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Show The Newspaper Thursday, September 17, 1981 Page B7 k llrmili Prospector Athletic Club 649-6670 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' is gut-cruncher AClassic Recommended Good double feature material Time-killer For masochists only The Texas Chainsaw Massacre This Recommended rating is not for ye of faint heart. This is an entrail-wrenching, unforgettable trip into the lower circles of Hell. But not for the reasons you think. When it was made in 1975, the "Chainsaw Massacre" took horror films to new depths, following the gruesome grue-some lead of "Night of the Living Dead." (It shares a similar style an innocuous, almost home-movieish beginning be-ginning that leads inexorably inexorab-ly to paroxysms of terror.) The murders via sledgehammer sledgeham-mer and chainsaw are horribly hor-ribly suggestive, but they're also relatively discreet. That may seem strange, considering the movie's reputation, rep-utation, but in five short years it's already been outstripped by the bloody corpses and dismembered bodies of films like "Friday the 13th" and "My Bloody Cutler exhibit to open Sun. The paintings of native Utahn Grayce Cutler will be on display at the Kimball Art Center Sept. 20 through Oct. 15. The artist is best known for her landscapes, seascapes sea-scapes and city scenes. The exhibit will feature oils and watercolors from throughout ' the artist's career. Mrs. 'Cutler has attended the University of Utah, Art Students League, New York City, New York School of Design, and the noted Hans Hofman School of Art, Provincetown, Massachu-sets. Massachu-sets. Her instructors have included such artists as Hans Hofmann, Kuniyoshi, Joseph Everett, Harry Leith Ross and Eliot O'Hara in San Francisco. She has also studied in Europe. During the past few years, she has divided her time between Utah and the California Cali-fornia coast at Carmel. The artist has said, "My intense love of nature and iden- Watch the 'birdie' and its young cast A number of students from Park City High School and the Carl Winters Middle School will star in the upcoming Kimball Art In-termountain In-termountain Actor's Ensemble En-semble production of "Bye Bye Birdie." The musical comedy is scheduled to open Friday, Sept. 18 at the Prospector Square Theatre. Out of the cast of 27, seven of the performers attend the local high school and three attend the Middle School. Jere Calmes, 11, is the youngest person ever to be cast in an Intermountain Actor's Ensemble production. produc-tion. As Ronald MacAfee, he has one of the 10 leading roles. Amy Finegan, currently cur-rently a student at Park City High School, will play Kim MacAfee, the teenager chosen to be kissed by rock star Conrad Birdie. Other students cast include Heidi Burnett, Stephanie Burnett, Erin Calmes, Mike Draper, Belinda Brown, Randy Sheya, Rolf Sandberg, Jossy Sheya, and Jillbette Fletcher. Flet-cher. "Bye Bye Birdie" is the first performance in the Kimball Art Center's performing perfor-ming arts season for 1981-82. The play will run September 18, 19, 24, 25, 26 and October 1, 2 and 3. All performances begin at 8 p.m. Tickets are $4.50 for adults and $3.50 for Kimball Art Center members, mem-bers, senior citizens, students stu-dents with ID., and children. For information, call 649-8882. Valentine." If the TV censors cen-sors were looking for blood, the film could be televised almost uncut. The real horror of this film a relentless relent-less assault on human life and dignity can't be censored cen-sored by chopping so easily. You can see how the film influenced "Halloween," since the victims are all youngsters. The sitting ducks include Sally (Marilyn Burns), her whiny crippled brother (or is it cousin?) Franklin (Paul Partain), girlfriend Pam (Teri Mc-Minn) Mc-Minn) who says the planets are in a bad conjunction, and doesn't know the half of it, and two exciting boyfriends. While visiting an ancestral mid-Texas mansion, the kids encounter a perverted family fam-ily of slaughterhouse employeesa em-ployeesa maniac who ravages rav-ages cemetaries, a waxy-faced waxy-faced patriarch suckling on blood; and most remembered remem-bered by audiences, Leather-face Leather-face (Gunnar Hanson), a hulking maniac who runs after Sally through half of the movie with a chain saw a-buzzing. His most shocking moments, mo-ments, however, are when he appears suddenly to zap a victim. And the famous fam-ous "chainsaw-chase" scene isn't that frightening indeed, in-deed, it's slightly ridiculous to see the porky-looking tification with it compels me to return time and again from abstract forms to the more realistic approach. Art is for enjoyment and communication: com-munication: my landscapes and seascapes are an expression expres-sion of sharing a personal vision about the poetry and mystique of nature and life." The artist has exhibited in one-artist shows in the Salt Lake Art Center, Brigham City Museum-gallery, Bertha Ber-tha Eccles Gallery, Barnes Banking Company in Kays-ville, Kays-ville, Utah, San Jose's Rosic-rucian Rosic-rucian Egyptian Museum-gallery, Museum-gallery, California, Villa Montalva, Saratoga and the Artist's Guild of America, Carmel, among others. Group shows include: New York's Metropolitan