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Pittsburgh Press, Jan. 1 4, 1 983 B-7 Lousy Plot Is The Real Demon In 'Incubus' Billy Squier, whose career is in high gear thanks to the million-selling albums "Don't Say No" and "Emotions in Motion," will perform at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Civic Arena's theater-style setup. Saga, a keyboard-led quintet from Toronto, is the warmup act. By ED BLANK Press Drama Editor In "Incubus," opening today on six screens, John Cassavetes looks avuncular and sullen.

He always looks avuncular. Bone structure and all that. But sullen? Well, he always looks sullen, too, even when he's appearing in movies he has written and directed himself, which he most assuredly did not do for "Incubus." Cassavetes carries with him the look of someone who just bit into a lemon after thinking it an orange: sour and very put out. In a movie like "Incubus," his expression of distaste can be read more ways than a Picasso: He hates the movie, the part, the ending. He hates the humiliation of being caught earning pin money.

Maybe he hates the money. No, he can't hate the money. He'd be negating the one plausible explanation for his presence. Anyway, we know he won't be hanging around theater lobbies when "Incubus" is playing not near nooses or long stairwells, anyway. Too dangerous.

Movies like this put blood in the eyes of film-goers who have been taken in yet again. For several minutes near the beginning, "Incubus" looks as if it might freshen the familiar: Cassavetes, as a widowed doctor named Sam, is hero-worshipped maybe too much by daughter Jenny. They don't talk about ta da! -their past. Jenny, though, dates Tim, whose dreams are gross. Uh-oh.

People keep dying gruesomely. But because of Tim's dreams? A local writer named Laura looks like Jenny's late mother. She isn't Mom's twin or something like that, is she? Fess up now: Is she? John Ireland, as a grave-looking cop, hasn't a clue. Neither surprise! do the creators of "Incubus." The title hints fairly that all this has to do with demonic spirits, but any moviegoer who can watch the last reel without becoming irritated is more indulgent than Western Pennsylvania's ski slope owners. The ending is a monumental mud dle.

The film's supernatural blackguard materializes for half as long as it takes to scream "Refund!" A single eventual revelation is a spitball from left field that whizzes by with no purpose beyond rendering "Incubus" senseless. None of the clues we've been chewing on have anything to do with anything. Audiences don't appreciate that. Boy, do they not. John Hough's direction is no more useful here than it was to "Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry" or "Watcher in the Holler "Action!" and hope for the best, huh, maestro? Only the chilling score by Stanley Myers helps.

But maybe Cassavetes can, too. Let's flash that lemony look for the gang behind "Incubus," John Boy. C'lncubmf' is rated The popularity of superheroes such as Superman and Conan is inspiring the production of a Batman movie. Word is it will have little relationship to the campy TV series and will star none of the same people. 1 -Mm lfalIMlfcVf JOHN CASSAVETES Wis sour ooA- a reflection of film.

LViiKviKiitN HOTEL 821-9847 JOKER SALHAYWIRE Tenlt G-FORCE (GAANAT1 IOS.) Pitt Choir, Musicians In Free Concert Sunday I JOHNNY V'S ToniahtASat I RESTAURANT A LOUNOC Imm W. QUICKSILVERS Mi. NnuM A Swim E. TAYLOR SAT IIGHTIIN NAMIS ONIT JO MINUIIS DIIVI IIOM MONtOIVIllI the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony, is a junior at Eastman. The University of Pittsburgh's Heinz Chapel Choir and members of the University Orchestra will pres SAT.

TANCAMT OLDE SOUTHERN SALOON TONIGHT SILENCERS mm t. Wt VUU Aj.JKn T71.11AA I MANCINI'S LOUNGE LIBERTY LOUNGE" 2403 W. Ubcrty ht TONIGHT 1 Kotkabllly with tho I LA CANTINA TEASER "POSITIVI I Ita It ISLAND AVI. MtKIIS HOCKS SAT. TIEEZ sat" I EMPIRE BILLY PRICE KRAZE FREE CONCERT The Pittsburgh Chamber Music Project will present a free concert Tuesday at 8 p.m.

in the Mattress Factory, 500 Sampsonia Way, North Side. The Project is a series of informal chamber music concerts by an ever-changing list of musicians playing music of their choice. The Mattress Factory, in the Mexican War Streets district, is a converted factory which is now a studio, gallery, theater and rehearsal facility. Musicians in Tuesday's concert will be Don Liuzzi, marimba; Virginia Smoliar, oboe; violinists Stephen Starkman, Victor Romanul, Brian Reagin and Roy Sonne; Paul Silver, viola, and Hampton Mallory, cello. Soprano Charlotte Sonne will also perform.

RAZXBIBRY RlfiNO CRACKERS 6814696 SATUtOAT MIA A THi if AM runt I Shodytld M1. KAPPAY ARRPY ent a free concert Sunday at 4 p.m. in Heinz Chapel on the Pitt campus. Grover Wilkins III will conduct the program which will include mu-' sic by Wolf and Stravinsky and a new work by Thomas Janson, former Pitt faculty member, called "Mademoiselle Gerta." I THE ELKS BUILDING on Penn Avenue has significance for Czechs, Slovaks and the Pittsburgh Symphony. In 1918, leaders of those nationalities met in the building to discuss their problems; in 1926, the orchestra rented the second floor for rehearsals.

In honor of those past meetings at the building and to explore the 1 possibilities of using th? auditorium there as an auxiliary rehearsal hall, the Pittsburgh Symphony will re- hearse at the Elks Building in prep-'aration for its Jan. 28-30 subscription concerts. Fittingly, Zdenek Macal, himself a Czech, will be the conductor. 3314 Watnvt St. DECADE Jl-r-ot 223 BILIYCWIRTZ 1U rO SAT.

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to 2 A.M.-$5.00 porson "NAME THAT TUNE" The Tri-State Organ Society will present a "Name That Tune'' contest on Tuesday at 8 p.m. in St. Christine Church Hall, Industry, Beaver County. Contestants will be chosen from the audience and prizes will be awarded. Keith Hampson of East Liverpool, Ohio, will conduct an organ workshop from 7:30 to 8 p.m.

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