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Show The Newspaper Thursday, January 14, 1982 Page B5 by Hic k Urolith John Belushi, Dan Ackroyd are better than ever in black comedy 'Neighbors' A Classic Recommended Good double-feature double-feature material Time-killer For masochists . only Neighbors "Neighbors" is like Kafka in a cul-de-sac. The first half of the movie, especially, is a dark mixture of the comic, the infuriating, and the contradictory. John Belushi plays Earl Keese, a waddling, glazed-eyed glazed-eyed Middle American who lives at the end of a suburban street and happens to notice one evening that new people are moving into the house next door. When his doorbell rings, Earl slowly turns as the camera pans in on him he looks like a rabbit Auditions slated for Shakespeare play The intermountain Actors Ensemble is looking for actors who want to try Shakespeare. IAE has scheduled tryouts at the Prospector Square Theatre Monday, Jan. 18 and Tuesday Tues-day Jan, 29 at 7 p.m. for its production of "The Taming of the Shrew." Scripts for scenes between lead characters "Petruchio" and "Kate" are available at the front desk of the Prospector Pros-pector Hotel and Convention Center. In addition to the two leads, "Shrew" offers two more excellent women's parts: Kate's sister "Bianca" and the comedy character "The Widow." The men are offered "Baptista Minola," the much-put-upon father of Kate and Bianca; "Vin-centio," "Vin-centio," a merchant of Pisa; "Lucentio," "Gremio" and Tyflvnai Test A lonely sandwich A deli sandwich is lonely tonight! Looks like nobody showed up to answer last week's trivia questions and march off with the munchies. For those who are interested, our trio of unlikely movie villians were Gregory Peck in "Boys from Brazil", Dean Martin in "Rough Night in Jericho" and Woody Allen in "Casino Royale". Also, Maxwell Smart's code number was 86, and Debbie Symonds is the head of the Chamber Visitor's Bureau, by whatever name it is called. We'll try to be a little more sporting this week. If you've got the answers, contact The Newspaper office at 419 Main or call us at 649-9014 649-9014 to get your prize. This week's questions are : 1. Russell Johnson is not a very well-known actor, ac-tor, but he played one of the most famous characters charac-ters on television. Who? 2. What mysterious tragedy befell bandleader Glenn Miller? 3. How long did Richard Martinez serve on City Council? HW- IMI... t.l,'." i'..Kj.W.' ,UMW.,l....uW.,.))'WI......'M.-."W.I-..' ; AT THE PROSPECTOR SQUARE THEATRE January 16th & 17th 7:00 & 9:00 p.m. TICKETS: $4.00 at the door $2.00 for children i staring at the headlights of an oncoming car. It's a funny, but genuinely foreboding fore-boding moment. Earl's neighbors are like spooks. He never sees them coming; they just appear. He wanders into his living room and finds Vic (Dan Ackroyd) sitting there. Within With-in minutes Vic has managed to borrow money from Earl (to go out for Italian food) and taken his car keys (his own vehicle has faulty brakes, he claims.) Vic then proceeds to drive across the street and cook the dinner, much to Earl's bafflement. Throughout the movie, Earl makes things worse by his response to Vic's gratuitous gratui-tous lies and random little acts of intimidation. He typifies typi-fies the movie's suburban mind-set, because he never comes right out and says to Vic "What the f- do you think you're doing?" He sneaks around, with disastrous results. re-sults. When he tries to test "Hortensio" all suitors for the hand of Bianca. "Traino," "Biondello," "Grumio" and "Curtis" are the zany servants. Then there is the great clown of the play, "Christopher Sly." The IAE production is under the direction of Ron Burnett, who says his version ver-sion will be a "knock-about comedy" in the style of the A.C.T. production featured some years ago on public television. "It will be great fun for all involved," says Burnett. "Those interested shouldn't be worried about being able to do Shakespeare. Shrew is the best show of his to learn the style and language." IAE will perform the play during the last