The Charlotte Observer from Charlotte, North Carolina • 62

6D THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER Friday May 3 1985 (MRidnappesS TO I iW2 523-6417 lL0 5624 Old Pineville Rd fl 1 Sunday Monday Tuaaday Wadnaaday Thuraday Friday Saturday II I coUfmn i rjj I IVIAY STRATUS jPOCO Ij PRODUCERS (Rock Roll) (Inveitloetoy (Heart Of The Night) mhE) I Rock i Roii) I 5 ES 7 Co'' 9 10 1 1 ENTERTAINERS ALKAPHONICS SIDEWINDER I NIGHTHAWKS a (Beech Top 40) (60s a MB) TUN HUUIA (Rock Roll) (R 4 8) I 1 3' Fun I 13 17 IB WBCY 1 £3 WMfctaJ Wirwip Pirt BACHMAN i TURNER OVERDRIVE (Taking Can Of I 12 POOR SOULS (Beech Top 40) Collg MM I LONG LIVE THE BEATLES (Tribute To The Beetle!) SLIP 14 MAH0NEY Tin East Sid Kids (50 Ml) LEON RUSSEL (Tightrope) CRUISE-O-MATIC TriiA ''131 'iA 21 20 25 EMBERS (HACK SHOW BAND) 23 BRICE STREET (Clank: Rock) I I i i i i i i i Colafl Nttt J3 AWARENESS ART ENSEMBLE (Reggae) 19 NORTH TOWER (Show Band) 24 BACK DOORS (Tribute To The Ooora) Ltdwt Nignt SB 29 spring uno ALL DAY BASHI SIDEWINDER VANDALS KILLER WHALES 26 EMBERS (Beach Show Bind) 31 FANTASTIC SHAKERS The 3D BLASTERS ipKia Guam ARH00LY (RIB) ULTIMATE FANTASY (Burlesque) (Showbandl TOKYO ROSE MOVIE REVIEW 4Birdy' Slow But Rewarding "Birdy" is a relentlessly well-intentioned sometimes slow-moving but ultimately rewarding showcase for the dazzling young acting talents of Nicolas Cage with the Moon" "Cotton and Matthew Modine "Vision "Birdy" lasts for two hours but seems longer primarily because of a muzzy structure that wanders back and forth in time like smoke through a screen door We're in the present (entirely too much and too repetitiously) of a military psychiatric hospital the distant past of a depressed Philadelphia boyhood and the more recent past of the charnel houses of Vietnam The title character beautifully explored by Modine is a strange and fragile young man who has retreated all his life from a dreary Philly neighborhood an overbearing mother a defeated father sex and violence into the fantasy of flight He nearly manages the fantasy almost disguises his growing craziness until he's shot down over an Asian jungle After having been missing in action for a month Birdy is hospitalized in the states Trying to bring him out of a strangely mute and contorted state his psychiatrist (John Harkins) sends for Bir-dy's only boyhood buddy Sgt Al Columbato (Cage) Al has his own problems half his face has been blown away by an enemy shell and for a young man who thinks he has nothing going for him but his looks that's the end of the world Based on William Wharton's poetic novel evidently a campus favorite "Birdy" has been lovingly transplanted by screenwriters Sandy Kroopf and Jack Behr and Pnoio From Tn-Siar Pictures Matthew Modine plays title role in "Birdy" All The Queen's Horses ses can sometimes dovetail like puzzle pieces The bandaged Al speaks for a generation of veterans when he sobs "They got the best of us Birdy We haven't had anything to do with making our own lives" What's particularly gratifying about Cage's performance as the preening and pitiful Al is that it proves at long last that his delightful work in "Valley Girl" was no fluke director Alan Parker from 1940s to the '60s Parker for whose career "Bugsy Malone" "Midnight Express" "Fame" "Shoot the Moon" "Pink Floyd The Wall" the word checkered might have been invented has never feared to rush in where cameras might rightfully fear to tread Much of "Birdy" book and movie happens in poor Birdy's muddled mind and Parker makes an astonishing attempt at visualizing Birdy's flights of fancy Where "Birdy" really takes flight though is in the memory scenes of the long-ago friendship between the boys Bagging pigeons on the top of a natural gas plant pretending their parked and ancient jalopy is carrying them at top speed along the Schuylkill Expressway carousing in Atlantic City they paint a brilliant portrait of the way needy people's neuro Watch equine champions compete for $35000 and the EBC Arabian Silver Cup as the 1985 Mercedes US Open Jumping Championship comes to the Queen City Thrill to Olympic-caliber riding Sunday May 12 at Memorial Stadium Supported by Lions Charities the 