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Ban irancforo Examiner WWS Television June 22, 1984 SECTION Friday June mgm- sxgmm lillllMi'I itaifii tolW 212 The San Francisco Symphony's Beethoven Festival features Sym- fhony No. 6 and Piano Concerto No. 5 with soloist Charles Rosen, at 6:30 tonight, and as part of the Beethoven Marathon at 7 p.m. Saturday. Both Oavies Hall programs are conducted by Neeme Jarvi.

Celebrations of the return of the cable cars continue through Sunday at several locations, Including uhir ardelli Sauare. Pier 39. the Cannery, Mickey Rourke, Daryl Hannah and Eric Roberts star In "The Pope of Greenwich Village" the Anchorage and Fisherman's Wharf. A "Twilight Parade" from Pier 45 to Pier 39 begins at 7 tonight and Saturday. Shortly after dark both evenings, fireworks explode from the Muni Pier.

The San Francisco Opera stages Strauss' "Die Fledermaus" at 8 Tfis 'Peps' disappoints By Allan Ulrich Examiner staff writer tonight and 2 p.m. Sunday, and Verdi's "Aida" at 8 p.m. Saturday, in the Opera House. New Delhi's Akshara Theater stages "The Ramayana," starring Jalabala Vaidya in Gopal Sharman's contemporary interpretation of India's a Li IT'S A REAL crying shame about Surprising start to oldest epic, at 8 tonight and Saturday By Allan Ulrlch Examiner staff writer "The Pope of Greenwich Village," UifL Win ill jzrJi in the Herbs! Theater. The KOED International Beer Fes opening today at the Galaxy and the Spruce Drive-In.

1-man JFK show By Tom Jory Associated Press Hal Holbrook was widely ac This comedy-drama about two tival (July 7) gets off to an early start when Liquor Barn hosts "The Great Calfornia Beer Taste-off" at 6:30 tonight at its Fisherman's Wharf store. Proceeds benefit KOED, Deborah Slaters "Work From claimed for his one-man show "Mark Twain Tonight" on CBS in 1967, as were Henry Fonda for his PARTIES expecting a facsimile of the original "Airplane!" may be somewhat disappointed, but folks looking for the summer's no-holds-barred, funnl- est movie should start lining up right now for I "Top Secret!" It opens today at the Regency II and the Geneva Drive-In. I'm not talking about sly sophistication or dry sick humor, but about honest belly-laughs that send up the cliches and clutter of pop movie culture in truly glorious style. It shouldn't come as a surprise that Jim Abrahams and the brothers David and Jerry Zucker who snoofed Memory" is featured as the "Going Places New American Dance series continues at 8:30 tonight and Saturday at the New Performance' characterization of Clarence Dar-row on NBC in 74 and James Earl Jones for his portrayal of Paul Robeson on public television in Gallery, 3153 17th St. The West Coast premiere of Tom Stoppard's comedy, "On the 1979.

opens tne lbtn annual i neaierworKs Summer Festival at 8 p.m. at the Lucie Stern Center, Palo Alto. Those actors enjoyed a certain advantage over Mike Farrell, who Pod: Charly McClain and Johnny Lee play a country concert at the plays the late John F. Kennedy in "JFK A One Man Show," on PBS this week (on Ch. 9 at 8 p.m.

Satur distant cousins in Manhattan's Little Italy embroiled in a robbery is the first major, serious American movie to hit The City in this summer of hightech fantasy spectaculars. It was intended to be a refuge, an oasis of relief from all the "Star Shleps" and "Raid-' ers of the Lost Tax Shelters" currently glutting the screen, a project that aimed nobly to put real characters before special effects. So one must commend MGMUA for even daring to release it in this silly season. But the sad truth about "The Pope of Greenwich Village" is that you possibly have to be a New Yorker or a recent emigre thereof to confuse the raw hysteria emanating from the picture as anything resembling drama or reality. Director Stuart Rosenberg, who hasn't made a really memorable movie since "Cool Hand Luke" in 1967, apparently believes that screaming and gesticulating can cover a multitude of plot lapses, needless digressions and hazy strokes of characterization.

"The Pope of Greenwich Village" -See Page E7, col. 1 day and 10.30 a.m. Sunday). Few in the audience could compare those Oakland Paramount; Ronnie Laws and Hiroshima are at the Concord Pavilion; the Jessica Williams Quartet plays jazz at Kimball's, tonight and Saturday; Butch Whacks and the Glasspacks are featured at the Great American Music Hall, tonight through Sunday; jazzman Eddie Harris holds forth at the VIS; the Zasu Pitts actors, in speech and mannerism, to the men they brought to life on "High and the disaster films so artfully in that earlier epic were bursting to prove they had another hip, outrageous parody lodged in their funny bones. (They bore no responsibility for the inferior "Airplane II: The In "Top Secret!" the target, ostensibly, is the prototypical espionage movie.

