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2 Section 2 Chicago Triburis, Tuesday, December 23, 1380 BEST COPY AVAILABLE Charles 1 'Sri. 1 I 'Jazz' is mostly in the key of com By Geno Sstel Aflowt critic KEXL DIAMOND wdta mm Brooklyn street at the begbmiM of -The Jan Safer, I pi I to says to man with potent, "Her. Benny, how's the Jrasa business:" That whan we begin to realiaa thia film may be sonwtMng less than tha famoua 20a stage play and "first talkie' upon which it is based. And you aint beard nothing yet The Jazz Singer" is full of cornbaH Ones tint will have you laughing at all the wrong moments, which is a shame, because its essential story stow business ingenue hits it big in Hollywood against the wishes of his European fatter and traditional wife has been an aodiencefleaser for mora than' years. George Jesse! starred hi the 183 stsfajday, and after be and Jack Warner couldnt agree on terms, the movie role went to Broadway vaudevillian Al Jolson.

The rest is history in a film that included Toot, Toot, a Jazzy version of "Blue Skies," and, of coarse, "Mammy." Peek at the looks to be railroaded into style OWBOTS, OF COURSE, are la this season, Cssae-II quently, people whose backsides have never sweated VVinto the rich brown leather of an old saddle are dressing up Bto models for Frederick Remington. Ton find them everywhere. Airports, for example. There are cowboys with Boston accents floating around the airports of America. Soon, the fashion moguls tell us, tbey will talk hand-in-hand with women dressed as Indians.

Who dreams up these fashions? Why is it that after a decade of retorting a respectable closet of good, comfortable clothing, most of as tniddtodassers look out of place in pubttcT Witt Bff iMi Hiat mtnw miiM he the "thing" after all those years of promoting nice wide and medhmvstaed ties with colorful stripes and dandy little designs? WHO KNOWS? FHhuriM r. wfce caret? It tWia't it-ter what people an wearing this year. It will pass soon Jimmy Rogers, wfll to rs rsseasad. Mediocre bands hi small bars will shift from country sad wssttrn offerings to such songs as "The Wreck of Old 17" was found in the wreck with hv hand on the throttle, scalded to death by the People will purrhssa deodorant that smells like sweat. THE UNDECIDED LOOK.

Thia will be developed for people on the cusp, the ones who cant make the transition from one look to another. A typical outfit will include a cowboy hat, a polyester shirt with a scene depicting the sun setting over the Galapagos Islands, heavy gold chains with gem studded crosses. United States Army fatigue pants, preferably the Viet Mam fcmgkvtype with famonflage design, white socks, and a pair of imported pointy-toed Italian loafers with a gokflike buckle across the front Ombtamf as it does the worst elements of other fashion trends, ttwiUbaborren-doasty expensive to dress this way. Oonseqnentiy.itwUlbe come the symbol of tba jet act. THE DUPONT CHEMICALS SYNTHETIC FIBER LOOK: This win be the inevitable swing of the pandulum that has carried- many af as into the natural fibers look.

It wfll be known as the uuuaUnal fibers took. First, everything will be knit, not by little old ladies in cottages tat Ireland (the back-tone of the. natural look) by gigantic machines some-wKsiw in Trds look used to be the salvation of those who could not afford the natural look. The Arabs, of course, have changed all that. Vetera fasteners wiU replace all buttons and tippers.

There will be no belts. Pants will stay op because of positive electrical charges in shirts that wfll align with negative charges in the. waistband. Strange colors, close to rest but net quite real, wUl emerge. Clothing will be the color of tomato soup, a grand advantage for moms and dads because they never will have to launder their children's attire, This because of its petroleum-products roots, will take on tremendous political significance.

It wiU be popular fal C0IbPBS8o It has an added advantage because It generate elee THE STORY INVOLVES taster's as Herewith, an inskle look at fashions for the 1900s and lers pop nmsie to traditional reUgkma melodies. In tto Jolson fum. the cU man was nlaved tar tricity. Persons in polyester will rub up against persons in wool. The result will be tapped by utilities, which will transform deactivated nuclear power plants into boutiques with such cutesy names as the Hydrogen Bubble.

