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Show :M"" 'Scanners' AClassic .. Recommended Good Double feature material Time-Killer For masochists only Scanners "Scanners" may be become be-come known, at first anyway, any-way, as the "exploding-head" "exploding-head" movie. This might remind you of "The Fury," which became famous for exploding John Cassavetes into tiny bits. Both plots are about incredibly in-credibly potent psychic power, the troubled humans learning how to use it, and the good guys and bad guys struggling to control the innocent folks who have The Power. "Scanners" has its flaws, but rather than degenerate de-generate into carnage, like its counterpart, it summons its chills as much from plot twists and character ambiguity am-biguity as from the bloody special effects. "Scanning" is the inborn ability to link up with another person's brain to wield and manipulate his nervous system, indeed to actually be that person. It's hard to describe the effect, ' 'a Fort Apache: . The Bronx The opening disclaimer assures us there are decent-hard-working citizens in the crime-ridden south Bronx, but we never see any of them in the picture, a cynical cop drama which depicts the area as a hotbed of corruption, corrup-tion, drugs, and murder. The story interweaves four plots : a killer prostitute (Pam Grier) swacked out on Angel Dust; the precinct's hard-nosed'!,ri hard-nosed'!,ri WVSptain n Ed AsrJert j'tneOn1aiH?ebej i tween'PaQ?r,Newma( the'" "last cop who cares," with a junkie nurse (Rachel Ticc-tin); Ticc-tin); and Newman's crisis of conscience when he sees a fellow cop (Danny Aiello) throw a Puerto Rican kid off a tenement roof. The script hogties the stories together through contrived con-trived coincidence (the hooker and the nurse buy from the same dealers), and wraps it up with a familiar moral. Paul Newman is believably tough-tender, tough-tender, Rachel Ticotin is sweet, and Pam Grier is spooky. But Ken Wahl plays Newman's young partner as if someone told him the studio wanted John Travolta for the part. The movie is a failure- . .. 5:00A.M. 39 -Super Station Funtlme 5:15 A.M. os-Nwr:' 1 M 5:30 A.M. (Q - MMnkto 1 6:00 A.M. O CD - Understanding Our Wofkr!1" O (D - Krofft Superstars U GD - Morning with Chartaa Kuratt bv is mind-blower, but also boasts subtle but when an untrained Scanner Scan-ner is jumping around in another person's brain, it's like giving a vigorous back massage to someone with sunburn. When a trained Scanner does it malevolently male-volently it is like surgically skilled torture and death. . Unfortunately for them, Scanners usually end up as insane misfits. They can't keep the thoughts of other people out of their heads. And the constant psychic babble drives them mad. One Scanner (Robert Silverman) finds release (rom the torture in his art. Or rather, he expresses it in paintings and sculptures of tortured faces and huge craniums. A group of the "gifted," led by Jennifer O'Neill, join in psychic communion to drive out the world. But the most powerful Scanner of them all, Carryl Revok (Michael Ironside), has long ago become a homocidal maniac bent on destruction. Revok is either recruiting or killing the 237 Scanners known to exist. The only hope, apparently, lies with parapsychologist Dr. Ruth (Patrick Goo-han), Goo-han), who finds number 238 Cameron Vale (Steven Lack) who may be able to match Revok, rem for rem. Without a doubt, the most farfetched plot since "Al Rick Drough harsh, cliched, confused. 