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12E FridayFebruary 191988Star Tribune Movies Just opened CRY FREEDOM (Reviewed this Jssue) South African journalist Donald Woods (Kevin Kline) befriends an imprisoned black activist btepnen Biko (Denzel Washington) and I'iobs 'f frbm his homeland to publish Biko's biography. Directed by Richard Attenoorougn. ku. bnowing at nar iff Mar, Brookdaie square, Burnsville Maplewood Skyway, Ridge Square, Yorktown. DARK EYES (Reviewed this issue) Italian film stars Marcello Mastroianm as a disillusioned married man whose life is changed when he meets and pursues a Russian woman.

Showing at Uptown Theater. JOHN HUSTON AND THE Critic's choiceMovies These are the "before" and "after" pictures of Billy and Eddie, the outrageously outspoken male chauvinists who were featured in "Patti Rocks. The lower picture is how they look in the new movie, Chris Mulkey (right) as Billy and John Jenkins as Eddie. Above is how they appeared in 1975 in "Loose Ends," with Mulkey in the foreground. David Burton Morris's first movie, which he made in the Twin Cities before he emigrated to Hollywood, introduces these two misguided but intriguing souls.

The movie has been resurrected by the Film Society, which is screening it at Nicholson Hall Auditorium nightly at 7:30, with 9:30 shows added tonight and Saturday and 5:30 matinees on Saturday and Sunday. Jeff Strickler -mir ifiinm The Castaways, from letc boo uonna, hick sniaer, ttaipn mntz ana Jim uonna. Song played in movie V. renewed interest in Castaways i ha Adrian Cronauer, the former Armed Forces Radio disc jockey who was the inspiration for the smash movie Good Morning, Vietnam, is still around. He's a law-school student in Pennsylvania.

The Castaways, whose 1965 hit Liar, Liar is included prominently in the movie, are still around, too. The Twin Cities quartet plays al most every weekend at private parties. 'For the last 12 years, we've been playing two or three nights a week," said Jim Donna, who found ed the group. Now we re doing class reunions, weddings, company parties and that sort of thing. There has been a lot of interest in our group as a result of the movie.

We re getting more bookings. We've had preliminary discussions about going into the studio. We might even record 'Liar, Liar' again. Interest in the Castaways never died. Every year Donna does an interview with a radio, TV or news paper reporter from somewhere in the United States about the music of the 1960s.

"Liar, Liar" which he wrote and sang, reached No. 12 on Billboard's pop chart in the fall of 1965. The 2-minute song led to 23 appearances by the Castaways on national TV programs, including Dick Clark's Where the Action is. Last year, Donna, a full-time real estate appraiser in Jordan, and a part-time Castaway, got a telegram from Original Sound Rec ords ot los Angeles about using Liar, Liar in a movie, his song publisher handled the negotiations, and Donna would not disclose the fee he received. Suffice it to say that it was one of the Castaways' Diggest paychecks.

Donna also will get royalty checks from soundtrack album sales. In only three weeks, "Good Morning, Vietnam the Original Motion Picture Sound Track" has sold 500,000 copies. With Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World" being promoted as a single from the sound track, the sales could escalate quickly. A sale of 3 million is not uncommon these days for a soundtrack with two or three hit singles. The album features '60s hits by DUBLINERS Portrait of director John Huston with clips of Huston at work on his last film "The Dead." Huston's films "The Treasure of Sierra Madre," "The Maltese Falcon" and "Fat City," will be screened at different times throughout the week at Film in the Cities Jerome him Tneater.

THE LONELY PASSION OF JUDITH HEARNE Maggie Smith stars as a spinster piano teacher with one last chance for happiness when she into a Dublin boardinghouse. n. allowing ai oneiara ram, nar iviar. LOOSE ENDS Independent film maker David Burton Morris' black- and-white predecessor of his latest "film "Patti Rocks," follows the two male characters (Chris Mulkey and -John Jenkins) 12 years earlier as they take a trip down a lonely interstate highway. Showing at University Film Society Nicnoison nan Auditorium.

Phone: 372-4430. Movie guide This summary of movies being shown in the Twin Cities is offered as a guide to readers. The initials "JS" refer to comments made Dy Jeff Strickler and "JC" to comments by Jeremiah Creedon. The ratings are issued by the Motion Picture Association of America. ACTION JACKSON A mayhem-filled but otherwise routine police thriller in which a tough Detroit cop takes on a meqalomaniacal villain.

