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-v--w- FRIDAY MORNING OCTOBER 5 1984 a FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM 1 I 5 Amusemonto JOIN US FOR CHAMPAGNE AND SAVINGS announcing 'Teachers' is a lesson in predictability New Store Hours Ars Come share the fun with us in celebration of our NEW STORE HOURS Tonight and every weekday evening till 9:00 pm Saturdays till 8 We'll have sparkling champagne and colossal savings on men's and women's clothing shoes and accessories ur NEW fening till lampagne lothing -I 1 Ill 07m' ::::::1 ''t''' '1'04 :7 ill a'- I K' 1-4 '4 i 3 1 44 1 r-' 4 1::::1 -'4--''t ::::::::::::2: I 4 'rf0: -4 1 ylt i 0- 1 r--- A Nick Nolte and JoBeth Williams in Teachers 1 0 00 Nick Nolte and Jo Beth Williams in Teachers I "11 lg 0 tIP ttli II 1 111 lake I II' I 1:11 j111 I i 11! 161 to il'illii I 11 ale 1 1 'Ili I 1111 Iiiihti A ii 1111 1 1 I I 1 li I 111 II II 1111111tPA 61 II! I 1 IiiMI All 1 a 6 By MIKERITCHEY Star-Telegram Film Writer With Teachers opening Friday at several area theaters United Artists has made a noteworthy attempt at dealing intelligently with a (Ross Perot would say the) major boondoggle plaguing this country The effort deserves appreciation but no gold star 0 Teachers 4 which is of Review course R- rated because of verbal and physical no-nos stars Nick Nolte the big lug whose vocal cords were apparently stepped on by the late Big Daddy Lipscomb as a good (read sociai-studies teacher in a big-city high school Nolte is always interesting to watch Had they not been detained with an elementary-school script both he and the picture would have fared better The premise was in the news not long ago and a television documentary has even been made about the unfortunate young people who pass through our schools without learning a thing The CBS network's 60 Minutes had a segment too about a college basketball star who went back to the inner-city third grade in Chicago because he couldn't read In Teachers a boy who was graduated from John Kennedy High School without actually having passed his courses or learned to read sues the school for malpractice We hear a lot about the boy and the court case results in the love "interest" between Nolte and JoBeth Williams (whose work in the good doctor's view continues the collapse which began after 1982's Poltergeist) Williams is a lawyer representing the boy on whom we never lay eyes What we do see a lot of is one big mess after another: stabbings car thievery a physical-education teacher who impregnates three Witt severa has dealinJ Perot 1 gle pla The but no Rel cause stars Is vocal steppe Lipsco social-! high si No It watch with both fared I The long al tary unfort throug ing a i Minut colleg( back t( Chic4 In ated School passed sues tt hear a court est" be Hams I tor's which sentin lay eyi Wha mess thieve teache 0 II i Fingei The shock! Upo Fingers The shocks Upon Fingers The shocks 14639 Inwood northof LBI between Spring Valley and Belt tine Corner Shopping Center Walnut Hill Lane at Central Expressway I 1-30 and Collins St Next to Chili's MONL-FRIDAY'S TILL 9:00 SATURDAYS TILL 8:00 le way girls lone of whom Nolte escorts to an abortion clinic) teachers who can't get in out of the rain the police shooting of a "misunderstood" student and one sensitive kid whose well-being causes Nolte both grief and an apparent ultimate fulfillment There is in other words not much that isn't predictable about Teachers That predictability is an inherent difficulty faced by films which are built on cute dialogue There are constant little scenarios played back-to-back The rapid exchanges between the players have all been heard before and even before that The jokes are stale and contrived and the ending is as sappy as the un-touching little speech that fell on an otherwise delightful Revenge of the Nerds back in the summer Director Arthur Hiller (Silver Streak The Lonely Guy) had a solid cast Other than Williams and Nolte Judd Hirsch (Taxi and an Academy Award nominee for Ordinary People in 1980) is as good as usual in his role of the harried vice principal who was once as idealistic as Nolte Ralph Macchio star of the summer hit The Karate Kid is back with his sweet slumping Italian Outsiders part Lee Grant (1975's Best Supporting Actress Oscar in Shampoo) as the superintendent