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Certainly. if there's mane connected with this-picture deserving of,aecinim it has to be any one of the half dozen or so principal players who triumph over mismatched and muddled writing and direction (and a goodly number of technical shortcomings , to pres- em characters of some believability and (in most cases) a lot of li. keabitity. OyVictor Stanton tion by Al Pacino - Maybe they should whose school-teacher have culled the movie wife (Tuesday Weld) Actors! Actors! in- lungs off with an artist stead of Author! Age and leaves him (the 'her'. playwright) to look Certainly. if there's after five kids of mixed mane connected with Penman (one is his, this-picture deserving the others are hers of,aecinim it has to be from three previous any one of the half marriages). MOVIE REVIEWS Somewhat in the mould of 1979's multi- Oscar winner Kramer vs. Kramer and this year's confused and chaotic Shoot The Moon, Author! Author! focuses on marital breakup and family re- adjustments among the well-heeled profession- als of East Coast U.S.A. Chamber Music Society presents Aeolian Trio This time round, it's a successful Broadway playwright _ played in an interesting change ot-pace characterize- The K-W Chamber Music Society presents The Aeolian Trio Wednesday, July 7 at H p.m. The concert, which will Teature the Trios of Haydn, Beeth- oven and Brahms, will take place at 57 Young St. W. in Waterloo. The Aeolian Trio is composed of Gilbert Hill, a violinist. Peter Caton. a cellist and Stephen Floss. a pian ist. Hill, a native of Edmonton, is a gradu» ate in music from the University of Alberta and is currently enrolled in the Master of Music program at the l'mu-rxily of West em Ontario. Caton. of London, was a mcmber of the London Youth .Nym- phony Orchestra fur five yt-ars. including Actors triumph over muddled writing three as principal eel. list. He is currently a member of Orchestra London and the London Sinfonia. ,,,.~‘ Fiess, a native of Stratford, is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario and more recently, Indiana University. He plans to continue his studies next year in a doctoral program in Boulder, Colorado Admission for the event is $6 per person, $4 for students and sen ior citizens. Pi-rsons on the K-W Chamber Music Sari l-ly's special mailing list will be admitted for half price. Member ships may be acquired at the concert. For advance tickets by res orvatiun. call Mttr-lfiTr There is also some amusement in a brief liaison between the playwright and the leading lady of his lat, est play, a social gadfly portrayed with some degree of appealing wackiness by Dyan Cannon. screenwriter Israel Horovitr. (himself an accomplished New York playwright) doesn't endow his for male characters with , The situation is not without some novelty as the adopted children show an understand- able preference for re- maining as a family unit with the play- wright and his son, instead " being shipped off to their respective natural fa, thers. Then, of course, there are the kids, seene-stealers most of them and all with that kind of adolescent ma- turity that is fast be, coming a cliche in con- temporary movies. There is, admittedly, at times a forced quali- ty to the performances of these young players that can be a bit Rrat- ing, but for the most part they are usually in company with Pacino, the main contributors It is Pacino, howew er, as the caring father figure and much belea- guered playwright who fins the screen with a kind of charisma and energy that in the best of moments transcends the picture's indul- gences in both absurdi- ty and sentimentality. much in the way of qualities that are " ther especially appeal- ing or admirable. Given these emtsid- erable limitations, es- pecially in the case of the chiid-deserting wife, both Weid- and Cannon deservea lotof credit for somehow supplying some depth of characterization and even a certain justifi- cation to the.negative aspects of their char, acters. ART MOONEY LOMBARDO'S t ROYAL CANADIANS "The sweetest music this side of heaven." Wednesday July 21 - 3:00 pan. DIRECTED BY There is no question that therein much that is entertaining in the film The Secret Police- Author! Author! is not without its fine points, but as screen entertainment it is lacking in either overall dramatic punch or a widely appealing level of comic senti- mentality. Technically. Author! Author! (at least in the print being shown lo- cally) is rather incred- ibly shoddy, with glar- ing lapses in editing continuity and. more seriously, poor control of sound levels, espe- cially in scenes involv- ing a frequently soft- speaking Pacino. woyahle scenes. Some praise must go to a handful oi support- ing performers in mostly theatrically re lated roles, although again the combination of Horovitz‘s fuzzy writing and lacklustre direction by Canadian- born Arthur Hiller de- tract seriously from the eftorts of actors like Alan King, Bott Dishy and oid-time radio comedians Bob (Elliott) and Ray (Goulding). 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WATERLOO CHRONDCLE, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, as: - PAGE " Confuscious Say “You Never Try, You New Know“ Waterloo 885-561 0 dot: on behalf cl Am. nestyr "tterttttiool. lint and are almost cmstantly at odds with one another in the edit- ed-down version of what was originally two separate films, (The first, never re- leased in North Ameri- ca was known as The Secret Policeman's Ball, and only a couWtr of segments from it actually has been in- eluded in Other Ball.) here seem to lack any traditional thematic The result is a very choppy picture that, overall, seems to promise more than it really ever delivers. The general public is invited to help cele- brate the Joseph Schneider Haus' first anniversary on Thurs- day, July I from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. at466 Queen St. S. The Schneider Hans staff plans to offer de- Free admission to Joseph Schneider Hans Kitchener 653-321 1 Shop. are considered classics of their type. but even here a pretty solid apprecigtion of British nbsurdist humor is required. A couple of routines are rendered almost ttttim teliigittle to many North Americans due to the performer's heavy accents and the highly localized brogue in which they are deliv- monstrations of wool processing and a pro- gram Fleece to Fabric outlining the steps needed to manufacture wool. Local examples of weaver's art will alsi) be displayed. Admission is free and everyone is welcome. There is the odd vul, garity and crude innu endo, that might well offend those unfamiliar with this irreverent style of humor. Some or the skits,