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VW ICd COLUMBIA MISSOURIAN, Friday, May 18, 1979 Page 3B ,M,B""aiaMliailIMI,wll!,1,,,,,IB"BI,"'aeaaWMBwBBMMnB Humor gets hokey On jf. Centrofia sereenn. the Newton-Joh- 7 Blazing Saddles Cleavon Little and Olivia At and 9 and Sunday, Missouri Theater. Stardust J stars in this Mel Brooks comedy. At 7 nightly and 1, 3 and 5 p.m. Saturday ( PG , some sex and violence ) 4 and 9 nightly and 2 p.m. Saturday and and Sunday, Campus II Cinema. Drfvofo Sunday.Biscayne Cinema I. (PG, some sex and language) The Deer Hunter Powerful, 4-- in Dracula Mey 11-5- 0 parody (R, mx and language) dealing with savage film Vietnam Love at First Bite George and effect on community life. By Peter Olafson surprisingly, from the its same problems Battlestar Galactica Lome Hamilton, Susan Saint James and DeNiro, Christopher Walken Missourian staff writer that brought "Laugh In" to the brink. Robert ; I Greene stars in the movie version of Arte Johnson star in this spoof of the John Savage star. At 8 nightly (9 "THEBESl" slowly de- and Bats become brickbats, the - the television science-fictio- n show. At Dracula story. At 7 and 9 nightly and tonight only) and 1 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. i3x- LnBiCflB9ns89l "Love At First Bite," eh? The title of termination to make the audience laugh 7:30 and 9:30 nightly and 2:30 p.m. 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Cinema Saturday and Sunday, Uptown this light Dracula parody just begs becomes a to drive them into desire the Saturday and Sunday, Biscayne Theater. Theater. snotty rejoinders. The movie stars ground. "Bite" is in no place subtle, but Cinema n. (PG, some sex and much violence) (R, some sex, much violence) George Hamilton and Susan going Saint in the early it also isn't pushy. (PG, tittle sex.some violence) James. Does it? All right, all right, Instead of persuading us to laugh, enough The Promise A story that keeps Superman and War Lords of said this can't be any good. as it progresses seeks com- COUNTRIES WTWUT "Bite" to California Dreaming At 7:15 and you thinking about love. At 7 and 9 Atlantis This double feature begins H3C 9 mand us, with predictable results. iimJ&sSmmmLSL Except it is, after a fashion. Arte 9:15 nightly and 2:15 p.m. Saturday nightly and 2 p.m. Saturday and at dusk at the Sky-- Hi Drive-i-n. Included in the bargain are cleverness Johnson (ex of "Laugh In") costars, -- and Sunday, Biscayne Cinema HI. Sunday, Forum Theater. for sake, half-bake- d one-line- rs and "Love At First Bite," playing at the cleverness' (R, sex and violence) (PG, some sex, no violence) !& Cinema Theater, is in fact very like that and scenes even "Laugh In" fpench schoolqicl 1960s would have dismissed as cliche. Wasted Today j late comedy variety series. The Manhattan Woody Allen's latest Heaven Can Wait and Foul Play Cl MMC04 tUMMKTf CMU A are Dick Shawn as the police detective "KUCOUOWO ..,,, gags are mostly I-- amusing, there are film shows at 7:15 and 9:15 nightly Two comedies, the first starring A Little Romance A sneak UQMp. Li.J, IW who Benjamin l..ri. , ! 4 some nice turns of phrase, and if the helps track down and 12:15, 2:30 and 4:45 p.m. Warren Beatty and the latter preview of the romantic comedy Jfr jL . umoauii Jf puns are not exactly delicate (some are Dracula. Miscast is Saint James, who Saturday and Sunday, Campus I featuring Goldie Hawn and Chevy starring Laurence Olivier, Arthur over the years lost XaHaBaBBBiaUiiBBleia awful corny), they are at least has the small, silly Cinema. Chase. Heaven Can Wait will be Hill and Sally Kellerman. No charge .,, .U:1S ? charm she brought of u r delivered in the spirit of the enterprise. "Name the (R, some language) shown 7 nightly, 11:15 tonight and 2 if a ticket is bought to see the regular Hrv22E. Jtw$iwnt Game." Maybe producer's !:!(!) J To wit: Affect the greatest aplomb for she's the p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Foul Play feature. At 7 p.m., Uptown Theater. it cousin or something. the silliest of lines. And above all, make Grease Featuring John Travolta will be 9 nightly and 4 p.m. Saturday (PG, some sex, little violence) people laugh. We don't miss a trick when it comes to racial and ethnic typing, however. The joys of "Bite" are simple. "I luff Jewish mothers lurk in every cob-webb- ed you," DraculaHamilton tells the corner. And black people, we curiously not-too-gorge- ous fashion learn from "Bite," really do all roll model on whom he has his fangs fixed. their eyes, scream and crash through Try a Wild-eye- d arch-nemes- is Richard windows, drive Cadillacs and steal. Benjamin thrusts a Jewish Star in the They do not say, "Yassuh," though they Missourian .Count's face . . . and nothing happens. come close. Between episodes of "It's the other one, isn't it?" he asks. bloodletting, "Bite" smacks of the Want Ad For about two-third- s of its 105 worst sort of racial prejudice. minutes, "Bite" keeps the comedy It's 1979, after all, not 1935, and faith. Arte Johnson smashes insects "Bite" needn't have drawn from such and eats them with disgusting relish. backward visions to be funny. Even if Hamilton and Benjamin bug their eyes the movie succeeds in a hokey manner at a restaurant table in an effort to put in spite of those flaws, it's equally each other to sleep. Their waiter passes evident that Dracula is not the only one out involved in "Bite" with bats in his But the rest of "Bite" suffers, not belfry- - Misbehavior spawns plots Not many great artists can trace with Hitchcock's films, giving them an any accuracy the childhood ex- elemental appeal. His nightmares (of periences that helped to shape them. being trapped, of being framed for a Alfred Hitchcock can. When he was 5 or crime, of falling, of being attacked) 6, he misbehaved and. was sent to the tend to be ones we've had ourselves. He nearest police station with a note from has plundered those childhood traumas his An father. officer read the note, so resourcefully that his 53 films in- locked young Alfred in a cell, and told clude many unquestioned master- him, "This is what we do to naughty pieces; perhaps no other director has boys." made so many films combining mass By the time Hitchcock's father appeal with artistic genius. arrived to retrieve him five minutes I bSSSqhB I later, young Alfred already had acquired his lifelong fear of the police. He had also come into possession of the Tr a Miourian i plot device that would inspire many of 1 his best movies: The Innocent Man Want Atl I Wrongly Accused. The fear of authority lurks in many of

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