European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 8, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The Many sides of Price by Bob Thomas associated press incent Price is a screen legend who manages la survive by being versatile. He is willing to spread his unique Talent in All Media. He was Itic ghostly voice on Wuchae Jackson shit  he toured Lor years in his one Man show about  Wildo he appears on Hollywood squares to lain shows and commercials. He Sang and devised villainous plots As lha voice of professor Ratigan in Disney s animated feature the great mouse detective. Price inc Nelly has been in Iho Heaters in two widely divergent mrs the offspring a Low budget thriller and the whales of August Lindsay Anderson s drama co starring Belle Davis Lillian Gish and Ann Sothern. A arcs have marvelled Aboul such a Galaxy of film goals. Though some Havo carpet about the dramatic values Al his Home in Ida Hollywood Hills idled with great works of Art. Price reflected on his acquaintance Wilh Iho Gjneal women of the screen. I worked with Betle years ago 1939 in a thing called the Stivale lives of Elizabeth and Essen Edh Errol Flynn. H was great fun to said. She was wonderful and imperious bul of course she had a right id be she was playing Queen Elizabeth i. The Only person she did i win with was Errol people Are always worried about her Vanlanker Rusness but it s consistent. Shebeen  Way for years she s marvelous to work  he Tribl gosh when he was in Victoria Reg 1936 Wilh Helen Hayes who was a close Friend of Hois. Than we corresponded and 1 still have All the letters irom her he said i admired her enormously and i saw her on opening night of her first Broadway play she Ever did Uncle Vanya with Osgood Perkins. I happened to be at Yale and i had enough Money to come Down to new Yolk and Sec the play. Ii was a mags Ltd Momcil to Sec tins legend of inc screen walk out on the Stago Lof the first  at 76. Price was Iho youngest of the quartet Gish is reported to be 91, though she denies in Davis 13 79, so Hern 78 How did he feel about working with such actor Vincent Price spreads lilt Talent in us Lnell. Grande Dames i found that the Grande Dames Aren t so grand when you get them on a sol particularly on a Small Island in Maine. Some of their Gurari Mcness disappears " he said they were very Down to Earth complaining a lot As we All were. Ii was kind of a miserable location. The popu on the Island were wonderful to us but in was cold there was no place to Meel Al nigh you could Only inv Ilg someone from their Holte cold Cabin to your Little cold  in the who sat August Price plays a russian Nobleman and Friend of the two quarrelling Sisters Gish and Davis. It s a Small Rale he Admi led the kind to likes you Don t Havo to carry Iho picture. You walk in play your Little scene and walk out Wilh people remembering you. I notice that most of the lines critics quote were my lines so i must have made some impression comparing the two Lead actresses Price remarked Bella is a very studied actress nothing will happen that Youdon l expect on Iho set. There Are always surprises Lor the audience especially in this kind of role i iian being her age and always Trie of herbal kind of lady had her usual Quality. Gut what i liked in this role was he toughness you never suspected was there. The location was a Little difficult because she s a Little deaf and a Little rail. And i m a Nile Trail. One Day someone walked on the set and saw a Cane Here and a Crutch there. He said my god. It books like Lourdes " bom in so lout Vincent Price led Yale Unive Sily to study Art in London and was discovered there by producer Gilbert Price who cast him n Prince Albert in Victoria Regina the Young actor served in Orson Welles Mercury theater Blore coming to Hollywood in the Early 1940s Tor a contract Al 20th Century Fox Price s chill Masler image began with the 3-d the House of Wax in 1953, ant has stuck Wilh him Ever since. Off screen to presents the image of the gentle cultured Man which he is. Bul he admits he shares a certain toughness with Davis and Gish. You Havo to be Tough to survive in this business. Once 1 was a guest on a talk show with Orson As the Host. We got talking and we came up Wilh the most important word of our careers survival. It s awfully easy to gel out of the business he said. It s nol easy to stay in. I never Felt that the goal parts were the Only things you should do. Thai s a great mistake because there ate so Many interesting things available " politicians play capture the camera by Joan Hamauer United press International politicians today Are learning now ways 10 play the old game of Cap Lump the camera and last month Dan rather and inc lbs evening news unwillingly helped vice president Bush do wimp his image. That is Iho View of Many television news pros who by