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a 7-Q- T1 qTL 4- Page B6 Thursday, March 17, Park City News by Rick Brough PARK CITY A Classic Recommended Good double feature material Time-killer For masochists only i if 1 I Iff Tonight thru Saturday mrnmm Rhythm and Blues from San Francisco Monday, 8:00 p.m. Tuesday, 8:00 p.m. Exotic Male Dancers Go Go Girls with The Bone Band with the Dynatones Rock Roll Monday thru Friday Next Wednesday SHALAKO fashion show Country Rock includes Belly Dancing Next Thursday Beginning March 24th JW Sh Register at the bar after $100 Grand Prize 5.00 p.m. or can Outrageous skits, 649-4146 musicians, dancers, singers and air bands, ANYTHING GO'S etc. Sa turday, March 26th Sunday, March 2 7th JOE CANNON JOHN BAYLEY Dr.

Thomas Vrain (Donald Sutherland) takes (Mare Winningham) in "Threshold." a moment to comfort patient Carol Severance 2 Amin: The Rise and Fall General Idi Amin Dada is utterly repulsive, and so is the movie about him. It's strictly a grab-bag of atrocity sketches. Actor Joseph Olita plays Amin as a bloodthirsty hippo who takes over Uganda in the early 1970s and quickly forgets his promises of freedom. Idealists are shoved into trucks and taken off to torture centers. His army conducts mass executions and the corpses are dumped in the river Nile (one or two of the restless "bodies" can be seen moving).

Diplomats are insulted and inquisitive reporters are imprisoned or murdered. The movie devotes time to the liberals in Uganda, especially the fearful, decent doctor (Thomas Baptiste) who is Amin's personal physician. But there's certainly no insight on how Amin rose to power, or how the world reacted when it became clear Amin was rising (on the corpses of his countrymen) above the excesses of most tinpot dictators. No, the film's lip-smacking concern is with the perverse Amin's brutality, lust, cannibalism, and clownishness. (To solicit arms from an angry group of Soviet diplomats, Amin serenades them with his squeezebox.) when the atmosphere starts to drive her bonkers, Director Jonathan Stryker (John Vernon) leaves her there.

And by the time she escapes she finr1- he is offering her cherishea role to other actresses. So, gee, who do you think is killing off the six ladies gathered for auditions at Styker's north woods estate? And who will survive the ballerina (Annie Ditchburn), the sexpot (Sandra Warren), the highstrung older actress (Linda Thorson) or the wise-cracker (Lynne Griffin)? These stereotypes are almost interesting, since the creditable acting sets up a brooding atmosphere. But otherwise you have all Little wonder that the major events of his reign get short shrift. Even the daring raid on Entebbe is intercut with Amin's bedroom antics. The "Rise and Fall" has one slim hold on legitimacy the presence of Dennis Hills, a journalist imprisoned by Amin, playing himself.

Otherwise, its treatment of political tyranny is on a level with the "Police Gazette." Curtains Samantha Eggar plays Samantha Sherwood, a famous actress who fakes her way into an asylum to study up for the juicy movie of a crazy lady. But 6:00 to 7:00 and 12:00 649-4146 to 1:00 a.m. I ifi 1 w1 www mm mm ftLM lm ft- mm "alpine" come out as Threshold You probably wouldn't have seen Richard Pearce's low-key drama about the first artificial-heart implant. But it has been released in the wake of the Barney Clark operation performed at the University of Utah Medical Center. In fact, the mechanical heart for the film was made by Dr.

Robert Jarvik, who devised the real thing for Clark. Too bad "Threshold" doesn't capture anything with the same ironic excitement. Donald Sutherland plays the heart surgeon who impulsively decides, in the middle of a failing cardiac operation, to use the artifical heart in a young, frail patient (well-played by Mare Winningham). Jeff Goldblum is the Jarvik figure who makes the case for his device. In the middle of a heart attack, he asks, wouldn't any victim beg "for another month, a week, even an extra hour of peace? The story raises human issues, but only brushes against them.

You don't find out much about Sutherland's fears over the heart, or Win-ningham's nervous feeling that she's not a whole person anymore. Other sub-plots are just hints. You expect Sutherland to run into trouble from religious groups or his own Ethics Committee, but nothing happens. Director Pearce uses a dry pseudo-documentary style. His camera circles idly around the operating table, and the characters talk in a quiet, mumbled dialogue.

He is so anxious to avoid hyping the drama that he flattens it out. "Threshold" may be fascinating to those who have avidly followed the Barney Clark story, but the drama behind the story hasn't been brought to life. the same old scare tricks plus a killer in a Halloween mask, a sinister doll, bodies in the bathroom and the hot tub, and a toolshed worth of murder weapons. Don't bother using logic to figure out whodunit. The movie cheats shamelessly.

Outwitting the dumb script in "Curtains" may be the only challenge in this waste. Vz Monarch of the Mountains Hoof-and-claw fans, get ready! The rest of us can-wait for "Monarch" to pop upon afternoon TV. With a sincere but routine treatment, the filmmakers follow the great Rocky Mountain white elk through the four seasons of the year the struggle for sparse supplies of grass in the winter; the invigorating thaw of spring, when the young are taught to survive; the grazing to build up muscle and antlers in the halcyon summer days; and finally, autumn, when breeding starts and the bucks challenge each other. (To pad the movie, there are also short segments dealing with the struggles of coyotes, birds and mountain goats.) The writing is intelligent. It has little Disney-like sentimentality, and a hardbitten appreciation for the demands of wilderness survival.

This philosophy will produce one or two amazing sequences amid the ordinary footage like the nail-biting scene of young calves who must cross a stream against a swift, strong current. If they get swept away well, that's what the weeding-out process is all about! Slim Pickens' narration makes you feel immediately at home, but the thick naturalist prose sometimes sounds a little strange coming from him. (And words like -At rl Happy Hour MM IF 1 1'? Monday at Prospector Square 649-8060 Do you remember Murray The We thought we had some Beatle experts in this town. Apparently not. Last week's trivia quiz stumped everyone, and another sandwich went unclaimed from the Main Street Deli.

Most of our trivia callers knew that Peter Graves played a Nazi spy in the movie "Stalag 17," and that Trevor Southey's controversial painting "Flight and Aspiration" was located at the Salt Lake City Airport. The real stumper, however, came when we asked for the radio personality who was known as the Fifth Beatle. You mean no one remembered Murray Kaufman, better known as Murray the You might have better luck with this week's test. If you have the answers, phone the Park City Newspaper at 649-9014, or come to our office at 419 Main St. before Tuesday noon.

This week's very reasonable questions are: 1. What rock star is known as the Motor City Madman? 2. Name the skunk in "Bambi." 3. What's the name of the dog pictured in our veterinary feature last week? Park City's largest full service steakhouse serving the best of steaks, prime rib, seafood, and the famous 35-item Salad Bar. Thursday 5:30 10:30, Friday Saturday 5:3011 p.m Sundays 510 p.m.

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