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Show Park City News Thursday, February 17, 1983 Page C3 by Rick Brongh ALLEDY GUIDT1 . ....... v . - . n r r l TT r v; '.' h it f . f T i titiiiif siif t 7 iniiiiuuiii! 1 I Louis Gossett, Jr. sprays water and verbal abuse at aviation officer candidate Richard Gere while putting him through a near impossibly physical challenge as a punishment for breaking AOCS rules in "An Officer and a Gentleman." A Classic Recommended Good double-feature double-feature material Time-killer For masochists . only Sacred Ground Tim Mclntire plays a widowed trapper who kidnaps kid-naps an Indian maiden (Mindi Miller) to nurture his infant child. The local tribe wants their squaw back and also the child, which is considered sacred since it was born on their cherished burial ground. The story an interesting trifle fit for a "Death Valley Days" TV treatment-looks dull on the big screen, especially when dragged out to feature length in a doggedly underplayed style. Writer-director Charles B. Pierce seems to be making a honest attempt at historical naturalism. (Note the nice, casual scene when Mclntire first encounters a repeating rifle.) But too often, the style just translates into bland-ness, bland-ness, and the style is so wobbly it ' includes acting that is stiffly monotonal (Miller's narration as the Indian maiden) or stereotypical (Jack Elam as a crazy trapper.) However, the picture doesn't sink into outright ineptitude, thanks to fairly good direction and a decent cast (espcially Mclntire, and Eloy Phil Casados as the Indian In-dian chief.) Tootsie Dustin Hoffman, who began as an awkward-looking awkward-looking male star 15 years ago, now becomes a rather striking leading lady in Sydney Syd-ney Pollack's comedy. Hoffman's Michael Dor- sey, a chronically-unemployed chronically-unemployed actor who goes drag (as "Dorothy Michaels") and becomes a nationwide sensation as the female star of a hospital soap opera. This leaves him with only three problems. (1) He's falling in love with his co-star, played by Jessica Lange; (2) her father (Charles Durning) is falling for him; and (3) he doesn't want to spend the rest of his career in panty hose. Hoffman is a delight, dressed in a pert ensemble and speaking with a constipated con-stipated Southern-belle voice. He navigates through a plot that is , rife with costume changes, tight clutches clut-ches from unwary men, and sexual misidentifications. The political message attached at-tached to all this (if there is any) is a bit confused. Dorothy Michaels becomes a heroine because she flattens the backstage male chauvinists, and on the set improvises tough feminist dialogue for her character, instead of spouting the platitudes written in the script. At the same time, he's a male-rand allowed to be tough, because everyone thinks he's a woman! (As an abrasive male actor, Michael Dorsey has alienated every director in town.) The muddled ideology is forgiven by Pollack's excellent ex-cellent ensemble of actors, who emerge as farcical but not foolish. (Perhaps the only major exception is Dabney Coleman, as the piggy soap director.) Jessica Lange's dreamboat is warm and realistic. Teri Garr has maybe her best movie role as Hoffman's neurotic, forsaken for-saken girlfriend. And Charles Durning plays out a "crush" on Hoffman without looking stupid or grotesque. There's even a bonus here from two actors who aren't billed in the movie ads. Bill Murray is priceless as Hoffman's Hoff-man's droll roommate. ("Are you sure you're not doing this just to wear these little outfits?") And director Pollack, beside displaying good timing behind the camera, makes wonderful foil as Dorsey's befuddled agent. Let's Spend the Night Together If you can take an Industrial-Strength dose of the Rolling Stones, then Hal Ashby's concert film, taken from the monster 1981 U.S. tour, is for you. It's an ear-busting, ear-busting, energetic, rockin' feast of the Stones and espcially esp-cially Mick Jagger, who struts or runs without a pause through the group's hits (you expect him to collapse any minute). He plays to the mammoth crowd with seductive sweatiness, whipping his shirt on or off, leaping into the hordes, or sailing above them on a crane. Meanwhile, with a cig casually hanging from his lip, lead guitar Keith Richards presides on stage, looking as if he just left a cheap hotel room to play the gig. For a non-fan, the Stones personable raunchiness wears thin pretty soon, and unlike the Pryor-concert movies, the movie doesn't have the inherent opportunities oppor-tunities for layers of self