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47 THE HARTFORD COURANT: Friday, March 17, 1978 Entertainment TV Previews in SPECIAL 0 A.S.I.D. ROOM DISPLAYS 2 FEATURING Connecticut craft Dean Martin Co. 'Roast' Klugman 10 p.m. Dean Martin Ce TIM Schrader's 'Blue Collar' professionals 200 FINEST CRAFT ARTISTS selling pottery-glass-fabrics-jewelry-fashion acces. GOFFE STREET ARMORY 290 Goffe Street, New Haven, Conn.

March 16, 17 wholesale admission $1.50 March 18, 19 retail home baked goods 10 a.m.-6 p.m. courtesy bus parking admission: $1.00 with this ad Night Movie "Buster and Billie" (Rerun) A gentle romance between "the most popular boy in town" and the plain, friendless girl who has been used and abused by every other boy in town explodes in the startling conclusion of the love story set in rural Georgia of 1948. Jan-Michael Vincent and Joan Goodfel-low star in the title roles. 10 p.m. The Johnny Ma this Special In this solo performance taped last year during a sellout tour of England, Johnny Mathis sings fourteen songs some familiar heart-throbbers and some newer tunes.

Included lebrity Roast (1101i Jack Klugman, the star of "Quincy," is tonight's roas-tee. The celebrity roasters include Dr. Joyce Brothers, Tony Randall, Milton Berie, Phyllis Diller, Don Rickles, Abbe Lane, Dick Martin, Foster Brooks, Ruth Buzzi, Connie Stevens, Robert Guillaume, Katherine Hel-mond and Kay Medford. 8 p.m. The New Adventures of Wonder Woman CD CD (Rerun) Roddy Mc-Dowall returns tonight as mad scientist, John Chapman, who has developed the means to ravage Earth with artifically induced volcanic eruptions.

Wonder Woman JACK KLUGMAN (10 p.m. Ch. 4, (4), 10, 20, 22, 30) will be such classics as must stop him tist workine on the eenetic "Misty," "Maria," "Pieces 9 p.m. The Incredible Hulk research Droiect Banner had of Dreams," "If It's Magic," CD Tonight David started before being forced and others. Also, recalling a Banner gets a job in a zoo.

to become a homeless wan- recent visit to Brazil, Mathis He also gets a surprise. He derer. will sing a selection of songs finds a young woman scien- 9 p.m. The ABC Friday from that country. Please see Sunday's TV Week Magazine for regular programs during ttay to 6:00 p.m.

Indicates Paid Advertisement. By MALCOLM L. JOHNSON In his first film as a director, Paul Schrader has drawn an unrelentingly bleak landscape, a world drowning in air and noise pollution and sick with betrayal and corruption. "Blue Collar" is a fitting if less brilliant companion piece to "Taxi Driver," which Schrader wrote, but which was directed by Martin Scorsese. The new film, which grimly focuses on the lives of three Detriot automobile production workers, begins as a blistering and depressing vision of the urban American working class.

Its power is not sustained throughout, partly because its narrative seems to loose its drive when it splits off into two directions, and partly because Schrader lacks Scorsese's vivid visual style and sense of dramatic build. Even with its flaws, however, "Blue Collar" remains a strong portrait of three men destroyed by a society which endlessly preaches the gospel of consumerism to workers who take home slightly more than $200 a week. Schrader follows the men, two blacks and a white, from the dim and horribly caca-phonous world of their factory, to a seedy, noisy barroom near work, into their cramped and drab homes. 2 ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATIONS LuisHunuel's That Obscure Object Of Desire (CetObscurObietduDesn "BEST FILM OF THE YEAR" Harvey Keitel, Richard Pryor Evening 6:00 News 000 (D CD AV1KHVSAHKIS, MOIIV MASKtl.l. nr l.l "ONE OF THE YEAR'S 10 BEST" Work on the assembly line, as depicted in the starkly eloquent sesquence that opens the film, is depicted as far more drudging and dangerous than Chaplin presented it in "Modern Times." And though "Blue Collar" has its touches of bitter humor, the factory is not shown in a comic light.

It is a destructive, even violent environment. Two of the central figures in "Blue Collar" are family men caught in the ever more crushing pressures of inadequate pay and inflation. The third is an ex-con whose Brady Bunch Concentration Star Trek Bozo To Be Announced Hogan's Heroes Bonanza Zoom 6:30 Electric Company I Love Lucy CBS News ABC News Joker's Wild NBC News Lassie Mundo Real I 1, I ILDIIII CKIM, v.il lil DHI IV, An i ban. SIII'IIIMAKBIR. U.M l.ii:.i,n.

