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in is a PAGE 4 SAN FRANCISCO'S EXCLUSIVE COMEDY NIGHTCLUB I The 444-A Battery S.F. 397-4334 2 Drink Minimum APPEARING DEC. 27-29 Tickets $3.00 9:00 P.M. (Also at 11:00 P.M. Friday and Saturday) JACK MARION GLENN SUPER APPEARING SATURDAY, DEC.

30 Plus MARTY COHEN GLENN SUPER NEW YEAR'S RUBY SHOW) RICK PLUS COHEN of day show show 7:30 P.M. P.M. $12.50 $5 party tavors!) (Late show Tickets at Old Waldorf 10:30 includes and all BASS outlets serv. chg. OLD WALDORF THE SAN FRANCISCO NIGHT CLUB 2 Drink Minimum Dinner Served 444 BATTERY STREET 397-3884 A BASS TICKETS AT OUR BOX OFFICE HAS THE TICKETS! OR ANY BASS OUTLET 75 service charge on Bass Tickets.

(415)T-E-L-E-T-12 LUNCH From NOW 11:00 BEING A.M. SERVED until 2:30 Monday P.M. thru Friday DINNER will purchased be served in at advance every for event certain and shows may with be best available seating. For further info call club orT-E-L-E-T4-X I Dec. 29, 30 8 11 $6.50 day of show Winner of Billboard Best New Pop Singles Instrumentalist Award THE GEORGE DUKE BAND Plus SPECIAL GUESTS WILLIE TYLER AND LESTER as featured on TV Show "The Inner tea Sunday, December 31 NEW YEAR'S EVE 7:30 P.M.

$8.50 day of show 10:30 P.M. $25.00 day of show Includes CHAMPAGNE and PARTY FAVORS TOWER of POWER PLUS BOB SHAW Jan. 5, 6 8 11 $7.50 day of show WELCOME IN THE NEW YEAR with Elektra Recording Artist JESSE COLIN YOUNG Jan. 9 8:30 $6.50 day of show Note New Date Tickets Honored TANYA TUCKER Jan. 10, 11 8 11 $6 day of show (Note new Date) tickets tickets honored honored TOTO Fri, Sat, Jan.

12-13 8 11 $8.50 day of show Herbie HANCOCK With Alphonse Mouzon, Paul Jackson, Bill Summers, Webster Lewis, Roy Obiedo and Bennie Maupin Feb. 8, 9 0 11 $6.50 day of show PETER TOSH Feb. 10, 11 8 11 $6.50 day of show CAMEL Continued from Page 3 On the SLOW DANCING IN THE BIG CITY (At the Vogue) This is the sappily sentimental tale of a newspaper columnist with a heart as big as all outdoors (as played by Paul Sorvino, the character bears an unfortunate resemblance to Jimmy Breslin) and his tender and loving romance with a ballet dancer (portrayed by Canadian ballerina Anne Ditchburn) who is suffering from something like terminal rickets. Sorvino prescribes vitamin and they live happily ever after. Ditchburn brings some appeal to the picture (directed by John Avildsen) but it's not nearly enough.

MOVIE MOVIE (At the Cinema 21) This is a delightful, funny, novel and loving parody of the melodramatic dramas and musicals of the '30s. it is actually two movies in one, separated by "coming attractions" one, in black and white, called "Dynamite Hands" (about a boxer saving his sister's eyesight): the other a Broadway musical spoof, in color. entitled "Baxter's Beauties of 1933. Stanley Donen produced directed, Larry Gelbart Sheldon Keller wrote it and George C. Scott.

Eli Wallach, Red Buttons, Trish Van Devere, Barry Bostwick and Art Carney appear in both films. THE DUELLISTS (At the Four-Star) This visually beautiful drama set in Napoleonic France stars Keith Carradine as an easy going aristocrat, and Harvey Keitel, a lower class bully. both of whom are hussar lieutenants in Napoleon's army, encamped in Strasbourg. The two engage in a vendetta that persists for 15 years. Albert Finney, Edward Fox, Robert Stephens and Cristina Raines also star in this film about the settling of accounts between the two men, neither of whom understands the rate of exchange.

