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Show i Pg Tht Twnty-Tw- o Deity UUh Chronldt. Friday, December 11. 1C31 Old and new stairs billod ffoir Clhirostmas releases by Karen Jurll Chronicle staff While the If oily wood studios always save their best office 114 for the last weeks of the year, this December they may have outdone themselves. A good box office bet is a mov ie which has name stars, a safe subject and one which aims to entertain with the most elemental formulas. It's railed playing it safe. d December. All Rarely has there been a more the new box office draws are heie Burt Reynolds. Paul Newman. Jane Fonda and the Saturday Xigbt Live triumvirate of Chevy Chase. John Belushi and Danny Akroyd. In addition, many of the old stais of yesteryear have chosen this can ltok forward ear to c ome out of retirement. Movie-goer- s to seeing the scTeen returns of Fred Astaire. Henry Fonda. Katherine Hepburn. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and James star-studde- Cagney. Judging on cast alone, it apjxais the film industry has few with a chosen, exceptions, to play il espec ially safe this year. The one deviation from the straight and narrow is Warren Beatly's Reds. This is a risky endeavor for many reasons. For one, cost estimates on Beatly's M t project run as high as $50 million, with best guesses somewhere in the $40 million range. In addition, it took well over two years to complete, has a large cast and an obscure subject and relives heavily on the names of its stars Beany. Diane Real on and Jack Nicholson. It also runs three and a half hours, which is an hour and half longer than the averge film and two hours longer than the average attention span. movie-goer'- s Nevertheless, all those with a financial stake in Reds, from the studio exits lo the thealie owners, are exK-ctingreat iesMnse from the film. Reds conmns the life of radical American journalist John Recti, a founder of theAuiei ican Communist Patty. It focuses piiin.uilv on his relationship with Ixiise Bryant, an eatly feminist wtiler. against the backdrop of the 1917 Russion Revolution and the parallel radical Mlitical movement in the 1'iiiuxl Stales. It's an intriguing and comM'lling story, fx let y dim led by Beam, with stellar mi formalins by Keaion and Nic holson (as playwiight Kugene O'Neill). Still, its conitoveisial subject and imMtsiug length may scaic off some vievvtis and lopmtic l its sue cess would he foolish. Reds is now playing at Trolley Cotncis. Another questionable entry in the holiday sweepstakes is Absent e tf Malite. Paid Newman is a liquor distrilnilor whose life is neatly destroyed when he is falsely accused of wiongdoing in a ncwspaMT story written by an ambitious rcNiter. plaml by Sally Field. Il turns oul thai Field is a vie lim as well: unsc iupulous federal agenis used her lo plain (he sioiy. Absente of Malite is a linuly investigation of shoddy journalism, a subjec t which goes a little deeM i than Paul Newman stars as a liquor distributor falsely maligned by newspaper artic le in "Absence of Malice." one of the promising Christmas film releases. The movie also stars Sally Field as a zealous reMirier. I Dec . IK Scot I is the academy general. Tafts oK-nthe Regency Theatie. Time of the most eagetly awaited films of the season ate awailed so eagetly because they maik the screen leliuns of some of the Imsi loved actors in film history. James Cagney allowed dint tor Milos Forinan (Hair) lo coax him out of tetiiement lo slat in Ragtime. I he screen adaptation of F..1.. Docloiow's immensely ttopulat novel. Dcm lorow inteilw ined real rharac lets and fictional ones in a New Voik scNteiy and sioiy set in the indicate dial Foimau has dinned ihecompli- early slaudaid holiday movie fare. Absente of Malite opens December IK at Trolley Square and the Cottonwood Mall. 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