2:30 Open follows WCCB-TV 18s JuniorAmateur Championship at 10 am Be there for the competition color and world-class pageantry IF YOU'RE GOING: "Birdy" is playing at the Manor Tickets are $2 (children 11 and under at all times all shows beginning before 6 pm) $3 (students and senior citizens for shows beginning after 6 pm) and $4 (general admission all shows beginning after 6 pm) PARENTS' GUIDE: "Birdy" Is rated and contains profanity violence nudity simulated sexual Intercourse 'Southern Images' Opens Sunday Get tickets now Charlotte Belk Stores Wachovia Bank and Trust Co Lebo's Coliseum Box Office ARTS WATCH Tickets in advance $900 at gate $300 children 12 and under "Southern Images" an exhibition of 30 paintings by Mt Pleasant artist Betty Anglin Smith will open Sunday with a public reception from 2 to 5 pm at the Snyder Gallery 102 Middleton Dr A graduate of Winthrop College Smith has been painting for the past seven years and has attended workshops conducted by Robert Wood Ed Betts and Val Thelin Her work will be on exhibit through May 18 Hours are 9 am to 5:30 pm weekdays and 10 am to 5 pm Saturday Details: Details 333-9071 9 am to 5 pm weekdays 'Elijah' At Pritchard The adult choir of Pritchard Memorial Baptist Church will present Mendelssohn's "Elijah" at 7 pm Sunday at the church at 1115 South Blvd The choir conducted by Hal Shoemaker will be accompanied by a 20-piece orchestra of Char-1 lotte Symphony musicians Special soloists will include Hal Mcintosh Susan Tucker and Actron Measham The concert is free Details: 376-1571 8 am to 5 pm Mark Hull Recital Baritone Mark Hull of Lancaster SC will give a voice recital at 3 pm Sundayin the Fellowship Hall of Covenant Presbyterian Church A former student of Metropolitan Opera soprano Eleanor Steber Hull will bring a program including works by Mozart Schubert Ibert and Vaughan Williams The recital is free and open to the public 1 II ii aiUMimiimit! mJJM'nai aLn---M a-IMIl ia MllaWI MIIM III "BEST DUCK IN TOWN Fresh Sword Fish Stuffed Baby Salmon Fresh NC Trout More! "A Oiarlesfnn Trarlirinn" KS5ffi9y The Best of Charleston Now in Charlotte OUR WOODS ARE GUARANTEED TO HAVE BIRDIES Ottering a Combination ot Continental Cuisine and the Freshest Seafood That deilftlfls rf nair nn what kinJ 'Mt fl 111 II 3 Il looking for Featuring specialties such as Roasted long Island Duckling prepared six different ways Soft Shell Crab Shrimp Provencale Dover Sole and Rock of Lamb to name a few COCKTAIL HOUR in our Steam Room Oyster Bar from 4:00 pm ALL house drinks 75' 8700 PINEVILLE MATTHEWS RD SERVING FROM 6:00 PM 'TIL 1 0:30 PM TUESDAY THRU SUNDAY For Reservations Please Call: 542-7061 In1! Our feathered friends can be found throughout our 750 acres of lushly wxxjed mountain terrain Or you piay discover that finding a birdie on our I8-hoie chanpjonship golf course designed by nationally noted golf course architect Dan Maples is a bit more challenging Regardless of which tyrie you're after Cramer Mountain Country Cluh Projierties will have them both Each of our homesites will give vou -and the birds-plenty of room to relax Plus our clubhouse wilJ offer a relaxing wind-down after a round of golf or an elegant evening of dining and dancing At Cramer Mountain there's time to enjoy the beauty of the deep woodlands And there's beauty in the time it takes to get tan home to uptown Charlotte 20 minutes So come checkout our woods Arid find out they really are for the birds The golf course is scheduled to open -November 1985 LifittdNuml)cr)fCountr Club Memberships Are Now Available! (MGuntairrA m4 violinist iJ 8:15 PM Saturday May 4 I I Stunningly gifted! Young maestros I 1 an eir Parents must see Mi Dori I 1 This 12-year-old debuted with the 1 I New York Philharmonic jy To buy tickets: I Call 704376-8883 Box office hours: lAn'TTT 9 AM-5 PM Monday-Saturday HDIHt OOU3f6 All major credit cards accepted Presented by ICM ARTIST 1 11111 tNrvctiuiw From Diutoiie tnke Hihw 74 WW nr I H5 Ninth to Belnxmt UHitiinie 2'! muKoh flurhway 7-1 to Likwxi Ktid 'lun Idt and MVm the signs From Gastida Fnnn Ashbttxik Flili tiike Smifh New Hx? ivni -a vitllTK-J iviliuniain RIIBO IUITI Ifn Slid RnlAV" 1 jkm-3eJM "viirv.