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Ph; 389 1739

Mon Fri

12 2.30 pm 610.30 pm

Sat

6-11.00 pm

437 ELIZABETH STREET,

SURRY HILLS PH: 211-5991

DINING ROOM OPEN

WED-SUN 7pm to?

(PUB PRICES)

91 OXFORD STREET, BONDI JUNCTION

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Chicago, in the mid-west, became known for its Gourmet Pizza Pies luscious, thick fillings baked in a thin, pizzapastry crust. Now we've searched out the secrets of this tempting treat and have brought it to Sydney as our Specialty of the House. They're like a pie... like a quiche... like a pizza, but unlike anything you've ever tried before. Our three level.

restaurant is unique too... crisp professional service in a layed back, delightfully casual atmosphere. Our Menu is expansive, including a daily blackboard selection. We're fully licensed and accept all credit cards.

Cruisethe Surry Side...

THURSDAY NIGHT: LADIES NIGHT (Guys Welcome) New Show starting soon FRIDAY:

D.J. "GIDGET"

Performs way out routine

"SATURDAY: CRYSTAL AND

THE RHINESTONES

2 Floor Shows

9.30 and 10.45pm

Plus Special Guest Artists

SUNDAY:

CRYSTAL AND

THE RHINESTONES

2 Floor Shows

7.30 and 8.30pm

Plus Special

Guest Artists 5.30pm

NEW TALENT

QUEST

COMING EVENTS:

Last Sunday in each month

SOCIAL CLUB PARTY NIGHT (All welcome)

The Belmore Park Hotel

CNR. MARY AND RESERVOIR STS, SURRY HILLS.

ACCOMMODATION 02.

38 CAMPAIGN MAY 1983

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MOVIES

FLYING HIGH

with Robert Hays

Robert Hays, star of television's Angie and the hit movie Flying High, has been in Sydney to promote the whacky sequel, Flying High 2. BEN WILDER caught up with him during his whirlwind tour.

ROBERT Hays, star of Flying High 2, is sprawled on a couch at his hotel. The sun floods in on him. This seems appropriate. The man is perfect. He has perfect teeth, a strong square jaw and a face that belongs alongside those other West Coast genetic triumphs, Redford and Beatty. Even sitting down he is tall, and disgustingly handsome. Hays is a Golden Child from the Golden Land. He looks me right in the eye and flashes a matinee idol smile. I feel touched somewhere. Privileged. Imperfect I look away nervously and rest my eyes on his chiselled. red leather boots.

Robert Hays is out here to promote Flying High 2,another tale of high-altitude mayhem. It is tasteless, offensive and unbelievably funny. Why was Flying High so successful? "The script and situations were so off the wall so out of left field --that it just took the audiences by surprise.

It did indeed.

There is a moment in Flying High that people still talk about: Peter Graves puts his arm around a 12-year-old boy and in his most concerned My Friend Flicka voice asks if he has ever seen a naked man. The moment made movie history. Child-molesting, the last sacred celluloid site, was being ridiculed. Ten years ago audiences would have rioted. Today they laugh. Tastes, Hays agrees, have changed.

"For a long time films have been message films... blood and guts... and exploding bodies. Audiences were ready for someone to come and take the Mickey out of those pompous institutions."

Flying High 2 continues the tradition. Hays, playing Captain Striker, must save a doomed lunar craft from certain catastrophe. But first he must escape from the Ronald Reagan Institute for the Insane

where he has been wrongfully committed. As he speaks, Hays fools around with my Sony, pulls a few faces and, for a second, becomes the wonderful klutz-idiot, Captain Striker. He is as funny in person as he is in a cockpit on the Big Screen.

"I am not a comedian," Robert Hays insists when the laughter died down. He is an actor, first and foremost. Most of his work has involved serious roles, from Shakespeare to a recent stage production of Heaven Can Wait. Free time is spent on karate, flying (he has a pilot's licence!), scuba diving and car racing and Tom McAuley, one of Mohammed Ali's trainers, gets him into shape for his movies. "How?" I inquire. "He beats me to a pulp!"

I quickly ask about future films. After Flying High 2 he stars in Trenchcoat with Margo Kidder, and Scandalous with Pamela Stephenson and Sir John Gielgud. His roles are still comic, but more sophisticated. If he had his way, Bob (as I am calling him now) would like to play the Jimmy Stewart-Gary Cooper parts. "I identify with them... I'm tall and lanky too." There is also an integrity about these actors that he finds appealing. As he speaks you can see him in High Noon, alone against the Town, with only the sun to keep him company.

The chiselled red leather boots shift across the carpet. Bob is late for his next appointment. Bob walks me to the door, towers over me in the doorway. For a moment I feel that I am being put on the next stage outta Town. But Bob Hays is charming, and down-to-earth Mr Deeds friendly. I reach out to shake his hand. In the best Flying High tradition I hit my face full-on with my clip board. Bob Hays just smiles. "Hang in there," he whispers.

I close the door feeling like Norman Gunston.