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Ub Wednesday, April 16, '75 DETROIT FREE PRESS Detroit jfwc tcss Entertainment Sports Deluxe Meatless Script, Directing Leave 'Rancho RANCHO DELUXE Area Theaters And Slim Pickens, slim no more, does well with a juicy little character role as a stock detective who'd rather spend his time dreaming of ancient Egyptian pharoahs than looking for rustlers. THE CHIEF FLAW in "Rancho Deluxe" is the script, and 99 percent of the time that flaw is fatal. There are such memorable lines as this one, uttered by a love-sick cowhand as he watches Miss Dallas cavort in the sunny woods: "Gosh, she's almost like Bambi." Jeff Bridges Sam Waterston Elizabeth Ashley Clifton James Jack McKea Cecil Colson Cora Brown John Brown Laura Belga Charlene Dallas Henry Beige Slim Pickens iipipiii Referee Perez Sues Ali for S20 Million TONY PEREZ, who refereed last month's heavyweight title bout between Muhammad Ali and Chuck Wepner, has filed a $20 million lawsuit against Ali, alleging the champion has engaged in "sermons of hate" which have endangered the referee's career. Perez said A1i made obscene remarks to him in the first round of the championship fight and later, A United Artists release; produced by Elliott Kastner; directed by Frank Perry; screenplay by Thomas McGuane; William A. Fraker, director of photography; music by Jimmy Buffett.

In color. Rated R. LAST 2 weeks! as an Indian paddles down a stream with his father and in which Bridges, as a runaway rich kid, rages at his ex-wife serve no purpose except to lengthen the film. Only slightly less ridiculous is a segment in which a sweet but 0 1 young thing makes love with Bridges in such a vocal, skin-flick style that it gives the audience the giggles. The exquisite Elizabeth Ashley stares at the camera with wounded eyes as if to ask, "What am I doing here?" Charlene Dallas, a sexy Miss America type, is convincing as a' sugar-coated viper who will make her way in the world regardless of who is crushed in the process.

IP m'm mil V- Ifcrr rf Jm0ijL 4 ill' ANNE CRONYN JESSICA BAXTER TANDY NOEL COWARD IN TWO KEYS Phone reservations call 873-4400 Waterston Up a creek without a plot at a post-fight press conference, called Perez "a dirty dog" and, remarking that Perez was Puerto Rican, said: "He is more black than white, but he is trying to be white;" The lawsuit maintained that Ali vowed to try to prevent Perez from "refereeing additional heavyweight boxing matches and he would preach a sermon of hate throughout the world against him." DON CARTER and seven others were inducted into the Professional Bowlers Association Hall of Fame in Akron Monday night. Others inducted were the late Billy Welu, -v a i lit. No one who counts love among 111 ill BY CHRISTINE BROWN Free Press Staff Writer "Rancho Deluxe" might have been the best of all rip-off movies, the movies that steal bits from other films, except for one factor: It is excruciatingly boring. Most people probably won't stick around to see the insipid takeoff on "The Sting" at the end of the film. We have come to expect' a great deal from director Frank Perry.

"David and Lisa," "Diary of a Mad Housewife" and "Play It as It Lays" were thoughtful and sensitive films. But those were made with i ex-wife, screenwriter Eleanor Perry. In "Rancho Deluxe," Frank Perry flies solo, and scriptwriter Thomas McGuane doesn't give him much of a runway. THE BARE-BONES story is about two lazy cattle rustlers who knock off one animal at a time to pay their rent and, well, because it's fun. uick weDcr, nay bium, tarmen aaivinu, narry amun, Frank Esposito and Chuck Pezzano.

BILL WALTON did not have one of his better days Monday. Just hours after the Portland Trail Blazer manage- ment issued an announcement saying it deplored "Bill Wal- his interests can afford to miss what Bergman has to say about the subject. -Susan Free Press ,1.0 statement calling for rejection of the U.S. government," the 6-foot-ll rookie center tore ligaments in his left ankle during a practice game. The injured leg was put in a cast for at least two weeks.

CRAIG MORTON has joined the growing list of football What Elizabeth Ashley doing here? players who are not going through with their threatened to tne woria rooiDau League, morion, wno was released from his WFL contract when the Houston franchise moved to Shreveport, signed a three-year contract for more lhan $300,000 with the New York Giants of the NFL. ROD CAREW, who has won the American League bat- Jting championship the past three seasons, is still bitter over losing his arbitration battle with the Minnesota Twins. But not Twins owner tai urmitn ne angry witn, it me arbitrators. "My biggest complaint is the lack of overall baseball knowledge displayed by many of the arbitra tors The arbitrator in my case just couldn't compre hend that each man in the lineup has a specific function. A The trouble with "Rancho Deluxe" is that there's little meat on the plot skeleton.

