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Page D-l TliZ SACRAMENTO EEZ Tuesday My If 79 Russia Sending Only Leonardo To US Embrace' Demme Still A Promising Director think of it as a changeling from the high Renaissance an immature sample of that intellectual classical style which Leonardo was to evojve while painting the Last Supper" UNRECOGNIZED prior to the 20th century the Leonardo first (Arne to public attention in 1913 when tyrne A Benois the wife of a Russian nobel-man sold it to the czar for 315 mil-lion Kenneth Clark has qualms about the painting Its condition he11 has written is Part of the composition can never have been happy: The baby was always monstrous and the drapery of the sleeve labored The landscape seen through a window is absent from the Benois MadonnaMhe window itself lacking a central transom is ugly enough and without a landscape it is really he adds The 10 paintings from the Hermitage that will accompany the Leonardo include "Portrait of a by Cor-regio Francesco "Flora" Andrea del and and Catherine Elizabeth and John the Baptist" Cima da Family With Saint Elizabeth" and Lorenzo and They will be displayed in the West Building among the Italian Renaissance pictures in the collection Washington Post Hammer the American billionaire Hammer the head of Occidental Petroleum has since day maintained close relations with the leadership of Russia Twice before in 1973 and 1975 he helped arrange loans of paintings by Matisse and 17th-century masters between the Hermitage and the National Gallery of Art I told Hammer says "it would be pretty hard to find an encore He said do you I told him 'The Russians" Hammer continued "are eager to show their good will to the United States" Leonardo to Titian: Italian Renaissance Paintings From the Hermitage Museum Leningrad" will visit Hammers private New York gallery the Detroit Institute of Fine Arts and the Los Angeles County Museum July 29 In exchange 17 Italian pictures from the collections of those institutions will be loaned to the USSR Four of these Binding the Eyes of and and her will be provided by the National Gallery The Benois Madonna was painted in 1478 when Leonardo was 26 Art historian and scholar Kenneth Clark describes it as a picture of Leonardo he writes was to work out every detail according to his own standard of perfection a standard which included scientific accuracy pictorial logic and finish We must Janet Margolin has more on her mind than romance as she trains to Princeton irom New York City with Roy Scheider who is trying to crack the mystery of threats against his life in Last Christopher Walken fresh from his Oscar-winning role in "The Deer is effective in a brief part as a ruthless government bureaucrat The story does not always ride a straight logical line And the dialogue is too often predictable But Demme makes the most of what he has to work with still looking forward to his next project Charles Napier one of fine actors from With is a likable villain The veteran Sam Levene is super as a synagogue sleuth And John Glover one of a budding crop of talented actors show Arts The Chamber Readers will present "Strange at 8 pm May 17 in the Art Court Theater Sacramento City College This is adapted from an original script by Bonnie Mesinger and based upon stories from THE DECAMERON The Chamber Readers is a non-profit organization formed "to bring literature to life in the oral Information can be obtained through 449-7551 Memorial beheld May Ghost Mountain near Pollock Highway 50 Ray Pederson Mountain others will the guests join in jam their ewn will open at at Day BLUE-GRASS FESTIVAL will 26 and 27 at Ranch Pines off Vern Williams Park Herb the Foggy Cloggers and appear Following performances are invited to sessions with musical instruments The festival 10 am Information can be obtained (916) 487-9761 'The Last Jonathan By GEORGE WILLIAMS Bee Entertainment Editor JONATHAN DEMME showed so much promise in itjWith (also known as that his next project the current Last was warmly anticipated at least by me Unfortunately he has chosen a pedestrian story adapted from the novel "The Thirteenth by Murray Teigh Bloom pedestrian even for the genre of spy thrillers If you rate Spy Who Came in from The Cold" at 10 and at 6 then the story of would come in at about 4 But direction is taut sometimes too much when the action seems to overlap to a point where the -audience is going with the characters -only to find themselves coming back and his technique in communicating a story is subtle and sure The photography by Tak Fujimoto of uncommon sights in New York City Princeton University and Niagara LFalls is thrilling And as always Miklos music with its unsophisticated mysticism is breathtaking The cast is filled with talented