Calgary Herald from Calgary, Alberta, Canada • 42

Today CALGARY HERALD June 10, 1984 D8 At the movies AGAINST ALL ODDS: Jeff Bridges and Rachel Ward in a remake of a 1947 thriller, set in California and Mexico. At the Cineplex. Restricted adult. BEAT STREET: A celebration of break-dancing filmed on the streets of New York. At Southland, Westbrook, Uptown and Corral Drive-In with Easy Money.

Parental guidance some coarse language. THE BOUNTY: At the Towne and Brentwood. Mature. BREAKIN': At the Cineplex and Market Mall. Parental guidance.

CHAMPIONS: At the Cineplex. Parental guidance. DANISH DENTIST ON THE JOB: With A Scent of Heather at the Midtown Cinema, daily at 1:45 and 7:15 p.m. Restricted adult. FIRESTARTER: At the Cineplex, Chinook and Sunridge.

Mature with some violent scenes. FOOTLOOSE: Flashdance-inspired teen drama starring Kevin Bacon and Lori Singer. At the Cineplex. Mature. GANDHI: At the Plaza Sunday at 2 p.m.

Parental guidance scenes of violence. At 7 p.m., Trafic, a Jacques Tati film. Around town General. At 9 p.m., The Return of Martin Guerre. Mature subtitles.

Monday at 7 p.m. (promptly) the Calgary premiere of Francois Truffaut's Confidentially Yours. Parental guidance subtitles. At 9 p.m., Mohammed, Messenger of God. Mature.

Tuesday at 7 p.m., The Tempest. Mature. At 9:15 p.m., Confidentially Yours. GHOSTBUSTERS: Ectoplas-mic exterminators attack an invasion from beyond the grave. At the Grand, Marlborough, Westbrook, Southland and Corral Drive-In with Blue Thunder.

Parental guidance some scenes may be frightening for younger children. GREMLINS: A small-town bank clerk's life is complicated by mischievous imps that multiply rapidly. At Market Mall, Palliser Square, Studio 82, Sunridge 1 and Sunset Drive-In 1 with added feature, Superman III. Parental guidance some scenes may be frightening for vounger children. GREYSTOKE: THE LEGEND OF TARZAN, LORD OF THE APES: The complete story, from the director of Chariots of Fire.

At the Towne Cinema. Mature. INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM: The intrepid archeologist from Raiders of the Lost Ark is back, in a quest for a sacred stone with magical powers. At the Palace. Mature.

MOSCOW ON THE HUDSON: A Soviet saxophonist (Robin Williams) defects to the United States. At the Grand and the Odeon. Mature not suitable for pre-teenagers. THE NATURAL: At Calgary Place and Market Mall. Parental guidance.

ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA: Robert De Niro heads an all-star cast in a gangster epic that spans five decades. At Southland, Northill Cinerama, and Corral Drive-In with Sudden Impact. Restricted adult extreme violence. PASSIONS OF PLEASURE: With Wild Beautiful at the Hyland International Cinema at 7:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m.

Friday and Saturday. Sunday to Thursday, at 7:30 p.m. Restricted adult. POLICE ACADEMY: Animal House-inspired action comedy. At the Cineplex and Marlborough.

Mature not suitable for pre-teenagers. ROMANCING THE STONE: Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas in an adventure parody. At Marlborough, Odeon, Southland, Uptown and Corral Drive-In with Mr. Mom. Mature.

SIXTEEN CANDLES: At Calgary Place and Sunridge. Ma ture not suitable for pre-teenagers. SPLASH: A young businessman (Tom Hanks) finds true love with a radiant mermaid (Daryl Hannah). At the Cineplex and Westbrook. Parental guidance language warning.

STAR TREK III: THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK: Leonard Nimoy directs the original cast as the Starship Enterprise sets out on its most dangerous journey At Market Mall and Palliser Square. Parental guidance. STREETS OF FIRE: Michael Pare and Diane Lane star in a rock 'n' roll fable from the director of 48 HRS. At Market Mali, Calgary Place, Sunridge. Mature.

