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Show IW V II , ) gi nging .igi iyinitimy i g rg.ipi, - p i jLiy r, mi ( , imp M II I r I Pae B6 Thursday, December 30, 1982 Park City News by Rick Broiigh o 1ITH niii-iiil.iinMdBMa oj HWMMM Snow Park Lodge at Deer Valley A SEAFOOD BUFFET Thursday Evenings from 6:30 p.m. 649-1000 DEERVALLEY r A Classic Recommended Good double-feature double-feature material Time-killer For masochists . only 2 Best Friends What us this movie about? Burt Reynolds and Goldie Hawn teaming their schticks together? Is it a comedy about two amiable lovers who freak out as a married couple? Or is it a bittersweet story about how parents shape their grown-up children and lurk over them? In the autobiographical story by Valerie Curtin and Barry Levinson, two live-in Hollywood writers decide to take the plunge and get married. But they're immediately im-mediately unnerved about married life when they visit each other's parents. Her folks are Jessica Tandy Tan-dy and Barnard Hughes, a couple of well-bred eccentrics eccen-trics with a petered-out sex life. In meeting them, Reynolds becomes more impatient im-patient with Goldie's insecurities. in-securities. She, on the other hand, has trouble keeping up with Burt's rowdy parents. Audra Lindley, as his mom, records everything with her camera, like someone touring her own life. But the premise is too neat and it doesn't hold up. Reynolds and Hawn start debating items like whether to keep the bedroom window up or down, and we're supposed sup-posed to believe the return visits to home and hearth have aggravated their basic differences in temperament. (In five years of living together, the problem never came up?) The stars seem stifled against this serious-sweet story, and they fall back on familiar routines Reynolds GUIDED X-C SKIING 30 minutes from Park City mm UK If you are looking for a SAFE, SIMPLE cross-country ski outing, call us. We feature long or short day tours with lunch or moonlite overnight outings with informal instruction. PIUTD CREEK OUTFITTERS, INC. ROUTE 1A, KAMAS, UTAH 84036 PHONE 17&4317 Bnra in Deer Valley luxury 3-bedroom condominiums from $425,000 .... a place of quiet elegance and calm serenity. .... located in the Silver Lake community atop Bald Eagle Mountain. .... visit our model or call your favorite Broker. .... for information telephone 649-3995 Deer Valley ... a world apart. with his Oliver Hardy "takes;" Hawn with a dizzy bit about doping herself up on Valium to get through a day with Reynolds' rowdy mother. The movie has some explosive funny moments (Burt's friendly punch at father Keenan Wynn nearly knocks the old boy down). But they make a loud "plop" against the picture's pic-ture's lifelessness. Honky Tonk Man Clint Eastwood plays Red Stovall, an Oklahoma country coun-try singer in Depression times, who could become a star if he can only get to an audition at the Grand Ole Opry before his tubercular lungs give out on him. Unfortunately, Unfor-tunately, he sings like a guy dying of tuberculosis. His vocals are like his old cynical action heroes tight and emotionally shriveled and with it, the picture's creditibility sinks like a stone. You can't believe the climax, where a record company gives Red studio time for him to gasp out an album of songs. "Honky Tonk Man" is Eastwood's second attempt to play a dreamer (the first was "Bronco Billy") but he can't open up enough to show the vainglorious side of the character. In the early scenes, Eastwood has promise his face looks cocky, but undermined by inner fear. But as the disease closes in, his performance tightens up again. The picture also fails as a reprise of "Paper Moon." Eastwood's son Kyle plays the canny nephew who drives Red to Nashville, gets him out of scrapes, and even contributes song lyrics. But young Eastwood plays the whole picture with a look of glassy-eyed awe which is only effective for the scenes where he's initiated into sex and drugs. Along the road, Red and his nephew run into hick sheriffs, con men, hookers and plug-chewing mechanics. Eastwood's direction and the script allows room for several scene-stealing performances here. Alexa Kenin nearly swipes the picture as a small-town gal who trails after af-ter Red like a puppy-dog to be taken to Nashville. She almost makes the picture worth sitting through. Kiss Me Goodbye Robert Mulligan's movie could use a livelier ghost (if that makes sense to you). James Caan plays Jolly Villano, a Gene Kellyesque Broadway choreographer who comes back from the dead only days before his wife (Sally Field) is going to marry another man. Caan's tap-dancing spook is light on his feet, but not on the charm. Caan falls back on his insinuating mumble and tries to pass it off as charm. Field tries her best with this comically confused love triangle. Will she stick with fiance Rupert (Jeff Bridges) or leave him for a guy who is, after all-dead! "All right, that's one thing in Rupert's favor," she concedes. con-cedes. "He's alive." Actually, it's rather easy to choose a favoirte in this contest. Caan is miscast and Jeff Bridges, one of our finest comic actors, gets all the good lines. ("Jolly?" he asks. "How could a man go around with a name like a breafast cereal?") Sally Field, being the only person who can see or hear the ghost, makes the most of those familiar jokes (a la "Topper") where she's caught talking to empty air. She and Bridges give substance sub-stance to this ghostly comedy. Now showing At the Holiday Village Cinemas: Airplane II: The Sequel 2 Best Friends The Dark Crystal The Toy Kimball announces hew intern The Kimball Art Center has selected a University of Utah senior journalism student stu-dent as a public relations-education relations-education intern. Linda Rockhold of Salt Lake City will serve as the center's intern during winter quarter, 1983. Rockhold will earn college credit for her experiences at the center. In her role as public relations-education intern, she will spend a great deal of time generating and disseminating information about the University of Utah's Division of Continuing Continu-ing Education Park City program. Trivia Test Fred Buttrick Duel ahead for trivia champs? There may be blood in the streets and it's all because of Trivia Corner. Fred Buttrick retained his Trivia crown this week by calling in first with his answers. However, well-known Triviameister Steve Korogi called us minutes later, wanting to know what the questions were. (Seems he hadn't received his paper yet.) When told that Buttrick had beaten him to the punch, Korogi said, "I'm out to get him. There's going to be a gun-fight gun-fight on Main Street." (He also said The Park City Newspaper should deliver its papers sooner.) How about it, pards? Name That Tune at twenty paces? Buttrick ignited this brouhaha by knowing that Gene Autry's baseball team is the California Angels; that Ebenezer Scrooge first saw Marley's ghost on the knocker of his door; and that ex-Parkite Jeff Hunt became the editor of the Iowa State Daily. Who's going to be top dog this week? Could it be you? Answer the questions below, and you'll get this week's free sandwich from the Main Street Deli. Call The Park City Newspaper at 649-9014 or come to our offices at 419 Main St., before Tuesday noon . 1. Name the arch-foe of Fu Manchu. 2. What household item became a trademark for Tom Snyder's "Tomorrow" show. (Hint: It was a child's plaything.) 3. Who is Phil Mahre's new Swedish rival? |