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Show r '' 1 ... The arts and people behind the scenes Review Wednesday May 18, 1988 1 988 BRYON SAXTON 10! sommeir to be 'season of the sequel' Lakeside Review staff The 1988 Hollywood summer schedule will go down in history as being the season of the sequel. Hollywood moviemakers from nearly every major movie studio have decided, if you cant create something new, add another chapter to something old. And because of such thinking, a large number of popular film characters will be making their return this summer. Returning characters include Rambo, Crocodile Dundee, Arthur, Johnny Five, The Blob, Dirty Harry, more Poltergeist ghosts and Chevy Chases Ty Webb from the 1980 hit Cad-dyshac- k. The only celebrity making a return not in an original film is Disneys deer Bambi, the fawn who meets up with several popular animated forest friends. Below is a listing of this summers major releases. Theyre back in Poltergeist III, the third saga about ghosts who continue to frighten your basic middle-clas- s family. Tom Skerrit from Top Gun stars. Willow directed by Splashs Ron Howard and created by Star Wars George Lucas is a fantasy tale of adventure, romance, hope and brotherhood. Warwick Davis stars as Willow Ufgood, a little person looking for peace. A New York Die Hard is the detective only hope City for a group of people taken hostage by terrorists in a Los AnBruce Willis geles high-risfrom Moonlighting stars. e. Two of HollyRed Heat woods hottest have teamed up, as Russian homicide officer Arnold Schwarzenegger must gain the assistance of wisecracking James Belushi in a Chicago manhunt. The Great Outdoors Dan Aykroyd and John Candy star as brothers-in-lawhose rivalry sets the stage for a series of riotous misadventures. John Hughes of Planes, Trains and Automobiles wrote the script. in Cocktail there is more to life than celebrating with New Yorks east upper side. Elisabeth Shue from Adventures in Babysitting plays Cruises high spirited flame. Recent Academy Award winner Sean Connery and Mark Harmon from Coors beer fame, star in murder mystery at San e Franciscos military known as The Precompound sidio. Hey mate! The famous Aussie outdoorsman is back in Crocodile Dundee II along with all the original stars from the first film. Star Paul Hogan the script. 1400-acr- te Box office heavyweights Walt Disney and Steven Spielberg have teamed up to create a unique cast of colorful characters in the animated murder mystery Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Donald and Daffy Duck star. The day will be made for Clint Eastwood fans when he makes his fifth film appearance as San Francisco homicide detective Harry Callahan in The Dead Pool. This time the gutty cop finds himself the hunted instead of the hunter. Outer Heat A science fic- tion detective story starring Mandy Patinkin from The Princess Bride and James Caan as partners looking to gun down immigrant newcomers from another planet. The Betrayed Tom from Platoon and Debra Winger of Terms of Endearment star in a detective tale in- Baseball season brings The Untouchables Kevin Costner out of the dugout in Bull Durham, an unconventional romantic comedy about a veteran catcher and the rookie pitcher who comes between him and his wife. Susan Sarandon of The Witches of Eastwick also stars. Tom Cruise is Brian Flanagan, a cocky bartender who discovers Monty A comedy Python-typ- e about what the English think of Americans. Monty Python alumnus John Cleese and Palin star, along with Mi-che- al Halloweens Jamie Lee Curtis who plays Wanda. Eddie Murphy is Prince Akeem, a Zamunda tycoon who is Coming to America to find a bride who will love him for more than just his money. Big Business is funny business when a mistake in identity leads Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin to discover they are not actually twins. A Married to the Mob comedy about the head of the Mafia clan romancing the widow of one of the men he killed. Michelle Pfeiffer from Witches of Eastwick and Matthew Modme star. mix-u- p Eight Men Out The fac- tual account of the infamous eight players on the 1919 Chicago White Sox baseball team who took bribes to throw the World Series. Charlie Sheen and John cast. Cusack head an all-st- ar remake is The here The Blob. Kevin Dillon and Shawnee Smith star in this contemporary horror story with state of the art technology and terror. long-await- ed Tom Hanks stars as