THE STORE WINDOW MODEL LOOK: This will be the ultimate in fashion design. You won't pick out clothing. You will pick out a pose and fashion designers leased under contract from major retailers will come to your very home to decorate you. It wiU recognize that persons have tired of never looking like the model on which the clothing wss displayed. There 'are a lot of reasons for this.

One is that store window models are not alive, while most persons who buy clothing are. You could put a store window model in the middle of the Mohave in July a wool topcoat and it would look just fine after a week. You, on the other hand, would be somewhat decomposed by that time. Your condition would be reflected in your clothing. It sounds absurd, doesn't it? But is it sny more ridiculous for a stock broker, a reporter, or a doctor to drop S200 on duds so he can look like John Travolta trying to look like someone trying to look like a cowboy? And bow about the millions of women who spend their hard-earned money so they csn risk life and limb squeezing into some drastically restrictive garb designed for a fashion model who bas an insubstantial, albeit somewhat scenic, derriere? Ah, well.

It makes no difference. Fashion will be what, fashionmakers make it. It's time1 to catch the 4 o'clock freight TRIBUNE MINIREY1EW: I Mw Lucie THE JAZZ SINGER" 1990s, gleaned from nothing mora than a look at fashions of the 1960s and 1970s: THE RAILROAD BUM LOOK. It will come, of course, from France, where an grand fashions are born solely for export. It wiS be known L'essence de Wagoo-Lits, and everyone in New York with any taste will wear it, The look itaetf Vintage Goodwill.

No bright colors, please. Old gray gshanflaa ssatcoats with baked bean stains on the lapels. A formerly white aart, preferably cotton, that has grown dingy brain around the collar. Brown slacks, baggy, of course, with a subtle peg. And cuffs filled with lint and things.

And don't forget tho.diesel grease on the pants. For shoes? Anything that requires laces, provided only half a lace is used in each shoe. The entire wardrobe can be punhaead now for less than $8 if you go to the proper used clothing stare. Bat like the need blue jean phenomenon, it will become eatngeonsly eaqpemave eventually. Una look wfil be reeBforced by foe release of lots of good old railroad songs.

Originals by the Yodeling Brakeman, lh Msjfw ptJfey fey Mm Warner Oland, who later would achieve fane as Charlie Chan. (Talk about an ethnic range!) the -new version, Neil Diamond plays YianaHRanirawttch, aon of cantor Lauraaos Olivier and the fifth gat eration of Rahtmvttctei to wear the cantonal robes. But Yussel, who writes and aings under the Jess Boom, doesnt wot to be a cantor. iTankty, (bsnfcV! aMssBaf ftW PfMb, J- aWtSdrnll SMISSa) kv Nil DIswMHItl! BtV MbMMHPlMa MKMN. hiinmn CWr Dlx iS ne prefen toe tunsjo of DMl JMft the Four Tops to "I iMu.

lim Novalc ends her many years of seclusion with a big new film Jess hangs around with a trio of black backup singers, and they encourage him to explore his music rather than that of his father. Newly married and wanting a better material life, Jess tells bJa dad that the musk; of God "doesnt pay so good." To which Laurence Olivier has the first of his half-dozea seizures in the film. And Jess preference for sCk scarf over tattis doesnt sit very wen with Bivkab, his traditionalist wife. Overwrought is the word for this film tmtfl Lucfe Arnaz pops up. Playing a record producer who takes a liking to Jess and his music, Arnaz hi a thoroughly engaging personality.