Stars Cart Weathers and Craig T. Nelson. (Newhouse News service) R. ''Showing at Skyway, Southdale, Shelard Park, Northtown, Har Mar, Apache, Signal Hills, Brookdaie Square, Burnsvme Maplewood M. "BROADCAST NEWS The olomantc rvi thiQ rnmantir ho Airrle nf William Hurt Alt-tart Brooks and Holly Hunter but the i story doesn't come together as well as it could.

(JS) R. Showing at uurnnaven, soutntown, una Brookdaie Square, Maplewood i Pavilion Place, Ridge Square. GOOD MORNING, VIETNAM This comedy about a radio disk jockey entertaining the troops in Vietnam is a series of opportunities for Robin Williams to do his hyperkinetic stand- up routines and they re terrific. (JS) R. Showing at Ridge Square, Westwind, Burnhaven, Southtown, Northtown, Apache, Cina 5, Grandview, Brookdaie Square, Maplewood Pavilion Place, St.

Anthony Main. HOPE AND GLORY A lyrical reminiscence of wartime London as seen through the eyes of a youngster. It's very affectionate and charming, but it takes a while to warm up to the story and characters. Directed and 1 produced by John Boorman. (JS) PG.

Showing at Har Mar, Burnsville II, Maplewood II and St. Anthony Main. IRONWEED Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep star in a well-acted but lethargic adaptation of William Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize-winning i novel about life on Depression era skid row. May be confusing to those not familiar with the book. (JS) R.

Showing at Burnhaven, Shelard Park, Grandview, Pavilion Place, St. Anthony Main. 4 THE LAST EMPEROR A visually stunning story about the last person to serve as emperor of China. It's overly melodramatic at times, but its lavish epic qualities compensate for i other deficiencies. (JS)PG-1 3.

Showing at the Cooper, Southdale, I Har Mar. MOONSTRUCK An engaging and heartwarming romantic comedy about a woman (Cher) who falls in love with her fiance's brother (Nicolas Cage). (JS) PG. Showing at Knollwood, Edina, Burnhaven, Galtier Cinema, Brookdaie Square, Maplewood Pavilion Place, St. Anthony Main.

PATTI ROCKS Two male chauvinists get a lesson in women's liberation in this provocative, Minnesota-made comedy. Stars Chris Mulkey, John Jenkins and Karen Landry. (JS) R. Showing at the Suburban World. SATISFACTION A singer (Justine Bateman) leads a rock band of street kids during summer vacation at a beach resort in this torpid, sappy subteen romance.

(Newhouse News Service.) PG-13. Showing at Edina, Shelard Park, Brookdaie East, Har Mar, Signal Hills, Burnsville II, Eden Prairie, Maplewood I. THE SERPENT AND THE RAINBOW 1 Horror expert Wes Craven directed this most satisfactory high adventure In which a Harvard sparks Black Album" because of the color of the cover and the orientation of the material to the field of black music. A few copies of the record were distributed to disc jockeys In Europe and Canada before Prince decided to pull the plug. On the record, Prince pays tribute to such favorite funk performers as George Clinton and Sly Stone, pokes fun at rap music and uses explicitly sexual language in a more playful way than on his 1981 "Dirty Mind" album.

He offers a ballad, furious James Brown-inspired funk of the kind included in his recent stage performances, and "Rock Hard in a Funky Place," which features his technically enhanced "Ca-mille" voice. It shows the street side of Prince's musical personality. "The Black Album" is unlikely to be released, but some of its songs could show up on Prince's next LP. Quick spins Minneapolis Mayor Don Fraser and St. Paul Mayor George Latimer have both declared Sunday as "Prudence Johnson Day.

She is -performing that night at the Guthrie Theater "Live from the Fine Line" on KTCZ (Cities 97) will debut at 7 p.m. Sunday with an hour-long concert by Hiram Bullock. The performance was taped at the Fine Line Music Cafe in Minneapolis. Jesse Johnson's third solo album, "Every Shade of Love," is due in stores in April. He wrote and produced a couple of the songs that Vanity sings in her new movie, "Action Jackson." The negotiations are over: Grammy-winning producers Jimmy (Jam) Harris and Terry Lewis will write and produce Janet Jackson's next album.

Their current projects are records by New Edition and Kings English, a Twin Cities rock band. This summer Van Halen will lead a touring rock festival called "Van Halen's Monsters of Rock." It will include Van Halen, Scorpions, Dok- ken and Metallica Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart are working on separate solo albums, but the band is not splitting up. Ann is scheduled to work with producer Mick Jones of Foreigner; Nancy's project is an animated musical film. Orlando, Orlando Who: Illusion Theater. Adapted by John Orlock from Virginia Woolf's novel "Orlando." Directed by Mi-chael Robins.

