The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

PAGE " - IATERLOO CHEMICLE, *MSOAY. m 24, '.1 The Legend of the Lone Ranger. the latest tttm by producer Welter Cobienz. he: received mixed reviews. The life of a Hall wood producer 653.2335" 3 Charles HI “on! .1 Own" Katha-n Onion" "2ar951 or 7.1658) " Mam SI (bum Ont-no Upon duly 106 Than . Fr, I09 (”half no" I land on Monday Weve matched the very powerful JVC R-S? Receiver (50 watts per Channel RMS) with the new JVC L- A31 direct-drive Turntable. which includes the Empnre 4000XL1 cartridge. Plus the clean, clear sound ot the At Wesseling's, we know how important it is to put the right receiver with nght turn- table and speakers to give you the sound you want Here's what we ve done tor those of you who want a BIG sound, If youve serious about wanting to recreate the sounds of the concert hall, you'll be serious about our Thunder System, Tbchnics Mluvc " youve after the expen- ence of the concert hall, go after our Thunder System MSL $1000 PRO-TECH y-1203 l? 3- way speakers. This IS high volume levels without distOr- tion. This is hearing all the music the way it was meant to sound _ _ live. IIE JVC "eHettireoedreodt'eeriamore odtesttt.amtatttnrttunIoeatbrtite director my amid extra amnion when personally taking on the addi- tional responsibilities of producer. the full-time movie producer may take an active part in virtually all areas of a picture‘s creation and still remain relatively anonymous. Waiter Coblem, irtso his been producing feature films for about no yours now! enjoyg his anonymity. The producer of two movies star- ring Robert Redford, including the highly acclaimed All The Presi- dent's Men, Coblenz recently spent a few days in our area visiting relatives - without being hounded everywhere he went by the public and the media. “I happen to enjoy the work that I do, and the fact that I'm able to work with all these famous people and be instrumental in helping put together projects for them." ma! movie-coin; public. "Being well known is not some- thing that's really all that appealing to me. I'm basically a fairly private person and. although the industry I'm in is a very public industry, one of the advantages I have as a producer is that in a way it does give me a little more privacy than, say, ifl were a director. "Some producers never set foot on a set. They are simply entrepre- neurs who are marvellous at coming up with millions and millions of dollars to enable a movie to be made. Some producers are putting together two or three pictures at the same time. "Others spend a great deal of time on the set. There are producers who start work with the writers and the director and who are there through- out the production, __ through post- production and then work right into the distribution of the picture. “I fall very much into the latter category of producer. I do come up with some projects but then some- one else has to come up with the monies. And when I produce I spend all my time on one project." Cohlenz started out in the televi- sion industry, "doing a lot of directing in the days of live pro- gramming." A graduate of a broad- casting course at the University of Houston in Texas, with an additional degree in secondary education in case he wasn't successful in his first-choice career, Coblenz made contacts in the feature-film industry while working on the Man From U.N.C.L.E. TV series. His first involvement with a mo- tion picture was as production Coblenz. a native New Yorker who also produced the Blue Knight mini-series for television, says there are many kinds of "producers." "I was brought in specifically to develop and then produce that project, so I've been in on it right from the start and, good, bad or indifferent, I'm very much respons- ible for what's on the screen." His most recent project was The Legend of The Lone Ranger, a movie that has received mixed reviews from critics and a modest box-office response. . t.atterCott-td-etttttelttrtMqtd. In Waterloo. Gimmick m We Stanton tnt--ttttmttemattoutttteth-tt Hollywood 'ttmpeodueeraetdpeotttd" the WWW. --_-_- By “CTN STANTON "I'm a scoutmaster; I'm a gener- at. I'm someone who tries to keep order, someone who is able to keep a clear perspective of the overall project." The script for Great America is being written by Dan Jenkins, described by Coblenz as " sports writer with a marvellous sense of humor." (Semi-Tough was made into a movie starring Burt Reynolds, and later was turned into a brief-lived televistion series.) How does Coblenz describe his day-to-day work as a producer? "Depending on who the people are that I work with. I can be everything from , benevolent dictator to a manager. "You might know him as the author of Semi-Tough." "Great America is a giant con- glomerate that's aboutJo devour a small company and, via what I hope will be one of the great stings in motion picture history, our little guy wins. "Right now, we're in the midst of a writer's strike and I'm one rewrite away from going on this." Between President's Men, which won four Academy Awards, and The Lone Ranger, Coblenz produced The Onion Field. taken from the novel by Los Angeles policeman ~turned- writer Joseph Wambaugh who also inspired the Blue Knight series. Currently. Coblenz is working on a project tentatively titled Great America. "Now, it looks like, "Gee, how could they have missed?' But, back then, in 1974 and 75 when people were saying 'We've heard enough about this,' it was not a particularly good risk. It was a very major gamble at the time." “It took a great deal of my time to handle that public relations aspect, as well as co-ordinating all the day-to-day filming activities. "From a box-office point of view, President's Men was a very danger- ous project. 1 give a lot of credit to Warner Brothers who financed it and also to Bob Redford who put a few years of his life into that pro- duction. Candidate. again starring Redford and directed by Ritchie. Four years after that, Redford President’s Meat, the screen version of the bestselling hook that exposed details of the Watergate scandal which ultimately led to President Nixon‘s resignation. and dim which»! Ritehie. Three - later, the! working as an annual digeetate on such forgettable pictures as numb Trip- ping ma Two Lune Blacktop, Cob, Ienz produced his first, tun? _The “It was an extremely difficult picture to make. I dmt't want to indicate that there was any kind of danger involved in the project, but I think that one has to understand that with filming that particular project in Washington with a Re publican administration still in power, certainly it was not particu- larly easy, manager lot mm Racer. 3 [no release Marrtata Bot-en Redford “l was anolved in really every phase of that picture.