Big a boy who is transformed into a man by a carnival wishing machine. Ber-eng- er volving racially motivated killings and romance. Chevy Funny Farm Chase and Madolyn Smith star as two city people named Farmer who give up city life in an effort to put their good country name to use. w Arthur 2 On the Rocks Dudley Moore has returned as Arthur Bach, a rich middle-age- d kid who amused moviegoers with his millions in the 1981 hit Arthur. Liza Minnelli and Sir John Gielgud, who appears as a ghost, also star. A Fish Called Wanda Robert De Midnight Run Niro and Charles Grodin star in this action comedy as a modem day bounty hunter tracks down an accountant running from the mob. Mr. Ed has nothing on Hot To Trot, the story of a talking horse and his stockbroker friend. Comedian Bob Goldthwait and Dabney Coleman star. Mark Stealing Home Harmon and Five Corners e Jodie Foster star in this love story. first-lov- Once Caddyshack II been has the put swing again back into golf as Ty Webb, played by Chevy Chase, and Dan Aykroyd as Captain Everett, supply the laughs at our favorite country club. The terrifyPhantasm II ing sequel to the ultimate shocker which gained popularity as a bizarre meld of fantasy and science ficton. The vengeful Tall Man returns to destroy the remaining survivors of the original. License To Drive Corey Haim (Lucas) and Corey Feldman (Stand By Me) are two young teens who just cant wait to get a car in hopes of impressing a pretty girl by the name of Mercedes. The west will never be the same, as Emilio Estevez from Stakeout leds an cast in Young Guns, a story of William Bonney, alias Billy the all-st- ar Kid. Sylvester Stallone returns in Rambo III. Only this time Stallone must rescue his friend Col. Sam Trautman (Richard Crenna) who has been captured attempting a special mission Rambo declined. Short Circuit 2 More Input Number five is alive and well and back just in time to help his friend Jahrvi (Fisher Stevens) who is struggling to make a living in the toy robot business. Tucker, the Man and His Dreams Jeff Bridges stars as Preston Tucker, an American visionary who overcomes extraordinary odds in establishing an auto empire. Pee Wee Herman has hit the circus big top in his second feature film Big Top Pee Wee. Kris Kristofferson co-sta- Dudley Moore and Liza Minelli, as millionaire lush and his lady, return to star in Ar a 1988 summer "Arthur. 1981 hit to sequel thur 2 On the Rocks, A law Monkey Shines student begins to share a tele-phath- ic bond with a monkey due to an experimental mindenhancing drug. A group of The Rescue heroic teens undertakes a daring mission to rescue their fathers captured by the North Koreans while on a naval maneuver. Kevin Dillon stars. Richard Dreyfuss is a struggling actor who must pull off his biggest performance as a Caribbean Island president in Moon Over Parador. Paul Mazursky directs and writes. Other films to be released this summer include Columbias The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking with Tammy Erin as Pippi, and k star Goldand Jeff Cyndi Lauper blum in Vibes. Goldblum plays a psychic who meets his opposite in Lauper while on an adventure in Ecuador. pop-roc- Short Circuit II has Number Five getting into some big city mayhem as he goes on an adventure in search for more input. In A World Apart, Barbara Hershey stars as a South African woman arrested for her antiapartheid activities, leaving her daughter to come to terms with the countrys tumult. In The Wizard of LonelBack to the Futures iness, Lea Thompson stars as a who must move to Vermont from California after his mother dies and his father decides to enlist in the army. In Childs Play Alex Vincent highlights his performance as a young man who knows what is 'responsible for a bizarre string of murders. However, no one but his mother believes him. Chris Sarandon from The Princess Bride co-sta- rs. In 1969 Kiefer Southerland, seen as the villain in Stand by Me, stars as one of two high Madmartigan (Val Kilmer) and Willow (Warwick Davis) are taken prisoner by evil Queen Bavmordas army in presentation of Lucasfilm Ltd.s epic Willow." adventure, school graduates who grapple with some tough choices surrounding the social changes of the late 60s. Bruce Dern also Paramount Pictures photo stars. returns Michael J. Crocodile Dundee (Paul Hogan) in action-comed- y sequel, Crocodile Dundee II, with Linda Kozlowski (left) turning as reporter Sue Charlton. J 1 fl irt fr re- . |