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The Charlotte Observer from Charlotte, North Carolina • 65

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THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER Friday April 13 1984 SD daN Conti's A Standout In ComedyDrama SUBARU Championship Tennis 1 os 0 40 0 110 0440 10 40 009 OA 04 to vr 004 40069M 044460Wsod OW 0 f44004V: Zo A get that picture to Shelby That's not a picture that by-God Jim Hunt brought in here (Last Sunday's) 'Parade' magazine finally said it was filmed in North Carolina and I thought 'My Lord isn't that wonderful' There's a lot of stuff we can do in North Car olina if people Just give us a halfway break" presented by Olde Providence Racquet Club World Ranking 6 Jimmy Arias 7 Jose Hiqueras 9 Bill Scanlon 12 Johan Kriek -ft iz I a mriek her Manhattan hotel room you look out her (Radisson) window at the black glass of NCNB Plaza Charlotte's Lamplighter Restaurant and the WBTV studio also put in appearances with Gowan's seedy room In Woodsmoke's Dew Drop Inn a set built in Owensby's studio The ever-straightforward Owensby in a brief phone interview before Monday night's tedious Oscar ceremonies referred to the competing and much-publicized studios being built in Wilmington "I don't see any of Dino DeLaurentils's pictures nominated" said Owensby "We worked for three years to April 14 15 '1' Tickets $10per day 704-365-3563 Order by Visa or MasterCard 704-365-3563 Order by Visa or MasterCard i 4 A 0 4E IF YOU'RE GOING: "Reuben Reuben" is playing at South Park Tickets are $2 (ell shows beginning before 6 pm children 11 and under) and $4 (all shows beginning al ter 6 pm) PARENTS' GUIDE: "Reuben Reuben" Is rated and contains profanity kn plicit sexuality brief nudity i I i 1 0 46 I A' IIIICI CPi: A lit4 kg If 111 ANSOC 1 DW 16 t' Continued From Page ID Award-winner for his tour de force in Broadway's "Whose Life Is It Anyway?" adds flesh sinew and the bitter herbs of self-awareness Conti lost the Best Actor Oscar to Robert Duvall Monday but Con-ti's was the best of the five nominated performances Watching his Gowan Mc Gland struggling to arrange his sallow features in some sort of order around his droopingnose and Huckleberry Hound eyes is like watching an unpredictable animal you have no idea what he'll do next And a finer thing than that about an actor you cannot say Young Kelly Mc Gillis effectively reaches the harsh realist within the strapping blonde shell of Geneva the psychology 1 jor not talking about men of genius s7 Gowan I'm tr 4 44 talking about Roberts Bssom a 71'1 ty wonderful old i 'l character actor tiI' 5 i with a face that 00ks as though McGillis It were whittled from mountain ash is green-apple tart as Geneva's grandfather the elderly New Englander who soberly instructs Gowan "There's nothing mere about running a poultry farm Nothing could be less mere" In smaller roles New York stage actors inhabit fictional Woodsmoke Conn with quiet certainty Lois Smith is Geneva's mother Cynthia Harris and Katherine Kerr two of Gowan's riskier conquests Scott Coffey the Anglican minister who assures Gowan that "We want you to feel a member of our congregation" responds Gowan "who is Producer Walter Shenson Hard Day's Night" "Heir) has recruited some faces (Charlotte actor Gladys Lavitan's for one) you may recognize to fill out the Woodsmoke cocktail party roster The "Reuben Reuben" production company rented Shelby filmmaker Earl Owensby's studios for six weeks and put Dr Haxby (Joel Fablani) a cuckolded dentist whose revenge is probably unparalleled in film history in the driver's seat of Owensby's personal Rolls Corniche If there was a single most important story of filmmaking in 1983 it was the move for financial and aesthetic reasons away from Hollywood to filming on location Of the five movies nominated for Hollywood's Best Picture of 1983 two were filmed in Texas one in South Carolina and one in Ingmar Bergman's Swedish hometown The flaming Woodsmoke foliage in "Reuben Reuben" is Shelby's the Episcopal church a combination of churches in Cherryville and Shelby When Gowan visits his estranged wife (played by Kara Wilson Conti's wife) in 0 0 ZULU es 4 aps Nrkproc MI 101 Al I IV atipi vi lwi 0 it 4 0: IN IOU 1 GAME I anytime THEATERS ROOM OVENS csoo Auto Tomumi SPRING SESSION Carolina's Festival 0 Featuring: the SINGING AMERICANS the CATHEDRALS the KINGSMEN the ROYALS PALMETTO STATE QUARTET' 444 Arnkai3its11iatAtt: 'f: :) 7 -tig coofa r' ti I 0 I A ES 0 Itif a 10EEXENn A or ocG aL'''''''''7'4'1 Pi It 4'' i'i: vlir110 tit "Y': 44 VP 4b' 4 4 taitt4 ''4: I'ljERS 55' '1 I'L 4 :::::1 ''1 fin 1 i15 if: 1- I 1 ---e- A -1 11 4 4 1 i 1 illo: 't -r m1 7sr 1'4 ''i's i'' A340A77 't Nita ogyamotimal 3 i )a A 0 211:::4: Bill of Ceremonies Saturday April 21 1984 8:00 PM All Seats Reserved $700 Each Tickets available at: OVENS AUDITORIUM BOX OFFICE Charlotte N0 or write: SINGING AMERICANS PO Box 715 Maiden NC 28650 Phone (704)428-2640 Entertainment Complex Opens ing down the aisles and a special white anti-stick vinyl covering on the floors There will also be an elaborate video game room with over 100 of the newest million dollars The New Tryon Mall Theatre consist of 4 separate theatres seating 350 persons per auditorium Each theatre will have run-way light The Tryon Mall Theatre is the newest aquisition of Multi-Cinema Ltd the Charlotte based theatre chain that owns and operates 79 theatres throughout the Carolinas and Virginia It oast Leg ot Lamb t4 04 --Few op -1t 11- is 14 kr Over fresh 5alked A atm Dvessing with a C4 IMU tiorne and a rnade Mint Sauce i Soutile cup of Mint 1 Jelly fresh Mparagus --T 401 if arrnesan TS WOAD an Sprouts and Diced Boiled Vag SPInach vAtil 5e th tiot toWn Dressing and fresh bacon bitslopped wt it Giass of Chablis Wine $99 5 It DESSES1 VITIOn Mousse with SN5X 0 Grand Monier Sauce 0 8 (' (a3)' A Dinner for SPRING 0 -IV' Leg 5 4 i ci oast Lamb op -c ot PoW 1 '1 ---7 16 Over fresh 5alked elt'( 1--lartith- -'''-'e' Dressing with a 1747:74:::: tiornernade Mint Saturiceint 4641: iliti and a Souffie cup Jelly fresh Mparagus If 1 Varrnesam SAW) So 11 with 15ean 5prouts and Diced Bovilleedsstiagino lesli Ina(' vtAt- loped ith tiot Neon and lesh Neon 1 995 Wit Glass of Chablis Wine DEssto Lemon Mousse with ec5X Os Grand Manlier Sauce a-3 0 413 hrcon Ami iu i hatione '04- 68 38 8 electronic games plus a separate game room dedicated to young children The Tryon Mall Theatre will operate under the same policy as Multi-Cinema's other Charlotte based theatre The Queen Park namely a $100 admission at all times and the finest entertainment for you and your CONGRATULATIONS! gMZEK1 Almh FDIC ANd Yom The Tryon Mall Theatre opening today on April 13 1984 completely renovated and redesigned at a cost of over 1 Congratulations on your beautiful new theatre DESIGNED BY AtkinsonDyer architects pa Built By Charlotte Theatre Supply I edifice inc 704 MORRIS STREET Charlotte NC 28202-704-333-9651 (Do 0 re were happy to supply all your theatre needs 704-568-5382 CHARLOTTE NC 210 ve 410 605 100 101 1000 2:10 4:05 6:00 6:00 10:00 8:05 AND 10:00 ANGEL SHE WAS A HOOKER BY 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SEXTON President VII I "Searlare" Is an IntellSt film both in ita use of IIlanguage and depletion Of violence We suggest mature audiences 9130 And Lee Show mos The music is on his side 00-1000 Fri-Sat Lat Show 1200 PO BOX 2215 246 BLVD EDEN NC 27288 (919) 627-0459 800-1000 lat Show 12:00 Aso" 'N WE WERE HAPPY TO HAVE SUPPLIED Congratulations on your YOUR TOTAL SIGN PACKAGE Grand Opening! 47 INIiir) lawn-4 Fit -4-a II rig-IA1 rp ctric 2)ave i Cle Service inc elecirical aniractor RESIDENTIAL COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIAL 5314 WILKINSON BLVD DAVID SEXTON PO BOX 2215 246 BLVD CHARLOTTI NC 28208 President EDEN NC 27288 393-7300 t9191627-0459 i 0 1' TRYON Mila pRAT ai MA 0 l'ILL Es r-i- CAUTION I -8corlare" Is High School 10 0 Honor Studenr Umuttnrn 0 See A Totally use of 9i00 by day language end And A Hollywood Hooker by night Spaced depletion nf Lote Sheer The music Itt mo siolence We 1200 17 Adven uf 0 ture suggest mature is on 9 4111p audiences 41) i 4- 800 his side 16) 1000 ANGEL so i And qisI' 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