trove lbs unwillingly sol the Slage Lor the Bush rather confrontation when it agreed to demands irom Bush aides that to interview be conducted live. Lots of politicians Over the years have gotten on to the fact that they can capture our cameras said a6c while House correspondent Sam Donaldson. Tivey can capture our cameras and make the reporter the editorial presence irrelevant. Political Consul Ling firms Are instructing candidates and officeholders on How to handle television reporters no us How o be Clear and concise bul How not to answer the questions asked How to filibuster How to make the Fitler viewer took like the bad Guy Mike Wallace of lbs s 80 minutes another Lough to reporter was asked whether to milians were using the to press Haven t they always used us Wallace said. Little by Tittle they Are becoming More sophisticated. They now understand that live is better than edited Lor then purposes they understand time constraints More and Moie they have More and More advice ram Media consultants and Media gurus and so Are becoming More sophisticated in Hying to use us to their advantage. Thai s perfectly understandable. It s a tree country. H s up to us not to be excessively used and to keep up our guard Aboul being used. In the rather  Wallace said i Haven l the slightest Oji Ubl that they gamed just As rather apparently gamed. They probably came out ahead. Bul in seems to me Over the King puff of the presidential Campaign there is no Way they can escape scrutiny on any important  Burton Benjamin retired Lormor head Obs news and one time producer of the lbs evening news with Walter Cronkite described his reaction As he watched Iho kalhor Bush clash saying i fell that based on my experience in was a vory big risk logo live on a highly structured show like the evening hens what it succeeds in doing is taking a vital editing process out of the Loop. It s As of the person being interviewed could dictate i realty into the newspaper win no one to Edi it. If you want to put somebody on live Pul him on face the  the Lime constraint problem was continued by Tom Bettag executive producer of lbs evening news who was the Man telling rather to gel of get off get Oil As the Bush interview continued and other news stories were being knocked Oil the newscast. We had gone Pas what we thought was the maximum time and we had to Gat Oft we were already killing stories and the next Story we would have to have killed was the opening of hearings on ratification of the inf treaty. Thai was not a discretionary  Benjamin called in extremely dangerous to take the editor out of the Loop adding it s a fundamental Law if i Pul you on live the More you talk the ewer questions i can  Bill Wheatley executive producer of Abc nightly news Wilh Tom Brokow does not condemn live interviews on evening news broadcasts but he added. It s True that poll icons know ills necessary Lor news programs to move onto other subjects and in they wish. They can filibuster and be reasonably assured that Lime will nun out and they won t be subjected to further  monday. February 3, 19b6 he is Moie concerned Wilh other attempts by politic want Send run around the broadcast press not simply by buying television time but Wilh techniques the Public might not pm of easy to identify. Many of the candidates Are packaging their own news Fie said. Thay go out on inc Campaign Trail and bring Wilh them a camera Crew they Havo hired to take pictures of them. They arrange to Havo their own news broadcasts Pul up by satellite and any Stalion that wishes the pictures can record and use them do Stalions that do this identify the source of the material some do and some do not other candidates pay for satellite Lime and make themselves available to local stations Lor interviews. Any Way you look at  Wheatley said that candidate being on that station grows out of the act that the candidate paid for the appearance. I find in a really bad  Donaldson and Benjamin both noted that television exposes the adversarial relationship Between reporters and politicians. The Public does t always like what it sees and politicians use this. There Are limits beyond which reporters should nol go Donaldson said bul the news process is not always the Apple pie situation some americans think ought to Axial. They see the president or woj to his helicopter and the press is kept 15 or 20 Yards away the Public hears reporters shouting questions and they say How rude thai is if Reagan came closer. The Way Jimmy cuter used to do that would t happen reporters did t have to shout Al Jinx my Carler when you see the Greal communicator waving and smiling followed by mrs Reagan and Lutle dog Reagan in is an attempt to capture he camera without substance or questions. When people see reporters trying 1o penetrate this technique they get  the stars and stripes Page 17