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9-C DETROIT REE PRESS Friday, April 5, "74 1 1 1 1 Detroit Jfwe Dress WeekendYour Family Calendar i 'Sugarland Express' Runs Wild And True (IQttMteiB ii II. 'jgn wmwnuwi I tow i THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS Neighborhood Theaters Lou Jean Ooldlt Hewn Cot. Tanntr Ben Johnson Slid Michael Sacks Clovis William Atherton Baby Lanoston Zanuck A Universal Pictures release, oroducea bv Richard D. Zanuck and David Brown and directed bv Steven SDlelbera, with screenplay by Hal Barwood and Matthew Rob-bins, based on a story bv Barwood, Robblns and Solelubcro; Dhotoara-ohv hv Vllmos Zsiamond and music bv John Williams. In Technicolor.

Rated PG. dumb and plenty smart, is one of those unforgettable movie portraits that stick in the mind's eye. Ten years from now, 20 years, mere mention of the movie's title will summon up a still image. of her, eyes shining with delight at the sight of an unexpected windfall in the Texas Gold trading stamps she values above all else. Atherton, disarmingly boyish in the part of Miss Hawn's indecisive husband, and Sacks, personification of dim-witted but not unlikable manhood as the hijacked patrolman, have less flamboyant roles than Miss Hawn but both men work at her level.

So does Ben Johnson, in a more subtly written version of the stalwart he traditionally plays. "Sugarland Express" may not declare itself immediately as a great movie. It doesn't hit you on the head. Engrossing to watch, it begins to work on you, to declare its claim to greatness, after a while. You'll see.

William Atherton and Goldie Hawn become affecting subjects of fame and tragedy. "The Emperor's New Clothes," a classic Hans Christian Andersen tale is presented by the Henry K. Martin Theatre at the Community House in Birmingham Saturday and Sunday. own humdrum lives by taking up the cause of any maverick who moseys down the road. Spielberg speaks to all these issues and of all these types without ever straining to make his film seem more than it is.

There is not one ounce of pretentious fat on this film. Unlike so many more seasoned but less gifted directors. Spiel-bert relies completely upon his actors to reach and hold the audience, to reveal the private characters who set off the public hoo-ha. As it happens, the acting in this film on the part of all the four principals is nothing short of impeccable. MISS HAWN, up until now a delightful but lightweight comedienne, here shows herself to be a remarkably deliberate performer.

During the course of the proceedings, she must be an imp, a seductress, a petulant child, a vain female, a frightened, hurt but still spunky. human being. She makes no false moves, none at all. In short, Miss Hawn's characterization of Lou Jean the child-woman, at once plenty GREENFIELD VILLAGE spring operating schedule: 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

weekdays, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, with 52 historic buildings open lor viewing. The 100-year old Torch Lake steam locomotive begins daily operation. Dearborn.

The museum just opened a new restaurant. CHILDREN'S MUSEUM At 10 a.m. Saturday, children 4-7 years old make special bonnets in anticipation of the Easter Parade. Boys can make a bonnet for their favorite girl, or a top hat for themselves. At 1, 2 and 3 p.m., kids 8 and up see demonstrations of the Ukrainian art of decorating eggs for Easter Pysanky adults and families also welcome.

Do-it-yourself kits will be available for those who wish to try it at home. Free, but reservations necessary; call 873-2670. Ask about planetarium demonstrations for little people, held at 1 1 a.m., 1 and 3 p.m. every Saturday. FAMILY THEATER "Peter Pan," 2 p.m.

Sat-urday, also April 13, 15-20 and 27; special school matinees at 10 a.m. April 8-11 (reservations required, special rates). Tickets $2.25, children 14 and under; $1.25 regular performances. Henry Ford Museum Theater, Deartjorn. See the villainous Captain Hook and his band of pirates, stage animals and of course, Peter himself, flying and soaring above the stage.

SHEEP SHEARING demonstration, 11 a.m. Saturday at Wonderland Center, Plymouth at Middlebelt in Livonia. Free, held in conjunction with the spring animal farm featuring baby farm animals and fowl. Three-and-a-half hour program. HENRY K.

MARTIN productions presents "The Emperor's New Clothes" at 1 and 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, at The Community House, 380 S. Bates in Birmingham. Tickets $1 AT THE LIBRARY Saturday programs, all tree: Films: "Anansi the Spider," "Caps for Sale," "Evan's Corner," 10:30 a.m. Franklin Branch, 13651 E.

