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©tie ifejjfsierD16 Wed., Jan. 2, 1980Entertainment:•# - * at'r*lJ/tWC* «RENOVATED RIDE — Management officials at Six Flags Magic Mountain amusement park in Valencia were among the first to ride the park's Colossus roller coaster after a $2 million, six-month redesign and overhaul.Seated in the front car are general manager Don Howells, left, and Fred Bigler, director of corporate engineering for GSC/Six Flags, the park's parent company.Ultravox, Code Blue Fall Short In New Wave Tide; By NOEL DAVISNew Wave provided a rtTlach-needed boost of excitement to rock music, wfiftch found itself flounder-in the overproduction doldrums of the 1970s. However. as evidenced by two flew Wave bands which appeared at the Cuckoo's Nest on successive nights. New Wave is not always s^ionymous with excitement. Both groups, Ul-tgavox and Code Blue, had considerable musical vir ie and yet neither was ie to generate the kind of ergy and emotion which i*6 the chief attribute of [jrime rock and roll.' In the case of Ultravox. the Thursday night headline, the problem seemed to he the replacement of lead localist John Foxx with ocalist/guilarist Midge Ire. Since three of the four Hand members are tucked away behind keyboards, synthesizers, or drums, a charismatic front man is inmost a necessity Apparently Foxx had provided apowerful stage personality for Ultravox Although Ure is handsome and certainly an adequate performer. he failed to fill that role.Ultravox fans expressed unanimous disappointment at the replacement of Foxx Typical comments were. It's just not the same without him, and Foxx is a great loss. One girl yelled out to the band. Where’s the singer1’ and Ure snapped back bitterly, He's dead.Also, a problem with Ure is that his vocals could not be heard above the music Since Ultravox has excellent original songs, yet another dimension was lost in the performance What the audience was finally left with was some rather nice spacy electronic music that only just managed to sustain interest throughout the 13-song set. Ure, who has a background in record production, may prove to be an asset to Ultravox in the studio, but he does little for their live act.Friday night's featured band. Code Blue, created even less excitement than Ultravox Half the audience left in the middle of the set, and the group was not called back for an encoreEven though it failed to arouse the Cuckoo’s Nest crowd. Code Blue is considered one of Los Angeles’ top rock bands. They recently made Music Connection magazine's list of ten best local bands, and have been signed to a recording contract with Warner Bros.It is hard to pinpoint what was wrong with the show Guitarist Dean Chamber Iain’s vocals were excellent, and all three band members had considerable stage presence. Their performance just lacked that spark which can ignite a rock concert and send an audience home feeling not merely that they've seen some musicians play, but that they've had a rock and roll experience.HJSC Slates Woodwind PerformancejThe Joyeaux Woodwind Chamber Players make tfieir concert debut Friday at 7.30 p m in the Arnold Sphoenberg Institute on the University of Southern California campus.I Under the direction of ^ehuda Gilad, the program vOLll feature the music of raymmer. Beethoven and DvorakThe performance will lie the first of two concerts by .loyeaux Woodwind Chamber Players during the 1979-80 season. The performing group is composed of sixteen woodwind students between 14 and 18 years of age.Gilad, a faculty member of the USC Community School of Performing Arts.has performed with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and the Kibbuzim Chamber Orchestra. Gilad is also a member of the Yoav Chamber Orchestra and coprincipal clarinetist as well as music director of the American Woodwind Chamber Players The concert is free of charge.Sanchez Chronicles ExperiencesFormer Roadie Quits Stones, DrugsBy Robert P. Laurence Copley News ServiceHome is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. — Robert FrostTony Sanchez has gone home now, home to his mother and father and the family businessAs for the Rolling Stones, he now says. I don’t want to meet them I just don't want to meet these people again. I'm afraid. I'm afraid for my life.He's afraid of the Stones' lifestyle, of the drugs and sleepless