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2 Section 3 Chicago Tntsune. Friday, June 16, 1978 Movie: Tower Ticker By Aaron Gold 'Jaws 1 just too shallow for its own deep-water terror As .1 TRIBUNE MINI-REVIEW: Star fish Ve "JAWS Directed by Jwrmot Uw awMaa by Carl OotttM, an4 lkjnd tiOW, wun eliaem wtwl tNpm Wuct Mwiwd by WotaM tarn by ilm mm by Jonn WWianw; prooucM by WiaMwl O. bnuc and Dyto bnnv a UnlwreH nlmi UnrH) MtmM inlying Irnnre. turn THS CAST tnxry toySalMMar tun trady Urrabw Oxy Mayor Vaughen rWMIWM JOAN COLLINS no-punches-pulled steamy memoir "Past Imperfect," already is causing her problems, and it hasn't even been released in the United States, only in England. Her two teen-agers, Sasha and Tara, are so upaet with her that they have moved out (she's now married to producer Ron Kass) and have moved in with their father, Tony Newley.

BUI Pullinsi will follow "Cabaret" at Candlelight Dinner Playhouse with "Hello Dolly" opening Aug. l. And it was 20 years ago this Friday that Pullinsi, as an 18-year-old college freshman in Washington, D.C., revolutionized regional theater with the first dinner theater. THAT ATTRACTIVE woman hovering around Mikhail Baryihnlkoy during his stay here for the International Dance Festival at the Opera House was none other than "King Kong" star Jessica Lange. After Sunday's final performance, the young couple sped away to Michael Butler' Oak Brook estate for some badly needed rest end privacy.

City Hall insiders now are favoring Bart Bom to replace John Hanly as chairman of the HnKa lrfrr Kn Dr. Hun CoHbli Una A mm Andrew anyCa 1,. fr Mr 1, I Board of Elections. Burns Roy Scheider (Inset) coes shark hunting again to destroy the Great White that's threatenlna Cindy Grover In this scene from "Jaws 2." JUST AS "GREASE" is compelling only when its main star, John Travolta, is on the screen, "Jaws 2" is worth watching only when its leading player is on camera. According to the credits, actor Roy Scheider is the leading star of "Jaws 2." Yet Scheider, a strong actor, isn't the leading player of "Jaws 2." It's the shark.

At a recent preview screening of "Jaws 2," the audience hissed when the shark failed to make an expected lethal entrance at the beginning of the picture. The audience was primed for mayhem. After the original "Jaws" opened to record business in 1975, many other films featuring a variety of killer animals were produced. But none has had the impact of "Jaws." Let's face it: There's something special about that shark. It's a full-blown movie star, now with two flicks under its fin.

THE NEW FILM picks up the original story four years later. The New England vacation village of Amity is trying to pick itself up off the economic floor. All those battles with a Great White shark have forced vacationeers to swim clear of Amity. Robert Shaw, who played Quint the shark killer in the original "Jaws," died at the end of the first picture, so he isn't in the sequel. Richard Dreyfuss, the fish expert in the original, didn't want to appear in the sequel, at any price.

Only Scheider, the police chief, and his wife (Lorraine Gary), the mayor (Murray Hamilton), and Hendricks (Jeffrey Kramer), remain from the original project The story of the sequel in simple: Another Great White shark begins killing swimmers and boaters near Amity, just as a major Amity condominium deal is about to be completed. Once again, the mayor of the village doesn't want to shut down the beaches for fear of queering the town's economy. This, of course, is unbelievable because the same attitude cost many lives four years earlier. the film was completed around Christmas, one director had been fired and another had gotten Into a fistfight with actor Scheider. As in the first picture, the mechanical shark (dubbed "Bruce" for the first film) was torn apart by electrolysis arid by the strong ocean currents.

And yet the shark never has looked better. "Jaws 2" does entertain because the shark looks good. Even though we know that this is a mechanical model, frequently it looks real. To watch an audience react wildly to "Jaws 'ii A rf Mi "Jaws 2" turns out to be a mano a mano between Scheider and the shark. The script suggests' that sharks talk to each other and that the word was passed la the Atlantic Ocean shark beds that Scheider should be nailed for killing one of their, brothers.

But before the film's jrand finale of head-to-snout combat, we are treated to a number of shark attacks at the rate of about one every 15 to 20 minutes. The objects of most of the attacks are Amity Island teen-agers busy sailing instead of working during their summer vacations. FRANKLY. THERE Isn't much more to the picture than that The teen-agers in the film are at their most Interesting when they are screaming for their lives. When they are not being attacked, "Jaws 2" offers teen-age action even less inspired than "Beach Blanket Bingo." These kids splash about in the small sailboats, throwing water-filled balloons at couples busy making out Wow.

