Page 2- The Michigan Daily - Sunday, January 29, 1984 'Take one i Martha Cook (Continued from Page 1) student in communication and script supervisor for Secret Honor. "HE GIVES people the opportunity to take the initiative - to give their ideas," Wessinger says. Students are participating as wardrobe assistants, prop coordinators, and office security persons. And like any internship, the student jobs on Secret Honor are not much more than glorified gopher work. But students gain experience and exposure to real Hollywood filmmaking. Some media critics such as Detroit Free Press columnist Bob Talbert, charge Altman with cashing in on ,cheap student labor, but the novice crew members shudder at such claims. P"You're learning on the job," said LSA sophomore Larry Shapiro, who works as a stage hand. "Every student has a responsibility. We ^work within our space, but we are a part of the produc- tion crew and we're treated as (such)." "I love it," he says. Altman "wanted to give everybody a shot. I'm learning -more here than I have in the classroom." Doing simple tasks, such as guarding dorm halls as "office security," isn't belittling, adds Toni Perrine, a graduate student in telecommunication who policed Martha Cook halls last week, hushing passersby. "ALTMAN told us before (shooting began) how it would be," Perrine says. ;Not getting actual "hands-on" experien- ce is all right because "it's mainly good experience just being around professionals." Altman has returned to small-scale ,filmmaking with Secret Honor which has a budget of less than $100,000 - a c miniscule amount by Hollywood stan- dards. ' A growing distaste for egotistical stars who are motivated solely by money instead of quality is Altman's main reason for experimenting with the low-budget Secret Honor. & Altman criticizes top-draw stars like Gene - Hackman and Robert Redford because they would never even look at a relatively inexpensive film like Secret Honor. t HacKman) wouldn't do a picture for $40,000 - which is a living wage. Everybody just wants to be a 'star.' What may be happening is that you're *>elling your soul to old money." AND EVEN Altman admits that he thas "succumbed to (the dollar) time sand time again. It becomes so insidious that you don't even know it's hap-1 'vening." "All of these classes I go to people Daily Photo by DEBORAH LEWIS LSA senior Peter Mercurio signals the beginning of another scene in Robert Altman's new movie, 'Secret Honor: The Last Testament of Richard M. Nixon,' which is filming in Martha Cook's Red Room. talk about the 'art' in this and the 'art' in that - nobody ever really talks about what success does to you - how par- ticularly success can destroy you, can simply marvelous actor - and his agent won't let him read a script unless he gets an offer of $2.5 million. "Now I'm not gonna pay him $2.5 I love it. You're learning on the job. (Alt- man) wanted to give everybody a shot. I'm learning more here than I have in the classroom.' - Larry Shapiro LSA Sophomore ture done.' (Directors) are just in it for the commerce, too. They give the guy $2.5 million and make a lousy picture. "He does five of those in a row and suddenly Gene Hackman is yesterday's news." Altman has returned to his film- making roots with Secret Honor. The film is a single character study of Richard Nixon and shows his attempts to cope with his guilt after Watergate. After Altman saw the original stage version of Secret Honor, he says "it was politically, and historically, very in- teresting and the story stayed with me. I thought, Jesus, every one of these guys that ends up with that kind of power, must have things that they can never tell anybody. There's no way to escape it." Profile will return i p next Sunday's Daily. INBRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and United Press International reportsa Salvadoran peasants accuse leftist rebels of massacre SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - Peasants fleeing a village in eastern San Miguel province reported that leftist guerillas massacred 40 people, Tilitary officials said yesterday. The reported massacre came amid rebel charges that government air- craft were bombing civilian targets in a counter-insurgency sweep of the San Miguel area. In Guatemala, the Guatemalan foreign minister said the United States has approved the sale of $2 million in helicopter parts in a resumption of U.S. military aid for the first time since 1977. Military officials at the San Miguel garrison said peasants fled the village of San Antonio El Mosco, 110 miles east of the capital, after guerrillas massacred at least 40 residents Thursday. The village is near an area where the government is trying to re-populate abandoned villages and farms under a Vietnam-style pacification program. Gunmen fire at U.S. helicopter BEIRUT, Lebanon - Moslem gunmen fired a rocket yesterday at a U.S. helicopter off the