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This week’s local listings
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Grove
lien: A terror fantasy
^^Bry where terror lurks
Bound every corner. This ex-
' Hng movie pits the crew of
an industrial space ship
Hainst a deadly and terrify
ing alien who never stops
■nving as he feeds on the
j Hw. Thursday. Rated R.
|0n Golden Pond: Henry
Fclnda and Katherine Hep-
, Brn star in this romantic love
fHry of an elderly couple
| pending the last years of
Bir lives together and cop
ing with growing old. Friday/
Saturday. Rated R.
\V. Same Time Next Year:
' f Alan Alda and Ellen Burstyn
star in this romantic comedy
' 4 >, about a couple who, no matter
what, meets every year to see
each other. Sunday. Rated R.
The Graduate: Dustin
Hoffman relates the dilemna
■ graduation as he laces real
Rtrld problems and the older
i S>man next door. Monday.
vRated PG.
fhe Sting: The greatest
^Hn of all time is what Robert
^^Jdford and Paul Newman
trying to pidl off . Will they
it? The answer is this hila-
EBms adventure comedy.
Rated Pg.
Blazing Saddles: Mel
Mrorooks is the tomic genius be-
■^^BBlncl this hilarious comedy.
mfee e how the west was won (or
, by Brendil osn - Wednesday. Rated R.
computers and plays war with
the Russians for real. PG.
'Twilight Zone:
four episode movie
“Class” takes a laugh-filled look at two
prep-school seniors whose friendship is
supremely tested when one of them
inadvertantly has an affair with the other one’s
mother. Pictured: Jacqueline Bisset, Andrew
McCarthy and Rob Lowe (seated).
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aws 3D: The latest of the
|itvs movies. Just when you
thought it was safe to go back
into the movie theater they
have brought another shark
Story — too bad this isn’t the
one that got away. R.
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out life of two prep school
boys and the adventures they
go through. It is just as if Por-
xy’s went to prep school.
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little plot and little acting ta
lent but some of the most elec
trifying dancing and music
that has come out of a movie
in a long time. This film does
for New Music what Saturday
Night Fever did for Disco. R.
R.ocky Horror Picture
Show: What happens when
the all-American couple
meets a transsexual? Watch
this classic cult film and find
out. Midnight. R.
Manor East
823-8300
The Man From Snowy
River: Kirk Douglas stars in
this western about a boy sud
denly alone in the world who
helps a girl struggling with
life. In Dolby stereo. PG.
R.eturn of the Jedi: The
third piece to the exciting Star
Wars trilogy. I doubt seriously
if there is anyone out there
who doesn’t know what this
film is about. If you don’t,
wake up and smell the coffee.
PG.
Snow White and the
Seven Dwarfs: A classic Dis
ney animation of the famous
tale. For
Rated G.
people of all
fairy
ages.
Post Oak:
764-0616
Staying Alive: The sequel
to Saturday Night Fever. John
Travolta stars as a dancer who
wins the lead in a broadway
musical. The music is still by
the Bee Gee’s. Oh Gee. Rated
R.
Tlhe Survivors: Walter
Matthau and Robin Williams
star in this new comedy. The
humor is more situation than
anything else and unfortun
ately hides the talents of both
of these men to be funny. R.
Stoker Ace: Burt Reynolds
and Loni Anderson star in this
excuse to “act” together.
Reynolds is a race car driver
and Anderson is the girl after
his heart. R.
Schulman Six
775-2468
^A^ar Games: What hap
pens when a computer fails to
make the distinction of a real
war and and a war game to a
14-year-old boy. See what
happens as a young computer
into tht
genius taps
le defense
This is a
length
version of the old TV show
the Twilight Zone. If you con
sider two out of four episodes
good enough, then go see this
movie. It makes you wonder
who is in the Twilight Zone. R.
Blue Thunder: Roy
Scheider is in this flick about a
honest man trying to save the
public from the horrors of an
overdone riot control helicop
ter. The story line is interest
ing but the feasibility will leave
you lost. R.
'Trading Places: Eddie
Murphy and Dan Akroyd star
in this humorous “Prince and
the Pauper” type story. These
two talents come together to
make one of the funniest com
edies out this summer. Good
entertainment. R.
Octopussy: The most in
teresting thing about this
James Bond flick is the title.
This particular story follows
the James Bond formula and
has nothing new and exciting
to offer. If you have ever seen
a James Bond movie before
then you might as well say you
have seen this one also. R.
Skyway Twin
Drive-In
822-3300
dpace Raiders: A sad
adventure film which thinks it
is a cross between Star Wars
and Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Rated R.
Star Crash : Crash is an
accurate term in this film’s ti
tle. Rated R. •
Tough Enough: A cheap
Rocky rip-off. This film is ab
out an unemployed worker in
the East who turns to boxing
to earn his living. Rated R.
Psycho II: Norman Bates is
back and the Mother’s Day
horror continues. This sequel
sticks to the original in a com
plimentary fashion but you
will wonder if you are crazy
for paying $4.50 for this
movie. R.
