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The Orlando Sentind 0 The years add up at anniversary celebration Hushpuppies, E-2 Saturday, May 24, 1986 ading styles 7 4 Jay Boyar MOVIES The well-dressedTace- can't do without them By Davin Light OF THE SENTINEL STAFF pen any slick fashion magazine from Europe or the United States and you're bound to notice an accessory paired with everything li from evening gowns to swimsuits: sunglasses. In the 1970s they were considered merely a necessary shield against summertime glare. But in the '80s, shades have become the hippest image enhancer around. About 160 million pairs of sunglasses were sold in the United States last year 40 million more pairs than in 1984, according to the Sunglass Association of America. A dramatic example of sunglasses' increasing popularity involves Ray-Ban's Wayfarers, a chunky, 33-year-old frame that actor Tom Cruise wore in the 1983 movie Risky Business.

In 1981 Ray-Ban sold 18,000 pairs of Wayfarers an all-time low. In 1985 the company sold more than 800,000 pairs. Sunglasses now come in virtually all colors and in a multitude of shapes and sizes. Manufacturers and retailers are urging consumers to buy several pairs to coordinate with different outfits, fashion designers are adorning their models with sunglasses when showing their collections, and department stores are devoting more space to the display of shades. i ANGELA PETERSONSENTINEL Flex-ons, Alexander Julians, Liz Claibornes, Laura Biagottis, Private Eyes, white Gottex and black-and-white Gottex.

Prices range from $15 to $130 from Ivey's. Celebrities contribute to sunglass chic Jack Nicholson has for years hidden behind a pair of Ray-Ban Wayfarers. He even wore them when he accepted best-actor Oscars for his work in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Terms of Endearment. But it was Tom Cruise who was credited with reviving the popularity of the 33-year-old Wayfarers, which he wore in the 1983 unglass chic has been around since the turn of the century. Back then, according to The Catalog of Cool, Americans enjoyed "hiding out behind hip Ben Frank specs tinted green and bottle blue." In recent decades, celebrities have been most responsible for popularizing sunglasses.

During World War II, Gen. Douglas Mac- "Sunglasses are a must-have accessory, and because of that people are buying several pairs and color-coordinating their sunglasses to complete an outfit," said Paula Walker, special events manager at Burdines in Orlando, "People are collecting sunglasses." Walker said her own sunglass wardrobe consists of four pairs: a wild blue, black, pink and orange pair of tion shades and non-prescription pairs in black, white and hot pink, which she wears with contact lenses. The sunglass craze has prompted dozens of clothing designers to lend their names to lines of shades that range in price from $25 to $150 a pair, Some of these high-fashion sunglasses are little more than arty face jewelry. Japanese designer Issey Miyake, for example, has created a startling pair of black wire mesh glasses (price: $100) V. Cruise MacArthur movie Risky Business.

TV actors, too, have contributed to sunglass chic. Don Johnson of Miami Vice is rarely seen in or out of his Ferrari without his shades. Johnson's role in promoting the appeal of sunglasses led the Sunglass Association of America to name him its "Shady Personality of 1985." DAVIN LIGHT frril-irn nil Arthur was so attached to his Bausch Lomb aviator-style sunglasses that they became his trademark. The glasses, commissioned by the Army Air Corps in the 1920s to protect pilots eyes, became available to the public in 1936. Assisted by MacArthur's heroic style, the glasses became a symbol of male prowess and a fashion must.

You can judge a film by its cover The motion-picture industry thrives on fantasy, half truth and hype, hype, hype. In such an unreal atmosphere, what chance does simple honesty have? And yet, when it comes to movie titles, an unexpected note of veracity may sometimes be sounded. It's just possible that the names of certain less-than-won-derful motion pictures were chosen with astonishing candor. The Longshot, Tim Conway's recent comedy about horse racing, is a classic example of a title that doubles as a tip sheet; the picture never made it out of the starting gate. Another unusually forthright ti- tie was attached to last year's Bad Medicine.

In this Steve Gutten-berg-Alan Arkin comedy about medical students, the producers never found the prescription for hilarity. Speaking of Arkin, he must have a knack for getting himself involved in this sort of project His lastest film was called Big Trouble. 'Nuff said. And let's not forget Warning Sign, a germ-warfare action pic-, ture of 1985. Advertisements for this awful film featured its daunting title in huge block letters of the sort generally seen on signs reading "No Admittance" and "Danger." How much more honest can you get? Some people say that movies are given such titles not because the producers are particularly truthful but because a title that suggests misfortune implies that a film is amusing or even exciting.

Maybe. But isn't it nicer to assume that the producers are acting, consciously or unconsciously, on noble impulses? Looking ahead to the coming summer features, a few titles seem to be sending out "warning signs" already. A comedy starring Ted Danson and Howie Mandel is, for example, called A Fine Mess. And Arnold Schwarzenegger's latest action flick has been dubbed Raw Deal. There's also The Manhattan Project, starring John Lith-gow as a nuclear scientist.

