The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 81

THE MIAMI HERALD 9-F Tues May 11973 i A "Where the Main Attraction Is Brutal Life Told NOW APPEARING THE HAPPENINGS MANILLA Continuous Entertainment 8 Dancing 'til 5:00 No Minimum Reservations: 945-6547 CORTEZ GREER MARCO POLO OCEANFRONT at 192nd MACHINE AM RESORT MOTEL ST MIAMI BEACH 7 at 163rd Street for 850 Cars 9th FLOOR SYMPHONY Nothing stops until 5:00 AM (Unless you do) 3 Live Bands can handle Mindless sexual couplings junk food boredom insomnia and endless miles of driving through the Southern countryside to the next gig The road becomes an obsession in itself Nothing seems more important than raising hell and staying free of those people who want to tie him down With ease and insolence Maury gets out of a traffic ticket leaves his long-standing girlfriend (Ahna Capri) stranded on a country road and attempts to buy himself out of a murder he have to commit In his fanatical egotism no place for loyalty for friendship for love In one slightly stagy scene he confronts his ex-wife at her suburban home Laden with birthday gifts for a son five years older than he thought he was Maury is badly out of touch with himself Having won the plum of fame forgotten what ever made him happy By CANDICE RUSSELL Herald Entertainment Writer Janis Joplin Jimi Hendrix Jim Morrison the rock music world is strewn with dead stars who played themselves out in i pop tragic form in its raw brutal simplicity is an intriguing glimpse into the frenetic lifestyle of the overnight success Its persuasive message is that the insane rhythm of fame and the price it extracts are reason enough for self-destruction Scripted with brutal precision by Don Carpenter the film details several days in the life of country-western singer Maury Dann Rip savage all-too-credi- ble portrayal accurately details the mad self-absorption of the star and his inevitable demise PILLS booze and more comely young things than he Rip Torn Is Country Singer Maury Dann in a mindless life of pills boose and one-niglit stands Free Self-Parking nior and Cliff As a naive Southern pickup attracted to gritty charisma Rosamond (Elayne Heilveil) tags along bedded first by one of his musicians then by Maury himself in the backseat of his Cadillac limousine Her tenu- ous fragile manner finally breaks under the strain of events she understand Bigger and better than ever and NOW BACK AT PLAYBOY the dazzling MICHAEL Gwynne gives an alert sleazy recognizability to his role as manager accountant and fix-it man his grim responsibility to calm the star down to cool his seething temper to buy off the law when the on What mars the film is a sense of trying too hard of overstating the point The frenzied pace seems slightly incredible Director Daryl Duke has taken pains to make sure the character is devoid of caricature Torn has never been better especially in those quiet hours of the night when a disquieting guilt let him sleep Minn plAyMATEbAR Showtimes: Weekdays 10 pm Midnight Fri Sat 12:15 Reservations phone: Art 865-1500 Up- That! Secret Government Is Villain in Bugging Stealing Covering Believe a Movie Like By JOHN HUDDY Herald Entertainment Editor and In a word timely remarkably so movie that is in the CEUbRiTy bAR vip ROOM Songs humor and the now sounds for dancing by the FIRST IMPRESSION Open from 11 am to the wee hours DINNER and DANCING in the INIMITABLE PLAYBOY MANNER Dancing to the STAN MUSICK TRIO tealunng MARIA MARSHALL Serving From 7 pm to 1 1 pm Reservations: Santiago 865-1 500 at TQM JONES RON BOUCHER pusottt cellent case of supporting players There are awkward moments in the film most of them early in the picture when Winner tries hard to establish the mood of deadly professionalism among the operatives but eventually the double crossers double crossing the double crossers proves completely absorbing MASSAGE 11AM TO 6 PM 893-6371 THE UNITY of time over three days gives the film a documentary-like feel This compression also adds an unabashed theatricality to the events which build with predictable catastrophe one on another The camera lingers a little too long on some scenes and the gratuitous visit to his senile mother reprises similar scenes in is a right place at the right time Because movies generally take from 18 months to two years from the time of inception to the actual beginning of distribution one cannot accuse Director Michael Winner and Producer Walter Mirisch of exploiting anybody or anything IN PUTTING together a slick talky occasionally