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1 ALL EDITIONS The Arizona Republic Tuesday, October 28, 1980 and the Arts fifflph)fflJ7S Concerts canceled through Nov. 8 A6 The latest victims of the nearly month- from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in Encanto Park and the other on Nov. 9 at the courtyard of the Scottsdale Center for the Arts with the same time schedule.

Local jazz, country, contemporary and classical musicians are expected to perform. The concerts are free, but symphony musicians are seeking donations to their emergency relief fund. Musicians from the symphony thought the association might cancel the entire season. So while Monday's announcement was not greeted with glee, they believe it could have been worse. said Marjorie Yates-Lockwood, a spokeswoman for the musicians.

"We would hope that they will clarify their position in that time." The two parties remain substantially 'apart on questions of salary, length of season, number of hours worked and health benefits. After their last offer, an association representative said, "The ball is in their (the musicians') court" The musicians responded with a new offer, and that was rejected. Now, however, the association says it doesn't want to play concerts scheduled for Nov. 13 and 14, and the next subscription pair, featuring the orchestra's principal cellist Takayori At-sumi, on Nov. 24 and 25.

According to Andrews, the association is standing fast by its last offer, one that was rejected by musicians in a 79-4 vote on Oct 6. Musicians followed this with a revised proposal of their own, which was in turn rejected by the association. The association, however, is planning no further counterproposals, according to Andrews, and has withdrawn its last offer. "Of course," he added, "that proposal could be resurrected." By Ed Montini Republic Staff The Phoenix Symphony Association, reacting Monday to the continued contract stalemate with orchestra musicians, canceled performances and rehearsals through Nov. 8, eliminating the season's second pair of subscription concerts.

This time, however, the association is asking ticketholders not to request immediate refunds. Don Andrews, the association's director of communications, said, "What we would like is for people to retain tickets until the dispute is resolved, and then depending on how many concerts it should ultimately affect we will refund the total dollar affect we will refund the total dollar long work stoppage are the Monday and Nov. 4 concerts featuring violinist Silvia Mwcovici. Also affected are the Nov. 6 and 8 performances of the Arizona Opera Company.

Those performances, however, will go on, according the the company's director Jim Sullivan. He said the necessary orchestra positions will be contracted independently. The next scheduled rehearsal of the "There has been nothing on the table for ball anymore, that it has given all it can in the normal give-and-take process govern the normal give-and-take process gc orchestra is Nov. 10. Performances facing For their part, musicians are planning a us to respond to, and this cancellation value of all canceled events." possible cancellation are a pair of pops pair of marathon concerts, one on Nov.

8 affords us time for further negotiations," ing labor negotiations. i Hopes rise as orchestra accepts 4-year contract Republic Wire Services unions would quickly approve their con- as scheduled on Sept. 22 when it was Horvitz and federal mediator Rosemary Alan D. Olsen, assistant executive NEW YORK The orchestra of the tract to allow the Met's golden curtain to unable to reach agreement with the LeBoeuf had met for eight hours Sunday tor of AGMA, said the basics 1 1 1 Ll iL. ATaI mtieiAintia 1 i i il 11 1 1 A 1 1 1 1 1 Republic Wire Services LeBoeuf had met for eight hours Sunday Alan D.

Olsen, assistant executive tor of AGMA, said the basics of direc with negotiators for the Met and its chorus, musicians. rise for a belated start of the opera 97th Metropolitan Opera voted overwhelmingly the musicians accord had been transmitted to the other unions, which were in the process of "translating the four-performance week" into their own contract equivalents. He Monday to accept a new four-year contract, and the nation's top labor mediator worked to reconcile the Met and its other employees in efforts to salvage the canceled 1980-81 season. The orchestra's vote was 78-11 for acceptance, with one abstention and six members absent, said Max L. Arons, president of Local 802, American Federation of Musicians.

Arons said he hoped the remaining one of three units of the American Guild of Musical Artists, and moved on Monday afternoon to the soloists and dancers. AGMA represents 375 performers who appear on stage in operas at the Met Their agreement to a new contract was regarded as a vital second step toward a recall of the top opera stars and supporting cast Separate talks were under way with stagehands and other groups represented by the International Association of Theatrical Stage Employees. season. In all, more than 1,900 unionized employees in 17 unions must approve new terms before the season can start. But accords were regarded as very close in most cases.

