European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 24, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Never a piece on the Pencil thursday August 24. 1978 to essayist Andy Rooney is an it of a is a a by Tom Jory associated press Fly Rooney is a Fine and witty writer who by the Way. Reads his stuff on television " if you be watched lbs 60 minute a this summer chances Are you be seen one of Andy Rooney s essays he s discussed subjects such As ratings for things and people Good news Tor to the language crisis Over mrs like Banks and Why they re name the Way they Are. Like a writer Andy Rooney Calls his essays pieces " i still think of myself As a writer and i m out to prove the written word still is of some Conse Quence says Rooney who s done a lot of Riun for to and radio. The press people Here Call me a producer reporter. What s that i m a writer. I have to report what i writ because i lost Reasoner a few years ago. He s Only half kidding. Between 1964 and 1968, Rooney wrote and produced and Harry Reasoner narrated a series of news specials for lbs a Birdseye View of America Barry Goldwater s Arizona the strange Case of the English language As Well As a string of essays indoors Bridges hotels women chairs. Reasoner moved Over to Abc in 1970 he returned to lbs this summer and Rooney began Reading the Andy Rooney i m a has. Of whal " me o T. Hat i Don t have any great desire to be on camera " Rooney says. It s not unpleasant but i m a writer brat indeed few television writers have covered the ground Andy Rooney has. A Good sampling would include Block history Lett stolen or strayed for lbs in 1968, an essay on War for Public to in 1971, the colleges for Casto 1974. But he s Best known to to watchers for the Short essay be delivers himself examining everyday subjects from a new perspective. My Knack be says is for observing something everyone knows about but from different angles. Ill take something say a Pencil and put Down every. Andy Rooney had been working that Way for a while off pfc ,e,1 j Lound in was fun to look for pictures that would help Tell the Story. At first i d go around with the cameramen and they could t really understand what i was doing. They were looking for the Guy ready to jump out the window and i was looking for the Guy who was t going to jump out the in the end there was the average looking Guy with the slightly nasal voice who would read lines like these. In Florida the Orange crop was hit by another night of average weather. The oranges just Hung there from 60 minutes july 16,1978. Or " trust1 is a word that Banks like in their names. There Are certain names they d never use Bank Orama Tor 60 minutes july30,1978. Andrew a. Rooney born Jan. 14,1920, in Albany. was a student at Colgate in 1941 when the army called. I was stationed in England. I d done a Little writing and when the army like they do said. Anyone who worked on a newspaper line up Over Here i Rooney had volunteered for a Job with the stars and stripes and soon was in the company of people such As Walter Cronkite then a correspondent for United press. After the War he spent a while As a writer at metro the stars and stripes Page 19 angry Man Goldwyn Mayer. And in 1949 began a six year stint As Arthur Godfrey s writer for radio and to. At the same time he was writing for lbs news programs such As the twentieth Century Newt of America adventure. Calen Dar and the morning show. His 1965 script for the great love a air a lbs news special on americans and their affection for cars won a writer s Guild award As would his scripts for Block his Lory and an essay on War. He also won an emmy for the Block history addition to working with Reasoner on the news specials Rooney wrote a number of segments for 60 min utes including Hollywood speak Teilh forked Tongue. About the portrayal of indians in Western movies and essays on whiskey ice Cream tombstones and the Many faces of Christ. Rooney spent two years with the National educational television network and Abc and returned to lbs late in 1972. Many of his Best known essays have been done since then including or. Rooney goes to Washington in 1975 and or. Rooney goes to dinner in 1976. This summer 60 minutes subbed it Pom counter out feature with a month of three minute or so with Andy Rooney. What s ahead Andy Rooney in t sure. I m angered that the things i have done often Are considered expendable or not really important he says. I would match the importance of the Pencil to Mankind with the War in Lebanon or anywhere else. Bat we re going to spend six minutes a night for it nights of the christians taking the Holiday inn i Beirut and never do a piece on the Andy Rooney is a hard worker in the office at 8 mos Days. When i m working on something my mind is really turned on to it he says. When i did that piece on hotels there was t a thing about a hotel i would t see. If i m not turned on As a writer i m just the average Guy on the writing he says is always hard work and that s Why writing is dying out. Not Many people Are willing to do Italy More. But i still enjoy it. I enjoy closing the door and fight ing it out. Then what a further Delight it is to do it movies becoming big business in sunny Israel by Michael Precker associated press a Marvin and Mark Hamill recently stormed Normandy Beach on Day near the resort town of Neta nya Israel North of Tel Aviv. Mean while near the dead sea Michael Caine was chasing Peter Ustinov across the Sahara desert. Israel is now hosting two Multi million Dollar film productions and israelis think their country could become the Hollywood of the Middle East. We feel the potential is tremendous Aid Yoram Golan director of the Israel rim Center which coordinates govern ment and private cooperation with movie makers. It s not expensive Here we have no Union problems and there is a great diver sity of landscapes in a Small area with easy shooting movies la Israel is nothing new. Him like exodus Jesus Christ superstar and Moses the lawgiver were made there Tor their authentic the big red i follows a sergeant of the first . Infantry division and four of his men through world War ii. By focusing on the men rather than staging panoramic Battle scenes the producers easily found Sites in Israel simulating Europe and North s a Story of their lives together producer Gene Gorman re not shooting the longest Day or trying to see How Many explosions we can stage or now Many soldiers can die on screen. Thus the Normandy scene was shot on a Small Section of the Mediterranean Shore with Rocky Cliffs overlooking the Beach. Small earthen Mounds at the Shoreline and barbed wire in the background recreated the German fortifications. The squad disembarked from a world War in Vintage Landing Craft provided by the Israel Navy. Amid gunfire and explosions Marvin and his Ferow stars reached land safely while lesser known comrades died in the background and floated to North of Tel Aviv the set of an old West pm town built to film a number of Low Budts european made westerns a few Yean Back sits empty awaiting the return of the boy movie.1 what distinguishes the two films now be
