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THE SCRANTON TIMES, SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1986" 10 'Killer Party' Represents Waste Of and Camera Nation I 7:00 7:30 8:00 I 8:30 I 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 I 11:30 Check II Out1 Ted Knight Movie: "The Fighting Sullivans News Black News Mol: "Boom Town" News In Search 01... Movie: "Mysterious Island" Wrestling Racing Movie Q) Jetlersons Al The Movies Movie1 "Duel In The Sun" Ind News Tales Honeymoonera (Q Newton Wild America Non-Fiction Television Mystery! Movietone: II Spoke For Itself Movie: "Bordertown" Outdoors Wild Kingdom Mr. Sunshine Benson Children's Miracle Network Telethon News Telethon ffi HeeHaw Crazy Like A Fox Alrwolt Magnum, PI News "Mad Bull" 03 Oempsey Puttin'On Gimme Break Facts Ot Lite Golden Girls Ted Knight Remington Steele News Sal Night Live Q3 Happening Small Wonder Solid Gold LKestylej Start Ot Something Big Mad Movies Black Sheep Q5 Start 01 Something Big Movie: "Murder By Decree" Movie "The Notorious Landlady" Q3 Business Agronsky Fugitive Vietnam Veterans Wartime Monty Python Star Trek CBN Campbells WillSonnett Movie: "A Walk In The Sun" My Children Are Dying Success Ankerberg espn College World Series Cont'd College World Series Game Four SportsCenter HBO Movie "Prime Risk" Cont'd Movie "Rocky" Movie "As Summers Die" Movie pfli8M "Falling In Love" Cont'd Movie: A.R Sports Movie: "Ladyhawke" USA 3'sACrowd Cover Story Movie: "The Black Cat" Alfred Hitchcock Hour "Diary 01 A Young Comic" simple inventory of horror-film cliches. As a consequence, "Killer Party's" ferocious, no-compromise ending becomes an especially maddening cheat when it could have been an effective hair-raiser. Cohen's great pains to give certain players (Sherry Willis-Burch, Ralph Seymour, Joanna Johnson) deeply sympathetic characterizations go for nothing when he ends up making everyone a victim to one degree or another.

Best not to give away the game completely, but Cohen telegraphs the outcome early on when various characters keep warning those kids not to pitch a party in that scary old abandoned fraternity house. The body count mounts rapidly from there. The players mentioned above, especially Willis-Burch and Seymour as nerdy sweethearts, make of their parts more than is written. Johnson never has a chance to deliver the heroic turn for which the script sets her up, but her transformation to a possessed maniac is a nice scary bit. And Paul Bartel's admirers who go only to see him will find ample reason to leave the picture long before its punk imitation of a resolution.

Rated R. (Distributed by Scripps Howard By MICHAEL H. PRICE Fort Worth Star-Telegram There is something seriously wrong with the film-exhibition game when an irresponsible toss-off like "Killer Party" can open widely while a superior current film like "On Valentine's Day" must make do with only sparse bookings. The movie-financing business looks sicker yet when a gifted directoractor like Paul Bartel cannot secure backing to complete his sequel to the superb gallows comedy, "Eating Raoul, but must make the most of a throwaway part in a movie like you guessed it "Killer Party." The newly opening "Killer Party" is more than merely a convenient target. It is a sorry waste of John Lindley's impressive camerawork, of players whose abilities range from competence to excellence, and of a disciplined and even sporadically tasteful job of directing by William Fruet The villain of the piece is supposed to be the angry ghost of a victim of fraternity hazing.

Anyone who endures the full running time of "Killer Party" can peg writer Barney Cohen as the real troublemaker. Cohen's questionable ability to spin a coherent story seems actually to nave decayed since he insulted audiences two years ago with "Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter." There, at least, he stuck with the gross-out formula, start to finish; with "Killer Party," Cohen can't decide whether to deliver a youth comedy, a full-throttle shocker or a Documentary Captures Teddy Roosevelt's Energy News Service. NORTHEAST WOMAN is best on Sunday Sfo By JUDY FLANDER Chances Slight For Girl on Bus CHICAGO (AP) A girl probably couldn't have been saved if a bus driver who refused to drive her to a hospital after she suffered a heart attack had made the one-block detour to the medical center, her doctor says. Union officials, meanwhile, said Friday they think the driver is being made a scapegoat and they plan to press for changes in strict rules forbidding drivers to leave their routes without permission. The driver, 32-year-old Ben Perry, was suspended for three days for failing to follow correct emergency procedures during the incident late Wednesday, Chicago Transit Authority officials said.

