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Show Page C4 Thursday, fcbruary 24, 1983 Park City Nevs I r JUL ST I I if i4 a At the Golf Course SUNDAY BRUNCH 11:00 a.m. -3:00 p.m. Assorted fresh salads, fresh baked muffins Choice of: Eggs Benedict, Eggs Park City Crab meat or any style omelette fresh baked pastries beverage and dessert included $9.50 Children's portion available Liquor and wine available at noon 649-7177 Located at the golf course 3675 Q A TffYT ttitB A PffF Finest quality home in Jeremy Ranch on XA acre. 5,300 sq. ft. finished living area, 4 bdrm., 5 baths, 4 fireplaces. An architect's house filled with oak,hot tub, sauna, ,and lots of storage. Price of $398,000 includes $18,000 1983 Jeep Wagoneer (Ltd.) Call Dick Lueck, Eagar & Co. 649-4660 or 649-6082. I ... 649-4660, E 104 Park Meadow Plaza FOOD FOR THOUGHT Homemade deli sandwiches SPECIALS TO SKI BY Wrapped and Ready Mountain Snac Wisconsin longhorn cheese and crackers wrapped and ready IS? Gondola Breakfast $1.95 Croissant wbutter, fresh fruit, cold juice and hot coffee. flk Prepared on a take out tray. Mountain Picnic $1 0.00 Lunch for 2, backpack included. Vz lb. of beef summer sausage, he fty wedge of Wisconsin cheese, 2 pieces of fresh fruit, crackers, 2 sodas, knives and napkins. Live Maine lobster 8.95 fib Available upon request Catering available Hours:7:30 a.m. -10:00 p.m. daily. 649-4746 Located in the Park City Village at the Park City Resort by the bus stop The forthcoming film, "Legends of American Skiing" examines the early days of a sport (1849-1940) that has transformed America's winter. landscape, (not to mention Park City's! ). This vintage athlete is one of many you'll meet in the film, shown at the Egyptian on Feb. 27-28 and March 1-2. Film reveals skiing's early history While thousands of people crowd the Park City slopes every weekend, few of them have any idea of the sport's early origins. Did you know, for instance that skiing got its start in America before the Civil War? The whole' story, from pioneer times to the 1940s, is told in Richard and Melinda Moulton's "Legends of American Am-erican Skiing," which will have four screenings at the Egyptian Theatre, the first on Feb. 27. - The film is not what one critic called lyour standard ski movie." The film is being hailed as a classic on the sports-film circuit. But the Moultons made the 78-minute docu- mentary with' threadbare finances, using nearly over 200 interview sources, including in-cluding 25 ski pioneers. Even now, say reports,' only one copy of the film" exists, which Richard Moulton personally escorts from town to town. The film goes' all the way back to skiing's Viking heritage, but it really begins in the U.S. with fiardy 49ers racing down the slopes for prizes of lager beer. An early hero was the mailman Snow-shoe Snow-shoe Thompson, who delivered de-livered the mail through rough winter weather, and became known for his rescues res-cues of stranded travelers. From there, the film shows the establishment of a jumping jump-ing circuit at the turn of the century, when professionals literally flipped for cash. In the Depression, work projects pro-jects like the Civilian Conservation Con-servation Corps opened dozens do-zens of ski trails and mountain inns. By 1936, alpine skiing was a sport included in the Olympics. The Moulton film shows that skiing wasn't easy in those days. Chair lifts weren't around, and skiers had to trek up the mountains by foot! Sun Valley, founded in 1935, attracted names like Ernest Hemingway and Gary Cooper. Skiers were planted on wooden skis and propelled themselves with a single pole. Count Schaftgotsch, who founded Sun Valley, is one of the early personalities in the film. Another is the Dick Durrance, considered by some the greatest of all time, who once said, "Some people like natural foods I like natural skiing." Lowell Thomas was another an-other name who helped the Moultons. He not only narrated nar-rated early Fox Movietone clips, but helped the filmmakers film-makers find other contacts. Sadly, Thomas never lived to see the film. He died only two days after finishing his camera chores for the picture. pic-ture. "Legends" represents the culmination