Fort Worth Star-Telegram from Fort Worth, Texas • 28

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I BIGGEST BARGAIN IN THE MITROPIEX AU SEATS SIOO Atl TIMES has suspense intricate plotting and a climax crowded with action" Shalit TODAY" NBC-TV HWV 183 WILSHIRE CENTER 983-3771 ejSO ADMISSIONS Mono THU ooiuaoor nu shows sspone pr SUNOS? sue HOUOS1S SHOW om I 1 I OPENS 8 0O-STARTS 9 OO AM HO OLA fOHTAINf MS CHARIOTS OF 12:05 "GREASE II" )PG) 1 1 Tlw ultimata hero in the ultimata ad venture bb LOST ARK AIRPLANE ge) is one of Clint Eastwood's best movies fun with leaping vaulting shooting flying spe IC1NEW0RLD1 "ROAD WARRIOR" (R) cial effects" Siegel GOOD MORNING AMERICA ABC-TV 'CHARIOTS OF IX IJ OO-J THE TEXAS CHAIM rMASSACBE plus' Massacre at Central High "HANKY PANKY" (PG) "GREASE II" (PG) "FIREFOX" Sk vV 'Cw 4 1300-2 30-5 10 442S EAST LANCASTER 535-6571 "STAR HEX "THE WRATH Of KHAN n- 3 ffZ 'PENITENTIARY II" (R) 1 "GREASE II" (PG) 1 1 45-1015 if'K "THE THING" mn "RAIDERS OF Thtf LOST ARK" 1 4' DISTRIBUTED BY VWRNERSROS i A WARNER COMMUNICATIONS COMPANY 1 4'M7WAtr Bos A Rnis Rete'ved WMAV1SON PG Cokyb i -'it "TUI SECRET OF NIMH" Euiessftd 284 349 i-3Q al Cherry lane 246 5S64 lOUTHStp I i 12:00 2:30 iupvhulen6S terror state of the art special effects" JOEL SIEGEL WABC-TV NX chills to the bone" NEW YORK POST 5:00 7:35 10:10 1 St 294-2621 1 0: 1 Nt Jltk at Stack SM-SS41 XXX Three Movies Doily Catf for Titles Wed Program Change Privacy of Your Cor Entertainment fiaraain In the Land of NIMH: Jeremy loop 120 293-1371 Open 8:30 Start 9:00 Mon Only $150 per person (EAST) "RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK" (PG) "AIRPLANE" (PG) (WEST) "rouyj" i) UACN MITT (I) no gloss containers rmEmz: i 3 UA CINEMA "BLADE RUNNER" 0 13:302:405:00 "FIREFOX" PG "ANNII" PG 7:4510:10 "ROCKY III" 12: 10-2: "RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK" PG 'NIMH' like Disneyland: It appeals to everyone WBMANsntiommi 2935 1 Seminary Or 5364645 Open 8:30 Sotart 9:00 Mon Only $150 par panon fAM Radio required tor sound) KENNY ROGERS Brewster Bolier 5709 Belknap I3S-5171 Open 8:30 Start 9:00 Tliur Only $100 per parson (AM Radio required (or sound) racing career was going in reverse car-crazy kids joined his pit crew put him back on the track (EAST) "THE THING" (R) "ALIEN" (R) (WEST) "TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE" (R) "MASSACRE AT CENTRAL HIGH" (R) no gloss contgjner "RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK" (PG) "AIRPLANE" (PG) With Burt Dolly this much fun just be legal I TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX Presents SHARE Production A DANIEL PETRIE Film KENNY ROGERS LANE ERIN GRAY Music by CHARLES FOX Producers EDWARD FELDMAN and TED WITZER MICHAEL TRIKILIS Written by MIKE MARVIN jpi Perry Stewart THE SECRET OF NIMH: Animated feature Directed by Don Bluth Playing at several theaters Running time: 75 minutes Rating: In Bambi it was Man the Hunter who terrorized the meadow In The Secret of NIMH it is Man the Farmer whose home-wrecking tractor sends the field mice families scurrying from their burrows The comparison to a Walt Disney classic is a logical one Filmmaker Don Bluth was the crown prince ofthe Disney animation department when he walked out and took more than a dozen artists with him Two of them are his partners in this ambitious project Their announced goal was to restore the Disney touch something Bluth felt was missing from recent products of the studio bearing its name CLEAR that Bluth and company have succeeded Every frame is a banquet of rich color Mousie whiskers twitch rodent eyes twinkle and in the background