Vou've seen it a hundred times. It's the one with the sadistic Nazis who chew on bullets for breakfast, the guileless hero, the intrepid band of resistance fighters, the brilliant scientist kidnapped by the enemy and same scientist's helpless daughter. Writer-directors Abrahams-Zucker-Zucker have added a couple of twists. The skullduggery occurs in contemporary East Germany at an International Culture Festival and the hero is Nick Rivers (a pleasant debut by Val Kilmer), an American rock star sent to replace an ailing musician named "Leonahd Bernshtein." The baddies seem like the same old Nazis, and the daughter (in the person of Lucy Gutteridge of TV's "Nicholas is just as sweet as stage. Millions watching at home, on Memorial Orchestra shakes up the Chi Chi.

the other hand, would recognize Kennedy. And at times in the 90- minute production, Farrell does, in Saturday June deed, look and sound like the late president 06 I like most of it, the actor says of the show. "I have a great affec t'am- See Page Ell, col. 1, REVIEW highlights "The Pope of Greenwich Village." direct Omar Sharif travels compactly In 'Top Secretl' In a departure from their usual Gilbert and Sullivan fare, the Lamp rb 1 XI I 1 ed by Stuart Rosenberg, written by Vincent Patrick, starring Eric Roberts, Mickey Rourke and Daryl Hannah. This comedy-drama about two cousins from New York's Little Italy who steal from the mob and survive puts character lighters open Something Afoot, a musical spoot patterned on tne she ever was.

The boys interrupt the ramshackle plot for a gut-splitting take-off on the hormonal self -discoveries of the wretched Lagoon," and toss in a blunter needling of rock groupies Is Spinal Tap" devastated this inane milieu much better). Abrahams-Zucker-Zucker scatter the Jokes the way farmers scatter corn around a chicken house. They're shameless. A new gag pops up about every 20 seconds and about 75 percent of them, some quite innocent and some rather raunchy, really do strike home. The parody leans to the straight-faced, and more to the visual than the verbal, i with deliciously witty details often lurking somewhere in the frame.

"Top Secret!" doesn't have all the famous Grade B-movie icons that "Airplane!" featured, though Omar Sharif as an agent who tangles with a compacter and Jeremy Kemp as the arch-Gestapo beast maintain the air of civilized drollery. Since the demise of SCTV, no one but this team is plowing this fertile field of comedy. Enjoy it while you can. Quintessential English murder mys tery, at 8 30 p.m. in the Presentation and atmosphere before clarity or rhythm.

Rosenberg and Patrick (who adapted his own Theater. Turk near Masonic. novel; believe that the louder a movie shouts "Give Peace a Dance," a 12-hour fundraiser for nuclear disarmament and non-intervention organizations, REVIEW highlights "Top Secretl" a Paramount release of a movie written and directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker. The "Airplane!" team returns with the no-holds-barred funniest movie of the summer. The current epic skewers espionage flicks, with beastly Nazis and kidnapped scientists, and takes an outrageous side-trip to the Inanities of "The Blue Lagoon." The scattershot parody technique works 75 percent of the time, which means a laugh about every two minutes.

Rated PG. Top admission $5.50. At the Regency and Geneva Drive-In. features music by Batachanga, Bon the more meaningful it is. The results are ultimately wearying with Roberts delivering one of the more outrageously excessive performances of recent movies.

Rated R. Top admission, $5.50. At the Galaxy and Spruce Drive-In. nie Hayes and the Wild Combo, the Looters, Mitch Woods and His Hocket '88s, O.J. Ekemode and Ashiko and Permanent Wave, beginning at noon Mike Farrell as John Kennedy at Pier 2.

Port Mason. The 30th annual Golden Gate Kennel Club summer dog show is held at the Cow Palace Saturday, and the San Mateo Kennel Club show is there Sunday. Hours for both are 8.30 a.m. to 5 D.m. The Mission Creek Conservancy presents "Tne Official san Francis? i co Summer Olympyuc.

The 500-me Special Olympics ter Third Street to Fourth Street Bridge to Bridge Run is the featured event in the fundraiser. Registration is at 11 a.m. at 300 Channel St, (641-7463). China is here If you can't get to China this summer, fear not. China comes to you (technically, tc Oakland) with a recreation ol the ancient Canton Market Featured are foods of the four Country stars Lee Greenwood and Bobbe Lvnne perform at 2 and 6 p.m.

as the Alameda County Fair opens in Pleasanton. A carnival, hundreds of exhibitors and vendors and livestock, culinary, floral and agricultural displays can be enjoyed from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., through July u. i 5oiisii oi uakiana opens its summer series with Gregory Barber Words like "valiant," "spunky," "brave" and "enthusiastic" barely skim the surface in describing the Special Olympics. For the 2,500 mentally and physically handicapped athletes who will compete this weekend, "winning" isn't the operative word; "participation" is.

