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Show Park City News Thursday, January 27, 1983 Page B5 by Kick Brough Festival uncovers two fine westerns ACIassic Recommended Good double-feature double-feature material Time-killer For masochists . only The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez The Grey Fox "The Grey Fox" looks like a series of old photographs that move with grace and dignity. "The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez" has an immediacy im-mediacy that suggests modern news footage, as if we were looking back through a time tunnel into the Old West. That dramatic difference aside, it is tempting to see the two pictures as companion com-panion pictures. Both are set along U.S. border areas, in the very early days of the 20th Century. Both involve a sympathetic fugitive from the law who is a real historical character. And both heroes move gently amid a West that is vanishing. In Phillip Borsos' "Grey Fox," Richard Farnsworth stars as Bill Miner, a Southwestern South-western highwayman who robs stagecoaches in the Golden Age of Bandits. But instead of meeting a spectacular spec-tacular end, like Jesse James or Billy the Kid, Miner is captured, jailed in San Quentin, and released years later in the new world of 1901. He travels to see his sister on the Northwest coast, but honest life there offers nothing more than working the clam beds. And his brother-in-law is contemptuous contemp-tuous of his convict background. Miner turns to train robbing, and works his way up to a town in western Canada, where he establishes himself as a solid citizen and the gentleman friend of the local feminist (Jackie Burroughs). Meanwhile, Mean-while, U.S. and Canadian lawmen close the net tighter around him. The storyline is slight, but Borsos cinches it tight with his quiet. delihrate direction, direc-tion, aided immeasurably by Farnsworth's portrayal, eloquent and good-hearted. He has a parched face with these big, watery, hopeful eyes staring out of them, and from that material he weaves a warmly underplayed under-played performance. Around the central character, a collection of minor characters are quickly etched. They're familiar types, but also credible: the cold-fish lawman; a former comrade of Miner's, now a respectable respec-table businessman, who hires the outlaw for crooked enterprises while keeping him at arm's length; Miner s ratty little accomplice who is both lovably funny and distasteful. Borsos' violence is low key. The train robberies are matter-of-fact. When an Oriental immigrant goes nuts and wipes out his family, the carnage is seen only afterwards in a tableau of silent horror. Indeed, the sharpest point of violence comes when Miner suddenly rages at his henchman, for passing a nasty remark against his lady friend. Borsos' picture is in danger of looking stiff. The scenes almost look like they were set up for a book of Western Americana. But the photography is constantly beautiful. And fortunately the actors look more poised than posed. "Gregorio Cortez," directed direc-ted by Robert Young, takes a different approach. The movie focuses on a Spanish-English Spanish-English misunderstanding. A sheriff, looking for horse thieves, asks rancher Cortez if he's recently traded a horse. The interpreter asking the question uses the Spanish word for "male horse." And Cortez answers "no" because he traded for a mare. In the ensuing confusion, con-fusion, the sheriff shoots Gregorio's brother, and Cortez Cor-tez plugs the lawman. This is shot in wobbly, iaeeed style, as if a mini- 'J' Wfiini(Bpir(gg by Hick Lanman The last word on wine Recently I found myself perusing old issues of Winepress and was pleasantly surprised by the number of improvements we have seen in Park City and Utah. Change comes slowly and perhaps the passing of three years diminished to some degree what we should consider major improvements. When we drafted the first Winepress in March of 1980, for example, Park City had one, not so notable liquor store on upper Main Street. Wine purchases were made by glancing a good ten feet across the counter to roughly five wine selections that were seldom of distinction. The same four or five bottles were also available in the Holiday Inn, although we must admit the view was better. Still for anyone seriously interested in wine such drive up style pit stops were not sufficient. Salt Lake did have the Trolley Square Wine store, though it had a very limited amount of floor space and sported a selection of fairly high priced European wines with some notable Calif ornians. By comparison, Park City today has two excellent wine outlets to fit most tastes. The Prospector Square liquor store has been open for more than two years and it provides a good selection of reasonably-priced wines. We might take a few parting shots by suggesting that' six different kinds of Liebfraumilch is overdoing an already bad thing. Nonetheless, their Cabernets and Chardonnays are good and with a plentiful supply of Albert Lucas red and white they can even be trusted to supply the table wine. Those of us looking for better wines were pleased when Deer Valley opened its wine and liquor store in the Snowpark Lodge, December of 1981. Featuring great California Cali-fornia wines for $5.95 to $20 a fifth, the store has carefully chosen the very best of domestic offerings. We should also give thanks in passing to a variety of restauran-teurs restauran-teurs who have prevailed against economic hardship to present remarkable wine lists, rians Fuegi, former head of the Victorian. Philippe of Philippe's, Bill Nassikas of Deer Valley and the Glitertind at Stein Eriksen Lodge have all labored to produce wine lists that transcend the common. While Parkites wined and dined in an elegance unequaled since the days of the silver barons, the Trolley Square wine store moved to larger quarters below R.J. Wheatfield's and greatly expanded its space and selection. If you are seeking a great Burgundy like Romanee Conti or a rare German Trokenbeerenauslese, they will probably stock it. The gentlemen who run the store offer excellent advice and will even spot a bargain for you. The store has maintained excellent variety; one may purchase an $18 bottle of Stag's Leap Cabernet Sauvignon or a $6.95 Cabernet by San Martin, You can say without hesitation that the Trolley Square store offers the best selection of wines in the Intermountain West. We have seen other additions as well. In the past three years Utah licensed its first winery, albeit not a very good one, called Summum