Nicole Hobson, 9, died early Thursday, shortly after a passenger carried her from the bus to Children's Memorial Hospital. Presser Requests Another Judge CLEVELAND (AP) Teamsters President Jackie Presser has pleaded innocent to racketeering and embezzlement charges, ana his attorney is seeking a new judge to hear the case. Presser's attorney, John Climaco, said in a May 21 letter to U.S. District Judge Ann Aldrich that she holds "animosity, personal bias and prejudice" against himself and Presser. Aldrich said she would have another federal judge decide whether she should excuse herself from the case.

The indictment alleged that in funds from Local 507, where Presser is secretary-treasurer, was embezzled from 1972 to 1982 in a payroll-padding scheme to pay "ghost" employees of the local. Witness Claims 'Grave' Damage BALTIMORE (AP) Information about U.S. electronic eavesdropping that Ronald W. Pelton is accused of giving the Soviets could produce "exceptionally grave damage" to national security, a senior intelligence official testified in Pelton's spy trial. William P.

Crowell head of the National Security Agency's operation to intercept Soviet messages, testified Friday that one such effort, known in court as Project "gave us an insight into military forces, their relative size, their plans for maneuvers or training." Crowell did not testify directly about Pelton, a former NSA employee. He described projects that other witnesses said Pelton had disclosed, calling them important elements of national intelligence CM I man win feaki VfttftWIt Ok mi tfit -Htm -y. fHttf IN (X 8), a comedy about a teen hunk (John Scott Clough) who is unexpectedly magnetized to a nerd. SUNDAY CABLE "Red Wind" conjures up a hot Santa Ana murder case in another new "Philip Marlowe, Private Eye" (HBO at 8) episode. A sure thing here, with Powers Boothe and guest star Linda Griffiths.

"Fletch" (Cinemax and Showtime at 8) A laff-a-minute movie with Chevy Chase in the role of a reporter who goes underground as a junkie and is asked by a "dying man to be his hit man for a sum. Richard Libertini does one of his comic star turns in this one. A glide through the canals of Venice is part of the charm of this edition of the "National Geographic Explorer" (WTBS at SATURDAY LATE NIGHT MOVIES -11, (5) "Boom Town," (13) "Border-town;" 11:30, (9) "Doctor Franken," (22) "Mad Bull," (46) "The Pigeon That Took Rome;" 11:35, (HBO) "Brewster's Millions;" 11:45, (7) "Halls Of Montezuma;" 12:05, (PRISM) "Irresistible;" 12:30, (29) "The Kid With The Golden Arm;" 12:45, (2) "Deadly Game;" 1:20, (5) "Midsummer Night's Dream," (HBO) "Gymkata;" 1:30, (38) "Lady In Cement;" 1:35, (PRISM) "Police Academy;" 2, (7) "Flat Top;" 2:55, (HBO) "Grace Quigley;" 3:15, (PRISM) "D.A.R.Y.L.;" 3:30, (4) "Dick Tracy," (9) "The Day The World Ended," (11) "A Letter To Three Wives." SUNDAY LATE NIGHT MOVIES 11, (PRISM) "Irreconcilable Differences;" 11:30, (16) "Now You See It, Now You Don't," (38) "Screaming Eagles," (44) "Woman's World;" 12, (7) "Try To Catch A Saint;" 12:35, (HBO) "The Last Married Couple Ir America;" 1, i9) "Nothing But The Rest." (441 "Flight Angels." (PRISMl Gremlins;" l3u, if) "Svengaii;" 1:55, (7) "Backlash;" 2:20, (HBO) "Alamo Bay;" 2:50, (PRISM) "Tank;" 3, (11) "Gunfight At Comanche Creek;" 3 30, (9) "No Way Out;" 4:05, (HBO) "The Ambassador;" 4:50, (PRISM) "Blazing Saddles." United Feature Syndicate Inc. in the nude) are disposable. An alternative is "Tough Enough" (Sunday, Ch.