Considering all of the problems "Jaws 2" encountered during its production last fall, it should come as no surprise there isn't much on the screen other than the shark attacks. Before Third Kind" Instead, was a solid piece of action filmmaking. Its nonshark action was bolstered by a vivid performance by Dreyfuss, who ener- fizes every film in which he appears, and by haw, who in some ways was just as fearsome as the shark he was trying to capture. "Jaws 2," by comparison, is empty. Scheider does his pained, tight-lipped number very well.

But the day after you see "Jaws 2," you won't remember anything but the shark attacks. For a film about a deep-water terror, "Jaws 2" is really quite shallow. FILM NOTES: Parents who kept their children away from the first "Jaws" may be wondering if they should do the same for "Jaws 2." It's hard to advise parents, but the new film, to me, appears to be less bloody and more silly. currently is director of elections in County Clerk Stanley Kusper'i office. WITH THE Equal Rights Amendment coming up for a vote again next week in the Illinois House, Friday's City Club luncheon debate between Phyllis Schlafly and Carol Bellows is turning into a hot ticket And Carol Burnett and Mario Thomas have asked friends for a detailed report of the Bismarck Hotel debate that's expected to draw some 900 persons, including reporters from major national news organizations.

DICK GRASSFIELD snared several boxes of Pop Rocks that he'll give awav to Youngsters at his 2" is to wonder what is the source of this attraction to a shark. Frankly, I can't improve upon the theories expressed during the success of the first picture namely, that the shark is some kind of primal threat, shrouded in phallic fear, attacking man and woman when they are at their most vulnerable in an alien environment: water. AS TO HOW "Jaws 2" compares to the' original, there is no comparison. The original, directed by Steven Spielberg, who rejected the sequel and made "Close Encounters of the Gene Sskel regularly reviews the movie scene at 5 and 10 p.m. on Channel 2 News.

Mikhail Baryshnikov Gene Siskel GET-AWAY-GUIDE GET-AWAY-GUIDE GET-AWAY-GUIDI GET-AWAY-GUIDE CATERING Resort We do all kinds catering. Weekend For Two 3 days2 nfghts $124.50 per couple A bottle of chilled champagne awaits your arrival at Carson InnNordic Hills. Dine Friday evening in the Scandinavian Room and dance til the wee hours In the Playroom Lounge. Golf Swimming Tennis Sauna Whirlpool Fashion Gift Boutiques Your spedal weekend package also includes Saturday breakfast two Crassfield's Restaurants on Father's Day. (This hard candy, which explodes in the mouth, is a big hit on the West Coast but won't be marketed here till fall.) Us magazine is making enemies of press agents and managers across the country by promising the moon to get exclusive Interviews, then reneging on its promises.

Linda Ronstadt isn't crazy about the maga-sine either since it published her Malibu beach house address in a recent article that covered her relationship with California Gov. Jerry Brown. She now has put the house up for sale because the gawkers who came by the busload were driving her crazy. ELTON JOHN WAS a last-minute fill-in for John Travolta at the New York premiere of "Grease." The fans stomped their feet, whistled, and cheered several of the production numbers, and went wild with applause when it ended. The "Greased scene is a knockout musical number reminiscent of '50s Elvis Presley.

(In case you've been living In a cave, "Grease" opens area-wide Friday after a full night of preopening revelry Thursday at the State-Lake. And ABC's "20-20," jbow hosted by Hugh Downs, will devote a major portion its Tuesday show to "Grease" producer Allan Carr.) DENISE LE BRUN'S ONE-woman show at the Body Politic has been postponed until June 22. The Jroceeds from the sale of WMET-FM's 95'r Days of uper Summer '78 poster (available only at 7-Eleven stores) are being donated to the Muscular Dystrophy (Association. Chicagoan Linda Clifford, who'll sing ier disco hit, "If My Friends Could See Me Now," July and 8 at the Phoenix, will be named the No. 1 rhythm Send blues female artist for the year in the Cashbox poll "that'll be announced in July.

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Rod Stewart's drummer. Carmine Apple is flying here Sunday to conduct a drum symposium from 2 "to "4 p.m. at Zap Music, 3454 W. Fullerton Av. The dieters' section and menu at Jonathan Livingston Seafood is doing so well that Rich Melman is considering a similar plan at the Pump Room.

Just think, a whole meal at 600 calories, including dessert. And Judy Carter, the clever nadciancomedienne appearing with Bobby Goldsboro It the Blue Max, says, "I'm really into jogging. I just ought the complete book of running, and already I'm tp to 15 pages a day!" Aaron Gold reports on people in the news Saturdays on Channel 9' 10 o'clock news and again on "Night Beat" After the movie. a treasure of a mini vacation! HILTON $96.95 4 days3 nights from $103.50 June 30, July 1 and 2 INCLUDES: Room for 3 nights, Dinner in Baker's Wife or Smuggler's Cove 2 nights ($10 per person allowance), Dinner-Playhouse ticket one night, Breakfast 3 mornings. per person, double occupancy, plus tax.

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