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*10*: nev / to r: Andre w: Moore happy; By David Baker Gamccock FHm Critic "Saucy, aren't you?," Dudley Moore r*>nlif*d whpn I askpd if h? nersnnallv rated - ?? ? ? I J women on the 10 scale. "It's just rather crass," he explained, "to tacky, to use 10 as a rating, but we do rate them, even if it's not necessarily the physical side. I do, anyway. Moore is currently starring in Blake Edwards' 10, a comedy about a man who rates women from one to 10 and what happens when he discovers a woman whom he deems to be an 11. Moore got involved with 10 a little more than a year ago, just after he and Edwards had planned to do a different film together. "We met in a group therapy situation," said Moore. "He asked me, maybe three or four weeks after he'd been in this group, whether I'd like to do The Ferret. I was all signed and sealed for that and then in October of last year, I got a call from my agent saying 'Do you want to do 10?' He said, 'George Segal has walked out of 10 and Blake needs a replacement.' " Moore immediately agreed to take the part. Stepping into the role so quickly proved to be "no difficulty at all," Moore said. "It was a very easy role for me because I'd written a screenplay on exactly the same theme, but I had him going after alt the fantasy figures he'd ever lusted after. He noes after rock stars that he sees on TV and TV announcers and cabaret artists that he sees on Spanish television." "I felt very at home with the part," Moore said, "and with Blake, who, I think, quite brilliantly didn't direct me. That's a very real talent, not directing an actor ? just casting as you want to, then letting the people do what they want. Then they produce what they really are, which is the most valuable side of their acting, anyway." The only things Moore didn't enjoy during the filming of 10 were the nude scenes he was required to perform. "I found walking I ^Wr * i- ' ' si If'5*' ' . ">* "" v movie, v .f ? S f \ " s, Moore, Derek about success around in the nude verrrry difficult, very tricky," he said, "especially when the cameraman just falls on the floor laughing." Moore first began making people laugh when he was a teenager. "I knew I wanted to be funny when I was 13," he said. "I did it as a form of defense against bullying in school. "I was a bit of a squat. I used to love work, used to ask for more homework. That didn't used to go down too well, so I very consciously and intuitively felt I must make people laugh. This seemed to be a way of stopping them from being so shitty to me all the time. And it did work." Although Moore had appeared in such films as Bedazzled and The Hound of the Baskervilles, it wasn't until Foul Play, wherein he portrayed an orchestra conductor with an affinity for blow-up sex dolls and porno movies, that he became well miuwii in ninciita. Eventually, Moore would like to try his luck with a dramatic role. "I'd love to do a drama, but I'd hate to do it if it had absolutely no shred of humor in it," he said, "i would only do it if it had the possibility built in of becoming a role with a certain amount of humor in it ? not necessarily pratfalls ? but with a humorous edge to the character. "I'd hate to do a gloomy sort of role. I like to enjoy myself too much when I work." Moore s next film will De called Wholly Moses. It's a comedy and it will co-star Saturday Night Live's Larraine Newman. "It's much more farcical than 10," Moore said. Hopefully, Moore said , Moses will not have to be filmed on location, as 10 was. "I'd rather be at home," he said, adding that the perfect film for him would be one that could be shot entirely in his bedroom. "My part would be that of a man who stays in bed all his life and has various amusing things happen to him, like various beautiful women would come in and do a bit of light dusting." . Knack held the P / / Saturday Night y sudden, this ui ? - //'' takes over the n "]jr In Through the ( ? ! '( 'V /fx \ In Through tl i v \ since 1976 and t \>vi< Vfv~< ; \ . ' | Zeppelin, throu k . j has remained i % V\^\\ - a and chaff of U vY7.\ v '' A' "A > v'*-* > -X u \ j of the world's 01 ^y Zeppelin exp can happen to ningly brilliant hard time foll< ^ ^7: possible even new sta EVJ Uiurvc is one of year By David Baker Gam?cock F8m Critic Blake Edwards' 10 is an extremely wellcrafted comedy of manners that has enough elements of slapstick thrown in to keep the audience continuously off its guard. The j.. : 4 1 ii i* L u :M cumeuy is nui nearly so uuuauuisn us u is 111 Edwards' Pink Panther movies, but it's every bit as funny and every bit as profuse. The picture tells the story of George Webber (Dudley Moore), a successful composer whose 42nd birthday sends him reeling into a mid-life crisis. Every time he drives down the streets of Los Angeles, young bosoms seem to beckon him back to the youth he so desperately wants to return to. Despite the fact that he is currently enjoying a healthy relationship with a 40-ish opera singer, Sam (Julie Andrews), George spies a young girl (which he conservatively rates as an 11 on the 10 scale) one afternoon and decides to pursue her. That she's on the way to the church to be married doesn't matter at all. A bee sting on the nose is the only thing that Keeps George