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Show 'CANDY? What Grief!' i By Mike Whitney For some reason, every time a ook becomes a best seller, some Hollywood producer decides to ake a movie out of it. On Bab?"";.35 With "Romarys nt . movle version turns Zl to be a fairly good erpretation of the book. But ! often, as with "Candy," the oTrh.VerS1n Comes out overblown extravaganza designed wifk ,!ure-fire money maker." "&rt the ,ist of stars in the ' h?' nCaSt' inc'uding Marlon i Coburn' R'chard Burtn. James woudrnQLnd Walter Matthau' " o a h?m "Candy's" 25-24. bMnb-But they sh(36 flJm begins with artistic ! snots of intersteller space, a I satellite's eye view of the earth and Candy herself lounging seductively on a desert. So much for redeeming social significance. Now on to the nitty gritty. From here on in Candy is seduced in quick succession, through two grueling hours of film, by an assortment of odd balls such as a hippie poet (Richard Burton), a Mexican gardener (Ringo Starr) and mobile (via semi-truck) guru (Marlon Brando). Perhaps the movies's worst fault is that the comedy (?) bits it includes are overworked until they die from sheer exaustion. Licks Liquor Richard Burton, for instance, licks spilled liquor from the bottom of his limousine for what seems like an eternity. And James Coburn, who plays a brain surgeon, finishes an operation on Candy's father (John Astin), by waving his blood-soaked middle finger at the gallery spectators for nearly a full minute. Thirty seconds would have been sufficient. Acting was no strong point either. One gets the feeling Brando and Burton are not even half trying, and that Coburn plainly does not care what he does. Ringo Starr puts in a good effort, but somehow a Mexican gardener with an English accent does not quite make it. But then the same could be said for Ewa Aulin as Candy. Although Miss Aulin's attributes in some areas are quite prominent, she still sounds like a Swedish girl speaking English lines phonetically. Ewa Aulin plays Candy in the movie of the same name now playing at j the Capitol Theatre at 46 W 2nd So. i. |