European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 6, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Tho rear Mccullough was Ratter less charitable than the fictitious father she said her family no Lunger talks of the incident which caused them to leave the of she that did not atop her Mother from sending Herto a Convent school for 12 Aslo the Thorn Mccullough says her Book is Complete but you must write from life to write convincing but she 1 cant imagine my Mother having an affair with a As docs the heroine of the it must be hell having a writer in the she my poor there must be some people who will believe until the Day they die thai somewhere in her past is the real Shock she was her mothers think ing Here i have an old maid daughter in her mid lir Lucs and Shes writing love old maids Are supposed to act like old but Mccullough no Ive had Many offers in the but something always i never have made it id the Ive had lights with maybe they got frightened and pushed or i got frightened and pushed maybe by this time next Yeti 1 will be Mayba in 20 years 1 wont be married or Mccullough has no plans to be part of the Al though there have been proposals to turn the Thorn Birds into a television the red haired author says she will nut write the no no author i know likes the treatment hol Lywood gives his Mccullough Hopes to continue i have hundreds of books in and finding Lime to write them is a the Money from the Thorn Birds will keep me from worrying Boul my old that important to she said Mccullough is an unlikely she allows hat she is a terrific standing in the Kitchen in Slacks and a she says All my friends say my cooking is equated Only by my humility in the about All thai the tall re haired author simply i really dont i dont think about it Loo much ill probably have lots of parties when my House u but 1 think ill invite delivery i men and garbage not us top 400 in the new York society directory j time will but if youre a delivery Man to me t cd sloughs House when its dont be surprised when the invitation shows up in your mail Mazu Sicy right on location with Michael Murphy and Jim Paul Mazursky in wonderland by Anna qui Molen new Vork times night in a dimly lit bar in new York Ciplys Greenwich and in the Booth in the Corner he director Paul Mazurak is a study in protective his ruined Sable hair and dark Turtleneck blend uncannily into the Wood panelling of the wails behind so that most of the time thu Only Clear impression of his face is of two Light eyes like camera with his voice coming Oul of the the substance of his conversation the Only thing that might excite Public recognition As he sits Over a plate of broiled sole and a Glass of his beside a Funky is enjoying Public recognition and its not because he once directed next Greenwich or Harry and or even that tale of sexual Bob and Carol and Ted and Tor after recognizes the face behind the camera 47yeaihid dark hatred Man la a Cap and a a is being halted to the Cushler City spots by strangers who stammer Aad finally you Paul Mazurky didst you play the record producer Taa Star is born 7 the answer is and on a lifeline scale one wonders if he question Doest Register High on Mazursky was indeed the record As he was the studio executive in his own Alex in wonderland and will be someones Boyfriend in the new movie he is shooting called a unmarried at the same time he is a director of no Little he is much More important to him than the Mariha velour autograph syndrome and in the Long whose Youthful ambition was a career in front of the Cam now loves of when those people would j was hoping they 1 really love your he and want recognition in the sense that i want the picture to be liked and but i think id be uncomfortable u i had to handle the kind of constant recognition actors i think everyone who does what i do takes Public response to heart i think it be a lie to say i dont Al though the review system Lias gotten pretty ridiculous it newells and All do you rate your relationships that Way do you say my dog is a my wife la an eight All of that i dont care i fee very Good about my and very maybe because i Haven seen any of the films since they first re opt Alex in i checked that out again recently and i liked it a there Are a couple of things i would have but i liked i guess its like the infant nobody i have no regrets that i think Ive done Good and Iff been my for while Max nays face May not lie any und of Campbells soap there is Sease of Paol Jewsky it look a word that the director himself is beginning to dislike so that Max Onys wends often believe they have been written into the films per so that u has sometimes been suggested that he is so Happy with Bis Owa life that be has made about nothing Mazursky gets excited inwardly about this personal stuff As opposed to the occasions when he is mentioned As making Small when he gets excited outward but on the surface he takes it he says All 1 make Are movies about my own cant you Tell in the unmarried in getting tired of that for several Ive always Felt Here were a lot More so called ouf eurs than people thought there a lot of Guys working in Holly Wood you know a prank Capra you know a John George William Wyler were very Persona kinds of approaches maybe u seems More obvious in my but Harry and tout is not obvious to autobiographical and yet its just As autobiographical As Greenwich theres a Little fail of my of Betsy but because its not about a Young Man who wants to be an actor or a film no one writes this is what was written about was next Greenwich a film about a Brooklyn boy who wanted to hit the acting big time in the written and directed by a Brooklyn boy who wanted to hit the acting big time in the Mazursky spent a couple of decades approaching this retrospective As an a writer for Danny and coauthor of the screenplay for i love Alice until he hit his Hollywood stride with Bob and Carol and Ted and still is biggest it was like i he As Belay tha spotlight and my Mother and Betsy and the they shewed it at the first new York film Festi Val and the audience went crazy Over that was like a super a lot of East coast people thought it was a Slick but two Yean later there they with hair Down to their and group j that was to rank i California which also included the Osba Ldusky unsuccessful la wonderland and blame in Harry and an pm Kasey picture in which Art Carney started out in new York and wound up on the is a dividing m autobiography is indeed a driving Force in a Zurakis his new Vork which began with a location shooting of Village and i continuing with an unmarried the Story of a recently divorced woman attempting to make a life Cor herself should now be in fun to do this picture to get us Hack to new Mazursky said with a laugh and with an Arm around us the been moving away from California in the last three i Celt a Deal with certain sides of Call fornia life and just the Way we were a Little ured of Cali 1 was tired of making movies about were going logo Back and Cut the my Bull was sure i would make u in new an unmarried woman is a very different film making experience from Greenwich for one Fri shot on the East Side and stars Goodlo Okert Jill Oay Burgh and Alan Bates for the Rte Nhey bars Mazursky usually gobbles for instant Energy have been replaced by atmospheric 4 Oclock he is dieting to prepare for his stints before the cameras in the which is not really about not at is about women feeling that their husbands Are and then their husbands this picture has certainly grown out of the fact that Ive been married a Long Lime and been around women a Long Lime and seen a lot of women who were in that very vulnerable the use came from a divorced Friend of ours who told me that after her name on a mortgage application Home one wrote an unmarried but its not Auu Tiora phial our friends always think its about the stars and stripes Poge 15
