Daily News from New York, New York • 59

Wednesday, July 2. 1986 DAILY NEWS 59 I1fefe got trou tile- Big trouble axm HOLLYWOOD By Marilyn Beck BROADWAY By Don Nelsen BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA. Kurt in tell, Kim Caltrall. Directed by John Carpenter. At area theater.

Running time: I hour, 40 minutes. Rated PG-IJ. 'Top Gun' on Target Out cf Uany, One 1 1 If you can't find something to like in the Statue of Liberty Harbor Festival's music and dance marathon this weekend, you have the taste of a newt. From noon to midnight on Friday and Saturday, and noon to 6 on Sunday, performers from ethnic communities in the area, the nation and abroad will entertain on four stages set up on and around Water Street from Battery Park to Maiden Lane. And it's free.

Presented by the Ethnic Folk Arts Center, the shows feature African, Asian, Caribbean, European, Latin, Middle Eastern and native American ensembles, as well as artists from Greece, Italy, Japan, Korea, Quebec and Yugoslavia. iff if Producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer have just returned from a "Top Gun" promotion trip abroad that has them convinced the film will be as big or bigger a hit overseas as it is domestically. There was never any doubt among industry analysts that "Gun" (which has become the box office champ of the year with a domestic take in the neighborhood of $75 million) would score well in this country. However, there was concern a few months back when the U.S. air raid on Libya was still fresh, papers were filled with reports of overseas anti-American protests, and Americans were canceling trips abroad about the foreign reception awaiting a film glorifying U.S.

fighter pilots. Coin Like SO George Burns will be burning up the road this summer. He heads to New York today to take part in the Fourth of July festivities. He'll move on to Duluth, to entertain at the 40th reunion celebration of all the high schools in that city. George also has a three-night, theater-in-the-round gig set in Hyannis, and engagements at Atlantic City, Las Vegas, and the Vancouver Expo that will keep him busy till the end of August.

He's hoping that by then one of his pending film projects will be ready to go. 1 THE PRESS RELEASES say "Big Trouble in Little China is "a mystical actionadven-turecomedykung-fumonsterghost story," which is a nice way of saying "stir-fried mess." Jack Burton, the unshaven hero, is a sloppy good-natured Joe who, with a little encouragement, turns out to be a regular Indiana Jones. It starts when his Chinese-American buddy (Carter Wong) loses his green-eyed girl to a man. Lo Pan, Chinatown's most feared resident, may be showing his age, but he longs to meet a green-eyed beauty who can break the spell which condemns him to live as an evil spirit instead of a lesh-and-blood man. Burton is naturally skeptical of this old Chinese black magic: "Two-thousand years and he can't find a broad to fit this bill come on." But soon he's leading a parade of would-be rescuers into the gloomy depths of Lo Pan's mansion.

This house tour may give young viewer a few kicks it includes nasty encounters with Lo Pan's high-flying henchmen, a sewer monster and his press agent (a giant talking head). Stage Stuck -m- 1 1 -mii? ifrill 1 1 f.i in-ifi ii LO PAN, the man Ian McKellen returns to Broadway this December in "Wild Honey" by Michael Frayn, whose "Benefactors" just finished a run at the Brooks Atkinson. "Honey" is based on Chekhov's "Platonov," whom McKellen will play. No other casting is set yet but rumor hath Glenn Close, who was in "Benefactors," and Peter Evans as possibles. The fifth annual Young Playwrights Festival is almost upon us.

Plays from six writers aged 15 to 18 have been chosen from 700 scripts. Performances start Sept. 16 at Playwrights Horizons. The perils don't discourage Burton. "Relax," he tells his jittery leading lady, played by Kim Cattrall.

"rm here." Watching Kurt Russell display not only a set of bulging biceps, but also this easy-going self-confidence is admittedly fun at times, even if the movie is as impenetrable as chop suey. Kathleen Carroll A Fabulous Film ONE OF THE Of Remarkable Achievement Results From The Impressive Collaboration Between BEST MOVIES OF THE YEAR. One of the rarest of American movies, because itdeals fearlessly with real people. Intelligence sparkles through it; intelligence and a good, bawdy comic sensibility. 'About Last Night' has an eye and an ear for the way we live now and it has a heart too, and a sense of Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES Jim Henson And George Nina Darnton, NEW YORK TIMES 1 'tiff 1 Nk 'r-SKS.

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