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Show The Newspaper Thursday, August 27, 1981 Page BS A Classic Recommended Good double feature material Ti ne-killer For masochists only y2 Chu Chu and the Philly Fash From the minute the picture starts, you might as well have a street vendor out on screen yelling, "ooks Plenty kooks for ale today!" Alan Arkin is the Philly Flash, a daffyirelief pitcher-turned-bum .whose last good year was 1956. Carol Burnett is the kookv Chu Chu, a second-rate dance teacher and third-rate Carmen Car-men Miranda imitator. These two meet when they simultaneously stumble on a mysterious brown briefcase lost by the zany villains (spies? gangsters? Who knows?) which begins a madcap chase through San Francisco, which also attracts at-tracts the local Fagin (Jack Warden) and his gang of overage urchins, including loony Ruty Buzzi. It's just too, too hilarious for adjectives. But out of the predictable humor about adorable dimwits a little heart, a lot of slapstick the stars mine a few nuggets of hilarity Arkin with his poker-faced hysteria, and Burnett, mimicking Carman Miranda's trill like a cicada on speed, and improvising Rube Goldberg schemes to return the briefcase for cash. (She arranges a drop in the park through her neighbor, the hot dog man but on the day of the rendezvous, finds that every hot dog man in California is there hawking his wares). Like tlw wieners, there is a bit- too much pumped-up zaniness in the picture, aimed at too shrill a level. An American Werewolf in London A horror-comedyjkthat switches from yocks toy owls (and other moods) with as much magic as you'd witness wit-ness watching the Aero's hands grow into paw his face balloon into a snout. The film opens vath a gigantic werewolf attacking two young Americans on the English moors. Jack (Griffin Dunne) is ripped to Jpeces, and David (David Naugh-ton) Naugh-ton) is bitten before some . local villagers shoot the IMMiM - -f Sr t - . "Sir Robin Svoboda Robin Svoboda was the first person to correctly correct-ly answer last week's Trivia Test, and for that incredible recall; has won a free lunch at the Main Street Deli-Market. Robin knew that Hogan's Heroes were locked up in Stalag 13; that Maureen O'Sullivan was the first Jane to Johnny Weissmuller's Tarzan; and that Utah Powerfind Light on Main Street was used in the filming of a public-service commer-cIbI commer-cIbI Iflst week. Are you hungry for a free lunch? Just be the first person to come up with the right answers to this week's brain-teasing questions. Stop by The Newspaper at 41ST Main Street or call 649-9014 by noon Tuesday. This week's questions are extra-tough, but with all the movie people in town, somebody ought to know! 1. Who played the title role in the serial, The Purple Monster Strikes?" 2. What actor (now a regular on MASH) was proposed as a regular character in the pilot of "Charlie's Angels," but wasn't carried over to the series? 3 Who makes up the all-star Cockney Quartet in the forthcoming Park City Performances production of "My Fair Lady?" by Hick IS wolfman. We all know what to expect, but writer director John Landis has added a new wrinkle to the werewolf legend: its victims live in limbo until the monster's bloodline is wiped out. So the recuperating David receives periodic visits from the dead, mutilated Jack, who reminisces about the girls who cried at his funeral, and advises his werewolf friend to kill himself before the next full moon in the same friendly, earnest tones he'd use if David had to improve his grades or had been dropped from the basketball team. "I'm sorry if I'm upsetting you, David," says the rotting corpse in the easy chair, "but I'm not having a nice time." Landis invites us to laugh at the situation, to consider the embarassing dilemmas of lycanthropy. (What do you do when your transformation leaves you naked at sunrise in some park?) But oddly the laughs only make the about-face about-face to bloody horror more chilling. The transformation, like "The Howling," is a bone-snapping bone-snapping wonder, but we're not given a chance to see the full figure wolf. Instead, it looks like a mounted animal head pushed by stagehands. And the ending for Landis' marvelous chiller is disappointing dis-appointing a Piccadilly Circus fender-bender reminiscent remi-niscent of his last film, "The Blues Brothers." Stripes Bill Murray, with his put-on personality, should be running a carnival midway instead of an Army platoon. Which is why it makes sense to throw him in the military, as an aimless cabbie who joins, dragging his footloose buddy (Harold Ramis) with him, to put some purpose in his life. He promptly becomes be-comes a headache for his sergeant (Warren Oates), a heart-throb for the female MP (P.J. Soles) and a hero for rescuing his buddies during European maneuvers. maneu-vers. (All it takes is a little invasion of Czechoslovakia ! ) Murray's personality excuses ex-cuses many faults: the gag situation that verges on World War III; a gratuitous mud-wrestling sequence, and the picture's blissful apathy toward its original problem, namely, how is Murray going to get his life back together? "Stripes" is ; v 'X j r J-l rough r t i i v i fn j hp 'fl I ! I : Carol Burnett is a Carmen Miranda-inspired one-man band involved with Alan Arkin.m a down-at-the-heels baseball player in the Melvin Simon Production of "Chu Chu and the Philly Flash." wonderful low-rank or just plain rank comedy. y2 The Blue Lagoon In re-release soon, this "all - organic - ingredients romance" swings wildly from one extreme to another. It titters a wee bit to much at the sexual exploration ex-ploration of two shipwrecked ship-wrecked children growing into adulthood. And in its serious mood the ostensibly osten-sibly sensual, sensitive exaltatio of natural love its all too obvious the artistry of Nestor Almen-dros' Almen-dros' photography is mainly being used to conceal those inconvenient anatomical parts that would shudder shud-der lower the picture's rating from R to X. Director Randal Kleiser and writer Douglas Day Stewart face a stern task in following their lovers from Developers support KAC Eleven Park City developers develop-ers have agreed to donate a $25 Kimball Art Center family membership for each new condominium or home sold. The memberships will be given to families as soon as they take possession of their new residences. Kimball Art Center staff and board members met with developers Aug. 18 at Paul Bickmore's home. The meeting, hosted by Mr. Bicknore and Vic Ayers, raised over $19,000 in pledges for the Art Center. The 11 developers have already agreed to sponsor 740 memberships. mem-berships. The developers involved in the Kimball Art Center's program are Vic Ayers, Rob Morris, Mike Doilney, Malcolm Mal-colm McQuoid, Charlie Wint-zer Wint-zer and Jack Davis. According to Carol Calder, development director for the Kimball Art Center, "We are very appreciative of the fact that developers are supportive suppor-tive of Kimball Art Center and our programs. I think it is wonderful that they are putting some of their profits back in the Park City community. I would like to see all of the developers in Park City support Kimball Art Center this way." .It I I ' innocence to unwitting parenthood. Within the span of two hours and 15 minutes, they fail. 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