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$ht Arizona flatln Star Tucson, Wednesday, October 21, 1987 Private screenings: Picks and pans of in-store videos Page Four EE 'ater" (1985) is a film for a lazy afternoon 'W. and a few laughs. Produced by Beatles' member George Harrison, who puts in a K-tT mentalist daughter another group on the hit list played by Valerie Perrine, that he never much liked her anyway. Who it isn't OK to make fun of are native populations. They are shown to be infinitely more intelligent, loyal, good-natured and not to mention put-upon than the rest of the lot.

And when mineral water and then oil come spouting out of the ground, through a series of fairly laborious plot gimmicks, it is the island natives who finally will benefit. There is a 1960s flavor to the goings-on. One cameo appearance (along with Ringo Starr), "Water" stars Michael Caine as a British functionary gone to seed on a tiny tropical isle in the Caribbean. As with most colonial protectorates these days, Mascara (I think that was the island's name) is ripe for revolution. As much as anything, the film serves to detail who the English think it is OK to make fun of these days.

On the list are British officials, including Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, as caricatured by Maureen Lipman; Latins who take their lumps from Brenda Vaccaro as a domineering combination of Eva Peron and Carmen Miranda; Protestant ministers who turn out to be as polygamous as alley cats; Texans, in the form of Fred Gwynne as a greedy millionaire oilman who says of his environ fTT 3smM2Z tit imagines Beatles Harrison and Starr still must be stuck there with marijuana as the drug of choice beginning and ending every day with plenty of puffs in between. The movie plays well on a small screen; no foul language and no explicit sex. J.C.M. 'Mi -oby Dick" (1956) was one of director John "Huston's noble efforts. ther Mapple.

It lasts in splotchy technicolor for 116 minutes. Whenever I think of Herman Melville's epic of contagious monomania, invariably I recall a number titled The screenplay was written by former Tucsonan Ray Bradbury, a successful author of science fiction. "Moby Dick" stars Gregory Peck as Captain Ahab; Richard Baseheart as Ishmael, who tells the story; Leo Genn as Mr. Star-buck; and Orson Welles as Fa "Conversation Piece," from the musical "My Sister Eileen." In "Conversation Piece" we see a group of people stalled in a conversation until someone asks, "Read any good books lately," to which the response is, 'Moby and then, haltingly, "It's about this whale And sure enough, in Huston's version of Melville's classic, the whale shows up, harpooned and festooned, flapping around on the screen. Peck does not seem comfortable as Ahab.

Welles drones on mellifluously, interminably as Father Mapple, sermonizing from his ship's bow pulpit. Genn's depiction of the doubting Starbuck who is finally devoured by the same passion that destroyed Ahab does a workmanlike job. Baseheart is a youthful, relatively unconvincing Ishmael. Plays well on a small screen, no drugs, explicit sex or strong language. J.C.M.

i is. r- Michael Caine on St. Lucia with two local extras during the filming of "Water" Couch potato rating system Two spuds Decent cinematic hooey Relaxing spud, fry Movie to remember Director spud King spud, the best One Spud Better than a toothache Three spuds Worth the time Spud and a fry Vieiv if desperate One fry Not worth the time Two fries stupid as a vegetable bfb Sk f'ps Video Picks mount) 4. "Jane Fonda's Low Impact Aerobic Workout" (Lorimar) 5. "Callanetics" (MCA) 6.

"Top Gun" (Paramount) 7. "Lady and the Tramp" (Disney) 8. "Return of the Jedi" (CBS-Fox) 9. "Jane Fonda's New Workout" (Lorimar) The Associated Press The following are the most popular videocas-settes as they appear in this week's issue of Billboard magazine. Videocassette sales: 1.

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