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crocago inpuna. luesoay, oecamper laeo section 3 7 MOTION PKTURtS MOTION PKTURIS MOTION P1CTURSS DOWNTOWN THEATRES! SST COPY AVAILABLE- 2 UNTIL 11 A.M. Ml? IPhon 7S2-7011 SUBURBAN THEATRE Hit TtntK. btaM Ott, SL HS-3400 uThar AXUGATOR 1-: FADE TO BLACK AIRPLJIHC CJUDDYSHACX song or I THE SOUTH 73 5M7 4H6 'Alligator' shocks, but supplies more wit than gore Tvr HMMfiBraDiitaSuiM EIXPHAHTMAM By Larry Kart ALLIGATOR umsh Imm Tim niDE TO BUCK IMS TftEJlKTnUDJIT Otto Ffc.ll. 344000 SHSmM SZSiMilM toilet after they turn out to be un- satisfactory pets?" In this case, after many years beneath the streets, one of those animated handbags hat survived.

And, thanks to a steady diet of hormone-doped dogs that have been dumped into the sewers by a laboratory that conducts illegal. experiments, it has grown quite large. K8UlXlfS.111IIEI WS45HMS CHai iTRPgaMt nm ps song or THE SOUTH hum 72-n TImiiTSi PrnGriwCOITY 2:50 10:05 pK. SHEBABABT TSX DWUWCCB iM4si ORDINART PEOPLE MADHOUSE 3044VS MXIEATOH iixn SLJIUOHTER IHTEH'S S2 00 until 5 SIM MM 2.30 SatSiMHoUdoM Bia rip orr )n" Jim Sinn I hPS5 mwimiin Mm master at portraying a frustrated, self-mocking macho figure, while Biker has a pneumatic but wry ness. And then is an excellent villain (Dean Jagger), the bead of the chemical firm whose discarded lab animals have turned the gator into an angry giant.

LIKE KING KONG, this beast is half a hero or, at the very least, a much put-upon creature and "Alligator" gives him his full mea-' sure of revenge. Having emerged from the sewers to roam toe streets, he then slides into a drainage canal and meanders towards Jaggers -sub- urban estate, where a sumptuous wedding party is in progress. The aroma of charcoal-broiled steaks serves as the gator's myita-. tion; and after dining on a board of- maids, butlers, and wedding ar Itttt TBysTTIOT ALLIGATOR 2 ts40MS FADE TO BLACK SONG or THE SOUTH 30G S51-72M Moo.arrlS2MhT6f.rn. MLUMTtO StDUCEO PAW IMS SN.MicMtai S4S-S7M eyes at times, but you should enjoy what you see.

Rating for "Alligator," three stars, :) TOtt ALSO HAY want to close your eyes during The Immortal' Bachelor" not because this Italian sex-comedy, currently at the Car-negie Theater, comains anything shocldng but because it is so duU. Starring Giancarkt Giannini, Monica Vitti, Claudia Cardinale, and Vit-torio Gassman, that 1973-vintage film enjoying, if that's the word, its first American release concerns a woman (Vitti) on trial for murdering her unfaithful but supersexy husband (Giannjni). 7 3 As the plot unravels with mind-boggling ineptitude, toe sole point of interest is the change time has wrought in Vitti and Cardinale. Once regarded as great beauties, both are much the worse for wear, with Vitti, whose mopiness always seemed semi-comic, looking like a blond Penny Marshall, while Cardinale, far gone into plasticity, bears a disturbing resemblance to Debbie Reynolds. Rating for "The Immortal Bachelor," one star.

Snioi 30lailisMctMcWt "HOW LARGE?" you might slu Well, after the gator pops through a sidewalk and begins to waltz around the city, one young witness answers that question quite satisfyingly. "You know an El Dorado?" he says and then, after a moment's reflection, "Of course, you gotta add the tail." Obviously, this is a comedy as well as a monster flick; and Teague gets amusing performances out of Robert ORDINARY fl AST SATURDAY afteraooa at 1 1 the Chicago Theater, as one of 1 1 the characters in "Alligator" calmly went about the business of being an innocent victim, puttering around in a big-city sewer system while the title reptile ap-proaebed him from the rear at high speed, one young man in the audience turned to his seatmate and gleefully snouted: "He's gone let tell you!" In one sense, that is all the review "Alligator" needs. A so-called "exploitation picture," it is designed to shock us as efficiently as possible, functioning in ways that would seem to have little to do with either craft or art. But while "He's gone let me ten you!" is the response director Lewis Teague was aiming for, "Alligator" works so well, obeying the laws of cinematic suspense and supplying more wit than gore, that its pleasures deserve further comment. The plot is based on the old question: "What happens to the baby alligators that get flushed down the SI M.dMw cft1 whicMMH cmms lint IlChMmi Miliar nM dmittt4l.