McNichols. Jackie the Clown Magic Show, 10:30 a.m. Jefferson Branch, 12350 E. Outer Drive. Craft program, 11 a.m.

Chase Branch, 17731 W. Seven Mile. Yoga for exercise, 11 a.m. Lothrop Branch, 1529 W. Grand Blvd.

Learn chess, noon Lothrop Branch. Films, 2 p.m. Douglass Branch, 3666 Grand River, Pre-school story hour, 2 p.m. Main Library, 5201 Woodward. Films: "The Emperor's New Clothes," "Story of King Midas," "Little Girl and the Gunny Wolf," 2:30 p.m.

Mark Twain Branch, 8500 Gratiot. Arts and Crafts: Easter Egg Tree, 3:30 p.m. Walker Branch, 10720 Mack. THEATRE CENTER WINDSOR presents "Hansel and Gretel" at 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.

April 5-6, 8-9-10 at the Education Faculty Theatre, of Windsor campus. Call (519) 966-4387 for tickets, which are $1. YOUTHEATER "Snow White Goes West," with New York's Prince Street Players, 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Sat.

Institute of Arts Aud. Prince St. tells Grimms' famous tale in song and dance and sets it in California Gold Rush Days complete with Oueenie, the dance hall proprietress, Marshall Job Prince and the seven dwarf brothers. Adm. $1 .50.

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SAT. 2 P.M. ALICE FAYE JOHN PAYNE GOODNCWS The Musical Comedy also starring STUBBY ICAYE Muiical Numbtri Staged by tCNALD SADDLER ArJopiotion and Direction by ADC fclJRRCWS Inlo.no'.n Cn'l K'T dim I T'H'If I a'liliiHfi I TO nnrui Uv. lit! El BY SUSAN STARK Free Press Film Critic Young Steven Spielberg goes straight to the head of the class with "The Sugarland Express," the film that marks his directional debut. Like only a very few other contemporary American movies, it is certain to be a smash hit with those who seek entertainment as well as with those who seek art when they go to the neighborhood Bijou.

Based on an actual 1969 Incident, "Sugarland Express" dramatizes the desperate attempt of a young couple to regain custody of their two-year-old son. The attempt takes the form of a chase across the state of Texas, with the couple and their hostage, a highway patrol officer, being followed in hot pursuit by a convoy of assorted highway patrol cars, police cars, mobile broadcast vans and pleasure vehicles that reaches well past 200 units by the time the 300-mile ride nears its conclusion. Do not misunderstand. This is no routine, thrills chills chase picture even when the going gets rough for the threesome in the lead car as well as for those behind. It is, instead, a tremendously affecting drama about three utterly simple human beings who, in the course of acting upon utterly simple human instincts, find themselves on a collision course with fame, and ultimately with tragedy.

AS THE FILM begins, Gol-die Hawn as the young wife is seen visiting her husband William Atherton, at the Texas Department Corrections' pre-release prison farm. He has four months to go on a larceny term. She tells him they can't wait. Newly released from prison herself, she returned home to discover that their baby had been placed in a faster home and that the welfare people are about to grant permanent custody to the foster parents. She badgers and cajoles her husband to cooperate in her plan for his escape.

Finally he agrees and they set off on the long journey to Sugarland, where the child lives with his foster parents. Not many miles out, the The.Good Fight WASHING TO N-(UPI) Declaring he is convinced that although "victory may come by inches" cancer eventually will be conquered, President Nixon has proclaimed April as Cancer Control Month. BSD Doug Jacobs Presents INTRODUCING THE (tf asthmatic '56 Buick in which they hitched a ride out of the prison farm draws the attention of a highway patrol car. Miss Hawn, a clever manipulator for all her apparent simplicity, manages to slip the officer's gun out of its holster. They take the straight-arrow officer, played by Michael Sacks, as their hostage and force him at gunpoint to drive them and the patrol car to Sugarland.

Ben Johnson, the temperate highway chief in charge of the pursuit, realizes early on that he has nothing more than a pair of overgrown kids on his hands. He also realizes, not much later, that his main problem isn't with the fugitives themselves but with the over-zealous broadcasters and the hordes of curious citizens who pose a constant threat to a clean, professional solution of the case. Spielberg, with the inspired assistance of master cinema-tographer Vilmos Zsigmond, darts back and forth between the intimate drama unfolding inside the fugitives' car and the larger drama mounting outside that car among the law enforcement community and the general public. "Sugarland," therefore, has plenty to say about noble professionals like Johnson, about trigger-happy non-pros who join the chase without invitation, about the more asinine forms of electronic journalism and, of course, about private citizens who temporarily make a carnival out of their THE LOVING CUP with Marlene Hill NOW thru APRIL 13 Reservations: 644-7764 Dining Coffee op and Cocktails Main open Sundays Major credit cards Woodward and Square lake Road Dining Room Bloomfield Hills 1246 LIBRARY IN BACK OF HUDSON'S DOWNTOWN INTTINMIMT HI. I SAT.

