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Entertainment jhii Indiana Gazette 'Monday, Jonuofy 9, 1 W4 fog 1 Q.r Something ibout Amelia7 -4e about incest After the flln ABC will offer Th baf'c I.H special phone number which can be P0" th 5 ffS called by children Who are being positive treatment of it, said WJd sexually abused. -i wfflr By FRED ROTHENBERG AP Television Writer NEW YORK (AP) More than most parents, Steven is reluctant to have hte 13-year-old daughter begin dating. His wife, Gail, points out that Amelia "can't climb trees and go bowling with you forever." Steven, upset that Amelia didn't tell him about going to a dance, asks why she's going with "another boy." Freud would call that a significant slip. Steven (Ted Danson of is a handsome husband and the father of two girls. Yet he always-seems tense.

Gail (Glenn Close from "The Big suggests why "I count four weeks," she says' of their lack of intimacy. "Time really flies," he responds. "Not when you're counting," she says. Clearly, there is something about Steven. Tonight, ABC tackles one of television's last taboos father-daughter incest.

"Something About Amelia," done with the utmost care and deli cacy, is a very important film. ABC, which stilt does its share of male-model movies, also has become the most courageous network filmmaker. Tonight, two months af- This information emerges In dla-, logue, which is typical of this mov- le's low-key; tasteful approach. To show how and why the incest happened are not its concerns; The mam focus is on the devastation of the family and counseling, how the individuals might someday lead normal lives, again. for prosecution: correction, treatment and criminal justice vary from state to state.

says the movie vThis story dramatized the therapeutic approach to the problem." Much of the second half or the film involves counseling sessions with a psychologist played by Kevin Coin way. His first effort is getting, the parents to face reality. Steven is lying and Gail is denying. Once: the doctor breaks Amelia's parents'can help her ease her guilt, anger and pain. Only when Amelia understands that she's the victim can she become the survivor.

"If it's not handled-(properly), the child Suffers for the rest of her life." said Dr. Stan Kalz of the Children's Institute International, who was the movie's consultant. Katz said the movie took elements of the best treatment programs from around the country. "We're not blaming- me cnua." he. said.

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Slowly and subtly, viewers will realize that Steven has forced himself on Amelia. They'll perceive it in his bis gazes and his awkwardness. They'll recognize it in Amelia's depression and discomfort around him. Never does "Something About get tawdry or sensational. There are no bedroom scenes, nothing intimate what' soever.

With great pain and difficulty, the blank-faced Amelia (Roxann Zai from finally confides in a social worker that father's been messing around with me." It began, when she was 11, on a camping trip. She says it became a weekly occurrence. JtW AND SOW lyncJa Carter, displays a headdress she will wear during her upcoming CBS-TV special, "Lynda Carter: Body Soul' in lavish musical special will feature more than $2.5 million in costumes, jewels and computerized technology and will trace Carter's rise to stardom. (AP Laserphoto) OVM 140VARIETIESOFUROIN-tCIDICtINOUACCOHHS 1235 OAKLAMO INOIAMA 349-1 353 1 3 OISCOUNT TO HMO ClflZINS lirfciiini MTii" rT 1.2 rerr Ul I Cll IU 'Oh Madeline' is a near-miss HAWAIIAN At the INDIANA HOLIDAY INN Saturday, January 1 4 In The Tropical Courtyard 5:00 P.M.-1 0:00 P.M. $10.95 Tropical Drinks Available COPIES 1000 By DAVID HANDLER NEA Entertainment Writer ABC's "Oh Madeline" falls into that vast gray sitcom area between total garbage, like "Three's Company," and shimmering brilliance, like "Cheers." It lives where shows like "Benson" and "Silver Spoons" and "Family Ties" and "Newhart" live.

It's not great. It's not terrible. It's just sort of there. If it succeeds in the ratings, it's because a strong schedule is wrapped around it. If it succeeds with you, it's because, you 're fond of the star.

In this case our star is Madeline Kahn, the energetic, slightly whacko Mel Brooks movie protege with the campy manner and strange, sing-song voice. It's her vehicle, and she drives it hard. The producers have elected to hiiiM Her a IQAftc msulAl BUFFET MENU Think of Ual $18.00 gu-nd (Sanw OrtaliMi) '936 Oakland Ave. 349-4881 OPEN 7 DAYS Roast Pig Carved Sweet Sour Pork 5 3553 have to go down there in the middle-of the night dressed as truckers and try to pull out every Sunday supplement as the papers are coming off the presses. When that doesn't work she says she's from the union and calls a 24-hour walkout because the newspaper won't offer a dental plan.

The cops bring her home for inciting a riot. To top it off, the newspaper didn't run the story anyway. This kind of huffing and puffing goes on every week. Another episode finds her convinced the romance has gone out of her marriage. When Doris has two extra tickets for the country club masquerade party she accepts.

She goes as a cat. Charlie goes as the Mum- my. So does Robert. She mistakes Robert for Charlie and throws herself at him in the cloakroom. There are twists and turns and more twists and turns: It gets sillier-and sillier, in the hope that more is funny.

It never is. There's an awful lot of effort expended here for very few laughs. Miss Kahn works hard for the money. Dr. Christiaan Barnard completed the first successful heart transplant operation in Capetown, South Africa, in 1967.

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Her exasperated husband, Charlie (James Sloyan), is a successful writer of bodice-ripper romance novels under the pen name Crystal Love. They have a pretty solid mar-: riage despite the fact that she's a fruitcake and their best friends, Robert and Doris (Louis Giambalvo Jesse Welles), have just gotten divorces. Madeline remains best friends OPEN FOR 1984 it's our 28th year serving our customers in Indiana! Movie Stars Aren't Try Today's Feature FULL MEAL iiiis3 mtiUCLlllB loathes Robert, who's a gorilla. Charlie and Robert, however re- DEAL SI AA main aiwl liiir4r4tA0 A AAtnfiinll.i atly III! The Only Ones Who Have Beautiful Smiles. -bnzJer.

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