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for Dubl measure movi zsn ft John Lapsley Movie Movie is double feature you price of one. a bit like going to an old fashioned get to-two old-fashioned films for the mm 1 I covers he has to earn money fast because his sister is going blind and must be treated by a specialist in Vienna. The specialist charges $20,000 ten thousand for each eye. Donen pumps the old techniques of montages of train wheels and posters which keep showing the name Joey Popchick in larger letters, as the kid progresses towards his inevitable problems. A blonde cabaret singer, and an order to throw a vital fight.

Satire is the most difficult brand of humour to Baity Bostwick the accountant-turned-songwriter in Movie Movie. and who should come looking for a leg into the chorus line, but one nice little orphan. "Gee, if you're what orphas are like, there ought to be a whole lot more of them," enthuses Dick Cummings (Barry Bostwick), the dreary young accountant who surprises everyone by writing a hit score overnight. The script is rich with cliches, mixed metaphors and humorously mashed homilies which point out that every silver lining has a cloud. Will the glamorous leading lady steal the orphan's boyfriend? Will father and daughter be re-united? Will the daughter become a star, and will dad live to see this happen? Fill in your own answers, and jump off either the Empire State building or the Golden Gate Bridge if you don't score 100 per cent.

Director Stanley Donen should know his bunions, as he has choreographed wilh Gene Kelly and directed Fred Astaire. His credits include Singin' In the Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, and The Pa-jama Game. Studio films of the thirties had repetitive sets and repetitive faces. Donen doubles up on both when he transfers to Dynamite Hands. Joey Popchick is a Hungarian kid studying to be a lawyer.

Scott this time plays Gloves Malloy, the former champ, who takes on the kid when Joey dis- George C. Scott stars In an appreciative send-up of films the way they were in 1933 when Hollywood's answer to the Depression was a flood of fairy tales about shoe-shine boys becoming tars. There are two rags to riches stories. One about a girl in the chorus line, the other featuring a young boxer joined by a brief trailer announcing "Zero Hour," which we are informed is: "War at its best." Movie Movie was released in America with Dyamite Hands, shot in black and white, opening the bill, followed by Baxter's Beauties of 1933 in colour. For reasons which are hard to comprehend the order has been reversed in the Australian release but that's only a small point which makes little difference to a warm, dcliciously dead-pan parody of the old Hollywood.

Baxter's Beauties is typical of thirties movie plots, where screenwriters still hadn't recovered from an upbringing of Hi M71-36 Today 2pm, Today 5pm i 8pm nun. (5.45pm only), 8. Beatles film over exposed FILM OF THE WEEK: MOVIE MOVIE. Directed by Stanley Donen. Written by Lorry Gelbart and Sheldon Keller.

Starring George C. Scott, Barry Bostwick, Re-becca York, and Harry Hamlin. Double Bay Show-cose. NRC. Victorian novels.

Storylines were then inevitably based on long lost rel-tives, and complicated misunderstandings. Scott is Spats a legendary Broadway producer, who discovers he has only thirty days to live. Spats decides he must do a pressure cooker job on one last smash hit, so that he can leave enough to provide for a daughter somewhere upstate. He has been sending her a monthly cheque anonymously. She believes she is an orphan.

Rehearsals begin 3pm. Daily 2pm, 5pm 8pm Gosford 241489. 3777 and mm TEEE Today 1pm, cHuiiHii i4pm 7.30pm Today 12.30pm J13T6 CHUBCHST mum When Elvis: The Movie became a box office os well os a television success, the choice of a film suc-cesor must have been obvious to producer Dick Clark, Among all the superstars of rock there have been only two "mega-stars." (My apologies to tho other newspaper who beat me with this more super than superstar word. I don't, know where we go next.) They were, of course, feat, 8.15pm maintain, because send- ups of cliches are often no more amusing than the cliches themselves. However this script sparkles, and the actors revel in the corn particularly George C.

Scott who has 'a bonus issue of two death scenes. Gloves Malone hears the heavenly bells chime ten, as he takes his final count. And Spats Baxter departs the world with the heart rending comment: "Funny, isn't it. One minute you're standing in the wings. The next, you're wearing them." Birth of the Beatles.

Directed by Richard Marquand. Starring Stephen MacKenna, Rod Cul-bertson, John Alt-man and Ray Ash-croft. Village City and Parramatta. M. Elvis Presley, and the Beatles.

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The players are reasonable look alikes especially Stephen MacKenna as Lennon, and Ray Ashcroft as Starr. The soundtrack, recorded by Rain, is an extremely realistic copy. The storyline suffers from too much on-stage performance which is doubtless considered a box office necessity but is a little wearisome because we are not, after all, looking at the real thing. 232 PITT ST. PHONE 281694 Ply Brilliant m.

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I .3 J7 CHURCH ST BOY'S OWN McBETH 26 5253 PARIS THEATRE MITCHELLS-BASS Nightly 9.10pm I J6 6T01-S4SGCOHGE ST I Daily 2.15pm, 5.15 8.15pm li.6 Also screening Hornsby 4763777 Your guide to the best eateries: DINE OUT Every Monday in The Sun MOVIE MOVIES richly comic touches your heart I love Movie Movie." Bill Collins Today 2.30pm, a.is B.lbpm, PLEASE CHECK SESSION TIMES DAILY 7 ROMA 26 THE SUN-HfiRAlD. DEC 23, 1979 26.