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SECTION pV TORONTO STAR Friday, July 1 3, 198 Fpiey's. taknit glows Julio Iglesias fans protest poor seats at CNE grandstand in Mexican ky9 glare person being told that there were no floor tickets at all. "I was told that Cheap Thrills (CPI's membership discount service) accounted for between 8,000 to 10,000 good seats. I just won't bother going to the CNE again. The dog, CNE, is being wagged by the tail, CPI.H One fan was so angry he staged a sit-in at radio station CFRB, which got a block of 50 tickets for promoting the concert on-air.

He sat outside general manager Bill Hall's office and refused to leave until Hall talked to him. Doris Letourncau of Missis-sauga refuted Braun's assertion that members of Iglesias' fan club would get choice seats if they provided the proper coupon. "My friend, Mrs. Edith White, a member of the fan club from Peterborough, sent me a money order and her coupon so I could purchase the tickets for her. I went to the A A record shop at Sherway Gardens and presented the coupon to the girl at the counter.

She laughed and said, 'Which magazine did you get this "Fan club members were told they could claim their special reserve tickets up to 21 days before the concert I was there well within the time limit and ended up buying two tick, ets way in the back bleachers." By Rita Zekas Toronto Star Julio Iglesias fans are mad and aren't going to take it anymore. The Star's switchboard has been besieged with callers responding to the lack of good floor and centre seats for Iglesias' Aug. 16 CNE Grandstand show. They were protesting Concert Productions International public relations director Liz Braun's statement in yesterday's Star that because of the 32 BASS outlets selling the tickets, you could be fourth in line and still not get the choice seats. A fan from Bowmanville drove in and was first in line at the Grandstand at 5 a.m.

She had called the Grandstand and they told her that the box office opened at 9 a.m. when in fact it opened at 10 a.m. Even so, she got row 24 in the bleachers. "I was told all the floor seats and the centre scats were pulled before they went on sale. If they wanted a private concert, why did they bother to advertise it" Another (male) fan said if Julio was going to sing "To All The Girls We've Loved Before" (his current hit with Willie Nelson) they wouldn't be in the audience.

"I was near the front of the line at 10 a.m. at Square One and heard the first By Ken Adachi Toronto Star Malcolm Lowry labored 10 years on Under The Volcano, his complex and highly original account of the last day in the life of an English consul doomed by alcohol in Mexico. He spent most of those years on Canadian soil, in a squatter's shack near Vancouver, treading the tightrope of his own awful self-destructive addiction almost with the same dedication that drove his novel's hero on to the brink of the crater and in the end to his sudden and horrifying death. The novel, published in 1947, has defied the efforts, of some 100 scriptwriters to bring it to the screen. Understandably so, for it's a difficult, diffuse and allusive work, washed by a lava flow of language and symbol "the last masterpiece," the critic Alfred Kazin called it which is no less than the long journey of memory through an individual's interior life and the perpetual interpretation of the past that time itself suggests.

Certainly the problems of converting a great, if flawed, book into a movie are as old as the history of movies. It is rarely done to everybody's satisfaction. Now, director John Huston and scriptwriter Guy Gallo, while jettisoning the uncapturable mortar of the original novel, have reverently preserved the shell The result is a fine, intelligent movie, often exhilarating if only for the extraordinary performance of Albert Finney as Geoffrey Firmin, the ex-consul cauterized by booze and at loose ends in the Mexican town oi 'Cuernavaca. Divorced wife returns The time is November, 1938, the 24 hours of the Mexican festivities of the Day of the Dead. Firmin must face the past when his divorced wife Yvonne (Jacqueline Bisset) makes an unannounced return.

The other main character is Hugh (Anthony Andrews), his half-brother and Yvonne's former lover. He is a journalist who is guilty over his lack of involvement in the Loyalist side of the Spanish Civil War. Yvonne voices her hope that she and Firmin might start life over again. But he rejects all efforts at redemption. Mistakes are made, positive choices are averted, the final fall is inevitable.

