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Show ...THrfr l,Tl'"l""l'' ' l,"C"rl"l I ( irtwH-' "o"' Page B4 Thursday, December 16, 1982 Park City News Nan Jou u oiiU to be lisicd in our Building Services, just call 649-9014. I I&UILDIHG IttM& prn t q m m ; .. , rri;vmwmMMm-' ' ' uiiMli'MWMWW'awwiPW" 'iinfr"-m-nfJ - fl 04 HOT TUBS & SAUNAS Universal Spa Systems 6980 South 400 West Midvale, Utah 566-7727 PLUMBING Emporium Plumbing Serving Park City since 1973. Installation &. repairs, drain &. sewer lines cleaned. Licensed k bonded. 649-8511, 24 hour emergency service. MAINTENANCE Shangri La Ent. Specializing in window washing, carpet cleaning, janitorial, maintenance and repair service. Commercial or residential. Free estimates. Licensed and insured. Call Bob Grieve 649-6887 The House Doctors General Maintenance Heating (Apple Heating - 24 hour), plumbing, drywall, painting, glass, custom remodeling, small appliances, cleaning. Vermeer's Enterprise 649-1103 HEATING-COOLING Apple Heating & Cooling Maintenance 6k Repair. Service contracts available. 24 hour emergency service. Experienced in hi-tech gas equipment. Call George Bendler 649-4292 I m if (j" It kd I CENTER STAGE IN PARK CITY Distinctive Victorian styling in 2 to 4 bedroom condominiums. Starring location in historic old town between Deer Valley and Park City resorts. For purchase or rental information call 801-649-2341. I MOTHEMLODE CONDOMINIUMS A Development of the MacQuoid Company. Located at 620 Park Ave. - Across from Kimball Art Center Milo O'Shea, James Mason, Jack Warden and Paul Newman star in the powerful drama in which Newman, as a down-on-his-luck Boston attorney, challenges Mason in a controversial lawsuit. Meell WawrM by Hick liroiili Newman saves The Verdict' AClassic Recommended Good double feature material Time-killer For masochists only The Verdict When "The Verdict" is finally announced in director Sidney Lumet's courtroom drama, the camera swoops down like an eagle to rest on the face of Paul Newman, as the plaintiff's attorney. The implication is that nothing else in the world matters but him. And you get the same message from the whole movie. There is a peculiar feeling of destiny here that there whole complicated malpractice suit only existed so that down-and-out attorney attor-ney Frank Galvin can regenerate himself. And the whole movie exists for the grand acting opportunity it offers to the leading man. Newman gives an excellent performance, but it's too bad there's hardly anything else of interest around him. As Galvin, Newman plays a seedy Boston attorney who is reduced to appearing at funerals, posing as a friend of the deceased, and handing out his card to the widow. (This is perhaps the legal equivalent of fishing in a garbage can for food.) But an old law partner (Jack Warden) throws a case his way, an easy way to pick up a fat fee. The case involves a pregnant woman, taken for delivery to a prominent archdiocese arch-diocese hospital, who reacted violently to the anesthesia given her. As a result, her baby died, and she has existed as a blind, deaf fetal heap for some five years. After all this tme, the church is anxious to settle, and the woman's relatives are eager to grab the money, since their financial resources resour-ces have been sapped by the medical care. Galvin is ready to handle the payoff, but when he looks at the woman in her hospital bed, something twists around inside him. He rejects re-jects the church's settle lent and decides to go for a jury trial to convict the two anesthetists of blatant neglect. Newman makes this hokey switch believable, and it is one of the first solid clues that we're in for a remarkable performance. He plays a role that would turn off the most stalwart leading man. Galvin has nothing on his side except an urgent conscience. con-science. And he is a man who attains heroic status by being dragged through humiliation and degradation. He is neither a smart lawyer (he mouths off in court at the wrong times) nor is he particularly resolute he is subject to shakes and fits of despair. The deck is stacked against him. The opposition's lawyer (James Mason) is a shrewd old master who leads his coterie of junior partners like an Oxford don, and is influential in-fluential enough to plant favorable news stories for his side in the papers. The biased judge (Milo