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Show Butch and Sundance: The mm W.v.v.v m Early Days The Elks Bitfch and the Kid aren't back-'Ea- rly fun Days' still mm .'Jttgm,-- mmmmwmmmmtm IK,' rip-roar- in' By Julie Heath Xhronicle Entertainment Editor You can almost hear the ads screaming "Butch and the Kid are back!. ..well, sort of..." For years Hollywood hucksters have tossed and turned at night, trying to dream up a way to exploit the near cult-lik- e popularity of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, despite the pair's demise at the end of the sequel-slaughteri- ng original film. Finally, producer William Goldman, who wrote the original screenplay, director Richard Lester and writer Allan Burns invented the jK$ ' - W '1' v : f to returns our outlaw-heroe- s health and fills in all the details of their pre-Bolivi- ( I "pre-quel- ," which magically an Butch and Sundance, characters we already know and n and love, got so lovable. But no one really needs to find out. Forced urgency We discover that Butch pounded well-know- wanted to be the hero of children and poor folks everywhere until a bit of wintertime Robin Hooding almost causes his premature death from diphtheria but this biographer's tidbit does Newman Redford clones JThis problem is comPatrick jy Wil-liam- 's melodramatic, overdone score, which has none of the memorable grace of the original Butch Cassidy music. The end result is a ragged film that can't decide whether it's meant to be a jaunty Western comedy or a probing character study. But the flaw isn't fatal, because of the Crecisely The movie Tom Berenger and "Wil- liam Katt do creditable work as the Newman-Redfor- d clones, probably the most stereotyped roles in the current crop of summer movies. Berenger has just the fight smile and snake-o- il bottomless blue eyes to make us almost believe he's the young Butch Cassidy. And once, Katt sprouts a Redford-esqu- e mustache while to further ilnothing familluminate his soars when Butch and recuperating from a gunshot their past and do what psychologically enlightening to witness the Kid's first intensity indeed reminds us of Sundance. outlaws are supposed to do--rob This outlaw duo remain anything in sight. The crime sequences have all the " mere reminders, but if all charm of the you really want is a good from a bank heist laugh, or several, it doesn't original, committed with a loaded bag matter. Butch and the Kid of popcorn to the film's aren't back, but The Early climax, an uproarious one-haDays is still Western fun. ' hour train robbery. already iar personality. Nor is it gunfight killing, no matter how spectacular the showdown's staging. The film's drama has the forced urgency of material written to seem important, not included because it was important. Sundance forget explaining rip-roari- wound, his tight-lippe- d n' old-fashione- lf d, foot-stompi- n' meeting and apprentice partnership, hence the title Butch and Sundance: The Early Days. Rollicking robberies And it works...well, sort of. fhe film has almost all the necessary ingredients a pair of Newman and The Sundance Kid (William Katt) tries to regain his draw after being injured in an ambush a sprouting fitting Redfordesque mustache. lightning-fas- t and Red-for- d a screenful of luxuriant Western landscapes courtesy of cinema-tographLaszlo Kovacs, a score of rollicking robberies from casinos to gold mines. The only thing missing is the point. look-alike- mmm s, er The Early Days tries painfully to fulfill its stated purpose, to explain how Ifllllllll I.y.v,;XyX-X'X.'-- mm,?MmLmwmL Butch Cassidy (Tom Berenger) scrambles a ton a car full nf robbery climax of "Butch and Sundance; The Early Days." ''Summerarts '79'- - HAVE AW ADVENTURE "Summerarts 79" continues this week with a complete schedule of workshops, concerts and performances. Here are some highlights: WEDNESDAY 5 5 GET PAID FOR IT! AMD BAYS SALE ICQ'S of LP's Study with the U in Europe for money and credit. Plan now for Winter and Spring quarters. Scholarships available to everyone accepted on a 250 to $1.00 Fri., SaL O Mom July 20-2- 3 We buy and sell new and used 45's, LP's and some 78's. ffl 532-441- Page Four 3 first-com- e, H basis. Contact Office of International Education, Bldg. 41, Room 166, Ext. 3552 between 9:00 a.m. 3:00 p.m. first-serv- e awn p.m. and 7 p.m. and 7 p.m. String concerto competition. and finals, Utah Museum of preliminary Fine Arts Auditorium. p.m. String concerto competition, preliminary and finals, Utah Museum of Fine Arts Auditorium. 8 p.m. Piano recital, Arthur Fennimore, museum auditorium. 8 y nce.rt' Univerty 5:m Trio, Dr ,f Inter-facult- Gerald Rothstein (violin), Dr. David Bennett , David Freed (viola (cello), museum gallery. THURSDAY 8 p.m. American String Teachers Association (ASTA) faculty sonata recital, Leonard Posner, Paul Olefsky, Gladys Gladstone museum auditorium. FRIDAY Noon Lunch on the grass, Mime and Music, Gregg Goldston and David Lopez, Union plaza. 8 p.m. Piano recital, Alan Bail, museum auditorium SATURDAY 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Children's Day, Seeing, Moving, Doing with Paintings in the Museum, 3rd through 5th grade students, Creative Seeing,Anne Day, Creative Dance, Creative Theatre, Melody Johnson and company, Kimball Arts Center, Park City, reservations SUNDAY 3 p.m. Lecture, Confessions of an Amateur Musician, 581-585- 6. David Bennett, response, Nothing in Particular, Paul Banham, Kimball Art Center. The Summer Chronicle, Wednesday, July 18, 1979 |