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-CM By ERNEST LEOGRANDE in B'filyn By KATHLEEN CARROLL Rated R. At Cinema to -ar eellT Al Pacino: cracking jokes and vaults 'ril. (M CJ a -J bly touching as Sonny, his huge, sad eyes revealing inner torment. He makes Sonny such a rich, volatile character that it's possible to ignore certain gaps in the script. The girls, Sonnys supposed victims, are all marvelous.

Charles Dnrning, his honest frustration', actually makes one sympathize with the coos' position. As Sonny's respective Susan Peretz is a hysterical, dinging vine and Chris in a remarkably moving telephone conversation with Pacino, seems on the very brink of self-destruction. The movie deais with the subject of homosexuality Jn very frank terms without ever seeming insensitive. The language may seem insensitive. It's angry gutter-t a 1 but, to the Sonnys of the -world, it's their last defense against a society that continually conspires against them.

them, shouting "Attica!" and generally enjoying his new role as a media star Sonny must keep everyone "happy inside. His hostages, the female bank clerks (led by -Penny Allen, an unflappable, mother hen-type), stop being jittery after Sonny explains, "I'm a Catholic. I don't want to hurt anybody." There are occasional attacks of nerves, but mostly they relish the adventure, enjoying the fact that they are heroines on all three television networks. Sonny keeps trying to tell anyone who'll listen that he's "dying" even his male lover, now a patient in Bellevue. Justice' has -its cruel triumph in the end, cruel because we have come to care about everyone involved.

Al Pacino, in stunning contrast to his constricted performance of Michael Corleone in the "Godfather" films, is brilliantly erractic and terri Embarked on a new career, Eddie Fisher has been talking: a blue streak for publication these days, about how he got hooked on speed through a New York doctor, his compulsive gambling, assessments of hia three former wives and, most of all, how it feels to confront yourself with the. question, "Whatever became of me?" This week he appears as co-host on The Mike Douglas Show to tell the television I ever talk about myself he said. Doesn't it make a person feel a little naked, all this public confession "I think someone might learn something from it," he said, in a conversation from home in Los Angeles. think it' good to talk about these -things, instead of hiding them 1 under a rug. "Like people say about my faee lift, "Why do you talk about it? They've been having it done since time began, but you don't about it.

It's iike you belong to a secret organization. "I had suitcases under and over my eyes, and my face was sagging a little bit. Now I feel like the 21-year-old Cajun-Lrish girl I'm going with." Eddie is 47. "And, no, it didn't hurt. I ate a whole pizza right afterward." Eddie, not quite 5 feet 9, weighs 155 now, but he got down to 118 when the amphetamines the doctor was injecting him with in the guise of vitamins and hormones began to take their toll.

He was one of the doctor's many celebrity patients. The resultant addiction didn't disappear with the doctor's exposure, and the singer had to be hospitalized to kiek it. On top of that, five years ago he de- dared bankruptcy with almost a million bucks of debts. He dropped out of show business. Last February his friend Buddy Hackett persuaded him to try a comeback and now a whole new career has started.

Claiming he's bursting with health. Eddie said "I don't like the word 'comeback. I just toot a little vacation, bat it's a big mistake to stop. You have to keep working all the time. People think being a singer is just going out and singing songs, but I go out and fight to entertain people." He was married three times to Debbie Reynolds, Elizabeth Taylor and Connie Stevens and he has son and daughter (actress Carrie) by Debbie and two daughters -A BANQUET OF UU6HS!" One.

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Using this provocative real-life incident (material that: must have represented an enormous challenge), director Sidney Lumet and screenwriter Frank Pierson have now wade a movie, "Dog Day Afternoon," which is bitingiy funny and wonderfully compassionate. At its most immediate level, this film is a gut-level human comedy the bungling of these hopelessly inept bank robbers causing howls of laughter from the very moment they begin their long siege but Lumet, with his depth of understanding and sociological awareness, is able to give the film the added reality and texture of a city experience, to flesh it out until it becomes something with a deeper impact: a human tragedy about wasted lives. Sonny is one who seems fated to live from one dog day to the next. He might just as well be in a mine field, touching off disaster wherever he goes. Even in selecting his partners in crime, Sonny has no luck at all.

One of them (Gary Springer) begs off in total panic after guns are already drawn and the crime in process. The other, Sal (played by John Cazale, who simply oozes gloom), is a limp sad-sack hardly to be relied on for his brains; when Sonny wants to know what country they should escape to, Sal offers Wyoming as' a possibility. It's up to Sonny do everything. He must "cool down" the army of trigger-tense cops who've descended upon the bank full fury. When he's not pleasing the crowds throwing money to hng "The Messiah' with the Brooklyn Philharmonia Try-out for the B.P.

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He's lambasted Debbie a bit in print recently, but this afternoon he wasn't having anjr of that. "Let's leave Debbie alone, he said. "She's a wonderful girl next door." His new girl friend. Terry Richard, is from Louisiana. "She's a lioness." he said.

"Leo. The same sign as me, but we never fight. Connie is a Leo, but we couldn't spend two days together without fighting. Now we're the best of friends. She's my best girl friend." When be made a sentimental return to the Concord' Hotel in the Catskills this summer, Carrie joined him onstage for a duet.

That wrung him out emotionally, he said. "I remember bringing her up on stage when she was 6 months old in the Tropicana in Vegas," he said. "I just spoke to her two minutes be--fore this phone call, and we may do a show together in London. 'Carrie Carrie, 18; appeared in the movie "Shampoo" and has a scene where she's absolutely explicit about her sexual interest in Warren Beatty. "When I saw it, I blushed." Eddie admitted, "but she's a fine actress and a very intellectual young lady.

She writes poems. I don't do any of those things. I just sing." Just before goodbye, he said said, not sang "Give my regards to Broadway." And he said be hoped he'd be there ere long. On a stage. FEBRUARY LADIES.

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