nights and of going back to looking like a zombie.Sanchez spent eight years with the Stones, much of the time as a gofer for lead guitarist Keith Richard, sharing in the travel and the drugs and. he says, the women and black magic. Now, he's written a book about those years of travel as a roadie It's called Up and Down With The Rolling Stones. and the story is not a pretty oneRepertoryCourses InActing SetCOSTA MESA - The third session of South Coast Repertory's Evening Conservatory is scheduled to run from Jan 7 through Feb 14. with four courses offered.The six-week session, open to students ages 18 and over, includes the following courses: Beginning Acting 3: Character Development and the Monologue. Voice. Auditioning. and Scene Work 3: Chekhov Classes meet from 7 to 10 pm., one or two evenings per week, from Monday to Thursday Tuition for the courses varies from $40 to $145 per classStudents interested in taking scene work courses must have either completed the beginning acting course or have had similar training elsewhereConservatory faculty members Kay Cummings. Caroline Smith and James Wilson are among the course instructorsThe structured program is designed to give students a sound professional approach to basic acting in the environment of a professional theater. says Conservatory Director Lee Shallat.Further enrollment information may be obtained by calling the Repertory.What it amounts to is a309-page sordid, seamy soap opera, a repetitive chronicle of cocaine and heroin highs, of reluctantly undertaken cures and gleeful relapses, of death at Al-tamont. of women traded back and forth like poker chips, of cars wrecked and left for someone else to worry about.If the chronology seems confused now and then, it makes little difference, for the events in the Stones' lives seem to vary little from month to month or year to yearTrue, Richard went from a grubby delinquent art student who thought he was Chuck Berry in the early 1980s to renting a house in the south of France for $2,400 a week in 1971. but he also underwent a total transfusion of blood before the Stones' 1975 United States tour He needed the transfusion so American officials wouldn't find any traces of drugs in his system and would grant him a visaLike some 33-year-old adolescent, writes Sanchez. he continued to carry' knives, to brawl in the street with taxi drivers or anyone else who provoked him. and dabble ever more wildly with drugs ”Sanchez said he eventual, Iv quit the Stones in 1975. The circle of drug-related death that had begun in1969 with the foundingSlone. Brian Jones, drew too close when Sanchez's long-time girlfriend.Madeleine, was found dead in her apartment.My friends were slowly dying off It got closer and closer to me, and my girlfriend died as well, andTony Sanchezthat's probably the hardest thing ever to hit me.” he said So Sanchez, who until then had only snorted heroin because of his fear of needles, overcame the fearAfter years of procuring drugs to meet the needs ofRichard and the others (except, apparently, for bassist Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts, homebodies who have been little affected by the wild side of life and are all but absent from his book), Sanchez found himself sort of a street junkie.I was hitting the streets and waiting for guys on corners. And keeping dirty and not eating or shaving I looked terrible.His habit was costing him $270 a day. and he was quickly running out of possessions to sell. He called Richard and asked for help, and was refused. An outpatient recovery clinic told him he needed a year or longer to get completely cured.That meant going back to my folks, not meetingUC Irvine Hosts Chamber MusicIRVINE — A program of chamber music with guitar will be presented by the UC Irvine School of Fine Arts Saturday. Jan 12 in the Fine Arts Concert Hall at 8 p.m.The program will include works by Paganini, Schubert. Boccherini, and Castelnuovo-TedescoThe chamber concert features Richard Glenn, lecturer in music at UCI. playing the guitar Glenn will be joined by Susan Fries, flut ist, and members of the New York String Quartet. William Fitzpatrick and Brian Dembow. violins; Robert Becker, viola; and Stephen Erdody, celloGlenn, recently appointed to the music faculty at UC Irvine coneertized extensively throughout Europe for six years while living in