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Show ine newspaper Ihursday, February 25, 1982 Page A13 Racers get set for Cerebral Palsy benefit Racers are tuning up their skis for the second annual Cerebral Palsy Charity Ski Classic Saturday at Park-West. Park-West. Delta Air Lines is sponsoring the race for the benefit of the United Cerebral 'Palsy (UCP) Association of Utah. The race this year is being limited to 200 skiers, after a flood of inquiries from potential poten-tial participants, according to race coordinator Barbara Pioli, who urged skiers to preregister through the UCP office. The event is geared to both recreational skiers and serious racers, with the course being set on the Nastar hill, according to Dick Stoner, ParkWest race director. "It's a course with nothing but open gates and no tricks," he said, adding that the course will be well-groomed well-groomed and perhaps reset for the second run if soft snow results in deterioration. deteriora-tion. Last year some 60 racers of all ages and abilities came out for the charity race. The format this year is the same racers pay a minimum $30 entry fee, recruiting friends and relatives as sponsors. The entry fee includes an all-day lift pass. All proceeds from the charity event go to UCP of Utah, mainly for its Camp Kostopulos. The camp, located in Emigration Canyon East of Salt Lake, provides an outdoor rivrfatinnal pynprifwo fnr both physically and mentally ZFv.v.v.v.v.v.'.v.vXl "wr disabled youngsters and adults. There will be five age divisions in the race and prizes will be awarded to the top three finishers in each category. A free season's pass at ParkWest will go to the best overall time for the day. Other prizes include powder shirts, ski bags, goggles, day ski passes and more. The top money-raiser in the race will win a complete downhill ski outfit, donated by Sunset Sports Center at ParkWest. Last year's winner win-ner raised some $250 in sponsorships; spon-sorships; entrants this year have set fund-raising goals up to $500. In addition to the charity race, volunteers in the ParkWest handicapped ski program are putting on a special event for handicapped handicap-ped skiers. Participants will come from both ParkWest's program and from Peter Mandler's handicapped pro1 gram at Snowbird. Mandler will be on hand to demonstrate demon-strate some of the equipment equip-ment required to teach disabled dis-abled persons, including a special sled that makes skiing a possibility for paraplegics. The handicapped event begins at 9 a.m., the charity classic at 10, and prizes and awards will be given out at 3 p.m. in the main lodge. Preregistration has been urged, but persons still may register at ParkWest before the race. .OUNTAIN REALTY 1030 PARK AVENUE 649-9891 Whadd'ya Enow? by Kick Brough CHEAP SHOT OF THE WEEK: Driving up Park Avenue, or weaving up Park Avenue, you see a lot of plain traffic signs saying, "Road Damage". Since that is the understatement under-statement of the year, we wondered if the city could find a more appropriate sign. We heard a good idea last week, and, ironically, it came from none other than City Manager Arlene Loble. Loble said she wanted to use a sign that would say, "Pavement Ends." Also in that department, the latest joke going the rounds asks, "How can the police in Park City spot the drunk drivers?" Simple! They're the ones who drive straight up Park Avenue! Last week, some of us received a mailgram which said, "Charles E. Sellier Jr., executive producer, would like to invite in-vite you and your family to watch his exciting new motion picture for television, 'The Capture of Grizzly Adams,' in the comfort of your own living room." Unfortunately, we weren't able to make it to our living room, but we arrived at the bedroom TV in time to watch the picture. The courtesy is nice, but we aren't exactly blown away by the invite. Now if Sellier had invited us to his living room, that would have been hot stuff! What was the verdict on the picture, you may ask? Let's put it this way. We knew a gal once who was so tactful the only thing she could say about "Saturday Night Fever" was "Boy, that John Travolta sure can dance! " In the same vein, we could say about "Capture": "Boy, that picture sure had a great tornado ! " "Capture of Grizzly Adams" at its best, has the clumsy zest oi an old Roy Rogers B. Western. The last hour is the better bet-ter because it's one cliffhanger after another. But the picture flops when it concentrates on the hokey plot. The movie starts with the funeral of Grizzly's sister, who has been the guardian of his daughter, Peg. Now, she'll be shipped off to an orphanage if Adams doesn't show to claim her. Villain Chuck Connors is licking his chops, because his late partner is the man allegedly killed by Adams all those years ago. The murder charge still holds and Connors snarls, "You know this will bring him down from there." as if Grizzly is so inaccessible to the law. Actually, the characters spend so much time running from the town to the mountains and back again, it seems that Adams' cabin is only a few miles from civilization. Adams is captured and put on trial, but even worse, despicable Chuck sends his men to hunt and kill old Ben, the grizzly bear. The low point of the picture comes when Grizzly is pronounced "Guilty" and then, leaving the courtroom, he finds a bearskin (Ben's?) thrown at his feet. (To give credit, though, Dan Haggarty's acting is rather poignant here and his easy, natural style throughout helps the picture. ) Just when Grizzly is about to be hung, a tornado strikes town and saves him. (Course, it also kills about half the population, but what the heck.) Instead of escaping in the confusion, Adams organizes rescue efforts, winning the simple sim-ple hearts of the townspeople. (Also their simple heads. They seem unable to apply a bandage without Adams' help.) When he saves the little boy of the chief prosecution witness, wit-ness, the man has a change of heart and confesses that Chuck Connors is the real killer. Seriously though, director Don Kesslar does a good job filming the various perils and disasters in the picture. The tornado sequence is a well-done good display of tight editing, good stunt work, and nice low-budget special effects. And a climatic fight on a rope bridge benefits from the nicely overplayed villainy of Connors. Doing this is an accomplishment, all right, but it's the kind of accomplishment that is pretty routine and ordinary in TV today. The actors do what they can with the script. Sydney Penny is called upon to be the weepy widdle kid through the whole movie. Kim Darby, as Adams' girlfriend, and Noah Berry, as the sheriff who arrests him, are good but there's hardly any reason to remember their characters. And Keenan Wynn is a nice eccentric type, as an old mountain man named Bert. But you wonder why his character is in the movie anyway. Bert has little to do with the main action. He pops in to start the plot rolling, gets injured, spends the rest of the picture on his back, and shows up at the climax to save Adams. "Capture" is an amiable junk movie, fun to watch for the action and the absurdities in the plot. (For instance, you ever wonder why Grizzly Adams carries a rifle? You know he's such a peaceable fellow he doesn't shoot people! Animals? This is the guy who is supposed to have such a friendly, natural way with wildlife! Presuming he isn't a vegetarian, Grizzly probably kills his wild game while they're sitting in his lap "Sit there, little bunny", crunch The only conclusion con-clusion left is that Grizzly shoots his carrots and heads of lettuce let-tuce before he'll eat them. Last week, our "How About It" asked people what to them was a sign of getting older. One resident said, "When the things I used to do all night now take all night to do." That's a great answer. It was a great answer when Henny Youngman first said it. So we call this guy up. Guy comes into the editor's office, says, "I don't remember hearing this from anybody. But I got thesememory lapses, y'know?" We say, "How long have you had this problem?" Hesays, "What problem?" Guy says, "Gimme a break. I'm a sick man. It hurts when I do this." Well, don't do that. Guy says, "I got a problem. Nobody pays any attention to me." Next! 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