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Show Wednesday, Arts August 26. 1981,THE HERALD, Provo, Utah—Page15 Music, drama, art, film — the people and the productions fl Valley Artists’ Guild Fleming's Gone, But BondLives On Sponsors Fall Show Variations on 007 Theme By DAVID HANDLER locales, but he could never have NEW YORK (NEA) - Supposeaty, anticipated more than a pastiche of quips, cleavage and chase scenes. Mostly enes purpose he carried, early in his career,a .25 Beretta automatic in a chamois leather holster. Later, when the Beretta misfired, he switched to the Walther PPK in a Burns Martin holster. He drove a battleship-gray 4.5liter fuel-injected 1933 Bentley coupe that every mechanic in Great Britain drooled over. He daily smoked 70 cigarettes of a Balkan and Turkish mixture made expressly for him by Morelands of Grosvenor Street and marked with the distinctivetriple gold band. Heinsisted his martini be shaken, notstirred,and served with a twist of lemon peel. He was a ruthless high-stakes baccarat player and he successful film releases is “For Your Eyes Only,” the 12th in a string of Bondfilms that dates back to 1963 and “Dr. No.” Meanwhile, a scan of the bestseller list for hard- by helicopter, by by two-man submarines Every five minutes there is a chase. mostof themplayed for laughs. The film resembles TV's “Sheriff Lobo” more than it does the gritty early The Valley Artists’ Guild will sponsor a fall membership show during Septemberin the Clyde Gal- Non-members wishing to enter may do so by paying the annual $10 dues to join the guild. Guild membership lery of the Springville Museum of Art is open to all artists, amateur or professional, and to anyone having an interest in the visual arts. reception from 2 to 5 p.m at the museum. Three awards of excellence will be presented at that time Jurorfor the event will be Mr. Osral Allred. director of art, Snow College, a well-known Utah artist All paintings entered must be securely wired, and readyto hang. The showwill open Sept. 6 with a Items suitable for entry include paintings, Those wishing to submit entries should take their work to the museum, on Friday, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. No entryfee will be charged mation, call 489-4344, or 465-4032 tional “From Russia With Love.” which starred Sean Connery. a rarity among Bond novelsis that it isn’t written by Fleming at all Ian Fleming died in 1964. The new book was written by spy novelist John Gardner, who wasselected by the Fleming estate to replenish the stock of book titles so that more Bond movies could be made from moreBond books. Andso on. Not that the recent Bond movies really reflect the tightly plotted action novels they are based on. Roger Moore, the current James Bond (Bond movie fans will recall that “On Her Majesty's Secret Service” starred the unmemorable George Lazenby) steps in only occasionallyfor his stuntman. Moore has taken good care of himself but he's not a kid anymore. He's 53 and totally unconvincing in hand-to-hand combat. By the time the film ends he has been chased so many times that clearly he ought to be putting his feet up, not romancingthefilm's heroine, who looks young enough to be his granddaughter. “For Your Eyes Only” ranks as only a mediocre Bond movie — in part because the film producers refuse to let the poor guy age. Gardner's novel is another matter. Gardner has updated Fleming's suave global gunslingerin delightful fashion. He has Fleming's writing style and attention to his hero's life- Fleming had his gadgets and exotic style down perfectly. A fun read. s Bond hasbeen in his early 40s for 30 years. cover books finds ‘‘License Renewed,” the latest Bond adventure, solidly entrenched. What makes “For Your Eyes Only” a rarity among Bondfilms is that it is the first one that isn't based on an Ian Fleming novel — the vault of Fleming Bond novels has been emptied. The “Eyes”title comes from a volume of short stories. What makes “License Renewed” Education Week Hair Piece Special | 49° On selected wigs Includes styling Does the Past Haunt Brian De Palma? By DICK KLEINER HOLLYWOOD(NEA)- Brian De Palma is a controversialdirector. When he first previewed his latest film, “Blow Out,” here, it naturally started a new controversy. Is he just an imitator, a man who picks a bit of Hitchcock here and a touch of Truffaut there and makes a movie out of those pilfered mosaics? Or is he really doing something new andoriginal? “It’s a question of interpretation,” says John Lithgow, who plays the heavy in “Blow Out.” “It’s up to you to say whether he (De Palma) is paying tribute to other film makers or borrow- ing from them.” De Palma himself admits that certain influences have been at work on him, helping to form andshape his cinematic sense. In the case of “Blow Out,” for example, he saysthe influences have been the Zapruder film (the amateur who took the famous footage of the assassination of John Kennedy), the Chappaquidick case, the movie “The Conversation,” the works of Hitchcock and, in particular, one shot from “Marnie” he admits he used as a model, You cansee the effect of those influences in “Blow Out” just as you could see other influences in the earlier De By ROBERT MCDOUGALL Herald City Editor Chu Chu and the Philly Flash is frothy and bizzare, and for all but the most diehard Carol Burnett fan, it will be a waste of time. “It would have been OKifit was dollar night,” said one teenagerleaving the