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6 Section 2 Chicago Tribune. Tuesday. June 5. 1979 Learn tomorrow's dances today! The Promise' a love story that's broken in many places ARTHUR HURRAY'S 9 1 1 H. VTj BK mm eV am 51 bl I i' mmmmv riVt We've got the greatest sound the disco beat the best touch-disco teachers.

We've got the biggest inventory of disco dances: Hustle, Swing. Merengue, ChaCha, Samba, Rumba. Slow dance VHLf and other -touch' dances. yirthUr3HurraiJ DISCO DANCE STUDIO There only one way to move BCrrX ME PROMISE" begins with a scene that 1 1 could have been the final scene in a II 1940s love story. A young man and worn-.

an stand on a bluff overlooking the ocean and pledge their constant love, promising never to say goodbye. They seal their promise with a kiss, the music swells, and then, we expect, the credits should appear announcing "The End." But this is the 1970s, and the most constant gimmick in today's love stories involves a woman is either terminally ill, irreparably crippled, or maimed. "Love Story" started the trend. "The Other S'e of the Mountain, Parts 1 and 2" gave us a crippled skier. "Ice Castles" was about a blind ice skater.

And "Voices" involves a deaf woman. It's disease-of-the-month time at the movies, and so as soon as the lovers kiss in "The Promise," we know it's only a matter of time before whammo! the young woman is going to get badly. Films such as "The Promise" are nothing more than disaster films on a small scale. Part of their morbid appeal is that at a safe distance we can watch someone else go through a lot of misery. ort a dance floor-together! CALL NOW Downtown 332-5340 Morton Grove 966-3770 Barrington 382-2230 Joliet 815729-2057 Kankakee 815939-3022 Prove it to yourself with a FREE INTRODUCTORY LESSON for one or both of you Adults only, i TRIBUNE MINI-REVIEW Big screen traffic accident "THE PROMISE" Directed by Ollbert Cat; acreenplay by Otrry Michael White; photo, graphed by Ralph Wooleey; muele by David Shirt; produced by Fred Welntreub and Paul Heller; a Univtraal raleaee it neighborhood theatere.

Rated PO. i THE CAST Nancy' Merle Kalhlaan OuMan Michael Staphan Celllna Marian laatrlca Straight Or. Lawranea Luckanblll Ban Avary Mlcrywl O'Hara AMUSEMENT LAST 2 WEEKS Kathleen Quinlan: Wasted in an artificial role. And, wouldn't you know it, on his first trip into San Francisco he falls in love with the work of a young woman photographer. He wants to put her photographs in the lobby of his building.

Now guess who the photographer is. And then guess what dumbbell doesn't recognize her. And oh forget it. There's no point in going on. Reaching our tearducts with a pliers, "The Promise" plays itself out to a predictable conclusion.

Kathleen Quinlan is an attractive actress, but she Everybody's doing it! lurn from the PROFESSIONALS "MESMERIZING -Dovtd Elliott, Sun-TImN IT'S DELIGHTFUL -Undo Winer, Wgn WINNER Wi cm fetch anyone to enjoy it 1978 Pulitzer Prize) Special introductory offer Is wasted here in a thoroughly artificial role. Let's without further obligation FIRST 100 NEW STUDENTS OVES 21 ONLY at each location 4 lessons $13.50 (30 moutea eacAl SURE ENOUGH, about 15 minutes into "The Promise," the young couple is driving down a dark, country road on their way to a marriage by a jus-tice-of-the-peace, when all of a a sudden there is a truck carrying lumber coming right at them. Screeeech! The young woman (Kathleen Quinlan, the lovely schizophrenic in "I Never Promised You a Rose is thrown through the windshield of the car. Her face is crushed. She requires a hundred stitches.

Her boyfriend (Stephen Collins) is comparatively lucky; he only winds up in a coma for -a week. All of which pleases the young man's mother, a true harridan (played by Beatrice Straight, the Oscar-winning wife of anchorman Peter Finch in She doesn't like her son to be dating this comparatively lower-class girl. After all, her son is heir to a great architectural firm, and the woman he's dating turns out to be an orphan whose mother was an alcoholic and whose father was a convict. 'Does all of this sound like a soap opera? Then you understand "The The mother promptly strikes a deal with' the young woman, as she lays in her hospital bed, her face covered with bandages. If the girl will promptly get out of town and never see her son again.

Beatrice Straight will pay up to $100,000 for her plastic surgery. In a daze, the young woman accepts. After her boyfriend comes out of his coma, his mother tells him that his girl friend died in the car accident. Nice. mother, huh? Well, let's face it, when was the last time you saw a nice mother in the movies? Anyway, the boy remains on the East Coast', while his girlfriend is in San Francisco having a face job that only makes her more beautiful.

It looks like their relationship is permanently broken, as is the promise they made at the beginning of the picture. BUT WAIT and you only have to wait about five minutes guess the location of the new build--ing that the young man's architectural firm is going to design. Yes, that's right, San Francisco. hope she gets to play someone healthy real soon. Stephen Collins is pretty much of a righteous stiff.

The most lively character in the film is the horrible mother played by Beatrice Straight. At least she's got some spunk. The rest of the performers in "The Promise" are lifeless. It's almost as if they" are intimidated by the story. It's fun to speculate why we're getting so many films with crippled women.

Could it be a backlash by screenwriters against the New American Woman? Are screenwriters intimidated by healthy, vigorous women? Are they unable to write such characters? If so, this is one trend that I hope runs out in a hurry. These crippled -women love stories aren't movies they're traffic accidents. Fred Aotairc DANCE STUDIOS Hi 10 1 647-7494 Fir fall iittllt PHONE Ucitiii uinit ii tittiii 1 NEAR NORTH 936 N. Michigan Milwaukee ROGERS N. Maptewood Marion DOWNERS GROVE-.

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