actors an elementary aspect of the movies which so many directors seem to either overlook or compromise Roy Scheider at his understated best plays a US government agent whose wife is killed in an aborted espionage episode He suffers a mental breakdown as a result But when he recovers he finds the head office has him down as obsolete suddenly faced with a raft of troubles from another direction challenging all of his superspy skills Janet Margolin well-traveled since 1962's "David and and on her it looks good plays an anthropologist doing a study on New York City prostitutes who falls like a roadblock into Scheider's path IN OUR EARLIEST years if watching we human beings can be saddled with endless handicaps: freckles split ends bad posture but crueller than any of these is the stodgy palate A finicky attitude toward food can put a real cramp in capacity to enjoy life Worse it makes it hard to develop new eating habits You may be able to recite whole chapters of for a Small but if your palate is inflexible stuck The closed palate tends to go hand in hand with the closed mind Whatever is unfamiliar is automatically suspect in food people customs or ideas One of the saddest sights in Europe before the Golden Arches got there used to be the number of American students who spent their time and ingenuity faking their way onto American military bases to buy hamburgers and hang around with other Americans HAMBURGER ADDICTION is very much to the point in fact Someone has remarked about the phenomenal growth of franchised fast-food chains: want to know exactly what getting and they want to get it over with as soon as possible A gastronomic tragedy that arrested development on a national scale Anything parents can do to avert the syndrome for their own children is at least as important as correcting an overbite and cheaper Let me tell you about my father a great unsung gastronome of the Northwest Nothing offended him more than the phrase "I like Through sheer bravado he managed to banish it from our dinner ta-bli aged ble I can remember the night he came Avoiding ByPAULRICHARD HE SOVIET UNION has agreed to send to Washington DC its only painting by Leonardo da Vinci It will be the first Leonardo lent to the United States since the Louvre sent the Mona Lisa in 1963 The With a Flower" also known as the Benois Madonna is the only unquestionably authentic picture by the Italian master in state collections Accompanied by 10 other Italian Renaissance pictures from the Hermitage in Leningrad among them works by Raphael Titian and Correggio it will go on view May 13 at the National Gallery of Art European governments and individuals as well are sending old master paintings to Washington with increasing frequency A press con-femce announcing the fall opening also in Washington of old master paintings from the Swiss collection of Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza was recently held at the National Gallery The name of Leonardo da Vinci is so exalted and his pictures are so rare (fewer than 20 exist) that the monetary value of the Hermitage Madonna can only be guessed at The National Gallery's de which although much smaller cost $6 million is the only Leonardo in a collection outside Europe Arrangements for the loan were first discussed last August when Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev met in Yalta with Dr Armand Virus Mary Has Germs 'ill Travel By DICK TRACY Bee Staff Writer i TOP RECKLESS RE-o says the large hand-lettered sign carried by a protester outside McNaughton Research Labs in Canada Too late Inside an ambitious research assistant has already carried out a forbidden experiment with the mysterious M-3 virus to make a plant grow The good news is that the plant thrives But every rat in the same lab dies and so does the research assistant And so does a bird nesting in a malfunctioning intake vent outside the lab And the man who touches the bird And the little boy who touches another bird And people who had contact with the little boy And so it goes on and on in the current movie Those known to have come in contact with the victims are placed in quarantine under guard One an attractive young woman named Margo Simard (Celine Lomez) gets spooked at being cooped up and vamps her security guard long enough to escape Unwittingly she becomes a modern day equivalent to carrying the disease wherever she goes For patrons who take the whole thing seriously it may be some time before they touch currency (now you know why called filthy lucre) or eat submarine sandwiches again what sets the plot rolling in this largely predictable but nonetheless fast-paced and interesting science fiction film starring Daniel Pi-Ion Kate Reid and Michael Reynolds Had this film made its appearance in