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Show Mary Tyler Moore, Katheryn Healy and Dudley Moore in "Six Weeks." ...... ...... . -.'i. i i.i.j i.i.i.im-'.'.'.'.'.w.tj.u-'tf j i 1 - &yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy- ; Silver Screen m m& lYnmii iii 1 1 1 1 nil ii lih i iiiiihii lYi'miYiiiVMYiYiiYiiiTi-r-ir-r-- r. i ii i n r-1 r v v. r. , t inn i v i . Yii nil u nn 1 1 1 nr.. Ynii v r 1 1 n n 1 1 1 1 n mm mi ft 'Six Weeks' - A Real Tear jerker mother to bother you throughout the film. I still haven't figured out exactly what is wrong with her face, but she seems to talk with her lips and no other part of her face. Strange. The movie, however, is stolen by Healy, appearing in her first film. She is enchanting. And a marvelous marve-lous dancer. A little solipsis- tic, but what do you expect from a child who has everything. This remake on an old story is perhaps a little too slick, a little too predictable. But, for those of you who like to go j to the movies to be entertained by a warm, gentle story, this is up your alley. . by De Fisher If you're going to see "Six Weeks", now playing at the Village Mall, take a handkerchief. handker-chief. Nobody makes any bones about it being sad. And sad it is. Especially because of the outstanding performance of a new child actress named Katherine Healy. Healy plays a very believable believ-able young teenager who is dying of leukemia. Thankfully, Thankful-ly, the director, Tony Bill, does not subject the audir ence to sitting by her bedside and watching her die. The actual story, however, is perhaps a bit too glib in showing us what money can really buy. You see, it just so happens that Healy's mother, played by Mary Tyler Moore, is one of the wealthiest women around. She has the most unbelievable unbeliev-able penthouse in the middle of-Los, Angeles,- a country home, and a huge building under the penthouse which is just the place for Healy's own private dance studio. 'Mix in a little, or in this case a lot, of Dudley Moore as the aspiring congressman in whom Healy believes and on whose campaign she wants to work, and you have the story. Of the Moores, Dudley is by far the best. If you discount the fact just because' be-cause' he becomes attached to a particularly bright, charasmatic child he has to fall in love with her mother, when he was a happily married man up till then, Moore's interaction with Healy is very special and touching. Mary Tyler, on the other hand, is just enough off in the role of the anguished |