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Show t f The Newspaper Thursday, October 2, 180 Page t3. lllfel! by Rick Brough A Classic Recommended Good Double feature material Time-Killer for masochists only j. Coast to Coast Dyan Cannon has escaped from an east coast mental hospital into which she was railroaded by her husband. Robert Blake is a churlish trucker on the run from creditors. They're headed for California with a herd of cattle, and aren't hard to find; the plot of this comic romance takes them along a predictable route, with no detours. You 'know Blake will decide to turn her in to the bounty hunters, then have a change of heart. (His bantamweight cockiness jumps easily from TV to the big screen.) You also know how hurt Dyan Cannon will be when she finds out. The hard, shattered look she gets at moments like that are unforgettable, un-forgettable, even though it can't be the same character who appears in the early scenes like Gracie Allen, gorging herself on Twinkies and Mounds bars. (That sanitorium diet wasn't too exciting! ) The film has some of the most painful-looking slapstick around. The villains get bonked with 2 x 4's and fire extinguishers; Cannon,'s straitjacketed shrink gets dumped near a highway pay-phone and is left to dial for help with his nose. Spiced with such insanity, in-sanity, this is an ordinary story turned into a good star vehicle, especially for Cannon. Can-non. Hopscotch Walter Matthau hasn't had this much fun since he gypped the insurance companies in "Fortune Cookie." He's irresistibly droll as a Mozart-loving CIA spy who has come in from the cold and is heating things up fast. His memoirs (how the Agency Agen-cy figured in the Dag Ham-merskjold Ham-merskjold plane crash, and other topics) have every Cold War dirty tricksters in the world after him. To keep ahead of them, he uses their methods, steals their passports he even hides out in the summer home belonging to his boss, Ned Beatty, whose deadly pomposity pom-posity just begs for a come-uppance. Matthau's cheerful guile sets the tone for the whole movie. Glenda Jackson is just part of the excellent supporting cast, which includes Sam Water-ston Water-ston as a friendly adversary, Herbert Lorn as a KGB master spy, and Douglas Dirkson as a CIA man who couldn't follow a highway line, let alone an enemy agent. y-i Resurrection by Jack Rash There is a strange trend gathering speed in America. Adherents of it are trying to carve an empire out of the formidable American flag-and-Liberty Bell market, and the bunting racketeers are up in arms about it. Ordinary citizens are coming up with new and better ideas in patriotic symbols. They're having them copyrighted and they're trying to infiltrate the American psyche with them and make us all proud in a new and lasting way. There is a mailman in Canister, New Jersey, who came up with something while ignoring the sermon one Sunday at the Generation Baptist Church. A vision came into his head and took over his faculties. He sold off his coin collection and threw the proceeds away on a costumer in Philadelphia, who came up with a nifty six-foot rabblerouser suit that would win a prize at any Elks Club picnic as long as you brought along a kg of beer and a couple of steaks. It's a njan-sked ow suit with eight feet of American flag wingspan and a Liberty Bell head with a crack in the left cheek. It has feet in the shape of the USS Enterprise and a tail that represents Old Faithful at its peak. The chest of it is puffed out and bumpy with an inspirational fiberglass model of the Presidential Presi-dential heads at Mt. Rushmore. On its head it wears a bowler hat that is an exact scale replica of the Capitol rotunda and the pockets revealed by its cutaway are stuffed with good old counterfeit American greenbacks. It has a little bugging device that looks like a nice Love It-Or-Lc-ave It tie pin and a tiny powerful tape recorder in its ultra-slender ultra-slender time-lock briefcase. The man who came up with this idea says that he has been a patriot for fourteen years, ever since he fell short of what the Boy Scouts of America expect and decided to reform. He calls the costume Patriotic G. Hoot (G for Give a ) and wears it around town after his toUt? is done and passes out bumper stickers and Patriotic G. Hoot pins. He says the owl The New York Times Magazine fi n r H yX2? WW Orli. JUL M MWimj tixy Beard Members was his brainstorm, but he has hired a pal of his away from the South Jersey flea markets to promote his philosophy and shoot the owl into national prominence. They're expecting to hear from Johnny