She alone saves "The Jazs Singer" from being one of 1960's biggest turkeys. WHAT' THE DAUGHTER of Lacy and Deal dees at, well is perform quietly but confidently when every, one else is chewing the scenery. She has a fine, at lent moment when she first meets Diamond'a wifs backstage at a concert As for Diamond, he performs his ballads well enough. His major problem, however, is a script that forces him to do some very foolish things such as segue from a bar mitzvah melody into a pop romance ditty; impersonate a washed-out Willie Nelson Ion a month of lost weekend drunken binges; and sing a closing production number (that be wrote) that includes a refrain from "America" ('Vy Country Tisof That song points up an hiterestliig devdopawnt hi the history of "The Jan Singer." The 1925 play 7 1 you aren't expected to be a movie star 24 hours a day." Indeed, Novak wishes to dissuade anyone from the notion that she is, with "The Mirror Crack'd," making a comeback. "I just like to do someting occasionally to keep in touch," she says.

"I really don't want to do anything for quite a while again." Though such an attitude would have seemed unconventional at best in the early days of her career, Novak knows she has helped change that situation. SHE HAS NEVER BEEN part of the Hollywood social scene, she says. But there are favorites. Among her many cos-tars: "Jimmy. Stewart, he's a sweetheart (dont they all say and Peter Finch, who was a great man.

One of my favorites of all is Jane Fonda. She's the greatest there's ever been. I love her she's new, she's old, she's everything all in one. She knows how to put it together, doesn't she?" Among her own movies, her favorite is "Vertigo," directed by Alfred Hitchcock. "Hitchcock wss a fantastic technician," she recalls.

"He trained you to be able to accept the technical things; it was fantastic. It was difficult, but he knew exactly what he wanted and was able to get it." Does Novak have any heroes? She takes a long time to answer. "I've never been asked that. Thoreau, that's a hero." Another pause. "William Shakespeare.

He seemed to really know where it was at He said so many things I try to live by. Oh, yes: Jacques Cousteau." And she pauses again, sinking back into ft In'' above Monterey. There they raise horses, goats, and llamas for fun and profit Was it easy to give up life in the fast lane for a dirt road? "People thought I was a fool to leave my career on a high point and do that," she admits. "I've really gotten into nature and into exploring different points of view, different attitudes. I work with my husband a tot; I really enjoy doing that, working with the horses and llamas.

I love to train animals. I paint and sculpt. I lead a very fun life. There's a lot of bard physical work, and it's very full and very satisfying." It becomes clear, talking to her, that the self-assurance she conveys, both on screen and in person, springs from the changes aha has made in her life. "I FEEL BETTER ABOUT working now, more relaxed.

I think that probably has a tot to do with the fact that I'm married and find a great deal of contentment in my own life so that making movies isn't that important, you know? I mean, tfs important, but I can enjoy it more. I can just go out there and do my job, knowing it's not the be-all and end-all. "I think the more rounded a person you are, the more you have to offer. Even if it's not caUed upon, it's still there." Thinking about whether personal changes have affected the way directors and even fans perceive her today, Novak comments, "I hope they would expect that I'm not the ssme person I was because I've spent a lot of years growing, doing my own thing. You're never the same person." And she isn't the only one who has changed, she realizes.

"Nowadays, things are easier because Gntiaeed from first Tempo page completely different from myself. It's fun to play a' bitchy role, to let out all those She insists, however, with a smile that is only ha If -mischievous, that such rivalry "is really part of the Hollywood mythology. Sure, there are petty Jealousies, things like that But it's really not the way it is. I've never seen anyone carry it to that What, then, waa it really like? "The emphasis waa certainly different from today. Everything was mora on tha look, the image, the glamor, aex appeal at least for the female star.

That'a what was No. 1. Not bow much they really had to offer. "It was a hindrance because you're setting up an image for yourself. It's very difficult for people to get past the surface when you keep flashing sequins that keep bouncing off and reflecting the light all the time; difficult to look past a mirror, a shiny I really minded having to conform to what everybody thought waa What I should do." SHE PAUSES A MOMENT.

eanmUy considering what to add. "Perhaps, I wasn't ready for more serious work. I don't think they ready for it, and I wasn't either. I needed to do a lot of growing. I had the advantage, though, of leaning a tot of things that were very important I wouldn't want to do it over again, but I think tbey made me a better person in the end.

