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"THE FRESHEST. MOST ENGAGING OF THE she.does comes to seem more like a succession of performed scenes that a developing Director Sidney J. Furie lingers over close-ups, especially of his star, as if the television sale were DISNEY LIVE-ACTION A SOLID PIECE OF FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT." Vittorio DeSica's Final Masterpiece! 12 Port 27, 1975 Xoi gngtta Mmti MOVIE REVIEW if 'Sheila' Sugarcoated I From Book to Screen Charles Champlin, Los Angeles Times "A powerful and affecting story. A deeply impressive climax to an extraordinary career." Charles Cfiamplin, Lot Angeles Times BY CHARLES CHAMPUN i Timet Entertainment Editor I Kmanucl LWolf presents -4 ta v. I IlllJriO fllLU 4T-:" i 7 r-r-WZ AN UNEXPECTED i a i e-a-ii THRILLER FROM WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS ion "4 'SHEILA LEVINE IS DEAD AND LIVING IN NEW YORK' A Paramount Picture.

Producer Hrrv Korshak. Director Sidney J. Furle. Script Kenny Solmi AND Gall Parent from the nov. el by Parent.

Photography Donald M. Morgan. Editor Argyle Nelson. Production design Fernando Carrere. Music Michel Le-grand.

Featuring Jeannlt Berlin, Roy Schelder, Rebecca Dlanna Smith, Janet Brandt, Sid Melton, Charles Woolf, Leda Rogers, Jack Bernardl, Allen Secher, Talley Parker, Jonn Miller, Noble Wllllngham, Sharon Martin Goldman. Running time: 1 SO mln. MPAA-rated: PO (some parental caution advised). Color All Allitd Artim RtlnM I UtfMU tin Tiff irteusicau EXCLUSIVE ENGAGEMENT NOW SHOWING HON.W. t'M It It AT.

tUIL I 4 tM imminent The welcome surprise of the movie Is Roy Scheider, best known as Gene Hackman's partner in "The French Connection." As the doctor in Sheila's life, he is both strong and sensitive and, he has a remarkable soliloquy near the end which is a consummate piece of romantic acting. In this new mode, Scheider is a terrific discovery, perfectly cast Dippy Roomie Fine as well as Sheila's dippy hippie roommate, with troubles of her own, is Rebecca Dianna" Smith. Talley Parker is very effective as a girlfriend who keeps finding that the sack always turns to ashes. The other parts are quick stereotypes Sid Melton and Janet Brandt as Sheila's parents, Leda Rogers a4 the Lesbian next door. Donald J.

Morgan did the capable cinematography and Fernando Carrere the production design was actually shot largely in Hollywood. "Sheila Levine" is a well-made film, an escapist fling in a time could use more of them. It is just that the land-change from Manhattan to Melrose Ave. seems to have been achieved at the cost of a vital nerve, which leaves the story line disappointingly thin and uninvolving, with the humor arising from calculation, not character. The happy ending is back but it looks a bit tentative, as if the painkiller would wear off at any moment "Sheila" opened Wednesday at the Village in Westwood.

alalM. I7-t4iri ffSff TECHNICOLOR' 1075 Wrt Otvy ProducHona And Laughter At Its Bestl 1 A New York book has become a Hollywood movie. "Sheila Levine Is Read and Living in New York" as a novel by Gail Parent caught the edgy, neurotic quality of Manhattan life. The raunchy and self-chiding humor at once masked and revealed the despairs and disappointments of the single girl unhappy with her singula-rity. "It declared its autobiographical truth (the spirit, if not the detailings), even to the character's uncertainty about what happened next Something surely would, which constituted a happy ending.

Magic Violins i'As scripted by the author and her husband, Kenny Solms, "Sheila Levine" becomes a romance whose up-' dated incidentials decorate a traditional Hollywood love story in which girl gets boy, girl loses boy, girl gets boy. The resolution, startling because it seemed to have been filed away and lost with such other staples as the honest cop, the good priest and the happy wife, is a happy ending, sure, undisguised, positive. I The results are a harmless enter- tainment for those who are weary of TECHNICOLOR 6 mi Dmf nm CHIP 'N DALE sterner realities and who can accept (or even enjoy) the fairly evident sit-come contrivings and manipulations. Even when the images do suggest dirty, muggy old New York, there is a velvet score by Michel Legrand, with a love theme announced repeatedly by falling-down-from-heaven violins, to reassure us all that what we have here is romance. Jeannie Berlin, first seen in "The Heartbreak Kid," is a talented actress who is interesting throughout the movie, although the script moves her with such speed from the tidy, traditional and awkwardly dressed girl from Harrisburg to career girl to woman in (or out) of love that what NOW PLAYING! CENTURY CITY WILSHIRt AREA CENTURY CITY Ptilt Cnury Plan 1 553 4291 LOS ANGELES Fanlai 653 3117 VENTURAfOXNAHQ AREAj OINARO Carnage Squat 1.485 6726 VENTURA 101 Ofive in 644 5595 LONG BEACHaAWEWOOOAREAn LAKEW0O0 LakmMXK) OnWt 2 531 99M IONS REACN Lakewood Dmt ln 424 9931 "PARAMOUNTMONTEBEILOEASA A.

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