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PHttADLPHiA DAILY Page 54 ruor, i 11 I Mil .11 Knrsworthy, ami Barry are Imgtimt friends, bt fact, they both attended the same acting school when they started out and Barry learned that some day be wwnld he able to act as a Commandet-in-Chief and Lot discovered that the best he could do would be to serve as a commander of mnmauaailm Mail to a about to years a got Trt not trae I More about the Golden OUie Dazvr ft will be a triumphant rewnian Sunday when SyMa Benmett comes to Ptoladefphia from her present home in Key fhscayae; Fin, to sing at WPEMAM-s Big Band Dance at the Adam's mark BoteL Fran 1979 throagh 1973. Syrria was aa accomnt executive at that radio station and sold air time to advertisers here. Sylvia grew op in Oar Town and was graduated from Northeast High School, and after college taaght French ia the Abington School District. Meanwhile, she rtmtinitwt with net singiftg. which started when she was 3 as the old Horn and Hardart Children's Boar.

After leaving WEN. she mored to Fonda with her hasband and become one of. the most popular singers to pel hum ia the Sanshine State's hotels, night-dnbs aad charity baits. Her latest album on Atlantic Records is with lie an I flamptaa! band, titled "Sentimental Journey," and fee-tares the snags of the 1940s Big Band Era. ITS ust oat ia the record stores The players for the Philadelphia Eagles probably never figured they'd be envious of the team's secretarial staff but while the Big Gays have been sweeting over what's about to happen in the new head coach Bawdy Baa, the rest of his coaching staff and trainer (km Davia took their secretaries out fox a Urrish meal at the VULa DiKieti ia South Philly last Thursday night to celebrate Secretary's Day and IT1 bet no rear ends were kicked or pinched during thai civilized scrrmmage Its spring, the season, of love, and all I can say is whoever first discovered girls deserved a heUova finder's fee? One of Oar Town's test- and root respected coys has decided he Had enough.

Chief Inspector Frank Scafidt. currently in charge of ail detectives, retiring May 16 after 36 outstanding years with the Philadelphia Police Department. Bat Seal nil isn't going into hibernation just hecaase he's leaving the force he's considering several offers from Atlantic dry hotelcasinos that want bin to handle their and he's also seriously tftmfrmg of opening his own security consulting company. His pats are planning to toss a huge farewell hash tor him at Palumbo's in September the earliest they can get a banquet rooai Urge enough to hold aU those who want to wish him "the hesf in. person A Main Line rabbi (no farther identification.

to spare the guilty) scolded a member of his congregation Saturday for his lack of attendance, and growled. The pope attends synagogue more than yon." But does he make as many anonymous pledges? And on the subject of guilt. Woody Alien can hang on to his paranoia for a hit longer. His ex-coach-sharer Diane just behaved like a per fect gentleman and i ejected a hefty offer from a major mag to write a tell-all niece amret the talented nebisa sylmakj StaDane. who seems conveniently to have forgotten his hometown roots, should pay attention to these words of wisdom first uttered by Boris KarMf monster.

HuHywood made me one?" Get year earplugs ready; The klomkees are reuniting after a 17 year sprit and preparing nig concert tour. They'll launch their resurrected act daring the Manorial Day weekend at the Concord in the Borscht Bert, where they'll be rehearsing for three weeks prior to Launch Dam. The new toar will probably take them to Atlantic City, where the usual sanmer sparer can watch them do such typical calisthenics as wrapping their tales around the flagpoles Saturday's bad weather was Wilmington's loss and Our Town's gain. All day Friday the weather forecasters were predicting rain on Saturday, so the producers of the CBS-TV mini-series. "George Washington II," now shooting in Oar Area, get am the telephone and called Emmanuel Fanmrat at his The Three Threes restaurant at 333 S.

SmedXey St to lease the dining spot stm ting at a.m. Saturday. The Three Threes was tamed into a Revolutionary tavern, with Barry Bosrtrick: holding forth as-Genrge Washington. Filming continued until 1 pjB. Incidentally, the production company keeps its word.

When, they ptagged into aa electrical outlet on my patio after a generator failed during a Center dry shoot the week before, they promised to pay me SIS for efec-tnoJy they estimated would be charged to my bUL They delivered Sto my knmr last Friday Pops John Paid ik dtftweiU pew aad gave it to Andrea, which means; I only heard abut the pay-off which is parting somewhere in the depths of her Bosfwick, yon shovai know, has been, spending much of his free time at The Fish market at lark and Sansom streets. The owner of that eatery. Lou. 'Critters': Hairy Littlo Toys Pfesfcig Cui 'Chushingura': A Rsrcc Clash Bnt it's hard to get worked up over hairy tittle rays, especially when their sole mission in life is to pig oat to eat anything and everything. Director Stephen Uerek is much more successful with his actors, nar-ttcnlarty the incredibly poised Scott Grimes as the Browns resourceful son, Terence Mana (so good as Michael Douglas' assistant ia "A Chorus as an intergalactic bounty banter looking for the Krites.

and M. Emmet Walsh, as endearingly vulgar as ever as tbe town's useless sheriff. Believe me. watching Walsh wall down junk food is much more frightening thitn anything that the tCrites do (or eat). "Critters" has Farmer Brown (yes) and family helplessly fending off the feral cimafics' saw-tike teeth, ctow-tike paws and harpoon-Uke quills.

