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Show The Newspaper Thursday, April 29, 1982 Page B5 by Hick Brougli A Classic Recommended Good double-feature double-feature material Time-killer For masochists l ony V2 Death Wish II Return with us to those golden days of yesteryear when punks and rapists knew they would meet swift and certain justice from the likes of Buford Pusser or Dirty Harry. Charles Bronson attempts to revive his faltering career by again playing mild-mannered mild-mannered architect Paul Kersey, who has lived quietly quiet-ly in Los Angeles since his New York days, when he terrorized muggers as the anonymous Vigilante Killer. (The Gotham cops guiltily ushered him out of town, anxious not to create a martyr by prosecuting him. And after all, street crime had dropped by 50 percent. Then a gang of LA thugs kill Kersey's daughter and his maid, after viciously molesting them an atrocity which once again sends him to the boiling point. (Admittedly (Admit-tedly it's hard to tell. Bronson, in grief-stricken rage, looks like a man who's found too much sugar in his coffee.) Dersey hits the streets in his wool cap and faded jeans, unaware that his bleeding-heart woman friend (Jill Ireland) suspects what he's doing and that his old detective nemesis from New York (Vincent Gardenia) Gar-denia) has been sent West with orders to stop the killing at all costs! The "vigilante" trend was dying out when the first film was released in 1975. And the sequel is entertaining only as Camp. The film is so illogical, liberals needn't worry that audiences will be convinced that lynch mobs are more efficient than the police. Bronson wins his battles only with a ludicrous amount of luck. Amid thousands thou-sands of thugs in LA, Bronson finds the five punks -he wants in a matter of days. (The villians are like insects their only purpose in the movie is to be squashed while the audience cheers.) "Death Wish" is a scruffy, unhandsome urban fairy tale. Monroe, Truffaut movie classics to play in Salt Lake City Usher in your spring with a taste of Gallic artistry and American cheesecake. The May films at the Utah Media Center feature the work of French director Francois Truffaut and sex symbol Marilyn Monroe. The films play on Saturday and Sunday nights the Truffaut flicks at 7:30, followed by Monroe at 9:30. There is one exception. For the first weekend, due to a schedule conflict with the neighboring Salt Lake Art Center, the movies will play on Friday, April 30 and Sunday, May 2. The films this weekend lead off with Truffaut's "Shoot the Piano Player," a moody, rambling tragicomic tragi-comic piece about a great concert pianist (Charles Aznavour) who turns into a saloon player to shield himself him-self from the wounds of his past life. The co-feature is Otto Preminger's Western, "River of No Return," with Monroe a memorable figure in frontier jeans-shooting jeans-shooting the rapids with Robert Mitchum. On May 9, Truffaut is the star of his film, "Wild Child." In this true story, he plays a 19th century professor profes-sor attempting to civilize a young boy who has spent his entire life living in the woods like an animal. The co-feature looks at the lighter side of animal instincts. in-stincts. "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" is the story of two gold-diggers, Monroe, who sings "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" and 40s bombshell Jane Russell. 'Two English Girls" (set for May 15-16), is a reversal of Truffaut's famous triangular tri-angular romance in "Jules '2 If You Could See What I Hear This handicapped-hero movie deserves credit for avoiding the brave, teary approach, even as it risks going to the other extreme of glib humour. Tom Sullivan (Marc Singer) fights his blindness the way Hawkeye Pierce challenges warfare with quips and practical jokes. He falls for a black coed at Harvard University, and cracks "Y'know, I think I'm colorblind too." When the campus suffers a olackout, he announces via bullhorn that the sightless have staged a coup d'etat. He weaves merrily down the road at the heels of a roadster. (He has to. The other kids are too drunk to drive!) Of course, anyone in a movie having this much fun is due for a fall. He is abandoned by his black lover (Shari Belafonte Harper) who fears she can't cope with the challenges of a blind-black blind-black marriage. And the realization of his handicap hits home, crushingly, after the little girl almost drowns in a swimming pool because he can't see her. However, from this crisis, the picture mends things up with a few "I love you's" from his second love (Sarah Torgov) and after a few more pranky sequences, it just ends. "If You Could See" might unravel totally if the individual vignettes were not so entertaining. It is also held together by the strong performances by Marc Singer as Sullivan, a real-life blind musician, and R. H. Thomson as his equably loyal Harvard roommate. xk Josiah We keep saying that "family entertainment" doesn't mean boredom, but then a picture like this comes along to prove us wrong. Josiah is the half-Shoshone favored son of westerner Efrem Zimbalist Jr. He returns from law school in the East to help run the family ranch, only to be sold out to Mexican bounty hunters on phony criminal charges by his two white brothers. After this vague parallel to the Biblical story of Jacob and Joseph, the picture moves on to Josiah's adventures with an amorous Mexican aristocrat (Brenda and Jim." Here, we have one man torn between two women. In the co-hit, "Seven Year Itch," Tom Ewell finds that one woman is enough trouble. While his wife vacations, vaca-tions, Ewell finds himself yearning for his upstairs neighbor (Monroe). This movie featured the famous episode with an air vent blowing up her dress. "Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me" (May 22-23) stars Bernadette Lafont as a femme fatale who is pretty good herself at starting male itches. A criminology student stu-dent becomes her latest conquest in this Truffaut comedy. "Bus Stop," on the same nights, stars Don Murray as a cocky cowboy who falls for Monroe's off-key chanteuse. Arthur O'Conell and Hope Lange provide