The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 103

1 i SECTION nrz2 Ij fttiami Hralb Friday April 14 1972 1 WHERE TO GO FAMILY FUN MOVIES NIGHT SPOTS WHERE TO DINE fA Clockwork --rClCr 5C? -fSST if 1 W-I'V 'w A E' 40 4 '0 Vs 1 5 I i The answer is simple enougli: Clockwork Orange" is neither 4 0 i Jt -c --tS-Af By JOHN HUDDY Herald Entertainment Editor IAMIANS see movies in a vacuum assuming that they see them at all and when the film in question achieves a certain degree of notoriety as has happened with Stanley Clockwork then such an observation is doubly true Especially when the film plays South Florida after receiving as much coverage as the ITT scandal and Northern Civil war So months after a picture is distributed and discussed we finally see it In viewing the film it often turns out that we are reacting as much to the dialog generated by the film as to the film itself And that can be most revealing No doubt many Miami moviegoers will see Clockwork in much the same way for this principle applies to everyone not just film critics At best this is like reading a good book after sitting through a graduate seminar on the author At worst it is like beginning a classical novel after reading the Classic Comics version IT IS NOT ONE of the best niovies of the year it is not a classical work of art at is not the best picture of the decade it is not a bifeakthrough in the infant history of film as an art form And perhaps more important than all of the fortegoing Clock-work is not Stanley Kubijick best filmmaker at his best i Yet Clockwork is considerably more of a movie than most whicli have been made in the past year Not in the top two or three certainly but better than most And if he work is not Kubrick at his best one supposes that some future film scholar (Rex Reed III God jforbid?) will describe the film as a Kubrick sidetifip an amusing if imperfect excursion off the beaten jpath that eventually reaches a dead end I am saying then that even a mediocre Kubrick movie is better than the effort by many of his alleged peers and that this is why we have heard and read such an unprecedented barrage of talk argument praise criticism and why the Washington Post recently suggested that any movie that provokes this much reaction be all bad Staff Photo by RICHARD FORGHAM Miamians Don Minstrel Finery to Gag It Up for Wesley Minstrel Show they are Ed Bishop Al Gustinger and Jim Pouell op Hats anjos 1 TRUE ENOUGH But the ability to create interest and generate excitement is not die only test of a good movie just as the ability to launch a tour de force of camera technique lighting effects set design and little tricks such as having rthe William Tell SO WHAT OF THIS MOVIE that has been the subject of a series of cover stories on major national magazines of an undending front page debate in the New York Times cultural section and recipient of prestigious awards including Best Picture prize by the New York Film Critics Society? Is it as good as been told or as bad as its detractors have argued? Turn to Page 7F esiey A Supreme Court Justice shedding somber black judicial robes for a top hat bow tie and shiny green silk tails? this show will trace the history of radio entertainment from Kate Smith to disc jockeys in a series of skits Bishop of Northeast Airlines State Representative Dick Renick former Judge William Culbreath landscape architect James Powell and John Halliburton Jr the business administrator of First United Methodist Church of Coral Gables will appear The vice president of a major airline cheerfully answering when someone calls The Wesley Minstrel through the years has earned a reputation as amateur show with the professional One of most uninhibited theatrical productions the Wesley Minstrel and Variety Show is a church play that grew up In addition Dade County Mayor Stephen Clark an ardent supporter of the show promises two new songs this year DIRECTOR-PRODUCER of the show is Elizabeth (Lib) Connally who has guided the troupe since its beginning Dick Tyler is assistant Attorney Al Gustinger Jr will be the interlocutor for the minstrel half of the show a production of the First United Methodist Church of Coral