determined to do whatever is necessary to keep the school's image clean so money will keep coming in and Richard Mulligan (Gen George Armstrong Custer in 1970's Little Big Man) is the highlight of the story in the part of a mental hospital outpatient who happens to answer a stranger's telephone and winds up as the school's finest teacher What happened to Hiller or so it seems is that his producers Aaron and Irwin Russo "discovered" a screenwriter who had never written a screenplay and gave him an opportunity at the Big Time They were unaccountably generous for WR McKinney 23 and just two days out of college was not up to the job Too Hiller rather than focusing on the story's bold premise and going with it opted for the safe route cracking silly Fast Times at Ridgemont High jokes and even having Williams strip off her clothes and walk naked in the hall while the whole school cheers her on Clarence Darrow this lawyer ain't Again however there are momentary flashes of well of "what might have been" and they (plus Nolte) make Teachers worth: Vz Rated sex and language r41ix tt I i' i li ation itil'i I 0C tt I I I I mation 70 1 0 ORO $09 '3 0 10Sq0 OS 1 to oks? NI1 0 111:) Oscar should remember 'Soldier's Story' fondly Continued from Page 1 point in every direction culmination of the search everyone involved his arrival at the base Continued from Page 1 point in every direction culmination of the search everyone involved his arrival at the base man who had he been born five creator has long been the single refuses to buckle under Waters' years later would have raced Jackie main difficulty faced by the black harangues He is the most intelligent Robinson to the Big Leagues Yes A people Still Waters persists of the troop and his brilliance Soldier's Story includes as much Adolph Caesar plays Sgt Waters spawns a sensitivity that is potential-Upon baseball as music These players and his performance is riveting ly disastrous in such perilous eirDavenport begins interviewing were actually recruited for the Caesar acted his role more than 500 cumstances members of the troop Each tells is troop because moss of themwete pules on the stage Escaping it 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stories in which they the "new" black the character of lled with memorable occasions) complicated all-encompassing sto fi involved has said Sgt Waters contains a horrible di-he delivers a terrible monologue at ry of a minority way of life which a movies about space- chotomy which causes him mania- the bar in Big Mary's staring at him- nonchalant majority has been given interested in them" cally to weed out those members of self in the mirror the entire time scant opportunity to see he has pro- bears him The his own race whom he considers to The moment is unfor ettable em duced a full-bodied slice of our histo- r- (1965) In the Heat of be anchors holding back his people's iniscent of Robert DeNiro's crazed Ty Its mighty impact leaves us with Best Picture) The progress and likewise mirrored speech in nothing so much as hope that 40 Affair (1968) Fid- Waters' racism is invertedDespis- Taxi Driver years from this time some other artdler (1971) Rollerball ing the "nigger" traits he sees in 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he has produced a full-bodied slice of our history Its mighty impact leaves us with nothing so much as hope that 40 years from this time some other artist won't be moved to make us look at it all again Surely things and we will be different by then Rated language intense subject matter liotoASAAalloSIKAWIA I City I State Zip CENTERS One otter per custom expires Oct 13 1984 IFood available t011owing personal consultation I SPRING CREEK PARKWEST PLAZA HARWOOD VILLAGE 1 I(214) 881-0094 (214) 867-0569 (817) 268-5544 141 Spring Creek Pkwy 2220 Colt Road Suite 410 510 Harwood Road I Suite 415 Plano Bedford Plano 599 fee does I not include food IPRESTON HOLLOW PRESTON TRAIL VILLAGES (214) 358-7581 (214) 733-4024 miirm I 4347 Northwest Highway 17194 Preston Road Suite 112 WE'RE OPEN EVENINGS RI' Loss I frERS I CD VILLAGE 1 I-5544 mood Road $99 fee does I not include food ICZI I )PEN EVENINGS I I WEGHT LOSS I 1 I 4 i cious treatment Jewison a dire( people and the sti find themselves "I cannot 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