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~ NEW YORK (AP) — Dan-

cer Gene Kelly says the pop-
ularity of such movies as
‘Flashdance, Saturday Night
Fever and Staying Alive has
little to do with graceful
moves and a lot to do with
sex.

“The dances in today’s
movies feature lots of nearly
‘nude, sexy bodies, male and
female,” Kelly says, in an in-

Y terview in today's issue of

Parade magazine. “These
films reek of raw sex and
youthful energy.

“The John Travolta pic-
tures sell sweaty masculine
muscle, and he moves like a
leopard. Today's audiences
like to see sexy bodies. Fred
Astaire, on the other hand,
could dance with an overcoat
on, and you'd still watch
him.”

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the influence of rock 'n’ roll,
“the New York musicial the-
atre is no showcase of

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NASHVILLE, TENN.
(AP) — Fans still visit the
grave of country music star
Marty Robbins at the Wood-
lawn Cemetery, where he
was buried on a rainy, cold
and windswpt day last De-
cember.

They show off favorite
pictures of him and they still
vote awards for him.

Wife, or rip into a gunfighter
ballad such as El Paso.

During an illustrious 80-
year career, he wrote about
500 songs and had 18 No. 1
hits, including Devil Woman,
A White Sport Coat (and a
Pink Carnation), El Paso
City, The Hanging Tree and
Some Memories Just Won't
Die.

A singer, and
musician, Robbins died of
heart failure at age 57 last
Dec. 8 — two months after
being inducted into the Coun-
try Music Hall of Fame.

Robbins. could caress. a.
tender song such as| My
Woman, My Woman, My

He fe on the
Grand Ole Opry — the 58-
year-old live country music
show — from 1958 until his
death. He traditionally was
the last performer to sing on
Saturday. nights and became
known for bantering with an
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Two weeks after he died,
his voice was heard singing
the title song in the Clint
Eastwood movie, Honky
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SON CARRIES ON

His son, Ronny, kept his
father's band together and
filled in for him at'1988 con-
certs scheduled before: Rob-
bins died.

Six months after Robbins
died, country music fans
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music publication voted him
top male vocalist and chose
his Come Back to Me as the
year’s No. 1 album and his
Some Memories Just Won't
Die as top single.

The highlight of Ronny
Robbins’ show is a 80-minute ,
tribute to his father, in which -
he sings many of Robbins’
biggest hits.

“When we get into the tri-
bute section of the show, you
can look into the crowd and

see people crying,” says Don
Winters, who sang in Rob-
bins’ band for 22 years,

“Marty had the greatest
fans in the business and the
most sincere fans: they'd.
fight you over him.”

Off stage, Robbins liked to

kid around, but he’also had a fun.

serious side that was illum-
inated in his compassion.
LIKED POKER

Jack Pruett, 50, Robbins’
guitarist for 26 years, misses
the poker. games Robbins
was always initiating. They
were usually draw poker, and
‘rarely five-card stud, which
Robbins hated.

“He was a lot of fun; he al-
ways kept something going,”
says Pruett.

Winter says Robbins had
few peers as a performer.

“He was in-a class, like

. Elvis. Presley. No one could

sing a variety of songs like he
did and sing them as well.
“And he wrote outstanding
songs. He had no records on
the charts for a while, but he
outdrew those with No. 1
records. He built an audience
like no one I've ever seen.”

Winters said Robbins
loved what he did, “and that
made him good. With a lot of
entertainers, “it shows
through that it’s work and
not ‘fun. The audience res-
ponded to Marty because
they knew he was having

“He's missed by everyone;
there will never be another
like him.”

brilliance, in my
opinion.”

“You couldn't produce
films today with the kind of
music, for instance, that was
in An American in Paris. Asa
result, a lot of lovely art
forms have practically disap-
peared. Look at Broadway
today, and what do you see?
Mostly revivals,” the 71-year-
old dancer said.

Kelly said he gets more fan
mail than ever these days, his
work is being studied in col-
leges and he is often asked to
narrate dancedocumentaries.
He credits That's Entertain-
ment I, which included clips
from his movies.

