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Show The Newspaper m-uni'Mlay, December 31, 1980 Page U jjff ""''St by Riek Brough The Hit Parade and S. t Parade for 1980 The Year's Best The Year's Worst 1. "TheStuntman" 1. "In Uod We Trust" 2. "Wise Blood" 2. "The First Family" 3. "The Great Santini" :S. "Lovers and Liars" 4. "Eagle's Wing" 4. "The Fiendish Plot of 5. "The Empire Strikes Dr. Fu Manchu" Back" ."). "Little Miss Marker" (i. "The Wicker Man" 6. "Haise the Titanic" 7. "Resurrection" 7. "The Kidnapping of 8. "The Black Marble" the President" 9. "Ordinary People" 8. "The Private Eyes" 10. "Fame" 9. "The Awakening" 10. "Can't Stop the Music" By Kick Brough The year opened with a super-comedy, "1941," that bombed at the box office, and ended with a super-Western, super-Western, "Heaven's Gate," that producers thought was so awful they didn't even give it a chance to bomb at the box office. Still, the number of five films and the movies that were real commode com-mode cases turned out to be roughly equal. (The great disappointment came from the number of big-budget highly-publicized pictures that plopped firmly into the "mediocre" category. ) Ten Best and Worst lists are a fun game to play, but inevitably they are incomplete. incom-plete. A run-down of the best films will miss the foreign films that haven't played here, or will omit movies (like "Ragind Bull" with Robert Deniro) that others may count as a 1980 picture, even though Utahns won't see it, in all likelihood, until February of 1981. Our worst films list must concentrate on major flops committed by such well-known well-known stars as Marty Feld-man, Feld-man, Buck Henry, and Charlton Heston. But if we were absolutely fair,..90 of our Bad Film list would be composed of those B-movies about vampire cheerleaders that play mostly at the Redwood Red-wood Drive-In. Next year, we'll work on developing two categories-Major categories-Major and Minor for rotten films, but let us suffice to say for now that any inventory of this year's tripe would also include the stomach-churning stomach-churning "Death Ship," the clumsy and nauseating "Don't Go in the House" (the story of a demented shy guy who really sets his girlfriends' girlfrien-ds' hearts ablaze), and the putrid meat-locker melodrama "Zombie." The New York Times Weekly Collesiatt Colled ion ACROSS 1 Palmer or Wilkinson 47Capekplay 48 Kind of oil ti uijecuve iui 4 as a ghost pate Diuisn- 10 Chaplet 16 Underworld figure 21 River to the Channel 22 Purloined 23 Double-cross 24 Vaquero's milieu 25 Remote-control Remote-control bomb 28 RICE 29 Avian diver 31 Tree yielding boxwood 32 ". . . their tongues speak against us!":Shak. 33 Buchwald 34 Northern constellation 36 Closefitting denims 38 Golconda 39 Blobby substance 40 DRAKE 45 Actuality 46 " Kampf 52 Pack of camels 53 Honshu seaport 56 Grassy tracts 58 Rugby's river 59 Memorable Viennese conductor 61 Join the group 62 CORNELL 64 Sheep or snipe 68 Taken care of 70 Talk-show name 71 Craft 73 Lemur called bashful Billy 74 Hence, in Harfleur 76 Royale and Rivoli 78 Native of Rayong 79 Ululate 80 Marie of movies: 1923-65 84 Comprehend , 87 Liliaceous plant DOWN 1 Growler 2 Calpumiawas one 3 Slow down 4 Napoleonic battle: 1809 5 A Udall nickname 6 Pipkins 7 Elder, in Essen 8 Glassmaker's oven 9 Sign up 10 Kemal, town in Syria 11 Vamp of the silents 12 Comrade of D'Artagnan 13 Mild oath 14 He wrote "Lot's Wife" 15 YALE 16 Convention decision 17 "The Greatest" 18 Scarlet (red robin) 19 Kind of barometer 20 Carney role 27 Score in match golf 28 Rodomontade 30 Scoring play in cricket 35 Be under the weather 37 Of the soft palate 40 Egregious The lists are also an able indicator of a reviewer's special likes and dislikes. I think there's nothing more boring than satire that doesn't work, which explains the very low marks given to pictures like "First Family." On the other