‘Star performer Ronald McDonald (top)
entertained the troops af’ the REM Lee
- Theatre Sunday, providing a good show for
young and eld. About 1,200' people attended

the shows. The two youngsters (below)
became overnight sensations as ° Ronald
performed one of hts many tricks.

{Photo by Rod Feylor}

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Alan Alda

LOS ANGELES (CP) — Whatever Alan Alda wants, Alan
Alda gets, says actor Jack Weston, who stars in the new
CBS series The Four Seasons..

The half-hour comedy is written and produced by Alda,

-’ whose popularity from years of playing Hawkeye Pierce on

MASH is virtually unsurpassed in the TV industry.

’ “Alan has more clout than anybody I've ever heard of,
even-Norman Lear,”: says Weston.

* “He doesn’t want a laugh track, so there isn’t one,"
Weston says of.the series, which begins Jan. 29. ‘Alan
doesn't want execiitives on theset,sotherearenone.” |

Weston, 68, says CBS ‘even -dropped Its : standard |
procedure, of submitting the serles. to audience testing
because of Alda. ©.

But in describing Alda's influence, Weston doesn’t
mention that Alda’s two daughters also star in the series,

’ which is in the most enviable time slot in TV, following 60
Minutes, :

BASED ON MOVIE

The TV program, based on Alda’s movie about the « fteri-

turbulent friendship of four couples, has been. ‘compared to
a middle-age version of The Big Chill.
’. “Alan makes money for people and that's the bottom
' line,” says Weston, adding the movie, which cost $6.5
million, has made $63 million worl wide.
Weston, who says he can’t watch himeelf on film —

hate the way I look; I think I'm ugly” — reprises hia movie J

role as the neurotic dentist Danny Zimmer. In the series,
his chargcter moves from New York to Los Angeles.

Although’ Alda will appear in the special hour-long
premiere, hé is not scheduled to be in any of the remaining
10 episodes filmed so far. However, Caro] Burnett, Alda's
wife in the movie, may tum up in an occasional program.

Weston admires::Alda:— he: déscribes him as being
“classy and witty” — but admits Alda's involvement might
cause ‘a tremendous backlash in this town.”

He says some Hollywood people v would love to see Alda
fall‘on his face.‘

‘LOT OF iSEALOUSY’

“There’s a lot of jealousy in this town. 1 think that's why 1
didn’t get.an Oscar nomination for my work in the movie
The Four Seasons and why Alan didn't geta nomination for
best screenplay. .

- “It's almost-as though: people were: saying to ‘Alan,
‘You're in the bis leagues now v and you 're: ‘Binying by our
rules," a, ’ Lg

Weston has spent 1 much of his career on "Broadway, but
also has appeared in ‘dozens of movies, most wbtably as the
sadistic killer In Wait Until Dark.

His/accent is unmistakeably * New York — as is his
aversion to almost everything abdut Hollywood. That fact
becomes progressively, clearer as he sips brandy to soothe a .
sore throat during a day-long session of interviews.

“T Idathe Hollywood, but: Tm like a ‘peach picker: I go
where the crap fs."

He says Los Angeles should be great because he has a

plush éxpense account, Hves In a big sulte at the Beverly
Hills’ Hotel and has a limousine at his disposal. :
LOVES CITIES

~ “But every chance 1 get I run back to New York, ['ma
elty guy. I love cement.”

His Jong lists of complaints about Los Angeles are typical ©
— being trapped in 4 car all day, not being able to find a ©
’ place to eat after 11 p.m., the lack of theatres ‘‘and real

has clout

estate, real estate, everybody's always talking about real
estate.”

But his real venom is saved for the crealive community. .

In the.1960s, he starred in the series The Hathaways, about
a:couple who had three chimpanzees, and he has been
ashamed of it ever since.

He says TV has gone “down the Loilet” since the networks
moved operations to Los-Angeles from New York.Most TV
comedies today “are made for feeble-minded drips.”

When someone calls his TV series a sitcom, he pounds the
table, explaining he can’t bear the word “because to me it”
denotes Three’s Company, °

“If someone wants, to see Suzanne Somers’ shaking
around for 30 minutes, that's OK, but you have to give .
people something else.”