theatrical but frequently audacious and exciting yarn about the Central Intelligence Agency and a special operative named Cross (Burt Lancaster) the moviemakers have not used euphemisms either for real-life government practices or real-life government morals The CIA is depicted as a vicious ruthless bloody organization consisting of computers that are tended by equally sterile and cold bureaucrats who will invoke any means to achieve their assigned end Scorpio anything but comes right out and hammers away on the simple theme that our government is mostly invisible is brutal in the most arrogant and underhanded of ways and in short differs very little from the spy machinery operated by the other side IN SOME RESPECTS this approach is not entirely original but does go further than most works in avoiding coy disguises naming the agencies and pinpointing specific practices like those in which top level government officials hire goons killers and thieves to commit assorted mayhem in behalf of truth justice and the American way Artistically the film offers good acting by Lancaster Alain Delon Gayle Hunnicut and Paul Scofield and an ex David Rintels Gerald Wilson wrote the screenplay for the new spy thriller and they rtainly allowed their i a ination to run wild I mean how silly can you get writing a movie about high level governmental officials who commit burglary grand larceny wire tapping and even obstructing justice -do the producers of actually expect the public to believe this kind of wildly far fetched and downright unpatriotic pap? Do they really in their hearts think that audiences possibly can relate to any i 1 in which leadership (characterized in this film as cool efficient business-like anonymous men who stand up straight and who put their hands in their pockets) regularly violates fundamental criminal law and the elementary tenets of fair play and! human decency? THE NERVE! Someone should swat the United Ovation Recording Star LAURA Thru Tuesday May 1 VICARNELL Opening May 2 BOBHEALYaPRESENTS summerTsalt EnDdEESS PolyeM AT 79th ST ONLY SHOWS: 9 1 1 SAT SUN 6:30 900 DINING DANCING HAPPY HOUR 5 TO 7 PM FREE HORS D' OEUVRES yytau 2 LOCATIONS 1755 79th ST CAUSEWAY I RES 865-373S 19201 COLLINS AVE RES 945-6529 LOUNGE 6' ST CONTINUOUS FROM 9 PMl EMORE 12 PM -RES 947-2631 Burt Lancaster special CIA operative Atists people with a rolled up Nbundle of Washington Posts had the feeling that the people who made this movie like the a man behind me said as the audience left the theater on a recent night That could be Or maybe Rintels who wrote the original book has been wiretapping the wiretappers and burglarizing the burglars have a private meeting to see the films because House rules require open committee meetings THEY SHOW IT I want the concession for overcoats hats and dark one legislator said committee is con- sidering a bill that would let cities set up their own movie review boards and determine what films could be shown in their towns Texas Lawmakers to View 5-a Ik Tmum JzEtlh ATLANTIC MOST SUCCESSFUL FEMALE IMPERSONATOR SHOW A 5 STOREHOUSES OF TALENT A annifi MR DEE CONNORS MR JESSIE DEVILLE MR 2 SHOWS NITELY 10 OPENING FRI MAY 4 The Mai Malkin Orchestra The Songs of Helen Glover The Guitar of Tony Vino The Trumpet of Bill Mayity Collins at 48th Reservations Benni 532-3600 After dinner visit our intimate downstairs La Chacota Lounge featuring The Kentones Open 1:45 AUSTIN Tex (UPI) A committee of the Texas Legislature wants to view the i movie in private of course in its study of pornography But the committee chairman is afraid get raided by the cops The movie has been confiscated as obscene in many of the cities including Dallas Fort Worth and Houston in Texas The Texas House Committee on Intergovernmental Affairs voted 12-1 to subpoena copies of from Dallas police and also Marlon Tango in which is showing a few blocks from the state capitol BUT JAMES RASTER an El Paso Democrat and committee chairman admits that going to the movies be easy First the lawmakers sure they can legally SALOME HEALTH STUDIO 301 23rd STREET MIAMI BEACH OPENING FRIDAY MAY 4 proont the original if" BAFIG BRflG producod by Ron Headrick $300 Admission Charge No beverage minimum JHOUITIflie 9:15 PM 10:45 PM 12:15 AM NIGHTLY REeRVflTIOn Bob DeWilt 538-8811 (After 7:00 PM BANG BANG IS CLOSED ON MONDAYS PAT SARGENT AND THE LENNY DAWSON ORCHESTRA SUPERB DINNERS LATE SUPPERS DANCING SHOWTIME: NIGHTLY 9:30 11:15 PM SATURDAY RESERVATIONS: ANDRE PASCAL HOST 538-8811 I Ml.