European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 18, 1973, Darmstadt, Hesse Lee Marvin cometh by Mary Campbell associated press actor Lee Marvin the Tough Guy in t a Tough Guy All the time. Today he s being the proud husband bearing gifts securely self confident about his own fishing ability and taking great pleasure in his wife s having landed on 80 Pound test line in september a607 Pound Marlin to break a women s record. He strides across a Street his rugged looks recognized by a woman who shakes his hand and a Man who takes his picture into a new York hotel lobby where a woman from a phone Booth yells what s your name you look so i wonder what she has in mind Marvin says stopping in front of a jewelry display Case. The other Day he was walking Down this Hall on his Way to the same Oyster bar and a brilliantly Blue Emerald Cut Tourmaline ring in the Case caught his Eye. Marlins electrify when they re hooked. They turn colors when they get angry a Brilliant series of Marvin bought the ring. When his wife Pamela joins him for lunch he puts the ring Box in front of her very off hand Points to the thin Gold band on her left hand and says i thought i owed her something after that devastating wedding he looks at scars and Nicks on his own hands and wrists which display no watch or rings and says we were dragging the Marlin Back to land to weigh it it was too big to get in the boat. The pummelling of the water knocked the stomach out and i Hung Over the Side and pushed the stomach Down the Gullet to keep the weight. They have Fine hairy Teeth that scratch you without you noticing it. Badge of Honor. If there is such a a Larvin is in new York from his Home in Southern California and a month on his boat the Blue Hawaii to publicize a film. Hell be Hickey in Eugene o Neill s the iceman Fredric March is Harry Hope in whose Greenwich Village Saloon the 1912 action takes place. The late Robert Ryan is Larry Slade former anarchist and others in the cast Are Jeff Bridges Bradford Dillman Martyn Green Moses Gunn George Voskovec and Tom Pedi playing the bartender As he did in the original 1946 stage production. Marvin usually is in action films. The main reason he likes them he says is because they re shot outdoors. I was born and raised in new York City and i have a tremendous respect for the exterior. And when you get outside the attributes of nature Lead you pretty much on to what you have to do. In the seventh Samurai the closer it gets to the climactic Battle the weather gets worse and the final desperate Battle is in a downpour. Horses lose their footing and so do men. I like that. I Don t usually get the girl. I guess i did in. Prime Cut maybe that was what was wrong with what about those who decry the violence actor Marvin Back from the cold for an indoor role. In Many films Marvin is in Fine. If the same people did not declare wars and police actions we might be even better off. To deny the existence of violence would be total Larvin likes to play comedy won an Academy award for cat Ballou in which he played comedy As a drunk gunslinger and also played the villain. Comedy material does t come in that often but who knows what tomorrow May bring his next picture out will be Harry spikes which was shot in Spain during the summer. Marvin plays a Bank robber in what he Calls a mythical western.". He takes time to comment on the horseradish How could something so simple be so Good i used to get horseradish from the Pushcart on first and second avenues whatever you were before you ate it you weren t Marvin who is 49, got his Start acting in Little theater in Woodstock n. Y., after he came Back wounded from the Marine corps in world War ii. By then his family had moved to Woodstock. His first movie was in 1951, you re in the Navy now starring Gary Cooper. I said yes sir and no sir and things like that for eight weeks. I came Back to new York after that. I never really considered my position. I figured if i can make $12,000 or $14,000 a year doing this that was it. I guess i still live that Way in a funny Way. My books won t Bear me out but i still think like that. I m still looking for a Job. Regardless of what you re doing you never lose that aspect of Igaras new honeymoon by Rita Reif new York times new York times coming out on top against Urban blight. For decades old smoke stacks have scarred the Skyline of Niagara Falls the City once known As the honeymoon Capi Tal of the and the City s Center always a wasteland architecturally speaking now looks worse like Berlin after world War ii. But already visible to Niagara Falls s 87,000 citizens and the estimated 3.8 million tourists who visit annually fewer by almost one million than a decade ago Are signs of revitalization. Federal state and City agencies As Well As Industry have raised $175 million and $100 Mil lion More is on the Way to rebuild the Central City to trans form Niagara Falls into a mod Ern Mecca for tourists and conventions to attract Industry fleeing since the Power Plant fell in the Niagara in 1956 and to solve Mitch publicized pollution problems. The funds have resulted in the leveling of 82 acres of seedy structures and the replacement of Honky Tonk with me High toned architecture. To Date buildings by three of the nation s top architects have opened or Are nearing completion. Awesome is Philip c. John son s hangar like convention Hall that when it opens in january promises to look like the Crystal Palace. Next to it is Gordon Bun Shaft s formidable Gray Block of an office building that already houses the corporate Headquarters of the carborundum com Pany the City s top employer a Bank and a ceramics museum. And up the Street is Paul Rudolph s $5 million Library due to open in a few months. 1 he City that walked on one leg Industry said mayor e. Dent Lackey the other Day will now walk on two Industry and the. Mayor was chatting re gently before the ground break ing ceremonies of the City s new $55 million waste water treat ment Plant. Designed to clean up the Niagara s Waters the facility is being built with $47 million from the Federal environment Protection Agency. The state and local Industry will split the rest of the Bill. The enthusiastic frequently controversial Lackey a demo crat coined his one leg two leg theme when he took office in 1964, the year after employment dropped to 18,000 Down from 30, 000 in 1956. When the 50-year-old Schoellkopf Power Plant fell in the River it was a major catastrophe amounting almost to a death sentence for this City the 72-year-old official said. A replacement Plant came too late he said to Stem the severe reduction of work forces closing of plants or exodus of several Industrial giants. Lackey a former methodist minister is immensely popular and widely respected in spite of disputes with unions and other politicians. Those who have worked and fought with him at tribute his reputation to the Way he attacks the problems of the decaying City with proselytizing Fervour and flamboyant Energy. He was not alone in his crusade to turn the City around. Pro Grams for redevelopment Date Back to 1962. And in 1964 a local Alliance of citizens businessmen and Federal state and City officials which was called the society for the promotion unification and redevelopment of Niagara inc. Spur spearheaded a multifaceted attack on Urban blight. Spur also successfully led the movement to have Niagara Falls designated As the first Bicentennial City through another spin off the Gateway corporation. Other intensive efforts have net Ted conferences on housing and Community relations and the establishment of an Urban renewal monitoring system. Nebr 18, 1973 the stars and stripes Page a 5