The Met's board of directors was meeting at Lincoln Center for a separate ratification vote as the musicians' action was announced. The Met failed to open this year's season The breakthrough came Saturday when the musicians won in principle their demand for four instead of five public performances weekly. Most of the added cost, however, would be recouped by the Met by discontinuance of rehearsal pay for the musicians. Wayne L. Horvitz, national director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation service, pursued talks with other unions and the Met.

said that process required "a bit of time." A Met spokesman said it would take up to a month to prepare for regular performances once the contracts had all been settled. "We're asking season subscribers to hold onto their tickets until they can be notified as to arrangements," the spokesman said. Reality blurred in films that work but don't 'fit' 2k. "Tfc, Ml Hardy 1 Price PEOPLE AND PLACES Rounding up the Cowboy Artists of America: By Monday afternoon, the CAA had raked in $1,446,450 from its 15th annual sale and exhibit at the Phoenix Art Museum. The lion's share of that was collected in the first 15 minutes of Friday's opening night.

IBlilliillilSIMIIIIli But on Saturday the museum was doins so much business at the catalogue and book stalls that cash registers were filling up faster than they could be emptied. Museum director Ron Hickman was walking around the exhibit area with a very large smile on his face. More than 2,000 viewed the cowbov show on Steve Railsback undertakes one daring stunt after another in The Stunt Man. Saturday, with another 1,000 taking in the French Masters show on the second floord. Judges for this year's CAA show were Ginger By Michael Maza Republic Staff It would be possible but very foolish to walk out of Richard Rush's The Stunt Man muttering, nose at full wrinkle, that "it's OK, but it surely isn't Day for Night" Foolish because, genius that he may be, there are certain things even Francois Truffaut can't do.

One: He can't make a popular American movie. Richard Rush can, as The Stunt Man shows. But he almost didn't. Although producerdirector Rush is a Hollywood insider he did movies for years as well as Getting Straight and Freebie and the Bean he had to push and shove nine long years to get this picture made and distributed. What took so long? According to Rush, it didn't fit the pigeonholes.

The marketing people couldn't find a hook for their sales pitches. The problem is too common The Great Santini, a better-than-average picture which opened here last week, shared it. Like Truffaut's Day for Night, The Stunt Man is a tale about making movies in which reality is never quite what it seems. That doesn't sound like a popular theme, true. So trust me wrapped in comedy, romance, valor and action, it's Smokey II with soul, Rough Cut with passion, The Blues Brothers without shades.

The Stunt Man is a fellow named Cameron, a scraggly bearded Vietnam veteran played by Steve Railsback. When we first meet him, he's running from the cops and giving us post-Vietnam heebie-jeebies with the same wild eyes Railsback used so devastatingly as Charles Manson in Helter Skelter. In furious flight, Cameron stumbles across a Hollywood film crew shooting a World War I picture. From the moment he blends in among the spectators, he enters the movies' world Renner, who is president of the PAM's Western Art Associates, Santa Fe artist Clark Hulings and Paradise Valley space artist Robert McCall. THE STUNT MAN A 20th Century-Fox release produced and directed by Richard Rush from a screenplay by Lawrence B.

Marcus based on Rush's adaptation of the novel by Paul Brodeur. Cinematography by Mario Tosi. Cast: Peter O'Toole, Steve Railsback, Barbara Hershey. Rated R. WISE BLOOD A New Line release directed by John Huston from a screenplay by Benedict Fitzgerald based on Flannery O'Connor's novel, cinematography by Gerald Fisher.

Cast: Brad Dourif, Ned Beatty, Daniel Shor, Harry Dean Stanton, Amy Wright. Rated PG. At the Camelview, Scottsdale. of illusion. In a few short minutes he and we are jolted several times as what we take for reality turns out to be mere appearance.

These fine twists are too good to give away. It's sufficient to say they lead to Cameron being offered a job as stunt man on the picture. Cleanshaven and dyed blond to match the looks of the picture's puffy star, Cameron gets a course in stunt work that gives the movie a high action quotient. He also falls in love with the picture's female lead, Nina Franklin, a lovely, bubbly, actressy young woman played by Barbara Hershey (Last Summer). And he begins to see the movie's director, Eli Cross, as a godlike figure.