trees sway and leaves twirl to the ground a lot of art work as witnessed by the legions of animators and cel painters listed in the credits The story based on an award-winning book concerns the trials of Mrs Brisby a widowed mouse who must relocate her family before the spring plowing One child is too ill to move however so she seeks counsel first from a wise old owl then from Nicodemus the wiser and older rat Nicodemus is the patriarch of the Rats of NIMH a special group of intelligent rodents who live in the rose bush and tap his electric power lines to light their underground burrows The way they acquired this skill was Well that CINEMA rtiwr SOUTH cintio mum 921-0211 teoMpR sjms GENERAL CINEMA oa I CINEMA VS wist or tioeMAt mmYVR M9weaumruiK 246-5564 4:55 7:20 9:35 Rlfi 12-2-4-6-8-10 sum mnnus-nun Hun ft iiwi-mu 'ilium cam higcis "im eisi nmi rr DelUlSf Mi) DM JIM MBS MADfll I UK BflIII UASIMT CM VSlMir I ME TO IUSIHNH Mil Ml Vfflll MIDI KtflMOi WHIMS W1 EKES KMT 1011 MIS Tit mill Ml USE 1 -'DraiMtis nuuunsifir 1 2:00 2:30 IldOT KIRI 11 cram isn tiu8i RIDGLEA 6125 (amp Bowie T3fl 7101 1 00-3: 1 5-5: 30-745-1 0 00 ABMANSFIELDW- Senary D' 536 A6 a (Opens 6:00 Starts 900) the Extra-Terrestrial WESTEMMLIS ORBELAIREI 04 I UPfumHUlKT 2i 2 2131 12 00 2:30 5 00 7:30 10 00 Pionetf I Collmt 461 QQQ? 12 00 2 30 500 7:30 10:00 HULEN 6 St 12-00- 2 30 5 00 7 30- 9 45 12:25 2:40 MEHznzmBsr Si $200 $200 MATINEE PRICE MON-SAT AIL SHOW BEFORE 6 PM SUN A 1ST SHOW ONLY LIMITEO TO 3)28 west 7TH STREET 'ROCKY III" PG LUV4 1 ties CAMP BOWIE OLVO "THI THING" WEDGWOOD 2 MS mil USE Din-nas4 "BLADE RUNNER" "TRON" PG iBELAIRExim I mi i timwtHuBT-ai iiii i "EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL" PG "TRON" PG 12:002:004:006:008:0010:00 WESTERN HILLS 4 i4sr pup sown leva i Tsoil "SECRET OF NIMH" "TRON" PG 12:002:004:006:008:0010:00 ON TWO SCREENS "EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL" PG 12002:305:007:3010:00 IcOLims Pionttn ro ui-oop! "BLADE RUNNER" 'RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK" PG s6uworC ON TWO SCREENS "EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL" PG 12:002:305:007:3010:00 ACtTVfHM 5: is His until six and A LION DIANE Executive Produced by GENERAL SEMINARY ote lHomm Scott in the sexy comedy IMS WII 1MD 1 1WU1I I S0I1II the Crow chats tvith Mrs Brisby would be giving away the secret of NIMH it? Bluth has stated that NIMH has a multilevel appeal Sure enough I count three audiences for this film Sub-teens will like the cute figures and the sight gags adults will be intrigued by the hints of Plague Dogs twist and the light show set will respond when wizard-like rodents write with fiery pens Et cetera I base this on the reactions of my group I attended the film with Fay who is 32 but responds in the manner of the teen audience and Rachel 10 the adult in the trio I represented the pre-teen viewer my mental age being wondrously flexible We all enjoyed ourselves so Bluth can only hope we add up to some kind of crazy quilt cross-section of American movie-goers As visually rewarding as it is NIMH finds its real forte in the area of voice characterization The actors speaking the lines were chosen with scrupulous care and perfect In particular: Dom DeLuise as the clumsy crow who befriends the mouse family John Carradine as the imposing owl Derek Jacobi as the rat leader Elizabeth Hartman (as in happened to Elizabeth as the plucky Mrs Brisby Hermione Baddeley as her shrewish shrew of an aunt and Paul Shenar as the evil rat who foments revolt in the NIMH community Stewart: WHEN the vaunted screen edition of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas