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Show Page 16 Thursday. September 25. 1980 I he Newspaper nfielkfies by Rick Brough DO A TAKEOUT our complete menu is available for takeout Breakfast, Mon.-Fri. 7:00 Lunch 11:30 to 2:30 . Dinner 5:00 to 10:00 Sunday Lunch 1 2:00 to 4:00 430 ain Street 649-6900 VoP 50 Off More! Adult Outfit Dynastar Dynaflex' Skis designed de-signed for the intermediate skier to give easy carving in most snow conditions Nordica OfpesaJ(ki J3Q.ots with. lightweight oJyrBtnane.nell., t , 2-Buckle Cuft Salomon '222' Step-in Ski Bindings Barrecrafters Aluminum Ski Poles with molded grips Expertly Mounted, Ready to Ski Reg. 348.95 i Junior Outfit Dynastar Targa' Skis, designed for ease of skiing in 100 to 160 cm Noidica Junior, Ski Boot designed de-signed for eaq'b1 entntipei- $T iol?a'' 6(rftp- &rft ings Barrecrafters Aluminum, Ski UIaN Expertly Mounted, Reac to Si ir o one tri c: , ncy . tvv.uu, You Save $79.00 Ski i&M. 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Park City Holiday Village RESORT CENTER -i A Classic' - Recommended Good Double, feature material Time-Killer Formasochists only 1 2 Carny At its best, this vivid, whirling picture of the carnival car-nival sub-culture easily outshines out-shines the similar depiction of "Bronco Billy" 's Wild West show. , ' Director Robert Kaylor ambles down the nocturnal, raunchy atmosphere of the midway, taking in the lights, the conmen drooling lures and come-ons, the writhing freaks and hoochy-koochy girls, and the film's central image the show's bozo, a" clown who dangles in a dunking cage and viciously taunts the customers to try their luck at pitching him into in-to the drink. Gary Busey, as the Bozo, is the kind of American found under wet rocks, but affable once the make-up comes off. Robbie Robertson (formerly of The Band) is casually effective playing his partner. And Jody Foster as the bit of quail who joins the show is an openly volatile addition to the plot. But the script falls back on cliches to handle their romantic triangle. The . movie starts out like a fair . romantic drama, but the story's resolution has got the fix on. ; He Knows You're Alone The maniac in this horror flick slashed his ex-girl friend to death on her wedding wed-ding day. And then well, you know how hard it is to stop after just one. No bride, bridesmaid, or caterer is safe. The girl he's currently stalking (Caitlin O'Heafley) is wondering whether to ditch her dull fiance and marry her old boyfriend3, the morgue attendant. After all, he's warm, funny, and in pictures pic-tures like this, he's got surefire sure-fire job security. The picture blatantly copies "Halloween" "Hal-loween" down to the smallest blood clot. But, unlike other recenj? imitations, it goes easy on the gore and sex; it's conceived con-ceived as a good, scary time for kids 10-15. It signals its shocks. ("Ya think there's something in the fish tank?" Okay, I dare ya to look in the fish tank!") "He Knows" will eveh'joke about the million other 'movies like It now making the rounds. The first victim gets hers in a movie theater during a big-screen big-screen murder. "Okay, you can look now," her seat-mate seat-mate grins, nudging the corpse. The film is not bad for those who enjoy not-looking at fright flicks. 'uXanadu Olivia-phobes should stay away, but the rest of you will have a good time at this very listenable, very laughable musical fantasy. Newtoh-John Newtoh-John isn't the romantic center cen-ter of this film; she's its Golden Calf,' surrounded by adoring dancers, gorgeous costumes, and the kind of shimmering opticals you'd expect to find in a disco run by Stanley Kubrick. She plays a muse named Kira, whose mission is to help a frustrated album-cover artist ar-tist (Michael Beck) find new meaning in life through the healing powers of roller disco, as Beck opens the dance palace Xanadu with Gene Kelly, as an old-time swing musician. Kelly's relaxed exuberance outshines out-shines his pallid co-stars, and the songs by Electric Light Orchestra and Jeff Lynne rumble through a sound system (at the Villa Theatre) that amplifies the music to 3.5 on the Richter Scale. M The Blue Lagoon This "All-organic-ingredients" romance swings wildly from one extreme ex-treme to another. It titters a wee bit too much at the. sexual exploration of two shipwrecked children growing into adulthood. And in its serious mood the ostensibly sensual, sensitive exaltation of natural love-it's love-it's all too obvious the artistry ar-tistry of Nestor Almendros photography is mainly being used to conceal those inconvenient incon-venient anatomical parts that would shudder! lower the picture's rating from R to X. I Director Randal Kleiser (and writer Douglas .Day Stewart face a stem task in following their lovers from innocence to unwitting parenthood. Within the span of two hours and 15 minutes, they fail. The whole movement is too rushed; young Emmaleine and Richard almost erupt into puberty, and the lush natural surroundings