Eli's crew obviously worships him; he is a consummate manipulator of people; he is the source from which all creative energy flows. He also flies, deua ex machina, on a crane-swung platform. Cross is played by Peter O'Toole as a genius of flamboyant tendencies "Come here to me," he commands, when everyone around him would be satisfied with "C'meer." While our fears about Cameron's grip on reality build to gale force we don't know what he's running from he begins Approximately 12,000 intent-to-purchase slips were submitted during Friday's 90-minute preview period. Officials had printed 10,000 of the slips, but I salesmen ran out of slips within an hour and another 1 2,000 were quickly photo-copied. I THIS AND THAT The new Phoenix Home Garden magazine should be on the newsstands by I the end of the week.

The premiere issue is 112 Daces I of slick color photographs hitting topics such as to fear Cross. As he is coaxed into ever more dangerous stunts, Cameron begins to think Cross is setting him up for one in which death won't be defied. The Stunt Man says a lot about paranoia, yet it's always entertaining. The movie within the movie is sometimes too coyly so; how Eli Cross expected to put across his anti-war views amid all that slapstick is mystifying. But The Stunt Man is also quite satisfying.

While it gives away a few secrets of the craft, it keeps many more and uses some of those secrets to send us home wondering: "How did they make that movie about how they make movies?" John Huston's Wise Blood is another picture that wasn't easy to get out. Beautifully acted and made and released in time for last year's Academy Awards its stumbling block is subject matter. The late Georgia writer Flannery O'Connor, whose fiction reflected her deeply religious, illness-plagued produced the dark tale about a young man's passionate search for salvation. As Hazel Motes, Brad Dourif makes use of his own verging-on-insanity look. Just out of the Army and beset by nightmares stemming from his hyperevangelized childhood, Motes at first tries to deny his obsession by substitution he starts a "Church of Truth Without Christ" His theology: "What's blind don't see, what's lame don't walk, what's dead stays that way." He runs afoul of two preachers, con artist Harry Dean Stanton and money-oriented Ned Beatty.

He scorns companionship offered by Stanton's husband-hunting daughter, Amy Wright, and a lonely hick with an evolutionary fixation, Daniel Shor. Eventually, he comes totally unglued in escalating acts of masochism. All this compulsiveness is spellbinding. It also is rather other-worldly, because not one character ever shows a flash of positive emotion. No love, no laughter (we laugh, but always at, never with).

Technically brilliant as it may be, Wise Blood amounts to a sermon on man's essential baseness. home decorating, gardening, cooking and remodeling. Besides the normal retail outlets, you can look for the magazine in gourmet stores and nurseries. Charter subscriptions for the magazine have exceeded 18,000. The new magazine even has a letters section, which editor Manya Wlnsted insists were all unsolicited.

Speaking of magazines, the current issue of San FranciBCO magazine has a column titled Town Twits which determines what's "in" and what's "out" In it we discover among the "in" items "magazines like National Geographic, Arizona Highway and the periodical published by the Smithsonian, all of which will give meaning and stature to your coffee table. Cancel your subscriptions to Women's Wear Dally and Esquire." And you were wondering what to get the friends in the Bay area for Christmas? TV plays dangerous game with 'The Deer Hunter' More than 600 attended the preview party at the Pointe's new Beside the Points restaurant last week. The joint was a hit with first-nighters, many of whom got a kick out of the restroom labels. For men, it's the Commentary Points Standa and for the ladies, the Point Setta. I That's really corny when you think about it TGI Friday's finally got rid of its hard-to-read spiral notebook menu, replacing it with a menu modeled along the lines of a dictionary.

It's very easy to read, and there are some new items including chicken fried steak and cream gravy. The other night the steak was too thick and the wrong cut, but the gravy was the next best thing to what used to be served up at the old Blue Front cafe in downtown Dallas. It could stand a tad bit more pepper. But The Deer Hunter is another matter because "the type of violence it incites is so clear cut," said Radecki, a psychiatrist "Any graphic depiction of death and violence in prime time is going to cause some people to duplicate it or somehow get involved," said Dr. Michael Peck, director of youth services at the Suicide Prevention Center in Los Angeles.

