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Show NT1 Pge B2 Wednesday, November 24, 1982 Park City News by Rick Brough Experience Unique Dining Join us in the Patio Greenhouse for Breakfast, Lunch or Dinner. Featuring Park City's Most Original Menu. As well as delicious Lunch, Dinner and Dessert Specialities. Monday-Thursday 8 am - 3 pm Friday - Sunday 8 am -10 pm i THE ESTABLISHMENT ' 317 MAIN STREET PARK CITY VISA & MASTER CHARGE 649-8284 New SUMMIT SUPER CHECKING Pays 1 HIGH YIELD COMPLETE LIQUIDITY Write checks at any time for any amount. k SAFETY TJ ACCT C CD EE Effective October 21, 1982. Rate can change daily, interest earned is reinvested. The first $1,500 is held in an interest bearing checking account, earning 5 '! the current maximum allowable by law, and is fully ESLE A Open Your SUMMIT SUPER CHECKING Today w 'Creepshow' recalls '50s horror , A Classic Recommended Good double-feature double-feature material Time-killer For masochists only Creepshow "Creepshow" looks like the first draft for a film. And indeed, that's what it is. Best-selling author Stephen King first teamed up with director George Romero to make a film based on King's novel "The Stand." But first they wanted want-ed to see if they could work with each other. So their collaboration in this picture is a qausi-experiment. "Creepshow" does not demand the most from either artist. It doesn't have King's well-timed horror or his intriguing characterizations. charac-terizations. The film is missing Romero's special humor and his raw, but sociologically-pointed horror themes. Instead the two have turned back to the simple sim-ple monster tales that first captivated them, in the E. C. comics of the early 1950s. The comic books were the first medium to bring today's gory horror to the public. The E. C. tales, luridly plotted and written, 12 0 SUMMIT SUPER CHECKING pays more than money market funds. Your funds will be protected by a combination of FSLIC insurance and Government Agency securities. 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Naturally, this kind of material touched off a minor witch hunt, with congressmen and psychologists crying that the horror comics were leading kids to murder and immorality. im-morality. (The E. C. horror comics went out of business, and publisher William Gaines turned his energies to his humor magazine, "Mad," which serves him well to this day.) The movie's prologue is inspired by those controversial controver-sial days when the horrors were x-rated. We see an angry father storm into his kids room, grab his horror comic and throw it out the window. He doesn't want his kid's mind influenced by that trash, but it looks like Dad is a little late, because the youngster (played by Ben King, the novelist's son) already has his room festooned with horror masks and model monsters. EQUAL HOUSES LENDER Outside, the wind whips the pages of the comic past our eyes, and as the camera focuses in, the five stories come to life... Fortunately, each tale has at lease one actor who contributes con-tributes a ripely overdrawn performance. In "Father's Day" we get Carrie Nye (Dick Cavett's wife) dripping drip-ping snootiness as the scion of a rich family that gathers every year to celebrate the murder of the family patriarch. It seems that some years back, bohemian Aunt Bedelia &Viveca Lind-ford) Lind-ford) got fed up and brained the old coot with an ashtray. Unfortunately for them, the grandfather's slimy corpse decides to join this year's celebration. Leslie Nielsen is subtly hammy in the story, "Something to Tide you Over," as a jealous husband who buries his wife (Gaylen Ross) and her lover (Ted Danson) up to their necks in sand and lets the incoming ocean tide finish them off. It's no surprise to the audience when two waterlogged water-logged ghouls pay a visit on Nielsen. Fritz Weaver gives a nicely hysterical tongue-in-cheek performance in "The Crate." He's a college professor who finds a long-neglected long-neglected box gathering dust in a dark corner of his lab. The hungry monster inside treats people like nachos it can't eat just one. And while the discovery is a curse for Weaver, it's a godsend for his friend Hal Holbrook, who dreams of eliminating his shrewish wife, Adrienne Barbeau. (The sequence falls limp because Barbeau isn't able to make her character into the perfectly ghastly spouse you're expecting.) expec-ting.) While the stories are fun, you can see they missed some opportunities. "The Lonely Death of Jordy Verrill," about a bumpkin infected with a vegetable growth by a crashing meteor, stars Stephen King himself as Jordy. The story is broadly comic, but with an undeveloped element of pathos too. Despite his loudmouthed, loud-mouthed, impulsive behavior, King's farmer is a timorous soul hiding from the