Richmond Times-Dispatch from Richmond, Virginia • 21

Rirhmoml Timpft-lliupalch HVd FA 8 1978 B-9 f'V i I ASHLAND Phone 798-7465 NEW YORK NEW YORK (PDI 8PM Weekday! 7PM A920PM Fn Set Sun 2PM Matinee Sun Bridge By Charles II Goren and Omar Sharif Brum ii hwl in 1 TIM TMina Dragon hMlniilMIMa 'ImftllJI MTXLT-SWmiPM Ur SMlncHS II Vn lM MUM LIQUID UPS plot IsriMwi fort ituii SIP THE WINE strict atreS pEvEVVS FEB 10 11 NO SEX PLEASE "Sot OOVWIAf emu MhwIttwakMnviniiOO caefiwrt OAUNIET" (HI i on no I nn on nn FEATURING: Gary Beet Ales Rowe Bev Appleton spade and a heart then ran the diamonds bringing the hand down to four cards Dummy held the jack of spadea and three hearts to the ace-ten while declarer had four hearts West waa forced to hold the queen of spades to stop the jack from becoming the twelfth trick as well as the queen jack-five of hearts When declarer led a low heart West was helpless If he played low declarer intended finessing the ten and would have made an overtrick But it did not help West to split his honors Declarer captured the jack with the ace then threw West in by leading the jack of spades to the queen West was forced to lead away from the queen of hearts into declarer's tenace giving declarer the last two tricks and her slam North-South vulnerable South deals NORTH 14 9A10733 4Q4 AQ65 WEST EAST KQ853 10963 9QJ5 9 Void OSS 010762 1072 J9843 SOUTH A7 9K9864 0 AKJ93 The bidding: South West North Eaet 1 9 14 40 44 4 NT Paso 5 9 Paso 6 9 Paaa Paaa 6 4 6 NT Ohio Paaa Paaa Paaa Opening lead: King of 4 Rixi Markus may be better known as a writer than as a player these days but she ia still a formidable opponent at the table This hand from the Philip Morris European Cup tournament in Amsterdam shows her at her best After East elected to sacrifice against his opponents' heart slam Rixi derided that she would receive poor compensation for doubling six spades Instead she elected to try six no trump and West looking at a sure trick in the only suit the opponents had bid doubled with the expectation of a certain set West led the king of spades and as soon as dummy appeared declarer decided that West had to have the three missing hearts for his double Therefore the only way to land twelve tricks would be via an end-play Declarer won the ace of spades crossed to the king of clubs and reentered dummy with the queen of diamonds On the ace-queen of clubs declarer discarded a DANCING FRL SAT whk Bcv Carole RESERVATION 746-4288 MHOS THURSDAY DAMON" G) miooiioeeo oo HI HU i ST 4 510 ImdSl 2IS-3HI iwiteiiint WbmkU Mini GMa houh "TNI SOOOSVI aiNL" IPO) HOHOlJOHHMMmoO ENDS THURSDAY HOMY MM INI 0 el'tlooouHH tutii IllllfPj Wirppholu A A Bo 44 MaeKaneowMa Vs 23111 95th Birthday Jazz musician Eubie Blake cut a cake Monday on the eve of his 95th birthday The occasion was a party given for him by New York radio station WOR in one of their studios Blake's wife Marion looked on HENRICO Laced with larceny leaded with laughter! or 10 of the action dod red Ferrari her own 7:00 Henry Winklar-Sally Field Woody Allen's Comedy "PLAY IT AGAIN SAM" PttcsdW by fa Urbh hHrt Dina trteidri trMfk Muck Slush CA Bustard Ridge I 13104 2H-1SS7 Ridge 1 KMWfak' Awe Gneomtere of the Third Kind" IFGI 100 IK 7 00 NaFamvNoGNM Rldge Jong fendi nJVsrtMi Nartguva (FG) I 10 3 20 5 30 7 46 1000 GNH300-600 RMfc3 Shalouathnn Mg ortmeaft hgr Iggla Homy Wvrtigr Onm and Oat' (PQJ 1 30 3 15 5 00 45 130 10 IS GNH4 30-530 rage 4 Thg move Ihchmenii aaHaf get Now ft JJrdtfFiMh wort' 1003 103 20 7 JO 40 Nn GNHNo Parma irfieldi 130 HuguinotsiidMidblliiM 7S4-48I5 Chesterfield He mwn hewe hgmgn ce lo suiwei Mart" an 1 10 2504306 10 750530 GNH5 404 40 Chesterfield 2 Mni MMUw Si "Hereee" (FBI SO 3 00 6 10 7 20 0 10 GNH4 40-S40 Chesterfield 3 GMfm Jota Oanwnfi "Oh GarT (FQJ 1 0 3 40 5 0 7 40 40 gun oo an DINNER THEATRE 784-5204 Channel 35 Use Is Asked By 2 Groups Two groups have filed applications with the Federal Communications