European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 05, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Mercial  the Vinyl Mother or s two top singles y Effort to improve upon in might have guessed a satisfaction in knowing thai something thai is and i m Dily toil now something or factly. I really Bali Csc that i producer Richard Perry perfect records mean a hell of a kick to me. Wanted to do is master my anger and i want to be a great a i m pleased with the a Day not too Long ago Sayer was just another English songwriter who silted to fall Short of his be bad had a Small Success ult face gimmick and stage shows and got some is while writing with vivid Courtney in 1973 and he split with Courtney and Solo album another 1 was met u ill a resounding m he and manager Adam Faith turned to Hotshot producer Richard Perry barbra Streisand. Ringo Starr. Carly Simon and Sayer s career caught fire. Sayer turned himself Over to Perry who recognized in his new artist a commercial Goldmine. " i m a Tot happier to be in the hands of Richard Perry a singles producer who can direct my career and direct me As a Singer into areas that Are most satisfying Sayer says. Then getting More to the Point he adds everybody loves having hit  if Perry and manager Faith can pick hits Lor him Leo Sayer a that s All he can ask from this life. I think the worst thing in the world is for artists to produce themselves he says. I get a kick out of making the. Records and then leaving it to other people to look at it  i would t have released you make me feel like dancing or when i need you Sayer adds. " mean How wrong can you get for additional proof of his philosophy Sayer offers this Story about you make me feel like dancing i was sitting around in the studio one a rms a Pris 1 believe in not sitting Down and taking it  Day and the Bass player was fiddling around and 1 just started singing i at this Point his High nasal falsetto goes into the first line of the song you got that cute Way of Walklin just like that you know just like a Jam session. And Richard Perry says. Hey. That sounds Good run the tape we taped it. And i went Back to England and Australia and did some Tours and things. I get Back to l. A. And Perry says. Listen to this. It sounds Good does t it jecs i says. It s that silly thing i did in the studio he told me to finish the song and that it was going to be a fabulous Success. It s amazing. A huge degree of unconscious Chance. My producer s got a great ear As to what s commercial and what in  Sayer says he s had his fill of get Ting on stage in the sad French Thea Ter Getup he used to use Baring his soul to the audience. Art is Fine he says but being commercial that s where it s at. "1 figure i be gotten up there and talked about my soul. I be done  he says i be exorcised my demos if you like by doing  As for now there s another album coming up and Sayer says there la be some very commercial things on  runner new play b Ard not the Type of w up his hands in about bringing the King and a were some Way c to Stop speaking ailed something his dressing room where the King he looked and Lage and screen Enance. The hair resonating voice.  than it i he continued the Book and the Uman rights he s the right of a led. E world around it All the Lime but concept. Today  9 Broadway in Gertrude Siw English Wumbin am to educate Alec tautly Curi in a Tonj us Liest i o Lawrence  in itt57.he to dim Versi ii of be Glim in Caine test Lour of the i the new Prusen � Jedi Junt a j Pur i the others we re doing a new production of an extraordinary classic of american musical comedy a Type of theater that nobody elsewhere has Ever been Able to do As Well As it is done in this  he sex  is the product of four geniuses. They were Richard Rodgers who wrote the music Oscar Ham Murstein Jerome bobbins who did the incomparable Ballet and Irene Sharaff. Who designed the costumes the first time and has done it again " Brynner who says he is s6 years old but appears to be in a state of eternally lean trim fit Ness said he Felt More right for the part now than he did the first Lime around. I am the right age to play the King now. I have the Matu Rity. I was too Young then. I have discovered much More in the  Brynner said he had to re learn everything and that it was no easier this time. Did he find himself lapsing automatically into stances from other pro auctions Only at moments Brynner replied with cer Tain hand gestures the piercing pointing style that the King uses with things he cannot understand. But we have All Learned new things. Yuriko who directs and choreographs the show was the Lead dancer she did the role of Eliza in the Uncle Thomas Ballet in 1951, dreamed of things she wanted to do and now she has the  Yuriko. Brynner and Edward Preston who played a priest in the original and is now pro cution stage manager Are the Only three who performed in the first Broadway  new production the actor said has had cuts approved by the Rodgers and Hammerstein organization. To make it Jusi under three hours Long As against the original three hours and 15 minutes a tune Span thai he said caused big problems in Over time for stagehands. In reviewing the film version of the King and i Long alter the fact Brynner gave himself less than a rave. The movie was always a slightly old fashioned Brynner scene with Constance towers Nix on idiot questions about Telly Savalas. Approach to telling the Story he said. Musicals Are generally not successful in film. I Don t know really Why. Most of the time i think they spend so much on buying the property that they feel they have to protect themselves to be Safe. In our business we must take risks. When i go out on stage pointing before an audience my whole body is in danger of losing its balance. I think the Safe and secure Way of doing things has always been  indeed. Brynner s whole life has been one of risk and mobility. He was bom on the Island of Sakhalin North of Japan his father was half Swiss half Mon Golian and his Mother was Bessarabia. During the first years of his life in peking Brynner spoke Man Darin and cantonese he says he does not remember what his first language was when you re a kid. You learn something and the memory fades " the actor said he also lived in France and quit school at the age of 12 to join Gypsy performers in playing parisian nightclubs then he became a circus acrobat and Clown on the flying trapeze. He was injured by a fall but continued As a grounded Clown until he joined a repertory theater company. Brynner studied at the sorbonne. Found his Way to the United states in 1941 and became a television director at lbs where Sidney Luct. Among others who went on to Fame and Fortune worked for him. He made his debut on Broadway in ism play ing opposite Mary Martin in Lute  before beginning is television career. In Between the various productions of the King and i he has made numerous films among them the ten  Anastasia and  a science fiction movie that was an Eye opener for him and gave him an entirely new Young audience. Brynner now lives in Normandy. France with his wife. Jacqueline who bus been a figure in the world of fashion writing and their two children. He does t like to speak about his private life very much because it is nobody s  hut he feels that he is very much an american actor and he says that he is respected As such All Over. The hair or the Lack of it he shaved his head for the role of the King in 1951 and it just seemed like a Good idea to keep it that Way. Brynner explains adding firmly. Ill answer any questions except idiot ones about How i feel about Telly  me 5, 1977 the stars and stripes Poge 13