Where: Bower Hawthorne Theatre, eighth floor of Hennepin Center for the Arts, 528 Hennepin Ave. Minneapolis. When: Today through March 12. Tickets: $7.50 to $11.50 call 338-8371 or Tickets To Go, 333-6841 Morris thinks audiences will benefit from the experience the play's creative team has gained in 10 years. "In the original, we were touched by hopelessness and disillusion and we acted at that," she said.

"We gestured towards those signs of experience; this is an opportunity to play those moments more truly and make them more understandable to an audience. We were stupid then, not wise." issue of nuclear war. The 14Vi-hour documentary will be screened in four parts: Part 1,7 p.m. Wednesday, part 2, 7 p.m. Thursday, part 3, 7 p.m.

Feb. 26, part 4, 7 p.m. Feb. 27, part 1 2 p.m. Feb.

27, Walker Art Center, Vineland Minneapolis. Tickets: 375-7622. INTERMEDIA ARTS Hits of the AFI Festival Homemade Video: "Video Album 5: The Thursday People" by George Kuchar and "Out of the Mouth of Babes" by Sherry Millner and Ernest Larsen, 8 p.m. today. New Modes of storytelling: "There was an Unseen Cloud Moving" by Leslie Thornton; "Yoji, What's Wrong With You?" by Mako Idemitsu and "Bees and Thoroughbreds" by Matthew Geller, 8 p.m.

Saturday, Intermedia Arts Gallery, 4131st Av. Minneapolis. Phone: 627-4444. DANCE ON FILM SERIES "West Side Story" (1961), Richard Beymer and Natalie Wood star as a modern-day Romeo and Juliet living in the slums of New York, 3:30 and 7:30 p.m. Sunday, St.

Paul Student Center theater; 7:30 p.m. Monday, Coffman Union Theater; 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, West Bank Union auditorium. "An Evening with Kylian and the Nederlands Dans Theater" features performances by one of Europe's most exciting ballet companies, 4:30 p.m. Monday, West Bank Union auditorium; 3:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Coffman Memorial Union Theater and 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, St. Paul Student Center theater. All theaters are at the University of Minnesota. Phone: 625-5200.

THE POINT (1970) Animated Film Series: The adventures of a boy with a round head who lives in the land of pointed-head people, 1:30, 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. today, 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Saturday, the Bijou, West Bank Union Auditorium, lower level Willey Hall, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Pnone: 6Z4-5ZUU. THE LADY VANISHES (1938) Alfred Hitchcock mystery-comedy about a charming old lady's mysterious disappearance during a train ride, 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, the Bijou, West Bank Union auditorium, lower level Willey Hall, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Phone: 624- 5200. THE CAT PEOPLE (1 942) A young oriae (simone simon) tears sne win change into a cat on her wedding night, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, the Bijou, West Bank Union Auditorium, lower level Willey Hall, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Phone: 624- 5200.

LAVENDER IMAGES II Coffman Union lesbian and gay film series continues with "I'm No Angel" (1933), Mae West chases playboy Cary Grant and "Another Country" (Great Britain, 1984), story of a gay man struggle with the repressive British public school system in the 1930s, 7 and 9 p.m. Thursday, Coffman Union Theater, East Bank, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Phone: 625- 4177. ELECTRA (1 962) Greek Tragedy on Film: Irene Papas stars in this adaptation of Euripides' "Elecktra," 8 p.m. today and Saturday, Pillsbury Auditorium, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2400 3rd Av.

Minneapolis. Popular Music Jon Bream James Brown, the Beach Boys, Them, Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders, the Vogues and lesser-known groups. The film is about a wild U.S. disc jockey who breaks the ban on playing loud rock 'n' roll on the Armed Forces Radio in Vietnam in 1965. "It's a great movie," Donna said.

"They play the whole song ('Liar, Liar') as background music during a critical scene when the superior (officer) chastises him (disc jockey Cronauer, played by Robin Williams) for saying things he's not supposed to." Donna, 43, said his band has kept at it since 1963 except for a brief period when some members were drafted into the service in the late '60s. He's the only original member, but his three sidemen a systems analyst, a public-relations official and a welfare administrator have been with him for 12 years. The Castaways include songs by a few of the other musicians on the soundtrack in their party performances, which include material from the '50s to the '80s. But the quartet plays only one old Castaways tune: "Liar, Liar." Prince's 'Black Album' The cassette arrived anonymously in the mail from England. There was no return address; there was nothing on the label of the tape.

