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Show The Newspaper Thursday, July 30, 1981 PageB7 by Hick SSrough August Convention Cast contention and Nisitors bureau I . ; I rSta ' ' hk Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) comes face to face with his greatest fear a snake while trapped in the Well of the Souls in "Raiders of the Lost Ark." it A Classic Recommended Good double feature material Time-killer For masochists only to get us salivating already for the next sequel. Raiders of the Lost Ark A masterful escapist adventurefilled ad-venturefilled with spiders, pits of death, savage headhunters, sadistic, cackling Nazis, raging fires, cave-ins, curses, gargoyles, 10-story cliffs, and more snakes than you've ever seen in your life. (And wouldn't you know snakes are the one phobia that afflicts the otherwise - fearless archaeologist archae-ologist hero, Indiana Jones.) George Lucas' story, set in 1936, throws Jones (Harrison Ford) into a race with the Nazis and an unscrupulous French explorer, Bellocq (Paul Freeman), to find the Lost Ark of the Covenant the container where Moses was said to have kept the original Ten Imperial force of elephant , Commandments; - - Armed tine tanksjj introduces iteWH witb his trusty whip which : 1 has more uses than Batman's Bat-man's utility belt, he plans to Vi The Empire Strikes Back George Lucas, director Ir-vin Ir-vin Kershner and their crew have given us action, inventiveness, inven-tiveness, and high spirits, mixed with a new, somber tone that strikes our emotions at surprising depths. But the picture leaves us with three or four plot threads twisting slowly, slowly in the wind, (especially a shocking revelation about Luke and Darth Vader). The action swings from an asteroid-belt chase to a shoot-out with an ciiaraciers line iaiiuu Kalrissian, bounty hunter Babo Fett, and the '80s most popular guru, Yoda. Still, one is torn between admiration ad-miration for the picture's blooming air of maturity, and the way this tone is used foil Hitler's plans, 'how? "I don't know," he confesses. "I'm making this up as I go." Lucas, director Steven Spielberg, and co-writer Laurence Kasden have brilliantly revived the old movie serials, but have not been just content to copy their throttled-down action on a massive scale. They've told their story well, by fleshing it out with moments of romance, humor, and glimpses of melodramatic beauty the Egyptian sun, or a snake slithering through the heroine's discarded evening slipper. "Raiders," more than most fun movies, is brilliantly alive to the possbilities of its form. Superman II Part II is good enough to make I look like a mere prologue. The "continuing adventure" presents the Man of Steel with a dilemma made up in equal parts of love, pride, and duty. He reveals his identity to Lois Lane, and, in order to be her lover, renounces his super powers forever. But at what cost? He can't even defend himself from a lunchroom bully now, and, to his consternation, con-sternation, Earth has just been invaded by the three Krypton criminals escaped from the Phantom Zone the autocratic, spoiling-for-a-fight General Zod (Terence Stamp), Non, the hulk (Jack O'Halloran) and the delec-tably delec-tably deadly Ursa (Sarah Douglas). Three of the best villains any super-hero ever faced in movies or TV. Holy Adam West! How does Superman get out of this one? First of all, the movie cheats a bit in plot logic to restore Superman's powers. And then he leaps into a spectacular air fight over Metropolis. (It goes on a bit too long, like those interminable inter-minable Godzilla-smashes-Tokyo scenes.) But flaws aside, the movie is fine entertainment. soaring along more on characterizations than special spe-cial effects. The SupermanLois Super-manLois romance has more space to grow without the muddled tone and unen-thusiastic unen-thusiastic exposition of Superman I. Christopher Reeve's affably innocent Superman and Margot Kidder's Kid-der's gutsy Lois carry the picture. Gene Hackman is teamed with the super-villains, super-villains, and their darker evil is the perfect complement com-plement for his light-hearted Lex Luthor. A Part III is promised. But topping Part II will not be an easy promise to keep. 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I've visited every exhibit at the Park City Arts Festival and all you give me is light wine? All you every wanted in a wine and a little less. If you've a notion to taste the high country, then the new light wines are strictly prairie. In a society devoted to green bean figures, jogging, aerobics and racquetball, it is only natural to expect light wine; wine low in both calories and alcohol. Several weeks ago a press release for Sebastiani Light Country White came across my desk. The reference was lost on me; I assumed that Sam Sebastiani was simply pushing the limits of generic labeling. Then came the Los Hermanos Light Chablis and Light Rose. In fact, an avalanche of light wines is breaking loose, with Taylor California Cellars promoting a light chablis and Geyser Peak discussing light wine six packs yes aluminum cans! The production of a low calorie wine is rather simple; the grapes are picked early, prior to reaching full maturity. Exhibiting a lower sugar content, these grapes produce just over half the calories. A typical Sebastiani white, for example, boasts 85 calories per four-ounce glass, while the light white sports closer to 55 calories. As sugar reacts with yeast to produce carbon dioxide and alcohol, the end result is a wine displaying nine percent alcohol by volume, rather than the usual twelve percent. Major wineries have chosen to begin their low cal assault with white wines for two reasons. First, today's market is far stronger in white wine. This phenomenon is characteristic character-istic of a novice wine-drinking population; ten years from now, Americans probably will drink greater amounts of red wine as their palates mature. Secondly, red wines subjected subject-ed to the low cal treatment often taste like pop wines. The light wines should not be confused with the numerous "soft" wines on the market. San Martin, for example, produces a Soft Zinfandel. Here the grapes are picked early, but fermentation is also stopped early, resulting in a mildly sweet wine that has the typical number of calories, but is still lower in alcoholic content. These wines have been designed for people graduating from pop wines; they offer more body and are less sweet, though still lack full flavor. Flavor appears to be the key to light wines; they generally are inoffensive, yet lacking distinctive characteristics. They have been compared to watered down, mass production jug wines and the similarity is striking. If you have ever lingered over Chablis on the rocks, you have experienced the approximate taste. Sporting little, if any, nose, they lack body and do not linger on the palate at all. Aside from people wishing to lose weight, who will drink such a wine? Many producers are shooting for a wide market. It can, for example, follow a game of racquetball or tennis without upsetting the stomach. Several suggest it as the working person's wine, where two glasses at lunch still allow a return to work. Others suggest it as a sipping wine to carry you through long parties where people frequently drink too much. Some vineyards believe that veteran wine drinkers will call the drink their own. Its low sugar content makes for a dry wine, a wine that appeals to an educated palate. Why the appearance of light wines now? California state regulations dating back to 1934 prohibited the production of white table wine containing less than 10 alcohol, as well as red wines showing less than 14. Since federal law states only that the wines must contain between seven and 14 percent alcohol, California wineries petitioned to remove the state regulations. The petition was granted early in 1981 and hence the low cal wines emerged. In addition, the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and prohibited the wineries from using the label "light." Consequently, Coca-Cola, owner of the Wine Spectrum, sued the agency and forced the prohibition to be dropped. Within several months, the label "light" mushroomed across the white bottles of America. To this writer's thinking, the development of light wines may have both positive and negative effects. On the positive side, the light wines appeal to a mass taste, much as do the continuous production jug wines. If the general public embraces this new generation of wine, the premium varieties will be under less pressure to homogenize. If the light wines meet the mass demand, then the profits can be used to further the development of special native grapes and reserve bottlings. On the negative side, the use of generic labeling is certainly a step backward. Simply because a wine is low in calories, an excuse does exist to use the label "white." Varietal names should be used so the drinker knows what he or she is drinking. For many years, Sebastiani has on a leader in oenology. 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