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Minneapolis Star -PrT iew 2D 26, 1979 Film rates of fun garland for rafts Don Morrison "Movie, Movie" is an absolutely delectable movie, a double-wham- my spoor on the old movie-type movies of 40 years ago. It carries tj off this risky assignment with such bouncing style that you are hugging yourself with glee at every hokey scene and every luscious line of dopey dialogue. It amounts to a paste-up of specimens from 1930s Warner Brothers movies not the actual footage, but adroitly skewed museum-replicas of the ideas, attitudes, characters, stories and settings of that studio-factory's output, which kept myriad Depression-era filmgoers happily entertained. In the spirit of the jest, it's even a double-feature embracing two somewhat abbreviated but com- plete movies "Dynamite Hands," a typical fable about a hopeful young law student of poor immigrant parents who goes into the prizefight game to get bis sister an eye operation, and "Baxter's Beauties of 1933," an equally typical (and sappy) musical in which hopeful young talents save a Broadway show at the last minute and are catapulted to instant stardom. "Movie, Movie" puts the same actors in both totally different flicks, just as the old studio routed a stable of contract stars through whatever pictures were coming off its assembly line.

A fine bunch are on hand for this one: George C. Scott, Eli Wallach, Trish Van Devere, Barbara Harris, Red Buttons and Art Carnev in assorted less comedy, The Wrong Box" in producing a gem of silver-screen pastiche that precisely catches every period tone of voice and gives it an extra quaver or gladsome lilt. Virtually every line is funny on several levels what it actually says, what a 1930s scriptwriter thought audiences wanted to hear, and the way it sounds now that connotations and expectations have changed. A very minor example opens "Dynamite Hands." Carney is a doctor examining the eyes of the boxer's sister. He straightens up and says, "She can get dressed now" as the camera backs off to reveal that the girl Is in her slip.

For an eye examination? But. her mother, Mama Popchik, is In the office with her; the patient is quite decently clad, and It is wholly Innocent. But it is a vaguely racy joke for the 1930s that Is unaccountably funny in 1979 because it is so innocent, and so slyly out of place in a serious 1930s scene. This kind of double-layered wit darts through every action and utterance as the stories' stock characters pursue their celluloid destinies. Scott is particularly magnificent as the stalwart "Gloves" Malloy, an honest, grizzled ex-champ trying to save young Joey Popchlk's ring career from sinister gangster influences, and as the debonair "Spats" Baxter, legendary Broadway showman who wants to put on one more hit show before a hidden illness strikes him down.

Scott and the others add to our comic pleasure by playing it straight: no smarmy hint of "Hey, folks, look at us big-name stars being hokey!" Some of the satire has marvel-ously broad effects (Baxter's bitchy lady star has a theater dressing room that is an Art Deco monstrosity in glaring white and as big as the Waldorf lobby), but most of the delicious humor is that found in old family snapshots: we laugh at the ridiculous old fashions and all the life attitudes they imply, but we aren't jeering at the lovably familiar people themselves. is Or Art Carney lead or character roles, plus some shiny-bright newcomers adding fairyland optimism to it all. Now, then, this kind of project is as perilous as a bomb-disposal detail in Belfast. Hollywood's prior efforts to make fun of old movie styles tend to be self-conscious, ham-fisted failures of satire too literal or silly to be fun. They have lacked real affection for their subjects and seemed to fear we wouldn't spot the amusing bunkum in old movies although audiences at the time were perfectly capable of doing so and just enjoyed its transitory diversions.

Stanley Donen, who produced and directed "Movie, Movie," doesn't have to tear an antique to pieces to prove it is flimsy, when Mel Brooks parodies movie cliches, as in "Blazing Saddles," he tries to upstage their built-in humor with his own hip clowning. Donen, a Hollywood veteran who made "Singin' in the Rain," "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" and 26 other vintage bottlings, knows how the old movies worked and why they were appealing even if ridiculous. I ft comic sense to achieve just the right degree of straight-faced exaggeration that retains the original seriousness, but enlarges the hilarious implausibility of these beamish fables. Larry Gelbart's screenplay (with Sheldon Keller) is a model of its kind. He again demonstrates a gift for outrageous sophistication-seen in his TV "M'AS'H" series, "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" and that price Because this is a spoof, not worshipful history, he uses his knowledge and an exquisitely finetuned Red Buttons Rebbecca York, George C.

Scott in 'Movie, Movie' Film Clips Family Fare A guide to placet Mod tvtats of Interest to the entire family. MINNESOTA ZOOLOGICAL GARDEN I2I1 Joanay Cake Rd Apple Valley. From Minneapolis: Hwy. I-3SW south to Dakota County Rd. 42 exit, then east to Johnny Cake Rd.