of a five-year effort for the Moultons. The picture, which eventually cost $150,000, was funded partly by a grant from the Vermont Council on the Humanities and Public Is sues. But it also received small donations from 250 contributors. While their spare income went to finance the film, Rick Moulton did masonry work to keep the family fed (they have two children), and Melinda worked as a ski instructor. She told one reporter, "Sure, there were those times when I would break down and say, 'I can't go on,' but Rick would lift me back up and say, 'We can do it.' He never, ever ceased to believe that he was born to do this." "Legends of American Skiing" will play on Feb, 27, 28 and March 1 and 2. The show begins at 8 p.m. and admission is $4. For further information, call 649-9371. flick Hrouli 4 3 ';' 'jf V'." i;4 "ti ) ""- ( 1 i 4 Year' is well intended, but muddled A Classic Recommended Good double feature material Time-kiIIer For masochists only The Yearof Living Dangerously Peter Weir has done such films as the classic "Gallipoli" and "Picnic at Hanging Rock." And while his new film is worth recommending, it is also a disappointment compared to his past work. "Year of Living Dangerously" has an interesting atmosphere, a few fascinating characters, and good acting. But in the passion-versus-politics plot, passion rather simple-mindedly comes out on top. Mel Gibson, (the young rebel of "Gallipoli") plays Guy Hamilton, a young news correspondent sent to Indonesia In-donesia in f 1965 the last days of President Sukarno's reign. He's ambitious, but he doesn't produce any scoops until he hooks up with a philosophical dwarf named Billy Kwan. Billy is a half-Australian, half-Chinese free-lance photographer who believes that Guy is a soulmate another person "not at home in the world." He guides Hamilton to hot news stories. But beyond that, he hopes he can get Guy to avoid both the radicalism radical-ism of the battling right and left, or the cynicism of the other foreign correspondents, correspon-dents, who see the country as just another hellhole to write about. Kwan's pragmatic world view says there is no particular par-ticular virtue in one political position. The virtue is in Parlfc City Village Ice Slyztins? Center Now Open! Located at Park City Ski Area balance. He admires Sukarno Sukar-no for weaving a path between bet-ween the political extremes. His attitude toward the poverty around him is you do what you can. But contrary to those modest expectations, Kwan's emotional claims on people are ambitious, maybe even possessive. He collects facts on his friends in a file cabinet, until they almost suspect him of being a police agent. And he guides Hamilton into a love affair with the woman he himself wanted to marry, a diplomat named Jill Bryant (Sigour-ney (Sigour-ney Weaver). Billy Kwan is the picture's most interesting charactertortured, charac-tertortured, witty, observantand obser-vantand certainly one of the most unique portrayals ever, since he's played by a woman, Linda Hunt. The real climax of the picture comes when the suffering around him breaks even his resilience, and he's driven to a final, futile protest. Unfortunately, the picture drags on for another half-hour half-hour with the love affair between Gibson and Weaver, which isn't that interesting. Director Weir displays a sure hand for all his settingsa set-tingsa Communist riot; love-making in the muggy night; a dead child's corpse with petals strewn around it for burial. However, Weir brings the picture down to a choice between passion and politics as the Communist attempt at a coup is quickly overturned by the right wing, which then surges to power. Will Guy Hamilton continue reporting on the whole sorry mess, or will he wash his hands of the whole thing and run to escape the country with the woman he loves? In the chaos of revolution, Billy Kwan's ' strange struggle against the moral darkness is forgotten by the characters-and the director. direc-tor. In "The Year of Living Dangerously," the resolution resolu-tion comes down to the old romantic clinch. ,V ft -"-! r Offering ice skating classes -it s- Registef Now! ., ,t; . . 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