weekend in March and the first weekend in April. Those interested in auditioning cantaVBurhetl at 645-6208 for more informa-tion. the brakes on Vic's car, he finds out that they really don't work, and the car slides into a nearby swamp. When Vic gives him coffee grounds in a dirty cup, Earl doesn't protest. He tries to throw them in a clean cup behind Vic's back. Vic's woman, Ramona (Cathy Moriarty) is also an enigma. She comes onto Earl with heavy breathing, a husky voice, and a skimpy towel, which usually sends him off to the medicine cabinet to grab his Brut. When he returns, of course, Ramona has disappeared and Vic turns up, acting like the suspicious husband. Not too many movies can be described as "Kafkaes-que", "Kafkaes-que", but "Neighbors" fits the term. The movie gives us that sense of the world suddenly gone crazy, until normal, placid Earl is made to feel like he is the oddball. Vic is offensive to Earl, but Earl's wife (Kath-ryn (Kath-ryn Walker) and daughter find him totally ingratiating. And the world outside the neighborhood is venomously hostile but only to Earl. (The local mechanic is a nasty old coot who'd just as soon bite Earl as help him get Vic's car out of the swamp.) "Neighbors" is the best TT Sat. For picture of Gothic suburbia since "Psycho", when Alfred Hitchcock put a modern motel right next to a spooky old house. The cul-de-sac in the movie has only two houses Earl's andVic's and is located between a swamp and an electrical tower that crackles with threatening sparks out of an old Frankenstein movie. Bill Conti's score does a lot to hype the mood of the picture with mock-sinsiter music and a few pronounced allusions to the "Twilight Zone" theme. Best of all, this movie comes closer than any other to fulfilling the potential of Belushi and Ackroyd. Anyone Any-one who saw "Saturday Night Live" knows that these two weren't just comics. They were also great character charac-ter actors. That great critic, Pauline Kael, sometimes praises actors who go so deep into a role that they risk making the audience dislike them. Ackroyd does that here. As the self-christened "Captain Vic", he is funny, but also scary and even a little loathsome so much so that it's hard to believe the second half of the picture, when Earl finds himself liking the excitement that Vic has brought into his life. Monday, January 18, 1982 - "... Registration: Jan., 16 1982 9 am. -5 p.m. Sun.Jan.17, 1982 9a.m.-12 p.m. Park City Race Department Ticket Office. No late entries will be accepted. Town Race party at the Black Pearl 4:30 - 6:00. more information and entry forms, contact the Park City Race Department 649-81 11, ext. 246 Office hours Thurs. - Sat. 9 a.m. - 4 p.m., Sun. 9 a.m. -12 p.m. People have said that it's strange for Ackroyd to be the weirdo and Belushi the ordinary guy. But on "Saturday "Satur-day Night" Belushi was always the more accessible performer, the belligerent guy with a mushy inside. Ackroyd was harder to pin down, with his eerie ability to crawl into the skins of President Carter, a TV pitchman, or an overage hippie. That's not to say Belushi isn't excellent also. As Earl, he taps plenty of laughter at his foibles, and even more sympathy at his plight. Cathy Moriarty is the steamiest femme fatale of the year as Ramona. And Tim Kazurinsky is good as the snarling old mechanic. (Fittingly, he is a current member of the "Saturday Night" troup.) "Neighbors" has one of the strangest written prologues of any movie. It quotes favorable reviews of the Thomas Berger novel which inspired the movie. This is evidently supposed to clue audiences that they're not getting a Belushi-Ackryod food-fight picture. But the literary reviews are unnecessary. un-necessary. "Neighbors" can stand on its own two clubfeet as a bizarre, hauntingly comic movie. TT RossignolSalomon Town " !' learn and Individual PRESTIGE HOMES REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT PRICE GROUP Park Meadows Plaza Box 701, Park City, Utah 84060 649-8575 Race awards will be given fe.. .M- ' ' fSS ' - . W mm'm " "' mill 1 1 im in j TT TT TT XX 2T TT TT XT XX TT XX XX |