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4- Section 2 Chicago Trlbgne, Friday, July 7, 1871 AMUHMINH. AMUSU)m Monssr nenrm r.lovlo Roviovv NEAR NORTH NEAR NORTH iKuiii5' mm-, mm 'Portnoys Comphinf; 0 SO ALEX PORTNOY has a sex oroblem. Bin deal. He The VIENNA State Opera BALLET has a marvelous sense of humor and agony about It all, which him more be- only makes TRIBUNE MINIRIVIBW Oy vey With Guest Star Dame MARGOT FONTEYN ii. ItlMtii'Mll tiiil-" Hli- lldlUlll gulling.

He also Is the victim of a conspiracy to force him to marry a Jewish girl, That's Alex the artist as victim. At least that is the Alex of the fine Philip Roth novel, "Portnoy's In the movie version, at the United Artists Theater, Alex has been, foreshortened. His energy is His zest for physical and TORTNOY'S COMPLAINT" I-iMim tnm Mi vi MM Iht PklllK Ritk wwlc if UiSSummi, Wwmt liff. BftTa TM' "CAIT Kll 0IN( i'SSL mh tiKm 4' Company ol 57 and Symphony Orcfmtn Friday, July 14, 8:00 P.M. SL July 15, 8.00 P.M.

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That energy, of course, is a direct function of Philip Roth's writing. Ernest Lehman, who served as script writer and director, has replaced Alex's energy with surprisingly tame and traditional Hollywood melodrama visuals, and when these visuals are matched with a soundtrack full of dirty language, the effect is depressing. The novel took the form of a 200-page stream-of-con sciousness confession by Alex to his silent psychiatrist, whereas the film looks like a series of conventional soap opera episodes. There's "Alex at with his mother Lee Grant neither as oppressive as Alex thinks of her In the book, nor as suffocatingly tender as she may have been by more objective standards. This Sophie Portnoy is simply a shrew.

There's "Alex in the Bathroom" which, while hardly explicit, manages to achieve a remarkable tastelessness. There's "Alex Comes of Age," a low of virginity sequence that Is painfully unorlgiqal and made tolerable only by a nice performance by Lewis Stadlen as one of Alex's greaseball friends. The film pays most of it's attention to Alex's relationship with The Monkey, the nickname of the gentile girl to whom Alex can physically relate. With the schmaltzy Michel Le-grand score soaring In the background, Richard Benjamin as Alex and Karen Black as The Monkey act very much like "Ryan O'Neal and All MacGraw in "Love Story." It is a Jhearts-and-flowers romance that achieves neither humor, 1 tastelessness, nor tenderness. There is a lot of dirty talk on sound track, but nothing explicit on the screen.

That ought to frustrate everybody. GeneSiskel "Told with rare lensnonsneu. It hu the perfection of a carted piece of Inca jewelry to witch the yoonf conple, to very much in love, tt the fib's outlet it to witness one of the few lenuinely moving scenei in recent movies. To tee their slow embrace at the film's end is to get back in touch with emotions that most moviemakers have too long forgotten." NOW APPEARING DON KNOTTS la Nell Simon's Hlloriois Comedy you can get LAST OF THE RED HOT LOVERS" II 000 0 graduaie credit at a Tribune PJBOO OPINING AU9UST 3 PETER MARSHALL (Hut tf TVl "HtRywi Storrtofto THI ONLY OAMI IN TOWN" to MO umniGs Institute FO.l TICKET IFOHMATIOM AND RCSZRVATIOriS, PIIONS 202-CC00 tt) fi tki czzz teaturing Sandra Rive end Raul Martin mm inSainM CnatiiiiStMitln if you act NOW PLAYIH3 otSdl. US, IIM 51 UM ft.

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