GINGER BAKER
BACK ON TOUR

TORONTO (CP) — With
almost three decades as pro-
fessional musician under his
belt, drummer Ginger Baker
looked worn beyond his 44
years as he slumped in an
equally worn easychair in the
El Mocambo dressing room
following a 11-hour set.

“I've been enjoyin’ it,” he
said slowly of his current
round of North American
club dates, his first appear-
ances on this side of the At-
lantic in about 16 years.

Any claims toward enjoy-
ment were hardly .accom-

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mas with his family than he
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“We're not into revivals,
the sort of thing like The
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which regrouped this sum-
mer after a lengthy absence.
“We're into Ginger Baker,
what he's doing now.”

Ward, who took on man-
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somebody of his calibre
should be wasting his time on
the back of a horse” — Baker
had given his previous four
years exclusively to polo —
confessed that even he did
not know whether his client
was serious about rejoining
the hectic music scene full
time.

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ing preoccupation with olive
groves of the drummer's
adopted home in Montbal-
bano, Italy. This limited tour
of eastern U.S. cities, with
Toronto the only Canadian
stop, was an attempt to ease
Baker back into the concert
scene — and to remind fans
that Baker was still there.

But is he? Backstage,
Baker scoffed at the quality
of the French red wine he
was sipping, recommending
instead a couple of choice
chiantis. He noted that Sep-
tember and October were the
months for the grape in his
home area. November and
December — the olives,

In he feigns
indifference about the fame
game. Those close to him —
particularly manager Roy
Ward and tour manager Phil
Billing (Phil Harmonic to his
friends) are more aggressive
about talks of a comeback.

“The ones that fall to the
ground, they don't make such
good oil,” Baker noted.
“You've got to go after them,
and that’s a lot of hard work.”

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Art Club
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' WASHINGTON (AP), —
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Playwright has

Lebanon’ during the Christ-
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and the United Service, Or.

unique style

VANCOUVER (CP) —
vid Henry, Hwang was found
a winning ingredient: in com-
bining his experiences as the
son of Chinese ‘immigrants

with his unique, writing style.:

Hwang, 26, was 21 when he.
wrote FOB (Fresh Off the
Boat), his first play, in ‘1978.

“I was living ina dorm at
Stanford,” Hwang said when
he was here for the Canadian
Premiere: of FOB by Gross:
roads Theatre.

“In the spring all the
dorms put on plays or usually
musicals. I decided to write a
Play, cast it in-house and dir-
ect it myself. It had just an
audience. of Foie ‘and
stuff.”

He submitted the script to

the . O'Neill National Play-.

wrights Conference. in 1979,
and it was one’ of ‘a dozen
Picked from’ 1,300 entries.

Joseph Papp produced it in
1980 at the New York
Shakespeare Festival, where
it won the 1981 Obie Award
for best play ofthe season.

Hwang has received rave
reviews in the New Yorker
for the five plays he has
written,

Most are on the subject of
Chinese in America, except
for the musical Five ‘Guys
Named Moe, which he is
working on now.

His last play, Sound and

Book full of
exotic living

By ROD CURRIE

TORONTO (CP) — One may approach Robert Lacey's
glorious new book, A with the ofa
peasant suddenly invited to belly up to a Vast baronial feast
in ye olde ancestral manor.

But half way through there's that over-fed feeling.

Lacey, whose earlier books included Majesty, the
biography. of the Queen; Princess, the story: of Princess

Diana; and The Kingdom, about Saudi Arabian royalty; now. '4

has moved down a notch to mere aristocrats.

his: friend

Beauty — two love stories set
in Japan — opened in Nov-
ember, a few days away from
her Dur-
ang’s Baby: With the Bath-

2; do with the gropu’ when ‘it . ;
> feels they've mde it {n Amer-”

mite en

cookie. transforms itself into
the’masK of’an' jandlent Chi:
‘nese swarrlor god.

oR FOB ia clever,
fortune

FOB -is about the tragic
hierarchy Chinese-Ameri-
cans construct for them-
selves from the example of
bigotry learned from the
whites. The later the arrival
off:the boat, the more “Chi-
nege” the person is, first- and
second-generation Chinese-
Americans believe.

