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Show Page B8 Thursday, March 12, 1981 The Newspaper eel WirM Best thing in 'All Night Long' cast of night-time crazies A Classic Recommended Good Double feature material Time-Killer For masochists onlv All Night Long "All Night Long" is so bud m spots, you might walk out 'f the theatre wondering if ;.'U dreamed it. And yet, this precisely how it could a (irk as a sort of dream. If : -me of the ethereal, freako limments had been properly i i.annelled and expanded, ' lib might have been a truly unique comedy, instead of an c entric bore. respite the ads emphasiz-iU emphasiz-iU Barbara Steisand, Gene 1 i ickman is the star of the p.'ture. He plays George Suppler, an executive for :.e of those national mall Mains (like K-Mart) who ihiws a chair out of his Sites' window and is demoted U) t lie post of night manager fir one of their 24-hour ranches. The picture holds out the . .. .muse of being a suburban U ASH, because the mall ''(rge operates is like all ' . ! -e other all-night res- .1 Jilts, gas stations, and Fievens where people stay :. through the dark hours 1A. Dana Hunter won a free lunch at the Main Street Deli-Market this week by correctly answering an-swering the last Trivia Test. Dana knew that "Dankeschoen" was sung by Wayne Newton, hat the natives of Skull Island summoned King Kong with three strikes on a huge gong, and that Hayduke is the Resort's new avalanche-rescue dog. You, too, can win a free lunch. Just be the first person to correctly answer this week s Trivia K.wv,w .v j - Test. Submit your answers to The Newspaper at 419 Main Street, or call 649-9014 by noon Tuesday, This week's questions are : 1. What superstar made these little-known failures? "Skullduggery," "Rough Cut," and "Nickelodeon." 2. What Top 40 hit did Elton John and Neil Sedaka sing together? 3. The "Battle of the Resorts" ended with Park City's first official hockey victory. Who was y ,(h fire- pi ;. . - i is- 1 I - enpenny performs at KAC Music from the British Isles will waft through the K:mball Art Center this Friday night when the five-i five-i -re group Tenpenny f, resents their concert of Knglish, Irish and Scottish '.lk tunes at 8 p.m. Of the five Tenpenny musicians, three have spent .me in Ireland researching e history and culture t.ohind the folk music. These i Horts have resulted in an exciting collection of bv into the morning, waiting on the assorted nightowls lurking lurk-ing in the neighborhood. Clerks in the daytime hope the customers will make large purchases. The nigh-time nigh-time guys just hope they won't get robbed. Their stores are like beacons of light to the kind of people who are crazy because they don't need or want sleep. A little guy walks around the aisles clacking his molars and muttering, "The only security is in teeth!" The most excitement comes from the hulking lady wrestler-type wrestler-type who tries to rob the place, and throws everyone around until she plummets head-first into the ice cream section. If you work at one of these spots, part of you is asleep, and part of you is mad about being awake. Everyone here, therefore, is a little crazy. The cash-register girl won't clear checks by herself. her-self. The security man practices prac-tices quick-draws and hides knives on his person. The stock boy sings to his price-stamping machine. And Hackman wanders into the store pharmacy and helps himself to illegal amounts of speed. There's more of a siege mentality here than in Paul Newman's "Fort Appache." The movie should have concentrated on the crazies, but instead it wastes our Tenpenny ballads, sea chanties, jigs and reels. They use a number num-ber of authentic instruments in their performances, including in-cluding the anglo-concertina, anglo-concertina, hurdy-gurdy, mouth organ, an Irish handheld hand-held drum called the bodhran, bones and kalimba. All of the members of Ten-penny Ten-penny have an interest in ballads and songs and they are performed by all the musicians in the group. One of the high points of their Kirk Brough time nn George and the neighborhood's "unconventional "unconven-tional lady," Steisand, who is having an affair with his son (Dennis Quaid). Her name is Cheryl Gibbons, and she's vaguely related to her teenage teen-age lover. Her husband's brother is a brother-in-law to George's wife. George is so busy trying to figure out that relationship, he drifts into an affair with Cheryl himself. When the wife and son find out, they're ready to bite his head off. But George is fed up anyway he's tired, he's harassed, and his attempts to crawl back to his wife have been rebuffed. He opts for total unconven-tionality, unconven-tionality, a stance that frightens even Cheryl. He quits his job, leaves his family, and becomes an Karthbound The most mundane Close Encounter of them all. When a space family (led by Chris Connelly and Meredith MacRae) crash their saucer into a California lake, they have no problem making Iriends with Burl Ives, a nearby resident, and his grandson. It's easy to accept them, since these banal aliens act like a nice middle-. class family that just made the wrong turn off the freeway. (You expect their spaceship to have a toy poodle in the back window and a bumper sticker reading, "We visited Alpha Centauri!" We know they're not of this world because the script has given them the power to levitate objects, read emotions, and disappear when they hold their breath. Plus, they're dressed in blue jumpsuits, like a Bulgarian acrobatic troupe, and their mascot is a green monkey Miar..eais wgm ..duios. -ves and u. hide them from the nasty UFOiogist stalking thaKeats light .bulbs: Ives" them (Joseph Campanella), while they search for the rare material they need to repair the ship. AniUo repay the favor, the aliens find time to help their earthVing friends with their problems some funny (a kids basketball basket-ball game that takes to the air), and some pathetic (the grandson's sorrow over his music is the