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1 2-C Sunday, Mar. 20. '77 DETROIT FREE PRESS 6 Whafs-His-Name Is Robert Duvall EwaJ itfm, They're all Robert Duvall: ml LLf I .1 a. me "iroataiiier -A i i get consigliere (top left), the "Network" hatchet man (l)ottom left) and Dr. Watson (above) in "Seven Per Cent Solution." Interviewer.

"Everybody kept saying, 'Play Barry Diller, Play Barry Diller' (the president of Paramount). But how could I do that? I didn't even know who Barry Diller is." A PERFECTIONS! and a stickler for details, Duvall in London made two trans-Atlantic phone calls to American orthopedic surgeons to find out whether to carry a cane on the same side or the opposite side of his "lame" leg. (The opposite side, he was told) Yet Duvall seems less than thrilled with "Seven Per Cent Solution," in which his favorite scenes (depicting Watson as an old man in a wheelchair) wound up on the cutting room floor. "I felt sort of betrayed," he says with a trace of bitterness in his voice. "I felt it was a better movie with those first 10 minutes.

But unless you're Steve McQueen and have your own company, you have no power." Wouldn't he like to play a romantic lead? "Oh, eventually I'll play the part of a guy who has a woman," he says with a wicked grin. "But once again, it has to be a character who interests me." Ask him to name one of his more interesting roles and he doesn't hesitate: Bill Killgore, the crazy Air Cavalry lieutenant colonel In "Apocalypse Now," Francis Ford Coppola's upcoming film about the Vietnam War. "It's probably the greatest film I've done to date," he says matter-of-factly. BY JILL GERSTON Knight Kwippr Writer NEW YORK -For years, he Iwas the whose name few movie fans could remember. Usually, they referred to him as "What's-his-name," the Jactor who played the cool, calculating consigliere In "The the inarticulate dirt farmer in pious army doctor in the film of and any inumber of unforgettable characters who sent reviewers running to their thesaurus' in search of superlatives.

BUT NOW, thanks to two current celluloid characters, the vicious corporate hatchet man in "Network" and Sherlock Holmes' sidekick, Dr. Watson, in "The Seven Per Cent Solution," the days of an a sir a IN 1946 THIS MAN KILLED FIVE PEOPLE HE STILL LURKS THE STREETS! He doesn't get mad. He gets even. AMTI IrtMWAI IIFilM mm IRENE PAPAS as Hind I with MICHAEL ANSARA I0HNNY 5EKKA MICHAEL FOREST PG Fill Kill WWUKtsni Produced and Dnedecl MOUSTAPH A AKKAD VrwnptavrivHAI CRAIO RirTliiqracfied hv WtK HILDVARD SC Husk Uimpnvd Cnndirlnl bv WAURICt IARRE Pmtmaf (miiihikoio, A Filmm ln m.lMMl PmlxMn (SSkS) ffi 'idiMJ M-i yiiui FARRIER "Tjl Cowlx ctwtt jtfk IMt VJ? I 1 I Sxdutivelcf, at that Hkeatnzif Starring AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL RELEASE I now SHouiinc khxs, BEN JOHNSON ran fume heldovih' I ttVim iraMiln llhtiicllia I I mi onymity are just about over for Robert Duvall. He is, as they say in show biz, hot.

Very hot. Everybody's talking about him and when autograph seekers approach him on the street they have no trouble matching the name with the face. Duvall, 46, wearing a tan suede work shirt over neatly pressed jeans, looks less like a small-time Chicago crook than an upwardly mobile New Yorker and spends Saturday afternoons browsing around antique shops. His face with the highly chiseled cheekbones, the deep-set blue eyes and the receding hair line is so pale that one longs to lend him a sun lamp or enter his name in a "Win a Free Caribbean Vacation" contest. Depending on the character he's playing, Duvall's face changes, along with his gestures, gait, expression, posture and accent.

"I go a lot on instinct, imagination and ideas," he says when asked how he prepares for a role. "On the best days it's easy and on the worst days it's like wading through mud. But you just kinda keep digging and going at it. "You have to be In touch with yourself because it's still always you underneath the characters," he adds, "It's you who's operating emotionally. It can't be two sets of emotions one for the character and one for you." For his role in "Network," Duvall says he didn't have a lot to draw on.

"I tried for a more vicious version of President Ford a sort of Midwest, country-club Republican," he says, peering intently at the For group information phone 357-1711 days, 771-7551 eves. For theatre party and student information phone Joe Caponigro, 963-3538 RATED 111 UN XXX LIVE-BURLESK WE DANCE TO THE BEATON STAGE TMI CUBI EYED SHI HVt "THE FuNMjEST NEW COMEDY OF THE YEAR." -Vernon Scott, UNITED PRESS IME Limcuiacj in fl GEORGE ROY HILL FILfn "PARADOX" uvf showm.t, io MID SHOW Fll SM EVA "STRAWBERRY DELIGHT" IUNBEIIEVABLE) 1st RUN XXX-RATEO MOVIES DirtctFrwn Smash N. Y. fun "INTIMIDATION" 2nd SUPER XXX FILM AMAIEUR 14, NITIIY PRIZIS-RNAIS SAT. AMU 1 $2000.00 IN PIIZE MONCV tuMMtBimiEFnuumi 4195 W.

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