1 2 Back Roads There's really nothing romantic about the shoulder of a state highway, but every so often a filmmaker feels the desire to remake the old "drifting-lovers" plot. "Back Roads.'" the latest attempt, fails, despite the earnest earn-est efforts of Sally Field (the hooker with hairdresser ambitions), Tommy Lee Looking for some live action? Something to listen or dance to? Here it is, live from Park City... Be there at Crack "o Noon for country music seven days a week at the Down Under, down under the Claimjumper Restaurant at the bottom of Main Street. The group plays nightly from 9 p.m. to la.m. , . Bread and Butter will be at the Carbide Lamp at the bottom of Main Street with country-western music Friday Fri-day and Saturday from 7:30-11 p.m. If rock 'n roll is your favorite, go see Jubal at the Rusty Nail lounge at the O CD KUTV Salt Lake, UT SHOW Showtime O CD KTVX Salt Lake, UT O (B KSL Salt Lake, UT (3D HBO Home Box Office 0 CD KUED Salt Lake, UT CD CBN Christian Netwrk 091 WTBS Atlanta, GA (D) ESPN Sports Network CNN Cable News Ntwrk 3D WGN Chicago, IL WEEKDAYS , ID - Vanea rrogram 39 -1 Dream of Jeannle . 32 - CNN Morning Report 3D - Bozo'a Clrcua 6:30A.M. (X) - Richard Slmmona O GD - Hotel Balderdash -My Three Sona 7:00A.M. O CD - Today O GD - Good Morning America O GD - Captain Kangaroo ilick Drouth tered States," with a hundred hun-dred unanswered questions in the plot. Why is Revok the only "bad Scanner" we see, when he's supposed to have a small army? Why does he hire assasins to shoot rifles at the heroes when scanning power obviously would be more effective? And where are the police and press while people's heads are exploding like over-ripe watermelon? The average viewer will have a hundred unanswered questions. But this weakness in the picture is tolerable because we see the story from the point of view of Cameron Vale, who is a complete blank to us and himself! When a woman passes an insulting remark about him and his inflamed thoughts send her into a spasm his horrified, confused con-fused reaction surpasses ours. Two sharp-eyed spies shoot him with a tranquilizer dart and deliver him to Dr. Ruth. From that point on, Vale is like us, a student, learning about the Scanner world their powers, their underworld under-world warfare, and their dependence on Dr. Ruth's drug, ephemerol, to cut off their telepathy and shut out the voices. Jennifer O'Neill leads the cast in billing, but it becomes obvious she is being used as a "big name" to promote Jones (the fighter whose specialty is taking dives), and director Martin Ritt, who shows the redlight sidewalks and flea-pit beer joints with often bitter clarity. They're hitching their way from busted dreams in Mobil, Alabama to new hopes in Los Angeles, learning learn-ing to love each other between punchy run-ins with the usual characters horny (Ditty Resort center Monday through Saturday from 9 p.m. to 1 :30 a.m. There's a $2 cover charge. On Sunday at 8 p.m., you can challenge the mvciuiniciil bronco bull. Royce's at the Holiday Inn will present singer Debbie Boyd and her piano and guitar back-up Friday and Saturday from 8 p.m. to midnight. Tom Distad will be singing and playing guitar at Adolph's restaurant on the Park City Golf Course Wednesday Wed-nesday through Sunday from 7:30-10:30 p.m. If you like Neil Diamond's music, you'll like John Hanson, playing at the Grub Steak restaurant in Prospector Prospec-tor Square Monday through onJJD 3 - O CD - Sesame Street (D-Hazel 7:30 A.M. 93 - Green Acrea 3D - Bewitched :00A.M. O GD - Romper Room CJ CD - Over Eaey GD-700 CMS 39 -Movie O-Varied Programs - Holtywood Squares this Canadian-produced film. Patrick McGoohan's biting, eccentric acting lends itself superbly to his role as the resident "mad doctor" of the film, and Michael Ironside Iron-side gets our vote as the scariest villain of the new year even when he manages man-ages to grab fleeting moments of sympathy. Steven Lack as Cameron is physically convincing, but stilted with his dialogue. The only thing that saves him is that he's supposed to sound like a blank. Writer-director David Cronenberg displays his usual talent for summoning up horror out of settings that somehow seem too sterilized or peaceful for it to exist there. His story is full of the kind of action that would appeal widely to audiences-car audiences-car chases, gun battles, and a "shoot-out" between Revok Re-vok and Cameron. To the horror freaks who follow his films, Cronenberg is well-known for creating a series of nauseating monsters mon-sters with