rendering of old songs and ballads in their unique vocal style, which at times blends all five voices together. The combined background and experience of these musicians makes for an informative, as well as exciting, evening of entertainment. enter-tainment. The Tenpenny concert begins at 8 p.m., and tickets are $3.50 for members and $5 for non-members. is inventor. His first project is a positive-reflecting mirror that "shows people as others see them." But who cares? I sat there wondering what was happening back at the shopping mall. This picture doesn't make sense for several reasons. We understand why the mall people are going crazy, but there are no explanations for the loony folks in the daytime, like George's dumb-slab son. It's also a little weird to realize we're meant to laugh at George cracking up. But Gene Hackman is primarily a dramatic actor, and his reactions are realistically steady and serious. He's more pathetic than funny, . but you don't get the feeling the script (by W.D. Richter) parents' death). It's wholesomely dull fare from the same folks who brought you "Hanger 18," which features a few of the same sets and bit actors. (The movies look like they were shot on adjacent sets! ) Locals will, as usual, have the consolation of looking for familiar locations in the Sunn Classics film. Utah sites include Park City (here called "Gold Rush, California"), Califor-nia"), the Homestead (I think) as Ives' country motel, and the U. of U., which in the movie is located right next door to the hotel ! "Earthbound" has the saving grace of humor, and occasionally the script poses some funny "culture-shock" situations. (When the alien boy cuddles a nest of doves, his sister sneers at him for liking "creepy-crawly things.") Despite the presence of likable performers perfor-mers such as Ives, Connelly qnd John Schuck, and Stuart ' Pankin, someonte should have told the aliens to detour around this G rated planet. V-i Maniac Are you concerned about the kind of lonely guy who goes out at night, slaughters women, and then decorates Viis mannequin collection with the- victims' clothes (and nails their scalps to the wooden skulls)' If you think this vital social problem should be addressed, then "Maniac!" is the picture for you. The rest of us will Sight down the gorge in our throats, thank you. The film pretends to be a blackly sympathetic portrait of a tormented, mommie-abused mommie-abused character who now is avenging his rotten childhood on anything in a bra. All it offers, actually, is a bilious mess of murders, sex, and shocks, with the camera exploitatively lingering over maimed flesh and grimaces of fear to a degree much worse than all the recent "teenagers-in-jeopardy" movies. The star, Joe Spinell, is one of the seediest looking character actors in movies. ( He played the Philly hood in "Rocky" who hired Stallone to break thumbs.) The picture pic-ture is his first starring role, and as co-writer, you'd think the whole Academy jyas Featuring daily luncheon specials Monday through Friday 6497060 sees him that way. Streisand is trapped in an unusual, position.. Usually, she overwhelms the male co-stars with her Brooklyn-bubbly Brooklyn-bubbly star personailty. But here, she's the passive character who is awakened by Hackman's free-wheeling character and decides to join him. Hackman plays his character char-acter so quietly that to be quieter than him, Streisand has to practically become invisible, which she does. The movie ends with the two living in a garrett. Streisand walks into the bedroom removing her shirt. Hackman follows her. The end. Like a dream cut off. You may have to go to sleep to finish this picture for yourself. watching, the way Spinell turns his pockmarked, potbellied pot-bellied character into a drooling, whiny monster. Like "Don't Go in the House" (last year's prime piece of carrion ), the maniac isn't explained, just exhibited, as he stalks victims, vic-tims, kills, and is tormented by the phantoms of his own mind. The hint of a story comes from his friendship with a (perhaps lesbian) fashion photographer (Caroline Munro), who becomes the only character able to fight him off. The first pro-gay horror movie? That would be it's only distinction. Sphinx A handsomely-mounted, action-packed, but dumb : thriller based on the popular j novel. Lesley-Anne Down .stars as an ambitious "ucjent Egyptologist pne IMia hasn't bothered to learn njjoqern Egyptian, and occasionally oc-casionally treats the natives 'as if. they were carrying dangerous lice. Nevertheless, Never-theless, she stumbles onto a vicious black-market murder mur-der plot, somehow connected to one final secret left undiscovered un-discovered in King Tut's tomb. The mystery revolves around an obscure ancient architect named Menefta, and you won't believe how excited the plotters get when they hear his name. Faces pale. Greasy-looking Arabs whip out knives and skulk af-, ter other greasy-looking Arabs with knives and all bf them are chasing after Mi?s Down. She doesn't know who to trust, of course, but her two best bets among the skulkees are a French journalist (Maurice Ronet) and a dark, sexy Egyptian G-Man in charge of antiquities an-tiquities (Frank Langella). Movie-goers familiar with this kind of story won't have trouble unearthing the plot twists in the film. But for your enjoyment, there is spectacular scenery of " the pyramids; the good (if un-, predictable) use of comic relief (one doesn't expect a Keystone Cops chase in the suburbs of Cairo); and Miss Down, who slips in and out of tombs as easily as if she were climbing around in fruit cellars. 442 Main Street jjlj 324 Main fljj Good for Come, treat yourself to an evening of pleasure. Rest your weary bones and tired muscles in one of our 5 private therapeutic pools. After a hard day on the slopes or for a special end to a hectic day, nothing feels better than a good soak. You'll leave feeling like a new person. 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