European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 23, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 20 the stars and stripes 1981 a new Hollywood discovery modern living by Iver Peterson new York times and steam belched stacks at the Youngstown Sheet tube Mills the other and old timers looking Down into the Mahon ing Valley wondered if they were seeing it did not mean the steel Mills in were Back in business it was the special effects people from metro Goldwyn Mayer at pumping an appearance of life into Grimy old factories whose hearths have been cold for years to create a convincing backdrop for Peter Falk As he shambles and squinted his Way Down the Gritty streets of the old steel the that faded Star of americas Industrial has been discovered by its a leading extra in a growing number of films and television movies in recent As producers look for ways to hold Down costs and directors explore the partic ular physical and mental landscape of the Middle weve really been Busy said Mari Barnum head of the Ohio film who helps promote shoot ing on location in her the East and West coasts Are really she and its easier to shoot youve got steel in automobiles in and when they see All these people out of work the unions Are really anxious to cooperate with the film makers to put people to Lucy who runs the Illinois film said weve doubled what we shot last and Evey year for the past five years weve doubled or increased by a third Over the year its really taking there arc very definite economic reasons for it look at the Cost of hotels in new York and along with the Breaks in there Are enormous Breaks in Cooper she went its still new and people Are very excited by almost the Detroit suburb of Bir where the Auto executives recently rejected an application to use City property in word of a television movie starring Karl Maiden As a reporter who uncovered a because it was a Story of sex and so Maiden and the Crew moved to a neigh boyhood West of where they were More besides the there seems to be a growing interest in the Industrial cities As a background against which to explore the lives of the people who gave meaning to the term Blue the Deer the 1979 Oscar Winner about Young steelworkers and the Vietnam was partly snot in the Pride of Jesse a Madeford Televik Sion movie starring Johnny deals with an illiterate Kentucky Coal Miner forced to find his Way in Cincinnat it has not yet been Steven whose breaking away portrayed the lives of working class youths pitted against the snobbish Ness of University life in has completed shooting our friends against the steel Mills of South Chicago and and Falk is now in Youngstown and a Camp playing the Grubby manager of two women wrestlers in All the which Barnum described As a kind of female Rocky Why the interest in working class lives and locales Robert who is directing was everybody made their Beac Blanket party movies for 10 or 20 he and i think people want to see something something they can identify with William his who is the producer of All the added people nowadays see the problems this part of the country is haying every night on and theres a lot of interest in it most people dont realize that everything they have in their houses and on their tables or in their garages comes from Robert Aldrich said you dont have to be very smart to make a movie Here you put the camera Down any place and its just these streets have such a de unusable David senior vice president for world wide production at cautioned against be Lieving a new wave of  movies was about to break Over the nations he noted that last Summers big Money makers the Empire strikes and Blue Lagoon All took place in never never but there May be something to he i can see a quest for american for the restoration of Frontier and if i were looking for these things in a id look to the new York times Barney Taxel Peter the preparing to Start scene in All the being filmed in at wife end by Erma Bombeck to Bug or not to Bug mom on her that is one of the burning questions that face youngsters with mothers who work outside the there Are no Blanket As emergencies do arise and mom would insist on being but there Are a few guidelines to you must ask youself 1 will mom drop dead when she hears this 2 can she find a plumber after five 3 will she carry out her threat to move to another City and change her name if you answered you might try putting the incident in a proper for if there is blood to consider these questions is it yours your Brothers is there a lot a Little on the sofa that is not Scott hug Ardd from a Loose baby tooth or the one that they Are still making payments on will the bleeding Stop was it an Accident can you shut up about it and pass it off As an insect bite another example when every kid in the neighbor Hood decides your House would be a neat place to play because there is no adult at ask do i want to spend my entire puberty locked in my room with no food and no television do i need the Friendship of a boy who throws ice cubes at the Bird will mom notice we made confetti in her blender other situations you can be definite about when a group of children decide to Wash the cat and put him in the dryer and want to know what setting to when you and your brother Are hitting and slapping Over the last soft drink and you want a High level Deci Sion on who gets dont when a couple of men in a pickup truck Tell you your mom is having your to your Silver Ware her jewelry and your 10speed bicycle when you forget to defrost the hamburger so you up it under your moms hair dryer and the dog is Licking meat off the when your sister chases you into the House with the Garden Hose and the furniture is turning a funny looking when you Are bored and have nothing to do and isl want to Call your c Field enterprises