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THE BOSTON GLOBE THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 1 1. 1982 49 1 Iti Helmick show is a work of art REVIIWSIMOVII PERSPECTIVES these works can be read on either a personal or cosmic level. I Creepshow agyp i I A 'I '71 if 1 WttJ CREEPSHOW Directed by George Romero, written by Stephen King, starring E. G.

Marshall. Hal Holbrooke Adrienne Barbeau, Leslie Nielsen, Carrie Nye and Fritz Weaver, at the Cinema 57 and suburbs, rated R. By Michael Blowen Globe Staff When George Romero, one of the best directors of contemporary horror films. Joins forces wth Stephen King, one of the best wrfters of contemporary horror fiction, you'd expect to be jolted out of your seat with terrifying special effects and startling ghouls. Unfortunately, except for the final episode in "Creep-show' the thrills are g4ie.

Romero, the director, of "Night of the Living Dead" and "Dawn of the Dead." has fashioner five short stories in the style of a horror comic book. As the pages are turned, the cartoon characters dissolve into live actors who desperately attempt to breathe life into their stereotypical characters, In Chapter One. veteran actress Viveca Lindfors is woman charged with murdering her father years earlier. Except for her puffing on a Tiparillb and a humorous climax, this episode lacks the terisions required by the genre. By Christine Temin Special to The Globe The cross hovers above the palm of the hand, sending down rays which seem to pierce the unflinching skin.

The Image is part of traditional religious iconography -SL Francis receiving the stigmata but Boston artist Ralph Helmick recreates it in fresh. stimulating terms. The wooden sculpture is called "Tribute to Giotto," in reference to the Italian master's St. Francis cycle, and is one of a series of recent works, all wooden, all related in their style and relatively small scale, on display through Nov. 27 at the Stux Gallery.

36 Newbury st. Helmick's work is immediately startling, yet resonates in the mind long after the initial impact. He is an artist with something to say and a provocative way to say it. This show is, in short, one of the most exciting of the season. It also represents a departure In scale and subject for the artist, who used to work abstractly, creating wooden obelisks, and then moved on to full-length figures, one of which was included in the Institute of Contemporary Art's "Boston Now: Figuration" exhibit last spring.

The series of four hands and four busts at Stux are full of symbolism and irony. But before the viewer begins to respond to these complex concerns, there Is the instantaneous visual shock. Helmick aonstructs his sculptures out of dozens of thin layers of birch plywood, Masonite, and a Masonite-like material called MD44. The materials have a raw energy which contrasts with an astonishing delicacy of contour: The hollows of cheeks, the lively lines of a bushy head of hair, the veins bulging on the back of a hand, all shine through the layered wood like a television picture coming into focus. The striated effect of these sculptures is reminiscent of the striped stone of some early Italian churches, and also of computer graphics, or the thousands of thin lines which compose a television image.

TRe striations create a sense of shifting form which is sur- This 'Jekyll' has no personality In Chapter Two. Stephen King plays a fat farm boy from Maine who discovers a meteor in his pasture. This projectile emits a moss that threatens to engulf all of New England. It's a good thing for King's wife and children that his novels are best sellers. If he depended on acting for a living, he'd be confined to guest appearances on "HeeHaw." In Chapter Three.

Leslie Nielson discovers hiswlfe wants a divorce. Instead of working out their problems in a Divorce Mediation Group, Nielsen buries her up to her neck in the sand and waits for the tide to come in. In Chapter Four, Hal Holbrook. as a timid professor, also takes violent action against his loudmouth Each of these segments suffers from soft centers. They begin, and end, with promise but they implode from their bloated, mediocre middles The best of the bunch the fi-.

Inal episode with E. G. Marshall as a greedy capitalist with a cleanliness fetish who's devoured by cockroaches. According to press material provided by Romero, the sequence required 16.000 standard American roaches, 6000 two-inch roaches and 3000 Blaberus Gigan- Krista Errickson induces odd symptoms in Mark Blankfield. -ing, disco king Mr.

Hyde. He sprouts hair on his chest, a silver tooth, gold necklaces and an insatiable desire for Ivy, the lead singer in a punk band performing at Madame Woo-Woo's. Except for one scene in trie charity ward, where patients plead for more swill while nurses toss bits of stale bread into their beds, "Jekyll and Hyde Together Again" is a collection of cocaine-brained bits. They include Jekyll tossing organs on the floor of the operating JAMES WHITIBE APSTANEAGII? ftp PAY BEST AND SEE TV I Ralph Helmick's wooden sculpture, "Tribute to Giotto." PHOTO BY KRISTIN ANDERSON prising to see in sculpture, a medium more commonly associated with solidity and permanence. In several of the pieces the solidity is violated further by intersecting planes of wood which slice through a head or hand.

