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Show J ' V J , 1 'HOT LINE FROH !fiPHID ;Wir injj By Kurt Nutting award-winning "A Clockwork Orange" come to Happy Valley, already? Have we not waited long enough? The most important rule for film-watching, film-watching, however, really has nothing at all to do with the film itself at all: Does your date want to see it? If not, wait for ABC to televise it Wednesday nights in 1975. Academy Awards time has come and gone once again, and the N breathlessly-anticipating can "ionce again inhale and resume """i other vital life functions. And the -;rest of us can stop muttering kW"who cares?" in our beer. have many curious ideas about movies. For one thing 1 very rarely go (being both a cheapskate and unpopular), so my ideas should be taken as those of an occasional fan rather than a 1 dedicated fanatic. But for what s they're worth, here are my rules H for movie-going. """"There are, of course, the obvious J and standard guidelines "don't waste your time on C or CP ' shows, especially from Disney - studios," "don't see a movie just because it has Elliott Could, or "The Horsemen," which was plugged for weeks on TV? Another good guide to movie-going movie-going is to avoid the ones your friends recommend. In the first place, they probably have even less taste than you do about the cinema. Chances are furthermore, they'll either spoil the story for you or you'll get into an argument with them about it. My third postulate declares that movies with big build-ups in the press should be boycotted on moral if not aesthetic grounds. For this reason I refuse to see "The Godfather." I don't care how well Marlon Brando acts in this flick, or how realistic or human or meaningful or deep or heavy or bloody or sexy the picture is. I absolutely will not see it if it's m Barbra Streisand, Paul Newman, or Raquel Welch, or any other L star, in it," and "ignore the n sequels to hit movies 'Son of I Flubber' or 'Son of Kong' or 'Return of Bonzo' were never as )( , good as the original." ; My rules go beyond these elementary steps. elo: jj), The first rule to keep in mind is to avoid movies advertised on television. These are almost certain to stink; they are only advertised on the tube to attract a jy'ii large early crowd before the word gfc-(or the smell) about them loir-spreads. Who can still remember, .after nine months, Yul Brynner's been on the cover of "Life." No matter how good it actually is, it's bound to be disappointing compared to the inflated press coverage. For instance, the film "Catch-22" was in no way comparable to the original novel, and after a "Time" cover story it almost had to be a letdown. I should mention here that there is an exception to this general rule, that being the once-every-four-years productions of Stanley Kubrick. "Dr. Strangelove" was great with or without picture spreads in "Look" or "Life" magazines. Which reminds me when in Cod's time will the |