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Paragraph PREVIEW, July 12. 1986 19 lit if- 1 CALENDAR Continued from page oboist Timothy Hurtz, saxophonist James Boitos), July 28 flutist Max Schoenf eld, baritone Peter Schuetz, tenor Jerome LoMonaco) and Aug. 4 iChavez. Dawson, LoMonaco and cellist Ko Iwasaki); Ewing Manor courtyard, Emerson Street and Towanda Avenue, Bloomington. Free.

Sweet Adelines Women's chorus, 8 p.m. July 15, Miller Park Bandstand, Bloomington. Free. Rare Earth and The Great Pretenders Rock-pop groups in benefit concert for Project Oz, also featuring flea market, crafts exhibit, children's carnival games, pony rides, cake walk, petting zoo, food, tractor pull, magician, truckload sales, farmers market, antique car exhibit; 9 a.m. 9 p.m.

July 19 (concert begins at noon), McLean County Fairgrounds. Concert tickets purchased before July 19, at the gate, 10. 309827-0377. Bloomington Barbershoppers Men's choruses, including Sound of Illinois Chorus and local quartets; 8 p.m. July 29, Miller Park Bandstand, Bloomington.

Free. Chubby Checker '60s rock singer, 7:30 p.m. July 30, McLean County Fair grandstand. Free with fair admission. Sawyer Brown Country group, 7 and 9 p.m.

Aug. 1, McLean County Fair grandstand. Free with fair admission. Reserved seats directly in front of grandstand, $4. Champaign-Urbana Illinois Summer Youth Music Final Concerts Concerts by students enrolled at of I music camp; Junior chorus 2 p.m., Junior concert orchestra, 3:15 p.m., Junior symphonic band, 7:15 p.m., Junior symphony orchestra, 8:30 p.m.; July 25, of 1 Krannert Center.

Free. Fifth Annual Bluegrass Festival Featuring Boneyard Creek Cloggers, 1-7 p.m. July 13, Crystal Lake Park, Urbana. Free. Chamber Music Performance by chamber ensemble comprised of of I faculty and graduate student musicians, 8 CALENDAR continues on page 20 AT THE MOVIES Continued from page 4 conversational worm, a man with an ostrichlike bird permanently afixed to the top of his head, talking door knockers and a duplicitous dwarf known as Hoggle (whose makeup seems to have been ripped off by the low-budget "Troll," rushed to the screen earlier this year to steal "Labyrinth's" thunder).

Wondrous creations, all, and rousing testaments to the genius of Henson. Now, the bad news: the non-beasties in "Labyrinth" (i.e., the humans) are crashing, smashing bores. Although Henson is on firmer ground here than he was in his all-puppet fantasy epic of three years ago, 'The Dark Crystal," he displays precious little empathy for the fleshly protagonists that are supposed to ground the film in reality. Jennifer Connelly is cast as Sarah, a tiresomely self -centered teen-ager who quarrels with her parents, frets about her barren social life and crabs about being forced to babysit her little brother. When she makes an offhand remark that she hopes her brother is "taken away by the goblins," her wish becomes the Goblin King's demand.

The latter is played by David Bowie, adorned in stretch pants and what appears to be one of Tina Turner's cast-off wigs. Apparently the Goblin King and his minions reside in some parallel world where they sit around waiting to snatch babies from their cribs at the behest of selfish older sisters. After the baby is taken, it's up to Sarah to travel to goblindom, where she is given 13 hours to wend her way through the titular Labyrinth to the Goblin King's castle, all the better to rescue the brother she had publically disdained two reels earlier. After embarking on the quest, she confronts the afore-mentioned menagerie of Henson beasties, several of whom join her on the trek to the G.K.'s castle. Although there are individual moments of delight to be savored here, Henson and Lucas have labored mightily, even A3 UULJUPUUUUUlg, Sarah (Jennifer Connelly), with the aid of friend Hoggle, right, searches for her kidnapped baby brother in "Labyrinth." heroically at times, to produce a mouse of an epic.

The script for "Labyrinth," by Monty Python alum Terry just another formulaic "quest" fantasy, in which a group of ragtag characters embarks on a rescue mission (e.g., "Lord of the Rings," "Legend," "Black Cauldron," "Return to Oz," "Dark Crystal," "Krull," "Beastmaster," "Star Wars" and all the other variations on the theme of the past 10 years). Connelly emerges an utterly charmless and unempathetic heroine. Her matter-of-fact reactions to the fantastical situations, monotone vocal delivery and inexpressive face render her character a nonentity throughout. Meanwhile, Bowie, who is saddled with that ridiculous coiffure and several ill-conceived musical interludes, is never once a remotely menacing figure. He looks like just another decadent rock star, out for a few last kicks before tossing in the towel.

About midway through, you begin to wish they'd both take a tumble into that far more personable, infinitely less dull Bog of Eternal Stench. Saturday 9:00 p.m. K1 What's playing in Central Illinois CUBS vs DODGERS Live! Sunday 7:00 p.m. 'PLEASE DON'T EAT THE DAISIES" Doris Day David Niven Monday 8:00 p.m. "CLASS" Jacqueline Blsset Cliff Robertson Tuesday 8:00 p.m.

"BREATHLESS" Richard Gere Wednesday 8:00 p.m. "ESCAPE FROM FORT BRAVO" William Holden John Forsythe Thursday 6:30 p.m. CHISOX vs. YANKEES Livel Friday 8:00 p.m. "PORK CHOP HILL" Gregory Peck George Peppard previous films into a well-rounded, neatly sustained whole.

