Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 21, 1976, Winnipeg, Manitoba 20 w1hhipcg Folk mess fuday May Hooker to heroine at los Angeles a from portraying a pre teen Hooker to playing a Disney the amazing Range of Jodie Foster the most versatile child actress to appear in years. But be careful about calling her a child actress. She thinks the term belongs to the Era of Shirley Temple. I Don t think there is such a thing As a child actress As there was in the years when they made movies about Chil she reasons. I m an and i play roles that Are written for my she is now with a Ca reer Wisdom that belies her years yet with a Youthful exuberance that is totally engaging. There is none of the strained cuteness that can make juvenile performers a pain in the eardrum. Jodie talked frankly about the taxi Driver role which open daily 12 noon sundays seemed scandalous to some including the welfare depart ment of California. After they read the script they said there was no Way anyone under 18 years of age could play the Jodie said. There were some things in the script that never appeared in the picture and those things caused them to get excited. It was so even though taxi Driver was to be filmed in new York California had jurisdiction Over Jodie s welfare since she would be hired Here. It helped when Columbia got former gov. Edmund 6. Brown to argue my said Jodie. They finally agreed i could do the part. But first i had to talk to a Psychia Trist. And i could t do certain things in the script particularly a buckling Bob de Niro s Belt. The a buckling was done by Jodie s sister Connie. She was also scheduled to be surrogate in a scene of Jodie s nude Back but the shot was eliminated. I had some doubts about the role but they were erased after i talked to said Jodie referring to director Martin Scorsese who had previously directed her As the Tomboy in Alice does t live Here anymore. The key to my being Able to do the role was Bob Deniro. Held Over 3rd hit week her husbands get everything that s coming to them she just gives it to them a Little Early meet some one Nice Kane dating club he rehearsed with me about eight times and he took me around new York to get some atmosphere. We visited some weird Coffee shops places like that. With that kind of help i found the Rote challenging but within my the Disney people she added have been very under standing about her Hooker role. Either that or they Aren t aware. They will be now that Columbia has changed its and Campaign. The original ads for taxi Driver showed the bedevilled Deniro trudging Down a Man Hattan Street. Because the film s excellent Box office had fallen sharply after the initial weeks the and now includes a full figure of Jodie As the Hooker in hot pants. Her new role for Disney offers a different kind of Chal Lenge. The movie is called Freaky Friday and she plays a teen Ager identities with her Mother Barbara Harris. With a bit of Disney magic Jodie becomes a 35 year old woman while miss Harris adopts the mentality though not the appearance of teen Ager. Jodie does t see the trans formation As any big Deal. Being an adult is she commented. It s simply a matter of being More con trolled More formal. Well make the transition with just a Small piece of business. Barbara will be eating a ban Ana and will choke on it. I la be smoking a cigarette and will choke. That will show we be changed Jodie s career began at three when she played the original Coppertone kid with a dog pulling Down her Bath ing trunks insisted on doing it without top and they still have the and that she has made four Disney films had regular roles in to s courtship Eddie s father and paper Moon played Becky Thatcher i in the movie Tom Sawyer. An. The Milky wat theist Chat Windsor theatre 592 St Mary s by 233-2149 Kim Pope David Kirk Klein Housman Jurt Mario Ferguson a to Chuck Vincent a Monarch release Sun cockeyed gowns of cargo count err a f 1.00 pm f a. Tomato it my. Doom ohm 7 9 i 1120 Grant ave. 453-4084 doom Omni pin. Wot featuring filed Flumm saturday sunday Only 3 pieces of Kentucky Fried Chicken dinner Cole Slaw Roll and French Fries. Pick up Only Jodie Foster in Freaky Friday left and taxi Driver. I realism out enjoyment in news service Hollywood Why in a Day when nearly every Pic Ture you see on the screen is trying to be Gritty and Realis tic is James Goldstone directing a swashbuckling movie about pirates that s exactly the family fun sport Goldstone said. Too much Gritty realism. People de serve a Chance to have a Good time watching a the Blarney cock May be that Good time movie. It is trying about million Worth to put some of the old Swash and buckle Back in the mov ies. That used to be its title As a matter of fact swashbuckler but some executive with a Zeal for double Njean legs decided to name the picture for the ship on which much of it takes place. Open 24 hours Saratoga lanes 321 Donald St. Sunday May 23rd Paul Ridwell s see Toller Cranston m rhapsody on ice . In Ciomo winnik8 Arena Fri. Sat. June 4 it 5 tickets now on Sale Hawf big Ami array of International motto aunt Ima and world Champion Dara plus ma6mcinc Atlas finist Gatt Tomt hell Drivers . Eliminations . Adults s4.oo children Price under 6 free senior citizens free trans Canada Hwy. East country music in room f very Dav red wine in the Jim Blais Brazillia go go Jamboree the ship is the Blarney cock and has a rooster As its Emblem so that is what the film is called now. But it probably will be changed maybe even Back to swashbuckler. Hol Lywood is like that. Goldstone the director is a tall bearded Man who listens to an Irish band playing and singing 18th-Century music from a tape recorder while he rests the better Steep him self in the period and am Biance of the picture. Anyone got a cigarette and a he asked turning off the Irish music. I quit smoking. But what the hell. I can always quit he said vigorously lighting a cigarette. When did you someone asked him. Last Friday. And Here it is monday. When this picture is finished then i la Goldstone has directed a varied lot of movies including winning. Red sky at morning they Only kill their masters and the gang that could t shoot straight As Well As a lot of to. This will be the first real pirate he pro claimed with a draw on his fast dwindling cigarette. I looked at 35 old pirate movies they used to be the thing to make you know and what they did with Minia Tures we re doing with a real ship. Do you know it Captain blood when Olivia dehavilland paced the Cabin waiting for Errol Flynn she paced seven Steps each Way Well our ship which is authentic and the real size of a ship of those Days in fact it s a replica of the Golden Hind is Only 20 feet Broad. At Best she could get in four but such niceties Are not the stuff of movies and Goldstone knows it. What i m trying for is something called gusto we re not trying for a Camp remake in 1976 or a 1935 movie. It won t kid itself but it won t be serious either. We re looking for entertain ment. I grew up with Swash Bucklers on the screen. My kids saw them on to. Now i m trying to make one for this about that time the camera and cast were ready for him. The scene was a bedroom of a combined tavern and Brothel. Very cramped. The movie had been snoot ing for months on Board the ship a tight place indeed and now it had come into the studio for Interior shots. We just got off that Damn ship where there was t any one of the production Crew complained half jokingly to Goldstone. Now Here we Are again. No room on the ship no room on land i Goldstone just grinned. Olivia dehavilland could t have paced even four Steps across this bedroom. Fri 4 sat 2 to 6 so Mcphillips motor hotel monday to saturday Emmanuelle at sunday at Venus 774-6641 Vera Lynn Back again by popular demand mpg. Convention Centre tues. July 6 . Tickets Ato Anaf unit 283 pm. 837-4795 every wednesday at . Starting May 26th ;