Commission to opera te television Channel 35 in the Richmond area They a re Neighborhood Com-munications Corp a subsidiary of Neighborhood Theaters Inc and the Chris- tian Broadcasting Network a Portsmouth-based television and radio network that deals primarily with religious and family-style broadcasting ti According to the appli- cations whichever group receives the license will be able i to lease the top of the 699-foot tower that currently holds transmitters for WCVE and WCVW channels 23 and 57 public and educational broadcasting stations WCVE-WCVW plans to build a 1000-foot-tall antenna in con-! junction with WXEX-TV in the spring According to Bill Spiller the station manager of channels 23 and 57 the Channel 23 transmitter will be transferred to the new antenna during the summer During the four-week changeover the Channel 23 transmitter will be refurbished and public broadcasting will be transmitted over Channel 57 WALT MSHCY moouenom DAVID NIVCN ttTraiirt-nMMMiiMrtjiftiapii STEVE BASSETT fc FUNDS AND SPECIAL GUEST TKEASTVRGNA IrtKUQDS PLUS PWLCOXON TCCT5jACjVOJOAyOFSJOW Byrd Cary Stmt 353-MI I Mg a human tong bon mmrtm 4 50 6 15 7 55 9 30 GNH4 45 5 30 Capitol 2525 WutBmd Stmt 353 2855 Catch thg Favor wdh John Travolta "Sounder Might 5 1 5 7 251 35GNHS 00-S 5 MOM FOSTER MCKERN form should have rubbed off on his partner But Garfunkel's sensibilities apparently never reached that level here he lends his voice and name to what promises to be a very successful comeback by a composer of very disposable songs IS a careful piece of work recorded over the span of a year some of the best studio and performing talent available in lush arrangements and yet it still sounds like waiting room music Garfunkel trying to convey sensitivity perhaps rarely lets his voice rise above a whisper Not that he has that much to get excited about The possibilities of I can't sleep at night now that you're gone let me count the ways I love you remember the good times and party the blues away have been' explored pretty thoroughly over the years after all And earlier explorers had more heart-rending lyrics and adventurous tunes to work with The string of Webbsian hopeless romanticism is broken only by Sam Cooke's a) Wonderful World" which is rendered irredeemably cute by the vocal trio of Garfunkel Simon and James Taylor (who subjected another rock oldie Man" to similar treatment last year with lucrative results) The only question left unanswered by this exercise: Is Art Garfunkel the next Olivia Ncwton-John? LIGHTFOOrS NEW record sounds like the last four or five only he's in better voice that is he has el i minated the high notes he can't reach any more) the tunes are less energetic (the result of reworking ideas for the nth time) and the arrangements are more grating thanks to the intrusion of a loud busy electric guitar (by Terry Clements) The title track a Dylanesque folk-rock ballad that turns heavy and rhetorical in the chorus and There's a which sounds like an echo of It on Home to Me" are typical of what's going on here vocals even at their heightsof passion are detached and flat The arrangements are lush but similarly distant from the lyrics and vocalist The songs themselves are uninspired efforts generally at the level of assembly line love ballads occasionally plunging for a (home is where the heart is that kind of thing) All in all both records are prime examples of commercial slush The only thing separating them from scores of other bad albums is a couple of famous names KioitAiiiQ WHEM MYSTERIOUS THINGS HAPPEN 'Lam teMMfCMH'ThMtn 212-5048 Ukt2 Doyitoaao WrttDwmv'inowart rrtuMl MhS'Om5NwEj 455 7 15530 AduftS2 00tiI5 30 avcapl Sunday rnSRCKLES- hATTWOOLLSWIFTreehmtrkSISSON rqnMILLER iffwilOKAR TECHNICOLOR P- HRT KYMUS nit KRISTI El CUYNUHl taekUefiaiEwaii Kerwiniyetm ISTARTSlRR I DA WILLOW LAWN THEATRE XLOVERLEAF MALL QltXEMAW 8th BIG WEEK 5706 Gmt Awnw 2819007 Soph Lewi and MwcaNoMawrawmiin "A Special Dor" (FBI SIS 7 30 I25GNHS ISO 00 FomtHWAwaw 233-2100 tom Great Fhmel Garth" (FBI 80S 7S0 0 35GWH5 4SQ30 State Mud Dnsd Stmts 8413408 mi 8-40-930 Chnt Eastwood bock "Mapwn Ferae" 778 saw Boo-e-oo 1 1 1:10 7:10 0:40 She loves him He admires her taste John Travolta Mind Broad 041-2821 Ho9uvivosaNafvou human Marti ffl 5 30 5 00 30 fiHH 6 00 7 00 ISATURDAY TZNIGHTM tdFEVERW Towne 7diMd Brood 648-7567 ftdwOPmrM (wiaui Which Way la Up" mi 600 7 4S 0 GNN 8300 30 A I hr Ai-udrmv Award ALL THE MEN with Broderick CrawfordF AT 1:36 6:00 10:10 A MAN FOB ALL SEASONS (1966 with Paul Scofield i kUL45 SlPS 12:452:555:057:159:25 RAN 4:35 5:35 WATERMARK Art Gar-funkel Columbia JC-J4975: ENDLESS WIRE Gordon Lightfoot Warner Bros BSK-3149: Two likely candidates for best sellers both of them meticulously produced richly packaged heavily promoted and symptomatic of what's wrong with contemporary commercial music Garfunkel doing his impersonation of Bambi and Light-foot wading through another collection of lame love songs wailing through clenched teeth little novelty there What's new is the prospect of huge success for both and their obvious attempts to put together records as inoffensive and bloodless as Muzak Garfunkel in particular ought to be ashamed of himself IN THE FIRST place his album marks the resurrection of Jimmy Webb a songwriter who peaked in the late '60s with pleasant love songs like the Time I Get to Phoenix" and monumental excesses like "MacArthur Park" and supplied singers of the Television City-and-Las Vegas variety with something to do besides Bachrach-and-David songs Webb's lyrics dwelt mainly on romance accent on the bittersweet his occasional forays into social conscience were of the hip suburbanite school (slip off your Guccis make love not war) His music was a thoroughly surrealistic sound track for what was going on in the streets and other jungles of the '60s He and like-minded tunesmiths eventually were dethroned in favor of the rising breed of singer-songwriters who among other qualities seemed to be more cognizant of the conditions and moods around them in other words people whose songs sounded more like the truth One of the leaders of that! movement was Paul Simon whose artful coupling of the earthy image and the literary Heston Gets Early Award HOLLYWOOD (AP) -Charlton Heston received a special early Academy Award yesterday fordistinguished service in the film industry the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Heston was named winner of the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for frequent trips to Vietnam to visit troops service as past president of the Screen Actors' Guild and participation in charitable activities Producer Walter Mirisch won the Irving Thalberg Memorial Award given to producers whose of work reflects a consistently high quality of motion picture production" Margaret Booth a Hollywood film editor for 62 years was voted a special Honorary Award by the academy's board The special awards and Oscars will be presented in nationally telecast ceremonies April 3 Davis Holler LOS ANGELES PI) Entertainer Sammv Davis Jr was reeifd from rdirs Snai 1 Veda ai Center yesrrrdav and went home to recuperate f-the flu Pj--i i 1 nut better" a -pnkrrran said 23 Wb CAFETERIAS Southside Plan Willow Lawn Cover leaf in Scars Ihe Harold Robbins people batyoudreamtbordo' HLDRINI1 A TRUE LOVE STORY For everyone who believes in happy endings 'V- A Carl Reiner Film MM WINKLER is The continuing true story of Jill Kinmont a woman with enough courage forte lifetimes and a man with enough love to carry them both OTHER SIDE OF THE MOUNTIN' rARTgp MR1L SMXT TIMOJHV BOTTOMS Henry Winkler is "The One and Only" Kim Darby Gene Saxs William Daniels Harold Gould KervS Villechaize Written by Steve Gordon Executive Producer Robert Halmi Produced by Steve Gordon and David Directed by Carl kemer incur! 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