28 at 9), starring Dennis Quaid as a failed country singer who enters "tough man" contests in local bars. 'LUCIA' FIX If you are as devastated as I because the "Mapp Lucia" series came to an end last Sunday on PBS, you can continue to revel in Lucia's Machiavellian maneuvers as she and her friend Georgino take Tilling by storm. Go right out and buy the Harper Row paperback (for a mere $3.95) and you just may turn off the TV entirely tonight. Good news: Harper has reprinted all of E.F. Benson's "Make Way for Lucia" books, plus a sequel, "Lucia in Wartime," written by Tom Holt in Benson fashion.

SATURDAY SERIES No surprises Saturday as the networks serve up series repeats. Includeding, Harry investigates the murder of his grandson's music teacher on "Crazy Like a Fox" (Ch. 22 at 8) Jo gets razzed for taking ballroom dancing lessons on "The Facts of Life" (Ch. 28 at 8:30) On "The Golden Girls" (Ch. 28 at 9), Dorothy really wants Sophia to stay with her when her sister beckons their mother to her home in California Mary wants romance back in her marriage on "227" (Ch.

28 at 9:30) On "Magnum, P.I." (Ch. 22 at 10), Magnum uncovers a baby-adoption racket On "Remington Steele" (Ch. 28 at 10), Mildred accidentally invests in a lethal tax shelter. SATURDAY CABLE Tammy Wy-nette is the guest on "Church Street Station" (TNN at "Amadeus" (Showtime at 9) Lush, exuberant film dramatization of Peter Shaffer's fable in which he supposes that a court composer, madly jealous Antonio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham), drives a brilliant but silly Mozart (Thomas Huice) to an eariy grave.

The opera scenes are fantastic. If you don't have the play to compare it with, you won't have one complaint. SUNDAY SERIES Jessica investigates the death of a champion swimmer on "Murder, She Wrote" (CBS at 8) On "Amazing Stories" (Ch. 28 at WASHINGTON I think you'll want to reserve a seat in front of the tube Sunday, for one good reason or another. For kids and grownups: "The Indomitable Teddy Roosevelt'' (Ch.

16 from 7 to 9), a rousing documentary (set to the music of John Philip Sousa) that captures the energy and charisma of the man and his times. Extremely good film clips, pleasant color recreations (with Roosevelt descendants in some of the roles) and bold narration by George C. Scott and by Bob Boyd (quoting Teddy). The most characteristic pose is of a full-chested man leaning aggressively forward, jaw first. Kudos to the program's producer Harrison Engle for proving that historical documentaries don't have to be boring SONG DANCE My Sunday network prime-time choice: "The 40th Annual Tony Awards" (Ch.

22 at 9). The Tonys are usually the class act of awards shows. For some, they're the only chance to see the big production numbers from Broadway musicals. This year the pickings for nominations were pretty lean, with Bob Fosse's disappointing "Big Deal" and the patchwork "Song Dance" (with Ber-nadette Peters) among the musicals. There's a good chance we'll be royally entertained, though.

Plenty of good dancers and dancing. Expect the usual all-star cast and a breathless wait for the "best actress" award. Up for that are the remarkable Lily Tomfin for her smashing new show, "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Rosemary Harris, delicious in Noel Coward's "Hay elegant Jessica Tandy in "The Petition" (whose husband Hume Cronyn is up for "hpt artnr" in fhp came nlnyjj anH Mary Beth Hurt in "Benefactors." Oh, yes, I hope we get to see a dance from "Tango Argentino." ALSO ON SUNDAY What we don't need is a repeat of "The Calendar Girl Murders" (Ch. 16 at 9), another slasher movie based on the premise that "bad girls" (i.e.: those wno pose 'No Retreat, No Surrender' Just Doesn't Make It Ivan is all set to best a lineup of American karate champs when all of a sudden Jason takes charge and shows the intruder what fighting is all about. As long as we're cataloguing knock-nffs.

"No Retreat. No Surrender" might as weli be cued as the latest of many attempts to capitalize on the memory of martial-arts film star Bruce Lee. lucks onto an authentic mentor just in time to avoid being pulped by a gang of bullies. The toughs are equally unconvincing, being too flabby to pose much danger to so agile a player as McKinney. Less credible yet is the climactic threat, which comes from a big Russian named Ivan (Jean-Claude Van Damme).

