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Un-Fonzie-like Winkler credited
with saving sophomoric vehicles
Henry Winkler, better known as Fonzie on television's
Happy Days, makes his movie debut in Heroes. It is no
coincidence that Winkler's co-star, Sally Field, also is
a veteran or a popular television comedy, The Flying
Nun.
This team undoubtedly was assembled to lure the
legions of TV addicts to the box office and it apparently
is succeeding. The surprising thing is that Heroes is not an
entirely disagreeable movie. All the credit for this should
go to Winkler.
Winkler plays Jack Dunne, a Vietnam veteran who has
been committed to an institution for being shellshocked
or something. He manages to escape and-this is a bit confusing-goes
on a bus trip using other inmates money to
join with the other members of his old unit to start an
earthworm farm!
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On the trip he meets Carol Bell (Field) who also is es
caping, but not from her past. She is getting away from
her impending wedding. Anyway, they end up going
through all sorts of adventures and grow more intimate all
the time.
Throughout, director Jeremy Paul Kagan and writer
James Carabasas seem determined to avoid the Fonzie
image.
Fonzie surface
At only one point does the Fonz character really sur
face. That is after Winkler is mugged by some rednecks for
the wad of money he is carrying. Fonzie returns to their
hangout, the bar, and in an entirely unlikely confronta
tion beats up everyone in the bar.
better or worse depending on who's telling you. Well, I
can't say which, because it's so uneven in quality, but at
its best KFM is quite funny and original.
Humor common
Anything-goes humor is common these days, and you
can expect plenty of sex and "offensive" stuff here. That
never bothers me when it's really, funny, but about one
third of KFM is dreadfully boring and often insulting.
Luckily these parts occur in the early skits and black
outs in this collection of TV and movie parodies.
All of the material was written by the Kentucky Fried
Theatre (Jerry Zucker, James Abrahams, and David
Zucker). This common authorship is evident in the similar
feel to all of the skits.
A number of big names appear: Bill Bixby advertising
for a headache tablet; Donald Sutherland in a disaster
movie take-off. That's Armageddon!; Henry Gibson in an
appeal for the dead ("death is our nation's number one
killer").
The film's finest works are the longer, sustained paro
dies rather than the shorter takeoffs that rely heavily on
shqck humor.
Two of the best are A Fistful of Yen, a marvelously
detailed parody of the martial arts flicks, and Courtroom,
an off-the-wall send-up of fifties television courtroom
dramas.
Perhaps the most important aspect of KFM is the po
tential It shows for its very talented creators. A little
control and a feature-length subject might just lead to
something important-rand funny too!
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pressive" Winkler close-ups. Kagan seems to think that
the longer and closer the take, the more it reveals.
Winkler, though, comes off well in his first film.
He is the only part of the movie that delivers what it
promises. Certainly the characters don't really "find them
selves," as the ads proclaim, in this sophomoric attempt at
the psychological effects of war. But the audience (which
was about 80 percent female when I saw it-make of that
what you wish) leaves satisfied because, I suspect, no one
really expected much more than a romantic diversion with
their old friend, Henry Winkler.
Heroes is playing at the Douglas I.
Another film that people seem to know what to expect
in is Kentucky Fried Movie, now playing at the State.
The advance word is that it's like The Groove Tube-
Movie schedule
Cinema 1 : Oh, God!; 7:30 9:30 p.m.; PG
Cinema 2: Darby OViU and the Little People;
7:15,9 p.m.;G
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Douglas 2: Damnation Alley; 7:20, 9:30 pjn.;PG
Douglas 3 : First Love; 7:30, 9:30 pjn.; PG
Embassy : Hard Soap Hard Soap; and Confessions of
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from 1 1 ajn.; X
Joyo; Ma and Pa Kettle and Kettles in the Ozarks;
7:20pjn.;G
Plaza 1 : Bobby Deerfield; 7, 9: IS p.m. :PG
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