O'Shea) considers Newman a jerk for taking a case to a jury trial. Newman's best witness, a respected doctor, suddenly disappears under pressure from Mason, and the plaintiff's plain-tiff's only substitute is feeble old doctor who makes a career of appearing in malpractice cases. Even when he finds a surprise witness wit-ness (Lindsay Crouse in the film's only other striking performance) to indict the doctors. Mason uses fancy legal footwork to have her entire testimony stricken. When all the legal tricks he knows have failed, Galvin appeals to the court for simple sim-ple justice. The theme is remarkably similar to that warhorse-conservative movie, mov-ie, "Dirty Harry." The legal labyrinth built to ensure a citizen's rights is only used to evade justice, the movie says. Lawyers are corrupt. (Mason plants a spy in Newman's camp.) We must forget the legal machinery and just do what is right. But in this case, our salvation can come from a jury of 12 citizens rather than a 44 Magnum. Newman's remarkable performance keeps you from noticing these things until you leave the theater. For him, we give "The Verdict" recommended status. A 11 If pPsairtk (Cfitfcy Mv!i The 0 " House will host Back wast, a country rock band out ol Salt Lake, on Friday, Pec. 17 and Saturday, Satur-day, Dec. 18. This is a return engagement for Backwash, which played at the Ore House b t month. On Sunday, De. . 19 the Ore House will have live music, but no group has been scheduled as yet. Darkhorse will be at the Alamo on Friday, Dec. 17. Darkhorse is a country rock band and will begin playing at7:30p.m. At the Down Under a pop-country pop-country duo by the name of Dale and Marilyn will be playing through Jan. 15 at 9 p.m. This is the last night to see 004 at the Cowboy Bar. The New Wavish band from Salt Lake begins at 9 p.m. cyyMJ Claimjumper Restaurant 7 DATS h WEEK S 10 WEEKDAYS 0 -11 WEEZEIDS Main Street 649-8051 The Ozark Mountain Daredevils, yes, the famous ones, will be playing their unique country rock at the Cowboy on Friday, Dec. 17 and Saturday, Dec. 18. The daredevils will perform two shows each night, at 8 p.m. and at 11 p.m. The cost is $10 to see and hear them in action. ac-tion. Following up the Mountain Daredevils will be the Mountain Moun-tain Dogs, a bluegrass band, on Sunday, Dec. 19 through Tuesday, Dec. 21. There is a $3 cover charge to see them at the Cowboy Bar. Saddle Tramp, a country swing band out of Idaho, will also cost $3 to see. They will be at the Cowboy from Wednesday, Wed-nesday, Dec. 22 through Sunday, Dec. 26 at 9 p.m. At the Black Pearl, Ace Pancakes will be serving up its own brand of rock 'n roll through Saturday. Cover charge is $2. Beginning next Tuesday, the Black Pearl will feature David La Flamme, formerly of It's a Beautiful Day. LaFlamme is scheduled for a two-week engagement. The Bel-Aires are scheduled to play rock 'n roll at the Rusty Nail Saloon Tuesday through Saturday. Providing apres ski music from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. is Curt Davis. Even the smallest ads are read! Rudimentary rock 'n roll by Jeff Howrey Although it's been a few days since the rumble subsided, sub-sided, Park City is still rocking from the two-night stand the Fabulous Thunderbirds mounted at the Cowboy Bar Dec. 6 and 7. Rarely have Parkites been shaken so on a Monday and Tuesday evening. It was Thunderbird mania ! The music was raw, loud and rudimentary. Butt rockin r&b with lots of blues vamps thrown in. No frills rock 'n roll from roots music purists. The overwhelmingly positive reaction the Thunder-birds Thunder-birds got each night especially during their frenzied Monday night sets shows just how anxious many music fans are to return to the basics in this era of glitzy, glit-zy, schlocky techno-pop. Whether the T-Birds' brand of straightforward, unadorned blues rock is the wave of the future or just nostalgic blast from the past remains to be seen. Either way, the Fabulous Thunderbirds were the toast of Park City a few days ago. Literally. Even though they're gone, this Texas-based quartet will not be forgotten in these parts for a while. The Park City dates kicked off a national tour which will hopefully bring them the sort of full-tilt national attention at-tention they deserve. If not, that's the rest of the country's coun-try's fault. Park City already did its part. |