In "Critical Reach." for instance, the hand is intercepted six times by shapes resembling an artist's palette; in "Rain on Water" wooden dowels pelt down into a pool-like plane, causing circle-shaped ripples. The pool-plane itself bisects a head, causing a feeling of disruption not just of a sculptural form, but of humanity itself. The dowels which make the stigmata and the meteoric craters which bomb through a hand are similarly violent images. Helmick is too subtle to make overt political statements, but his works are a take-off point for thoughts of destruction, of man's relation to the environment and even to the supernatural. It is part of their wonderful ambiguity that JEKYLL AND HYDE TOGETHER AGAIN Directed by Jerry Belson, written bo Betson, Monica Johnson, Harvey Miller and Michael Lesson, inspired by the Robert Lduis Stevenson novel, starring Mark Blankjield, Bess Armstrong, Tim Thomerson and Krista Errickson, at the Pi Alley and suburbs, rated R1.1 By Michael Blowen Globe Staff John Barrymore.

Fredric March. Spencer Tracyi! Mark Blankfield. Mark Blankfield? That's right, Mark Blankfield of the television comedy. "Fridays," joins the list of actors who; have brought Robert Loujs Stevenson's "Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde'' to the screen, and movie history will never be the same.

Blankfield plays Dr. Daniel Jekyll, the best surgeon at Our Lady of Pain and Suffering Hospital. While working in the lab late one night, his mind did reach an eerie height. Suddenly, to his surprise, he was smashed. He was cocaine smashed.

The mild-mannered, shy Dr: Jekyll becomes the mad, womaniz- have an affair! Joan Caplin's people look shell-shocked. Caplin's large paintings! of lumpy, slumped, resigned figures lost souls who can't decide where to put their feet or how to arrarlge their hands are at the Edna Steiy bins Gallery, Zero Church CajnV' bridge, through Nov. 21. The artist skirts the rules 'of proportion and perspectiveto. achieve her skillfully depressing re-' suit: Bodies sink into non-existence-while gnarled hands and toed-ih feet are excessively large; the figures have a paper doll flatness which pushes them uncomfortably close to us.

The themes are determinedly unglamorous: A pair of eldefly twins Caplin is fascinated by twins look like duplicate E. "t-s; two old women hang together the dance floor at a weddingu jaundiced, frail family visits a racer track. Caplin has a fine eye for grim details like unattractive wallpaper and bumpy knees; her helpless subjects will cause a relief in the self-confident, apd', perhaps an uneasy recognition. in others. inn, Michael Jacques' people are homey types, unpretentious unlike Caplin's, at ease with them- selves.

A 10-year retrospective of Jacques' prints and drawings, in" eluding a moving sampling'oT drawings of nursing home inhabit tants from his book. "Images- of-Age," is at the Mills Gallery of the; Boston Center for the Arts through Nov. 27. All Jacques' works share a populist flavor and a nostalgia for the kind of friendly neighborhoods; found in Andy Hardy movies. Shoe" repair shops and dry cleaning tablishments are depicted with dg nity and detail; a banner reading1 "Benevolent Protective Order fift Elks" sets the tone for one scene.

A warm and forgiving psychological insight characterizes works; like the etching of "Mary Foley ihv Her Prime," where a woman, no" longer young, wearing the kindo! old-fashioned two-piece swimsuit-which has a coy little skirt, leans' with cocky self-assurance against a classic car. Ml Tender Butcher's Pride T-Bone Steak. Cut into our juicv large USDA Choice T-Bone Steak, broiled to order, and served with your choice of potato and all the fresh garden salad and freshly baked rolls and butter you'd like. .3 v. urn tftM 1.

T' Offer Ends November 14. FINAL 3 WEEKS PRIOR TO B'WAYI TONITE TOMORROW 8 P.M. SHINES!" Kevin Kelly, Boston Qloba FOUR STAR David E'udnoy, WRKO-AM presents the E. G. Marshall and his bugaboos.

tica, each of which measures between four and five inches long. Watching Marshall's hammy performance as he runs out of bug spray, is worth the price of admission. It's just too bad, that "Creep-show" wasn't like a real comic book. You could skip the first four stories and read the finale. room, sniffing Fruit Loops in a supermarket, waking up after a frantic night of sexual experimentation wearing chaps, swim fins and a bucket over his head.

i Director Jerry Belson really hasn't created a film, he's simply strung together a bunch of tired gags. Unlike "Airplane," a wacked-out movie that zipped along on a jet stream of puns and dumb jokes, "Jekyll and Hyde Together Again" simply runs out of fuel. If filmmakers insist on making gag films, instead of. comedies based on dimensional characters, then they must 'adopt the snappy rhythm of He'nny Youngman and i Rip Taylor. If they don't, the audience has time to think, and thought has no place in Our Lady of Pain and Suffering Hospital.

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