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?rTCft9: 1-cZxS^t t*. .v <k- W^BHl ^ 1 . wflMF ' ^---'V' jJUKKjf James Brolin struggle, - Juggler big-city c By David Baker Gamecock FHm Critic New York is a dying city, a decaying concrete jungle filled to the brim with pimps, whores, surly cabdrivers, crooked policemen, youth gangs and homicide lunatics. At least that's the picture painted by a countless number of recent films, including such hits as Death Wish and The Warriors, such flops as The Prisoner of Second Avenue and Blackout, and Night of the Juggler, a film which audiences yet have to relegate to either category. I'm guessing that Juggler eventually will be added to the list of flops, not because it's a particularly bad film, but it's not a particularly outstanding one. And wnen a genre 01 inms reaches its saturation point, as the big-cityrevenge thriller has, even an outstanding member often fails to win a big following. Juggler, directed by Robert Butler, is the story of a mentally unbalanced sewer worker (Cliff Gorman) who plans to kidnap the daughter of a wealthy real estate salpsman hut vvhn mistalcpnlv nabs the daughter of a truckdriving ex-policeman (James Brolin), instead. THE FILM IS little more than a prolonged chase sequence, following Brolin as he careens through the city streets on the trail of the kidnapper. When the ordeal ends, so does the film itself. Scattered throughout this melange ot speeding venicies are scenes showing a gang of black youths stripping a van, a gang of pornographers doing apSPECIAL FOR LAST WEEK' TWO-FOR-ONE! ' 1-TICKET ADMITS-2 BELIEVE IT! . r LAS jE3Ha|~ ALL SE ATS ' $2-50 THEJ HSi NIGHT OF THE Jl "THE SCRIPT IS PURE G IS OUTSTANDING , Jam.. c..n I Marsha Mason Wt Kifep J3 j KfgiigiSpP r % 1B| * If Iff ^8^ ' gHH B8: HH I i B' s in Night of the Juggler' exposes orruption I propriately obscene things, and a | gang of Puerto Ricans causing all sorts of trouble for the film's white protagonist. NO NEW IDEAS about racism, kidnapping or anything else are uncovered and few of the actors seem to care, though Brolin isn't nearly as wooden as usual and Abby Bluestone, who plays the daughter, creates more interest . around her underwritten role than ! it dpsprvps 1 As the kidnapper, Gorman (a talented actor who's contributed a number of fine performances to a number of very good films, including An Unmarried Woman and All That Jazz.)is laughably overwrought. As his eyes roll uncontrollably and his mouth snaps open and shut, he resembles nothing so much as a flesh-and blood Daffy Duck, erupting into a fit of rage because the practical joke he just played on Porky Pig backfired. There hasn't been a performance so toweringly ridiculous since Peter Frampton 11 1 l. l,:.. i?: _ 1 ?II ?J : < UIICW UdltV Ilia IlcllI clliu Uctlll'U II acting in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. THE REMAINING players are nondescript, with the exception of Dan Hedaya, whose portrayal of a deranged policeman is almost as funny as Gorman's portrayal of the deranged kidnapper. Butler keeps the picture moving at a rapid clip, however, and there's seldom a dull moment in it. Whether that's enough to make Night of the. Juggler worth the trip to the theatre is up to the individual viewer. JOMMI WK 1941 ;Pt T DAYS!tE Wm,d \ :ADEMY AWARD MOMINATIONS (^afc\ BETTE MIDLER / g* jBk) BEST ACTRESS 6 % ^% | ROSE 15) ufMb M \ sawisl OLD. MARSHA MASON -Gene Shal.t, NBC-TV ? " nHmnmMM iter^nER CRN'T GET ENOUGH OF THflT HOT S- FRST STUFF jU_., I PIZZB ^ "P Jg* '*** *mEhbmBIHP" UiSpUI ,.**** Nfe>.. --^sa* " o^e#7 "a?rf "'/^ ?Vi V(4 ,,*v.-i J i ,ftdfe5^ i |St.OO?FF ! item free; covcTucc?=rmninMe (A lot of companies sell college rings. . OMIU BaI-Cabbm winy viic 9ch3 DdlTUUI rings. The L.G. Balfour Co. I A??i^A WIMIIIMICN VI 1 Free Repairs ^JO^WHBsI lifetime Guarantee Free Shipping on Repairs vf Cvdo Cull lUomo Cnnv^iiiHri ,y- 9 " 1 MI1 l?fl C<VIII%| Cash Paid for Cold Rings Traditional and Professional Design Rings ? riud * J Puturilim. "The Medal of the'80s" * ? >apui* 470 qc Lustrous, Durable, ? * men s 9/3.3t? symbolic, Affordable * * Ladies' $75.95 % ?******* - i ii ci c i? n uirrerenvc Ring Days 2 ^ 1 Balfour v [Wmml - 6Clusters ct. March 5,6,7 Wed.-Fri. commbia.s.c. , ? ^UOV* 798-5134