Also at the Sunset Drive-in 2 with Rumble Fish. Mature some violent scenes. TERMS OF ENDEARMENT: Oscar-winner, Shirley MacLaine and Oscar nominee Debra Winger play a mother and daughter in an unusual comedy. At Market Mall and Sunridge. Mature.

THAT SINKING FEELING: A' the Cineplex. A gang of unem ployed Glasgow teenagers plan an outrageous caper in a comedy by the director of Local Hero. General. UP THE CREEK: White-water raft-race comedy. At the Cineplex.

Mature coarse language. on exhibition at the museum on the University of Calgary campus. Free. 0 The Chamber Music Society of Calgary presents sitarist Budhaditya Mukherjee accompanied by Mukund Bhale on tabla tonight at 8 in Mount Royal College's Leacock Theatre. Tickets at the door.

A matinee performance of Ten Little Indians will be staged today at 2:30 in the Pleiades Theatre at the Centennial Planetarium, 701 11th St. S.W. Phone the box office at 264-2030 after 2 to inquire about tickets. 0 Scotty Tremblay's classical guitar accompanies brunch today in the Trader's Dining Room at the Four Seasons Hotel, 110 9th St. S.W.

Paulo sings today for families visiting Mv Favorite Ice Cream Shoppe, 2048 42nd. St. S.W. 9 Soft jazz by the John Reid Quartet filters through Orestes from noon until 3 today. 9 A Parks and Recreation naturalist will explore the Douglas fir area, located west of Bowness Park, this morning on the second public hike of a three-week series.

The naturalist will explain the area's cultural history and natural history of the plants, birds and animals. Interested parties are advised to dress for active hiking and bring refreshments. Hikers will meet in the farthest west parking lot in Bowness Park at 8:30. For more information call 268-5217. 0 Between Continents Seas: Preeolum-bian Art of Costa Rica ends today at the Glenbow Museum, 130 9th Ave.

S.E. More than 300 priceless artifacts in gold, jade and ceramic and volcanic stone are on exhibition. Tickets for the show are available at the door. Eric Cameron: Bent-Axis Approach, an installation designed especially for the Nickle Arts Museum and incorporating sound and light elements, is Hollywood's new child stars are real kids Ke Huy Quan as Indiana Jones's sidekick Drew Barrymore as Charlie McGee in Firestarter know all there is to know about the adult world, which is not to say they approve of all they see. In effect, the new child stars reflect the real state of life for many of today's children.

Only real kids can tell their storv. (Copyrisht 1984 by Ivor Davis Distributed by Special FeaturesSyndication Sales.) By Ivor Davis (Special to the Herald) HOLLYWOOD It was the first screening of Steven Spielberg's latest multimillion-dollar adventure epic, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and the star of the film was devouring an ice-cream sundae at the Paramount Studios commissary. He was surrounded by autograph hounds, youthful fans and camera buffs until his mother and father came to take him home. The object of all the excitement was not Harrison Ford (Indiana Jones), but a 4-foot-4-inch, 65-pound, 12-year-old Vietnamese boy from Chinatown in Los Angeles, who is Hollywood's newest child star. His name is Ke Huy Quan, and to say he steals the picture from Ford and co-star Kate Capshaw is to state the very obvious.

He lights up every scene he appears in with a juvenile braggadocio not seen since Mickey Rooney starred in Boys' Town. The film is Quan's from the moment he appears as Short Round, a Shanghai urchin, driving a getaway car with blocks on his feet to reach the pedals, and wearing a baseball cap and a cheeky grin. Quan is the latest in a new group of child actors who are as different from the old super-saccharine, smooth-talking, manipulated and manipulative child stars of yesteryear as Jodie Foster is from Jackie Cooper. It's the difference between the wholly manufactured preco-ciousness of a Shirley Temple, a Mary Pickford and generations of Disney kids and the gritty credibility of the kids led by Dana Hill in Shoot the Moon, or sooty-haired, freckled Roxana Zal, the teenager who played the youthful incest victim in TV's Something About Amelia. Times have changed.

