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A-9 Town Talk. Alevandria Pine illc. I.a Tuesdav. March 21. 1H7X A Review By David Foil Bmff-m f- mm felff MMm $Mmm' CM Irwlkf h-mM wmm ff fmm- AwmmA MWm' The Fury' Brilliant, Scary Keynote Sermon The Rev.

Adrian I.ittlcficld, pastor of the Shepherd, Texas, First Inited Pentecostal Church, preaches during the opening rally Tuesday of the annual conference of the United Pentecostal Church, Louisiana district. Business sessions of the conference will continue through Thursday at the church campground at Tioga. (Town Talk Photo by Larry Jerdcn) 'ft. 2 Robbery Suspects Held men fitting the suspects' descriptions earlier went into Pizza Hut and allegedly attempted a robbery. One of the suspects appeared to have a gun in one of his pockets and told the clerk to give him the money from the cash register, according to reports.

The clerk told him there was a policeman in the restaurant and asked the would-be robber if he'd like for her to call him. "N'o. thank you," he was quoted as saying before he turned and walked out. Vicknair obtained descriptions of the men and the car and passed it on to other officers. Patrolman Russell Rutler said at about 9:54 p.m.

he observed a vehicle fitting the description as it came off a MacArthur Drive service road and headed south on U.S. Highway 165. Butler stopped the car about a mile below the south traffic circle. Olher officers arrived moments later and the suspects were taken to jail. Police said it was learned two of interest in fleshing them out.

But to intellectualize "The Fury" will defeat it because the experience is a sensual one. There is a kind of complex, daylight horror afoot. In an original manner that complements (and no longer imitates) Hitchcock, DePalma has made normality terrifying. Often it involves nothing more than the angle of a shot or the camera tracking fluidly around a dinner table. He is not afraid to fill the screen with an oddly expressive face or to hold a shot a second longer than normal to give it greater impact.

The technical mastery in "The Fury" is a massive and brilliant collaboration. Richard II. Kline's cool, deep-toned cinematography describes the film with visual weight and dark splendor, complemented by rich, functional production and costume designs. The crack editing gives it almost unbearable tension. The musical score by John Williams Wars," "Close Encounters of The Third is simply one of the finest ever written for an American film.

Even under the credits it begins to sketch out the mystery with a deep but understated symphonic power. And the performances are all remarkable. Amy Irving's sensual, compelling portrayal of Gillian brings to the "The Fury" a final sense of normal human terror. She's an unusual beauty, reminiscent of the young Uiuren Bacall, and her finely controlled work draws the film to-" gether. She is a good subliminal balance for Andrew Stevens' almost unrelieved intensity in the role of Robin.

They are handsome young innocents and the film derives an even greater power from them. An incredibly fit Kirk Douglas returns to screen prominence with impressive power and range in one of the finest performances he has ever given. John Cassavetes' Childress (who meets an unspeakable end) is a wonderfully villainous conceit and he carries it out with terrific style. Carrie Snodgress, an Oscar nominee in 1970 for "Diary of a Mad Housewife," also makes a return to the screen in a gently affecting performance as Hester, lending the film a much-needed humanity. There is an enormous amount of blood and gore in "The Fury" but the idea of vulgarity never occurred to me.

It's almost volcanic a sensual, otherworldly rhapsody, a frightening synthesis of reality and, already, one of the best movies of the year. Rated R. At Alexandria Mall Cinema I. Alexandria police arrested two armed robbery suspects less than an hour after a holdup Monday night of Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant, 1240 Texas The suspects, Craig Lee Baltazar, 18, of Beaumont, Texas, and Calvin Sears, IS, of Glenmora, will be questioned in connection with the attempted armed robbery earlier in the night at Pizza Hut on MacArrhur Drive, police said. Mrs.

Allison Johnson, an employee at Kentucky Fried Chicken, reported the robbery at 8: 45 p.m. She said the robber had both hands in his'oat pocket and that he motioned with his right hand, as though he had a gun in it, and told her to give him the money. She gave him an undetermined amount of cash and he fled. According to police reports, Sgl. Jimmy Vicknair talked to a witness in the parking lot of the nearby 7-11 store who had seen two men park and one of them go into the chicken restaurant.

The witness also saw the two get in their car and leave at a high rate of speed. R. D. JACKSON, JR. D.