Carson's people any day. Letter-carrier Asteroid Pell, whose parents were immigrants from someplace so faraway and strange that noboby ever asks them about the life there, admits that he kind of fell apart when the hostages were taken.. .and after we boycotted ourselves out of a lot of Olympic golds he felt he had to do something: America's philosophy had to be steered into a better approach to foreign hooligans. He said that he's never going to forget why Washington crossed the Delaware and he won't let anybody else walk around without any patriotic pride, either. Pell said he picked the owl as a symbol of the American style because an owl will sit in a tree until a varmint passes by and then it will attack. After that it goes back into the tree and rests up. And that's what foreign policy means to Pell. "After all," he said, "there's hardly any eagles left anymore, but you can find an owl in any barn and I've got a few stuffed ones in my den." Pell said he doesn't wear the suit as often now as he used to. Although it is wash-and-wear, he found that getting grass-stains out was hard on the felt lettering. He's tired of falling out of trees and being mugged by giant vengeful rats and now leaves the honor of parading the suit to his two.nephews, who he never liked anyway. He just wears the hat when he's in the mood and votes as often as he can. "I don't want anybody to think I dwell on ways to make America great," he said, "but I think the Cuban refugees should realize they can be rich men in a couple of years if they just leave off rioting and sell their life story to Time. After all that's what America is all about." Ellen Burstyn is excellent as Edna Mae McCauley, who undergoes a brief "death" and visit to the afterlife after an auto accident, then finds she has 'the power to heal. Her story is suffused with the simple faith and optimism op-timism of old-time religion, but Edna breaks the usual restrictive rules we've set for miracle workers. She sleeps with a lover (Sam Shephard), uses her healing powers to cure herself, and doesn't shout herself hoarse for Christ. Fundamentalists may squirm at this open-handed open-handed idea of a god or power which bestows its gifts with no strings attached except the admonition to love. Shephard plays a roughneck preacher's son who is inspired by Edna's miracles so inspired he swings back to fanatical zealotry. It's rare for a film with such religious spirit to, at the same time, question the demands that religions place upon us. Despite the occasional tendency to dump messages, the picture is a modest, believable expression ex-pression of that theme. ( ) Cheech and Chong's Next Movie Glad you told us. We thought it was Abbott and Costello's last one. The boy's adventures coping with rent bills, obnoxious neighbors, neigh-bors, and nightclub bouncers remind you of situations that have served comedy teams weil for years. The old jokes have grown long hair and started smoking dope. The gags are either gross, grossly funny (Chong playing a guitar at a sound level that wilts elm trees and injures unborn children.' or just exhausting. Brubaker It's recommended for Redford fans (yes, we know you're out there in force) and it's recommended for those who follow the never-ending never-ending battle between the forces of good and the forces of not so good. The narrative is very serious indeed; a tale of penal degradation, if inmate in-mate murders, and of political posturing. Warden Henry Brubaker tells us that compromise is fine for strategy but not so fine when people's lives are at stake. Redford's performance is top rate and the story line, although not pretty, keeps you around for a second showing. 1 2 Xanadu Olivia-phobes should stay away, but the rest of you will have a good time at this very listenable, very laughable musical fantasy. Newton-John Newton-John isn't the romantic center cen-ter of this film; she's its Golden Calf, surrounded by adoring dancers, gorgeous costumes, and the kind of shimmering opticals you'd expect to find in a disco run by Stanley Kubrick. She plays a muse named Kira, whose mission is to help a frustrated album cover artist ar-tist i Michael Beck) find new meaning in life through the heaiing powers of roller disco, as Beck opens the dance palace Xanadu with Gene Kelly, as an old-time swing musician. Kelly's relaxed exuberance outshines out-shines his pallid co-stars, and the songs by Electric Light Orchestra and Jeff Lynne rumble through a . sound system (at the Villa Theatre) that amplifies the music to 3.5 on the Richter Scale. 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