COVER:<br>
Richard Gere & Chick Vennera in Yanks<br>

FEATURES :<br>
The Rise of RICHARD GERE (Pix include Diane Keaton, Lisa Eichhorn, Wendy Morgan).
On the Make with AMERICAN GIGOLO (Pix include Richard Gere, Lauren Hutton).
FRANK GIFFORD - The Gentleman Caller (Pix include Don Meredith, Howard Cosell).
MARK RAPPAPORT - Man on a Shoestring (Pix include Charles Ludlam, Michael Burg, Lina Todd, Peter Evans, Ellen McElduff).<br>
DORE SCHARY Remembers MGM (Part 1) - Schary chronicles his encounters with such powers as Harry Rapf, L.B. Meyer, and Nicholas Schenck (Pix include Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Robert Young).<br>
TESS - ROMAN POLANSKI in Hardy Country - The Polish director has used the Normandy countryside to evoke the English classic Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Pix include Nastassia Kinski, Peter Firth).<br>
NASTASSIA KINSKI - A Perfect Tess.<br>
JAMES EARL JONES Opens in PARIS (Pix include Billy Dee Williams, Joel Fluellen).<br>

DEPARTMENTS:<br>
Dialogue on Film: ARTHUR HILLER talks about his Canadian origins, working with George C. Scott and Maximillian Schell, and some favorite movies (Pix include Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Maximillian Schell, Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, Peter O'Toole, Paddy Chayefsky, Julie Andrews, Robert Taylor, Rod Steiger, Billy Barty, Sandy Dennis, Jack Lemmon, Ali McGraw, Ryan O'Neal, Lee Grant, Walter Matthau). <br>
About Television: An Iron Curtian of Sameness.<br>
Point of View: Commercials - The Subtle Sell.<br>
The Video Scene: Late developments in recorders, discs and cable. <br>
AFI News<br>
Periodicals

Nijinsky, Summing up the Seventies, Astoria (NY's famous old studio) lives again, John Schlesinger.