Based on Joseph Conrad's "The AUTUMN SONATA (At the Surf) In a brilliant recovery from the strained theatricality of "The Serpent's Egg." Inge mar Bergman again proves he has no peer in the minute exploration and understanding of tormented personal relationships. He has surpassed "Scenes from a Marriage" and "Cries and Whispers" with deceptive simplicity in this story of a mother, a career pianist, and her daughter, married to a minister. They come together at a time of crisis for the mother, performed by Ingrid Bergman in the finest work of her career. Liv Ullmann as the daughter who has stood in the shadow of this chic, unapproachable mother for years again proves she is probably the finest actress of our time. Ingmar Bergman develops a mood of intense psychological suspense, culminating in a very moving note on the need for mercy to transform this primal relationship if life for either of them is to be endured.

THE LORD OF THE RINGS (At the Regency I). Ralph Bakshi has created one of the most powerful animated films ever made, faithfully reproducing the famous best-seller by J. R. R. Tolkien which describes the battle between good and evil conducted in Middle Earth by the Hobbits and their allies against the wicked forces of the Lord of Mordor.

The film goes about half-way through the trilogy describing the journey of Frodo, the little Hobbit, to get rid of the evil Ring of Power which corrupts anyone who uses it. The odyssey of Frodo and his faithful Companions of the Ring who represent the forces of the free elves, dwarves and men concludes with a spectacular battle at Helm's Deep. But it does present difficulties for those who are not familiar with the strange world that Tolkien created. On the Town intense. Richard Attenborough directed.

THE INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (At the Metro I) Donald Sutherland stars in this first-rate suspense-terror film about alien plant life substituting itself for humans as perfectly cloned automatons. Entirely shot on location in San Francisco, "Body Snatchers" manages to be absolutely riveting with a minimum of violence. Phil. Kaufman is the director. Denny Zeitlin did the eerily effective music and Leonard Nimoy and Brooke Adams are among the co-stars.

The adaptation is Finney's novel, "The Body (as was Don Siegel's 1956 of the Body KING OF THE GYPSIES (At the Royal) Director Frank Pierson (Streisand's Star Is directed and wrote this drama, which was "suggested" by Peter Maas' best-seller of the same title. It deals with the struggles among three generations of a powerful gypsy tribe and stars Sterling Hayden, Shefley Winters, Susan Sarandon, Brooke Shields, Judd Hirsch, Annie Potts, Annette O'Toole and Eric Roberts. The film is inconsistent, but it is engrossing and often fascinating in its revelations of gypsy life. BRASS TARGET (At the Alexandria, UA Stonestown Geneva Drive-In) George Kennedy (as General George S. Patton), Robert Vaughn, John Cassavetes, Sophia Loren and Max Von Sydow star in this postWorld War I saga which posits that Patton was murdered during the "accidental" car crash in which he died in order to prevent his discovery that a group of junior officers had masterminded and executed the robbery of $250 million in confiscated Third Reich goid.

The casting is terrific and it's a good yarn once it gets past some banal dialogue and too much exposition at the beginning, OLIVER'S STORY (At the Regency I) This sequel to "Love Story," directed by, John stars Ryan Neal as the desolate Oliver Barrett whose wife Jenny is dead. The lady who gives him a new lease on life is played by Candice Bergen, but they encounter trouble when he tries to make her live up to his idealized image of his first wife. YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU (At the Castro) There's still an amiable lunacy to Frank Capra's crazy comedy of 1938 about a family and its hangers- a villainous. Wall Street ty: coon and a bookkeeper who took up residence in Grandpa's house because he wanted to make things like music boxes with dolls on top. The movie holds up very well considering that it's 40 years old: Jean Arthur's Edward gravelly voice is as appealing as ever, Arnold is convincing as the pompous tycoon and James Stewart is the tycoon's son, forced into a banking empire when he would rather be tinkering with solar energy.

