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Show Pane 14 IhurMlu), Mpli'iiilui 4. I')X0 I In Vuspupcr 0 'KELL Y-LE AVITT Insurance 'Aijencif Inc. Shirley O' Kelly, Tlgent All types Insurance 421 Main Street 649-6831 ( vour Independent tosuronce ac e n t7 Representing over 50 Companies by Rick Brough f STORE WIDE SALE J ALL CLOTHING & EQUIPMENT I 30, 50 I OFF &IjcH$00bf)cut$ open Mo"-sat- io:3o-6:o j1240 PARK AENl-E CITY'lJTAH 406 PHONE806 A Classic Recommended Good Double feature material Time-Killer For masochisU, only 4 Prom Night The usual stabbing medley with an added twist or two. For instance, it's not heroine Jamie Lee Curtis who is menaced, but her boyfriend ! As a tot, he and three other children accidentally killed a playmate, and now a mysterious myste-rious ax murderer is after them all on their junior prom night. It's hard enough at most proms to slip away for heavy petting, let alone for carving up people in shop class, but the psycho has no trouble slipping past police and hall monitors alike. This movie takes after "Halloween" "Hallo-ween" both in its voyeuristic tendency to drool over a victim's boobs before going for her jugular-and in its heroine Ms. Curtis, whose ease of performance and willingness to go along with the gag ( Aarch! ) is fast making her the Fay Wray of the 1980s. Middle Age Crazy On the eve of his 40th birthday, Bobby Lee Burn-ette Burn-ette starts looking at younger young-er women and faster cars, and chafes at the duties of being "the daddy". But while Bobby's problems come across occasionally as compelling drama or beguiling beguil-ing Mittyesque comedy, the confused script never brings them fully to life. The character's mid-life crisis supposedly stems from the sudden weight of responsibility; responsibil-ity; that's what the script says. But looking at the movie, an audience is more likely to feel he's fleeing from an empty middle-class lifestyle of Betamaxes and hot tubs, his loutish frients, and the demands of a wife (Ann-Margret) who is at her sexual peak. The film can be commended mostly for its acting. Dern, once the screen's favorite psycho, adapts to Bobby Lee's modest mod-est neurosis with ease, Ann-Margret makes the best of a badly written character, char-acter, and Eric Christmas, as Bobby's dour father, reminds us that other ages have their problems too. ' 2 Octagon The Ninja were a class of incredibly disciplined Oriental Orien-tal killers. "They worked on the bow for three years before anyone gave them an arrow," as one fellow puts it. The villainous Octagon, though, has worked out an Evelyn Wood course for his modern Ninja, who progress in weeks from bamboo sticks to submachine guns. It's little wonder these match-book match-book school terrorists are no trouble for Chuck Norris, the whitebread successor to Bruce Lee, who chops and kicks his way through the movie's heavies with admirable admir-able zeal. He spends the longest time brooding, though, 'cause the Octagon is his half-brother, or blood brother or something. Meanwhile Mean-while Lee Van Cleef (as a mercenary chief-or is he an anti-terrorist?) urges him to get off his butt. In the "Octagon's" attempt at a plot, no one calls the police, except to clean up the bodies off the street, and it's not too clear who's on what side, or even why these people are snuffing each other. Leading lady Karen Carlson becomes a Ninja victim due to the editorial policy of her publishing pub-lishing firm. How so? One of I r s m ' It comers better than a BMW, stops better than a Volvo, feels better tinaai a Mercedes and sips gas like a Patsim. A miracle? Rio, a Saab. FACT: Against the BMW 528i, in an independent indepen-dent study earlier this year, the front-wheel drive Saab 900 GLE was consistently faster through a 700-foot slalom course. (In two years of similar but separate tests, Rood & Track magazine reports the Saab Turbo to be faster than, among other cars, two Ferraris, two Jaguars and a couple of Porsches, including the 928.) FACT: Against the Volvo GLE, in 60 niph to zero braking tests, the Saab 900 consistently stopped quicker. FACT: In 21 of 36 separate ways of judging comfort, a consumer panel actually rated the Saab 900 more comfortable than the Mercedes 280E. FACT: With a five-speed transmission, the midsize Saab 900 GLE equals or beats the EPA mileage ratings of 10 Datsuns, seven