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Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel and Yaphet Kotto are cast as the three workers who are inexorably driven into an ill-planned burglary which in turn edges them into a dangerous blackmail plot and despite their differences during the filming, the three play unusually well together. Pryor, whose range as an actor seems to extend with every film, gives a sharp, smart performance as the most intelligent and ambitious of the three, and his transition from a wiseguy agitator to a labor executive on the make gives the latter half of the film much of its strength. Keitel is even better as a desperate, not too bright co-worker and friend; his taut edginess is largely responsible for the authenticity that "Blue Collar" projects. And Kotto gives his finest characterization to date as the massive and cool dude with a sleek red car, an apartment to match and a past that keeps him in touch with underworld connections. The three actors with the help of an impressively convincing supporting cast bring a feeling of the boiling frustrations and fleeting pleasures of the working poor that is more persuasive than some of the dialogue by Paul and Leonard Schrader, which sometimes overstates its points in a way that seems alien to what the characters themselves would articulate.

The script and Schrader's direction also seems to suffer from indecision about whether to give in to the temptations of turning "Blue Collar" into a 'caper' movie about halfway through. Still this is a strong debut for Schrader, who with the help of photographer Bobby Byrne, has made rigorous visual statement about the dispiriting qualities of life in heavily industrialized urban areas. The film's location photography, made in De-troit, Kalamazoo and Los Angeles, is perhaps even more powerful than its performances, and the film's harshly blues score provides a heavy counterpoint to its images of a hopeless, sunless world. The rating of this film is indicative of its contents, which include an orgy, complete with cocaine, that verges on a blue movie, a blue streak of vulgar language and a horrible blue death by suffocation in the auto paint works. It is definitely not for children.

"Blue Collar" is playing at Cinema City, Hartford; the Berlin Cine and the Bloom-field Mall Cinema. CD (D 7:30 World of Survival MatchXJame Evening Magazine Name That Tune In Search of. Carol Burnett and Friends Bobby Vinton Gong Show Family Feud Newlywed Game ShaNaNa News To Tell the Truth Porter Wagoner MacNeilLehrer Report Hollywood Squares Joker's Wild Muppets 8:00 Washington Week in Review by Fassbinder himself, a sleazy, greasy gangsterish figure in black shirt and white jacket who is also one of the overweening power players behind the making of the disorganized film. Michael Ballhaus' camera moves from tight two-shots of people talking at tables and conferring at telephones to sweep around the spacious and cold lobby, emphasizing the isolation of the characters by placing columns or partitions in the foreground. It also occasionally moves upstairs to observe Fassbinder's characters in loveless couplings, being interrupted by telephones in dim sterile hotel rooms.

Then the filming begins, in an atmosphere of desperation and hostility, reinforced by one humorous piece of action from the film being made, already described. The camera elegantly tracks Constantine up a staircase to a landing where he smoothly karate-chops a grandly dressed woman, playing the ambassador's wife. Violence is so much cooler in movies than it is outside them on the set. The film ends with another echo, the director's own reflection of self-loathing, and a fragment of Thomas Mann warning about the tolls upon the artist: "I'm sick of portraying humanity without partaking of humanity." The artist's self absorption then, is the "holy whore" or what Mailer calls "the bitch goddess." Malcolm L. Johnson Real Art Ways, Downtown Hartford's version of New York's SoHo, is doing something of a favor to local connoisseurs of contemporary European film-making by presenting Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "Beware the Holy Whore" for a single performance tonight at 8.

Both humorous and despairing, this early 1970 film by one of Germany's leading younger film-makers is a movie about making movies, a sort of heavy-hearted "Day for Night." Infused with references to Godard one of its stars is Eddie Constantine, the American expatriate who was Lemmy Caution in and the feeling of unhappy sexuality that characterizes Antoniori and Warhol, "Beware the Holy Whore" consists of a fragmentary series of scenes set in the lobby of a Spanish hotel and a nearby mansion where the shooting of a murder mystery begins after many delays. Fastbinder's central figure is a violent and obnoxious young man named Jeff, who seems to be the film's director and producer and who is given to slapping around his ex-girlfriend and gulping down Cuba Libres. As played by Lou Castel, he is something of a cross between the degenerate film star played by Terence Stamp in Fellini's "Toby Dammit" and a physically idealized Warhol. Another central character is played 'Join tlx celebmtion! .10:00 TONIGHT. 11:40 12:00 I 12:15 12:30 New Adventures of Wonder Woman Previewed Above Quark fiD Donny and Mane Cross Wits New York Report Let's Make a Deal Marcus Welby (D 8:30 Wall Street Week g5SZ) Midnight Special 5) Joe Franklin 12:37 1:00 1:15 1:20 1:30 2:00 2:01 brillionc solo concert by the performer cities coll "the most romantic singer in the CPO Sharkey 0 Merv Griffin Knicks Basketball Mary Tyler Moore 9:00 Masterpiece Theater (R) i INCREDIBLE HULK NEW SHOWTHE HULK MEETS HIS MATCH! CHnUrlCl 24 sbodcsstw; SfJWCE CD CD Movie "The Comic." Seven on the Road Good News Ironside Night Final Movie "Whispering Smith." iiuimmi iJLMii iimihu mn QCD The Incredible Hulk Previewed Above Program information is provided by the stations.