hand, there have been an extraordinary extraor-dinary number of good films dealing in ways allegorical, wacky, or horrific with religious experience films like "The Wicker Man," "Wise Blood," and "Resurrection." But I have a friend who's more interested in-terested in the conflicts among families. He pinpoints "The Great Santini" and "Ordinary People" as the two best pictures of the year. A number of critics named a Worst New Trend. They attacked at-tacked the "women in peril" movies like "Friday the 13th" and "He Knows You're Alone" pictures that showed vicious knife-wielding knife-wielding psychos attacking sexually independent women, and often killing them and their boyfriends in the middle of love-making. Did the films cater to sadists who crave the idea of carving car-ving up women? Perhaps, but the films never ad-"vocaled ad-"vocaled that idea. More to the point, they appealed to the teenagers subconscious fear that Mommy, Daddy, or some other dark force of sexual repression would discover them in flagrant delicto, and would punish them. It was a year of disappointments, disappoint-ments, both financially and critically. Summer movies from hot-shots like Robert Redford ("Brubaker"), Burt Reynolds ("Rough Cut") and John Travolta ("Urban Cowboy") were surprising failures. "Can't Stop the Music" and "Xanadu" proved you need more than 89 St. College Choir 123 Liquidate a dragon 124 Rembrandt's "Lady with 125 AUBURN 129 Asner and Figueroa 130 Grad. of R.P.I. 131 Mezzo-soprano Obraztova 133 Japanese general in . W.W.II 134 Stat for Seaver 135 Glacial deposit 137 Termagant 141 Yawl's cousin 144 WILLIAM & MARY 148 Paramilitary org. 149 Canadian medical notable 150 Luck, in Leon 151 Henry, e.g. 152 Dye holder 153 Very small 154 Checked 155 Rose Kennedy's age 156 Merino's dam qa Forage legume Lumpish mass Peter or Paul Whale groups Lightweight champ after Canzoneri: 1936 Side petals, in botany Davis & College, W.Va. 92 Tz " W 101 105 Source of self-satisfaction self-satisfaction DUKE Touch (jewelweed) Ash receptacles Melville's 1847 ODUS 107 110 111 112 113 Bombay biewie 114 115 117 120 Prefix with type or spore Auto pioneer Like some addictives Gordon or Roman Sarcle 122 41 Hall of Fame pitcher Amos 42 Nurse a grievance 43 Structural unit 44 Tiger-hunt aide 45 "Their Hour": Churchill 46 SMITH 50Tel 51 Sol is one 52 Charlemagne's Charle-magne's dom. 54 BROWN 55 Composer Bruckner 57 off (minimize) 60 Geometric figure 63 State for the record 65 Bufooragua 66 One of five bodies 67 Brooklet 69 Rescheduled 72 TV's Na" 75 TUFTS 77 Droop 80 Brood 81 Kind of dance 82 Part of a pedestal ped-estal - 83 Small amount 85 Side dish gg bear 88 Board game 91 End a separation The neon glitter to make a great musical, and "The Blues Brothers" despite moments of brilliance, didn't understand under-stand that a demolition derby der-by doesn't automatically make for great comedy. And "Dressed to Kill" pretentiously preten-tiously mixed Hitchcockian technique with sexual obsession, ob-session, provoking outcries from feminists across the country. Two or three movies proved that audiences really don't give a damn what film reviewers say. "Smokey and the Bandit II" was a turgid follow-up to the original, but cleaned up anyway at the boxoffice. Audiences also lined up for "The Blue Lagoon," the no-artificial-ingredients tale of pre-pubescent pre-pubescent love, and the muddled fantasy-romance "Somewhere in Time." Finally, let us close with some of the better performances perfor-mances of the year. For the Oscars, might we suggest: John Hurt's poignant performance per-formance as "The Elephant Man," Harry Dean Stanton in "The Black Marble." Frank Oz and Mark Hamill lor "Empire Strikes Back," By -Na 12 3 " 4 5 6 8 9 "" 12" TT" U 116 117 i 1 S 119 120 21 22 2l 24 25 26 27 ' 28 ' - 36 37 "3B I 39 40 41 W2 43 44 u,ml '"! 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