Basel, Switzerland.He has recorded for EMI (Capitol and Angel Records in the U.S.), and is the recipient of the Grand Prix du Disque He has also performed in the Zurich Music Festival.Glenn has studied guitar with Frederick Noad and lute with Eugene Dombois. He has also participated in the master classes of world famous guitarists Andres Segovia. Narcisco Yepes, and Oscar GhigliaMost recently. Glenn has performed at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington. D C , and performs regularly as a soloist and chamber musician in Southern CaliforniaAdmission to the concert is free but tickets are required For information call the Fine Arts Box Office (714) 833-6617.Ernest Borgnine Plays Journalist In 'Black Hole'HOLLYWOOD — Despite impeccable manners and the savoir falre expected of an accomplished performer and Academy Award winner, there is a touch of idly imp in Ernest Borg-He kept cast and crew irtained with antics during filming on The Black tlole, the $20 million jfeep-space adventure about science’s phenomenon ^/.collapsing stars, f Borgnine stars as an ab-r ;ive journalist with Max-Lilian Schell. Anthony jrkins, Robert Forster, ‘Joseph Bottoms and Yvette iMimieux in Walt Disney •productions’ most ambitious film in studio history.I Every sound stage on 'the Disney lot is being used ♦for this production, Borg-Jnine said- And it's all be-jing shot indoors. Extensive •lighting jobs take time, spe-’cial effects take time. ^Sometimes It's rough to just sit around here.”J Stars Mimieux and Per-ifcins were on the set peering ] through a porthole into the vast ness of space, disc,us-sing the magnitude of an ieyent occurring outside. The camera rolls, both areserious and intense until the climax of the scene when Borgnine rises to peer in the window, big grin on his faceBorgnine made a name for himself in Hollywood during the early 1950s as a successful character actor, but it was his sympathetic portrayal of a lonely butcher in Marty in 1955 which established his versatility as a leading man The role also brought him an Academy Award as best actorHe was bom on a January 24 in Hamden. Conn. His late mother, Anna, born of noble lineage, was the Contessa Boselli of Capri-Modena, Italy, His father, Charles, was a metallurgist from Turin. She renounced her royalty, married the elder Borgnine and came with him to the United States.When he was a child, Ernest found a fascinationwith the sea, and aftergrammar and high school in New Haven, he joined the Navy. He served a decade and was discharged at the end of World War II In 1945His mother, who had seenhim in a high school play, encouraged him to use his G I loan to enroll in the Randall School of Dramatic Art in Hartford. After basic training, Borgnine hitchhiked his way to the Barter Theatre in Abing-ton. Va. He remained with the group from 1946 through 1950. touring more than 100.000 miles, painting flats, driving the bus and acting all over the country and in AbingdonSince the company was repertory, Borgnine often carried the lines of a dozen characters in his headHe was playing the role of the hospital attendant in Harvey when visited by actor-producer Brock Pemberton, coincidentally producing the same show on Broadway. He invited Borgnine to come to New York to do the same role Borgnine felt he was not yet ready for that and declined the offer. Later. Pemberton offered again and BorgnineacceptedWhile on Broadway, he was spotted by a talent scout for Columbia Pictures and brought to Hollywood for his film debut inWhistle at Eaton Falls with Lloyd Bridges and Dorothy Gish.He returned to New York in Mrs. McThing writh Helen Hayes, and he did many radio dramas and broke into the new media, television, continuing to perform in more than 200 live showsThen he went out to land the role of Fatso Judson in the film From Here to Eternity, with Frank Sinatra He dressed for the part, slouched to provide the fat man’s paunch and managed to walk across the lot to the producer’s office. He was cast Immediately.A few of the notable films that Borgnine has starred in include Bad Day at Black Rock.”' The Catered Affair, Ice Station Zebra, The Dirty Dozen.” The Wild Bunch, ‘‘The Revengers, Willardand The NeptuneFactor.More recently he has starred in The Poseidon Adventure, The Day the World Ended,” “Convoy.” CrossSwords and The Double McGuffin Borgnine’s most famous