There's some sentimental stuff, mouthed by Lionel Barrymore, an old ham if there ever was one, but it's still fun to see. NO TIME FOR (At the MAGIC BREAKFAST Alexandria) (At the Clay) Anthony Hopkins, Ann-Margret, Burgess Meredith and Ed Lauter star in this suspense chiller about a magician-ventriloquist, his alterego-dummy "Fats." their return to the man's childhood home and a romance between him and a woman he hasn't seen in 13 years. Meredith portrays a hard-bitten theatrical husband. agent, Lauter is Ann-Margret's The film starts with deceptive calm but becomes increasingly learns that she may have cancer. The film is and directed sensitivity with immense Jean-Louis perception by Bertucelli, the man who made that starkly beautiful work, "Ramparts of Clay." SUPERMAN (At the Northpoint) Yes, finally, after 40 years of Fighting Evil, the Man of Steel has become a motion picture, directed by Richard Donner and starring Christopher Reeve (in the title role), Margot Kidder (Lois Lane), Gene Hackman (Lex Luther) and, in smaller roles, Marion Brando, Glenn Ford, Phyllis Thaxter, Jackie Cooper, Ned Beatty, Valerie Perrine, Trevor Howard, Maria Schell, Terence Stamp and Susannah York.

Can Superman fly like a bird? Indeed he can. Convincingly? Indeed he do. Is "Superman" a great film? Hardly. Is it worth seeing? Sure. Why not? It's good fun UNCLE JOE SHANNON (At the Alhambra) Burt Young wrote and stars in this tear-jerker about a first-rate trumpet player who goes on skid row after his wife and two-year-old son die even before the credits.

"he takes a long time to come back up again, and the inspiration is a crippled kid, deserted by his mother. It could have had some good moments if they had only let up on the tear ducts for a few minutes MOMENT BY MOMENT (At the Alhambra and Serra) Lily Tomlin plays a Beverly Hilis mother and wife TOO LATE whose life is coming apart REVIEW with the knowledge that her husband is having an affair with a younger woman. Then she meets Strip, played by John Travolta, a drifter with all that implies, but a guy on the loose looking for something better in life. Their love story was written and directed by Jane Wagner. It opened too late for review FORCE TEN FROM NAVARONE (At the Warfield) Robert Shaw, Barbara Bach Edward Fox, Harrison Ford, Carl Weathers, Franco Nero and Richard Kiel star in this World War il drama about group of Americans, English and Yugoslav Partisans attempting to make the Germans rue the day Hitler was whelped.

There is a certain amount of action, but the film generally predictable, rambling, illogical and, on occasion, simply ludicrous THE THIEF OF BAGDAD (At the Lumiere) Sir Alexander Korda's 1940 release, an Arabian Nights adventure with excellent cinematography and special effects by William Cameron Menzies, and a fine cast headed by Sabu, John Justin, June Duprez, Conrad Veidt and Rex Ingram Oriental imagery, poetic dialogue by Miles Maileson (who doubles as the daffy sultan of Arabia) and a rich lavish score by Mikios Rosza have been expertly blended to create the kind of classic that continues to elude contemporary producers. Ray Harry: hausen may have greater expertise special effects, but he lacks the charm that this film abounds with. Highly recommended family entertainment REVIVALS AND FOREIGN FILMS AVENUE THEATER Friday 8:15 p.m. "Wizard of Oz" (1925 ver: sion) and "Evergreen." Bob Vaughn organ concert at 7:45 p.m. 2650 San Bruno avenue, San Francisco.

CASTRO THEATER Sunday "You Can't Take It With You" and Blonde." Monday and day: "Casablanca" and "Morocco Wednesday: "Idiot's Delight" and "Grand Hotel." Thursday and Friday and "Little Women." Saturday: "The Little Foxes" and "Stella Dallas. 429 Castro street. CLAY THEATER Sunday through Saturday: "No Time for Breakfast." Fillmore street. CONGREGATION NER TAMID Tuesday a at 8 p.m.: 1250 Quintara street. EMBASSY THEATER Thursday and Friday: "Chato's Land" "Thunderbolt Lightfoot" and "End of the See Page 5 Sunday Examiner Chronicle It's a very silly title for a fine French film that takes a mature look at the disintegrating marriage of a woman physician during an unexpected crisis.

Annie is Girardot, remarkable the star of "Dear Inspector," with her sparkle, intelligence and resilience, as she tries to juggle a new lover, maintain a sense of order at her hospital and home, cope with her children's problems tries to maintain her balance when she S.F..