1960 Olympic decathlon gold medalist Rafer Johnson presides over opening ceremonies at 6 tonight at Edwards Field, UC Berkeley, and competition in events ranging from sprinting to Fris-bee to gymnastics is scheduled from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., both Saturday and Sunday. Admission is free. conducting members of the Oakland Symphony in Bach, Milhaud, Honegger and Brahms at 8 p.m. at St.

John's Presbyterian Church, Berkeley. Pop: The Cars. Huey Lewis and the ciassm cuisines vi viuna Hunan, Canton, Schezuan and Mandarin performers frorr Peking, Canton and Shanghai martial arts demonstrations and a bustling marketplace where you can buy exotic and beautiful goods. The Chine. Fair, at the Oakland International Trade Center, 633 He-genberger Road, opens at 11 a.m.

Saturday and runs through Thursday, June 28, ai News, Benin and H.t.M. are featured in the Mountain Aire Festival at the Calaveras County Fairgrounds. An gel's Camp; Fabian's Good Time Rock Roll show is at Circle Star Theater; jazz vocalist Bobby McFer- rin perlorms at the Noe Valley its Vf Ministry; Love Circus, Leaving Trains and Learning Corporation 9 p.m. Call 974-6391. rock the uud t-oot, on tmrd btreet near 22nd; Jefferson Starshlp rocks at 3 and 8 p.m.

at Marriott Great America. Sunday June Sylvester Stallone and Dolly Parton In a Pygmalion story set to country music -'tilSiinssf ins' is not a prsoisiss gsm Ml i i By Phil Bronstein Examiner staff writer The San Francisco Theatrical Club' presents its annual show for senior citizens. "Variety on Parade," at' HINESTONE," the latest maudlin street 2:30 p.m. in the Herbst Theater, Van I slob-turned-sappy success story film Ness and McAllister. tan cabbie, terrifying stereotyped Japanese tourists with his wild-man driving.

An amusing idea unless you've ever taken a cab in New York or are Japanese. Parton surprise is Jake, an abused Tennessee country and western singer languishing in a New York urban cowboy bar. Parton is being managed by F.U., played by Ron Leibman, a cartoon-like lech and glitz baron. Shame on Leibman, whose comic talents shone in "Where's Pop- See Page Rare and exotic automobiles with from Sylvester Stallone, is a hunk of cheap costume jewelry. an estimated worth of more than $5 million can be seen at the 17th annual Even the best developed chest In Palo Alto Concourse d'Elegance, taking place from 10 a.m.

to 4:30 p.m. in the Intramural Field next to the Stanford University Stadium. Pop: R.E.M. and Dream Syndicate rock in concert et the wartieid Theater; Barbara McNalr sings at 2 p.m. in Embarcadero Center's free "Summer Sundays" series in Justin REVIEW highlight Hollywood can't help the movie.

And neither does Dolly Parton. Stallone's muscle strut and goofy machismo have turned plain stupid in "Rhinestone." Parton's disarmingly dimpled smile, so effective in her film "9 to 5," has turned crooked and her backwoods fright wig seems limp and washed-out. The country music queen and the "Rocky" cash machine have pushed their luck too far. The acting in "Rhinestone" is bad. Stallone's singing is painful and the comedy isnt funny.

This is one of the few opportunities to sit in the dark and still be embarrassed. If you're looking for the ultimate screen pose-down, forget it Even Stallone doesnt take his shirt off for a change. Stallone plays Nick Martinelli, a brain-damaged Manhat "Rhinestone," directed by Bob Clark, written by Phi) Robinson and Sylvester Stallone. Starring Stallone, Dolly Parton. Richard Farnsworth and Ron Leibman Costume Jewelry.

The two main stars each fill up a film frame, but shots of four pectorals don't make movie. The theater audience waa frozen in stunned silence during the noisy finale. One of the few opportunities to sit in the dark and still be embarrassed. Rated PG. Top admission S5.50.

At the Galaxy, Sutter and Van Ness. Herman Plaza; Zoot Sims end the Shelly Manne Rhythm Section play jazz at 4:30 p.m. at Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society, Miramar; the Turk Murphy Jazz Band, with singer Pat Yankee, opens the Lodi Wine Country Summer Concert series at Willow Preservation Jazz at Stern Grove Gosh, these guys are well, old. But they play some of the best Dixieland this 6ide of New Orleans, from where, not coincidental, they hail. It's the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, making its 15th annual appeareance at Stern Grove at 2 p.m.

Sunday. It's free. Oaks Gold Club (8 p.m.)..