He says The Four Seasons i is attempting to be intelligent
and classy. -

‘Top 10

‘Here are the week’s Top 10 pop albums and singles as
compiled by the Canadian music trade source, The Record.
Bratketed figure indicates posilion last week.
ALBUMS -

1(1) Colour By Numbers — Culture Club
2(2) Thriller — Michael Jackson .
3(4) Can't Slow Down — Lionel Richie

" 4(3) Synchronicity — ‘The Police oh te

5(6) Mental Health — Quiet Riot

6(5). Undercover — The Rolling Stones —

7(8) Genesis’ — Genesis rere
8(1) 90125 — Yes os
9(7) Uh-Huh — John Cougar Mellencamp... .
10(9) Seven and the Ragged Tiger _ Duran ‘Doran
SINGLES —

‘1(3) Major Tum (Coming Home) — Peter Schilling

2(4) Karma Chameleon — Culture Club

- 32) Say Say Say — P. McCartney-M. Jackson |

4(8) Cum ‘On Feel the Noize — Quiet Riot

5(5) Twist of Fate — Olivia Newton-John’

8(19) Talking in Your Sleey — The Romantics
7(2) All Night Long (All Night) — Lionel Richie .
8(9). Love is a Battlefield — Pal Benatar

9(16) Red Red Wine ~—- UB40 | .

10(10) Owner of a Lonely Heart — Yes

LOS ANGELES (CP) =
Michael York finally gets to -
play a heavy in the CBS.
movie Master of Ballantrae. -

_ "T-relished the chance to
play someone evil,” says
York. “I was convinced

. when they. first offered me |

the role that they ‘wanted

‘to play. the good |

brother. ye

“But [’ve played so many
nice guys I was delighted,”
to take on the role of the cad

in the movie, adapted from ’

the Robert Louis Stevenson

- novel of the saine name.

The three-hour film, being,
shown Jan. 31, is a high-
spirited, somewhat corny,
and overly long mid-18th
century adventure story,
completé with pirates. and
duels and buried treasure.
It follows the deadly rivalry
of two Scottish brothers in
theit travels from Scotland

to France, India and North -

* America.

York plays the devilish
brother James, who gets his
kicks by trying to steal his

- brother's wife, taking a

horsewhip to a woman or
blackmailing his family.
GIELGUD STARS -_
Another well-Anown good
guy, Richard Thomas —
John Boy on TV's The

' Waltons — plays the mild- |
mannered brother, ‘Henry, :
‘while Sir’ John ‘Gielgud

plays their’ ‘aging father.
It’s “not difficult to un-

sincere ‘but brief.
almost as .,
couldn't accept that. ‘anyone.
was Interested in anything
he might have to say.

it was,

‘HATES RUDENESS — . :
_, He did let it slip, however, :-

that he has’ worked: with’.
some prima donnag in his,
career — the sort who keep
fellow actors and" crew

- Waiting on the set, or throw

tantrums. It upsets him, he
sald, because there is
nothing he. detests more
than unprofessionalism.

-“T'm personally = very’
intolerant of bad behavior,”
he said in his very proper
Oxford accent. ‘“There’s no
excuse for it.” |

“The greatest actors I've
worked with are coin-
cidentally those who are

thotgh he.

The Herald, Tucsdsy, Janvary 24, 184, pase W

looking Up,. he said. phere.

isn't the indulgence there

“used to be” in the film in-

dustry.
LIVES IN MONACO
‘York, who left England

for tax purposes and now ©
‘fives: in Monaco with his

wife, Pat, a photographer,
admitted he has a secret

‘desire to play an American

in a weekly comedy series.

- “When. told that it’s dif-

ficult. to envision him in
such a role, he said “that’s
precisely why I want to do

“it; it would be constantly

demanding.”
Although he has played
2olh-century characters,

including roles {n Cabaret
and The. Man Called
Intrepid, York is known for
his work in Shakespearean

prompt, courteous and
prepared.” =.
Things, * however, are

dramas and such period
eostume pleces as The
Three Musketeers,

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Expectations and BBC's
The Forsythe Saga. .

“It's a depressing thought
to be typecast in period
dramas," said York. That's
why bis next role will be a
contemporary one. He said
he is to play a Polish con:
centration camp survivor in
the movie based on the book
For Those 1 Loved, by
Martin Gray. .

His other coming movies
include The Riddle of the
Sands, which he described
as a great sailing and spy
story, and the mini-series
Robinson Crusoe.

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