The play is sad and scath-
ingly funny at the same time,
and is wise and cool-headed
about history's injustices.

“In a way, FOB is still my
favorite play because it was
closest to home.”

It came’ ‘from stories he had «
heard from his parents and
from ‘his ; Chinese-American
studies.’”"* ~

“Do Isee myself as. an
‘Asian-American’ writer?\No
I see myself.as.a-writer-first,
then an Asian-American wri-.
ter. feel now! what'l waht to

subjects ‘and T hope I can
bring’ to’ each..a unique Ber.
spective from having Brey
up astride two cultures.

“The three plays I wrote
first nto, end up con-
stituting’’a. trilogy on the
Chinese experience | in'Amer-

eoThe Dance and the Rail.
road is about the first Chi-
nese immigrant laborers.
FOB gives a sort of transition
period: How an ethnic group

starts to' assimilate and ‘the’.

‘perils of that assimilation.
“Family. Devotions. has: to-.

feap society. It's about a rich
Chinese-American family
who live in’Bel Air and what
happens y when they're visited
by: 8 long-lost relative from

the Esp Republic of Chi-”

Tess

5
But with his deft handling, his adroit use of ‘little Eome

of eccentricity, his feel for historical research; ‘hé
produced a gorgeous and colorful smorgasbord of delights.
However, it is so laden with oddities, glimpses of exotic
living and of wealth and it may prove
too rich to be devoured in one sitting.

Enhanced by dozens of magnificent color photos by Ric
Gemmell — portraits, glittering interiors, mysterious land-
‘scapes — the book focuses on six of the great aristocratic
families of Europe.

WAS TV SERIES

It was done in collaboration wth a BBC-TV series of the
same name but while the TV series presented a sort of
“aristocrat of the week,” Lacey mingles the six throughout
the book.

There is the handsome Gerald Grosvenor, sixth Duke of
Westminster, who at 31 is the richest man in Britain;
Germany's Prince of Thurn and Taxis, whose family is still a
little embarrassed that it made its money originally as
postmen; and Spain's Victoria Eugenia who has more titles
than any living person but whose friends call her Mimi.

Mimi owns 90 to 100 castles — she's not quite sure. But
her most treasured possessions are trophies sho won at
bridge, her consumin; ion.

She gets up aeesdat tigen most mornings and floats
through the greater part of the day in an amiable, but
somewhat distant haze,” Lacey writes. “But wher she sits
down at her green baize table for bridge, her eyes become
very sharp indeed.”

OWNS BEST LAND

Westminster, who owns much of the best land in
London including that under Canada’s Macdonald House and
the U.S. Embassy in Grosvenor Square, rarely, gives
interviews.

“But he'd just taken a course in TV and was Coke cut,
his teeth,” Lacey said in an interview.

Aristocrats, by Robert Lacey. Published by McClelland
and Stewart; 248 pages; $29.95.

Names in
the news

A guy has to be more than
easy on the eyes to make it as
one of the 10 most watchable
men in the world.

Take Peter Jennings, for
example.

The Canadian-born ABC
anchorman made the list,
winning a vote from an ad-
mirer who said: “Love his
speaking voice and the way
he says ‘out’ and ‘about.’ ”

No need to ask how Rich-
ard Gere made the list, com-
piled by 1,000 to 2,000 man
watchers for Man Watchers
Inc.

But what about Sherman
Hemsley, better known as
the irascible George Jeffer-
son on the television show

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U.S. Marines at Beirut air-
Port will be transported to a
U.S. Navy ship offshore for

, the shows. Hope will not ac-

tually: land in Lebanon,
where American troops have
come under increasing fire in
recent months,
The ‘trip by the 80-year-
old will

pe to entertain U.S. troops

Hope's entourage for the
shows will include Brooke
Shields, Ann Jillian, George
Kirby, Vic Damone, Kathy
Lee Crosby and Julie Hayek,
the’current Miss USA.

Hope will leave the United
States on Dec. 20 and per-
form several shows aboard
ships of the U.S. 6th Fleet,

a tradition of visiting Amer-
ican servicemen abroad dur-
ing Christmas that be began
in 1941.

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marines, who are in Beirut as
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