Attempts by Perry and McGuane to inject scenes with meaning land with a thud. One's heart goes out to the fine actors who surely must have signed on for this film before reading the script. Jeff Bridges and Sam Waterston are completely wasted as lovable rustlers. Scenes in which Waterston ladoff man's job is to get on base not drive in runs. Yet was unfairly punished for not driving in runs.

LARRY FOGEL, the former Detroit Cooley basketball Istar, who Tan afoul of officials at Canisus College this sea i i rii iL i in i it ii 1 son after leading the nation in scoring two years ago, has dropped- out of school and reportedly has applied for the National Basketball Association's hardship draft. Slim Pickens Fatter than his role RICHARD DALEY, mayor of Chicago, says he will force the Bears to drop the word Chicago from their name if they follow through with their threat to move to suburban Arlington Heights. "We don't want the name of Chicago in Arlington Heights," Daley said Tuesday. BB- 150 MADISON (.1 trmh) P.M. I'DEROF 3 ACADEMY AWARDS Liv Ullmann in SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE Slugger Nate $Vhiffer, Too A Taste bf'the Wild West: "Filling "Paquita Pas Da APR.

19 2 P.M. A Full Length Classic For The Entire Family "Coppelia" written and directed i iui i iui duui i iui i WAMNCCl IUUAT ($1.50 Adm. 'til 5 P.M.) Wed. Times: 1.4, Graanfuld rV. of WA Mil 968 8700 mMM 4- mm it, Oh give me a home, with a low interest loan, JJ1 PG0 a9 A cowgirl and two pickup trucks.

A color TV, all the beer should be free, And that, man, is Rancho Deluxe. Evtl.i SI 50, SS.50, S3 50 $7.50, $6.50, $4.50, $3.00 Motto Charg BankAtnricard Acctpltd Lf AT THESE 'IM SELECTED THEATRES! For Information Call Continued from First Sports 6-foot-2 first baseman as the Tigers begrudg-'3figly took the second of four straight days off Tuesday. "I 'I'tEink it was partly because of where I played before. I could have hit for a better average if I had tried. "But I'd get up with nobody on and we'd be two or three rjjrjins behind and a single wasn'fgoing to do much good.

So just try to jack the ball out. I "But it doesn't bother me when I strike out," continued I Colbert, who, surprisingly perhaps, has only gone down swinging twice this young year. "I get mad if I strike out I men on base or I swing at bad pitches. Or if I take a third strike. I usually get my three swings, "If you're going to hit a lot of home runs you've got to swing the bat.

You've got to swing at a lot of pitches and they don't all have to be strikes. You only have so long to make up your mind whether to swing or not swing once that pitcher lets the ball go. I use a 35 ounce bat, and when I get it going, sometimes I can't stop it. Music Hall Box Office 963-7680 'IE MMh MOT I Buy and Sell Through Free Press Want Ads mm Bn "I JUST TRY to sit on what I think a guy is going to "throw," he explained. "If he's a fastball pitcher, I look for that.

There's no way you can go up to the plate and wait to look for the ball and try to hit home runs." Colbert, in fact, thinks lie may strike out less with the Tigers than he did with the Padres because he's surrounded by better ballplayers. Oddly enough, Jake Wood, who was hardly what you would call a home run hitter, holds the Tiger team record for strikeouts with a whopping 141, committed in 1961. Since then, just four Tigers have struck out as often as times in any one year. Willie Horton has done it in three different seasons, and Aurelio Rodriguez, Norm Cash and McAuliffe each achieved it once. Colbert, on the other hand, has struck out more than 100 times in each of the last six seasons and that's as long as Ule's been in the big leagues.

He reached his peak in 1970 73'hen he went down swinging on 150 occasions. Not that the Padres complained. You see, Nate also slammed 38 home runs that summer. And the one has a way of overshadowing the other. tJ ii ti The Mather MMm "r-A JlfL V''' 111' isjhe Lover Roftr Oaltrty iV "TT AV Elton John CiicCliptan ll John Cntwislla it The Prtichtr iiHimielt Mxjr senses wil never be the same.

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