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ruesday, December 4, 1984 Santa's Holiday Guide Page 23 By Ward W. Triplet III Daily Nebrsin Senior Editor Just wnen you uiuugni n was safe to go back to the theater. Just when you thought you i . . i . . i ii iad heard the last of Joe Piscopo. Just when it seemed George Lucas had oversaturated the market of pace adventure...along comes the Christmas movie season of 1D34. j The movies that will appear in the year's second biggest studio bonanza (early summer is the Virst) range from a purposely in sightful story or two Vietnam veterans to a sprawling science fiction tale, make that two science fiction epics, that have been in the works for years. "20 1 0" is our only release of the season" said a spokesman for United Artists. "It's big enough for any studio." The motion picture is a conti nuation of the early 1 970s cult hit "2001." This version stars Roy Scheider and John Lithgow and was directed by Peter Hayams. The other big deal is "Dune," which finally reached the screen after having its images "purloined" by Lucas for his Star Wars series. So says, anyway, producer Raf faella DeLarentiis and director David Lynch. "Dune" was first published in 1965. According to production, notes, it not only delineated an extraordinary universe from the fature, but created a life-affirming metaphor in which positive human potential ultimately pre vails against evil. "Dune" began principal photo graphy in Mexico City last March and was wrapped up by Septem ber. However, post production and special effects lasted until February of this year. The cast 1 V -f i The Padishah Enpsrcr (Jess eccisd in his ccse. The Gift For Someone Who Has Everything A Misty's Gift Certificate! fNa Any Amount No Expiration Date ,, Good at both Locafcns i I 6235 Hoveocc Ave 466-8424 O. Ill I . A 423-2283 Serving the Midwest's finest prime rib for 20 yean Holiday flicks hope for 9n nnn L gpartsbutover Am? , wSnS! , t Pe5plf, you may v ovf. lluJih acad nf awinnerfor "The Year vLn I dangerously, Sean i Jm Wv apP?ared m the for- geiaoie loung Doctors in Love," rL if un01? fF Laughing," M;X.:"e' T ,u!, . m5. ana a n ,. . . . . "Johnny Dangerously" also Police bassist Sting also has a opens at Dec. 21. But before you role of a villain and verteran Max dismis it as a gangster film, con tort Sydow plays a kindly doctor, sider that it is gangster film star ve real stars, however, are un- ring Michael Keaton ("Night knowns Francesca Annis and Shift," "Mr. Mom) and Joe Piscopo Brad Dourif. The 2:10 picture is (Saturday Night Live), rated PG-13 and will open Dec. Keaton plays the debonair 14, crime boss Johnny Dangerously, Tri-Stur from the com pany that gave you "Supergirl" and "Breakin' " comes yet another "Breakin'. " Shabadoo Quinones. Michael Chambers and Lucinda Dickey return to join forces with their rivals from "Breakin " in an all-out neighborhood dance bat- tle. "Electric Boogaloo" will open Dec. 28. "Runaway" is Tom Selleck's new film about a bunch of defective robots that programmed to turn against their masters. Selleck is the good guy of course. Gene Simmons of Kiss is the bad guy. "Runaway" will make it's run before Christmas, "Birdie" is Tri-Star's serious release, as it covers the friend ship of two boys through child- hood, Vietnam, and beyond. Mat- thew Modine and Nicholas Cace thew Modine and Nicholas Cage star, and both are labeled as being part of the new Hollywood sex symbol movement with Tom Cruise and Eric Roberts, and so i n Ferrer) fcss m acdlcr.es with on. Cage has been in "Racing with the Moon" and "Valley GirL" Twentieth Ccntuiy Fox -Matt Dillon stars as a teenager working at a Flamingo Club with dreams of the "big time" in "The Flamingo Kid." The coming-of- age story is set in 1963. It will open Dec. 2 1 , and is rated PG-13. while Piscopo plays his rival Danny Vermin, who says Johnny should step aside because he is "too soft on innocent bystanders." The film also stars Marilu Henner f "Taxi"Y Peter Rovle ( The monster of "Young Frankenstein"), Maureen Stapleton ("Reds") and Danny DeVito ("Taxi," "Romanc- ing the Stone"). . UnivergffilMGM - While "Dune" is the only Universal film over Christmas, "The River" will open Jan. 11. It is Mel Gibson's first American film, and co-stars Sissy Spacek. It's story is along the same lines as' "Country" and "Places in the Heart" as Spacek and Gibson attempt to save the family farm from poverty, nature and themselves. Columbia The summer's biggest winner with "The Karate Kid" and "Ghostbusters " Colum- Kid" and "Ghostbusters," Colum bia's Christmas releases run the gamut of romantic comedy to science fiction. 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