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McHenry Plaindealer (McHenry, IL), 27 Jul 1984, p. 47

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PAMU NNDAV, AUGUSTS Market - IB Friday Night Boxing CD Regis Phllbirr's HMMI Styles @3 MOVIE: •Sexcopados' © MOVIE: Tho Circus' @9 (2® El Show do Lopez mm Celebration €0 LA. Jexz © 3® MOVIE: 'Way, Way Out' Timid outer space trainee it urged to marry a woman astron­ omy student so they can man the U.S. weather station on the moon. Jerry Lewis, Connie Stev­ ens, Dennis Weaver. 1966 8:30 PM CD Chicago Week in Review (3D Q) (TO) Washington Weak/Review Poul Duke is joined by top Washington jour­ nalist! analyzing the week's newt. CKD Brothers © (39 Celebration 9:00 PM G O (8) © Falcon Crest Meliiso pays the price (or trading her son for power and Terry suffers back­ lash from her post. (R) (60 min.) 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Gene Hockman, Harrison Ford, John Cazole. 1974. 10:00PM O0O © (29 © © © News (£9 You Can Be a Star Q Twilight Zona © Nightly Business Report © Night Flight © Celebrity Chefs © MOVIE: The Great American Cowboy' © (29 Information 60 Yes, Minister © (39 Solid Ooid Hits © Top 40 Vidaas 10:15 PM 60 Woman In Jazz 10:30 PM O MOVIE: 'Birth of tha Beatles' The Bea­ tles ore shown in their early years which culminate in their oppear- - once on the Ed Sullivan show. Stephen Mackenna, Rod Cul- bertson, John Altmon. 1979. © 99 Night OaHery ©Saint 12:15 AM © MOVIC: 'ShvRft ifiw' 12:30 AM O MOVIE: 'The Disappearance al Flight 412* After two jets mysteriously van­ ish while pursuing UFO's, an Aif Force colonel tries to find out why. Glenn Ford, Bradford DHI- man, Guy Stockwell. 1974. © New Country CD Auto Racing: 1MB Pikes Peak Climb © Human Sexuality CD (39 ©rand Old Country © MOVIE: "Vigilante" © (39 Another Ufa © (39 Star Search 12:45 AM © Mysteryl 'We, the Accused.'. Paul's life with his wife Is joyless until he .. meets a lonely colleague who shares Ms love of literature. (R) (60 min.)" [Closed Captioned] CD MOVIE: 'Wavelength' IKK) AM © Lave © Rack an Chicago CD Stretch with FriscHIa CD Bntartainmant Tonight ' (3D Practice Makes A 1:30AM © Double I Yesteryear IN Nashville I Tap Rank Boxing .from © Challanga 11:00 PM Q Nashville Now © ® MOVIE: Tha Other Side of Midnight' A French film star seeks revenge on the flyer who jilted her. Marie-France Pi- tier, John Beck, Sî san Soran- don. 1977 © MOVIE: The Burglars' Jewel thieves find their successful robbery complicated by a beau­ tiful model, a crooked cop and a ship stuck in a Mediterranean port. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Omar Sharif, Dyon Cannon. 1972. © © Now* © Regis Philbin's Health Stylo* © Playmate of tha Year © Hawaii Fivo-O © Barotta © (39 Jim Bokkor 60 Two's Company © How tha Wast Was Won 11:30PM © ©Friday Night Vidaas O © XXNI Summer Olympic Oamas © MOVIE: in Uka Flint' A conspiracy of women set out to take over the government and control the world. James Cob- urn, Lee Cobb, Jean Hale. 1967. (TP til (TO) Monty Python Flying Circus © XXIII )ummtr Olympic mm. nnnr TOF BECRET (PG-Paramount) Starring Vat Kilmer. Lucy Guttarida and Omar Sharif. * it By J.T. YURKO CD @5) Bonanza © Pillow Previews © Disney Magazina on tha Air © (29 El Shaw da Alva Molina S) Tonight Show © 39 Sound Effects © Kelly Montoith © (39 Laugh-In © Night Trades 12:00 AM © Mazda Sports Look © Nature of Things © MOVIE: 'Saxcapades' © (29 EL Club 700 © New York Hot Trades © Thlcke of the Night © (39 Jimmy ! 60 LA Jazz In "One Two Throe," a cold- war comedy of some 30 years, ago aet in divided Berlin, the Americans capture a staunch Communist Party supporter and torture him by playing "She Wore an Itsy-Bitay, Teeny-Weenie, Yellow Polka- dot Bikini" over and over again in his prison ceil Such political gags have been done numerous times since, ranging from the absur­ dist slapstick of "Get 8mart" to the humorous but humani­ tarian "The Russians Are Coming. " But conflicting ideol­ ogy played lor comedy has lit­ tle lo do with "Top Secret." a new film from the writers and directors Of the hugely funny and very successful spoof. "Airplane." In fact, comedy has little to do with this film. The gags are lame and predictable, and the story is not even serviceable as a means of tying the jokes together What "Top Secret" lacks most is fertile ground „ which needs spoofing: The limp premise of "Top Secret" seems borrowed from several different sources. A young rock singer ends up ki East Berlin just as that side of Germany appears headed for the Fourth Reich. We are handed several scenarios: a brilliant professor working on a fantastic new invention designed for peaceful use but turned to evil by his captors; his daughter, a beautiful maid­ en in distress working for the underground: and the under­ ground itself, a groitf of par­ tisans who all speisk with French accents but are fighting in East Germany. If it sounds like the misadventures of Max­ well Smart you're right, but with far fewer laughs v Like "Airplane," which had a flashback spoof of "Satur­ day Night Fever." "Top Secret" has a flashback send- up of "Blue Lagoon " if ever there was a Mm that could be satirized. "Blue Lagoon" is a prime candidate, but here again the jokes just aren't there. At times the film appears to be on the verge of poking fun at a bunch of movies, including "Casablan­ ca." "Beach Blanket Bingo" .or any of the Elvis Presley epics. Unfortunately, "on the verge" hs as close as the entire film can come to being truly funny. ©ISSSCimpmPS

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