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yjt c * V .A - - /'''i*(tL x--' The latest 'Ai takes cinemat By David Baker Gamecock Film Critic The fun in watching David Lowell Rich's The ( comes from trying to figure out just how far into the movie will go. Past the point of no return is tl finally arrives at. During the film's 123 minutes, the Concorde esc; electronic missile, escapes a French fighter pic plunging into the Atlantic, makes an emergency 1 no brakes, is sabotaged, loses a cargo door and di Swiss Alps, loses several large chunks of its fusel; mountainside, becomes snowbound, falls apart un snow anu imany mows up. It it was Rich's intention to make a coined} grandly, lor Airport is quite possibly the funr seen And, believe tl or not. it's not the preposteroi makes the movie so hilarious. Ninety percent of the movie's laughs stem iron its "all star'" ca.st. Completely composed of has-be this cast gives new meaning to the phrase "night of George Kennedy again appears as Joe Patroni only running character. In this installment. Patrol his mechanic's uniform and is now a Concorde pi I given for the metamorphosis. Top-billed Alain Delon (Mr. Klein and Zorro) poi pilot. Naturally, he's having an affair with a st< Sylvia Kristel ithe Kmanuelle films). A second ro by Susan Blakely and Robert Wagner. He's a bil who got rich off of several illegal arms sale newscaster intent on spilling the beans on his tree arrives in Moscow to cover the Olympics. Also along for the ride are such past luminaries i plane's owner, Bibi Andersson as a Parisian hook< as a sports commentator, Andrea Marcovieci as marina uaye as a woman wun a Dladder tne siz Tyson as a mother bearing a heart for her sun's ii Jimmie Walker as a pot-smoking saxophonist and Russian weightlifter with a deaf daughter in tow. This amazing array of incredible characters is q wildest scone in the film belongs to Charo. She po who tries to sneak a chihuahua on board by hiding The three lines she's forced to utter in this mercii all that is needed to make her look like the den always looked noon her as beini*. Technically, Airport ?;) isn't quite the fiasco pec ted. It was shot in a process called Cine-Sonic, same method of combining live action and matte Wars , the only difference being the use of sky-blue of black ones. In any event, a great deal of the fi uuioiuiiuiu^. If only everyone concerned had not treated t much of its hilarity could have been genuine rath As it is Airport *7!> is just a downright embarrassm C^OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I\ jj Cap: S) T ^ _ 1 81 iwii 734 Harden St. ii 1 ^ M J^V r-v ? r nr^? ? jr-J r^ w y e lviunuay -1 ucsuay S Spaghetti meatballs or mc< tossed snk id choice ol dressin h( )l ^<irli( I )K'ci( 1. col lee or le<i e "Genuine lUilUin" g Lasagna Parmesan K Pizza -i)i CE> - 1.1 .'NCI I - r> II) Ml fe II .*<) J Moil. I M II g r? K ) m o u 9 o mmn mmmm the bohemiar I m fashion and objects d'art for styles may change but quality at reasonable W prices should not. ?. Br- aa- ^ come see our collection of laaies ciotning, accessories jewelry, pottery, and other Wdmsmw^S. house dressings soon ... rport' f ic dive , / Concorde: Airport '79 ^ the realm of silliness ^ IP ansu/pr thp viou;<ir % apes the pursuit of an ine, narrowly avoids landing in Paris with epressurizes over the age, crash lands on a der tlie weight of said r, lie has succeeded liest movie I've ever isness of the plot that 1 the inadequacies of ens and never-weres, the living dead." i. the Airport series' ni somehow has shed ot. No explanation is "trays the plane's coewardess, played by mantic duo is etched lionaire industrialist 2736 DeVine St. COla, S.C. . . 25 ;s. She s a network ' ichery as soon as she MHMBMHBHfflHIMMBHBMBSMHi is Eddie Albert as the <!), John Davidson a Russian gymnast, e of a peanut, Cicely upending transplant, Avery Schreiber as a uite humorus, but the rtrays a Latin bimbo ; it in a white fox fur. ully short cameo are lented retardate I've one might have ex- ^^MMfijLg j4&iP[ r which is virtually the ^kV^HB (||p BBS mrlffl fif($ j 6 backgrounds instead lm's in-air footage is he film so seriously, f- ^ -* cr than ent. HUjg9rag||^H I | iWi ||iag ^|j4l ?J I j ' Special ? HHjBMM^agg it sauce s [:liiii|^?i^^HlliBp|?^^S^^^B^^^rt <!> or 1 i Kaviou g INNKH - gj [mi -'rhurs. ^ In. (Scit. 3 - ~ H i| 'I if S 'Sufuiny g \ UOlAA y \ \ 6-0629. . Visa, Etc.. . I