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Hage 4 Purtland/Observer Thuradav. August 2. 1973 Karate champ screen hit CMAMSM a LAUNDM IRt I 9 t2 f>ta6A«Ao¿ QMUVf MY OfANING Move over Jim Brown. Fred Williamson, and Kon O’Neal There’s another Blark cat about to make his entrance in movies. One to watch. He’s Jim Kelly, a very rugged and bright young man who has gone to the top x of one career and is now moving quickly toward the top of another. The 6-1, 180 pounder, who won the International Middle weight K arate Championship in 1971, is currently co- starring with Bruce l.ee. John Saxon and Ahna Capri in W arner Bros.' action ad venture film. "Enter The Dragon”. Kelly's second career, act ing, started with modeling and television commercials. His martial arts know how got him his first film assign ment as technical advisor for “Melinda”. Black director Hugh Robertson took some screen tests and was rocked to find that Jim gave karate a wild look, like a blending of combat and ballet. So the technical adviser was turned into a co star. In “E n ter The Dragon", which is the first martial arts movie to be made by a major Hollywood studio. Jint hunts for a warlord of international crime who disguises his is land fortress as a martial arts academy. K elly’s role called for him to fight such m artial arts masters as Peter Archer. 1971 Commonwealth K arate Champion, and Shih REASONABLE RATES • same o z < sm « t s e a v ic e • Î H O U R C L E A N IN G S A T U tU A Y J U N T IL N O O N •C O M P L E T E L A U N 0 R Y SCR vice SELF SERVICE dry cleaning available D o It V ovtM l« A n d S o . . $$ 1014 N KH.UNOSWORTM 4 Blbrtn Isa) eE I—«i >!■>« 389-9357 I XJ U I WHISPERS August 2nd, 3rd, 4th & 5th 288-8803 2629 N. E. Union Ave. Kien, a noted Hong Kong black b e lt and H a p k id o teacher. "I like the dramatic part of acting, the talking and the emotional things," Jim will • tell you. “But karate has to be karate What the hell, that's the world I come from." " I’ll never give it up," he says. "Sure, Hollywood has given me things I had no reason to expect. Not just money. I get stopped on the street and in stores; people ask for autographs. But karate brings me feelings I can’t explain, just that they're good and I can't get them any other way." Kelly was horn in Paris, Kentucky, and raised in San Diego. California. During his high school years in San D ieg o , then at Bourbon High School in Kentucky, Kelly became a major ath lete. He was an All Star in four sports: four bas ketball, baseball and track. A fter high school, Kelly went on to play football at the University of Louisville in Lexington, Kentucky. It was at the University of Louisville that Kelly began to study Karate. W ithin a few years he had won sev eral trophies and then the Championship. During this period Kelly returned to California and opened a K ar ate school in Los Angeles. And his know how got him his first film assignment and India’s stars appear 287 - 2887 3000 N .I. in movie, Siddhartha Miss Garewal, who plays the sensual courtesan, Kam ala. was starred in Satyajit Ray's "Days and Nights in the Forest", has 22 motion pictures and a half dozen awards to her credit. She is in great demand by Indian directors, with contracts ex tending through 1976. "Siddhartha" is the dis armingly simple story, set in the India of 25 centures ago and cast in the form of an allegory, of a young Brah mim named Siddhartha whose search for a meaningful way of life -- from the age of 18 to his death as an old man takes him through various experiences until he atttains the oneness and harmony with himself. Producer Rooks, whose film is the fulfillm ent of a 16 year ambition, is a widely read student of Indian literature. He has made some 25 trips to India since he was 19 and had little difficulty choosing locations for "Siddhartha". His first feature film, “Chap paque", won the Silver Lion at the 1966 Venice Film Festival. ALBERTA Exclusive one week only Debra Oxidine. a student at Clark College in Atlanta, wears the indispensible black dress -- the can't do-without- it dress in its finest hour . . . fantastically understated worn with a maximum of personality. 7 ? World Games broadcast 'Coffy FprOMwBB • * * '* '• _________ PAM BOOKER ROBERT WILUAM ALLAH SID ’ BRIER BRADSHAW OOQUI ELLIOTT ARBUS HA» A. AAAHMCAA m DAVID CARRACHNE BARRY PRIMUS BERNIE CASEY JOHN CARRADINE Coming next Scream Blacula Scream Monday - Saturday Sunday - 3:45 p.m. K P T V will telecast the major events of the World University Gaines direct from Moscow. USSR via satellite August 15-26, Program M an ag er Gordon W h ite an nounced recently. The nation’s Teading stu dent athletes will compete with teams from more than 70 countries in basketball, track and field, gymnastics, w re s tlin g , sw im m ing and d iv in g , tennis, v o lle y b a ll, fencing and water polo. Ore gon’s S te v e P re fo n ta in e , Olympic gold Medal winner Dave W ottle, Rev Robinson who missed the Olympic finals because of a coach's error, and Steve Center, runner up to M ark Spitz in the 200- meter freestyle are all ex pected to make the trip. Most of the best foreign athletes will be competing. Eligibles include double Gold Medal winner Valery Borzov, basketballer Alexander Belov of USSR, and track star Heide Rosendahl of Germany. Unlike the Olympics, to which they compare in international athletic prestige, the World University Games are limited to athletes enrolled in col leges or u n iv e rs itie s -- undergraduate or graduate - a n d who are under 28 years of age. Ten hours of programming to cover all major events will be telecast. Because of the time difference (Moscow is ten hours ahead of the Pacific Coast) most of the events will be telecast on a delay basis, in much the same way that the Munich Olympic Games were seen. Television coverage will start Wednes day evening, August 15, at 10:00 p.m. with an hour's coverage of the opening cere monies at Lenin Stadium in Moscow. Coverage w ill con tinue through closing cere monies on August 26. K P T V telecast the USSR U S A basketball games live in late April and early May when the Russian team visited the U.S. for a special series following their con troversial, hotly contested Munich Olympics win. If game scheduling permits, the basketball final at the World University Games will also be seen live on Saturday, August 25, W hite said. Tw o of India's greatest actors, Shashi Kapoor and the beautiful Simi Garewal, will be seen by Western moviegoers in the upcoming Columbia Pictures release, “Siddhartha", produced, dir ected and w ritten for the screen by young American film-maker Conrad Rooks. Based on the poetic novel, published in 1922 and now a best-seller, by German Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse, “Siddhartha" was filmed en tirely on location in India. Kapoor, who plays the title role, became well known in Watch out h r Pocket Pickers! Jo Jut MuMet s w ife empty pe<fee*t "Old BloodJforfinedudi" A complete liae of the latest ia M ea’s aad Womea’s wear W r« r *•* »ab, •" ’•» *»•*♦¥ predvOs. Chock BetecttOR botero Tw •WerM to be th u Wy . 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