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Show The Newspaper Thursday, June 18, 1981 PageB7 nniiBlkie by Rick Brough A Classic Recommended Good double feature material Time-killer For masoehists only Caveman You'll have a fun time at this one, as long as you can accept (a) Ringo Starr as the only Neanderthal Man who grunts with a Liverpool accent; ac-cent; (b) Barbara Bach as a spoiled cave bunny; and (c) a tyrannoussourus who reminds one vaguely of Truman Capote. Ringo plays Atouk, the intelligent weakling weak-ling who is thrown out of his tribe. He and buddy Dennis Den-nis Quaid form a tribe of misfits and Ringo's leadership leader-ship proves to be one small step for man, one giant pratfall prat-fall for mankind, as the tribe discovers fire, the art of making weapons, reggae music, and the three-minute egg...; Director and co-writer Carl Gottlieb has made a fine low comedy that you almost forgive for the ' predictable plot and raunchy gags (the tribe's reaction after af-ter marching into the world's largest cowpile ! ) , and very old jokes (some, indeed, have been found carved into the walls of ice caves in France). ,. Ringo's on-and-off movie career finally may catch fire with his portrayal of a clum sy, but undaunted Cro-Magnon Cro-Magnon hero. The entire case is hilarious, especially Jack Gilford's blind old frump, pint-sized Corky Hubbert, and king-sized football star John Matuszak as the heavy whose brawn is exceeded only by his stupidity. (He heaves huge boulders at his enemies, but forgets to let go. ) Nighthawks Sylvester Stallone in a dress".' Don't get tne wrong idea. He's Deke DaSilva, the toughest cop on the New York decoy squad, and he'll punch your lights out if you blink the wrong way. He and his partner, Billy Dee Williams, Will-iams, have just been assigned as-signed to a special squad hunting an international terrorist ter-rorist and an old bomb maker named Wulfgar (Rut-ger (Rut-ger Hauer) who is on the prowl in New York. Wulfgar is supposed to be a cunning fellow, but he leaves an unlocked trunk full of small weapons behind in his apartment for his girl to find. (She soon becomes his ex-girl.) ex-girl.) Fortunately for him the cops are even dumber; they're so busy chattering into their walkie-talkies at a UN reception thus. Wulfgar and his female accomplice (Persis Khamblatta) have no trouble taking a group of diplomats hostage aboard an aerial tram. The picture is juiced up on delightfully dumb melodrama. melo-drama. The obligatory chase on foot covers half the dis tance of the Boston Marathon. Mara-thon. Stallone, who once was considered a new Brando, now seems to have graduated gradu-ated from the Caveman school of acting. (To show sorrow, they teach, grunt in a lower register.) Billy Dee Williams is funky but superfluous, super-fluous, Lindsay Wagner, in a paltry role as Stallone's wile, acts like she's working off the last couple days of an old contract to Universal; and Persis Khambatta (the bald navigator of "Star Trek") is around to show us what she looks like with hair. The most remarkable actor ac-tor in' the film is Rutger Hauer, playing a thoroughly vile, vulpine character who thrives on headlines about his exploits. He's like Dra-cula Dra-cula come to the Big Apple. Vz Bullitt Even now, the name is synonymous with high speed. Sure, the plot isn't much some convoluted story about a syndicate kingpin trying to smuggle himself out of the country. And if you care, Robert Vaughn and Robert Duvall are glimpsed in small parts. And there's even a downbeat "What-does-it-all-mean" ending. end-ing. All that really matters is steve McQueen, playing the hero in his best straight-down-the-line fashion and running the villains to heel through hospital corridors, under the belly of a huge airliner, and especially through the San Francisco streets, in a glorious but ludicrous chase scene that would in real life have wiped out a quarter of the city's population. 12 Bonnie and Clyde They're young, beautiful, in love and they kill people. Arthur Penn's portrait of the legendary '30s duo naive, numbly blood-thirsty was attractive in its nihilism to a '60s generation looking for anti-heroes, which romanticized roman-ticized Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow to a degree the movie might never have intended. Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty rarely have equaled themselves as the young lovers who got tired of banging their heads against the brick wall of Depression America and just decided to charge at it at 60 per. Parkites to show at Utah Arts Festival Lynn Dluhos and the Park City Players of Park City have been selected to participate in the 1981 Utah Arts Festival. This annual, statewide festival, celebrating the arts and the beginning of summer, is now in its fifth year and will be held June 24-28 on the plazas of.the Salt Palace Center in downtown45alt Lake City.''1 ; i Lynn Dluhos is a visual artist ar-tist and will be displaying her work in booth No. 10 on the plaza of Symphony Hall. The Park City Players will be performing on the Main Stage at 12:30, Sunday, June 28. During the five-day Festival, over 80 performance groups and more than 70 artists and craftsmen will combine with demonstrating craftsmen, ethnic food ven dors, and a Children's Art Yard to help celebrate the great diversity of artistic expression. Two outdoor stages will feature non-stop performances performan-ces from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily. Feature performance groups include the Utah Svmphony, The Repertory Dance Theatre, and Ballet 1 West? Bluegrass; jazz, 'rock, modern dance, theatre, and other performing art forms will all be represented during the length of , the Festival. Visual artists will display their wares in specially constructed con-structed booths on the plaza of Symphony Hall, and Demonstrating Craftsmen will give mini-classes in their craft on the grass above the Bistro Stage. The Children's Art Yard will feature activities that are especially designed for children and their parents. As part of the activities, children will help build a dinosaur, and decorate the Utah Arts Festival fifth birthday birth-day cake. In addition, they can participate in special performances by ethnic and traditional artists held on the stage in the "yard." A wide variety of traditional and ethnic food will be served throughout the five day Festival. Sidewalk cafes will be located adjacent ad-jacent to the two main performance per-formance stages and the Children's Art Yard. Poetry and fiction readings will lake place several times daily: in the main gallery of the Salt Lake Art Center. 1 1 r j : ,-J Restaurant Seafood Beef SPECIAL THIS WEEK Thursday June 1 8 Sunday June 2 1 st 8 oz. top Sirloin Steak dinner $6.95 Under Penn's direction and the script by David Newman and Robert Benton, the exhilaration of bank robbing (to the tune of "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" Break-down" yet) descends sicken-ingly sicken-ingly into death, nerve-rip-ping violence, and an ever-increasing ever-increasing feeling of doom. Estelle Parsons earned an Oscar for her role as the hysterical Blanche Barrow, and 13 years later, writer Benton would win kudos for his direction of "Kramer vs. Kramer." Among many other landmarks, the film brought Gene Hackman to public attention; featured Denver "Mad Jack" Pyle in one of his finest performances perfor-mances as a vengeful sheriff who brought down B and C; and also included, in his film debut, a young fellow by the name of Gene Wilder. 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