Witness the demise of Annie, a sure-fire hit stage show turned into an expensive commercial disaster on screen, where a cutesy Annie (Aileen Quinn) dripped enough sugar to give audiences acute diabetes. Moviegoers today want their kids with charm, but they want real kids. On TV we still have Gary Coleman, Emmanuel Lewis of Webster, and Rickey Schroder. But on the big screen, their kind of oid-fashioned appeal just doesn't wash. Cute kids manipulating emotions killed an otherwise interesting movie last year: Man, Woman and Child, with Martin Sheen and Blythe Danner.

It was a real tear-jerker, thanks to doe-eyed French-American Sebastian Dungan. But critics resented the blatant drive for the Kleenex box, and buried the picture. Films like Annie, and The Champ and Six Weeks, with Dudley Moore, Mary Tyler Moore and a 12-year-old dying of leukemia, were all it took for Hollywood to realize that the sugary acting of the young stars was a guaranteed turn-off. So when Steven Spielberg needed a friend for his magical alien E.T., he looked for a real child, and found him in Henry Thomas, a 10-year-old from San difficult job for her. but she came through great." The youngest Barrymore began in TV doing puppy-food commercials at the tender age of 1 1 months.

Like Quan, most of the new breed of child actors in contemporary films are not the protected innocents of years past. They Henry Thomas in Something About Amelia, she was believable as a normal, middle-class child. Now she's on the threshold of a major Hollywood career. One of the most promising child stars is that other E.T. graduate, Drew Barrymore, now eight, granddaughter of the great screen profile John Barrymore, and descendant of a long line of stage and screen greats.

She's now starring in Firestarter, based on Stephen King's horror novel, opposite David Keith, George C. Scott and Martin Sheen, playing a child who, by sheer will, can start explosive fires. The film's director, Mark Lester, says of Drew: "She is such a natural actress. She has instincts that are incredible. She really had to carry a tremendous load in this picture.

It was a But where do you find this new breed? Not in professional schools. Not a single one of the new string of juvenile stars is a product of schools, dance academies or the myriad institutions-that churn out conveyor-belt screen sweeties. Most of the new breed began in TV commercials where they were paid well for looking and sounding like regular kids; to look like a professional actor would be commercial suicide. Roxana Zal, 14, first popped up chomping on a MacDonald's hamburger on TV. Her English mother says: "She's not exactly a shrinking violet.

We gave a barbecue one day and Roxana discovered there was an agent among the guests, so she marched up to him and said, 'I want to be an actress'." As the molested child AIRFARE DEREGULATION is coming soon I PRICES SLASHED COPENHAGEN i IUKAI HUNGARIAN RESTAURANT KONDITOREI The Tokay Hungarian Restaurant, has reopened at its new location at 1 223 1 1 Ave. S.W. Hungarian cuisine daily specialties are served in a pleasart, European atmosphere, from I I a.m. I p.m. Reservations are welcome.

Please call 229-3060 s629 or more information call I BIG BEN TRAVEL! CANNE RY seafood) ESIWALj Fresh Seafood served Daily INTRODUCING fTf I Steven Spielberg Antonio, Texas. Thomas's vulnerable, scared yet fascinated, performance was at least as important to the success of the film as E.T.'s bony finger and croaking voice. Now Thomas is starring in Cloak and Dagger, a fantasy adventure-thriller opposite Dabney Coleman. And the search continues for other children who look and talk like kids not show-business brats. Spielberg finds children easier to work with than adults, "because they don't censor.

They have a way of just presenting the truth and the facts from what thev haven't learned." SUNDAY BRUNCH $750 From I adults children JUNE 11 -17th Live Dixieland Jazz Oyster Eating Contests Fresh Atlantic Lobster Fresh Dungeners Crab Come Join in the Fun! REMEMBER WE'RE OPEN SUN. 5-9 p.m. Reservations recommended 265-1116 Complimentary Valet Parking 435-4 Ave. S.W. 269-8889 317 10th Ave.

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