supposedly drawing them on to their romantic shots of birds and fish as if Kleiser were touring through a zoo. What really kills Blue Lagoon is not just the obstacles, ob-stacles, but the feeling that nobody was straining themselves them-selves to overcome themv , Raise the Titanic And quick, before the movie sinks. This ' floundering floun-dering picture supposes the U.S. and Soviet Union are vying for a vital mineral, the. only , known stockpile of which went down years ago with uh huh, that's right. The free world has to raise the old White Star liner, and the only man who can do it is-Dirk Pitt! That name sounds like a rude noise, and hero Richard Jordan Jor-dan plays him that way. The story by Adam Kennedy is a Sargasso Sea of undeveloped sub-plots: a triangular romance (Jordan, scientist David Selby, and newshen Anne Archer); Cold War intrigue in-trigue tempered by pacifist gestures; and a whodunit about the Russiar spy amongst the good guys. (He turns out to be a character we never even glimpse, before or after he's caught ! ) Even -when they have the neat idea of showing the Goodyear blimp sailing over the re-surfaced Titanic, the special effects spoil ,it by rendering the ship as an astigmatic blur. 'a The Blues Brothers How dare they destroy hundreds of police black-and-whites when poor people are car-pooling in India! The comedy method of this film is Conspicuous Destruction (with less laughs per horsepower horse-power than other current models.) Even while director direc-tor and co-writer (with Dan Akroyd) John Landis is fleshing it out into a savory paean to Chicago. The eamero appearances by Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Ray Charles, etc. are as joyous as they ate arbitrary. ar-bitrary. Jake and Elwood Blues score their biggest laughs party-crashing the musical numbers in their seedy FBI wardrobes, breaking out in attacks of "happy feet," and running run-ning from the delicious-looking delicious-looking Carrie Fisher, as the Faral Woman in Jake's past. But there's too many places where this comedy-musical only works as a musical . Trivia Test What's the matter, trivia buffs? Didn't you know that Tonto said, "What you mean 'we,' white man?" when the Lone Ranger said they were done for during an Indian confrontation? Or that bubblegum-rock singer Leif Garrett made an early acting appearance as the son in "Walking Tall?" Or that George Tice, well-known well-known photographer, is hosting a workshop at the Kimball Art Center this week? Either the questions are too hard, or you weren't hungry for a free lunch at the Main Street Deli- Market. Well, how about the circus? You can win two free tickets, worth $14, to the 4 p.m. or 8 p.m. shows Thursday, the 4 p.m. show Friday, or the 4 p.m. or 8 p.m. shows Monday, Sept. 29. Just be the first to answer this week's Trivia Test correctly, and the tickets are yours. Submit your answers to The Newspaper at 419 Main Street, or call 649-9014 by noon Monday. This week's questions arei , h-r , - l.Orrin, Tyrel, and TellSackeU are Westeri? heroes created by what writer? 2. Which location did Hope and Crosby fail to visit in their Road pictures? The Road to (a) Siam, (b) Bali, (c) Utopia, (d) Hong Kong. 3. Who is Park City's new chief building inspector? W by Rick Lanman Buy Now, Save Later The selection of drinking wine may be a priority for taste buds, yet ultimately the' pocketbook will pay for the pleasure. Wine is supposedly a romantic quest identified more with flickering candles than cash registers. Still, as each season slips, by, prices frequently rise abruptly ami we must all tailor our tastes to reality. With these hard economics at hand, we bring some good news and some bad. ' , The bad news foretells ill times for those who savor and enjoy the imported wines. France, Germany and Italy all experienced cold and unusually wet springs this year, and subsequently the yields and quality of many European wines are in doubt. One offsetting factor has been the tremendous quantities of vintage 1979 European wines. Last year was a good one over most of Europe; not a great year, but certainly a good one. That fact may actually prove helpful, in that there has certainly been no rush to buy up the 1979 vintages at least until now. f j . Terry Robards, New York Times columnist,' writes that jwine importers in that city already are beginning to scour the warehouses ware-houses and even retail outlets for 1979 and earlier vintages that have not been marked up to reflect what will be an almost certain scarcity in the year ahead. While the fall still awaits and 1980 may produce some decent European wines, they will not be of the , quantity required to keep the price down. So for those now inclined, stock up on any European wines you can find that fit your budget. . . We have discussed in previous columns how to select various European wines from the myriad number available. I now offer some further indications of especially fruitful years for the following wines: 1975 and 1978 