While The Courant strives for accuracy in its list ings, It cannot be responsible for station or network changes made without notification. Introducing -si a riMMBMIILMMMMBilHBlHHHiri FILM RATING GUIDE For Parents and Their Children mm mm Bristol Mall Cinema 1 4 2 Looking for Mr. Goodbar 7,9 20 The Betsy 7:15.9 30 Enfield Cine 1, 2, 3 4 4 Casey's Shadow 7, Semi-Tough 7:30, 9 40 Smokey and the Bandit 7:40, 9:50 Boys in Company 7: 1 5, 9:30. Cinema Virgin Dreams 2:45, 7, 9:40. Prisoner of Love 1:30, 8:20.

Kensington Cinema Gauntlet 7:30. 9:30. Meriden Mall 1 A 2 Straight Time 7, 9. Boys in Company 7, 9:25. New Meriden Twin Semi-Tough 7, 9 Turning Point 7:15.

9:25. Middletown Moviehouse 1 4 2 Slapsho! 7, 9. Southington Oueen Plaia World's Greatest Lover 7:30, 9:15. Showcase Heroes 7:15, 9:20. Torrington Parkade The Goodbve Girl 7, 9.

Warner Saturday Night Fever 7, 9:15. Waltingford Center Gauntlet 7:30, 9:30. Waterburv Cinema 2, 3 4 4 The Fury 1.30, 4, 7, 9:45 House Calls 1:30, 3:30, 5 30, 7:30, 9:30 -Goodbye Girl 1:15, 3:10, 5:05, 7:15, 9:30 Bovs in Company 1:45.4:15,7,9:30. Winsted Strand Choirboys 7, 9. Springfield Cinema Thunderboldt Lighlfoot 7.

Gauntlet 9. West Springfield Showcase Cinemas Saturday Night Fever 2:10. 7 30, 9 45, 12 -Gray Ladv Down 2:15, 7:30. 9:45. 12 Fury 2:15, 7:15, 9:30, 11:45.

House Colls 2, 4, 6. 8. 10, 12 High Anxiety 2, 3 50, 5:40, 7 30, 9:30. 11:30 Star Wars 2:15, 7:30. 9:50, 11:55.

Straight Time 2, 3:55, 5 50. 7:45. 9:50. 11:55. Goodbye Girl 2:15, 7:30, 9:50, 12.

GENERAL AUDIENCES AllAanAdmlnad MOVIE SCENE IN ANDNEAR HARTFORD Hartford Art Cinema Black Silk Stockings 1J 3 40, 6:30,9:20. Oriental Babv Sitler 11:30.2:20. 5:10,8 Atheneum Obscure Obiect o) Desire 7:30, 9:30. Cinestudie Drive In 7:30. Bobby Deerfield 9:20.

Cinema City Blue Collar 2, 4:15, 6 45, 9 -One and Only 2:15, 4, 5:45, 7:30, 9:15 Star Wars 2:05, 4:25, 7, 9:15. Turning Point 230, 4:45, 7:15, 9:30. Webster China De Sade New York City Woman, from 1 p.m. Avon Park 1 2 Equus 7. 9:20 Semi Tough 7:15.

9KJ5. Twin 1 1 2 Julia 7:15, 9:30 The Betsy 7,9:15. Berlin Cine 1 1 2 Blue Collar 7:30. 9:40 Julia 7:10, 9:20. Bloomfield Mall East Hartford Cinema 1 Semi-Tough 7, 9.

Manchester UA Theaters East High Anxiety 7 30, 9:15. Straight Time 7:40, 9:40 Casey's Shadow 7:15, 9:30. New Britain Palace Virgin Dreams 2:45, 7, 9:45. Prisoner Of Love 1:30, 8:20. Newingtsn Cinema 1, 2 4 3-High Anxiety 7:15, 9:15.

Straight Time 7:20, Shadow 7:10, 9:30. Newington Gauntlet 7, 9:35. Vernon Cine 1 (V 2 Semi-Tough 7:30, 930 Julia 7:10, 9:20. West Hartford Elm Close Encounter 7, 9:30. The Movies High Anxiety 10:35, 12:30, 2:25, 4:15, 6:05, 8.

10 Straight Time 10, 12, 1:55, 3:50, 5:45. 7:45, 9:45 Casey's Shadow 10, 12:20, 2:40, 5, 7:15.9:30. Wethersfield Paris 1 A 2 Semi-Tough 7, 9 Smokey and the Bandit 7:15,9. Windsor Plaza Gauntlet 7 30, 9:30 est IT 4 i FG PARENTAL eUDANCt (UOOEtTEO Sana Maaarial May Not to Suttabi. For PtToenaawj it Charcoal filtration improves instead of removing it! A1 1 RESTRICTED Untfar 17 requires ectxjmpanyine) reran tor Adult Guardian 100 mm.

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