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Show I Page B6 Wednesday, November 25, 1981 The Newspaper by Rick Brough LEARNING TO SKI? Or Wishing to Polish your Technique? These two Park City programs -available for beginners through expert skiers, are super values and treasured Christmas gifts. And all include Park City lift passes. YOUNGTIMERS - A six week program starting in January for youngsters 7 to 15. Includes meals and is available with transportation to and from Salt lake. Cost with transportation -$136.50. Without transportation -$118.00 LEARN TO RACE - A ten-week program, starting in January for aggressive youngsters 12 and under. Includes 10 races. $280 ($200 for season pass holders). For information, call or write Park City Ski School, P.O. Box 39, Park City, Utah 84060. 649-81 1 1 . Attn.: Sue Erickson. Call for reservations- ..TOLL FREE 800-453-3850 r Opening soon- philippe' restaurant-at restaurant-at the Gopperbottom Inn. DON Interior Design, Residential and Commercial, Furniture Packages Park Meadows Plaza Building, Park City, Utah. Enjoy Suite Relaxation at the 1637 Shortline Road, Park BRADY ASSOCIATES SKI SCHOOL City across from the available starting at $5,000. Box 1678 801-649-4044 wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww If v; Jay Williams Jay "Lightnin"' Williams was as quick as, well, a bolt of lightning with the correct answers to last week's Trivia Test. He knew that Herve Villechaize of "Fantasy Island" played a villain in "The Man with the Golden Gun"; that "A Boy Named Sue" was given the name because his father "knew you'd have to get tough or die"; and that Brooke Shields recently sued to stop publication of her childhood nudie photos. For that flash of brilliance, Lightnin' has won a free lunch compliments of the Main Street Deli. You too can win a free lunch by being the first person to show how hungry you are by correctly answering this weeks questions. Drop your answers an-swers off at The Newspaper at 419 Main Street, or call 649-9014 by noon Tuesday. This week's questions are: 1. What duet sang "You Don't Bring Me Flowers"? 2. What's the name of the middle-aged motorcycle motor-cycle gang that pursued Clint Eastwood in the "Every Which Way" movies? 3. In what town is the Sunn going to shine now? II II Park - And in Utah 801 Park City Resort entrance. lean your ll ' ' iSKSiiiii mmmm City, Utah. - 649 - 51 1 1. jeans on us. A Classic Recommended Good double-feature double-feature material Time-killer For masochists k ony Vz The Rocky Horror Picture Show: A lot of films have cult fallowings, but "Rocky Horror" has practically turned its audience into Moonies. RH's audiences are known for their unredeemed in-house hysteria dancing along to the musical numbers, num-bers, yelling out lines of dialogue, or throwing toast and toilet tissue. Under those conditions, it becomes impossible to watch the movie and appreciate whatever merits there are in this English-made mix of horror-movie homages, bizarre humor and sexual out-raceousness. This weekend's showing at the Holiday Village Cinema, therefore, is a rare opportunity oppor-tunity to catch "Rocky" with a good chance of avoiding the cultists. The plot is about two smitten smit-ten all-American kids, Brad and Janet (Barry Bostwick, Susan Sarandon), who blunder blun-der into the classic movie situation their car stalls in a storm, just near a spooky old house. But the deceptively decep-tively familiar maniacs in Dr. Frankenfurter's house threaten their sexual smugness, not their lives, as Brad and Janet lose their clothes, their inhibitions and (almost) their sanity. The earliest part of the film is the freshest, jumping from one choice bit of insanity in-sanity to another. The opening tune, over the credits, is replete with references to horror movies for trivia buffs. Brad and Janet's love song is accom Weekend Egyptian Weegiv' lprTlffefe's8 Mn way to nnd a tneme for a movie being shown this weekend at the Egyptian Theatre. Unless you want to call it a "World War II Hobbit Comedian involved in a Science-Fiction Romance" Festival. This week's movies include "Lenny," "Charly" and "Patton." The weekend kicks off, however, with a Thanksgiving Thanks-giving presentation of "Lord of the Rings," a cartoon version of the saga of Middle Earth by animator Ralph Bakshi. He's the fellow who brought a whole new style to animation with his X-rated cartoon "Fritz the Cat." Only part of the famous Tolkien tale is shown in this 1978 film. The voices are supplied by relatively unknown un-known British actors, but among them, you might recognize John "Elephant Man" Hurt. "Lord" will be shown at 12 and 3 p.m. on Friday. Admission is $1.50 for children child-ren of members of Park City Performances, and $2.50 for non-members. On that same Friday, the featured night film is "Lenny," the story of the stand-up comedian whose "sick," offensive, satirical humor blazed the way for the new wave of comics like Richard Pryor and George Carlin. Dustin Hoffman earned yet another Oscar nomination for his portrayal .of Lenny Bruce, and Valerie ratp eccyrji? ecr-cytaap ftccvii? ecr-cvcsscc-cs-ss cw5 cr" panied by an elderly stony-faced stony-faced couple out of Grant Wood. The beefy singer Meatloaf abruptly crashes Dr. Furter's party, with a sizzling rock number sung from his motorcycle. And just as abruptly he sputters out, dispatched offscreen by the doctor's ax. And above all, of course, is "The Time Warp," a demented "dance-craze" number which includes both the insane and