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imng 01 odandl: By David Baker Entertainment Editor us once list- Nothing compared v, 5 through or Slap Shot, either. The b iced that the year would have to be r lists by stellar emoting in no 1 to write drastically different feai hated the her the one to beat a Academy Awards cerem taking an 0n ^ other side of :hance to gave us proof that Sylv norltr in should have retired aftc ? . inH1 that Peter Frampton and should stick to their guii ,at came So before we cast a toward 1979, let me prea seem like for the 10 best and 10 wori es. There past 12 months, followed ial like a were either not good eno op off the enough to make it in wit! p\ ; i beds down in California : *r, : ' X^?^B , ;?t i;". jmP|l|K^ ' *TM > . V*9ty/t V^A J WW *W"'?..-N the wild pigeons in high , /.d&lfcr A it I m 1. THE S 11 jg&lliP! example ineptitude i makes most week look A 1 - 1"? rith Annie Hall lenaers. & iggest news of Michael Ca > Jane Fonda's Ross are q ess than four about a killi tures, making an eight t this year's materializ< S.ny inquisitive the com 1978 ^ ester Stallone . fK ' jr Rocky, and both a plac I The Bee Gees anc* a sea* tars. ten worst 1 i hopeful eye Allen shoul< ent by choices foisting sue! sc turns of the on unsuspe* by a few that par/ ugh or. not bad _* , , nT ti the big guys. Frankly, I squeeze a c ;; :V mOVie IN jjM amateurish hasn't a br* one of its l ipgp^WBBB variation K " theme has P the ground, SBfi 9 with ';MSpl|w tempt for t so hard to wrmm band, j Ejj^ demented, Brra fantasy giv W being nothi m minute ad ' lousy rec< Frampton roli his ey< q-? which is in propriate t would hav bucks to project Norman cocted a m sprawling, so aimless look at Americans wasting ci and countr s characters made pie< criminals, are illit cheering t a . . ? Kristoffei Anxiety MacGraw '????Tl WARM. A shining in such of shoddiness, realm of and stupidity that 6. KIN t TV movies-of-the- The key 1 like Oscar con- Frank P arly in the film, Godfath ine and Katherine Hayden uestioning a child of the gy er bee attack when as his hu -foot honeybee and Eric es over their A1 Pacir heads. At that in- gypsy bii ! Swarm" achieved over wh :e in trash heaven the buc _ a. ? aiop every cnuc s leaves n list of 1978. Irwin thetalen i be stung hard for wasted i h mindless twaddle 7. siL :ting audiences. by the IDISE ALLEY. Passer) find attempts to forgettal areer out of one hit 1977, ather repellant. product ir Stallone's charact< __ i bucket of swill possiojy jath of originality in lies, ev< L07 minutes. Every the enc on the "Rocky" decent p been worked into to pay i , and every frame is The or a depraved con- comedy he audience it tries rightly 1 ai r , amuse. able tQ PEPPER'S 8. TH HEARTS CLUB T1VE. I Michael Schultz' Sam I tasteless musical Marlowi es the impression of junky ai mg more than a 90- photogr Ivertisement for a total lac jrd album. Peter someth s idea of acting is to remove is up into his head, 9. HI ifinitelv better than Donnlrc na s idea of singing. Hitchco .T. A more ap- Had Bi itle would have been creating but then no one e shelled out three pSfcl see it. In his first 1 - " since Rollerball, [ Jewison has con- H, ovie so shapeless, so j so repetitious, and pil'll that it seems to beg n. At this aim, it is ; . biggest success. SllpP ^OY. A heavy-footed moronic middle ? and their time- , raze for CB Radios y music. Half of the i in this cheaply iVdSf 1 ce of garbage are lUAStj and the other half HUIEk berate jackasses hem on. How Kris ||bh son and Ali HBWhH could have appeared he lO drivel is beyond my comprehension. G OF THE GYPSIES, etters here are G-Y-P. : > ? _ te _ e mi leisun s np-uii ui ine er stars Sterling as the moribund king psies, Shelley Winters mongous gypsy queen, : Roberts (yet another to clone) as the young ick who refuses to take en the old man kicks ket. Pierson's script o cliche unturned, and ited Susan Sarandon is again. VER BEARS. Made same hack (Ivan who gave us the everhlp Crime & Pansinn in this tacky li?^le ion lacks a single ;r which anyone could care for. Everyone iryone cheats, and in 1, the only halfway >erson is sent to prison :or the bad guys' fun. ily element of this '-mystery that could ->e nailed mvsterintis is t that Columbia was book it anywhere. IE CHEAP DETEC4eil Simon's tribute to Spade and Phillip e reduces them both to rd scrap. Sleazy aphy, cheap sets, and a :k of direction make for ing that isn't far d from trench-mouth. ?? A mT?rvYircn<ir V f _ 1 cm anaieiTy . wrer ' homage to Alfred ck is pure skunk bait, ooks concentrated on { a coherent story line, WBF Even the monh Wops the chuckles might hav< fewer, but the audience have come away feelini they'd really seen a : rather than an ext television sitcom. Lik had Brooks concentrat giving us luxuriantlysketches instead of references, the inci number of laughs wouli AMONG THE W plot. As it is, the two i have been shuffled, cro intermingled and inte into a cinematic era that hides the beauty material while leavi seams open for all to j 10. THE LAST V* Martin Scorsese's do ?y outperforms Stalk #QfcN /^?6i I fry Uga [ -^WJ t 3 been tary of The Band's would cert turned out to g as if phony of tedium. It i movie, been interesting as ended minute short subje< ;ewise, two-hour feature fil ed on pits. staged Dishonorable mer seedy also be made of Ca eased The One & Only, wl i have that Henry Winkler - -iRR\ t. ORST: King of the Gy\ 'ormats Straight Time, wh< ssbred, Hoffman reaches 1 rwoven nadir as an actor; zy-quilt confusion of The 1 of the The Big Fix, an tig the bomb that should h; >ee. on self-destruct. 'ALTZ. In 1979, things iciuiieu- uu^iuvc . . . >ne in Paradise Alley' I) (^?|^/! (^ ! i!? j WJ . ? f i ! final conbe a sym- \ might have > a fifteen.1 1 A. ? ;i, uui as a lm, it's the ition should irl Reiner's lich proved ' will never j psies jrein Dustin ; rtic oKcnlnfn mo auouiuic the jittery driver; and i overrated ave been set can only I i I'r) I I