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- r mn entertainment Hints of 'Poseidon Adventure 9 in 'Juggernau There's a short documentary film being shown before "Jug gernaut" at the. Douglas The ater, and it has to do with the making of "The Towering Infer no," the new all-star extrava ganza due for release this Christmas compliments of the makers of "Poseidon Adven ture." "The Towering Inferno" is supposedly another of those large-scale disaster fi!ms, the kind "so big that it took..." etc, etc, etc. Anyway, during this short filler the narrator makes an apparently serious declaration that the huge, multi-million special-effects blockbuster may be the next art form of the 20th Century. This incredible statement manes one stop and wonder just who some movie executives are trying to kid. They know a movie like "Poseidon Adventure," "The Towering Inferno" and even "Juggernaut" will haul in a bundleso why try to pass off all the aesthetic garble? Many of us will see these films and probably look forward to them. But if we do it "will be because we simply enjoy watch ing those big-name performers or because the movies can be great pieces of popular enter tainment. Why try to be artsy craftsy about this melodrama when the only thing present is the craft? 'AII things must pass' Same of the sciiNivasl f roo3 "Poseidon Adventure" were worse than a TV soap opera, yet it was all quite harmless and enjoyable. The market for this type. of movie will fade, largely because a good watcnwora ror movie trends in the past few years has been 'all things must pass', even if only for a short time. The America cinema is in the process of resurrecting and remaking old cliches and genres, but it's a little surprising (but perhaps not) that it is taking the current, popular recession into these disaster-blockbusters so seriously. There are some things movies will just outgrow. Which leads us into "Jugger naut", a movie that is a lot better than its sensationalistic publicity indicates. (Be careful of those newspaper ads with the little pictures of ail its stars captioned with phrases like "It was his life against 1200 ot! ers!", or "Now, for the first time in his life he was forced to face the truth!.) The picture is not really a disaster-blockbuster, although there's a lot of 'impending doom' hovering throughout it. It's a well made, exciting, algeit mindless film from the director Richard Lester. greg lukow Time bombs The movie features Omar Sharif as the captain of a British ocean liner that is sabotaged by' aKfWowrv, lunatic wha:$$!$ i himself Juggernaut. Juggernaut has planted seven, booby trapped time bombs through the ship, all set to go off at once unless the shipping company agrees to pay him a huge ransom. The government, as so often happens these days, re fuses to pay the sum for fear of encouraging future terrorists. Enter Richard Harris, a man living on borrowed time by way of being one of world's foremost demolition experts. Harris and his crew (including actor David Hemmings) are parachuted down near the ship In the middle of a North Atlantic storm in some breathtaking action foot age. The ensuing action cross cuts between Scotland Yarders in England as they track down the mysterious Juggernaut, and the ship, as Harris tries to deacti vate the bombs. These dismantl ing scenes don't add much to all the other times you've seen it done but they are handled well enough (Do I cut the blue wire or the red wire?) to create the proper amount of queasy reac tions. Token role for Sharif Sharif has little more than a token role but does add some stability to the film. Besides Harris, the next biggest part goes to puzzling bombs he squares off against. Lester even uses a subjective camera shot from the rear of the bomb's intricacies as it 'looks' back at Harris while he tries to keep from triqgerinq the boobv-traps. Richard Lester ("A Hard Day's Night", "Help!") had a long dry spell between 1968 and 73 after several previous finan cial failures. Then last spring came "The Three Musketeers" and now "Juggernaut," a coup le of commercial projects that should put him back in the running. ' ' I If nothing else, Lester's two recent films are showing that he may be the cinema's most blatant purveyor of human folly. Ail the pseudo-slapstick, clown ish bumbling from "The Three Musketeers" is now manifesting itself in the tense uneasiness of the ship passengers. Never has a movie crammed itself with so many little, everday, human goof-ups. Passengers and crew are forever knocking, bumping, falling down, stepping on things and generally getting into each others' way. "Juggernaut" could have been done better, probably by someone like Don Seigel, who is a master at this type of paranoic thriller. There are a few too many untied ends when the movie is over, but this is a new type of film for Lester. Ultimate ly, the best thing about "Jug ernaut" was finding out that it wasn't ail it was cracked up to be. Fairbanks film showing This week's Lincoln Silent Film Society showing is Douglas Fairbank, S.'s 1926 version of The BISck Pirate." Fairbanks was the greatest swashbuckling adventurer of the silent era and "The Black Pirate" contains all the enthusiastic verve found in .his other 20s movies! Jike "Then Thief, of Baghdad," "Robin Hood" and "The Mark of Zorro." Showings are at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday in the YWCA. IBB!BllBB!MMHiraiS8iraMiaMiaMiaHISMMHBaMBlBHB S Rolling 201: HOW TO ROLL BETTER Required Tcxtbooklet: e-z wider Prof. E.Z. Jay i I i Jl tea. vS, Fold the paper (approx- V) at the end that isn't gummed. Sprinkle tobacco into this fold. Put more at trio ends than in the mid dle Close the paper over the tobacco But don't tuck it in back of the tobacco ju&t yet. 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