disturbing psycho-sexual psycho-sexual overtones. In "They Came From Within," the residents of an apartment house turned into sex maniacs, man-iacs, infected by a greasy little phallus-shaped parasite. para-site. Having alluded to fears of masculine sexuality, he did the same for the feminine side in "Rabid," where a super-rabies plague was ini sailors, a self -espoused "pin-ball "pin-ball wizard," and a cruel madam. The emotions they squeeze from these encounters en-counters are what you'd expect slapstick guffaws, some extra salty tears and u rliiii-up-iacc-tlu'-luture ending. end-ing. Meanwhile, the still, small voice asks us, "Hey!" What about a movie with two folks who fall in love while working for a living." Mv2 Thursday from 8-10 p.m., and Friday and Saturday from 8-11 p.m. Justin Alison will play at Sneakers in the Racquet Club in Park Meadows during the Thursday fashion show from 12:30-1:30 p.m., and at the Sunday Brunch from 12:30-2 p.m. Kat and Mickey and the Hometown Band will keep things lively at the Cowboy Bar at the top of Main Street seven nights a week from 9 p.m. until closing. Oregon Bound will be playing pop and country tunes at Jody's on Main Street Thursday through Saturday from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. There's a $1 cover charge on weekdays, and $2 on weekends. In Park City: 8:30 A.M. OGD-Alice Q CD - Figuring It Out 33) - $50,000 Pyramid 9:00 A.M. O CD- Las Vegaa Gambit O GD-Donahue O GD - Price la Right O CD - 3-2-1, Contact 33) - Mike Douglaa Show 9:30 A.M. O CD - Blockbuster O CD - Electric Company 10:00 A.M. OGD -Wheel of Fortune O GD - Family Feud OGD-Aa the World Turna 0 CD - Sesame Street GD - Roaa Bagiey 39 - Freeman Reports 32) - Take 2 33 - Donahue 10:30 A.M. OCD-PaaawordPtua CJGD- Ryan's Hope tiated by a woman (porn star Marilyn Chambers) who harbored a parasite that stung victims by dashing out from a wound in her armpit. (Don't look at me, folks! I don't write 'em! I just review 'em!) It's been a toss-up in the past to say whether Cronen-berg's Cronen-berg's films are gripping in their Freudian fear or hilariously hilar-iously nauseating. In "Scan Coffee House coming to Kimball Art Center Three folk-rock musicians will bring their unique styles to the Kimball Art Center's Coffee House this Sunday at 8p.m. The Coffee House, now a tradition at the Art Center, was established as a means of exposing Park City audiences audi-ences to performers in the pleasant atmosphere of the center's main gallery. Candlelit Can-dlelit tables are placed throughout the space, and the gallery is darkened with the exception of a spotlight on the performances. The featured artists for this week's Coffee House are Alan Poole, Justin Alison, and Andrea. All three artists Trivia - - - Petie Ellsworth Petie Ellsworth will eat it up at the Main Street Deli-Market this week for correctly answering the Trivia Test with these important names: Burt Reynolds starred in the little-known movies "Skullduggery," and "Rough Cut;" Elton John and Neil Sedaka paired up and sang "Bad Blood;" and Snowbird was defeated by the Park City Silver Kings in the Battle of the Resorts hockey game a few weeks back. You can win a lunch at the deli, just like Petie, if you're the first person to correctly answer this week's Trivia Test. Submit your answers to The Newspaper at 419 Main Street, or call 649-9014 by noon Tuesday. This week's questions are: 1. Who played "Boy" in the Tarzan movies of the 1940s? 2. What TV series from the early '60s starred Jack Lord as a rodeo rider? 