When you come from a heavy experience, anythihg's got to seem better, you know?" Ten years ago Novak disappeared from the Hollywood Hills as dramatically as her house. She married veterinarian Robert Malloy, and the couple share a 120-acre menagerie in the mountains high spoke to the generation of immigrant children who wanted to break away from the tradition of their BUT SS YEARS LATER, when America's ethnic groups are rediscovering their traditions, we dont accept Jess' career move aa easily. Frankly, we sea his religious tradition as having much more value than the plastic Hollywood pop music world to yearns to inhabit (Jolson wanted to sing jazz.) In other words, at the movie's end when we see old cantor Olivier capitulate and applaud his son in concert, we feel like saying, "Hey, cantor, bavent you got anything better to do than go to a Neil concert?" Kim Novak and her husband, Dr. Robert Malloy, a veterinarian, arrive at the premiere of Trie Mirror Crack'd," Novak's first film in six years. the couch, searching for other names.

Fi- nally, she shrugs, "Isn't that enough?" Finding the crossroad of history is the same, tba voice Is the same, the meaning, is one. MENTION THE 10 1 FOR SOMEONE SPECIAL THE SPECIAL GIFT OF SEIKO QUARTZ There's no better way to show you care than by giving the gift of Seiko Quartz. And there's no better place to find Seiko Quartz than your nearby Lebolt Company. Lebolt's proudfy features the entire line of men's and women's Seiko Quartz from the multi-function Seiko Quartz chronometer, to the elegant, ultra-thin Lady Seiko Quartz. Stop in today and select something special for someone special.

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While they were worshipped, a moral law was impossible, for what pleased one deity would offend another "Then came the knowledge of God. An almost unimaginable Person a single Being creator of heaven and earth, not to to bribed with golden images or children burned alive; loving only justice. A Being Who demanded your whole heart." (Joy Davidman: "Smoke on the Standing on the windswept peak, Bible in hand (the story of the Sinai events can to found beginning in Exodus, Chapter 17), I read again of the "supernatural" physical phenomena that accompanied the giving of the Law. The writer, or authors, ten of thun-derings and lightnings and then of how Mt Sinai was covered with dense clouds or smoke. Perhaps it was volcanic activity, perhaps Imaginative exaggeration, perhaps we are really here in the presence of the uncanny or what scholars would caU the numinous that which evokes a sense of the Wholly Other.

BE THAT AS IT MAY. It is a fact of history that the Hebrew slaves entered this awesome landscape as an unruly, divided, pagan rabble. When they left it some 40 years later for the Promised Land, tbey were totally monotheistic (believing in one God) and devoted to the rule of law. The tradition tracing this to Moses and to Mt Sinai is too strong to be denied, however scholars may quibble about the details. And what was thun-dersd out in the 10 Commandments, and the covenant between God and hnrnankind on this lagged, ancient peak has echoed all down the stairs of It Bounds from the minarets of Mus-Urn mosques where the Muezzin haunt inghjr cries that Allah or God is God; It losounds In the synagogs where tha cantor chants in unchanging Hebrew that the Lord car God is one Lord; II leietbcrates from all the churches and today and many people think of "TboQ shalt not kfH, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not steal." Yet while it is true that these and the other thou shalt note' have been and are the cement that holds civilization together, the false impression of- ten given is that at Mt Sinai God burdened humanity with a surfeit of negativity.

It is like the story told of a 'shalt not'-iaeUned missionary who wss trying" to convert a very old African chief. After listening long and patiently, tha chief said: "You tell me I must not take my neighbor's wife?" The tnjsstaary replied in the affirmative. "Or Ms trory or his oxen?" asked the chief. "Yes, thafs right," ssM the cleric. "And I must not dance a war dance and then ambush him on the trail and kin him?" "Absolutely right!" Then the chief said regretfully: "But, I'm too old to do any of these things anyway! To to old and to to a Christian must be the same thing, I am a Christian already." BUT WHILE shalt nets have their place, tha deeper, spiritual meaning of the Law of Sinai la positive thou shalt acknowledge and love the one God (to it by whatever name) and thou shalt love and show total justice to thy neighbor.

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