European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 14, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Richard Gere says goodbye to Hollywood for now by Nina j. Easton los Angeles times Ichard Gere. I Host familiar Brown eyes on. Lac is becoming repel Ilvo for More Ihnn an hour to has eloquently a noted a pc Clum of topics trom repression in Central America so rhe fragility of Biol relations Wilhour retracing a single Slop Bui now to is talking Ahou the big Hollywood a Lucatos and he continues to apply the sumo it co words la Oluic of courage " Gor App for i a i Label generally to established i Tolly Vooch and specifically oils handling of iwo of h 5 films. King David 19s5j. Which he says was a Lailure of coinage Hyall of and Toto honorary Consul 11983. Which also was released As beyond the limit. Paramount pictures to complains did t have a due As to what to do Wilh those two films. " the honorary Consu could have been made a harder movie if Paramount had t gotten in the Way he says. It was an attempt at a serious Movra about politics in lain am Cuca. Out at the last minute the slur Jio changed the title put some Lacky poster on it and Stirew it out there As a sex in the Sun movie " at Paramount where the marketing regime has changed since thai film s release a spokeswoman declined comment is Gere rationalizing his Check ered track record since 1982when the Box Ollice Success of Paramount s an Allicer and a gentleman pushed him to the lop of every studio executive s most wanted list maybe Gere certainly has had some unhappy experiences since carrying Debra Winger Oil into the Sunset. But the actor seems genuinely fed up with commercial Hollywood and he is checking out at. Least Lor no. I have very close friends at the studios he says. But most of the Pat is i would want to do they would t touch wifi a to Loo Poje his new my. Rowes from Home was financed by the Independent Cin com pictures a new York based company known for its Classy productions. Gora look an lip Lorril toe on the urn of Only 5,125,000 film Dybul by theater director Gary Strase. Miles from Homo already is Bong lagged by audiences As an artistic film Vas uncommercial As the Bruce Springsteen song that inspired it Highway patrolman since its release m the United states three weeks ago. The my has grossed 1165iooo on Only Nino screens it is the Story of two Brol heis facing he bankruptcy of their family farm unwilling to hand it Cic Dilores. The ote brother a volatile unpredictable. Frank Roberts played by Gene decides to Burn -. Down that sets my o motion their Light from the Law and i hair transformation into leak heroes the event also brings to the surface Long simmering conflicts Between. To Brothers and memories Oliner dead lather who. Had built a farm so successful that it attracted a Ossif of then soviet . Since the Box office smash an officer and a gentleman Gere has starred in uncommercial artistic films and spoken oat on human rights such As at lost summer s concert for Nelson Mandela in London. The key to the film is the relationship Gore says it s essentially about do not look Tor Gere in another officer and a gentleman anytime soon even though he says the making of that romantic drama was Lime it was a realty Nice group of people even his experience since then though has not always been Happy. Two years later came the nightmarish production of the Cotton club. Ii was so bizarre. Working on that movie Gere says. There was no script. There were Levels of madness Here that will never be surpassed in movie making Gere s most recent experience at the Box Tolice has been similarly unpleasant. His 1986 film Power like King Law Dand honorary Consul flopped. And last year s potentially commercial thriller no mercy co. Starring Kim Basinger was a disappointment. We. Were surprised in was t received better Gere says a think it s unlikely i la do another film like that.". For now Gere seems Content to make artistically / satisfying films that do not Promise much response. Irom a mass audience his upcoming projects Are As uncommercial As Miles from Home one Olthouse projects is a Cine com production of sent the acclaimed play about a Gay prisoner in a nazi concentration Camp. Gets played the same role in a. 19.79 Broadway production. "./. V also on care s Agenda is imagining Argentina a project in development at Columbia pictures. Lawrence Thornton s riveting both about an argentinian theater director who has the imagine the individual Lales Mohe country s "disappeareds1 Lyon the 1987 " Ernes award but in is not the fund Olma Lenal Likely to draw lines of moviegoers a suburban shopping malts " Allol my proies All Inlo iwo categories Gere. Says one is human lights the other is Hying " ". Flying yes. As in fantasy As Init alb s. By ten in the Trees the so Yot an 16thcentury \. Nob Toman who rebels against his parents and the strictures of his lilo by climbing a tree never to return. As for human rights. Gere is particularly concerned with Central America and Tibet. , desc has. Used his celebrity to bring Alle lion to the plight of the tibetans who have been subject to Iho repressive Rula by Rise chinese government according to human rights organizations. ,. Gorc chairs a fund Raiser for the Tibet House in new York formed to Advance tibetan Art and culture much of which was Deal toyed during China s cultural revolution in ihe1960s and 1970s. Gere is also one of the organizers of the year of Tibet in 1990, during which an exhibit of tibetan Buddhist Arl will travel to. . " he is taking a similar strategy with his interest in Central America which he poured two years ago. Alongside Charles Clemens an american physician who once treated the local population in a War Lorn Section of Al Salvador. What Charlie could t get Inlo i d gel in to see because i was an aelor.,1 was the rho vie Star the. Officer and a gentleman. They d hand me a Gere recalls. We. Saw our generals Asid their generals people on All sides of the conflicts thai if 1 did feel i wanted to speak about this i would have the experience of having spoken to both sides.". Gere the depth cd the madness there surprised then engineered appearances Tor Clements on to . He now a vans to make Ai movie based on chem ends life despite Gere s political inc Icsis don11 a Eccl him 10 March up to Capitol Hill alter Miles from Home pleading Lor Federal Aid to family Farmers As Jessica Lange and Sissy space did Allor their own lilo on the farm films. of fjord Tangois vory Imper land for us Gere says. Bui we be got to come to terms with fhe Rahly that this View of America., As Armeis is nil realty True anymore i think we have to grow up about thai arid re evaluate our monday. November 14, 198b,. The stars and stripes Page .17