Lebanese coast but missed, a Marine spokesman said.A pair of explosions rocked west Beirut yesterday night, injuring 15 people. The attacks came as Syria warned America risks a "Vietnam-type war" by being in Lebanon. U.S. Middle East envoy Donald Rumsfeld and Richard Murphy, the U.S. assistant secretary of state for Near East and South Asian affairs, met with Lebanese President Amin Gemayel, the state radio reported. Neither American official made any statement after the 90-minute meeting at the presidential palace. Both then flew to Amman, Jordan, the radio said. It said the talks focused on the progress of a Saudi-sponsored'plan to establish a true cease-fire in Lebanon. In Amman, officials said Rumsfeld and Murphy met with King Hussein, but there was no word on what they discussed. Shultz will tour Latin America WASHINGTON - Secretary of State George Shultz sets out Tuesday on a nine-day tour of five Latin American and Caribbean countries, bearing a message of American support and sympathy for the democratic processes in each one. Shultz was to have visited El Salvador and Brazil last fall but postponed the trip after the bombing of the U.S. Marine headquarters in Beirut. On his forthcoming trip, he will visit those two countries as well as Venezuela, Grenada and Barbados. All the countries on his itinerary are in varying stages of democratic development, and a U.S. official who briefed reporters Friday said the unifying theme for the Shultz trip is American support for democratization of the region. Shultz's tour will begin in El Salvador where presidential elections are scheduled for March 25. El Salvador is currently headed by an unelected civilian president, Alvaro Magana, and the Reagan administration is hopeful that the March balloting will represent a major step toward ma- king the country more democratic. Arson suspected in hotel fire ORLANDO, Fla. - A suspected arson.fire broke out in a 14-story hotel early yesterday, injuring at least 34 people and forcing guests onto balconies where some were rescued by ladders, officials said. About 250 people were evacuated from the Howard Johnson's Hotel after the fire broke out on the seventh floor of the 270-room building at 1:51 a.m. and began spreading upward, officials said. Fire department spokeswoman Leslie Brewington said 34 people, in- cluding four firefighters, were treated at the scene for burns and smoke inhalation. Officials at four local hospitals said they admitted 10 people and treated and released 22 others. "Suspicious persons" were seen leaving the hotel, but no arrests had been made, Smith said. "Our investigators . . . termed this an arson case," he said, adding that the fire began in a conduit that carries electrical wiring through the building. The blaze was controlled about an hour later. Guests, most awakened by a hotel intercom, fled to balconies to escape smoke that spread as high as the 11th floor, said Brewington. Ten people were plucked from seventh-floor balconies with a ladder truck but those on higher floors were beyond the reach of rescue equipment Brewington said. They waited until firefighters ventilated halls and arrived with paramedics carrying oxygen equipment to escort them to safety, she said Andropov's nomination quells rumors about failing health MOSCOW - President Yuri Andropov officially became a candidate for the Supreme Soviet yesterday in rubber stamp elections to be held March 4, the Soviet news agency Tass said. Andropov, 69, has been absent from public view for five and a half months due to an undisclosed illness! His nomination indicated he is recovering and has no intention of stepping down. "The district commission of the Proletarsky electoral district of the city of Moscow for elections to the Soviet of the Union of the USSR Supreme Soviet yesterday registered Yuri Andropov...as candidate of the district," Tass said. Andropov's name was put on the parliamentary ballot one day before President Reagan was expected to announce his candidacy for re-election. Unlike Reagan, Andropov faces no opposition and will not have to cam- - paign. change you," Altman says. "Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman, Barbra Streisand, Woody Allen - name anybody that's a big success and tell me that they're not corrupt." "THEIR hearts are gone," he says. "I mean they're dealing with so much power and with the commerce that they (end up serving that commerce)." "Take an actor like Hackman - a million, I'm not gonna pay anybody that. So what scripts does he end up get- ting? "He finally gets a script that's a piece of shit because some guy's got a package that (he'll put together) if he can get somebody like Gene Hackman or Paul Newman. "So they say, 'Aw hell, I'll pay him the $2.5 million in order to get my pic- E-Systems continues the traaition of the world's great problem solvers. 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