These critters aU bat cripple Farmer Brown (played by Billy Green Bush, who is naturally, comically macho), aeatrahze his springtime fresh wife (Dee Wallace Stone, always a aiom-ia-disrres9, eat oae of his cows, and catch his boy-happy teenage daughter (Nadme Van Der Teldet in the primal act (haystack versioa). then gobble up her beau. This is pretty gamey stuff for little Masters that resemble nothing less than imroemms band-puppet facsimiles of Pac Mac with a dangerously high bevel. "Gremlins' (and "In Cold Bfrwd) worked, it's tfecaase their kilters seemed red "Outers.1" A Juanzsy thriller starring Dec Wallace Stone BiUy Green Bush. Emmet Wots.

Tereace Sfeffa and Scott Grimes, rarected by Stephen Ffcret fraaa a screaapJey by DiwwTnc Aftffr arid Mffrefc PfiPto-graphed by Toat SaarntaaY Edited by Larry Bock. Masac by Dame Newman. Running timer trrfatrtvfT A New Line release. In area theaters. By JOE BM.TMCE Daily News Fffm Cfibc Bn a variation on both Joe Dante's -Gremlins" and (yes) Richard Brooks' 1n Cold Blood.1 a band of ugly little tar balls, calked Krites.

escapes from a priaoa on another planet, landing oa Earth, where they MOVIE REVIEW terrvarize a Kansas farm family. As the family farm is a good distance from the hub of things, principally the town bowling alley where most of the hicks spend time getting plastered, much of the action in I Gaite- Rated fair tec was being diminished by the rating monarchy, the Shogunate. The military don! of the samurai warrior, both as an individual and as part of a group, was being dropped in favor of ctril administration. It is about the end of one way of life and cnlrare and the beginning of another, the new one tigafT by the rich ruling class. The latter is represented here by Lord Kira who confronts Asano.

a samurai leader, leading to the woanding of Kira and the enturced hara-kiri of Asano. The samnrai code instructs that Apinn clan, his followers, seek oat revenge on behalf of their leader, and what follows is a painful evolution the battle between two chrns which, in torn, will prompt the birth of a mure refined, if less traditional, rule. The samurai code is at stake here, as well as the beginnings of such cultural developments' as the fCabuki theater and the sung dramatic ballad, tbe Joruri. Ton cant hold back the hands of the clock, the film says. It'll only rip off your arms.

Progress continues and Asa no's men alternately fight back and wonder if anything will come of this Mood fend, if they can possibly surmount it and protect their lifestyle. The film's final half boar is a brilliantly staged battle sequence, as comic as anything in, say, as the two clans engage in nimble calisthenics, with fnagaki relieving the profandity of bis Bute-rial with some razzle-dazzle (and scrupulous use of the widescreea formal) that's both arresting and aroasmg aT yea goc "Chushingura'' will be screened nightly at the Roxy at 7: IS (obviously fake) gore "BEAUTIFUL I HATED TO SEE THIS MOVIE ENIT Jffrrv Lons SCK PlimFW'S "CtmskiHgwrm" Loyal 47 Ronrn," 1962. A drama starring Tuzo Kayama, Chmxka Irfrfrawq and To-sftrrtr ASfaae. Directed by CSrosht f-agaki fraaa a screewpiey fey Tottaa mttdcL Edited try Koichi hrasfaba. Uu-sic by Afcira ffaraae.

XuMwmg time: 204 mimmtes tplas iuLerwtissio break.) fn Jbpaagie with Eagiuh subtitles. A ffhatrOK retacse. At the Roxy, 2021 Sansom St. By JOE BALTAKE Daily. News Fn Cnbc fl apanese BlauBaka- Hires hi lna-II gakiappUesnarraiivecurIicv.es mJ and whirligigs to a snbject so titanic in his 1962 epic, "Chushin-gura" C'The Loyal that he invites his audience to laugh.

His subject, the vendetta at Edo at MOVIE REVIEW the beginning of the 18tb Century, which pitted the samurai spirit against the Shogunatev has been directed as if it were a sprawtfng hotel comedy: Characters continnafry ran on and off the screen, brandishing swords with each entrance and exit and always making anaoaacements to the effect that matters are getting worse. His approaLh is sty. flavorsome. yet never disrespectful. The period was known as the Asano revenge named after Lord Asano during which the free-agentry of each local samnrai group violets MOTOS CSi 44 Cty Un Jbmm, tttikk.

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