IVII. SUNDAVTHIU THURSDAY IXCIUSIVILY fO PIIVATI PARTUS 4 lANQUffTS A John Ford Productions ALL NEW EXCITING II ACADEMYAWARD Theater r. T. FISHER THEATRE "Good News." the big musical of the season, corttmues through April 10. Alice Fayeand John Payne star.

Performances at 8:30 p.m. matinee at 2 p.m. Sat. dak Sun. W.

Grand Blvd. at Second. MEADOW BROOK An Agatha Christie mystery thriller, "Ten Little Indians," based on the novel "And Then There Were None," continues. Curtain 8:30 p.m. 6 and 9:30 p.m.

6:30 p.m. Sun. Tickets $4-56 at the box office, 377-3300. The play runs through April 21. Oakland U.

campus, Rochester. DINNER THEATRE Brel It Alive and Well and Living in Paris," continues at the Mercy College Student Center, 8200 W. Outer Dr. The production runs Thursdays through Sundays altera gourmet buffet dinner. Phil Marcus Esser stars in the show.

Brel has become the ranking writer-composer-interpreter of the real modern songs of France; Detroiter Charlie Latimer also stars. Dinner at 7:15 p.m., show at 8:30 p.m. Sun. din- ner is 6:15 p.m., show at 7:30 p.m. Tickets $11.50 $10.50 Thurs.

and Sun. Call 531-6131. ELMWOOD CASINO "Oklahoma," through April 6. Robert Horton stars. Dinner and dancing at 6 p.m., curtain at p.m.

matinee at 1:30 p.m. preceded by lunch at noon, two dinner shows 5 and 9:30 p.m. Tickets $10.75 $11.75 $7 matinee. Dougall Rd. in Windsor, DETROIT REPERTORY THEA-TRE presents Hrold Pinter's "The Homecoming" every Thurs.

-Sun. through May 5. An older brother brings his wife home and his younger brothers begin making increasingly outrageous passes at her in Pinter's play that tickles and punches the stomach at the same time. Call 868-1347 for tickets. 13103 Woodrow Wilson.

HILBERRY THEATRE "Hamlet," 8:30 p.m. "Tht Ruling Class," 8:30 p.m. 2:30 p.m. Sat. Cass and Hancock.

"The Killers From act play, 8, 9 and 10 p.m. Sunday, East Quad, East University and Willard St. in Ann Arbor. Adm. $3.

GERMAN CULURE "Die Physlker" a play in the German languag performed by the Players Buehnfc from Toronto, 7 p.m. Saturday, WSU General Lecturers Warren at Third. Adm. students $2. Specials FINE ARTS FESTIVAL at Madonna College in Livonia Theater Da Capo," 8 p.m.

Firday); Art exhibit, all three days; Children's Fair (cartoons, ventriloquist, kite flying, 1-4 p.m. Saturday); Films Days of Dylan Thomas," 2-4 p.m. Sunday); Songfest (The Madonna Chorale and String Ensemble, 7:30 p.m. Sunday). Adm.

students 75 cents. 36600 Schoolcraft. ANTIQUES Grosse Pointe Rotary 19th Annual Antiques Show, Fri. War Memorial, 32 Lakeshore Drive in Grosse Pointe Farms. INSTITUTE OF ARTS Running through June 2: "Twilight of the Medici: Late Boroque Art in Florence." Some 310 works of art from the final years of the Medici family's reign in Florence and in other European courts, assembled for the first time.

Paintings, sculptures, drawings, furniture, tapestries, medals and decorative arts from more than 100 public and private collections in Europe and N. America. Hours: 9:30 a m. 5 30 p.m. Wed.

9:30 a.m.-9 p.m. Tues. Adm. $1.50, students with ID, 75 cents. JazzFolkRock BAKER'S KEYBOARD -Ahmad Jamal and his quintet, through three shows nightly.

Livernois at Eight Mile. STRATA GALLERY McCoy Tyner Quartet, Fri. and Sat. Azar Lawrence, sporano and tenor sax; Alex Blake, bass; Billy Hart, drums, 9:30 p.m. till midnight.