He turns out, in fact, to be impotent So begins the long day's journey into hell punctuated by a visit to a fair and to a bullfight which ends with Firmin going to a sinister bar brothel where he fornicates with a prostitute, haggles over money with a malevolent pimp and is shot by a gang of local fascists. She, in turn, is killed by a runaway horse. On this superficial narrative level, this is indeed the stuff of melodrama. Some of the original filaments in Lowry's web of symbolism the statue of the Virgin, a cage of armadillos, the 1935 Jackson strolls mall dressed as old man Not like the rest of us: Albert Finney is always infernally likable and engaging as the drunken ex-consul Geoffrey Firmin, doomed by alcohol and self-destructing in the Mexican town of Cuernavaca, in John Huston's Under The Volcano at the International. Word quickly spread from Saks Fifth Avenue to Marshall Fields that Michael Jackson and a brother and sister were in the mall Randy Jackson was casually dressed in beige pants and shirt when he strolled through the mall with two bodyguards about 2:30 p.m.

Wednesday. Earlier Wednesday, the Dallas Morning News filed, then withdrew, a theft complaint against a security guard for the Jacksons, alleging that he confiscated a reporter's notes. The notes were returned eight hours after the incident the newspaper said. DALLAS (AP) Michael Jackson, in town for the second stop of his Victory Tour of the United States, strolled through a shopping mall for about 20 minutes disguised as an old man with a moustache and beard, until he was recognized. "Everyone knew he was in the building, all of a sudden, and then he left said George Lancaster of the marketing department of the Galleria shopping mall on Dallas' north side.

Later, Jackson did some door-to-door visiting for the Jehovah's Witnesses, of which he is a mem- hpr. Movie review Under The Volcano: Rated Adult Accompaniment Directed by John Huston. Screenplay by Guy Gate Camera by Gabriel Figueroa. Produced by Mortz Borman and Wietand Schub-KaL Stamna Albert Finney. Jacqueline Beset and Anthony Andre At the one associates with his best work, going back to Saturday Night And Sunday Morning.

He is perverse, lazy, selfish, self-pitying. He knows it He is also very funny, generous, appealing. For him, drink is like a pair of dark glasses donned to protect the wearer from a too painful sense of the world's glaring horrors: and he will do anything to getit "Hell is my natural habitat" he says, brandishing a bottle of tequila. He recognizes his own "fruit aouth of Egtnton, 296- International. Yonge St.

345a or 24 semi-trauer oi ia semi-irauer A caravan -p i trucks has moved the Jacksons' I li pft1 tour complete with lasers, fire- ilvll 1111 movie version of The Hands Of Orlac which hints at the guilt of mankind, the twin volcanoes, the loop-the-loop circus ride are re Firmin meets a fellow Brit (played by the inimitable James Villiers) while he is lying face down in the middle of a street Finney gets up and they talk to each other like carefree English vaudevillians all right old and exchange old-school ties. They are both utterly charming. But whatever the reasons for Firmin's degeneration the novel is also ambiguous in this crucial respect his fall is presented with such vigor and detail that, at the end, the viewer wont cavil at the way the literary qualities have been cut And not the least of the movie's passing pleasures is Gabriel Figueroa's camera work which gives a stygian gloom to the interior shots while impressing upon us the glare of the Mexican sky closing down on the characters like a burden of unconfessed sins. tained. But they are largely unex- less selfish ruin" and goes to his plained and, for those who have end almost like a courtier and a not read the novel, they operate ww Qf course he is not like the landlord fights to get her out works and dazzling costumes to Dallas from Kansas City, for a three-concert stand beginning tonight The superstar singer left his trademark white sequined glove and Sergeant Pepper jacket at his hotel during his shopping trip.

But the "old man' dressed in a raggedy hat and brown-and-white checked jacket had heads turning for a second and third look all along the mall, passers-by said. merely as mysterious marginal subtleties. Lowry's political allegory is also lost It is, however, Finney who not unexpectedly is the movie's delight He extends the role of the drunken ex-consul into a searingly honest portrait, a performance sad, tedious, incoherent inebriates we meet in everyday life and occasionally are ourselves. He's always infernally likable and engaging, as Lowry himself was reputed to be. In one of the movie's most hilarious moments, PARIS (AFP) Lawyers for actress Marlene Dietrich went to court here yesterday to keep her from being thrown out of her luxury Paris apartment by a landlord who says she has not paid maintenance charges for years.

The 83-year-old German-born actress' lawyers countered in court that the charges, due In Muppets' charm stretched as far as it can go By Rob Salem Toronto Star Question: Can a frog and a pig ever reallv succeed as romantic Movie review movie stars? Especially when The MuppetS they're not even a real frog and jake Manhattan ig, dui mere constructions or pig, but mere addition to the (about $500) monthly rent on her spacious three-room apartment, were exorbi-. tant and included such costs as a photocopier for the building admin Dietrich Lonnie Price (who was the star of the ex-musical Duddy). This leaves us with a strangely anti-climactic finale, now common knowledge the long-awaited wedding of Kermit and his porcine paramour, Miss Piggy. The music is, as always, atrocious. But the broad special effects (dancing Muppets, flying Muppets, roller-skating Muppets) are, if not original, at least competent and the traditional human cameos (from Liza Minnclli to Mayor Ed Koch) do much to augment the knee-high action.