the 1950s it would have lived up to its billing as a but is curiously dated by such things as the background music whistling eerily to tip off the audience another victim is about to succumb to the virus Another time a scientist quarantined in the lab calls his wife and daughter telling them: the next flight to London ask questions I'll meet you there in a few No fuss about passports travel arrangements or even where he plans to meet them Of course they go And guess what goes with them Rated (PG) "Plague" is currently causing a decline in submarine sandwich sales around the Esquire Madison Square and Forty-Niner and Sky-view Drive-Ins The second annual The BLACK REPER- Notes From Laurel's Kitchen Carol Flinders a The Stodgy Palate Briefs TOIRE DANCE TROUPE of the Univer-sity of California Davis will 'present at 8:15 pm May 17 18 and ldwith a 2:15 matinee May 20 at the Veterans Memorial Theater in Davis The program of modern and classical dance wiUite performed to the music of Quincy Jones Hubert Laws Earth Wind add Fire Glen Miller and others Tickets canbe obtained through the UCD campus boxoffibS Admission is $300 dfljl $250 for students SACRAMENTO 443 2044 ROSEVILLE 7823751 ARDEN FAIR 9298505 WOODLAND 6665151 BRAU HOT 489 7b43 I Daily Departures to the Best of Everything in the Reno Area IJOW IOPnIUS values Bonus Paid Upon Arrival 7 Days a Week Round Trip Costs Only $1450 iGreyhound Trailways SACRAMENTO 444 6800 NE SACRAMENTO 4824493 ROSEVILLE 7834101 HotelCasino ing up in films from years of journeyman training in regional acting companies around the nation is intriguing as a Princeton professor and Biblical scholar You may remember Glover from his superb performance as Sammy in He is working on a movie about Melvin Dummar the service station attendant who for a time appeared to be the heir to the Howard Hughes fortune And he is also developing of the Cannibal based on a Herman Melville story Last Embrace" rated is playing at the Arden Fair Birdcage Walk and Sacramento Drive-In Or how about a traditional German dish: CABBAGE KUCHEN onions 4 cups shredded cabbage 2 tablespoons butter 1 cup yogurt 2 eggs beaten xh teaspoon salt teaspoon black pepper 1 tablespoon caraway seed Dough 2 cups whole wheat flour 2 teaspoons baking powder V2 teaspoon salt 1 egg beaten leup milk 2 tablespoons oil Preheat oven to 375 degrees To make topping slice onions thin and saute with cabbage in butter Mix in other topping ingredients and set aside Stir flour baking powder and salt lightly with a fork Combine egg milk and oil and stir briefly into dry ingredients Spread in greased 8-inch-by-8-inch baking pan Spread with topping and bake for 35 minutes Serves 6 to 8 EVERYJUESDAY Regular Order FISH CHIPS in 39 M-4MI IOt SftOl Ntrlfc ftfMendt 3)2 541 244S Avt Jmk (iruckwl 4 21- 'molly PISH CHIPS' BRING THIS COUPON AD WITH YOU 2-F0EM GALG BUY ONE 2 PIECE ORDER OF Tisfi AND GET THE SECOND ORDER I I I I I I I I home with a carton of fresh mushrooms our first Canned cream of mushroom soup held no terrors but these guys were big black and shaggy about as earthy and odorous as they come MY BROTHER AND sister were unnerved As the eldest I sensed what was expected of me and kept my peace Oblivious to panicky gazes my father went on and on about this great treasure brought us never eaten anything like it better fix a cream sauce and I could start making toast while he cleaned them What could we do? The possibility of our not liking even raised The first bite may have been touch-and-go But the signal was so cleat- unfamiliar doesn't mean bad that finally we were all won over There proved to be no limit: garlic bread and egg foo yung buttermilk and sauerkraut parships and pomegranates We did it all (not in combination) You might hold out now and then establishing your independence and all that but on the whole it was much more fun to be in there smacking away with the rest of the gang It was like belonging to an elite secret society THE KEY TO HELPING people of any age break out of rigid food habits is probably the atmosphere at mealtimes If sitting with people you love and whose love for you is manifest if feeling secure and entertained (laughter counts right up there with affection) it just critical that French fries be identical to last or that there even be French fries Or dessert either for that matter ready to take a risk trf a tofu burger? Buckweat noodles? A sunchoke salad? '441-4643 I I I I DAY ON SUNDAY MAY 13TH BREAKFAST-LUNCH-DINNER WE SERVE NORTH ATLANTIC CODFISH ONLY! COUPON EXPIRES MAY 22 1979 SALT ipwiiwi Xi TAKEOUT EAT IN SACRAMENTO 2811 FLORIN ROAD 2851 FULTON AVE 4424 FREEPORT BLVD 514 16m ST 2405 NORTH PACIFIC-STOCKTON 0 1 1 1 RESERVATIONS ACCEPTED FOR FIVE OR MORE ittrammmtmmiimntmr 11 12 ROADWAY AT RIVERSIDE.