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1 SECTION FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 8. 1985 SJje Mania 2ournal the Atlanta constitution 5 i ilEls linr t7- Sting looks sharp in documentary about his band i MOVIE REVIEW 1 If By Scott Cain Start Writer "Bring on the Night" is a smart, slick and flattering portrait of Sting, the rock star who makes nearly all other rock stars look dull, stupid, ugly and untalented. The documentary contains final rehearsals and the triumphant first concert of Sting's current band, which played at the Fox Theatre last month. Except for Sting, who is white and English, the band consists entirely of black Americans chosen for their background in jazz.

Sting, who is probably worth $100 million, pretends he is fearful that fans will not accept his new style. He needn't have worried. When the concert takes place, at a crammed theater in Paris, the audience is eating out of his hand from the moment the curtain goes up. Since the world's youth would gladly follow him anywhere, we should all be grateful that Sting is not a latter-day Hitler. FATHER AND SON: Gene Hackman and Matt Dillon star in this spy thriller.

MDQ Hackman, Dillon hit bull's-eye as father, son MOVIE REVIEW By Eleanor Ringel Film Editor urges him to meet Walter halfway, to which he responds dryly, "If I met him halfway, we'd both fall asleep." However, falling asleep is the last thing either Lloyd boy has to worry about when Mom disappears in Paris. Father and son fly there to find her and find themselves in the middle of a decades-old score-to-settle. It turns out Walter isn't just the slumbering lumber-yard manager he seems; he's an ex-spy who can speak several languages, handle a gun and make contact with glamor- From the evidence of "Bring on the Night," Sting lives on the rock 'n' roll equivalent of Mount Olympus, far removed from the fray. He has an argumentative hatchet man, Miles Cope-land, to tend to messy details like salaries. At the outset of the movie, bass gui nie and and Matt Dillon, who turn out to have a surprising on-screen chemistry.

Hackman plays Walter Lloyd, a Dallas lumber-yard manager. To his son Chris (Dillon), Walter is an all-too-typical parental unit affable, ineffectual, slightly foolish. The sort of man who gets on your young nerves because he has to be reminded a green light means go. When Mrs. Lloyd (Gayle Hunni-cutt, who looks as if she should be dating Chris instead of married to Walter) sets off on a solo European vacation, she tells Chris she'd love to see a reconciliation between him and his Dad while she's gone.

She The audience-grabbing elements in the new movie "Target" are so clearly defined that it must' ve been an exceptionally easy sell in that first take-a- meeting lunch. On one level, it's a well-told spy thriller. On another, it's an affecting, often humorous look at a father-son relationship. On any level, it's a sturdy vehicle for the talents of Gene Hackman (here, reunited with director Arthur Penn, who launched Hackman's film career with "Bon UOV125 Opening today: "Target," a thriller starring Gene Hackman and Matt Dillon as a Texas father and son pursued by spies in Europe. "Bring on the Night," a musical documentary built around Sting's organization of a new band.

Not available for review were "That Wa Then This Is Now," starring Emilio Estevez, and "La Chevre," a French comedy starring Pierre Richard and Gerard Depardieu. In repertory: Six new French films "Le Grain de Sable," "Les Nanas," "Louise L'lnsoumise," "Monsieur de Pourceaugnac," "Rouge-Gorge" and "Anthracite" are showing this week at the Screening Room. Scott Cain ART Our critic recommends: Terence La Noue's rich abstractions are featured at Eve Mannes Gallery. The New York painter will be present at the black-tie reception tomorrow evening from 7 to 10. Through Dec.

21. 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Monday-Friday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday. Free.

351-6651. Catherine Fox mUSlCCLUOS Our critic recommends: Country music stars Earl Thomas Conley, John Anderson and the Bellamy Brothers will share the stage with Georgia's Own, a local band, Saturday during a free concert starting at 1 p.m. at Stone Mountain Park. Russ DeVault CLASSICAL Our critic recommends: Zdenek Macal, newly appointed music director of the Milwaukee Symphony, conducts the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and Roussel's "Bacchus and Ariadne" Suite No. 2 tonight and Saturday at Symphony Hall, at 8:30 p.m.

Pianist Stephen Hough will be the soloist in the Fifth Piano Concerto by Saint-Saens. Tickets Flutist James Galway joins William Fred Scott and the Atlanta Symphony in concert at Symphony Hall Sunday at 8 p.m. Tickets Tickets for both events available at the box office, 15th and Peachtree streets, or charge by calling 892-2414. i r- Derrick Henry DAflCE Our critic recommends: New York choreographer John McFall's new work, "The Watchers," a contemporary ballet set to Benjamin Britten music, is the centerpiece of the Atlanta Ballet's program this week at the Civic p.m. tonight; 2 and 8 p.m.

Saturday. Tickets: J7.50-J25.25. Atlanta Civic Center, Piedmont Avenue at Ralph McGill Boulevard. 892-3303. Helen C.

Smith THEATER Our critic recommends: The Center for Puppetry Arts presents Xperi-mental Puppetry Theater this weekend. The group will perform "Black and White," consisting of three pieces in black light and three in white light 873-3391). The Great American Mime Experiment performs "The Elopement" and two absurdist works by Samuel Beckett at at the Dancer's Collective Theatre in Little Five Points 377-5268). Nexus Theatre presents "Kill Hamlet," a rhapsody on the theater $6 students, senior citizens, theater professionals; 688-2500.) Linda Sherbert if Sting 3P See TARGET tarist Darryl Jones wonders whether this will be a jazz band in the true sense, with each musician having equal input. The answer is soon provided.