were particularly good years for the French red Bordeaux, in fact 1975 lays claim to one of the. best years in recent memory; 197f and 1978 were excellent years for the Burgundies, with 1976 rapidly developing as something very special. Those enchanted with German whites also have several choices available 1976 proved to be the year of the decade for the Rhines and Mosels 1975 was also a solid year, and more recently, 1979 has been pronounced favorable, though certainly not in the league of 1976. A recent visit to the Trolley Square wine store in Salt Lake revealed that an attempt is being made to supply reasonably priced wines. The store has begun to offer some nice Cabernet Sauvignons, for example, from some of the lesser known, but high quality wineries of California. My last inspection produced some good vintage Cabernets in the five dollar vprice range, rather than the customary eight to twelve dollar range. Also represented were Chardonneys, Chenin Blancs and a number of Zinfindels, all in a price bracket that we mortals can afford. Some of this may be the result of better purchasing or simply widening the range of their selections. Regardless, we welcome the availability of these lesser priced, high quality wines. For those who purchase European wines, it will become readily important why you must learn to read the information provided on wine labels. Several months ago, we discussed the white wines of Germany and how the information provided on their labels may be interpreted. The following example may be useful during your wine store tour. While poking through endless cases of mosels at Trolley Square, I came across two crates of Okfenner Bockstein, one of my favorite wines and probably one of Germany's Ger-many's greatest wines. Having discussed this jWine in an earlier Winepress, devout readers will recall that Okfen is a town, and Bockstein the area in which the grapes are grown. We also spoke of ripening grapes and a series of special pickings that note increasing quality. Essentially, beginning at the bottom of a quality scale, a wine may carry no rating at all, or simply the grape name. Stepping up the ladder, the word Spatlese will appear, then Auslese, followed by Beeren-auslese, and finally Troken-beeren-auslese as the quality increases. With these facts reviewed, we return to the wine store where I carefully examined both cases. The bottles in each were green (the sign of a Mosel), they had identical labels with respect to design and color, and, in fact, were from the same winery. The first case contained bottles of llJ77 Okfenners with no quality j rating at all, simply the word Riesling (indicating, as mentioned above, the grape type). The other case contained bottles bearing the description Beeren-auslese and a vintage date of 1976. The price difference? The 1977 Okfenner with no rating was selling for $6.40 a fifth, while the 1976 Okfenner with the Beeren-auslese rating was priced at a princely $40 a fifth. Enough said! One closing note: For several weeks now, the California winery workers have been on strike. Many feared there might not be a 1980 vintage of California wine unless the crisis t:was resolved immediately. I am pleased to announce that the strike is over, the workers gaining a respectful settlement and the world its wine. Whsomesfhort-Jerm Increase mav be reflected Ig nericesfronj'thie,strike, its longneVmeff"w4lLfc& to kmp-Vnces stable and wine abundant. Jam Packed Season Planned For KAC The Kimball Art Center has announced its HWO-1981 Performing Arts Season. The season will provide a variety of entertainment with 20 events scheduled from October, 1980 through June, 1981. Season ticket buyers have the option of selecting 10 events or all 20. The cost for 10 events is $25 for Kimball Art Center members and $40 for nonmembers. The entire 20-event season is $40 for Kimball Art Center members mem-bers and $65 for nonmembers. nonmem-bers. These prices offer a 40 to. 50 percent savings from single ticket prices. The season will include a concert performance by George Shearing, jazz pianist, on April 4, 1981. Five plays and musicals by the Park City Players "Harvey," "Har-vey," "Camelot," "6 Rms Riv Vu," "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," and "Applause" are part of the package. Other events include in-clude Lee Connor and Lorn McDougla, a widely acclaimed ac-claimed dance duo; Gregg Goldston, mime artist; the Jensen-Woodbury Duo, classical guitarists; Ragtime and Gaslight, a parlor concert with turn-of-the-century music; "Yours Truiy, Mark Twai" with Irry Cantwell; Tenpenny, authentic Irish music; "Daniel Boone!" by the Performing Per-forming Arts Repertory of New York City ; five versions of the popular Coffee House, ff aturing local talent and a I'laxod , candlelit at-7 at-7 "sphere; and two shows ht children of all ages jl.e Magic Calliope" by the j-'&rs . of Joy Puppet Theatre, and "Songs of ( :spar the Pirate by Bits n' Pieces Puppet Theatre. Call 649-8882 for further information. |