Toyotas, two VWs and one Subaru. And it comes very, very close to quite a few other compact and sub-compact cars. FACT: Of the 153 sedans as large or larger inside than the mid-size Saab 900, only four get better gas mileage. If you've always said you'd buy a big car that gets good gas mileage, here's your chance. (Saab 900 GLE five-speed: EPA estimated mpg, 33 estimated highway mpg. Remember, use estimated mpg for comparison only. Mileage varies with speed, trip length and weather. Actual highway mileage will probably be less. ) FACT: Saab prices start at a level that's more, perhaps, than a Datsun, a Toyota or a Subaru will cost you, but less than a BMW, a Mercedes or the like will ' set you back. All told, buying a front-wheel drive Saab affords' you several rare opportunities: one, the chance to buy a new car without forgoing a thing. And, two, the chance to do it without spending a fortune. These days, that is nothing to sneeze at. The most intelligent car ever built. Garff Motor Center Stale at 600 South SLC, Utah 84111 her magazines probably gave a bad review to Norris' last picture. 1 2 Dressed to Kill What a surprise! The sexually neurotic heroine of Brian De Palma's latest chiller steps into an elevator and is slashed to death before the movie is half over. Sound familiar? De Palma's film is at least a fraternal twin to Hitchcock's "Psycho," "Psy-cho," and any familiarity with the 1960 movie (or any whodunit) will clue you in to the identity of the movie's mysterious bisexual killer Bobbie. Michael Caine is fine as the psychiatrist who's not telling everything he knows, but Nancy Allen, a good comic actress, seems out of her depth in murky suspense, and the movie takes a serious wrong turn by casting that hopelessly artificial actress, Angie Dickinson. De Palma has shown before that Hitchcock can be an influence, not a Xerox original, but here, staging not just one but two shower attack scenes, he seems like an apprentice lumbering along in the master's tracks. Close Encounters of the Third Kind The new scenes of the Special Edition are largely perfunctory (a strange discovery made in the Gobi desert ; a couple minutes inside in-side the mother ship) with the exception of the new segments which establish Roy Neary (Richard Drey fuss) not as a suddenly-crazed suddenly-crazed character, but a closet innocent who is susceptible to the almost child-like benign aliens. "Close Encounters" doesn't gain its high rating for the new changes, the 1977 film work as a whole enriches one on a second viewing. In its visuals, script, and performances perfor-mances (especially Dreyfuss and Melinda Dillon) it is an unforgettable tale of human compulsion to search for revelation, light, meaning and, for once, to find it. One still rankles at the flaws the way the aliens seem to know everything about the Earthmen except their Zip Code; the bad vibes set off by the manipulations and lies of the military-scientific military-scientific complex. But they fade in retrospect. Caddyshack Is more than just the old "Animal House" formula. It's a variation crude laughs delivered with a satirical flourish about the rich country-club WASPs, led by Ted Knight; a caddy (Michael O'Keefe) who's not quite sure he wants to toady his way to the top; and a nouveau riche intruder (Rodney Dangerfield) who galls the blue-bloods with his accouterments (a golf bag equipped with TV, radio and bionic golf clubs.) Chevy Chase is oddly sad as the club eccentric, a vegged-out, but brilliant golfer. And Bill Murray is riotous, as the grounds keeper mounting an anti-gopher search and destroy mission that defoliates the ninth hole in order to save it. by Rick Lanman The Wines of Italy Grapes exhibit a wonderful adaptability; they flourish in a variety of climates and will even withstand a certain amount of neglect. When perusing current wine literature the inescapable feeling develops that no more than three countries in all the world produce wine. Does wine life exist outside of Germany, Ger-many, France and the United States? Fortunately For-tunately it does; many nations including Spain, Chile, Hungary and others produce excellent ex-cellent wines at reasonable prices. While some rather exotic breeds appear irregularly, we in Utah are rarely privy to their brief introductions. Nonetheless, those of us in this high and dry