Museum Mu-seum of Art, M.H. de Young Museum of Art and Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, the National Arts Club, New York, North Carolina Museum Mu-seum of Art, Colorado Trivia Test 1 K rT i- iw " ii in Welcome back, Ruth! Ruth Thomson is the reigning Trivia Queen in these parts, but we haven't seen her around in a while. This week she's back, and has won a free lunch at the Main Street Deli for being the first person to correctly answer the Trivia Test. Ruth knew that Alan Alda played George Plimpton in the film version of his book "Paper Lion"; that Simon Templar was The Saint, Lamont Cranston was The Shadow, and Britt Reid was the Green Hornet; and that Dr. Dane's dog is named Farley. Ruth is hot stuff, but too if you beat her to the punch with the correct answers to this week's Trivia Test. Just stop by The Newspaper office at 419 Main Street, or call 649-9014 by noon Tuesday. This week's questions are : 1. What was the only state to vote against Richard Nixon in the 1972 election? 2. Famous pitcher Dizzy Dean had a baseball-playing baseball-playing brother with an equally colorful nickname. What was it? 3. Who are the new members of the Arts Festival Fes-tival Board, one at-large member, the other representing the Main Street Merchants? Leatherfacedoinga 100-yard dash after the heroine. As a comparison, try to imagine how "Marathon Man" would have appeared if maniacal dentist Laurence Olivier chased Dustin Hoffman through Manhattan in a portable chair with his drill buzzing all the way.) Director Direc-tor Tobe Hooper squeezes a few agonizing thrills out of the chase, especially in those shots where it looks like Leatherface is practically on top of Sally but his greatest horror lies in subtlety and suggestiveness. Many classic horror films deal with our fears about humans crossing the thin line that separates us from animals Lon Chaney becoming be-coming the wolfman, or Lugosi changing into a bat or wolf. In "Massacre," the horror comes from animalistic animalis-tic humans reducing their victims to the level of slaughtered beef. In an early scene, the kids talk about the old sledgehammer method of killing cattle and how it was discarded, because an ineffective inef-fective first blow would leave the body twitching until the second blow finished finish-ed it off. Later on, one of the boys dies in exactly that way. Suddenly you don't feel like eating at Burger King anymore. Springs Museum, Seattle's Frye Museum, and Victoria Museum in British Columbia, Colum-bia, Canada, where they own a watercolor in their permanent per-manent collection. One of her award-winning paintings, paint-ings, "The Source," is now hanging on the main floor of Utah's Governor's mansion, a recent gift to the State of Utah. The artist is currently listed in Who's Who in American Art, Who's Who in the West, Who's Who in American Women, International Inter-national Biography, London, England, and a number of other publications. There will be a reception honoring the artist September Septem-ber 20 in the Kimball Art Center's main gallery from 3 to 5 p.m. Mrs. Cutler will be present, and the public is invited to attend. For information, call 649-8882. 649-8882. you can win a free lunch This is only the beginning. Sally is tied into a burlap bag, where one of the villains alternately soothes her and pokes her sadistically to hear her whimpers, which sound like a sackful of tormented kittens. (This particular par-ticular psycho is the "reasonable" "rea-sonable" member of the family who runs a gas station as a front. The blooming madness in this "normal" redneck is more chilling than Leatherface's rampages.) The film reaches the unbearable with an excruciating ex-cruciating vignette that combines com-bines humor and horror. The family decides that ol' Grandpa who was a great basher in his day should have the privilege of doing in Sally. With Sally bent over a washtub, and the family cheering him on, Gramps tries but keeps missing her head with a small sledge he can barely hold in his hand. Director Hooper and cin-ematographer cin-ematographer Daniel Pearl created an atmosphere as frightening as the killers themselves. In the dry heat of Texas, blood dries and brains bake. The flunky at a remote gas station washes Enjoy Suite Relaxation with special at the DON Interior Design, Residential and Commercial, Park Meadows Plaza Building, Park City, windows with big, sloppy zombie-like movements. A "prophet of doom" appearsa ap-pearsa drunken sheriff sprawled in an innertube and babbling of the horrors he's seen. There are also indications the victims are not so different from the blood-obsessed villains. Franklin, the wheelchair-bound sissy, envious en-vious of his active friends, enjoys making them feel uncomfortable with his slaughterhouse talk. Some of the devices to heighten suspense are a little facile (the radio that broadcasts broad-casts nothing but bad news). Worst of all, there are scenes where the director has encouraged his cast to do nothing but scream and cackle. Maybe he offered a cash bonus to the actor who could drown out everyone else! The movie explores the gross, the sickening, and the evil, but with skill, not just Skillsaws. 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