world. In his last hours, he constantly daydreams about showing off his meteor (or seeking help for it), but Jordy never dares stir from his farm. Perhaps the only segment where acting, atmosphere Scott "There's such a diversity of musical tastes in Park City. We're trying bur best to accommodate ac-commodate A lasting affair with pop music by Jeff Howrey One Sunday evening when he was four years old, Scott Arnold saw a new singing sensation on the Ed Sullivan show named Elvis Presley. For days thereafter young Scott toddled around the house gleefully bellowing the chorus of "Hound Dog." Thus began a lasting love affair with pop music that eventually led Arnold to the job of entertainment director direc-tor at Park City's Cowboy Bar. In recent months Arnold Ar-nold has managed to book an impressive variety of local and national talent into the facility. "I think that the Cowboy Bar is the best showcase club in Utah," says Arnold, who has booked concerts in a variety of venues before settling set-tling in Park City with his wife, Karen Offringa. "Consequently, "Con-sequently, I try to book as much national talent as possible. I try to get name acts on their way up. Some of them might not be household names now, but they're incredibly in-credibly good and deserve the exposure." Case in point: the Cowboy Bar has an impressive array of well-known acts coming in December. On Dec. 2, 3 and 4, the Legendary Blues Band, whose members have performed per-formed in band backing Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton and Bob Dylan, will be featured. The premiere Texas r&b band, the Fabulous Thun-derbirds, Thun-derbirds, will take the stage on Dec. 6 and 7. The band is riding hot on the heels of its new albums, "T-Bird Rhythm," produced by New Wave darling Nick Lowe. West Indies reggae stalwart John Bayley will rock steady on Dec. 11. Dec. 15 will find cosmic cowboy Michael Murphy and band performing two shows. Murphy recently enjoyed a major hit single, "What is Love For?" The well known Ozark Mountain Daredevils will raise a little musical hell on comics and direction work as a satisfying whole is "They're Creeping Up on You." E.G. Marshall is marvelous as a dyspeptic billionaire who squashing bugs and people alike with a Hughesian aversion aver-sion to germs. His retribution, in the fine E. C. manner, is to have his antiseptic an-tiseptic penthouse invaded by a horde of cockroaches. Marshall easily steals the picture, with his shabby bathrobe, frizzy hair, and tart-tongued delivery. The rest of the movie is inconsistent in-consistent in tone, despite the spooky settings, shocking moments, or gurling, croaking corpsesRomero cor-psesRomero and King attempted at-tempted to give the picture a comic-book look. At times, they fill the screen with two or three frames, showing the action taking place inside a bloody-blob frame, tilting the camera, or flooding the screen with red-tinted light. They look like they're trying too hard, however, "Creepshow" is pleasant enough as a lark. But it's certainly not Stephen King and George Romero at the height of their powers. Arnold Dec. 17 and 18. There will be two shows each night. Possible bookings at the start of the New Year include in-clude the Ventures, Taj Mahal andPoco. Arnold says many major acts are anxious to come to the Cowboy because the venue fits conveniently into routing schedules as acts pass from, say, Denver to Phoenix. Other stars are enticed en-ticed to come here for the excellent skiing and vacation facilities. Arnold started booking bands at the bar last December when he took over for Mickey James, one of the original investors who opened the establishment about two years ago. One of Arnold's first big booking was Pure Prarie League, which sold out the 250-capacity 250-capacity bar for seven days running. He's been enjoying similar success since. Arnold got his feet wet in the concert promoting biz as co-owner of Creative Concerts Con-certs from 1978 until 1981. Operating out of Salt Lake, the firm booked numerous name acts such as the Beach Boys, Waylon Jennings, Emmylou Harris and San-tana San-tana into such venues as Kingsbury Hall, ParkWest, Sundance the new Symphony Hall. Besides his duties at the Cowboy Bar, Arnold still does occasional independent ventures, most recently bringing Spyro Gyra to Salt Lake, "I enjoy promoting," he says. "I would love to eventually do it full-time on my own." For now, he's happy bringing in top acts to the Cowboy. "I try to be diverse in my bookings," says Arnold, Ar-nold, who plays drums and piano as well as sign contracts. con-tracts. "We've tried to expand ex-pand from being solely country-oriented in the artists we book. "There's such a diversity of musical tastes in Park City. We're trying our best to accommodate them all." |