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HOLLYWOOD VP) --Favored
John Wayne, the creaky bounty
hunter of True Grit, and long-
shot Maggie Smith, the spinster
school teacher of The Prime
of Miss Jean Brodie, won t o p
acting Oscars last night at the
42nd Academy Awards.
Midnight Cowboy, a seamy
tale of a male hustlsr in M a n-
hattan, was named, best picture
of 1969. Its director, John Schle-
singer, was also a winner along
with writer Waldo Salt, once
blacklisted by the film industry.
Wayne, 62, was accorded a
thundering ovation from t h e
movie crowd at the glittering
Music Center in recognition of
40 years of stalwart screen por-
trayals. He long has been re-
garded as the movies' top action
hero and is the acknowledged
all-time box office champion.
"Wow," said the damp-eyed
Wayne after lumbering on stage.
He had played a one-eyed mar-
shall in True Grit, and he
cracked "If I'd a known that,
I'd a put on that patch 35 years
earlier." He added his thanks
to the academy members and
movie fans everywhere, then
admitted he was "very grate-
ful, very humble.' He had been
the sentimental favorite. -
For Miss Smith it was a sur-
prise victory for a career of
playing drabs on the screen.
Jane Fonda and Liza Minelli
w e r e considered favorites for
best actress, but the British
star's performance in the little-
heralded Miss Brodie obviously
caught the voters' fancy. She
was not present for the award.
Gig Yo u n g, the marathon
dance operator of They S h o o t
Horses Don't They? ; and Goldie
Hawn, the giddy fiancee of
Cactus Flower, won best sup-
porting actors awards.
Young got his first O s c a r
after a long career as the lead-
ing man's friend in a host of
comedies. Goldie, the giggling
blonde of television's Laugh In,
drew the honor for her first
film.
The award for best foreign
film went to Z, a vituperative
attack on the military dictator-
ship of today's Greece. The film
was made by Frenchmen under
Algerian auspices.
The Oscar event got off to a
glittering but slow start at the
Los Angeles Music Center after
a prelude marked by noisy
picketing. B 1 a c k s marched on
the east side of the Music Cen-
ter, complaining of lack of par-
ticipation in the film industry,
and Mexican-Americans parad-
ed on the west side with the
same grievance. The picketing
was loud but orderly.
Oscar's old pal, Bob, Hope,
started the two-hour televised
program with his usual pepper-
ing of the film industry. Among
his comments:
"It's been a great year for
movies. Did you ever think you'd
see Richard Burton play both
king and queen? .. . This will go
down in history as the cinema
season which proved that crime
doesn't pay but there's a fortune
in adultery, incest and homo-
sexuality."
The comic added: "Are you
gonna tell me we're honoring a
sadistic king, a consumptive
drifter, a male hustler, a school
teacher dropout and a one-eyed
sheriff? This is not an academy
awards, it's a freak-out .,.
Hope presented the Jean Hers-
holt Humanitarian Award to
fellow. comedian George Jessel
for his long devotion to good
causes, including entertaining
American servicemen.
Burt Bacharach's lilting score
for Butch Cassidy and the Sun-
dance Kid won for the best orig-
inal score of a non-musical film.
The Oscar for best score of a
musical went to Lennie Hayton
and Lionel Newman for their
adaptation of Hello Dolly.
The fashions were stunning.
Highlight: Elizabeth Taylor in
a flowing gown of multicolored
metal fabric, with her $1.05 mil-
lion diamond shimmering above
her plurnging neckline.
Most actresses opted for long
dresses rather than the new midi
skirts.
Other ,awan'ds:
Best achievement in sound -
Hello Dolly, Chenault Produc-
tions. 20th Century Fox, Jack
Solomon and Murray Spivack.
Live action short subjects -
"The Magic Machines," Fly-By-
Night Productions, Joan Keller
Stern, producer.
Cartoon short subjects - "It's
Tough to be a Bird," Walt Dis-
ney Productions, Ward Kimball,
producer.
