//? n-/ Jtdy 8, » 7 7 KALENDAR P«ge 2 July 8, N77 KALENDAR p,ge 3 STEPPING OUT: With Mike Schmitz & M.J.Hackett " n e w YORK, NEW YORK" H e most magnificent toy ever invent­ - HALF AND HALF ed for grown men to play with and ex­ by Michael Schmitz press k e lr fantasies, to project their nightmares and dreams, and to indulge Kalendar Publications Incorporated k e ir whimsies and secret desires is the Producers Irwin Winkler G Robert mntion picture medium. Taking full Box 627 San Francisco, Ca. 94101 Chartoff, fresh from their triumph advantage of the technical wizardry of with an Academy Award Best Picture modem filmmaking, writer-director win for " Rocky, " are looking to new 'George Lucas has conceived of his film, laurels with thedr latest film New Yok, • STAR WARS, as an expression of his Next : FRIDAY JULY 8 Deadline: MONDAY JULY4 New Yok. " And it is a kame they ,boyhood fantasy life— his love for won't get them. The picture has so "Flash Gordon" and all the great myster­ much working for it srith Liza Minelli ies and adventures in books and movies. and Robert Driflto, both former Oscar Star Wars is a distillation of k e joys NO STAND ON GAY wiimers, starring- special muric by Lucas experienced in k e hours he spent John Kander and Fred Ebb of "Cabaret" watching television and movies, and fame, so much and yet you will feel reading comic books and comic strips. TEACHERS BY haunted by a ^irit throughout the STAR WARS, ptodiced by Gary Kurtz, picture stars Alec Guiness, Maik Hamill, Har- CARTER NEW YORK, NEW YORK is a roman­ ri»n Ford, Carrie Fisher and Peter Cush­ tic musical drama written around the ing, It is released by 21k Century Fox. WASI-^ DC,. ,, , President Jimmy struggling career of a young danceband It's a high-energy action movie uniting Carter lies refused to take u stand vocalist and the saxophone player who k e hardware of contemporary space ad- on the issue of gay teachers. "I falls in love vdth her. h ^ d l i and De ,venture wik the tomantic fantasies of know that there are homosexuals who Niro play these two lead roles. Also ■ sword and sorcery, plus a dash of wish teach and the children don't suffer, " Starred are Lionel Stander and Barry fulfillment. Lucas' goal has been to said Carter in an interview with the Primus, make an imaginative entertainment ex­ Associated Press. "But this is a sub. perience k a t would transport audience ject I don't particularly want to invol. Filmed in Panavision from a screen­ ■o'it of k e k eatre and into an unknown ved myself in, I've got enough pm b. play by Earl MasRauch and Mardik galaxy kousand of light-years from lems without taking on another. " Martin and with original songs by earth. STAR WARS is a tale of heroes Carter did add, however, that "I Kander and Ebb. and villiains and a romance between a don't see the need to change laws This lavlk production opens at the De Niro won k e Bert Simoitlng Actor Some of ke old-time favorir« k at are young naive boy and a beautiful, spirited to permit homosexuals to marry. " close of World War II whan the big Award from k e New Yoric Film Critics heard in NEW YORK, NEW YORK, in­ princess. It is an odyssey from innocence On the subject of honx>sexuality in bands were at thalr peak and pays Circle for "Mean Streets, which he did cluda "Song of India, Don't Blame Me, to knowledge, ke ages-Oid tale of the general. Carter reiterated the same nostolglc tribute to that era by kow- for NEW YORK, NEW YORK director Once In A While, For All We Know, passage of k e sword from one generation basic position that he had taken during caslng 24 timeless songs made famous Martin Scorsese. In »74, he won an Blue Moon, Bugle Call Rag, Avalon, to k e next. It is a world where magic is his presidential canvaign. "1 don't by Glenn Miller, Tommy and Jimmy Academy Award for Best Sui^rting Taking A Chance On Love, and many possible, and love and goodiess triumph see homosexuality as a threat to the Dorsey, Benny Goodman and other .Actor for " H e Godfaker, Part IT'. His more. o v « eviL family, " said the President, "What bandstand stan of tha '40's. The performance in Scorsese's "Taxi Driver" Saxophone great Geòrgie Auld lends STAR WARS follows a ;roung man, Luke has caused the highly p^rbliclzed con. story nxjves in a changing tempo is considered by many to be DcNiro's his special talent to k e movie as off- Skywalker, krough exotic worlds unique­ frontations on homosexuality is the to the '50's with the four new songs finest to date. camera coach for