41 Page 16- The Michigan Daily - Friday, July 13, 1984 Streets Savaged by Linda Blair By Dennis Harvey T HIS HAS BEEN a depressingly poor summer for really good movie trash. Some.decent gloating could be done over the visually exuberant and impressively senseless Streets of Fire, the papier-mache spectacle of Conan the Destroyer, and that junior high joke festival Bachelor Party. But those films are jokily aware of just how dumb they are. There has been a real need for something unapologetically, genuinely inane. And here it is at last! Linda Blair has been working up a track record for memorable entertainments for several years, ranking increasingly alongside ANN ARBOR IDVIDUAL TEATRES1 5. A eoflb" 161"I9700 DAILY MATINEES DAILY 1:00 P.M. SHOWS $2.00 PMRRE GERARD PR D DEPRDEM At byFRANCSVEBER CMPE-RES FRI. 1:00, 7:10, 9:10, 11 P.M. SAT. 1:10, 3:10, 5:10, 7:10, 9:10,11 P.M. SUN. 1:10, 3:10, 5:10,7:10, 9:10 "A CONSISTENTLY HILARIOUS MOVIE' NhouseNewspapers MOVIE? WHAT MOVIE? TOP FRI.1:0 7:20,920 11P.M. SAT. 1:20, 3:20, 5:20, 7:20, 9:20,11 P.M. SUN. 1:20 3:20 5:20, 7:20, 9:20 historical figures like Mamie Van ATTITUDE toward people and mistake-the first and most protracted Doren and Annette Funicello in con- things-namely, WANT/TAKE/ piece of violence is sentimentally sistently delivering the very finest in DESTROY. stacked (the victim is a deaf-mute, who grade-B melodrama. First there was Meanwhile, Linda and her racially in- seems to have been directed to act like the hilarious Exorcist II: The Heretic, tegrated group of unquestionably cool Bambi besides) to the point of un- then the remarkable Roller Boogie best friends are attending school, more necessary unpleasantness. Otherwise, (representative exchange-Linda: or less. Their school is one of those the action is too comic-book to be offen- "But I don't want to be a concert great movie institutions of inter- sive. Director Danny Steinmann keeps violinist! That's a drag! That's a bum- mediate learning where every biology the cheap thrills hurling at us with an mer!" Concerned Parent: "I know class anatomical chart is certain .to admirable lack of intentional humor, what it is! It's that infernal disco have a large penis magic-markered on and of course the performances are music!"). And last year the standard it, the principal's voice has been swell. was maintained with Chained Heat, refined to a hoarse bark by years of There's a particularly good piece of possibly THE most lurid among all the threatening suspension, and each class support from John Vernon as the school lurid women's prison movies. seems to be punctuated by interludes of principal-he never delivers a line in Further proof that Linda's choice of dancing on the desks, less than a disciplinary bark. It cer- star vehicles shows a discerning sen- Of course, no day is complete without tainly makes the viewer quake in sibility rare these days is her latest, a hair-pulling "Leave my boyfriend his/her boots, though naturally Linda Savage Streets, which is currently alone, slut" fight in the girl's locker just lights a cigarette and snarls her making horns honk at drive-ins across room. When the Scars-who, besides tough-broad snarl. the nation. This is a wild youth movie in having no manners, are awfully touchy Blair's moral decline from film to the grand Blackboard Jungle tradition about the slightest offense to their film has been the sort of analytically (though owing rather more to the less egos-find reason to grow annoyed with rewarding pattern that a film-studies respectable examples, like High School Linda and her gang, the atmosphere of major ought to write a thesis paper on Confidential! and Teenage Doll), with wholesome adolescent hijinks grows someday. Here she's fully evolved from the usual cast of rather mature actors ugly. A few deaths later, Linda turns in- the sweet young thing who played with playing 16-year-olds, plenty of bad rock to Charles Bronson, because "Even the crucifixes in The Exorcist to and roll, and consummately lowbrow cops are pussies," and obviously postadolescent hard-as-nailsdom. She action at a pace designed for those whose something must be done. She puts on is particularly satisfying at the finale attention span won't accommodate her black leather duds, loads up mom's when, having reduced the chief cretin more than ten seconds of straight nice new truck with a few lethal to a whimpering handicapped status, dialogue. weapons, and heads out to she fires a crossbow arrow just a shade - Likewise, the plot does not demand warehouseland to personally lynch too far to the side of his cerebellum and much expenditure of intellectual those nasty punkscumbags. sarcastically laments, "Oh my! I energy to understand. There's this One may question just where Linda missed. And I did'so want to see you quartet of punks (not the kind that picked up the commando manhunting bleed to death." travel on skateboards and listen to the techniques she demonstrates at the If you've had enough of all this good Misfits, the old kind, with switch- climax of 'Savage Streets, but clean fun currently glutting theaters blades) called the Scars. They hang out generally the film moves too fast for and want something refreshingly in warehouses, shove each other around doubts about narrative sense to arise. tawdry, drop everything now and see affectionately, and have a very BAD The movie only makes one serious Savage Streets. Stellar star show shines brightly (Continued from Page9) dodecahedron. system, and the special effects projec- the sky, are projected from another Needless to say, the projector is wor- tion system. Indeed, the planetarium light source attached to the th thousands of dollars, as are the sound was closed for eight months recently while the special effects system was redesigned and improved. Showings of Dark Skies Over Michigan are Saturdays at 11 a.m., 2 p.m., and 3 p.m., and Sundays at 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. Tickets for the morning show go on sale at 9 a.m. Tickets for the afternoon showings go on sale at 1 p.m. The tickets are sold at the second floor information desk and cost one dollar for the half-hour show. And when you con- sider that ascrappy two hour movie may R N cost you four dollars, one dollar for this really unique half-hour show is quite - bargain. The Exhibit Museum, also known as the Natural Science Museum, is at 1109 AThCiTT7TT Geddes Avenue. ONE NIGHT ONLY DETROIT CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS Presents ENG EE"TAMBOURINES TO GLORY" a party of comedy and song. Writers AMuicol Comedy bytonson Hughes id cinema musicals, Betty Comden Featuring a Cast of 25 Singers en sing their greatest hits from such and Dancers in a PLAUSE, ON THE TWENTIETH LIVE ON-STAGE EXTRAVAGANZA YGIN' IN THE RAIN, and ON THE SATURDAY, JULY 21 heir party, RSVP now. 8:00 P.M. B at the Power Center Box Office. Michigan Box Office 2-7 pm 313/ 763-0950 Theatre 668-8480 -8 pm- Power Center , Reserved Seating: $7,.8. Students & Seniors: $5, 6. 0 6 S 0 0