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I ST. PETERSBURG TIMES FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1984 3D Teen-ager wracked by memory of abuse 'Dune' an epic for the eyes, not the heart linn MM ft I LIMDER5 REVIEW By TOM SABULIS Ptrburp Timai Movt Crtlc UlV-H, if 'A mauies Dune Cut: Kyis MacLachlan, Juu Ferrer, Brad Dourif, Linda Hunt, Sling, Jurgen Prochnow, Max Von Sydow. Kenneth McMillan Director: David Lynch Screenplay: David Lynch, based on the novel by Frank Herbert Director of Photography: Freddie Francia Rating: PG-13 Running time: Two hour 20 minutes Theetera: Gateway, Clearwater Five Excellent Good Worth a look Below average Poor DEAR ANN: When I was 8 years old I was sexually a turned by a neigh'bor. He was 12. It went on for more than two years, We never had intercourse, but he did juBt about everything else.

1 couldn't talk to my mother about such things and had no idea of what I was doing. My parents suspected something was going on because the boy used to hang around our house so much. Nothing was said to me, but I heard my folks discussing it one night. They decided to move to another neighborhood. I'm now 15 and in the 10th grade.

Next year we will have to take physicals. (All the girls are checked for breast cancer.) I know I can't handle it. I am so bashful about my body I can't even get undressed in front of my mother or sister. I still have terrible nightmares about that neighbor boy. Whenever anyone touches me I want to scream.

I don't know what to do about the physical next year or the way I feel about nudity. I know it isn't normal. Scared in Harrisburg, Pa. DEAR You must get counseling or you will have emotional problems the rest of your life. See a guidance counselor at school or ask your family doctor to put you in touch with someone who will help you rid yourself of the nightmares of your past.

You must get into therapy. Please write and tell me you took my advice. Fractious couple DEAR ANN: My wife and I are in our early 60s and very friendly with a couple the same age. "John" lost his first wife, whom we knew and loved. When he married a widow a few years ago, we were very pleased because he was so lonely and she seemed like a pleasant companion.

The four of us have dinner together often and take weekend trips together. Several months ago they began to get into petty arguments. Now they fight all the time. She insults him, and he clams up for the remainder of the evening. It makes for a most unpleasant time.

Our friendship is becoming strained, and I am sick of their battling. When I told my wife 1 am on the brink of telling them exactly how I feel, Bhe yelled, "Don't you dare!" We'd like your views. Friendship fading in Conn. DEAR If you agree to keep quiet, your wife should agree to fewer evenings and trips with this cantankerous pair. Surely you can find more pleasant company.

Start looking. Universal Studios David Lynch' Dune certainly looks like it coHt $40-million, but it's not the pricey sandtrap some people thought it might be. The science-fiction epic, based on Frank Herbert's cult-inspiring novel, offers up some formidable escapism for the Christmas season and the most imaginative futuristic design since The Road Warrior. Yet Dune seems too faithful to Herbert's enjoy-ably complex book for its own good. Lynch's movie about feudal families fighting on a desert planet boasts a higher I.Q.

than the average comic- strip space fantasy. The director celebrates the intelligence of the source material in opulent cinematic terms. But at the same time, he tends to neglect the story's heart. The characters think more than they feel. Their dialogue and emotions are internalized for exposition's sake rather than being acted out for the viewer's benefit.

And throughout the movie, a sort of talking-book narrative evolves that slows the journey and leaves Dune fighting its own inclination to be exciting. MUCH OF THE action, which involves the feuding houses of Atreides and Harkonnens, lacks the spontaneity and humor of worthwhile adventure. The screenplay loses itself in a confusion of supernatural imagery. Worse yet, Dune fails to develop the sense of allegiance that makes it fun for moviegoers to pull for the forces of good over evil. Even the special effects fall flat when the climactic scenes need them most.

Like Star Wars, the story of Dune The Padishah Emperor (Jose Ferrer) confers with the grotesquely evolved Space Guild navigator in a scene from the $40million film Dune. cized as the Luke Skywalker-Prin-cess Leia-Han Solo subplot of Star Wars. Indeed, the movie seems to covet its sexlessness. Women are almost exclusively represented by a coven of baldheaded witches, which includes Paul Atreides' pint-sized sister Alia. On the other hand, undertones of homosexuality accompany the portrayals of the evil Harkonnens, who are led by the oozing baron and the pretty boy-assassin Feyd Rautha (Sting).

Lynch has given his movie some suitably bizarre and palatial interiors. Weapons, transports and various machinery have been imaginatively realized. The Space Guild navigator, a brain-like seer, travels in a huge, steam-spouting ebony sarcophagus. Elsewhere, Paul prepares for battle against the deadliest of mechanical the German Jurgen Prochnow (Duke Leto), the Swedish Max Von Sydow (Doctor Kynes) and the Italian Syl-vano Mangano (Reverend Mother Ramallo), among others. Too bad they have little to do except marvel at the extraordinary mechanics of Lynch's expensive project.

Near the end of the film, Paul cries out, "Where are my emotions?" It'll be a rainy day on Dune before he finds the answer. opponents and survives a stint in the "box of pain." However, the most anticipated special effect of Dune is a major disappointment the giant sandworms of Arrakis are much more terrifying when talked about than when they actually show up onscreen. OBVIOUSLY, Dune is no actor's movie. Still, it's good to see so many European actors in the cast Decorate with MR. CORY'S PRESENTS: The Newest Idea In Window Blinds! THE RIVIERA Vi Inch Blind by LEVOLOR SAVE The Carefree 60 Look of Blinds UP TO features a messianic hero entrusted with saving civilization while passing from adolescence into manhood.

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Through a series of enigmatic mystical experiences, Paul trains the desert people of Arrakis, known as Fremen, to fight in the "weirding way." In turn, Paul must conquer the great sandworms that guard the spice and attack all rhythmic vibrations. If you can follow all that, you're ahead of the game. But steel yourself for the strange, sometimes inexplicable lexicon of futuristic mythology, religious titles and technological terminology. The script peppers us with a mysterious nomenclature that includes the Bene Gesserit sisterhood, the Kwisatz Haderach, the Padishah Emperor and the great houses of the Landsraad. The dialogue is no help.

If you hear the line, "The sleeper must awaken" once, you'll hear it a half-dozen times and still not be sure what it means. I THE BASIC trouble with Dune is that it has been trumped in every suit by the Star Wars trilogy. And the sad fact is Lynch's film never has the fun that George Lucas' movies do. The Christian theme, the shades Serving the Area Since 1960 "Your Guarantee of Satisfaction" 1 WO-62nd Ave. Na.

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