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Fonda’s ‘Rollover’
makes people think
by Herbert G. I.uft
HOLLYWOOD - “Rollover,”
the Orion-Warner Bros, release,
deals with the possibility of a world
disaster triggered by the sudden
withdrawal of petrodollar funds
by the Saudi Arabian regime. The
picture culminates with a montage
of riots in the streets of New York,
London, Paris, Berlin and Cairo;
and a mass demonstration at St.
Peter’s in Rome and at the White
House in Washington by a
desperate populace who has lost all
means to earn a livelihood.
Only 10 hours after a screening
of “Rollover” for the Hollywood
foreign press, we attended an
interview session with Jane Fonda,
her co-star Kris Kristofferson, and
producer Bruce Gilbert with whom
Ms. Fonda has been associated
through five meaningful motion
pictures. Their film, “The China
Syndrome,” foresaw a near-tragic
nuclear accident. The latest
collaborative effort mirrors a
future catastrophe of much vaster
consequences.
Gilbert, who produced
“Rollover” from a story by David
Shaber, Howard Kohn and David
Weir, with a screenplay by David
Shaber, and Alan J. Pakula as
director, told the press that Ms.
Fonda and he conceived the
picture whose subject matter is
extremely important and has
become a central issue of survival
in the world of today.
To him, “Rollover” has a basis
in fact which did not exist a few
short years ago. “With the
quadrupling of oil prices in the mid
1970s, the largest transfer of
wealth in the history of civilization
took place, almost overnight,” he
pointed out. “A flood of dollars
started moving from the Western
World to the Middle East. They
were funneled back to the U S.,
mostly to a few banking centers in
Manhattan, as short-term
deposits, which could be ‘rolled
over’ or re-deposited, or pulled
out by the Saudis and converted
into gold.”
The producer assured the
foreign journalists that he and
screenwriter Shaber went about
scientifically devising the scenario.
They met with State Department
experts on Middle Eastern affairs,
staff members of the House
Banking Committee and members
of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee.
Ms. Fonda was asked about her
reactions to personal hostility. She
replied that during the Vietnam
war when she advocated peace
efforts, she often was confronted
by unfriendly groups. But the
broad American public, after
Watergate, came to believe more
in her ideas. Now only some neo-
Nazis hurl insults at her as recently
occasioned during an airport
incident. In her film work the
actress is more concerned with
subject matter than plot and
characters. “Rollover” will make
people think, though the film ends
with a question mark.
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1982 Campaign
Dates to Remember
January 17
“Super Sunday”
(community-wide telethon)
10 a.m.-9 p.m.
January 18-24
Worker
Training
Week
January 25
Advance Gifts
Dinner
Colony Square Hotel
6:30 p.m. $ 20/person
Guest Speaker
Irwin Cotier
minimum individual
contribution $ 5,000
■ February 2
Boards of
Beneficiary
Agencies
The Jewish Home
6:30 p.m. $ 7.50/person
Guest Speaker
Professor Allan Pollack
February 15
Community-wide
Event
Theodore Bikel
Peachtree Plaza Hotel
6:30 p.m.
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contribution $ 1,000
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