European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 11, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Nightmare 5 Freddy s last stand by Bob Thomas associated press r Obert Englund recalls some advice me Brooks dispensed when Mark Hammil fretted about being typed forever As Luk Skywalker As a result of Star wars. The gospel according to Brooks never gel Oil the merry go round while in s still  says Englund i remember Mark drinking a Beer and watching an old Mary Tyler Moore show with me up in Laurel Canyon he was so worried until Mel Brooks gave him that advice at 20lh Century Fox it really made sense to me. Watching Mark and seeing his angst i said to Mark. What s your problem you re starring in Star wars i be used that advice All through the Freddy craze and in s really kept me focused the merry go round s going to Stop pretty soon i la gel Oil Nice and gently and go on to other things " the Freddy craze had another go round this summer with Nightmare on Elm Sliech 5 the dream child it s Yel another encounter with Freddy Kreuger. Hal charmer with the prune lace and the steel bladed lingers. However the my opened quite poorly ailing a staggering 57 percent in its second week of release Lor a Lake of Only $35 million. Ii looks like this could be Freddy s last stand. For an actor who has performed Shakespeare and Ibsen. Englund retains a healthy Altitude about the character who has dominated his career for the past live years. I do Freddy once a year explained Englund. People accuse me of doing it for the Money now. But i be had a decent career and i m still doing a lot of other things i m even turning Down jobs because of conflicts in schedule. I enjoy doing Freddy. I Don t enjoy pulling the makeup on anymore it s a real 2 /2 hour drag. Once it s on it s wonderfully designed porous so it can breathe. I love being Able to kid around with the Crew As Freddy on the set. I love that it s the one Lime in my Freddy Krueger left aka Robert Englund alar of the Nightmare on Elm Street horror movie series May be shedding his gory makeup and steel bladed lingers. Me on him Hal i can really be larger than me. I can exaggerate in s the kind of acting that s generally reserved Lor the  the Nightmare series is he kind of Bonanza of which Small film companies such As new line Cinema dream. The original film was the creature of the poor Man s Alfred Hitchcock Wes Craven who created such Throat grabbing terror thai the $1.2 million investment resumed $26 million in tickets sold. The Cost has risen with each sequel but so has the Gross $30 million for no 2. $45 million Lor no 3, $50 million or no. 4 who attends the slice and Dice teen oriented movies9 i think Iho original audience were Punk rockers and heavy moral kids said Englund. They discovered the movie on their own there was no hype at the beginning because now line did t have any Money to advertise. There was a certain subversive Ness a certain anarchy to Freddy a slight attack on Middle class complacency. Alter All Elm Streel. What does that stand or picket fences and mowed lawns. With the budgets increasing we changed to More of a fantasy and a special effects film. The audience has grown Wilh it. We be gotten the poltergeist audience. We be gotten the kid brother and sister of the heavy Metal and Punk kids. And their parents  without the Freddy makeup Englund is a pleasant even Bland looking 40-year-old with a Short Beard and curly Blond hair. He was a California boy who attended Northridge slate University and the University 61 California at los Angeles before studying at the Royal Academy of dramatic Art in London. Alter playing the classics in the East Englund decided to give Hollywood a try. And he appeared in such films As Buster and Billie Jan Michael Vincent. Slay hungry Jelf Bridges Sally Field and last of the cowboys Henry Fonda. Television brought him recognition especially the miniseries a he was also obliged to do the subsequent v series. I was playing the most beatific nerdy Little Guy the Good alien Englund said. I did the Lisl Elm Street to meet Wes Craven whom i d heard a lot about and also Lor the Challenge of doing a character in makeup. I figured i was going to be locked into the television Lor live years. I wanted to show the town thai i could do something very very  As a slight change of Pace Englund will appear this autumn in Iho title role of a production of phantom Olimb opera. Not the musical i have the worst Monotone in the world he added hastily. This is from the original novel Sta Power High in fall movie season by Bob Thomas associated pressm Arlon Brando Paul Newman. Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn return to the screen this fall adding Sta Power to new dims Hal Are expected to continue the Industry s record breaking year. Drama is the Strong suit in the Hollywood autumn. The most anticipated return is that of Brando missing from the screen for nine years. He stars with Donald Sutherland in a dry White season about a while family and a Black family in 1976 South Africa. Brando also just finished shooting the freshman with Matthew Broderick in Canada. He predicted the movie would be a hop and announced to the Canadian press that he was fed up with movie making and the freshman was his last film. Newman whose last film was his Academy award winning the color of Money will be seen in two movies. In fat Man and Little boy he lakes part in the building of the first atomic bomb. In Blaze he s Louisiana governor Earl k. Long who had a much publicized Romance with a stripper Blaze Starr Lolila Davidovich. Peck returns in old Gringo playing the american iconoclast Ambrose Bierce in a mexican revolution adventure also starring Jane Fonda and Jimmy Smits. A film directed by Steven Spielberg is always an event. This fall will bring his always loosely based on the world War ii fantasy a Guy named Joe. The stars Hepburn Richard Dreyfuss and Holly Hunter. Other Star turns include Belle Midler in Stella the fourth version of the tearjerker Stella Dallas Jessica Lange As a criminal lawyer defending her lather on War crime charges in music Box Jane Fonda and Robert de Niro As a widow and a Ellow factory worker who can t read in Stanley and Iris Jack Nicholson in the two Jakes the Long postponed sequel to Chinatown Tom Selleck As an airline worker serving time after a Frame up by crooked cops in an innocent Man. Al Pacino and Ellen Barkin in sea of love described As an erotic suspense thriller Jack Lemmon Ted Danson and Olympia Dukakis in a generational drama. Dad Tom cruise in born on the fourth of july based on the we of the handicapped Vietnam Veteran Ron Kovic and Bruce Willis and Emily Lloyd in Norman Jewison s in country about a family struggling to heal Vietnam War wounds. And for one of the biggest Star casts in years see steel magnolias from the hit play by Robert Harling about me in a Southern Beauty parlor. The players Sally Field. Dolly Parton. Shirley Maclaine Daryl Hannah Olympia Dukakis. Julia Roberts Tom Skeritt and Sam Shepard. The fabulous Baker boys stars Jeff and Beau Bridges As Brothers who Are cocktail lounge piano players. Into their lives Falls Michelle Pfeiller. Enemies a love Story is director Paul Mazursky s adaptation of Isaac Bash Evis Singer s novel about a Man Ron Silver and his entanglements with three women Anjelica Huston Lena Olin and Margaret Stein. Milos Forman s dims Are much anticipated this Lime he has undertaken another version of Les liaisons dangerous is. The last being dangerous liaisons. Forman s is called valmont. Comedy in t overlooked Woody Allen returns in a film As yet untitled but he has revealed the cast himself Alan Alda Daryl Hannah Anjelica Huston and Sam Wal Erslon. Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor will appear in Harlem nights written and directed by Murphy who was also executive producer. The War of the roses features Michael Douglas. Kathleen Turner and Danny Devito in a comedy directed by Devilo. Douglas and Turner Star As a wealthy couple whose divorce attorney is played by Devilo. Robert de Niro and Sean Penn undertake comedy in we re no Angels based on the Humphrey Bogart Aldo Ray movie about escaped cons. Glenn close and James Woods also abandon drama or a humorous look at parenthood in immediate family. Michael j. Fox and the whole gang return in Back to the future part ii. Monty Python s Terry Jones directs a spool Erik the Viking Wilh buddy John Cleese and Tim Robbins Christopher guest of saturday night live takes on the new Hollywood in the big picture with Kevin Bacon As a film student turned Hotshot director. World winning stars Mark Harmon As a handsome to Weatherman whose dating habits Are put to the lest when a Friend bets that he can t get engaged to three women within three months. Chevy Chase and Beverly d Angelo return As the troubled Griswold in National Lampoon s Christmas vacation. John Laroqu Elte and Branson Pinchot appear in a cop comedy. Second sight adventure is in fairly Short Supply. The Bear is based on James Oliver Curwood s the grizzly Bear directed by Frenchman Jean Jacques Aynaud. Sean Connery Dustin Holfman and Matthew Broderick play three generations of robbers who attempt a big heist in family business. Broderick and Denzel Washington Star in glory about a Black lighting regiment in the civil War. Michael Douglas is a new York cop who braves the japanese underworld in Black rain. Sylvester Stallone is Back in the Slammer again in tango and Cash along with Kurt Russell they re rival los Angeles cops framed by drug dealers. Next of Kin offers Patrick Swayze and Liam Neeson in a Chicago police Story. Monday. September 11, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 17