portrayal on television was in the series, McHale's Navy, which ran four seasons For his work on “McHale's,” he was made honorary skipper of the Blue Angels, the crack flying team.His other series ure Sam Hill and Future CopHe is a stamp collector and member of the Citizens’ Advisory Committee which selects art for postage stamps.He and wife Tove have founded a cosmetics company and live in a New Orleans colonial home in Beverly HillsCelebrity GuestsCelebrity guests Betty Whito and Greg Morris will team with contestants competing for a jackpot worth thousands of dollars on NBC-TV’s word-clue game Password Plus. Mon-day-Friday, Jan, 14-18, Allen Ludden is host of the program.His daughter Lynn was born Aug 6, 1965; son Cris-tofer was bom Aug. 9.1966.In 70 mm Technovi-sion and color by Technicolor. ‘‘The Black Hole, scheduled to open Dec. 21 in Orange County, was directed by Gary Nelson for producer Ron Miller. The screenplay was written by Jeb Rosebrook and Gerry Day from a story by Rosebrook and Bob Barbash and Richard Landau for Buena Vista release.anybody that was involved in dope. All my friends were dealers or addicts. Everybody.In the classic manner of the prodigal son, he went home.“I was glad when they took me in. I always saw them once or twice a year, at Christmas or my mother's birthday or something ., . The hardest part probably was later, after the cure, right when I was writing the book, halfway through it, I realized what I was putting down. I was afraid of what they were going to think of me.If I got this book published, they were probably going to read it. They knew that I was with the Stones, that I probably turned on, but they really didn’t know what I was doing. As far as they were concerned. I worked for Keith and that was it.Like, every time there was a bust, she'd ring up and ask, 'Are you OK?' And I’d say, 'Oh, I'm not like one of those I'm with Keith, but I’m not like Keith. I'm straight.’ And I was lying to her. And four years later I’m telling the truth.His relations with his family are now great, never been better They're very proud of me. Not the book, that’s nothing ButI’ve put on three stone (42 pounds) since I’ve gone back home I'm getting back to normal now.Then, we ^ere like walking zombies. Not just me. Everybody We didn’t realize it. But we didn't eat. If we did eat, we'd be sick later on anyway. We d go to a restaurant, order the food, eat it, and one by one we’d go to the toilet and throw up, then come back and get the next course, then we’d go again. One by one we’d just disappear.Nevertheless, if Sanchez can look through that purple narcotic haze and find a Rolling Stone to admire, that person is the group's satadc lead singer, Mick Jagger. He loved Jones for his talent and his rebellious spirit but he recognizes the importance of Jagger.“If it wasn’t for Mick, the band wouldn't be together. Probably if I’d rung up Mick when I was in trouble, he would have helped me.”His book is replete with incidents of Marianne Faithfull, Anita Pallenberg and other Rolling Stone girlfriends being left bereft and lonely while Jagger, Richard and the other Stones locked themselves up in the studio for long recording sessions.Jagger, ruthless with others, inconsiderate of any feelings but his own. emerges as the only Stone with the vision, discipline and sense of purpose needed to keep the organization going.Though long separated from his wife, Sanchez has two sons, 11 and 19, whom he now sees regularly.“I'm enjoying it. I’m enjoying seeing my youngest kid and playing with him and taking him to a movie or just going for a walk to the park with him It's nice. Before, 1 didn t know I had a kid.My 19-year-old is a Bee Gees fan. He drives me crazy. He’s real nice He works for an insurance broker. He goes, he comes back, he's gut a girlfriendI look at him and he's so straight that sometimes I wonder what he thinks of me. It's there Articles have appeared, the book's been serialized in Playboy and other magazines He can read it, he's probably read it. What does he think of his old man0STARTS NEXT SATURDAY ANAHEIM15th annual So. CaliforniaRTSCALL (714) 778*5480VlCAIJQ#' U AIM RV SHOWCONVENTIONCENTERVIDEOTAPESINVENTORY CLEARANCE SALE!!!ALL THE GREATEST TITLESNOW ONLY$29.95-$49.95MASTER CHARGE/VISA WELCOME! HUNDREDS OF TITLES! 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