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Show - ... r- i..--J-:-v.wUeic i.rJti-'.io,...(J; .x,. 'iLi. .vsc-A, THIS RIGHT front tire blew out about 3 miles north of Steinaker Reservoir Sunday afternoon, causing Larry Huber, who was standing in the bed of the pickup, to be thrown out. Twilight Zone movie offers food for thought Two guys driving along a dark, lonely lone-ly road. Let's play travel games. OK, drive for a few seconds with the headlights off. Fun! Scary! OK, now let's take turns humming theme music from TV programs, guess the titles. Fool you three times, I win. Ummm "Twilight Zone." Are you sure that's not "The Zone?" Hmmm. Hey, I've got an idea. Pull over. No, pull over. I've got something scary to show you. Aaaaaaaagh! One of the guys is Dan Aykroyd, so you know that what follows this prologue pro-logue can't be too heavy. It isn't. "T.Z. The Movie" is a mostly entertaining collection of four little tales, each with a different cast and director. The first, directed by John Landis, stars Vic Morrow as a war veteran who is angry that the country is going to the dogs. He is transported through time, Scroogelike, and taught some valuable lessons. Seeing Morrow perform, knowing he was killed with two children, in a tragic helicopter accident during filming, film-ing, and that the director went on trial for wrongful death the same week the movie opened, gives the viewer a most creepy feeling. The unpleasant story has little suspense, few surprises. The first tale, and the prologue, con tain tne blasphemous profanity which earned the PG rating. The other three episodes contain very little objectionable objec-tionable material, if any. The second episode is directed by the greatest director of all time, in our opinion, 35-year-old Steven Spielberg. This is one of the loveliest things we've seen on the screen since "E.T." An old gentleman (Scatman Crothers) enters a nursing home and teaches the residents how to recapture the joy of childhood with his special brand of "magic." Touching, with good music and wonderful old character actors. In the third story, directed by Joe Dante, Kathleen Quinlan is a school teacher visiting a family dominated by a boy who has the kind of powers that "Poltergeist" fans will enjoy. She teaches the boy a worthwhile lesson. We strongly dislike stories of kids with diabolical powers, but Miss Quinlan's beauty compensates. Finally, Australian director George Miller ("Road Warrior") gives us a story of a frightened airline passenger (John Lithgow, the transsexual in "Garp"). To say this man has the jitters is the understatement understate-ment of the year. He sees a demon out on the wing, and tries frantically to warn the crew and passengers. A little lit-tle scary, but Lithgow overplays it for exciting tongue-in-cheek monster fun. |