Sting makes all decisions about everything. Jones is not interviewed later to reveal whether he is disappointed, but musicians don't usually argue with Success, and the venture is unquestionably a hit. There's no getting around the fact that Sting is innately musical and a master entertainer. The tunes he composes for "Bring on the Night" are not hummable like the best-known songs of the Police, but his Caribbean-flavored rhythms are unfailingly You can sway back and forth to his music all night, even if you can't sing along. And he is not known as "the thinking fan's rock star" for nothing.

His well-turned lyrics run a gamut, ranging from pleas for peaceful coexistence among the superpowers to poetic fantasies about blue turtles on the rampage. Director Michael Miner's Apted gives the film a glossy veneer appropriate to Sting's glamorous lifestyle. The rehearsals take place at a gorgeous chateau in the French countryside. Sting and the other musicians are shown breaking bread at a gigantic circular table and, apparently feeling on top of the world, they noisily regale each other with zany anecdotes. The sumptuousness of the setting would make anyone except an Arab oil sheik jealous.

If the American jazzmen were forced to swallow their pride or compromise their principles to take orders from Sting, at least they could console themselves that few people ever get to live so high on the hog. 'SNL' newcomers are Randy Quaid (top left), Robert Downey (top center) I and (bottom row, left to right) Nora Dunn, Danitra Vance, Anthony Michael Hall, Terry Sweeney, Joan CusackandJon Lov'rtz. Is 'Saturday Night' still live and well? By Bill King Staff Writer miniseries. The rest are pretty much unknown. Articulate, they aren't at least, not when meeting the press, as they did recently in New York.

Asked why he'd go from an established film career to a late-night TV show, Quaid said: "I thought it would be fun to do. I don't think it will hurt me. I'll always have a film career, He shrugged his shoulders. "Randy's really looking forward to this," Michaels joked. right Saturday when the season debut, hosted by Madonna, introduces the all-new cast: Joan Cusack, Robert Downey, Nora Dunn, Anthony Michael Hall, Jon Lovitz, Randy Quaid, Terry Sweeney, Danitra Vance and Dennis Miller (a late addition).

Hall, only 17, is known for the recent Candles," "The Breakfast Club" and "Weird Science." Quaid is a noted film character actor with "The Last Picture Show," "The Last Detail" and "Midnight Express" among his credits. Downey co-starred with pal Hall in "Weird Science" and plays solini's son in an upcoming NBC NEW YORK The' eleventh season of "Saturday Night Live" premieres Saturday (11:30 p.m. on Channel 11) with another new cast and the same old question: Can the show regain the luster of its glory days in the 1970s when Chevy Chase, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray headed up the Not Ready For Prime Time Players? "SNL's" creator and original executive producer, Lome Michaels, apparently thinks so, since he's rejoined the show after five, years away. He'll begin finding Out if he's Bring on the Night: A documentary about Sting's new band; directed by Michael Apted. Movie Guide: code rating, PG-13; sex, none; violence, none; nudity, none; language, profanity is used comically.

The squeamish may be disturbed by hospital footage of the birth of Sting's fourth child. tllll Iff I See SNL 9P King will slow down but not abdicate In an action-packed debut, Charles Branson's "Death Wish 3" grabbed top spot In the national box-office sweepstakes. In second place Is "A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge." The thriller has not yet opened In Atlanta. "Jagged Edge," leader the previous week, fell to fourth place but ticket sales dropped only 3 percent. Here are the top movies: By Russ DeVault Stall Writer ftifii 1 i of musicians that includes the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton and the Beatles.

King doesn't mind talking about the concerts he does for charity and the ones he does in prisons, but he's reluctant to discuss his influence on other musicians. "Oh," he says, "people kept telling me that John Lennon said he played guitar like B.B. King, but I didn't believe it even when I saw the quote in a magazine. I never did get to meet him personally, but we talked on the phone once, and I asked him if he really said that and he said, "Along about that time 1969, I but it seems to me the time is right to do those things." As expected, "those things" revolve around the music played by King, whose 50th album, "Six Silver Strings," was released Sept. 16, his 60th birthday.

"I'm thinking about certain albums I want to do," he says. "There's five or six that I'd really like to make before I can't play any more." It's difficult, of course, to imagine B.B. King being anywhere except on a concert stage, and it's all but imposible to imagine how the blues and other pop music would sound without him. Not only has he taken his music virtually everywhere in the U.S. and to 54 other countries, King has influenced a list MOVIE GROSS 1.

Death Wish 3 $5.3 million 2., Elm Street 2 $3.9 million 3. To Live and Die in L.A. $3.6 million 4. Jagged Edge $3.1 million 5. Back to the Future $2.4 million 6.

Commando $1.9 million 7. Krush Groove $1.8 million 8. Agnes of God $1.4 million 9. Remo Williams $1.4 million 10. Better Off Dead $1.1 million The thrill is far from gone and "Lucille," his guitar, remains the most important figure in B.B.

King's life. But after 37 years of doing about 300 shows annually, he has realized he can't go on forever and that he needs to slow down and do some things for himself. "I'm not about to retire, but I do plan to cut down on my traveling," he says. "I'm thinking of certain things I'd like to do before I die. "Now, don't get me wrong," he quickly adds during a telephone interview earlier this week before a show in Dayton, Ohio.

"I'm not sick and I'm not ready to die tomorrow, BLUES MAN B.B. KING: 'I'm not about to retire, but I do plan to cut down on my See KING 6P BEST FILE COPY AVAILABLE FOR MICROFILMING.