the banal (a dance chart is helpfully included in-cluded for the song.) . , Tim Curry as Frankenfur-ter", Frankenfur-ter", the transvestite from the planet Transylvania, is outrageously perfect for the picture, but he monopolizes the screen so much you become bored with this drag queen-cum-mad scientist, and begin to wish the film, was shortened by about a half -hour. Jim Sharman's direction is energetic, and Richard O'Brien (who co-wrote, co-wrote, composed the songs, and plays the servant Riff Raff) isdazzling. . V2 The Frisco Kid This 1979 comedy-drama just about exhausts our patience with all the tired bits it uses. Gene Wilder, as a Polish rabbi sent to the American Wild West to establish a church in ; San Francisco, is supposed to be sweetly naive. Actually, he's annoying , and dumb. Harrison Ford is an outlaw who, against his better judgment, takes the rabbi under his wing. In other words, he's playing the same kind of reluctant-guardian-angel part he always gets in non-"Star Wars' pictures. The film plays up the cultural differences between the two buddies. (Wilder won't flee a posse on his horse because his religion forbids for-bids riding on Sunday.) But there isn't enough honor or humanity here to overcome movies at are mixed Perrine playedrft?i &-$perr wife, Honey. Director Bob Fosse tried to show Bruce as a groundbreaking ground-breaking rebel who fought the taboos of his day. In one of his more famous routines, Lenny played with epithets like "nigger" and "kike" to show they were only words, and could be defused. Fosse told Lenny's story by intercutting inter-cutting it with one of his comic monologues, and an interviewer asking people about the late Lenny. Incidentally, In-cidentally, a reference to this picture also crops up in "All That Jazz" where the hero (Roy Scheider) is directing a movie about a comedian. "Lenny" will be shown at 7 and 9:30 p.m. Hoffman did not win his Oscar for "Lenny," but Cliff Robertson had better luck with the 1968 movie, "Charly," "Char-ly," which shows on Saturday. Satur-day. Robertson plays a mentally mental-ly retarded man working in a bakery a fellow so limited in his intelligence that he can't even beat a rat in a maze test. But female scientist scien-tist Claire Bloom persuades him to go through an operation that will increase his intelligence, and he finds himself having to adapt to new and strange capabilities. capabil-ities. ; As Charly becomes smarter, smar-ter, he goes through a hippie , phase, and then a period as a Hell's Angel. Finally he becomes an overnight genius, lecturing to scien- 54" 99 e&J&43 CTCSHfi tTCSin tfRfc, Calico Mes26e"e5 849-7580 jj the - obviousness of the premise. Director Robert Aldrich is known primarily for action films, so it's not surprising the picture has grim moments, and that Aldrich elicits the best performances from his heavies George DiCenzo, Ramon Bieri, and the incomparably malignant William Smith. Richard Pryor Live In Concert This is undiluted Pryor not strained through any of the bad sit-com humor in his movies like "In God We Trust." In a 1979 Long Beach, Calif, concert run, Pryor talks with sometimes scathing hilarity, about nature, survival, his weird pets, the time he shot his wife's car to keep her from taking it ("The motor fell out. It said, 'F-kit!"'),and the different way men and women relieve themselves in the woods. , Pryor has called Bill Cosby an influence, and you can see it in the way he uses his droll style and voices and sound effects for laughs. But the material is a lot tougher than Cosby's, and the street vocabulary is more merciless. mer-ciless. (There is more blue language here per capita than any movie in the last 10 years ... delicate ears should beware.) The re-enactment of his heart attack, for instance, in-stance, is more scary than it is funny. Pryor's funniest bits revolve around his voices the intimidated white dude, Macho Man, and even the pain in his side after he's been jogging: "Hello. I'm going to fk around with your body for an hour or so. I'll be going from side to side, then from your groin down to your ankles. When you are dead, I will stop." Some of the premises fall t!at, but Pryor still puts on an hilarious concert. bag Aists rlftf falling in love with Bloom. At this point he discovers the awful truth -his condition is only temporary tem-porary and he will soon revert to an idiot state. Robertson had played the role on TV, and had bought the film rights, determined ' to do the story on the big screen. His commitment paid off with a Best Actor Oscar for 1968. The film plays Saturday at 7 and 9:30 p.m. The final film is "Patton" this Sunday. This 1970 film aroused controversy for depicting de-picting General George Patton Pat-ton (George C. Scott) as a magnificent barbarian who cut through the hypocritical pettifoggery of diplomats and other military men. Karl Maiden co-starred as the more level-headed Omar Bradley. The film won Best Picture that year for a host of memorable scenes: the vultures vul-tures swooping over an African plain full of dead soldiers; Patton slapping a battle-fatigued soldier or promising to "kick Hitler in the ass"; and especially, his graduation speech to a group of young soldiers in front of an enormous American flag. George C. Scott proved to be a rebel himself, by declining his Oscar for Best Actor. . The film will play once at 7 p.m. Prices for all three night films are $2.50 for members and $3.50 for non-members. VELOURS I 54" and 60" wide. I and 60" wide, arnel nylon blend. 40 off |