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Battalion/PagH| August 5,1 Movies building it underwater. Mon day. PG. nth Check theaters for specific times and prices. Movies subject to change without notice. All list ings are current through press time. D uck Soup: The 1933 film that marked the climax of the Marx Brothers’ career. Tuesday. G. like a billard ball with a hair transplant. Expect the same laid- back dopers we’re all used to. R. Starring the same old characters from the past two Rocky films. PG. Music Plitt Cinema i^ix Pac: Kenny Rogers takes a break from singing and stars in a film with six kids. He plays a race car driver who, with help from his kiddie pit crew, becomes a hero. PG. Campus Theater: I&II 846-6714 A, 846-6512 Blade Runner: Based upon sci- ence-fiction writer Philip K. Dick’s novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?,” Har rison Ford plays a detective in charge of tracking down manu factured humans which are escaping their servitude. R. Young Doctors in Love: Michael McKean stars as a young intern who is determined to be the greatest surgeon in the world. There is just one problem — he is deathly afraid of using a scalpel. McKean cures his fear of the scalpel when he falls in love with and has to operate on a pretty young doctor who has a rare disease. Cameo appear ances by soap opera stars. R. L.n Officer and a Gentleman: Richard Gere stars as Zach Mayo, an officer candidate who learns what it takes to become a gentleman. Debra Winger is Paula, the young woman he meets and falls in love with. R. 1 he Best Little Whorehouse in Texas: First the Whorehouse papers, then the play and now the movie. All of course are ab out one of the greatest Texas traditions — The Chicken Ranch and its ultimate downfall. Starring Burt Reynolds and Dol ly Parton. Woooweee! R. Fame: Thursday is tliel bonnaires with a $2 Sundance from Austin plays day. Cover is $3. Saturdayii ver Creek. Cover is $‘ Forced Vengence: An action- packed Kung-Fu film starring... Yeeeeah! ... Chuck Norris. R. Lake view: Thursday night is 50-cent beer night with Country Disco. Cover is $2. Fri day listen to rock and roll. Cover is $3 and all unescorted ladies get in for $1. It’s country and western music by Dakota on Saturday — cover charge is $3. Excalibre:E.j. m will play easy listening through Saturday. No charge and happy hour isfro to 7 p.m. Post Oak Mall Cinema 764-0616 Tex: Matt Dillon stars in a realistic coming-of-age adven ture involving the struggles and conflicts of two teen-aged brothers. PG. Rebels : Listen to the rock and roll music of Fastbreak. Happy hour is 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. No cover charge. Texas Hall of Backstage:ihe Name Jazz Sextet from Coll Station will play Thursday.! er is $ 1. There will be i entertainment Friday andSati day. Happy houriseveryi from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. MSC Grove: 845-1515 The Exorcist: The 1973 film in which Linda Blair stars as a 14-year-old girl who is possessed by the devil. A priest must exor cise the demon before it takes Blair’s life. Thursday. R. ight Shift: Henry Winkler stars in this comedy about a man who works the graveyard shift in a morgue. He and a partner de cide to add some spice to their lives by starting a pimp business and operating it out of the mor gue. R. Poltergeist: A suburban neigh borhood project is built over an ancient burial site. All of the ghosts from this graveyard even tually manifest themselves in one household. PG. Zapped: High school hustler Willie Aames hopes to capitalize upon mild-mannered scientific pal Scott Biao’s accidental dis covery of telekinetic powers. R. itteir come P or Your Eyes Only: Roger Moore stars in the most recent Bond movie. Agent 007 finds himself in the sea, in the air and on the edge of a cliff as he sear ches for a top secret British nav al device which has been sunk off the coast of Greece. Breath taking snow skiing scenes are in this one. Friday and Saturday. PG. z\lien: An alien being invades a space freighter and attacks the crew of seven. Midnight. F'riday and Saturday. R. E.T.: An alien from a distant planet is stranded on earth by his mother ship and hidden by a small boy. They learn from each other how to grow up alone on their respective planets. PG. Skyway Twin Drive-In 822-3300 Felix at tl M Th< e Creature From the Black Lagoon: A team of scientists in trude on a creature in a myste rious lagoon. Watch this 1954 science fiction classic in 3-D. Sunday. G. Rocky Horror Picture Show: The most bizarre treatment yet of the Frankenstein myth, com plete with rock music, transvest ism and kinky sex. Barry Bost- wick and Susan Sarandon por tray lost travelers who wander into Tim Curry’s castle and ex perience a night to remember. Midnight Friday and Saturday. R. The Pirate Movie: Christ opher Atkins and Kristy McNichol sing, dance and fall in love in this rock ’n roll version of the operetta “The Pirates of Penzance.” PG. Porky’s: A comedy about small-town teenage adolescence and a roadhouse which, as local legend has it, is a bordello. R. “It’s goo adis< |ie kic jient i loupli MS( f>lc*S£ MR P0 Schulman Six 775-2468 Otar Trek: The Wrath of Khan: The crew of the Enterprise bat tles an old nemiss of Admiral Kirk, who’s escaped from exile on a distant planet and longs for revenge. PG. Manor East 823-8300 Oecret of Nimh: A widowed mouse calls on some tough, smart rats to help save her fami ly from exterminators in this animated feature. G. The Spy Who Loved Me: Ro ger Moore and Barbara Bach team up to stop a madman from destroying the Earth and re- Cheech and Chong’s Things are Tough All Over: Tommy Chong plays a maniacal Arab with a nose only a camel could love. Cheech plays his brother Rocky III: Sylvester Stallone stars as everyone’s favorite box er, Rocky. In this feature, Rocky is rich and fights to stay that way, along with savoring his pride. Take This Job and Shove It: Based on Johnny Paycheck’s country hit about people who are fed up with their job. Perhaps now they should come out with a sequel: “Don’t shove that job — I’ll take it.” R. photo by Nancy Wcatherley Red-hot movie he tw ind Ft Airplane: Comedy satire on all the “Airport” movies. Contains some very funny one-liners. PG. Learning new fire-fighting techniques can be hard work, so the Campus Theater on University Drive offered visiting firemen a chance to relax in the evenings last week. Entertainment OSBORNE The A Personal Business Computer. Young Electronics would like to introduce you to the next generation of micro-computers. The Osborne 1! It’s small enough to carry like a briefcase and “smart” enough to han dle your calculations, word processing, typing and even link up to central computer networks! One of its best features is its price—only $1795 for both the hardware and software! A $1795. Productivity Investment. Includes: Standard Hardware: • ZSOA™ CPU with 64K RAM. • Dual floppy disk drives with 102K bytes storage each. • 5" CRT. • Business keyboard with numeric keypad and cursor keys. • RS-232C Interface. • IEEE 488 Interface. • Weather-resistant, portable housing. • Operates on European and American voltages. Standard Software: • CP/M® Operating System. • WORDSTAR™word processing with MAILMERGE® . • SUPERCALC™electronic spreadsheet. • CBASIC® programming language. • MB ASIC® programming language. No Name Jazz Sextel Thursday, August 5 9 p.m.-Midnight| Pyewacket — Thursday, August 12 Backstage Restaurant & Bar 319 Gniversity Dr. (Northgate) 846-1861 This area’s exclusive dealer is: COMPUTER CORPORATION Young Electronics 1804 Brothers Blvd. College Station, Texas 693-8080 $1099 discount on all permanent waves including the California Curl. f&t placi Across from A&M In Culpepper Plaza 696-6933 693-0607 Call early for your appointment.