HOURS: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. seven days a week. Admission is $2.50 for persons 17 and older, 1.25 for children 6 to 16, and free for children and under. Admission is free the third Tuesday of every month.

Parking is SI for cars and $5 for buses. Special tours at 1 and 2 p.m. daily, beginning in the foyer of the Tropics Building. COMOZOO Midway Park aod Coffmaa Dr. (near Como and SaeUing St.

Paul. HOURS: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Sunday, including bolidaya. Free admission and parking.

WALKER ART CENTER VlneUnd PL HOURS: 10 a.m. to p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 1 1 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.

Closed Mondays. Admission is free. This week's events include Viewpoints." an exhibition of scale models and drawings for visionary townhouse by 19 Chicago architects, on view through Sunday, and "Mirrors and Windows: American Photography Since I960," an exhibit of more than 200 photographs, opens tomorrow. THE SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA SS N. Wabasha St, St.

Paul. EXHIBIT HOURS: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

and 6:30 to 9 p.m. Thursday through Saturday; 12:30 to 5 p.m. and 6:30 to 9 p.m. Sunday. Closed Monday.

Exhibit hall admission: free with Omni-theater ticket; 75 cents for those 65 and older, SI for persons 13 to 64; 50 cents for children 12 and under, and 50 cents for school groups. Omnitheater public performance: "Genesis." Hours: closed Monday (except holiday Mondays); 1. 3, 7 and 8 p.m. Tuesday through Friday; 1 1 a.m., 1. 2.

3, 4, 7 and 8 p.m. Saturday, and 1, 2. 3, 4, 5, 7 and 8 p.m. Sunday. Omni theater admission: $2.50 for those 65 and olden S3 for those 13 to 64, and S2 for children 12 and under.

A 3.9 billion-year-old moon rock, collected in 1972 during the Apollo 16 mission, will be on display through February. MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS, 14M Srd Av. S. HOURS: Closed Monday; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Tuesday, Wednesday. Friday and Saturday; 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday; noon to 5 p.m. Sunday.

Admission: SI; 50 cents for students and persons 12 through 18; free for prearranged student groups, members, children under 12, senior citizens and AFDC card holders; Thursday evenings 5 to 9 p.m. are free. Free public tours are offered daily at 1 and 2 p.m. and at 7 p.m. Thursday.

"Techniques," an exhibition that explores various techniques used in creating artwork will be on view in the Introductory Gallery. Demonstration by Susan McDonald on the technique of woodblock printing will be presented from I to 4 p.m. tomorrow and Sunday in the Introductory Gallery; admission is free. The film 'The Little Prince" (1974) will be shown at 2 p.m. tomorrow and Sunday in the Pillsbury Auditorium.

Admission is free with museum admission. PLANETARIUM The planetarium show at the Minneapolis Public Library, 300 Nicollet Mail, will be "Darkness at Noon" and will explain the causes of solar and lunar eclipses. Techniques for safely observing the February eclipse will be demonstrated. Shows are at 11 a.m., 2 and 3 p.m. tomorrow, and at 2 and 3 p.m.

Sunday. Admission is 50 cents tomorrow; free Sunday. STAR HIKE Get to know the winter stars during hike from 8 to 9:15 p.m. today at the Maplewood Nature Center. 1 V4 miles north of Hwy.

1-94 and two blocks west of Hwy. 120 at 2659 E. 7th St. All ages are invited and encouraged to dress warmly. For more information, call 738-9383 or 770-4570.

Admission is free. FREE FILMS The St Paul Winter Carnival is the focus of a film series depicting Carnival activities from 1916, 1938. 1940 and 1958. These films will be shown at 2 p.m. Sunday and at noon Monday and Wednesday in the third-floor Chautauqua Room, Minnesota Istorical Society.

690 Cedar St. Paul. Admission is free. POWDERHORN COMMUNITY ARTS "You've Cot to he Kidding." an hour of juggling, balancing, music and other unusual feats will be presented by members of Sideshow at 3 m. Sunday at the Walker Church.

3104 16th Av. S. Admission is S2.50 for adults, SI 50 for children. SUNDAY SNOWSHOEING-A guided woodland snowshoe trip will begin at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at the Lee and Rose Warner Nature Center near Marlne-on-the-St.

Croix in Washington County. The snowshoeing will be introduced with a discussion on "Plant and Animal Adaptations for Winter Survival." Fifth-graders and above welcome. Wear warm clothes, especially footwear. The center will provide snow-shoes. Preregistration is required by calling 221-9444.

COMMUNITY THEATRE "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" will be presented by the Community Theatre of Burnsville at 8 p.m. today and tomorrow at Gideon Pond Elementary School, E. 130th Burnsville. Admission is S3 for adults; S2.50 for students and senior citizens For Next to Nothing Advertisement Artvwtisenieni A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN A sound, sensitive adaptation of the James Joyce's hard-to-film novel. R.

