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Show The .Newspaper Thursday, July 23, 1981 Page B5 HHe! WirM i., m. k IBroiigli 'A ..as i -y , r ...wm,.'.riiri I i i I if "1 r a , ! Richard Mulligan kneels and pleads with Julie Andrews to go through with an erotic scene for the good of a new film as Robert Webber and William Holden (right) give encouragement in Blake Edwards "S.O.B." A Classic Recommended Good double feature material Ti;ne-killer for masochists only S.O.B. "S.O.B.," which stands for "Standard Operational Bull," is a Hollywood comedy by Blake Edwards whose important feature is a cameo appearance by Julie Andrews' breasts which have more of a chance to express ex-press themselves than Julie Andrews herself. Edward's story is an unwieldy un-wieldy combination of the imaginatively bizarre and the predictable. Richard Mulligan plays Felix Farmer, Far-mer, a popular (that is, money-making) director in Hollywood who has just made the "Heaven's Gate" of family musicals a colossal flop critically and at the box office but decides to save it by turning the picture into a Freudian-erotic Freudian-erotic spectacle, and persuading per-suading the star, his actress-wife actress-wife Sally Miles (Andrews) Whitesides exhibit to open at Kimball Art Center The photorealistic drawings and paintings of nationally recognized artist Kim Whitesides will be featured in a new exhibit opening July 26 at the Kimball Kim-ball Art Center. The collection will include approximately 70 pieces created during the past four years, and a number of these are done with the airbrush air-brush technique. By using an airbrush, the artist eliminates surface texture and emphasizes color contrast. con-trast. "Most of my paintings have a touch of surrealism," Whitesides has said. Whtiesides studied at the University of Utah, and graduated from Los Angeles Art Center College of Design in 1967. Shortly thereafter, he worked for Young and ttlMilKt , it. ' ' ' I V Ss'Jt, jf 1 I:;..; . .'s not lively bull, to violate her squeaky-clean image by stripping for the camera. The movie looks like it's held together with Scotch tape. The beginning and end of the picture are black , comedy. Farmer starts the film with a series of comical, frustrated attempts at suicide. The end of the film becomes actual tragedy when Felix tries to keep his revised film from falling in to the grubby hands of studio chief Robert Vaughn. The result is a long slapstick sequence that ends with a major character actually getting killed. The black humor occurs when Hollywoodites William Holden, Robert Preston and Robert Webber, friends of the deceased, kidnap the body to give it a proper farewell. Between these two episodes, the film is a rather conventional comedy about the remaking of Farmer's movie and it's obsessed with the question, "Will we be able to see Julie Andrews' knockers?" Since Julie Andrews An-drews really is the wife of her director, you wonder if Edwards' picture is satirizing this "Pollyanna-goes-nude" idea or exploiting ex-ploiting it. Rubicam Advertising in New York. While in New York, he was deeply influenced by photorealists of the late 1960s. According to the artist, his specialities are portraits and conceptual solutions, and his work ranges from realism to nostalgia. Throughout his career as a commercial artist, ar-tist, Whitesides has produced work for such clients as Paramount, 20th Century Fox, Warner Communications, Com-munications, CBS Records, Atlantic Records, Levi's, Paper Moon, Ampex Recording Record-ing Tapes, Fender Guitar Strings, Song, AT&T, Time, Rolling Stone, Oui, Playboy, Chase Manhattan Bank, Bank of America, United Air Lines and American Air Lines. They're Here! Original Sneakers The vans you want for school and casual wear . . . canvas uppers in two Hawaiian Prints and 4 Other Color combinations. combina-tions. Sizes 3 to 13 for boys, men and women. The movie's advertising hasn't made much of the breast-baring. And Edwards, to his credit, turns it into a rather chaste anti-climax. When Sally Miles rips off the top of her low-cut passion-red passion-red dress, that's all that comes off, a thin strip over her breasts. Instead of ravishment, it's more like she removed an adhesive strip. Even so, Sally is so nervous she has to doped up on drugs to get through the scene. (Andrews is hilarious before the big moment, weaving around the set and asking people, "Are you here to see my boobies?") Trouble is, Sally Miles isn't much of a character. One minute she blushes at using the work "damn," and the next she's swearing a blue streak because her husband has used her money to finance the picture. Some folks might object to Blake Edwards' showing off his wife in the nude. The real crime is that her semi-autobiographical semi-autobiographical character is portrayed as an almost unlikeable puppet. Felix Farmer uses her. The studio steals his picture by persuading per-suading her to entrust them with her share of the film. At the end of the picture she is shoved stage front at a Whitesides has had work displayed in New York's Good Company and Greengrass Galleries. In Salt Lake City, the Utah Museum of Fine Art and the Clark Learning Gallery have exhibited his paintings. A resident of Park City since 1977, he designed the 1980-81 Park City poster for the Chamber of Commerce. There will be an opening reception honoring the artist from 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday, July 26. The reception is free and open to the public, and the artist will be present. The exhibit will be on display through Aug. 19. Art Center hours are Monday Mon-day through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Sunday from noon to 6 p.m. kv - - yj " but blandness Hollywood funeral to sing an aria for the crowds who have come to hear her, and really don't give a damn about the corpse. We never learn what Sally Miles feels about all this manipulation, and why she doesn't rebel against it. Edwards had been promoting his picture as an insider's satirical view of Hollywood the script is based on a tragic period in his life about 10 years ago when two of his films, "Darling Lilli" and "The Wild Rovers," were taken away from him by the studios and mutilated. But this inside view looks like the traditional view of Hollywood as an unprincipled, unprin-cipled, money-grubbing town where the beautiful people party half-naked into the night, groping for each other or for a joint. Several of the stars are walkilng cliches Shelley Winters as an obnoxious agent; Loretta Swit as a frilly, loudmouthed loud-mouthed gossip columnist, and Larry Hagman as a press agent. Edwards gives us no special insight into the DON i. ii I minim mm mm j mmmmmimmmmmem'tr.' -I'r..i'ftywr YAW '' ; ' -'.-i' , i V jf y ' ' -'vk ic""-" J fr A Cv . V. ' ' sv J JF jf . JNhO-- , 1 i r.sf tte. . ?rl S ' ' ' ' ' 1 1 r:zz tzz, f r"- 1 cc Si'3 'zzr p ' Interior Design, Residential and Commercial, Furniture Packages available starting at $5,000. Park Meadows Plaza Building, Park City, Utah, 84060, P.O. Box 1678, 801-649-4044 ft i town he works in. An eight-year-old in Peoria would have had enough imagination imag-ination to cast Robert Vaughn as the studio head. Edwards' black humor is effective, particularly the sub-plot about a jogger who dies of a heart attack on the beach outside of Felix Farmer's Far-mer's house, and whose corpse keeps weaving into the main plot. The best actors in the film are the weary-wise pros like William Holden as an aging, Promiscuous writer, and Robert Preston, in his umpteenth comeback as Dr. Feelgood physician, who gets 75 of all the good lines. (Someone calls his a shyster and he objects, "A shyster is a lawyer. I'm a quack.") Edwards may have exorcised exor-cised some of his bad Hollywood memories with this film, but scream therapy isn't always good cinema. "S.O.B." has bitter, even daring satire, watered down with toilet humor and predictable jabs at Tinsel Town. The movie is Standard Stan-dard Operational Blandness. BRADY ASSOCIATES :;v;-.;x,:;l LAP." ''A Mr'Tff And also: Hawgwash Bittercreek Pee Wee Pickers The Shupe Family Fiddlers And more! 1981 Park Some People Take Summer Vacations Not Us! 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