opens here Friday one of the theaters will bring back a little bit of the roots History and Larry King tell us that La late lamented Chicken Ranch (the brothel of the title) got its name because during hard times it used to accept poultry as payment for services So the Ridglea Theater will admit the first 50 chicken-bearers free to 7:30 showing The theater will keep the birds and donate them to charity man show Mark Twain show was so taken by the theater and its restoration that he pledged $1000 to the project if five local donors would do likewise They did Holbrook returned six months later donating a day of his time to tape two television commercials to help the renovation of which has been added to the National Register of Historic Places Actor Vincent Price who brought his portrayal of Oscar Wilde to the stage earlier this year underwrote the restoration of a pair of the worn and tattered seats The crowds that queued up for tickets to the stage version of Annie last year reminded some long-time Schenectadians of the week in 1933 when around-the-block lines preceded each performance of King Kong wanted to make it the best there Proctor told the opening night crowd of 3000 who had paid 50 cents each for ochestra seats to see the film comedy Stranded in Paris on the huge theater screen Chandeliers reflect the ornately tapestried walls and detailed plaster work on the ceiling A genuine Louis XV marble fireplace graces the mezzanine Each of the 18 dressing rooms has its own shower Flanking the theater for the depth of a city block is a two-story arcade containing 40 shops and Vaudeville finds a new life in Schenectady of all places Bala and Willie most and mind-bogrgling- new ofthe Bummer! By JOHN STRACHAN Associated Press Writer SCHENECTADY NY To such comic greats as George Burns Schenectady was a joke He loved to regale television audiences with stories about how he had in the upstate New York town But Schenectady was no laughing matter to FF Proctor a former vaudeville acrobat with a flair for the business end of show business When he added this city to his vaudeville circuit of 50 theaters he did it with a flair He also gave comics a hot topic for a fast laugh Proctor spent $15 million in 1926 to build a 2700-seat marble monument to vaudeville Designed by theater architect Thomas Lamb it was a showcase for a pre-Depression audience that was already shifting its tastes from vaudeville to films But after surviving the death of vaudeville the of Hollywood films and the passing of the big bands that once entertained on its stage fell into disrepair and was all but abandoned in the 1970s Today with help from the city and federal governments and a boost from a group of civic leaders who formed the Art Center and Theater of Schenectady (ACT) entertainment has come full circle at Actor Hal Holbrook who booked into last year for his one- The movie that let you down EMBASSY PICTURES Presents In APPIEM Production SCOIT BAIO WILLI AAMLS FELICfJCHACHIER- HLWHtR THOMAS 0 Wot NCY GECOGOS WMMCTBG IKhwmRssr I ll Cherry Ln 246-14a GEORGE ROY HILL trim ROBIN WILLIAMS WORLD ACCORDING TO MARY BETH HURT GLENN CLOSE JOHN UTHGOW becuuve Producer PATRICK KELLEY Screenplty by STEVE TESICH 8esed on rhe novel by JOHN IRVING Produced by GEORGE ROY HILL end ROBERT CRAWFORD Directed by GEORGE ROY HILL fxj iKadihSbvel (rom POCK FT BOQKT COMMUNiCAIiunS LOMKANT -f STAPTS TOMORROW 5 EBB I 820 Hulen St STARTS TOMORROW! SUMMER VACATION KID SHOWS ALL SEATS $100 THUMB" BELAIRE TUES 1200 WEDGWOOD-WED 12:00 CINEMA 4-THUR 12:00 RIDGLEA-FRI 12:00 iifinfriii Hwys 80 360 649-3311 GENERAL! 4 4 i oifcAe mm Jma.