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If the New York Times can call Towering Inferno the year’s best endof-the-world movie, then CREEM can certainly peg Rollerball as next year’s best end-of-the-next-world movie. It stars James Caan and John Houseman who fight to the death in a violent game of basketball.
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FILM FOX
If the New York Times can call Towering Inferno the year’s best endof-the-world movie, then CREEM can certainly peg Rollerball as next year’s best end-of-the-next-world movie. It stars James Caan and John Houseman who fight to the death in a violent game of basketball. The push and shove of it came ,tp writer William Harrison, prdfessor of creative writing at;U. of Arkansas, while he was watching a rough game where several'players were injured. Rollerball’s playoffs are set in 2018. As if the present isn’t gruesome enough. The last good movie I saw about the future was Woody Allen’s Sleeper, and that’s cause it was funny; his next, also with Diane Keaton, is Love and Death, out soon. Until then, here is the run of the mill forthcoming on those "two subjects: Roger Corman’s producing Capone, , starring Ben Gazarra, with John Cassavetes and Susan Blakely. We don’t know if she’s going to play another cop like Irish Patty in Report to the Commissioner or go straight into a gun moll routine. Either way I b£t it beats modelling...but does it' beat Kojak? Telly Savalas turns a deaf ear to complaints that this year Kojak hasn’t been the ri-bald, action-packed series it was last year. He’s oh the big screen agaip with Inside Qut. Bpbert Culp, our favorite TV'vigilante and also costar of another flakeout, /Spy, costars. His former mate is Bill Cosby, who’s due soon in a sequel to Uptown Saturday Night, Let’s Do It Again. J.J. “Jimmie” Walker of Good Times will make his film debut in that flick...Robert Redford, half of another popular male couple, teams with Dustin Hoffman, last seen (when pairing) with Steve McQueen in Papillon, to interpret the Watergate saga in All the President’s Men. Redford and Hoffman will play Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein respectively... Meanwhile Redford’s better half, Paul Newman, is back with his wife Joanne Woodward in The Drowning Pool; they last appeared together in WUSA (1969) and he directed her in -Rachel Rachel (1970), but he’s been ^sundancing and stinging more recently . We heard that Redford’s birthday present to the recently-tumed-50 year old was a glass eye paperweight.. .sexy bright blue, of course. Bright blue Colorado boy John Denver's time machine is set in 1939 as he makes his film debut in a remake of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. James Stewart he .ain’t, but then Mr. Smith has changed a lot too... and Francis Ford Coppola, this year’s biggest Oscar winner for Godfather II, next tackles a Vietnam war epic entitled Apocalypse Now. John Milius wrote the script; he also did Dirty Harry and Magnum Force. Woody Allen’s first non-Woody role will be in The Front, about the blacklisted Hollywood writers of the 1950 McCarthy era...But while j everyone else is dabbling in politics, Ken Russell plods on note by note. From Tommy to Lisztomania with Roger Daltrey in the title role again and Ringo Starr as the boy with the big nose...All of which leads us to the latest news from ubiquitous producer Robert Stigwood. His7 next film production will be John, Paul, George, Ringo, and Bert, the javed-about London stage musical about the lives of the Fab Four as told by a mythical fifth Beatle, Bert, who is not deaf, not blind, and hopefully not too dumb.