Former vaudeville star
reminisces about career
United Press International
FREMONT, Mich. — Geral
dine Valliere’s scrapbooks and
diaries are full of memories of
high times, the fame and thrills
that came with a career in vaude
ville.
The pianist, 87, was once the
lead performer in an unusual
all-woman four-piano act
known as “Jerry and the Baby
Grands.” She worked with Mil-
ton Berle, Burns and Allen, Bob
Hope, Bing Crosby — everyone
who was anyone back then.
But what time gave, time took
away.
Vaudeville died out and, af
ter accompanying Major Bowes’
traveling amateur show for a
few years, Valliere returned to
this small western Michigan
town to care for her mother.
“It’s been a pretty lonely life
after the excitement of traveling
and meeting people in show
business,” she admits. “It was
tough at first. All I know is
music. I can’t even cook yet.”
Her rise to vaudeville head
liner was the stuff of which
movies were made.
A small town music teacher,
the daughter of a grocer, gets a
job in Duluth, Minn., and works
in her spare time as a theater
pianist. She gains some local
fame in 1919 by heading three
other pianists in a piano quartet
and, after appearing in Chicago,
is booked for New York.
From there, the sky’s the
limit. Long runs at the nation’s
top theaters as Jerry and the
Baby Grands, the piano quartet
that came complete with a
troupe of eight dancers and 6V2
tons of equipment.
She even headlined a 13-
country around-the-world tour
that lasted from August 1929 to
November 1930. Her quartet
played the top halls in England,
France, Germany, Australia and
South Africa.
But the demand for a piano
quartet that traveled with
13,000 pounds of gear in tow
faded along with vaudeville.
After a couple of years with
Major Bowes, she returned to
Duluth — where a small confec
tioner had named a candy bar,
the “Jerry Bar,” after her — and
then retired to Fremont to care
for her mother.
“My mother, right up until
her last moment in life, said ‘no
body ever had a daugher like
you,”’ she says. “I came home in
1941 to care for her after my
father died. She passed away at
103.
“I never married, I never had
time,” she says, a bit wistfully.
“Oh, I had my chances. My man
ager waited for me for 42 years.
He died in Florida.”
Memories and memorabilia
keep Valliere company in the
small apartment she calls home.
The walls are lined with
g hotos of her act; four platinum
londe women seated behind
huge pianos with dancers strut
ting on top.
A globe marked with the
route and performance dates of
her around-the-world tour sits
atop a small cabinet jammed to
overflowing with scrapbooks,
publicity photos and handbills.
“I still hear from Milton
Berle,” she says.
When she shows remorse, it is
not over a lost career but bitter
ness toward the rigors of age.
“I don’t play the piano any
more,” she says, rubbing her
hands. “It’s arthritis. I haven’t
played for two or three years. I
just can’t play well enough to suit
myself — I always played fancy,
not plain.”
Actress in soap opera
and musical stays busy
United Press International
NEW YORK — Actress
Sheryl Lee Ralph might be just
about everyone’s “Dreamgirl” in
her “Search for Tomorrow,” but
between her two jobs and multi
ple career projects, “Social life?
Baby, what’s that?”
At 26, “not even love” could
convince her to get married
right now.
“I wouldn’t trade this for any
thing,” she said while dabbing
on her stage makeup in her
pink-walled dressing room at
Broadway’s Imperial theater.
“There is nothing I’d rather do
now than work.”
Good thing.
There’s little time for sleep
and even less for going out when
you’re a Broadway stage star by
night and a television soap opera
queen by day.
But the “Dreamgirls” star
couldn’t resist when she was
offered a role on the NBC-TV
daytime drama “Search for
Tomorrow,” even though she
has another six months to go in
the hit musical.
She’s Deena Jones on Broad
way until 11 each night and then
two days a week she’s up at 7
a.m. and playing Mac, assistant
to a newspaper editor in
“Search.”
“Oh they’re very different,”
she said when asked if it’s diffi
cult to keep her parts straight.
Since she’s been Deena — a
character similar to Diana Ross
of the Supremes — for 19
months, the lines come natural
ly. Mac, on the other hand, says
something new every perform
ance.
“They send me the script, and
I have to memorize the lines in
the morning, before I go on,”
she said of her two-week-old
role.
She’s planning to do a concert
with Joan Rivers in the late sum
mer or early fall in Connecticut,
and she recently tried out for a
part in a theatrical movie, “Cot
ton Club.” She thought the try
out went “very well.”
Next?
A record album — although
she considers herself an actress
first.
“My singing is probably the
greatest act of my whole career,”
she said. “I’m basically an ac
tress. And now, since ‘Dream-
girls,’ I’m basically a singer.
“When I started in ‘Dream-
girls,’ I had a teenie, little voice.
Then doing it every night, and
listening to other singers in the
cast, it just grew. And now I’m
an actress-singer.”
Ralph, a native of Waterbury,
Conn., was in premed at Rutgers
University when she switched to
drama.
At 18 she was in a movie with
Sidney Poiter, “A Piece of the
Action.”
Then there were prime time
television parts on such shows as
“Wonderwoman,” “Good
Times” and “The Jeffersons.”
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