civilization lost do have some recourse in the wines of Italy. Italian wines have been largely ignored for decades as they frequently do not display the quality or quantity of the French or German wines. Probably the best known Italian wine is Chianti, a lightweight red whose distinctive wicker basket has made it at least recognizable. While certainly its wicker basket hints at attractiveness, it does not make Chianti better than say Barolo, another red Italian wine available in most wine stores. Yet both of these selections typify Italian wine; good, hearty, mostly red table wines suitable for a variety of occasions. It is not widely known that Italy produces more wine than any other European country except France. What happens to all their' wine? Mostly consumed at home, the Italian wines-have wines-have never achieved the greatness of other wines due mostly to quality control. Until recently, Italy made an endless variety of pleasant or even good drinking wines both white and red. Yet lacking the desire, or perhaps economic incentive, steps have never been taken to produce the supreme wine. In addition, Italian wines have never shipped well, being particularly susceptible to changes in temperature and light. Nor have the Italian wines aged well, past the five-year mark few were worthwhile consuming. In the last 10 years Italian wines have improved im-proved considerably. The better wines are grown in the northern half of the country. Chianti for example, comes from Tuscany, a defined region near Siena. While only about 100 miles north of Rome, Tuscany marks the southern edge of Italy's wine country. The provinces much further north such as Lom- bardy, Piedmont and Veneto produce some of the country's best red wines. One of the best from this region is Volpolicella (pronounced Vall-pull-a-cello, the last syllable as in the instrument). in-strument). Also available in Utah is Barolo, thought to be the best of the Italian reds, coming to us all the way (rom the Piedmont region of Italy. Perhaps a characteristic of Chianti, which typifies the Italian approach to wine making, is the lack of any identifiable grapes with its name. For those used to the varietal name it may come as a shock that Chianti is made from different grapes at different times. The Italians love to experiment with vines, the result being an endless profession of wine encounters en-counters and a subsequent jarring quality. While mix and match appears popular, some significant vines have emerged from Italy. Presently a number of California vineyards are experiencing excellent success with the Barbera grape. An Italian import, it produces a hearty red wine, admittedly lighter than a Cabernet Sauvignon, yet still flavorful drinking and superb with almost any dish. When you drink Chianti, you may in fact be drinking Barbera. Recently Asti Spumante has garnered much attention here in the States. Essentially Italian Champagne, Asti is a sweet, sparkling wine made from Moscato grapes. While quite pleasant, a barrage of recent advertising seems to have accelerated its use. Considering Con-sidering its price, at present it may not be a bad bargain, yet should the price tag move upward in the future, one would be far better off drinking the domestic stock. In addition, many feel it is simply too sweet! Switching nations and locations, Park City looks forward to its second winetasting. Host Dennis Ceccarelli, the affable organizer of these pleasurable evenings has announced a date of Sept. 7, for dinner and a selection of eight wines concentrating on champagne and Cabernet Sauvignons. Once again the setting will be Park City's Grub Steak Restaurant at 7 p.m. The featured speaker will be Rolf Engen, of Newport Beach, California, a gentleman gen-tleman of some experience who has worked in the retail wine business for many years and frequently conducts seminars on wine. Cost of admission is $21.50 for both the dinner din-ner and of course the wine. 614 Main 649-9066 256 NORFOLK v :r""rrflQ Mil: .-"4 a- '1M Open House, Sat. & Sun. Sept. 6th & 7th 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. Victorian Townhouse, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, stained glass windows, cathedral wood ceilings, 2 fireplaces, large deck areas overlooking quiet part of townurnished, financiable. Must see to appreciate. 649-9066 |