After listening for less than a minute, I knew it was a copy of Prince's "Black Album," which had been scheduled for release in December but was canceled after his concert movie, "Sign o' the Times," was warmly received. Prince reportedly had planned to put the album out without any credits on it. It became known as "The did it then," said Morris. "We read every word of the book aloud. We talked endlessly about the story and the images.

It is wonderful to read aloud the way we did it. What we tried to capture in that production was the sense of the times changing and the genders changing while trying to move at the speed of imagination itself." The book's recounting of Orlando's change from man to woman mirrors Woolf 's interest in androgyny and her intensely close relationship with Sackville-West, who was bisexual. Sherman also remembers the youthful abandon that went into the creation of "Orlando, Orlando." "There were endless rehearsals. They would start at noon and no one knew when we would ever stop. There was no clock in the studio.

I like the idea of having that sort of time but i don't know if I could work in that kind of manner today. It got to be like a combination of an improvisational dance class and Gestalt therapy," she said. anthropologist (Bill Pullman) probes the mysteries of voodoo and zombies. (Newhouse News Service) R. Showing at Burnhaven, Northtown, Apache, Signal Hills, Brookdaie Square, Maplewood II, Pavilion Place, Knollwood, Yorktown, Skyway.

SHE'S HAVING A BABY An uneven comedy about newlyweds coming to grips with the responsibilities of marriage and parenthood. Stars Kevin Bacon and Elizabeth McGovern. (JS) PG-13. Showing at Burnhaven, Apache, New Village, Cina 5, Galtier Cinema, Brookdaie Square, Eden Prairie, Maplewood Pavilion Place, St. Anthony Main, Knollwood, Edina.

SHOOT TO KILL A fast-moving action adventure about an FBI agent (Sidney Poitier) and his guide (Tom Berenger) on the trail of a killer in the Pacific Northwest wilderness. (JS) R. Showing at Shelard Park, Har Mar, Apache, New Village, Galtier Cinema, Signal Hills, Brookdaie Square, Burnsville Eden Prairie, Westwind, Skyway, Yorktown. Special screenings GOOD MORNING, BABYLON Italian directors Paolo and Vittorio Taviani's first English language film about two Italian artisans who travel to Hollywood to build the sets for D.W. Griffith's "Intolerance." 7:30 and 9:30 p.m.

today through Sunday; 7:30 p.m. Monday, Film Society, Bell Museum auditorium, 17th and University Minneapolis. THY KINGDOM COME, THY WILL BE DONE Documentary examines why troubled Americans turn to Christian fundamentalism and the leaders of extreme right-wing politics, 5:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, 9:30 p.m. Monday and 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday and Thursday, Film Society, Bell Museum auditorium, 17th and University Minneapolis. Phone: 627-4430. HORSE THIEF Tian Zhuangzhuang's controversial drama about a poor tribesman who steals horses and kills a sacred ram to provide for his family. Chinese with English subtitles. 3 p.m.

Sunday, Film Society, Nicholson Hall Auditorium, University of Minnesota. Phone: 627-4430. DOROTHY MOLTER: LIVING IN THE BOUNDARY WATERS Documentary on the last resident of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness who died in 1986 after living 55 years in the wilderness. Also "The Threat," Swedish film maker Stefan Jarl recorded the effects of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in far north Lappland, 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Film Society, Bell Museum auditorium, 17th and University Minneapolis.

Phone: 627-4430. THE CUTTING EDGE A series of international films that have not been available to American audiences closes with "Life is a Dream" (France, 1986) directed by Raul Ruiz, about a prince who discovers life is but a dream from which we wake when we die, 7 and 9 p.m. today, Walker Art Center, Vineland Minneapolis. Tickets: 375-7622. THE JOURNEY (Sweden) Film maker Peter Watkins interviewed families from around the world to find out the public's awareness on the ILLUSION: Complete reading of Woolf novel was turning point in her career Continued from page 1E preparation time.

In 1977, Illusion was joined by University of Minnesota Prof. Toni McNaron in complete readings of Woolf's 300-page novel which was published in 1928. The book, far lighter than her previous "To the Lighthouse," was a turning point in her career. It was an immediate success and provided Woolf with the financial security to back her literary ambitions. For two months, the Illusion ensemble discussed Woolf and the relationship of the book and the author to Vita Sackville-West, to whom it is dedicated.

Sackville-West, the wife of diplomat-author Harold Nicolson, and Woolf were noted members of the famed Bloomsbury Group of English writers which also included Lytton Strachey, Clive Bell, John Maynard Keynes and E.M. Forster. Slowly a script emerged that reflected the book's sweep and its gossamer style. "I wish we could do it the way we.