theatre. “No it wouldn't,” said her companion. ‘That show wasn’t wortha buck.” Review: Frothy Chu Chu, Waste Of Time all media, sculpture, photography. and pottery. All work must be original and completed within the last two years. Items previouslydisplayed in a guild show are also ineligible. For moreinfor- Bond adaptations, like the excep- was a gourmet. Women swooned exception. Oneof this season’s most tongue-in-cheek becomeparty to For Your Eyes Only,” for example, doesn’t even concernitself with a coherent plot. It amounts tolittle composer Hoagy Carmichael, only with a crueler mouth i He belongedto theelite double-O section of Her Majesty's Secret Service — was designated agent 007 — and had license to kill. For that over him. His name: James Bond. Amazingly, it has been nearly 30 years since Tan Fleming's master spy madehis debut — in the novel “Casino Royale.” But the public's appetite for Bond adventures just won't die down. This summer is certainly no the stunt extravaganzas his hero has he looked rather like the American Apparently on a scale of one to a hundred that viewer would correctly rate it much less, The story is about Alan Arkin (The Philly Flash) as he attempts to get back into baseball after years as a bum in San Francisco, He earns quarters and dimesonthe street with a numberof amazing enterprises in an effort to break free of his situation and earn the bus fare to a promised job as trainer. Chu Chu (Carol Burnett) is a broken down dance instructor who didn't makeit in show business and ended up teaching. She has one student and an impatient landlord trying to collect on the rent. Totry to make ends meet, she hustles coins as a street performer. She shows up on the screen in whathasto be one of Hollywood's mostbizarre, amazing, Latin costumes, complete with one man band drums and other noise makers. Dressed in her bananas and other outrageous adornments, she crosses paths with the Philly Flash. They come into possession of a secret government document an American government employee is trying to protect from some thugs. The story revolves around Philly and Chu Chu's ineffectual attempts to sell the documents to the highest bidder. The actors create some incredibly interesting Palmafilms,such as “DressedtoKill,” Dreyfus, with someonelike Julie Christie or Dyan Cannonplaying the female which wasdecidedly Hitchcockian. “Blow Out”stars John Travolta and lead. But when Travolta presented NancyAllen. Miss Allen is admittedly himself at his door, De Palma quickly prejudiced in De Palma’s favor switchedhissights. becausesheis his wife. Travolta has no “As soon as I read Brian's story,” family ties to the burly, bearded direcTravolta says, “I likedit. It is a clever tor,yetheis very pro-De Palma,too. — and something new for meto Travolta says that he called De Palmato tell him about a book he had purchased, and wonderedif the direcIt was Travolta who suggested that tor would beinterested in working on the project with him. De Palmacount- De Palma cast his wife in the chief ered with a story of his own — the sto- female part in “Blow Out.” She had ry that eventually became “Blow Out.” been in “Dressed to Kill” but didn’t “Blow Out” had been written, Tra- want to makea career out of working volta says, for Al Pacino or Richard with and for her husband. characters. The bums1n tne street are an amazing collection and they dotheir part to create the potential for some touchingrelationships that can never rise above a shallow story. Even a tender moment between Philly and Chu Chudoesn’t makeit because even Burnett's comic genius can’t overcome inane dialogue. Opportunities this film has to be great are sacrificed by too heavy use of trite comedic devices that have become too familiar in the Burnett shows.It is a tragedy that Burnett's incredible talent is so poorly directed. Technically the film is superb. Photography, locations, sound and costumesareall great, but the story is really silly. The show is loaded with talented actors. Burnett, Arkin andthe others do morethan credible jobs in a poor vehicle. Ruth Buzzie creates an interesting, dizzy character who produces some funny moments, butit is an incredibly poor script for her magnificent talent. She has a hat pulled down over her face most of the time, she walks with a slouch, talks with a slur andtotally wasteshereffort ina movie that is mostly a dog. This PG movieis unfortunately one few suitable for the entire family to see. So if you have seen the “Fox and the Hound”’ and have sat through the “Great Muppet Caper’ and you feel obliged to take the kids to a show then you might wantto see this show. But if you haven't seen ‘SupermanII, “The Jazz Singer,’ “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” “Arthur,” “For Your Eyes Only” and‘‘Victory,” already, you shouldn't waste your time on this sh‘! before you've seen the other shows twice. LA Art Gets Grant LOS ANGELES (UPI) — The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has received a $400,000 matching grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for support of its conservation department. The money,granted on a one-to-one matching basis. Styling and cutting available * Our Fall Styles Have Arrived Choose from a wideselection of fashionable styles for this fall. Don’t miss this sale on beautiful wigs. Hurry in for best selections Eva Gabor and other major brand hair pieces in stock. 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