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Show The Daily Utah Chronicle, Wednesday, January 11, Page Ten l I 1978 1 entertMifflenu Looking for Mr. Goodbar VILLA THEATRE m. Keaton's acting makes 'Goodbar' worth seeing by KAREN JERMAN Chronicle staff A probing look at the trademark of our times the singles scene or an investigation into the contemporary woman. These were the choices faced in adapting Judith Rossner's novel Looking for Mr. Goodbar to the screen. Richard Brooks chose to do both and failed. best-sellin- g Brooks, as both writer and director, presents us with a picture that is the essence of the singles scene itself, all of the action and none of the emotion. Brooks is to be complimented for having the courage to make a film in w hich sex and violence play such an integral part. However, the finished product, excluding brilliant performance a bv Diane Keaton, is so uneven in presentation that it detracts from the statement on society that the book presents so well. Looking for Mr. Goodbar is not a bad mov ie, despite all this. Diane Keaton's portrayal of Teresa Dunn, a schoolteacher by day and a singles bar cruiser by night, precludes labeling the mov ie as anything worse than disappointing, especially or perhaps exclusively to those who read and enjoyed Rossner's book. Rossner's Teresa Dunn is a woman hardened by a childhood and adolescence which included a crippling a disease, restrictive, j1 religious upbringing and the frustrations of being overweight and seemingly unattractive at a time when physical attractiveness is so important. She's not a victim of society so much as she's the victim of her own impulses. ft Brooks' Teresa is a more COME IN AND BROWSE PAPERBACKS STUDENT AIDS SCHAUM'S OUTLINES sympathetic character, cynical yet naive; without being hard. Congenital scoliosis leaves her not crippled, Her fanatically CLIFF'S NOTES COLLEGE OUTLINES college English papers. While the changes in RECOMMENDED READING MATERIALS VARSITY BOOKSTORE WWII? counselor, in the next he's the bleeding-hear- t liberal, next an overcompensatory jilted lover and finally a paranoid schizophrenic, all in the space of a half-houFine, but without explanation? Jilted? There was never any clue that Teresa was even . only-scarred- Catholic father and her religious schooling seem to have no more effect on her than subject matter for some ),..,. Diane Keaton has broken the Woody Allen comedy mold that made her famous and has proven herself to be a diverse actress in strong 1328 East 2nd South OPEN MON. & FRI. EVENINGS TIL 9:00 FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE SATURDAYS 'TIL 6:00 PM r. Teresa's character from the book to the movie make her ultimate demise less a result of her own behavior than the inevitable climax to the single's lifestyle, it also leaves her erratic behavior less easily understood. What the viewer needs in order to understand Brooks' Teresa is some strong supporting characters. But aha, this is Brooks' most fatal flaw. The other characters are shallow and underdeveloped to the point of confusion. He develops them just enough to start them on the course interested. Confused? "Looking for Mr. Goodbar." She is pictured above and below. Richard Kiley as her devout Catholic Alan Feinstein as the father; pretentious and uncaring college English professor with whom Teresa has a first, heartbreaking affair; and in a memorable bit part hard-drinkin- g, LeVar "Kunte Kinte" characters, still manage to deliver dynamic performances. Particularly good are Richard Gere as Tony, Burton as the brother of one of Teresa's students. But Keaton as Teresa explodes on the screen with a presence unmatched by any actress within my memory. Looking for Mr. Goodbar establishes Diane Keaton as a her sister; magnitude. It's an honor she deserves. If she doesn't win Welcome to the club. The actors, supporting plagued with shallow Teresa's kinky lover; WTeld Tuesday older "perfect" as star of the grandest the best actress Oscar this year than there is very simply no God. Brooks offers a hard look at the seamier side of urban night life, yet he fails in excitement of seeing Diane Keaton in action. Looking for Mr. Goodbar is playing at the Villa. If fL U and then the audience making understand Teresa's part in it. Still the dramatic final scene will haunt you for hours after leaving the theatre and the movie is worth seeing more than once to catch things you may have missed the first time and for the sheer abondons them in the home S)J! stretch. if sf. ) The best example of this is James, best described as Teresa's straight lover-ex- cept he's neither totally straight or her lover. He's probably the most confusing and unstable of all the characters. In one scene he's the - -B'n welfare THE PASSIONS OF A PEOPLE DIVIDED. ( mini A NATION ON THE BRINK OF CIVIL WAR. . . 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