Omaha World-Herald from Omaha, Nebraska • 11

OMAHA WORLD HERALD Monday March 14 1983 11 At the Movies Voight Different in for Review Review Catlin Review they were blown off course while flying ALL YOU CAN EAT State Hmm fna I HI CwkWto H8 1 Ml 431 8 8o 88 (88th A) 338 8888 4 introducing the new look for Spring ncHLinv DISCOVER THE WESTROADS CLUB TM another slashing spree because only one obvious suspect 3 SHOWS NIGHTLY NO COVER CHARGE MTWTH (tlilllat) SPECIAL OER Extra bonus on 1st visit only Up to $60 1st years dues are paid In advance 8823 Maple 393 6575 Closed Sunday MMMiBMiMiaMllBl Creighton Prep Wins Engineering Competition Creighton Prep won the first Ne braska Junior Engineering Technical Society academic competition recently held on the University of Nebraska Omaha campus The competition was sponsored by the College of Engineering and Tech nology Nine Omaha area high schools com peted i feet of ice and snow in Greenland they were blown off course while flying Pursuits Unlimited a Georgia com toward England Rajani believes the pany headed by airline pilot Russell Ra planes can be flown again after minor jam will launch an expedition financed repairs is a fairly dismal bit of business about a San rancisco li brarian who wants to become a mys tery writer To soak up atmosphere and get ideas she takes her vacation in Malta Almost immediately she is mixed up with pre cisely the kind of in cliches that have plagued detec tive movies since long before Maltese Clonk and daggers Disappearing bodies Kidnapping Arabs Unexplained bombings Hints of drug smuggling Agents and double agents pointless to try and tie down a logical plot line Suffice it to say there are a lot of bad guys chasing her around and causing a minimum of may hem to keep a general audience occa sionally giggling Although I spent my time rolling my eyes a good deal of the adults at a recent matinee seemed to enjoy Margot Kidder has turned in some good supporting roles in the past most notably as Lois Lane in the series but she seems to me to be unable to sustain an entire film alone Some movies are merely bad but others are hateful At a midnight screening of the new horror movie viewers vo cally rebuked it as they stormed out Maybe because while most low budget horror movies put their cash where their gory effects are cheats the audience by refusing to show many of the murders It was all the more disappointing be cause 1 thought it actually started with some promise Samantha Eggar portrays a famous movie star after the much sought lead in a movie about a woman who goes crazy To research her role her direc tor checks her into an asylum but the cad leaves her there She swears revenge when she learns that invited six beautiful women over to his house to test for the role And so the killings begin Some of the early scary scenes were well received because they toyed with reality Some attacks were just rehear sals for the movie Others were just dreams But once up at the house it Concert Attendance Charlie Daniels and Lacy Dalton drew a total of 56691 fans during nine shows at Ak Sar Ben last week ac cording to an Ak Sar Ben spokesman The shows were the first of the 1983 season for Ak Sar Ben members JIM BURLISON MARCH 21 APRIL 2 ILLUSION ELVIS IN CONGEST CLUBS Lincoln Police Arrest 70 Osbourne ans Lincoln (UPI) Police arrested more than 70 people out of a crowd of 4700 at Pershing Auditorium during a concert by rock singer Ozzy Osbourne Most of Saturday arrests were for possession of marijuana and posses sion of drug paraphernalia police said Lt Allen Soukup said most of the people were cited and released He said only about 10 percent of those arrested were jailed Police said there also were some ar rests for disturbing the peace There are however a couple of amus ing bits when she is drugged or unable to scream Robert Hays helps out a good deal looking much more relaxed than he has in the movies It seems" to be the first film effort for the screenwriters as well as the direc tor and I found their inexperience pain fully apparent or those not expecting much however might prove lightly entertaining another in the line of movies dis tributed by Walt Disney Buena Vista but intended to have a wider adult following Therefore is rated PG for some vi olence a few curse words and light sex ual innuendo showing at the Six West Cin ema 6 South Cinema 4 and Midlands Theaters Pro Life Coalition To Hold Convention The Nebraska Coalition for Life is sponsoring a state convention in Lin coln next weekend at the Holiday Inn Northeast SpeakerXor Saturday banquet will be Joseph Scheidler director of the Pro Life Action League based in Chi cago Speaker for next breakfast will be Curtis Young execu tive director of the Christian Action Council in Washington DC Registration for the convention will begin at 8 am Saturday Workshops will be held all day Saturday and until 1:30 pm Sunday never enough time for an intelligent dis cussion concerning child custody a la vs a shame too because by now the children have shed their stereotypes en ough to become quite lovable "Table for has other assets The photography of the exotid locations by Vilmos Zsigmond is sometimes as founding Just because of the breathtak ing framing of the Sphinx and the pyr amids long remember the scene when Voight finally tells the children about tneir motner aeatn inishes Strong And though it finishes strong there seems to be a cloying unrealistic glint about the whole movie possibly be cause the directorial debut for Rob ert Lieberman whose experience comes from and 7 Up com mercials You get the feeling that when they walk away hand in hand they might be on their way to get a Happy Meal Rated PG for language for is showing at the Indian Hills Theater DIAL 339 5445 CALL4A4 YYin OWH IU NOW to reserve your new Spring look! a AAA Moneys TACOS Members joining may not have been a member within the last year No other discounts may be used in conjunction with this membership offer When 1st year's dues are paid in advance Massachusetts Stores Can Open Sundays Boston (AP) Massachusetts retail ers large and small will be opening their doors on Sundays starting March A modified repeal of the his toric banning most com merce on Sundays takes effect in two weeks The repeal of the blue laws rejected annually for years by the Legislature finally passed late in 1982 after major business and labor groups reversed pre vious positions and supported it 6:30 pm Doors Open 7:00 pm 10:00 pm Holiday Inn Central 72nd and 1 80 Omaha Nebraska Nationally acclaimed apeaker Author ot SEE YOU AT THE TOPI eatured on Practical entertaining personal Salvage irm to Seek Eight Buried War Planes ayetteville Ga (AP) A salvage by the RJ Reynolds Tobacco Co He company will try to recover eight said six American 38 fighters and World War II planes buried tinder 40 two 17 bombers crash landed after another is wary of her relationships with women And they get along well with dad Screenwriter David Seltzer seems to have a problem: stuck on a boat with nowhere to go But not really a problem for the veteran of such weep ers as Other Side of the Moun and the recent If you want to be as surprised as ev eryone else in the movie read on Out of the blue the mother is killed in a car accident back home Voight tones down his act considerably The second husband flies out to reclaim the chil dren Thus the problem becomes: where should the children go? 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