Show j i i i i i i i i i i i i i I ‘Squeeze Play ’ a bit of light inane idiocy NY Times News Service Oqueeze Play” is a zesty movie of its kind though its kind is bound to seem stupid to some and objectionable to others This is a bawdy comedy full of dopey routines and live-wir- e characters one of whom actually goes so far as to eat a banana split with ketchup and pickles on top The material is idiocy But the actors are fresh and likable and at least they don’t stand still long enough to wear out their welcome Movies like “Squeeze Play” don’t need plots but low-budg- et s they generally have plots anyhow In this case there’s a guys’ baseball team and a bunch of gals who deciding their men are too busy with baseball start a team of their Superman (Christopher Reeve) shares an intimate champagne supper with Lois Lane (Margot Kidder) at his arctic hideaway the Fortress of Solitude in 'Superman owm Before it culiminates in a playoff battle-of-the-sex- 11 es baseball game the movie features a wet contest staged in a bar by the gals who want to annoy their husbands and boyfriends Their say “Support the ERA” Who’s in charge here? “Squeeze Play” which was directed by Sam Weil has its laughs some in a scene in which a female baseball teammate gets even with her beau by leaving him tied up wearing nothing but a clown’s hat and an earring If you don’t think that’s funny there’s no hope for the other gags less describable here Some of them involve a hugely buxom young baseball groupie counseled by another more experienced young woman against catching her man by cleverness t-s- i § I r i ? 1 I alone “I know I know you’ve got a mind too” says the second woman “But what’s bigger?” To their- credit the unknown actors in the cast - I 1 I 1 i survive their material very nicely Best among them are Jenni Hetrick Jim Harris Diana Valen-tie- n and Melissa Michaels but many of the other players are equally peppy There are lots and lots of them as befits a film in which the scenes are jammed and noisy and the atmosphere of a wild party prevails There’s a friendliness to all this and it’s the movie’s best quality i 1 ‘Superman II’ may be a better movie than its predecessor "Superman II" starring Christopher Reeve Margot Kidder Jackie Cooper Gene Hackman Valerie Perrine Terence Stamp Sarah Douglas and Richard Lester Produced by Ilya Salkind directed by Ricnard Lester released by Warner Bros Running time: 1 27 minutes Rated PG Non (Jack 0‘Halloran) They had been imprisoned in the wafer-thi- n on Phantom Zone by Superman’s father Jor-E- l of a treason But nuclear bomb Superman charges By CRAIG HUNTLEY in detonates (to foil a terrorist plot) space deep Standard-ExaminStaff shatters the zone setting them free All three of them are evil with Zod the meanest Ursa has eyes only for Zod otherwise she is a louse UQ Ouperman II The Adventure Continues” has Non tries hard but he is just a little slow flashed onto area screens to the delight of both They soon descend on the Earth discovering they parents and children There is enough thrills and have superpowers and decide this would be a neat action to keep the children spellbound and enough planet to take over depth in the acting to keep their parents intrigued They quickly decimiate the small town of East Christopher Reeve as Superman and Margot Kid- Houston Idaho where they first land They move der as Lois Lane bring more depth and reality to the on to Washington where they take over the White characters they first portrayed in “Superman” two House from the President (EG Marshall) And a years ago call for help goes out to Superman During the film their relationship intensifies While all this has been happening Superman and from from Lois’ longing from afar to something Lois have been off in the Fortress of Solitude at the much deeper from both sides They are presented North Pole discussing the future with the problem that if they were to marry There is the inevitable confrontation in the Superman would have to give up his superpowers streets of Midtown Manhattan between Zod & Co and live as a mortal which results in his developing and Superman where manhole covers fly like a glass jaw Frisbees and and public transportation takes Superman’s enemy this time is not so much the flight evil genius Lex Luthor played more for laughs by And for those who don’t want the to end Gene Hackman Instead he is confronted by a trio take heart for like “Star Wars” and story “Jaws” and from Krypton Gen Zod (Terence Stamp) his “Airport” there is another sequel coming “Superd girlfriend Ursa (Sarah Douglas) and the man III” er dim-witte- ‘Love’ restored movie By BOB THOMAS at 41 has always maintained a sardonic view of the Associated Press Writer ri couple of years ago George Hamilton decided to put together “one last shot” in an attempt to revive his waning movie career The result: “Love at First Bite” “I went from $30000 a picture — I deferred another $50000 — to a million dollars plus a percentage of the profits” he observed with obvious delight “Even Jimmy the Greek wouldn’t give you odds on that happening” The first result of the Hamilton turnaround can be seen this summer in the 20th Century-Forelease “Zorro The Gay Blade” Once again Hamilton takes a classic movie figure and plays him for x i PHOTO20th Century-Fo- x George Hamilton In ' Zorro and the Gay Blade self-deprecati- ng career laughs The actor slightly greying but still boyishly slim public George Hamilton as though it were something he invented Which may be true “In a sense I am very schizophrenic” he said over lunch in one of Beverly Hills’ most stylish restaurants “I can look at George Hamilton as though he were a client someone whose career I had to promote I could see how he was marketed in the ’60s and the ’70s and I wondered whether he would be able to make it into the ’80s “Could he stay alive? Or would he simply flicker out like many actors who stay around too long? You can see it in the later performances of Errol Flynn and Clark Gable: there comes the time when the light goes out in the eyes That magnetic quality that had made them stars now was extinguished and they were simply doing work” After 20 years in films George Hamilton found himself working harder than ever g Close-u- 'i p Sunday June 28 1981 1 5 |