revelation. Ashby presents the concert in strightforward fashion, but his camera goes from front-row center to the godlike view from a helicopter. helicop-ter. He splices two or three different concerts together and digresses from the stage for a few of the songs. (For '"Time is On My Side," we see old TV footage of the Stones.) The film is the ultimate pig-out for rock music fans like eating too many hot dogs. For the rest of us, the result feels like bloat. An Officer and a Gentleman The actors lend freshness and credibility to the familiar fami-liar story which shows the military as a crucible that allows an individual to confront himself. Zack Mayo (Richard Gere) is a misfit who hopes to con his way through Air Force Officers' Training School. Anybody who's been watching Army movies for the last 40 years will know that the "loner" eventually learns he's part of a unit. (Mayo's platoon is even integrated like those World War II movie outfits.) But Lou Gossett, as the fearsome Sgt. Foley, gives the picture integrity and a spine. At its best, the picture explores the contradictions behind the complacent phrase "officer and a gentleman," gentle-man," as Gere becomes romantically involved with one of the local "Puget Sound debs." The soldiers fear becoming lured into a marriage. The debs fear they'll be used and left pregnant. Amid this confusion confu-sion and mistrust, Gere and his leading lady that excellent excel-lent 80s actress, Debra Winger evoke a painful, heated affair. Even when the capable script peters off into predictable climaxes, like a Rockeyesque romantic clinch, the acting is memorable mem-orable enough to survive the compromises. 1 It 's i to L-lMKfSb-T' i-1K?'rfcAfc' -""'sm An etching titled "Canal" by Trevur Southey now on display at the Old Town Gallery. Now showing At the Holiday Village Cinemas An Officer and a Gentleman Sting II Tootsie Take out service available. Ski In and Ski Out! Park City's newest and most exciting atmosphere for lunches, dinner and apres ski fun. Relax on our sunny deck overlooking the Park City Village ice skating rink and Park City's ski slopes. 1385 Lowel Ave. Park City Village 649-4060 "Happy Hour" 4-6 p.m. Summer '83 Lodestar Advertising Space Park City Gallery of Contemporary Art. 515 Main St. Open 12 to 6 daily, except Monday. Featuring foreign imports, international art posters, handicrafts han-dicrafts and paintings by local artists. Complete supply of artists' materials. Live classical guitar by Bob Weisenfeld 4 to 6 Saturdays. The Art Network is a recently formed artist's cooperative consisting of twelve local artists whom equally share expenses and donate their time. They represent many mediums including photography, ceramics, printmaking, sculpture, jewelry and leather work. Poets, writers and musicians are invited in-vited to share their work with the public. We welcome everyone. Stop in any day between 11 a.m. and 9 p.m. Located in the old public library, 520 Main St. 649-4462. Old Town Gallery, 1101 Park Avenue features original traditional and contemporary art in oil, acrylic, watercolor, pencil; etchings, lithographs, serigraphs; sculptures in bronze, silver, lead, steel, marble, wood; ceramics, potters; by local, national and international artists including: Philip Barlow, David Chaplin, Farrell Collett, Peter Ellenshaw, Richard Erdman. Peter Max, Ella Peacock. Monday Mon-day - Saturday 10 a.m. - 7 p.m., Sunday noon - 6 p.m. The Family Jewels. 591 Historic Main Street, regularly features Western prints as well as area scenes by local artists. Posters galore cover the walls of the Poster Parlour. These latest edition graphics change weekly. Ready-made frames and custom picture framing are also offered. Open daily 10-7, Sunday noon -5:00. Kimball Art Center offers a variety of educational and cultural events throughout the year. Exhibits currently feature sports paintings by nationally recognized watercolorist Cecile Johnson and landscapes land-scapes by Utah State University's Jerry Fuhriman. The Center will present Park City Cabaret '83 (or the Silver Queen Strikes Again), a musical revue, February 18 and 19 at 7 p.m. Tickets are $12.50 for Kimball Art Center members and $15 for nonmem-bers. nonmem-bers. For information and reservations, call 649-8882. " Jej i..imwJj!,;i t- r-s" a ' ' f K: $4$ i & SILVER KING The Silver King ... Distinguished Condominiums, priced from $170,000 to $600,000. Studio, One bedroom, Two bedroom and Penthouse units available, completely furnished and accessorized. Now open for viewing. Telephone 649-3600. Park City LAND COMPANY now available |