Nectar. Park City settled its first vineyard family, the Pollards, of Felton-Empire Felton-Empire winery and this past fall Deer Valley hosted what may have been the only cask sampling of French Nouveau Beaujolais in the western U.S. Looking back we can see many improvements and hopefully the future holds many more. Our intention has always been to inform. Winepress provided a hopefully entertaining medium through which to learn about wine.' We have always enjoyed highlighting the bargains and crushing myths about inferior wines. Our wish was not to make all of you into wine connoisseurs, but rather to help you find a wine to your taste that was well made and reasonably priced. If you were drinking wine on advice from Aldo Cello, well then, we pointed out better wines that were no more expensive. We have also enjoyed chipping away at the crazy world of advertising. Although a few ads are actually informative, the majority seek to sell wine the way the rest of America is usually sold, with misinformation, sex, macho and glitter. Unless a rennaissance occurs in advertising, which we doubt, seek your information from an informed wine store proprietor or wine columnist, although we've certainly seen the latter sell out as well. We also feel obligated to take some parting shots at Utah liquor prices. Although the retail prices are generally in line with surrounding states, Utah seldom allows discount sales. In California and Idaho, wine may be purchased sometimes for half its regular price on sale. Premium beers and some German wines list for less in neighboring Wyoming and the official booze barricades established west of Evanston, Wyoming would indicate state personnel are well aware of the difference. I personally know many people who bring their own wine into the state on a regular basis, but of course yours truly would never do such a thing. It should be obvious by now that Winepress has pressed its last vat of information into its regular space in the limelight section. Rick Brough will have to go it alone from here on out; he never needed help anyway. No, they didn't fire me, or decide that -people don't read about wine, although once in a while, I do wonder if I have a readership. I shouldn't. Often, someone will stop me on the street and ask for wine information, or confuse the two Ricks here at the paper and ask for a movie review. I don't mind, I have opinions on those too. Winepress has finished its last vintage and will pack up with me for new adventures. I am moving to Oregon where they actually grow grapes and make wine. I may even plant a small vineyard, make a little wine and find myself at the mercy of some wine columnist with a wicked pen. That's part of the risk, like trying a new wine. I also find myself leaving behind some good friends who enjoy a bottle of wine on occasion. One thing I won't leave behind is my wine though; I plan to pack it into the truck for the long journey. I just hope it doesn't freeze. LETTERHEADS BUSINESS CARDS FLYERS BROCHURES FORMS POSTERS ADVERTISING PMT W E D O ESETTING DESIGN BUSINESS CARDS BROCHURES FORMS FLYERS LETTERHEADS POSTERS ADVFRTISING LABELS LOGOS MAILERS PMTS TYPESETTING DESIGN BROCp DESK I R I N T I N G fERS SING LETTERHEADS BUSINESS CARDS FLYERS BROCHURES FORMS POSTERS ADVERTISING LABELS LOCOS MAILERS PMTS TYPESETTING DESIGN FLYERS BROCHURE 6 4 9 - 9 0 1 4 ERHEADS POSTERS MAILERS PMTS ADVERTISING DESIGN LOGOS LABELS TYPESETTING cam were recording it. The western shoot-out here is rendered with the grubby' spontaneity that violence always has. Edward James Olmos gives a deeply expressive, performance in a role that is mostly silent or spoken only in Spanish. He plays Cortez as a man sustained by his links to his family, the land, and to horses. (In the scenes where he is hiding in the; brush with his horse, he clutches clut-ches the animal's neck as if he thought their nerves would pour together. ) In "Cortez," there's an especially fine bunch of supporting sup-porting performances from unknown players: Tom Bower as the bigoted inter preter who may have been stupid or worse in stirring up the shooting incident; James Gammon as a rambunctious but scrupulous sheriff; and Bruce McGill as a quietly persistent big-city reporter. (As Cortez is captured and brougnt to trial, we never see what conclusions the reporter puts in his stories. But his viewpoint doesn't matter. As he looks on, the Mexican balladeers are already turning Gregorio into in-to a legend.) "Grey Fox" and "Gregorio Cortez" are both low-key authentic views of the fading American West. Hopefully, they will be given more than just a brief appearance ap-pearance at this festival. Big bucks await air band winner Participants are needed for KPCW's air band finals Monday night at the Cowboy Bar. The winning contestants) con-testants) will take home a whopping $250 grand prize in the last in a series of such contests the radio station has sponsored this winter. For the benefit of those who have yet to decipher the term, an air band is essentially a group of fake musicians. An air band, sometimes enhanced by elaborate costumes and fake instruments, acts out a musical performance to the accompaniment of a piece of prerecorded music of its choice. Vocals are lip synched and stage mannerisms are mimed. In past contests, entrants have performed a variety of different songs. There have been air band Elvises. Air band New Wavers. Air band punk rockers. Air band heavy metal fanatics. Air band meatloafs. Air band belly dancers Van Halens, vaudeville singers, male Aretha Franklins and other musical mutants. With the big $250 prize being offered in Monday's competition, even more ingenious air bands may debut. Festivities will begin at the Cowboy Bar, Jan. 31 at 8:30 p.m. Live music will be provided by the Dr. Bop band. Air band contestants will perform between sets. There will be a $3 cover charge. All proceeds will go to benefit KPCW. Those wishing to register for the air band competition com-petition should do so by Friday, Jan. 28 at the radio station on the upper level of the Memorial Building. There is a $10 registration fee. Contestants should submit the prerecorded music cassette tapes only they will be performing. Call 649-9004 for more information. Hi PINNACLE T5L I'i 11 : Mm imrrii kM The Pinnacle is a remarkable condominium development located adjacent to America's most uniquely luxurious ski resort: Deer Valley. The Pinnacle's philosophy of taste and quality goes to the heart of the Deer Valley concept. 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