3. What play will Park High be presenting March 19? O .nnoncBS 0 is received on channel 9 O is received on channel 11 O is received on channel 13 O is received on channel 17 11:00 A.M. O CD - Hour Magazine O GD - All My Children 0 CD - The Young and the Reatleaa O CD - Over Easy 39 33) - Movie 11:30 A.M. O CD - Dick Cavett Show CD - Varied Programs 12:00 P.M. Q CD O CD-News O CD - One Life to Live O CD - Varied Programs 32) - CNN Afternoon 12:30 P.M. O CD - Mary Tyler Moore Q GD - One Day at a Time 1:00 P.M. Q CD -Texas O GD-General Hospital O GD - Guiding Light (3D - 700 Club 39 - Super Station Funtlme 33) - Love Am-Style horrors ners," he has made possibly his best film, with his most subtly unsettling concept. Of course, it's not for people who will shrink from the violence of the Scanner attacks (spontaneous combustion, com-bustion, blood vessels flaring and bursting). Keep one thing in mind, however. Compared to Cronenberg's other work, this stuff is practically PG. have performed in the Park City area. For Alan Poole and Justin Alison, the Art Center engagement marks the first in over a year that the two will perform together. Poole has just returned from performances in and around Los Angeles. Alison is currently singing at Sneakers and the Claim-jumper Claim-jumper in Park City. Tickets for the Coffee House are $2.50 for Kimball Art Center members and $3 for nonmenbers. As always, audiences are encouraged to bring their own refreshments. refresh-ments. The Art Center will provide coffee. Test 1:30 P.M. GD - Showtime 39 - Space Giants 3D - Bewitched 2:00 P.M. OGD-Another World O GD - Edge of Night O CD - Movie 39 - Fllntstones 33) - Bugs Bunny & Friends 2:30 P.M. O GD - Love Boat 3D - Varied Programs O - Brady Bunch - Scooby Doo 3:00 P.M. O CD - Days of Our Lives O (2 CD - Varied Programs 35 -1 Love Lucy 31 - Fllntstones 3:30 P.M. O GD - All In tne Family O CD - Vllic Alegre CD - Ross Bagiey 39 - Beverly Hillbillies The Newspaper Thursday. March 19, 1981 Page B5 CUSTOM PARK MEADOWS HOME W 0 ' I; 3 bedrooms, 2'A baths, den, Jenn-Aire, greenhouse, dining room, 2 car garage, large lot, hugh master bedroom, $159,500 with $82,000 assumable at low interest. By owner 649-8375 fill THE IRISH CAMEL LTD. Serving hot Mexican dishes, juicy burgers, and crisp salads. (Reasonably priced) A most unique atmosphere Try one of our frozen Lime or Strawberry Margarita set-ups. So don't forget the ol booze. 5-10 nightly 434 Main St. 649-6645 Come early You'll be sure to get a table. revMlV 1st Annual Prospector Athletic Club San Juan River Trip Adventure!!! April 13 to 17 Done by O.A.R.S. (Outdoor Adventure River Specialists) Cost: $355.00 per person $50.00 Discount For Club Member Expires 71581 Exciting FREE River Slide Show and refreshments presented by Deb Petersen March 18 & 23 at 8.00 p.m. in the Lounge at the Prospector Athletic Club 3D - I Dream of Jeannie 4:00 P.M. O CD - Bonanza O GD - Brady Bunch O CD - Welcome Back Hotter O CD - Sesame Street CD - Varied Programs 39 - Carol Burnett and Friends 3D - Sports and Newsworld 3D - Good Times 4:30 P.M. O GD - Carol Burnett and Friends 0 CD - Barney Miller 39 - Bob Newhart 3D - Welcome Back Kotter 5:00 P.M. O CD - NBC News O GD - News QCD-MASH O CD - Mister Rogers Neighborhood 39 - All in the Family 3D - Moneyline 3D - Barney Miller 5:30 P.M. O CD - Happy Days O CD - ABC News O CD - CBS News O CD - Electric Company 39 - Sanford and Son 3D - Sports Tonight 3D - Carol Burnett Show 5:45 P.M. 3D - TV Tonight THURSDAY e: 31981 6:00 A.M. 3D - NCAA Gymnastlc's: EIGL Conference Championship ?35i I 1 PROSPECTOR ATHLETIC CLUB 649-6670 8:00 A.M. ; C ft iiniiir. fti . n : j - muvic: ine rajama Game' 9:00 A.M. 3D - WCT Tennis from Brussels. Belaium 11:00 A.M. 1 39 - MOVIE: 'Kangaroo' 33) - MOVIE: 'Honey Pot' 12:00 P.M. 33) - Top Rank Boxing from Totowa 1:30 P.M. CD - MOVIE: 'Look Bffck In Anger' 2:00 P.M. O CD - MOVIE: 'Code Name: Red Roses' 5:00 P.M. 33) - National Collegiate Basketball Championship Teams TBA 6:00 P.M. O CD O CD - News CD - MOVIE: 'Double McGuffin' O CD - Joker's Wild CD - MOVIE: The Hideaways' O CD - Over Easy GD - Missionaries in Action 39 - MOVIE: 'The Deadly Game' 3D- Primenews120 3D - MOVIE: The Daring Dobermans' 6:30 P.M. O CD - P.M. Magazine O CD - Family Feud O CD - Tic Tac Dough O CD - MacNeil-Lehrer Rept CD - Sound of Trumpets 7:00 P.M. O CD - Buck Rogers O CD - Mork and Mlndy O CD - Wartons O CD - Sneak Previews CD - 700 Club 3D - National Collegiate Basketball Championship Teams TBA |