There are even some old friends, the Sesame Street gang, who show up for the climactic wedding. But the Muppet charm has been as stretched as far is it can go. Now that the pig and the frog are blissfully wedded, it's time to lay them to rest Better that Jim Hen-son and associates continue to branch out as they did with The Dark Crystal, into new and very different stories and characters. Otherwise, in Muppet Movie IV, they'll be forced to deal with the reality of married life between a pretend pig and a phony frog. And that could get a little tricky.

Starring The Muppets, with cameos by An: Carney. James Coca Dabney Coleman and Joan Avers. Directed by Frank Oz. At the Eaton Centre and other theatres. Family.

from college, anxious to get their senior year talent show, Manhattan Melodies, produced on Broadway. After setting up house in the lockers of Grand Central Station, our heroes make the rounds of every producer in the city, including best-loved louse Dabney Coleman. Rejected and disheartened, they go their separate ways Miss Piggy briefly joins Joan Rivers behind a cosmetics counter, Fozzie Bear tries hibernation, Gonzo performs in an aquacade show, Scooter hands out glasses at a 3-D movie theatre you get the idea. Of course, despite further complications, the show is eventually produced, thanks largely to the efforts of the human co-stars gawky newcomer Juliana Donald and real-life Broadway success istration and new uniforms for its doorman. But the lawyer for the landlord was not impressed.

"Marlene thinks she's above the law," he said, adding that the star of The Blue Angel and Shanghai Express no longer had a legal right to remain in the apartment Dietrich first moved into her apartment off the fashionable Champs-Elysees in 1976 and soon ran into trouble with her landlord by refusing to pay the "unreasonable" charges demanded. A first legal action resulted in an agreement under which Dietrich was to leave the apartment last year. foam rubber, cloth, Ping-Pong balls, hidden wires and carefully-concealed human hands? Answer: Yes and no. Yes, in that the third Muppet movie, The Muppets Take Manhattan, is a lightweight entertaining spinoff of television's international hit The Muppet Show, and lives up to everything that might imply. No, in that stuffed animals, even superstar stuffed animals, have by nature a fairly limited range.

Lovable trouble There is only so much you can do when you're a three-root tall talking animal in a world of larger, and considerably more animated, humans. Once you've made a few friends, encountered a few enemies and seen all the sights, where do you go? A tiny, Styro-foam zoo? Skepticism aside, there is nothing really wrong with this latest caper, directed for the first time by Muppet staple Frank Oz. The characters are their usual lovable selves, they get into the usual lovable trouble and there is the usual, oh-so-lovable happy ending. Muppet fans will not be disappointed. Having trashed Los Angeles in their first cinematic outing and scampered through London for their second, Kermit and the gang arrive in New York City, fresh She's got him: Now that Miss Piggy and Kermit are blissfully wedded, reviewer Rob Salem says it's time to lay them to rest and let Jim Henson do something else.

Mother Nature shines on Mariposa Symphony concert cancelled The Toronto Symphony's Jury 19 concert featuring conductor Victor FeWbrlll and pianist Antonin Kubalck has been cancelled. Ticket sales were brought to a halt when the Symphony was engaged to perform for the Queen on that date and the recent postponement of the Royal tour did not allow sufficient time for rescheduling. Tickets purchased for the July 19 performance can be exchanged for the same concert on July 20. Band, Sam Hinton, the Harlem Blues And Jazz Band and Prairie Oyster. Advance tickets running from $17.50 for the weekend to $5.50 for evenings are still available at BASS- i Headlining tonight's concert is Don McLean of "American Pie" fame.

Mariposa's lineup of 32 solo performers and groups also includes Steve Goodman, John Hartford, (Muddy Waters') Legendary Blues The weatherman forecasts hot days and cool nights for the 24th Mariposa Folk Festival which opens this afternoon at Molson Park, a 200-acre spread south of Barrie, and winds up Sunday night Fascinatin' new musical in townD12 Jesse Owens runs againD3 Praise rocks bandD3.