Gables for charities home and foreign missions tonight and Saturday night at Dade County Auditorium at 8:15 The cast of 100 will include dancers family choruses 91-year-old dancer Lillian Connally banjo artists and a chorus line in old-fashioned bathing suits Various local charities and needy families have been greatly helped by the proceeds from the annual show Tickets are available through Mrs Homer Spence (226-4536) at Bank of Coral Gables or at the Dade County Auditorium box office Admission is from $2 to $4 ON THIS twentieth anniversary of the show such unlikely performers as Florida Supreme Court Justice Hal Dekle Vice President Ed Masked of Controversial Film Gag Their Vijctim THE VARIETY portion of Things to Do See This) Weekend i Cutler Ridge 45 Almeria Ave Coral Gables Admission from 1 to 5 pm Bayfront Park Shopping Showmobilej Plays for vl- Art Festival In the Parh From minstrel shows to art festivals to rugby matches to controversial movies the weekend shapes up as a grab bag of things to do and see for everyone Have you seen the Planetarium show or watched the hobbyists fly their model airplanes? Navy Band Concert US Navy Band of the USS Newport News in concert at Hollywood Mall 7 to 9 pm today and 2:30 to 5:30 pm Saturday Free a Benefit Suburban League event games refreshments etc for Variety Hospital 8 pm Saturday YM-YWHA building 8500 SW 8th St Admission SPECIAL EVENTS 3 Coin Show South Florida Com Club show today through Sunday Harvey Seeds American Legion Post 64th Street east of Biscay ne Boulevard 10 am to 10 pm today and Saturday 10 a to 6 pm Sunday Free Folk Music Chuck Mitchell Elizabeth and Bobby Ingraham at The Flick coffeehouse 5813 Ponce de Leon Blvd tonight through Sunday three shows nightly Admission Flea Market From 8 am to 5 pm Sunday at SW 57th Ave (Red Road) and 83rd St South Miami Free Entry fee for artists Self-Help Sale Rummage sale to raise funds for the drug rehabilitation program Operation Self-Help at 12470 SW 190th St Saturday and Sunday from 10 am to 5 Planetarium Show Beyond the Ninth Planet turns Miami-Dade Junior College students Maria Sire and Jaime Daualos rehearse for in the a spring celebration to be held in Bayfront Park this weekend The 1 to 4 pm celebration will include art jazz chamber singers modern dance Cuban music and dancing and poetry readings For details see story inside This Weekend the Sunday Free Arts Show Sixth annual Homestead Spring Arts and Crafts Clothesline show and sale 10 am to 5 pm Saturday Homestead Plaza in Homestead Free Lecture Barry Patch lectures on Your 6 pm today Miami Club 1737 Bayshore Dr Admission Fish Fry Miami Springs United Methodist Church 300 Royal Poinciana Blvd Miami Springs 4:30 to 9 pm today noon to 9 Saturday Seminar Informal seminar on Medicine Through 815 today First Unitarian Church 7701 SW 76th Ave Hawaiian Luau Veterans of Foreign Wars buffet-dance for post youth activities 7:30 pi Saturday fiH children by the Plastic Town Players of Barry College fin Dade County showmobSle today Locations: Park NW 21st Avei and 52nd St 3:15 pm Miller Park 5510 SW 94thl Ct 4:45 pm Free Carnival JMiller Park 5510 SW 94th tCt presents annual capnSval at 10 am Saturday Booths games refreshme nts etc Free admission? At the Shopping Centers Calypso concert at North-side Center 1230 Saturday 1 Arts and crafts show 10 am to 5 pm Saturday at Homestead Plaza ScJtcer games by Miami Ga os from noon to 2 pm Saturday at Westchester C( Dog show at Centred Plaza 10:30 a Saturday Petmobile at Skylakei Mall 11 am to 4 pm Saturday Flea Market Saturdays and Sundays 8th Avenue and 56th Avenue Hialeah Free Auction At Unified Hall 2300 NE 171st St North Miami Beach 630 pm Sunday for National Cardiac Hospital Free I I Show The 20th annual Wesley Minstrel Musicale at 8:15 pm today and Saturday in Dade County Auditorium Admission Festival Miami-Dade Jr College (all campuses) Arts Festival today through Sunday Free Show University of Miami Whitten Union 7:30 pm Saturday International Week of show Festival Miami-Dade Ju- nior College in Nostalgia Film Flash Gordon Conquers the 7 pm Saturday at Nostalgia Film Society 2nd floor store Turn to Page 4F it i HAW i -y i-i i.