support in this adaptation of the William Wil-liam Inge play. The last double feature (May 29-30) starts with "The Green Room." Truffaut stars in this Henry James adaptation as a widower obsessed with death. Death also lends a strong overtone to the companion film, "The Misfits." Monroe, Clark Gable, and Montgomery Mont-gomery Clift three screen legends who were soon to die star in this 1960 story of desperate hopes and personality per-sonality clashes involved in a mustang hunt. It was directed by John Huston and written by Arthur Miller. The admission is $2 for the individual film, and $3 for the double feature. Children are charged $1. The Media Center is located at 20 South West Temple. For further information, call 328-4201. Venus) a cruel Mexican labor camp, and a scoundrelly scoundrel-ly Indian agent (Taylor Lacher. The picture is a wide, bleak vista of amateurishness. amateurish-ness. Leading man Michael Horse shared only part of the blame when he played Tonto in "Legend of the Lone Ranger." But as Josiah, his wooden-Indian portrayal sets the Native-American movie image back by decades. de-cades. He's a dead-souled hero; his monotone is so blank you wonder if someone told him his voice was going to be dubbed later by another actor. The other performers are no improvement. Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., so identified as a modern law-and-order man, seems to be posing undercover as a cowboy. He is surrounded much of the time by rustic "extras," directed with all the vivacity of a church-ward theatrical. And Matt Stetson as Josiah's villainous brother, seems to be cast for his name rather than acting ability. Only Sherry Hursey, an appealing heroine, and Joseph Running Fox, as Josiah's prison mate, bring any spirit to the film. Photographer Reed Smoot Local fast talker named as emcee of PCP auction Don Gomes, executive director di-rector for Park City Performances, Per-formances, says the master of ceremonies for the upcoming upcom-ing Performing Arts Auction was chosen to honor local performers. "There are a large group of performers in town who often are not recognized for their fine acting skills: delivery of good lines, terrific ter-rific tap dancing under pressure, and superb character char-acter playing. It is for this reason we have chosen one of the most successful of this group of year-round entertainers, enter-tainers, Jess Reid of Gump and Ayers Real Estate, by virtue of his profession, a skilled performer, to act as the evening's emcee." Reid has responded by adding: "Of course, Park City Performances in its first six months of operation has already shown its ability to draw big names to the Egyptian Theatre stage. Hal Linden did an admirable job, for a t.v. actor, as emcee for the gala opening. Tim Weis-berg Weis-berg was good, if you enjoy a grown man playing a flute. But this time, PCP is recognizing the talent it takes right here, locally, just to stay in business. I am delighted to share my expertise exper-tise of fast talking and delivering smooth lines with this amateur group of performers. per-formers. The real estate business in Park City is filled with performers, some of us are just more talented than others." Part of the evening's entertainment will be a scene from an original play entitled "In Search Of The Holy Earnest Money." So JUttlimttr (German (Tnisinc fat 5 timer New winter hours: Mon-Fri5-11 p.m. Sat &Sun 1-11 p.m. 402 Main St., Park City 649-5944 was evidently ordered to shoot hours of "pretty-cloud" "pretty-cloud" footage. Director Lyman Dayton throws it in whenever the story threatens to bog down completely com-pletely (about every 25 minutes). The scenery also helps to cover up holes in the plot. (Josiah is arrested by the Mexicans because he's riding stolen property a white staiiion given to him by his Indian grandfather. The picture never bothers to correct the impression that this saintly old medicine man must be a horse thief! ) "Josiah" is a good candidate candi-date for this year's feeble attempt to revive the Western. KingFrat An abysmal pisspot of a movie set at a mythical Florida college named Yel-lowstream Yel-lowstream University, where the audience is supposed sup-posed to be enthralled by some obnoxious fraternity jerks who belch and moon their way into our hearts. A flatulence contest is the highlight of this 1979 "Animal "Ani-mal House" rip-off. You aren't likely to encounter it at your local theater, but cable-HBO viewers be warned! far, none of the details of the play is being released, except ex-cept for the scene where an elderly couple from Topeka find themselves in a hot tub under a bright light being urged to, "Sign here to insure you can vacation here next year." Other than that, details are being kept secret until the auction performance per-formance May 15. Gomes says the list of auction items is growing. "We have some exciting performing arts trips donated: do-nated: a trip to a beachhouse at Malibu, a week in Sun Valley and a weekend in San Francisco, all with airfare and theatre tickets included. For those who feel they do their best performances, not on stage but on skis, the Park City Ski Area has donated a mid-week season pass for '82-83. But the items where we expect to see the real big money are the cream pie delivered to the face of your choice by a member of the Park City Performers troups, a singing telegram delivered by a shapely member of the same group, and a chance to appear in a bit part in a play in the '82-83 season. Certainly no other organization in town has offered such a diverse group of items for auction." Tickets for the possibly star-studded event are now on sale at the Egyptian Theatre. The tickets are $8 for members of PCP and $10 for general admission, which includes an attitude adjustment adjust-ment hour, an hors d'oeuvres buffet and a chance for winning a door prize. For reservations call 649-9371. You've got a bird's eye view. Arnold Palmer is teeing off from the 3rd hole. It's Seniors Tournament week at the Jeremy Ranch and you're watching the action from your Circle J. Club condominium. By purchasing a week's use of a Circle J. 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