Cinematography - Butch Cas-
sidy and the Sundance Kid, a
George Roy Hill-Paul Monash
Production, 20th Century Fox,
Conrad Hall.
Film Editing - Z, Reggane
Films - O.N.C.I.C. Production,
Cinema V, Francise Bonnot.
Special Visual effects - Ma-
rooned, a Frankovich-Sturges
Production Columbia, Robbie,
Robertson.
Documentary production-fea-
tures, Arthur Rubinstein, The
Love of Life, a Midem Produc-
tion, Bernard Chevry, producer;
short subjects, "Chechoslovakia,
1968," Sanders - Fresco F i1 m
Makers for U.S. Information
Agency, Denis Sanders and Rob- .
ert M. Fresco, producers.
Art direction - Hello Dolly,
John DeCuir, J a c k Martin
Smith and Herman Blumenthal,
John Wayne wins best
-Associated Press
actor for 'True Grit'
f.
records
Let Frank do his Zappa' thing
set direction, sharing the same
award, Walter M. Scott, George
Hopkins and Raphael Bretton.
Costume Design-Anne of the
Thousand Days, a Hall B. Wal-
lis-Universal Pictures Ltd. pro-
duction, Universal, M a r g a t e t
Furse.
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By JOHN STAFFORD
When in high school you
found yourself perplexed at
hearing "Freak Out" by the
Mothers, you probably had the
same reaction that Susie Cream-
cheese did. "These Mothers is
crazy." Then you heard their
next two records and got into.
it. After all, you might have seen
them live when Frank Zappa
came to the mike after nearly
an hour of tuning and said,
"Aggravating, isn't it?" Then
there was Reuben and the Jets.
What gas. Man, is that funny.
Finally, though, 'you probably
got bored. with the Mothers.
You knew all the jokes, andt
their satire got to be a little
stale, a little grating. You saw
"Uncle Meat" and "Burnt Wee-
nie Sandwich" at the record
store and decided you should do
without.' Well, Frank has gotten
rid of the Mothers and he's de-
cided to stop being an angry
young cynic. Instead he has be-
come the most underrated
musician in the country. Sure,
you've heard that before, but
this is really the first record on
which it becomes evidently true.
The man is really a genius.
The- style is ;still somewhat
the same. Very eclectic. A Moog
sythesizer underplaying the ma-
jor themes. Japanese koto
music. Millions of time signa-
ture changes. Great drumming.
The best innovation, however is
the fact that it's all music. There
is one ,satirical piece in Hot
Ratz entitled "Willie the Pimp"
with Captain Beefheart singing
in a gravely, nasty, pimpy voice,
but the lyrics occupy only one
or two minutes. The three long
pieces, "Willie," "Son of Mr.
Green Genes" and "The Gumbo
Variations" are extensive free-
form jazz jams including Zappa
on guitar and bass. Ian Under-
wood is the best saxophone play-
er in the rock field that I can
think of offhand. It is so very
refreshing to hear a young sax
player who doesn't try to sound
like Coltrane and who is also an
excellent musician.
Frank still has a great love
for wah-wah distortion on his
guitar, but he uses it with more
effectiveness than anyone I can
think of 'with the possible ex-
ception of Eric Clapton. There
are a few sections in the long
jams when the variations are so
delicate and intricate that un-
less one is a musician or a music
scholar many of them are lost.
I found myself getting bored,
but knowing that I shouldn't
have been. These same varia-
tions have the added effect,
however, of leaving things to be
learned and heard for the first
time at each listening. This is
definitely an album to have fun
with for a long time. Buy it. If
you don't, you may never hear
it because most people don't dig
Zappa anymore. But that's their
loss, not yours.
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Not that you'd want to. Some,
times it just happens... like
after a picnic, or when you
bring home a couple of cold
6-paks and forget to put 'em
in the refrigerator. Does re-
chilling goof up the taste or
just because the temperature
has its ups and downs.
You can understand why
when you consider all the extra
trouble and extra expense that
go into brewing Bud@. For in-
stance, Budweiser is the only
beer in America that's Beech-
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