from approaching the woman of his dreams at the altar, but nothing can keep him from following her and her husband on their Mexican honeymoon. On the hot sands of Manzanillo Bay, George's feeling for the girl is shown to be love rather than lust. Her husband has fallen asleep on his surfboard and has floated out to sea, but instead of letting him a _ e i.Li n it. _ go in nopes or caicning uie giri on uie rebound, George rents a boat and sails out to the young man's rescue. He doesn't want anything to make the girl unhappy. This bit of derring-do results in George's finally being able t6 meet the girl (Jenny's her name) and also in his being asked to escort her around the resort while her husband is in the hospital recovering from the accident. To George's surprise, Jenny turns out to be a girl with very loose morals. Eventually, they become so loose that even George is horrified, and he returns home to California a better man from the experience. On the surface, this string of events Irardlv sounds like a scintilla tinff scenario for a comedy, but Edwards (who wrote as well as directed the film) and Moore have worked at least one good laugh into every scene. In more than one instance, verbal comedy and visual comedy are piled one on top of the other for stretches of up to 15 minutes of non-stop hilarity. The best example of this is the sequence wherein George visits Jenny's father, hoping to find out where she'll be honeymooning. The father is a dentist, so George goes into his office pretending to need a cleaning. The old fellow discovers, however, that George has eight cavities in dire need of filling, and so pumps his patient a Through th :d Zeppelin at _ a . ii M/wtlr /?! r ny unman atnas * Ent*rtelnm*m Editor and "V f fitting, in a way. For what seemed power i d months, the horrible, pretentious LedZej number one album position with Get Howe most overpromoted record since the not on tl . Fever soundtrack. Then, all of a the paa tiknown group called Led Zeppelin The ne umber one spot in just two weeks with exactly 3ut Door. root of t ie Out Door is Zeppelin's first album The a heir best album in miite n while I inimiati ghout its long and turbulent history, break, remarkably unaffected by the dross the nov te rest of the music world. Zep just old Led p where they left off, producing some lyrics, i lily remaining pure rock and roll. "In 1 erienced one of the worst things that patent* a band: they produced several stun- standai pieces of music that they have had a typical tyring. Let's face it: it's almost im- not fall to think of Led Zeppelin without overpn lirway to Heaven," one of the few true and she mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmammmmmmmmmmmmmrnmmammmm r on rise t i ras corneay 's highlights Dudley Moore full of novacaine before he has the chance to refuse. When George goes home, brandishing jaws as red and swollen as the bee sting on his nose, Sam calls. Thanks to George's not being able to speak clearly, she thinks there's a prowler in the house and calls the police. While the cops are on the way, George focuses his patio telescope on a naorKi? nrfti; TKn nnliAA arrttrA ht%ri neonmA itvai ktj vigj. a. ak\*> puiicu at. i it v ouu aoouiuc him to be a prowler and a pervert. After he convinces them of his identity, he drives over to the neighbor's house and joins the orgy. Sam arrives at George's house and finds nothing peculiar except for the telescope, which she looks through only to see George peering back at her through the telescope that the neighbor has set up to watch George's and Sam's evening interludes. I was laughing too hard to notice the exact way the sequence ends. Fortunately, Ten features a number of touching moments, all of which work impeccably well, that give the viewer a much neeaea respite irom laugmer. inese moments also provide us with insights into the characters that are neccessary to give the comedy its substance. Edwards beautifully orchestrates both kinds of scenes for the films entire 120 minutes. Technically, Ten is as well-honed as a Cartier watch. The settings are sumptious and Frank Stanley's photography is often breathtaking. Henry Mancini's score is one nf Hie hoef nnH ic wall infaarataH intn fVia va ivwv MBIV1 ul VTVft? 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Add to that such songs as "Black Dog" in _ * - a a ? . <t vnoie LiOiia L?ove," ana tne sneer musical Tiakes for a hard act to follow, even if you're >. iver, In Through the Out Door, while certainly hat level, makes one forget for a minute about ks for the sake of the whole mountainscape. w album reflects better than any other just what Led Zeppelin is; what genius lies at the he masterpieces. lbum ranges from good old hard rock in Zep's ?le style to country-bebop to a Carribean-style But Plant, Page, Bonham and Jones handle elties well, and underneath it all is the same I Zeppelin, along with some surprisingly good ilmost hidden by the musical pyrotechnics, the Evening," the first cut, starts with a .J n-i i t*? a. i? * - - - - *1 lUHwn nam wan men moves into a fairly d Zep rocker, complete with Jimmy Page's ly outstanding guitar work. Led Zeppelin nas en to the temptation that the Who have, that of xiuction. The recorded sound is still raw j tckingly refreshing. LEP ZKP. 9