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Thursday. July 211983/The BattattorVPaoe 5 fust Movies TThis week’s local listings o MSC Grove Alaea: A (e«Tor fan las > *»of> whrrr terror lurks around evrrv corner. This e»- citing moyir pets the crew of an iadMauiM space ship against a deadh and terrify ing alien who never stops growing as he feeds on the crew Tnurwtar. Rated R O. Golden Pood: Henry Fonda and Katherine Hep- bum star ifi this romantic love story of an elderly couple spending the last years of tnetr lives together and cop ing with growing old. Fridmy/ Smtmrdmy Rated R Same Time Next Year: Alan Alda and Ellen Burstyn star m this romantic comedy about a couple who. no matter what, meets every year to see each other Sunday. Rated R. Th* Graduate: Dustin Hoffman relates the dilemna of graduation as he faces real world problems and the older woman next door Monday. Rated PC The Sting: The greatest con of all time is what Robert Red ford sod Paul Newman are trying u> pull off Will they do it? The answer is this hila rious adventure comedy TWoday m cd Pg. Blazing Saddles: Mel Brooks is the comic genius be hind this hilarious comedy See bow the west was won (or lost) Wednesday Rated R Plitt Cinema I&II&III 846-6714 Jaws SD: The latest of the jaws movies Just when you thought M was safe to go bac k into the ntovie theater they have brought another shark Mntv — ton had this isn't the one that g<N away R Valaas: A funny comedy ab out life of two prep school boys and the adventures they J D through It is just as if Por- y's went to prep school Rated R w ** % m A “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). Flashdanre t A film with little plot and little acting ta lent but some of the most elec tnfying dancing and musk that has come out of a movie m a long time This film does for New Music what Saturday Night Fever did for Disco. R Rocky 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 Tw 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. PC. Return 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 cof fee. PC Snow White • and the Seven Dwarfs: A clastic Dis ney animation of the famous fairy tale. For people of all ages. Rated G. ] Post Oak: 764-0616 Suvin, Alivet The sequel to Saturday Night Fever. John Travolta stars as fci dancer who wins the lead irt a broad wav muskal. The masir is still by the Bee Gee's. On Gee Rated R TI he Survivors: Walter Matshau and Rqbin Williams star in this new Comedy. The humor is more atuation than anything else add unfortun- alelv hides the Iklents of both of these men toihe funny. R. (Stoker Ace: Bun Reynolds and la>ni Anderion star ta this excuse to “act" together, Reynolds is u rgee car driver and Anderson uf the girl after his heart R. Schulman Six 775-2468 War Gam«a: What hap- pens when a computer fails to make the distinction of a real war ami and a war game to a 14-year-old ’hair. See what happens as a young computet genius taps into the defense computers and plays war with the Russians for real. PG. Twa.^, Zone: This is a four hplsodi movie length versioCi of the old TV show the Twilight Zone. If you con- ■ sider two out of four episodes I. good Enough, then go see this 1 movie, It makes you wonder who isln the Twilight Zone. R Blue ' Thunder: Roy Schek|rr is in this flkk about a honesi man trying to save the publk grom the horrors of an overdone* riot control hclkop- ter. Tie story line is interest ing bui the feasibility will leave you loft R • Trading Places: Eddie Murphy and Dan Akroyd star in this humorous “Prince and the PaRper" type story. These two tklrnts come together to make dne of the funniest com edies <|ut this summer (Wiod entertainment. R Octopussy: The most in teresting thing about this Jame*(Bond flick is the title. This particular story follows the jagies Bond formula and has nothing new and exciting to offer. If you have ever seen a James Bond movie heftire then you might as well say vou have seen this one also. R. Skyway Twin Drive-In $22-3300 Spmcr Raiders: A sad advenfure film which thinks it is a ci|»ss between Star Wars and Raiders of the Ia>si Ark. 3tar Crash : Cra iccuraie term in this le. Rated R rash is an film's ti- accur tie Jo** Enough: A cheap Rock t*i ip-off. Tnis film is ab out arkunemploved worker in the E£m who turns to boxing to earji his living. Rated R. Psycholl: Norman Hates is hack hnd the Mother's Day horror continues. This sequel sticks |o the original in a com plimentary fashion but you will yonder if you arc crazy for guying $4 50 for this movid R .! Former vaudeville star reminisces about career FREMONT. Mich -a- Geral dine Vallicre s scrapbooks and diaries are full of memories of high times, the fame and thrifts that came with a career ia 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, Bums and Alien. 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, Valhere returned to this small western Michigan town to card for her mother. “It’s been a pretty loaely life after the excitement of traveling and meeting people in show business," she admits. '‘It was tough at first. All I know is musk I can’t even cook yet.” Her rise to vaudeville head liner was the stuff of whkh movies were made. A small town music teacher, the daughter of a grocer, gets a job m Duluth, Minn., knd works fame in 1919 by heading three other pianists in a piano quartet and. aner appearing in Chicago ia booked for New York. From there, the sky’s the limit. Long runs at the nation’s top theaters as Jerry apd the Baby Grands, the piano quartet that came complete with a troupe of eight dancers and 6Vt tons of equipment. She even headlined a 13- country a round-the-world loor that lasted from August 1929 to November 1930. Her quartet piaved the top hails m 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 Mamr Bowes, the 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 savs “I came home in 1941 to care for her after my father died. She paasetf away at 103. “I never married. I never had time," she sayrs, a bit wistfully. "Oh, I had my chances. My man ager waited for me for 42 years He died in Honda.” Memories and memorabcha keep ValHere company m the smaB apartment she calh home The walk are lined with photos of her act; four platinum blonde women seated behind huge pianos with dancers strut ting on top. A globe marked with the route and performance dates of her around-the-worfd tour sits atop a small cabinet jammed to nverflnarins with scrapbooks, publicity photos and handbills “I still hear from Milton Berle," she says. When she shows remonr. M is not over a tost 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 piaved for two or three years. I just can't plav well enough to suit myself — I always piaved fancy, not plain." Actress in soap opera and musical stays busy United Press U NEW YORK — Actress Sheryl Lee Ralph might be just about everyone’s "Dreamgirf" in her “Search for Tomorrow," but between her two jobs and multi ple career proiects, “Social life? Baby, what s that?" » At 26. “not even kwe" could convince her to get married right now. v “I wouldn't trade this for any thing." she said while dabbing on her stage makeup in her pink-walled diessmg room at Broadway's Imperial theater. " There is nothing Td rather do now than work." j (»ood thing. There’s Httle time for sleep and even less for going put when you're a Broadway stage star by night and a television soup opera queen by day. But the "Dreamgitls” -rtar 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 Drena Jones on Broad way until 11 each nighland then two days a week she's up at 7 a.m and ptaving Mac, assistant to a newspaper editor in “Search." “Oh they're very different," she said when asked if k’s diffi cult to keep her pans 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 tall 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 mv whole career, she said. "I'm has*.ally an ac tress. And now, since Dream- girls,' I'm baskallv a singer ‘When T started in ‘Drram- K * k.’ I had a teenie. httle voice. n 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 sw itched to drama. 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