Will anyone be surprised if it turns out to be a bomb? Molly update: Not long ago I noted in this column that Molly Ringwald the carrot-topped star of Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club was featured on the cover of Life magazine. Now this face of the '80s has turned up on the cover of the May 26th Time magazine. The Time cover story offers Ringwald info-bits of all sorts: Molly's car is a white BMW, her favorite Los Angeles band is the Rave-Ups, and one of her favorite foods is "catsup-drenched onion rings from which the onions have been eviscerated." We are also told that she has occasionally been seen with Warren Beatty (whose company is producing her next film, The Pickup Artist) and that, as a child, she was known to serenade her toes "in a language of her own invention." Don't get me wrong: I like the 18-year-old actress well enough. It's just that I feel as if I've read enough articles about Molly Ringwald to last a Life-Time. Still kissing: If you've been waiting to get your bimonthly calendar listing the films at the 21st Century Theater Lounge, you can stop checking the mailbox every day.

The theater's management has discontinued the calendar so that fast-breaking movies can be quickly scheduled, and so that movies that are especially popular can be held over. A good example of the latter is Kiss of the Spider Woman, starring Raul Julia and William Hurt, who won the best actor Oscar for his portrayal of a homosexual prisoner. This engrossing Brazilian movie (filmed in English) drew crowds last week and will continue at the theater at 7:15 nightly through Thursday. Please see GLASSES, E-4 MELISSA SLIMICK SENTINEL I i f. They're back, and this time we all suffer By Jay Boyar SENTINEL MOVIE CRITIC Movie review braces on the Freeling boy's teeth) are notably unspecial, and the comedy sequences aren't central to the movie's conception, as they were the first time around.

Here such scenes are weak and perfunctory almost vestigial. Steven Spielberg who co-produced the original Poltergeist as well as dreaming up the story, co-writing the screenplay and ur-officially co-directing the project was not involved in making the new film. Neither was Tobe Hooper, the director of record on the original Poltergeist. There is, however, some continuity among the creative personnel. Michael Grais and Mark Victor, who helped write the first movie, were the screenwriters Please see POLTERGEIST, E-3 wise the picture is strictly from Schlock City.

What made the 1982 Poltergeist so effective was the way it juxtaposed affectionate humor with ingenious special effects. The usual trappings of the horror genre scenes of tedious anxiety, lugubrious interludes of sentimentality, pseudo-religious explanations of supernatural events, corny Exorcist-style music were either eliminated or downplayed. But the sequel, directed by relative newcomer Brian Gibson, is almost exclusively constructed of this sort of thing, and it's all very tiresome and annoying. True, Poltergeist II does feature a few special effects and some attempts at amiable comedy, as its predecessor did. But the effects (with the exception of one involving the 'Poltergeist II: The Other Side' Cast JoBeth Williams, Craig T.

Nelson, Heather O'Rourke. Oliver Robins, Julian Beck, Zelda Rubinstein, Will Sampson, Ger-aldine Fitzgerald Director Brian Gibson Screenwriters: Michael Grais, Mark victor Clnematographen Andrew Laszlo Music Jerry Goldsmith Theaters: Seminole Plaza, Fash-Ion Square and University 8 Cinemas, Northgate 4, Orange Blossom 2, Industry rating: PG-13 (parents strongly cautioned) Reviewer's evaluation: They're back, all right in spirit at least. The frazzled Freeling family and their ectoplasmic adversaries have returned to the silver screen in an excruciating excuse for a motion picture called Poltergeist II: The Other Side. Because it's the sequel to one of the few really entertaining shockers of the '80s, a lot of people who ordinarily avoid horror pictures will rush to check it out But what they will see for their trouble is barely distinguishable from a dumb drive-in cheapie. Production values and acting in Poltergeist II are perhaps slightly above the abysmal average, but other The Freeling family movie returns to haunt us.

Marriage can mean never having to say you're senile early 40s, at your alleged peak, and twice you drove to work and took the bus home? "And when we took our daughter to be registered for college after you'd sun-, burned your feet working in the yard? So you wore slippers and forgot to take shoes, and we had to try to explain why you couldnt get out of the car? And later we couldn't go to dinner at the college inn and had to use the drive-through at Burger King? "Should I go on? You've been doing dumb things all your life. Why worry now?" You know, she was right. Suddenly I felt good. I took off for work with a spring in my step and a smile. That's what a partner can do in a marriage bring reassurance when you need it.

Bob August, 64, lives in Ohio. "Try me," she said. I told her of my concern about putting toothpaste in my hair. "You think it shows you're getting old?" she said. "How old were you when you were a Navy officer and left the plans for the Normandy invasion under a theater seat in Falmouth, England? Twenty-two? "Remember when you put in the front lawn of our first house? And forgot to open the seed-spreader on about a third of your trips back and forth, so the lawn came up looking like striped wallpaper? How old were you, 28? "And a couple of years later you were painting the eaves and spilled red paint down the front of the brick house, where it wouldn't come off and made the outside look like a hemorrhage? "Do you recall when you were in your W'hat kids don't understand about, marriage is the meaning of taking a partner "for better or for worse" and how bad "for worse" can get.

Only hardy survivors of more than 40 years afloat in rough marital seas understand. And they know when to throw the partner a lifeline as happened recently, when from my neatly groomed hair wafted the odor of toothpaste. Granted, there's not much hair from which to waft. Yet what is there I want neatly in place, secured by hair cream. With me, a little dab will do it.

After the little dab had done it, I glanced in the mirror for confirmation before going to work. Then I smelled toothpaste. I realized that I had put toothpaste on my hair. When you're my age, these things are upsetting. Is senility arriving at Bob August HEYDAYS a gallop? Must 1 shortly be declared incompetent and placed in the custody of a keeper? "You won't believe the dumb thing I just told my wife.

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