De Niro and e l» make- ly different from our own. Leaving the desire of homosexuals for the rest of by Kander aod Ebb providing the De Niro is married to actress Diahnne his mo vi debut as k e bandleader small arid planet of Tatooine, Luke society to approve and to add its ac­ musical bridge. Abbott who appears as a poor man's who gives De Niro his first break. Dur­ plunges into an extraordinary intergalac- ceptance of homosexuality as a nor. The music forms a fitting accoirqsan- Lena Home in a nightclub seq'jence in ing k e Big Band era, Auld worked w lk tic search for the kidnapped Rebel Princ­ mal sexual relationship, I don't feel Photos by Ric Puglia iment to the girl singer played Vy k ls picture, cinging "Honeysuckle Rose. Artie Shaw's orchestra, k e famed Benny ess Leia from k e planet Alderaan, Luke that it's a normal relationship. " Minelli who kyiockets to the top To support Mlrmclli and De Niro, pro­ Goodman Sextet and o k « bigtime agg­ is joined in k is adventure by Ben Kenobi, "But, « added Carter, " at the same Scriptures on homosexuality, " adds life in San Francisco? Do you know ducers Chartoff and Winkler mixed some MeNaught, Aldiough he does not expect where his church is? while sax pbyar, DfNiio.. must wait regations. k e last of k e Judi Knights who were k e time, I don't feel that society, through for p’sblic taste to catch up to his familiar faces wik »m e brand new ones Like k e nursery rhyme, When Liza was guardians of peace and justice in tha old its laws, ought to abuse or harass the the Bishops of die Church to react public­ Well, I am not too good at writing a like gruff-voiced Lionel Stander, a ly to the questions raised by the report, letter to a hawspaper but I wanted you 501 Fplaom StTMt new "bebop" style. good, she was very, very good and when days before the "dark times" came to the homosexual& 1 think it's one of those In 1945 the mellow. Joyous Dorsey Oscar nominee for his performance in she was bad, you could hear k e kud • galaxy; Han Solo, k e dashing, cynical things that it not accepted by most MeNaught says the document 1$ one diet to know how much I qrpreciated Rev, Sen Irrmcisoo 9 41 03 . ^ k e Janet Gaynor-Frederic March ver­ "cannot be disputed because it is whet Stuarts letter maybe we can hear more sounds underlined the mood of the from h « e to Dallas and back. De Niro'; captain of k e Millennium Falcon, a Americans as t normal sexual relati'n. country and from 'Opus One,' the sion of "A Star Is Bom". talents were wasted altogeth«. How- Corellian pirate starship; Chewbacca, a ship, In my mind it's certainly not a the teachers of die church ere saying. " from him? Hum, ? Love Yu first music you hear in die film, you H e danceband pianist who later ev«, k e last twenty minutes, kat Wookiee, a race of tall anthropoids svik substitute for the family life that I find this feeling continually expressed takes over k e band is played by New previously mention^ ghost was kere. quasi-monkey faces and large blue eyes; described to you. " LETTERS TO THE Randy Spaiks It was not Liza, it was Judy; by every S.F., Calif., »77 stand against the evils inherent in in song. Then in the Fifties, Liza York actor Barry Primus, Primus studied and k e robots, S e e -H re ^ io (C-3R^) In his comments. Carter stated that sings the title song. acting under Ella Kazan at New York's movement, by every note, by every and Artoo-Detoo (R2-D2). H is odd in almort every program that the homosexuality." The 1600 00 dele­ gesture, it WAS Judy. For kose of us EDITOR (Q3ITOR"s NOTE) I have never had the gates represented nearly 35,000 The lyrics reflect a different atti­ Lincoln Center and began his cataar band of adventurers battle Grand Moff Administration puts fonvard "the in- tude ¿ 1 America. Times have changed. who have had k e plMsure of seeing Tarkin, the evil Governor of k e Imper­ tegnty of the family ought to be a pleasure of meeting Rev. James Stuart churches and 13 TnllUr»» members, on Broadway but appears to be os wood­ Dear Editor, but I have been impressed with the Eiqshoria has given way to such reali­ en as a chopping block for k e most Judy in concert, h « ghost hung over ial Outland regions, and D ark Vader, foctor, " Carter said thgt one way in Thanks for printing the timely and including Anita Bryant »Tid President zations u k at the so-callad "War k e last few scenes of NEW YORK, k e malevolent D ak Lord of k e Sik, whe which the government cdbld assit communication that I have had with Jimmy Cartec.