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M4mflW trgwtoqau Mgwa the examiner Thursday Jun 28 1979 Eastwood in Alcatraz lethargic to me polnt of tnsenslblllty Clints escape film wastes good story ll STEPHEN llili If The Fainincr Slim and lethargic to the point of insensibility Escape from Alcatraz tat the linperial is prison escape movie that squandcrs good story good cast and superb location shooting on the most tamous and notorious island in the Clint Eastwood Americas ti oritc nonactor stars as Frnk ltllll$ who in 1962 engineered the only successful escape from the maximum security prison dunng its 29 year history In his preious films Eastwood has portrayed macho individualists and in the pro cess built up tremendous following as one of the few re maining toughguy screen heroes Hes usually played contemporary version of the frontier fighter man who shoots first and asks questions later In Alcatraz the potential violence in the Eastwood character is constantly sup pressed Eastwoods films are carefully structured around car chases fights and shootouts that provide the cheap thrills Charity funarama set for July Arrangements are just about complete for the 4th annual Funerama and offee break to be presented by Bay Inter naional Communications local citizens band radio organization at Molsons Park on July and Marilyn Palmer club secretary said Wulnesday tha the funerama will be officially opened at noon on July Special guests will include representatives from Molsons and George Taylor MPP for Simcoe Centre Square concert planned The Kings of Kcmpenfclt swing band led by John Sisinan will be featured in the first summer concert at Fred Grant Square on July The free Friday night concert is organized by Janet Scarth and the other Douiitown Amv bassadors working for the Money raised during the two day event will go to the Royal Victoria Hospital in Barrie Highlights of the funerama include pipe band parade beer garden puppet shows an tique Show pancake breakfast and logsawing contest Mrs Palmer said the funerama of fers lots of fun and entertain ment for adults and children Admission is $1 person and $3 car Senior citizens and children under 12 will be admit ted free Downtown Improvement Board The concert will run from7t09pm Miss Scarth said five con certs for the square are planti ed Folk musicians from the Performance Coffeehouse are among the performers to be featured at future concerts Broadcast revenues up OTTAWA CPI Private ra dio and television broadcasters showed substantial gains in both revenue and net profits for Its kids Treeforall at Ponderosa Cause were giving away juicy Junior Burgers or red hot Hot Dogs with golden Tries to all kids 12 years andunder the year ending Aug 31 1978 Statistics Canada reported Tuesday his audience expects but Alcatraz limits the violence to couple of brief fights that develop from sutrplot involv ed prison bully who threatens Morris RHYTHM And while the film effectively portrays the boredom and frustration Alcatraz was par ticularly harsh and brutal in its treatment of prisoners it never develops the sense of rhythm so necessary for good escapefilm Unlike Midnight Express for example the film doesnt try to kick the audience in the gut with explicit violence It doesnt provoke any response at all except mild feeling of relief when Morris and his ac complices finally scale the last fence and swim away on an im provised life raft Theres draggy feel to the film that shouldnt be there Most of the blame for that rests with novice screenwriter Richard Tuggle whose script is so deliberate and so plodding that the story never takes off Tuggles notion of characteriza tion is so crude that all the characters including Morris come across as feeble stereotypes WARDEN The warden Patrick McGoohan is cruel and sadistic in the standard film tradition of prison wardens The guards are nasty Morriss friends are flat as cardboard meek artist who goes beserk when his painting privileges are removed an embittered black man whos touched by Morriss friendship man with pet mouse who helps Morris escape and bushleague car thief who loses his nerve once the escape is launched There is dramatic powerful story hiding somewhere in Escape From Alcatraz but director Don Siege who work ed with Eastwood on four filmsI wasnt able to get it on the screen Location shooting even on Alcatraz doesnt guarantee good film and even surefire story like the Morris escape eludes the grasp of star like Eastwood But thats not all Causc were giving away funfilled premiums and freerefllls on soft drinks too Tag lglble kids must be accompanied by an adult who purchases any steak dinner excludlng SuperburM Limit kldo pot adult purchngc Ikrrt Nu lnrluded JUNE 22JuLY inment Editor Stephen Gauer7266537 Jazz can find audience says stage band leader The turning point in Al Motes career as trumpeter came during his college years in the mid1960s when he was asked to join band leaving for Carib bean tour He refused the offer Instead he joined life in surance company pursuing jazz as parttime interest But juggling two careers hasnt been difficult Mote whos 31 is still playing jazz lle formed lGpiece stage band in January drawing members from the city concert band The stage band made its first public performance in con cert at Sunnidalc Park last week Tonight at pm at Centennial park the band is featured in the second concert organized by the city recreation department as part of the Parks Are For People program Mote is enthusiastic about Barries potential for big band music Theres good au dience and good younger audience here for jazz says Mote think there are untap ped resources and untapped au diences here The idea for the band came out of discussions between Mote and other members of the city band including Bob Hunter who leads his own dance band Finally decided to do it Al MOTH jazz trumpeter says Mote brought the charts in and with the first note it was like calling everyone back everything fit together It was unbelievable Motes career as musician goes back to his high school days in Scarborough where he studied in the school music pro gram and played gigs with his father parttime piano player After high school he played with Toronto dance bands from 1966 to 1970 He joined Royal Insurance in 1968 and moved four years later to Sault Ste Marie where he played in local bands In 1973 he moved to North Bay where he ORilliA THEATRES Slave trading lives today sii lfllifi BOX OFFICE OPENS 643 ROBBERY United Artists SHOWS AT PM DRIVEIII THEATRE fll ELECTRONIC RADIO SOUND cor Me movie on your own car radio ANNE MURRAY Now Kind Fooling EARTH WIND FIRE Th are Ate sms ONLY 49 AT SAMS Barrie FRIDAY SATUR AT MOND IGi NO soccio GINO SOCCIO Outline Dance To Dance The Poet and Music Box DesoIatIon Angels Rock Dancer From Sidewalk Roll Fantasy Crazy Cir cles More AT SAMS The Visitors Much More INVEST NOW DIAMOND NEEDLES IO Dunlop St ANNE MURRAY New Kind of Feeling Just Fall In Love Again Rainin In My Heart More mumaura OLEANS Am Boogie 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