Dayan, actor-son of
Israel's Foreign Minister.
"Moments" will be
screened at this year's Can-
nes Film Festival. The pic-
ture has been budgeted at a
modest $500,000. It is the
hth
feature
for
ducer-director Moshe
izrahi, who is already
preparing his next one, a_
major film dealing with a
Soviet espionage ring.
HERBERT ROSS has
moved his production unit
of "Nijinsky" from the
British Pinewood Studios to
actual location in Budapest
and the Riviera. Harry
Saltzman who owns the
literary property based on
the tragic life of the great
Russian dancer serves as
executive producer. The
screenplay is by Hugh
Wheeler.
American Ballet Thea-
ter's George de la Pena por-

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trays the title role, with
dancer Leslie Browne (of
Herbert Ross' "The Turning
Point") as Nijinsky's first
wife and Alan Bates as im-
pressario Diaghilev, the ar-
tist's Svengali.
LILLIAN HELLMAN
has been honored by the Los
Angeles Drama Critic Cir-
cle with a special award for
•her distinguished contribu-
tions to the American thea-
ter. Since the author is ail-
ing and unable to make per-
sonal appearances, Jack
Albertson presented the
honor scroll in absentia to
John Houseman, another
giant of the screen and
stage.
Among the participants
in the awards presentation
was Julie Cobb (one of last
year's recipients), the
actress-daughter of the late
Lee J. Cobb.

ELLIOTT KASTNER,
whose far-flung production
ventures stretch from Hol-
lywood to New York, Lon-
don and Paris, announces
two new pictures. First is
the filmization of the 1969
Broadway play, "Hadrian
VII," biographical account
by Frederick Rolfe,
dramatized by Peter Luke
and originally announced
for John Schlesinger. Now
Czech director Milos For-
man (of "Hair") will be at
the helm.
Simultaneously, Kastner
prepares for a late April
starting date in Europe for a
contemporary action thril-
ler, the story of a $1 billion

caper starring James
Bond's Roger Moore.
JERRY LEWIS, after
devoting his talents for a
number of years exclusively
to television, night club ap-
pearances and charity
drives, returns to the screen
in "Hardly Working," a
comedy-drama written and
directed by him with him-
self in the starring role. The
picture has been before the
cameras in southern
Florida where it is being
completed in its entirety.
PAUL MAZURSKY,
writer-director of the much
honored, "An Unmarried
Woman," commences in
May another romantic sc-
reen comedy, also written,
directed and co-produced by
the versatile former
member of "The Second
City" improvisational
stage.
ROMAN POLANSKI is
roaming the French coun-
tryside' and the studios of
Paris to complete, "Tess,"
the classic tale from the pen
of Britain's Thomas Hardy.
"Tess of the d'Urbervilles"
originally was one of the
earliest Adolph Zukor films
starring Mary Pickford
more than 60 years ago.
GEORGE BURNS has
joined the all-star cast of
presenters at the 51st An-
nual Academy Awards pre-
sentation to be aired over
ABC from the Los Angeles
Music Center April 9.
Johnny Carson is the sole
MC set by the Academy's
president Howard W. Koch.

Treaty Boosts Israel, Egypt
in Poll of American People

NEW YORK — The latest toward the U.S., versus 14
Louis Harris Survey shows percent negative. This is
that Israel and Egypt have up from 70-17 in January.
risen in favor with the
Saudi Arabia had only a
American people since the 42-37 margin in the poll on
signing of the peace treaty the same question and Jor-
between the two countries dan was 36-34.
last week.
The settlement between
Some 67 percent, versus Israel and Egypt was ap-
23 percent who expressed proved 74-16 percent by
negative feelings, _believe those polled, but 65 percent,
Egypt is friendly toward the versus 26 percent, disap-
U.S. This is up from 62-20 in proved of the U.S. commit-
January.
ment to provide Israel and
Some 79 percent be- Egypt with economic and
lieve Israel is friendly military assistance.

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Countries are well culti-
vated, not as they are fer-

NEW YORK — The
Anti-Defamation League of
Bnai Brith expressed its
concern that "the generally
progressive document" is-
sued by the recent Latin
American Bishops' Confer-
ence at Puebla de Los
Angeles, Mexico, "failed to
condemn anti-Semitism."
In a critique of the docu-
ment, Rabbi Leon Klenicki,
director of the ADL's de-
partment of Jewish-
Catholic relations, told a
meeting of the department's
committee that "the omis-
sion of the Vatican II con-
demnation of anti-Semitism
is a serious failure in a con-
tinent where there are prob-
lems of anti-Jewish feeling
and action."
Rabbi Klenicki, who
was present at the
bishops' meeting, attrib-
uted the omission to var-
ious factors, including
the apathy of some ele-
ments of the Catholic
Church, the opposition of
representatives of Arab
nations and the absence
of a realistic Jewish-
Catholic interchange in
Central and South
America.
On the other hand, Rabbi
Klenicki pointed out that
the bishops had now opened
the door to such a dialogue
between the Jewish and
Catholic communities
throughout the Latin
America.

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