Adm. $4 per show, $6 both shows at Hudson's, WSU box office, call 831-1666. GINO'S SURF LOUNGE Vocalists Lisa Eddy and Dino Valle, Tues. through April 14. 37400 E.

Jefferson in Mt. Cle-' mens. ABSTENTION COFFEEHOUSE Ned, a rock band from the south sounding like Poco. performs beginning at 8 p.m. Adm.

$1.50. Lower level of the Oakland Student Center on the university campus In Rochester. VERNE'S Mary Foley Thurs. beginning at 9 m. No cover.

35 W. Forest, WSU campus. HINGE COFFEEHOUSE -Jerry Price, Pete, Joe Lois, Ray Jeff, 9 p.m.-1 a Adm. $1.50. Free refreshments.

Fair-lane Mansion, U-M Dearborn campus. JOHNNY WINTER, the While Wonder, in concert at 7:30 p.m. Monday at Cobo Arena. Tickets at the box office. CLEO LAINE sings pops, blues, rock and jazz with spellbinding talent and style at 8:30 p.m.

Fri. and Sat. at Music Hall, 350 Madison. Tickets PALM RIVER CLUB, an all-new night club opens Saturday with a '30s and '40s atmosphere soaring palm trees, five settings: Casablanca Lounge, Bo-gaft Bar, Blue Parrot Cafe, Lorre's Leap Terrace and Rick's Cafe Americaine with dance music romance to modern by Lester Lanin Orchestra. Open from 8:30 m.

Closed Monday. In the Roostertail on the front. The University Dancers of The U-M presents concerts Friday through Sunday at the Power Center in Ann Arbor. Ajotcph E.LcvincanJ Brut Productions reek George Segal Glenda Jackson Of Class 'ni7'ScwJuith iwi1tHaft Btvt Rtcofttil AnAvco Emtisy Mint TttKnkuIw PlMrtiwi IPG) NOW SHOWING! "Shadow of a Doubt" (U.S.A.. Alfred Hitchcock).

Filmed in 1943, Hitchcock's first. American masterpiece. 7, 9 p.m., Institute of Arts Aud. Tickets $2 at the door. Local newsfilm program.

News photographers from Detroit's major TV stations discuss and show some of their most exciting work. 7:30 p.m., Institute of Art Aud. Adm. $2. CINEMA II "Zorba the Greek" (Michael Cacoyannis, 1964) with Anthony Quinn in one of his best roles.

7, 9:30 p.m. "Passion of Anna" (Ingmar Bergman, 1970) with Liv Ullmann, Bibi Andersson, Max von Sydow. 7, 9 p.m. "Forbidden Games" (Rene Clement, 1951). Two young playmates living in France during the German occupation, imitate the cruelty of the adult world by collecting dead animals for their cemetary.

7, 9 p.m. Showing In Angel Hall, Aud. U-M campus, Ann Arbor. Tickets $1, goon sale at 6 p.m. UFSs Mr.

Charles Hlckton, one of the men who claimed to have abducted by beings from outer space in Mississippi, speaks at 8 p.m. Sat. at Troy High School, Livernois and Big Beaver. Tickets $2 at the door. WILDLIFE FILMS, sponsored by the Audubon Society: "Outback Australia" by Eden McMillan.

Science of aboriginal cowboys, big red kangaroos, sulphur-crested cockatoos. 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Rackham Farnsworth at Woodward. Adm. children under 12, 50 cents.

POLITICAL FILMS "The Traitors," an Argentine film detailing the gradual corruption of a trade union leader, shown at 10 p.m. First Unitarian Church, Cass and Forest. $1.50. Proceeds go to assist Chilean refugees. ARMCHAIR TRAVEL "Rockey Mountain Adventure," 3 p.m.

Sunday, Institute of Arts Aud. Adm. $2 at the door. "Coop" and his brother Dennis fashion their motor home from a 1919 model-T truck chassis and a mass of shingles, and drive from Mexico to Alaska! Sports PRO BASKETBALL Detroit Pistons vs. Chicago Bulls at Cobo Arena in first round of NBA playoffs.

Sun. 7:35 p.m. Tikets $10, $8, $5. PROHOCKEY-DetroitRed Wings vs. New York Rangers at Olympia Stadium Sat.

7:35 p.m. in last home game of the season. Tickets MOTORCYCLE RACES Indoor Dirt Track motorcycle racing at State Fair Coliseum Sat. Time trials 6 p.m. Racing at 8 p.m.

