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IPIERIGROUP, I The USS Growler, now part of the Intrepid See-Alr-Space Museum on the Hudson River at 46th Street USS Growler To the Rescue attraction at the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum, on the Hudson River at 46th Street A christening was scheduled for this morning and the hatches leading to her low, cramped interior will be opened to visitors beginning Friday. The submarines arrival she was towed 6,500 miles from a retirement berth in Puget Sound represents a giant step in the rebound of the Sea-Air-Space Museum. Pier 86 opened in 1982 to show off the mammoth, 900-foot-long Intrepid aircraft carrier, a veteran of World War II, Korea and Vietnam. However, after 780,000 visitors flocked to the site during its first year of operation, a fall-off in paid atten- By Paul D. Colford ER LONE cruise missile points directly at Midtown, but the weapon has no fangs.

The USS Growler growls no more. Only imagination can restore might to the submarines missile launch, her decktop signature. Like an old sailor, this vessel will relate sea stories from a permanent port Thirty-one years after the Growler was commissioned for Cold War service in the Pacific, and 25 years after the diesel-driven vessel was retired in favor of nuclear-powered hardware, the submarine this week becomes the newest Please see SUBMARINE on Page 10 I Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Harrison Ford in Spielberg single-handedly rescues us Snm the dullest, drabbest movie year in Indiana Jones and memory. And despite the films state-of-the 1 the-art technology, there is something wonderfully old-fashioned about it all Crusade. perhaps because he takes us back to a time when cars had cranks and airplanes had propellers and men had pure values and the guts to back them up.

With Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Spielberg should finally get that long-overdue Best Director Obobt. Nor will his trip to the podium be a lonely one. Look for executive producer George Lucas, cinematographer Douglas Slocombe, film editor Michael Kahn, production designer Elliott Scott, any number of special-effects technicians and perhaps why not? HarriBon Ford. Although Ford has starred in more super-blockbusters than any other actor, he has never been granted his artistic due. Possibly because he makes it all look so easy.

Once again. Fords solid and unflashy work keeps the entire enterprise tethered to Borne kind of reality. But this time, Ford doesnt have to do it all alone. Connery provides abundant charm and wit, not to mention an intriguing father-son relationship especially when the two men discover they have been sharing the love of the same beautiful woman (Alison Doody). In addition, Connerys presence provides the entire film with a heavy ironical overlay: He was, of course, the first movie-land James Bond and, as such, the true sire of Indiana Jones.

The Spielberg-Lucas team seems to have made nothing but inspired decisions. The role of that great English character actor, Denholm Elliott, again playing Indianas bumbling academic boss, has been expanded, and Elliott joins Connery in providing an antidote to all the derring-do. The appearance of River Phoenix as a young Indy expands on the character of Indiana Jones. The strongest addition of all may have been Jeffrey Boam (Innerspace), a script writer with a consistently light touch. The film will surely have its detractors, those who will point out that Spielberg has made yet another comic-book movie, that its not remotely realistic, that the characters are drawn broadly and that the humor tends to be obvious.

Yes, yes, yes all valid, all true, all quite perfect! and membership cards for $3,000. A gray wool coat Clark Gable wore as Rhett Butler fetched $6,000, and one of his perspiration-stained GWTW vests brought $3,800. A checked cotton gingham dress worn by Judy Garland while Binging Over the Rainbow in The Wizard of Oz was bought for $9,000 by a collector named Charles Moniz. Fred Astaires patent leather tap shoes from The Gay Divorcee were sold along with Ginger Rogers shoes from Roberta for $9,000. An original Wizard of Oz script commanded $15,000.

Theres a tremendous and growing market for all kinds of celebrity-related thingB, not only movie things but sports things and rock things, said Ellen Hughes, a museum specialist at the Smithsonian Institution. The Smithsonian, which has no budget for buying such mementoes but gets them donated, displays the ruby slippers Judy Garland wore in The Wizard of Oz, the dress Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie and a Ginger Rogers dress from Top Hat. Good-quality Hollywood collectibles have been rising in value by at least twenty-five percent a year, said Malcolm Willits, owner of a memorabilia store at Hollywood and Vine. This throwaway society never took Hollywood seriously until it was over with. People, especially wealthy people, generally dont start collecting something until its socially acceptable.

Acceptability for motion picture memories began in 1970, when MGM staged a sale of old props and costumes from its warehouses. Its been the little collectors who held onto the stuff until Christies and Sothebys got interested, said Willits. Posters, the most familiar form of art connected with movies, were among the first artifacts to take off. Posters for the 1939 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and for a 1927 re-release of Birth of a Nation sold for $4,000 at Camden House, continuing the rising trend. Not lost in all the big-bucks action were the concerns of the smaller collectors who keep the market alive on sentiment.

Mark Pogachevsky, a film publicist, paid $150 for a poster advertising Suddenly Last Summer, explaining: "It was one of those movies I saw when I was young, and it made an If Im going to buy movie posters, they have to have some meaning. II NmdrBnnrGilban The Growlers hatches will be open for visitors inspection from Friday on..