Matthew Broderick plays the titular character, a high schooler with a heart of fool's gold who feigns a serious illness in order to free both himself and two friends up for a day of romping around Chicago. Bueller's nemesea through the chicanery: his sister, insanely jealous over big brother's ability to con everyone save herself, and his principal, insanely determined to get the goods on Shermer High's most prolific truant Hughes, along with his talented cast, keeps the film consistently ingratiating throughout It is both the summa-tion of everything that he has been striving for and the moat free-spirited movie about adolescence since "Risky Business." (College Hills Cinemas 4, Normal: evenings, matinees; Lincoln Theaters, Lincoln: evenings, weekend matinees.) The Great Mouse Detective (G) Not reviewed. Villain veteran Vincent Price lendB his vocal talents to the Walt Disney organization's latest animated opus (the 26th since 1938), about a Sherlock Holmes-style rodent sleuth who matches wits with a sinister Professor Moriarty-style rodent fiend (Price) in the darker recesses of Victorian London. Based on the book, "Basil of Baker Street" (an infinitely better title), by Eve Titus. (College Hills Cinemas 4, Normal; Hickory Point Mall Cinemas, Forsyth: evenings, matinees both theaters; Pekin Mall Cinemas, Pekin: evenings, weekend matinees.) The Karate Kid, Part II (PG) Not reviewed.

Sequel to the 1984 box-office sleeper returns Ralph Macchio to his role as the Kid and Pat Morita to his role as the mentor, Miyagi. This time around, the two are off to Okinawa, where their presence rekindles an ancient feud. Soon, both student and master find themselves battling bitter foes bent on their total destruction. Ah, so familiar. John G.

Avildsen, the original film's director, calls the shots again. (University Cinemas 4, Normal; Hickory Point Mall Cinemas, Forsyth: evenings, matinees both theaters; Pekin Mall Cinemas, Pekin: evenings, weekend matinees.) Labyrinth (PG) Reviewed on page 4. (Normal Cinemas 2, Normal; Crescent Theaters, Pontiac; Majestic Theaters, Streator: evenings, weekend matinees all theaters; Hickory Point Mall Cinemas, Forsyth: matinees only.) Legal Eagles (PG) Vt This is a movie that is supposed to demonstrate two things: that director Ivan Reitman can make a comedy without pandering to the profitable teen sector as he did in "Meatballs," "Stripes" and "Ghostbusters;" and that the star, Robert Redford, hasn't forgotten how to loosen up in front of the camera after more than half a decade of cinematic asceticism. On the latter Back to School (PG-1 3) In this, his third and smoothest attempt at a big-screen vehicle to date, Rodney Dangerfield is as graceful a mass of unkempt humanity as the movies have offered since the Balad days of W.C. Fields.

If there can be method to madness, Dangerfield, playing hedonistic nouveau riche businessman Thornton Melon, proves there also can be svelteness to slobbery. When he is dumped by his shrewish wife (Adrienne Barbeau in an appropriately Btrident cameo), Melon decides to enroll in college to help out his nebhish son (Keith Gordon), having a rough freshman year. In short order, he transfers his shady business ethics to the hallowed halls of ivy, attempts to further his son's academicathletic pursuits via the same shady ethics, and falls for a sexy-slinky English professor (played with a delightfully throaty tongue-in-cheek sensuality by Sally Kellerman). Though there are some obvious flaws to contend with, for the most part "Back to School offers one of the summer's breezier nonsense entertainments. (College Hills Cinemas 4, Normal; Hickory Point Mall Cinemas, Forsyth: evenings, matinees both theaters; Crescent Theaters, Pont iac; Majestic Theaters, Streator: evenings, weekend matinees both theaters.) Big Trouble In Little China (PG-1 3) Not reviewed.

Kurt Russell stars in the screen's first "mystical-action-adventure-comedy-kung fu-monster-ghost-story," directed by the redoubtable John From New Carpenter. Russell plays a good ole boy trucker swept up into an Indiana Jones-style escapade in "the imaginary world under Chinatown, where the ghosts live." Kim Cattrell co-stars. (University Cinemas 4, Normal; Northgate Mall Cinemas, Decatur: evenings, matinees both theaters.) Club Paradise (PG-1 3) Not reviewed. Robin Williams plays Jack Monicker, an ex-Chicago fireman who is conned into investing his entire pension in rejuvenating a rundown cottage colony on a tiny Caribbean isle. His partner: Ernest Reed (Jimmy Cliff), the island's resident saloon-singing sensation.

Also populating the landscape: a governor (Peter OToole), his nefarious prime minister (Adolph Caesar) and a love interest for Monicker (Twiggy). Among the tourists to check in: Rick Moranis, Eugene Levy, Mary Gross, Robin Duke, Andrea Martin, Joanna Cassidy and Joe Flaherty. Directed and co-written by the prolific Harold Ramis to School," "National Lampoon's (Eastland Cinemas, Bloomington; Hickory Point Mall Cinemas, Forsyth: evenings, matinees both theaters.) Ferris Bueller's Day Off (PG-1 3) With his fifth high school epic in a row, writer -director John Hughes has fashioned his most appealing film to date a stylish, entertaining, hard-working-little j. comedy that incorporates the strongest elements from his We bring home the Movies! nrilM'M V7W WHAT'S PLAYING continues on page 20.