"But it's not a cause. No normal, stable person watches something on the screen and goes out and does it It's people who are on the brink." The dilemma has always been where to draw the line. Should program creators remove even suggestions of violence that could possibly inspire imitators to injure themselves or others? Certainly ABC's stunt-mad That's Incredible! comes dangerously close to irresponsibility. But to remove everything? What would TV be then? "There's a possibility you could watch I LINER NOTES The Wesley Bolln Youth Activity Center, named in honor of the late governor and longtime secretary of state, will be dedicated in ceremonies at 11 a.m. Friday on the grounds of State "Stevey, you gotta do it! You don't do it, they gonna throw you in the pit!" Robert De Niro to John Savage in The Deer Hunter.

By Howard Rosenberg Log Angeles Times HOLLYWOOD There are some half-jozen Russian roulette sequences in The Deer Hunter, the Academy Award-honored 1978 movie that independent TV stations in Los Angeles and New York are airing on Nov. 4. Russian roulette is a recurring theme in the powerful and sensitive Vietnam drama, directed by Michael Cimino, which also has aired on cable and subscription TV. The Deer Hunter has been attacked for having an anti-Asian bias and inaccurately portraying the Vietnam War. There are no known incidents to support its depictions of American prisoners being forced to play Russian roulette while their Vietnamese captors placed bets on them.

However, The Deer Hunter does effectively convey the impact of war any war on the soldier and those who remain on the home front. A bigger question concerns the special characteristics of TV, an intimate medium that brings its vision of life into your living room. Is a theatrical movie no matter KCOP is planning to air the R-rated The Deer Hunter unedited. Some other independent stations also are now planning to air the movie. KCOP said it will show the film with an advance warning "to inform viewers discretion is advised." "I can't imagine why anyone would call this a violent movie," Evan C.

Thompson, KCOP president and general manager has said. The recently formed National Coalition on Television Violence thinks that it is violent enough to launch a campaign to block it from leing presented on TV. "It's been shown to directly cause a large number of persons to murder themselves," said Dr. Thomas Radecki, the group's chairman. "It's an unsafe product If a new auto exploded and killed 10 people, that product would be taken off the market or modified." The link between violence portrayed on TV and real-life violence is an oft-debated subject among broadcasters, viewers and academics.

Most studies seem inconclusive. In a widely publicized case in 1977, a 15-year-old Miami boy used addiction to TV violence as his defense against a first-degree murder charge. Many thought it an unsound defense and the jury found the boy guilty. Fair Arizona Tom Hellon was named woman of the year last week by the Mldtowner Business and what its artistic merit, or absence of sexual theme automatically appropriate for home viewing? In this case, there is also a question of judgment and responsibility. For above all else, The Deer Hunter is a dangerous movie.

At least 11 cases of Russian roulette shootings occured this year either shortly after or while the victim watched The Deer Hunter. Most of the victims had watched The Deer Hunter on subscription or cable TV, the rest in movie theaters. All but one of the shootings was fatal. MCA-TV offered The Deer Hunter to KCOP in Los Angeles and WOR in New York which also is airing it Nov. 4 to exploit the anticipated non-interest in election coverage on ABC, CBS and NBC after the three networks reportedly had rejected it.

CBS, which had bought advance rights to air the movie, expressed a fear that a TV showing might incite some impressionable viewers to copy the Russian roulette sequences, which could not be edited out without destroying the movie. Professional Women's Club Organ Stop Pizza on North Seventh Street will I present the 1925 silent film classic Phantom of the Opera, with musical accompaniment by Walter "Dracula" Strony. Ihe pizza people are making it a party Friday with a costume contest complete with prizes, all for a $3 admission. Oh, it starts at midnight of course That new Phoenix Variety Club tent is busy lining up show-biz celebrities for its Black and Gold Dinner Nov. 19 at the Registry.

Miracle on 34th btreet on Christmas night and then get depressed and walk in front of a car," Bays Andrew Wald, a senior vice president of programming for ON TV, which, along with most of the pay-TV industry, has presented The Deer Hunter. However, The Deer Hunter is no Miracle on 34th Street I Announced celebrities include Rich Little, Gene Kelly, Kirk Douglas, Arte Johnson, Jamie Farr, Sue Ann Langdon and Buck Owens..