D. M.S.D. Practice Limited to Orthodontics announces the removal of his office to 4002 Jackson Street Phone 487-0075 Kirk Douglas: "Fury" appearance deemed his best ever. And he's carried this genre about as far as it can go. The unusually sensual, almost erotic, attitude he found in "Carrie" is a strong element here.

More immediately, they share the theme of psychic powers and have the same sort of apocalyptic finish the gifted, persecuted innocent wreaking a horrible vengeance. There are two of them in "The Fury" Robin Sanza (Andrew Stevens) and Gillian Bellaver (Amy Irving) are psychic twins. Robin is kidnapped by his father's best friend, a coldly efficient intelligence man named Childress (John Cassavetes), for use in a secret government experiment. The father Peter (Kirk Douglas) then sets out to find his son, moving quickly and furtively to avoid Childress' efforts to kill him. He traces Robin to the Paragon Institute in Chicago, a center for psychic study run by the genial Dr.

McKeever (Charles Durning), and establishes a warm, loving relationship with an assistant named Hester (Carrie Snodgress). They learn that McKeever is in league with Childress and that, despite reports to the contrary, Robin is alive. They also learn about Gillian, a dangerously gifted psychic being treated at the institute who has been in telepathic communication with Robin. Although DePalma's handling is masterful, the dialogue is underwhelming and sometimes terribly drab and one-dimensional the screenplay (John Farris adapted his own novel) is the film's only real weakness. There are gaping holes in the story's logic and its inadequacies are often not helped by DePalma's lack NEED A 10 YEAR Everything's off-center just a couple of notches in Brian DePal-tna's "The Fury" enough to cast disturbing mental shadows and extend a very, naturalistic atmosphere into a sense of surrealism.

It's as terrifying as hell. "The Fury" is a lustrous, brilliantly realized film about a kind of terror used and misused and people who can not understand or grasp it. Not since "Close Encounters of The Third Kind" has a movie been so transfixing or ecstatic. The fun in "The Fury" is cruel and relentless. We are the willing victims of its blood-curdling splendor happily played fur fools by a grinning, dia-bolical master behind the camera.

If both DePalma and Spielberg have gazed into aspects of the unknown, they're translating their visions on completely different levels. "Close Encounters" is intelligence staring up and out, full of hope and promise. It sweeps us up and carries us aloft. "The Fury" speaks in the same elegant, visually elaborate manner. We're swept away, all right, and then -dropped from the heights with sudden, incredible power.

It represents nothing less than a triumph of style for DePalma. Almost out of nowhere, he is developing a sense of film that is excitingly unique. "The Fury" is, in many ways, like his most recent film, last year's Cenla Briefs Student Union Board at NSU Picks Officers NATCHITOCHES Michael Allen Alost of Natchitoches was elected president of the Student Union Governing Board at Northwestern State University for the 1978-79 academic year. Alost is serving on the organization's executive board as vice president of entertainment and has previously served as a representative-at-large. Other newly-elected executive officers include Dale Sibley of Lees-ville, vice president of programs; Ron Thomas of Natchitoches, vice president of big-name entertainment; Maggie Horlon of Shreveport, secretary; and Dana Roth of Port Allen, treasurer.

Sheriffs Attend Institute Three area sheriffs are attending the National Sheriff's Institute at UCLA. Attending are Vernon Parish Sheriff Frank Howard, Grant Parish Sheriff L.R. "Pop" Ilataway and Winn Parish Sheriff Don Page. Life Saving Class The Alexandria YMCA will hold a life saving class beginning Monday. The class, open to anyone 15 and older, will be held on Mondays and Wednesdays from 4: 30 to 30 p.m.

Participants must pass a written test and a swimming test in order to successfully complete the course. There will be a $7 fee. for YMCA members and a $14 fee for non-members. Participants must regis-ter by Monday. The YMCA will be closed Thursday through Sunday this week.

Doctors on Staff FERRIDAY Two physicians were granted staff privileges Monday at Concordia Parish Hospital by the board of trustees. Dr. Charles Fred Passman and Dr. Dickinson Thomae, both of Jo-neville, were accepted as members of the hospital's medical staff. Don't Blame Meter; Reduce Consumption PERSIPPANY, N.J.

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