98 minutes, (Cedar). WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE-Clint Eastwood has relinquished his magnum and expends his energy splattering gore over the screen i'ith his fists in this unfunny flick. PG. 1H minutes. (Southdale.

North-town. Skyway, Maplewood, Roseville, Ciria). FORCE 1 FROM NAVARONE-A good action flick with a lot of familiar faces and a twisting plot. PG, 1 18 minutes, (Maplewood). INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS A disappointing re-iftake of a classic sci-fi flick.

What's missing here is a sense of anticipation and terror. PG. 114. minutes. (Cooper, Roseville).

AUTUMN SONATA-lngmar Bergman directs Ingrid Bergman and Liv tJUman in a depressingly bleak probe of the relationship between mother and daughter. PG, 89 minutes, (Edi- rta). SUPERMAN It isn't "Star Wars" but it's a lot of good fun, and newcomer Christopher Reeve is outstanding as 0e Man of Sfeel. PG. 143 min utes, (Southtown, Brookdale, Har Mar).

I CALIFORNIA SUITE-A very un-even pastiche of Neil Simon relationships. The ones with Jane Konda and Alan Alda, Maggie Smith and Michael faine are wonderful. Those with Walter Matthau, Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor are pure dreck. PG, 103 minutes, (Northtown, Southdale, Hopkins, Har Mar). MOMENT BY MOMENT Would you believe Lily Tomlin as a serious middle-aged housewife in love with drifter John Travolta? We couldn't.

'i- R. 105 minutes, (Brookdale 2, Har Mar 2. Southdale). MAGIC Good a' ting by Anthony Hopkins, Ann-Margret and Burgess Meredith go for naught In this unnecessarily nasty horror film. 107 minutes, (Cooper Cameo.

Maplewood). MIDNIGHT EXPRESS-A well-ftiade but often gruesome retelling of a young U.S. drug smuggler's imprisonment in Turkey. 120 minutes, (Shelard Park). KEY Excellent Good Fair Poor Comments on current films are based reviews that have appeared in The Minneapolis Star.

CHEAP FLICKS "That Obscure Object of Desire' will be shown at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. today and tomorrow at '-nnnnfinnnnnnnnnj mm 1 0 IllnCi art IWjJrwVv as. I S'Va At fa HVA coffman TheaterLecture Auditorium University of Minnesota. Admission is 1. 50 for students.

ESTEBAN'S 90 1 Marquette Av (at ths comer of 9th Marquette) featuring Estaoan's extra special margarita, served in the Magna or Boia Grande. To be enjoyod with a compters menu of great Mexican foods, incfejdmg the Flauta. CMrmchanoa. Chsa Rets-no. Atari's Wild Tostada.

Taourloe, the Baja Salad or our tempting Dsep Fried Ice Cream. Al at raaaonaole pricae. Open I mm. "Entr'acte" (1924) and "Zero for Conduct" (1933) will be shown at 7:30 p.m. today at Film in the Cities Galierv.

2388 University St. Paul. Admis sion is tree. "Lonesome Cowboys" (1968) will be shown at 8 p.m. today and tomorrow in the Pillsbury Auditorium, Minneapolis Mtrmapoas-Frenknn al Lrndale 87 t-ag SI.

PauMlandolph al Fair via SSa-SSOJ Northeast-test Harm, at Harrison 379-4900 Rudolph's take you back lo th romance a tomes of vaientmo'a era with colorful 1 unusual Art that alow casual and formal lo mix comfortably Barbeque is th specialty, but Rudolph's doesn't stop there. The menu provide choices from steaks lo shrimp, a patty melt with tangy cow slaw, a super giant hot fudge sundae. saftoWws and Chat. Win and beer available al Mpis. and beer at Northeast.

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A very popular restaurant that is distinctive and impressive, featuring the largest garden fresh salad the SOUTH brought citrectty to your table for your personal selection. Renown for thee famous p.m. today and "Harper" will be shown at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Olin Hall of Science Auditorium, Macalester Col Genuine wood-burrang pit barbeques reaty make a difference. That's why so many celebrities lor so many years have enjoyed lege.

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char-broiled shrimp and exceptionally lender prime rib Also hot, home-baked bread Superb ice cream drinks along with other fine relaxing atmosphere lor your dming and conversational pleasure. Open 1 1 OO a to 1 00 a Monday thru Saturday. Reservations preferred There is great lood and tun to be had the King's km. Al major credit cards accepted. GODFATHER'S PIZZA llnaaagtss HHi a Ptaa IS4-721 1 FrMleji-Tttl IMv.

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