Tickets $4. THOROUGHBRED RACING Detroit Race Course. Schoolcraft and Middlebelt Rd. Post time 3:30 p.m. p.m.

Sat. Admission to clubhouse $3, general $2. HARNESS RACING Hazel Park Raceway. 10 Mile Rd. and Dequindre.

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THAD JONES, Mel Lewis Orchestra, Grady Tate Quartet, Teddy Harris and his Revue, In concert at 8 p.m. Saturday at Ford Aud. Tickets $4.50, $5.50, $6.50 at the box office. TEMPTATIONS and Tower of Power, in concert at 8 p.m. Friday, EMU Bowen Field house.

Tickets $4, $5.50 and $6.50, at the door and at Hudson's. Ypsl-lanti. COUNT BASIE and His Band, 8 p.m. April 8 Monday, Groves High School, 20500 W. Thirteen Mile in Birmingham.

Tickets $3.50 and $5 at the door, also at all Nadon's stores. Call 644-3354. HUSH-PUPPY Marry Foley and Greg Charland, 8:30 p.m. midnight Sunday. Adm.

$1. Free coffee and tea. 61 Grosse Pointe Beoulavard, next toG.P. South High School. LELAND HOUSE Darrell Branson's Dixieland All-Stars, 8 p.m.

till 12:30 p.m. Sunday. $2. Downtown, Bagley at Cass. RED GARTER -f Doug Jacobs and his Red Garter banjo band, 1246 Library, behind Hudson's downtown.

DIRTY HELEN'S Light rock with Haddad and Kanyon, 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Leland House, downtown. Cover $2. SONNY'S SLAVE MARKET -Jazz featuring Terry Pollard and Trio, 9:30 p.m.-2 a.m. Jam session 9-2 Wed.

7548 Fen-kell, corner of Tuller. CAFE NOSTALGIQUE, 1 dedicated to yesterday with love and located just off the lobby floor of the Pontchartrain Hotel, has music of the '40s through '60s in an old Wurlitzer jukebox. Open 9 p.m. till 2 a.m. every Fri.

and Sat. ARLENE'S BAR Lynn Best the Country Half, play country and old style rock, 9 p.m.-2 a.m. 12407 E. Eight Mile in Warren. TOP OFTHE FLAME Bess Bonnier, jazz pianist, and Mickey Stein, jazz guitarist bassist.

evenings 1 p.m. -midnight. Gas downtown. BRENDAN'S Irish tavern music with Charlie Taylor accompanied by Arthur Martin and Brian McGowen, No cover. 34505 Grand River, six blocks west of Farmington' Road.

Classical. HISTORICAL CONCERT Civil War. band concert, presented by the First Brigade of Milwaukee, 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Henry Ford Museum Theater in Dear-born. Authentic period instruments and manuscripts.

Free. U-M DANCERS present a five-concert series In the Power Center in Ann Arbor. Evening concert each day at 8 p.m., matinees at 3 p.m. All five programs involve approximately 140 students as dancers and production crew members. Dances range from historical to avante-garde to ethnic.

Adm. $3 evenings; $1.50 matinees; all seats unreserved. INDUSTRY SINGS concert, 8 p.m. Saturday in Masonic Aud. Featured are choral groups from Edison, Ford, Chevrolet, GM and Great Lakes Steel.

CHRISTOPHER BALLET, In concert at 8:30 p.m. Barn Theater, Oakland U. campus in Rochester. Matinee at 2:30 Saturday. Tickets students $1 at the OU student box office and at the door.

Program includes Brahms' "Romance" and "Overtones" from the company's repertoire. ORGAN RECITAL by Allen Shaffer, 4 p.m. Sunday, St. John's Episcopal Church, 574 S. Sheldon in Plymouth.

Donation $2. U-D CHORUS in concert at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Life-Science Room 113, U-D campus. Tickets $2. MICHIGAN BALLETTheater with the Harbinger Dance Company, in concert at 8 p.m.

Saturday at the West Bloomfield High School Aud. "Passion According to St. John," 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Christ Church, 61 Grosse Pointe Blvd. Adm.

students $1 .50. Films, DETROIT FILM THEATER "The Garden of Delights" (Spain 1970). A surrealistic black comedy about an amnesiac industrialist whose relatives try to shock him into revealing the number of his Swiss bank account. Carlos Saura, director. 7, 0 p.m., Institute of Arts Aud.

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