Arrogant and overconfident, By MICHAEL H. PRICE Fort Worth Star-Telegram With the release of Columbia's second "Karate Kid" adventure less than a month away, New World Pictures' "No Retreat, No Surrender" should please undiscriminating action fans who can't wait for more of the real thing. But with memories of M-G-M's "Rocky IV" still fresh from Christmas, "No Retreat, No Surrender" may strike even the least demanding devotee as a ripff. Those points of derivation are undeniable, and as disjointed as if scripter Keith J. Strandberg had actually tried to merge a "Karate Kid" build-up with a "RocKy IV" climax.

Kurt McKinney, who is too athletic-looking to pass for a wimp, plays Jason Stillwell, a martial-arts student who LOUIS L'AMOUR: THE FASTEST PEN IN THE WEST It's a summer reading roundup in this week's USA WEEKEND. Leading the pack is the fastest pen in the west, Louis 'Amour, who's behind such great talcs of the frontier as How the West Was Won, Hondo and his latest and 95th novel Last of the Breed which is released this weekend. He's a particular favorite of President Reagan and millions of avid readers around the world. Also celebrity bookworms offer their all-time favorites for beach and backyard reading all in this week's summer reading roundup in USA WEEKEND. INTERVIEW This week USA WEEKEND interviews the magnificent Raquel Welch.

This perennial sex symbol is tackling new roles in her nightclub act (Elvis, Prince, Mick Jaggerand Bruce Springsteen planning a ministeries and promotion her own best-selling beauty book all at age 46. Raquel talks about her marriages, her childre and her image all in this week's USA WEEKEND. PEOPLE Broadway salutes composter Jerry (Helow Dolly, Mame, La Cage Aux Folles) Herman at the Tony Awards. Loni Anderson talks about her most memorable experience at a drive-in movies. New-lyweds Debra Winger and Timothy Hutton share set experiences.

And guess who's back? It's Gidget! Don't miss all the action on the people page of this week's USA WEEKEND. VIDEO NOTEBOOK This month's big video release is the hit movie, Jagged Edge, a tense teasing whodunit with so-methign for everyone an atmospheric setting, a neurotic heroine played by Glenn Close, a much-too-likeable suspect played by Jeff Bridges, a hardboiled private eye, a sleazy district attorney, suspicion-filled romance and more plot twists than a pretzel. Critics from all over the USA have their own say and other new June videos are introduced all on the "tear-out and save" video notebook page of this week's USA WEEKEND. Saves His Owner HOMER, Alaska (AP) Mike Robertson might not have escaped his burning house had his 3-year-old Labrador retriever named Kenai not roused him, officials said. "She started making a lot of noise and nudging him," said Elaine Gra-bowski, spokeswoman for Homer's volunteer fire department.

"He woke up and realized the whole place was full of smoke and escaped out the front door." The fire started early Thursday in combustible material stored near a water heater, she said. Remarks Enrage ManyHispanics Scripps Howard News Service Hispanic leaders Friday called Colorado Gov. Richard D. Lamm an "ugly American," and one of his fellow Democrats suggested he leave office immediately. The angry denunciations came one day after Lamm suggested in Washington C.

that too many Spanish-speaking immigrants in the United States aren't being assimilated into society and aren't learning English. "I think the governor is trying to drive a wedge between Hispanics and majority society, and I think he ought to stop," said Rich Castro! executive director of Denver's Agency for Human Rights and Community Relations. State Rep. Phil Hernandez, D-Denver, suggested Lamm leave office immediately rather than wait until January. Postal Official Pleads Guilty WASHINGTON (AP) Peter Voss, vice chairman of the U.S.

Postal Service board pf governors and an aide in ('resident Reagan's 1980 campaign, faces up to seven years in prison and is cooperating in a federal investigation of post office contracts. Voss pleaded guilty Friday to taking illegal payoffs in exchange for trying to steer a $250 million postal contract for high-speed, address-reading machinery to a Texas company. The 55-year-old Voss, who co-chaired Reagan's presidential campaign in Ohio in 1980, also pleaded guilty in a three-count felony information in U.S. District Court to embezzling money from the postal service. Voss immediately resigned from the eight-member board of governors, which is expected to award the $250 million postal contract later this year.

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