I ELEPHANT MAN I KRAMER VS. ETJUMEI 5HW40 PB PEOPLE ajjjcxroRswssss SHiicM AMimiw iicmaj na W0Ticcih4mi PriirSI HOPSCOTCH Mm io Thui 11 tSun -3 3HH ointy SONG Or THE SOUTH STUNT MAN (SMW Clrmsh iwonw inur Bonoin Metineo tl.75 io 5 pm Sit tl.TS 2:30 Sun i Holidays guests, he uses his tail to batter Jag-ger's Cadillac, with Jagger inside, into a sheet-metal accordion. KRAMER VS. KRAMERS J-irJ -people CINEMA Monlolhur :50l.m.-U:2t RADIO' MS.LaGianga Monto iiwi.mnn ilfllinunt, SotMin Molinei SI TS to 5 m. Sat 7S to 2:30 Sun.

HoiMlays orster ana noun Kiker. He is jtbe cop who masterminds the gator hunt, and she is a reptile expert who also happens to be the woman who, as a little girl, owned this particular beast until her daddy flushed it in a fit -of pique. F-V-' Best known for his work on the "Banyon" TV series, Forster is IT'S MY TURN Mm io thur 10:30 304 30-10 30 pmR I Sat Son. Hoi S2 00 Ul 2:30 or 1st kaw ciiacHy 1 FANTASIA Mnn to Thur 2020 Sptini Road 654-11SO Fast paced, satisfyingly compact in plot, and spiced with some offhandedly sly dialog, "Alligator" is about as entertaining as a film of its type can be. You may want to close your fUOO mill m.

Sal. S2 00 until 2:30 Sun. Holidayt I ELEPHANT MAN Moo to Thui 9 SOo -1210-2 40 PG DoltySttreo KRAMER VS. KRAMER 3 Mon i. Thui CHINA SYNDROME PS NorthHailoni 51 Oik 337-1117 I Schaomtunj 682-1620 843-7333 I 1 12 00 unM 5:00 Dm.

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Mon. to Fii. only OnDIrfARY $2 00 until 2:30 Sat Sun. Hoi or 1st show capacHyl 1 PEOPLE I ALLIGATOR I II SMS W.Belmont Wall Disney SONG song or THE SOUTH Or THE SOUTH PRIVATE BENJAMIN Moo to Thui 30 ISP 'By Marilyn Beck ft It OLLYWOOD Producer Danny Arnold re-I I ports that editing of his Lou Gossett-Cleavon I I "Don't Look Back" ABC movie should II finally be completed this month; But he is anything but optimistic as to how that bio of black baseball great Satchel Paige will turn out. "You can't make a silk purse well, you know how it goes," he reports.

Arnold considered the drama that was originally targeted for airing in October "absolutely unedit-able" before he called the cast back for an additional day of shooting this month: Now, he says, "Who knows what we've got? We'll have to wait and see." What be had from the day production began in June was massive, ongoing problems. George C. Scott was hired as director, then fired within a week. And discord progressed at such a rate after -Jl 1 SPECIAL SHOWINO SPECIAL SHOWINO to bring Jimmy Durante's life story to Broadway. "Schnozzola" has been approved by the Durante heirs, will be produced for the stage by James Nederlander, and is being backed by Warner with an eye toward eventual adaptation to screen.

MEANWHILE Mickey Roeney says he's con sidering playing Durante on Broadway, but for producer Terry Alan Kramer and director Mike Nichols. When I informed him of Friedkin's projected "Schnozzola," he suggested, "Let him hire Robert Redford." Actually, the game plan calls for an un- known to be cast in the role. ON THE GO: Bette Midler is in Australia, helping hype the opening of her "Divine Madness" movie, which has hardly done divine business domestically. THE REEL WORLD: Sidney Pettier and Harry Bel-afonte, who've pooled their talents in such films as "Buck and the Preacher" and "Uptown Saturday Night," will be teaming again in a picture Poitier plans to direct in Africa next year. OUR TOWN: Beverly Satteoa aad her guy Erik Estrada spent what she refers to' as an "eclectic" Thanksgiving at her Beverly Hills estate with her relatives, who came bearing traditional holiday fare, and his family, who contributed Puerto Rican delicacies to the feast.

How sad that, of Mae West's many, many former industry friends and colleagues, the only two showbiz luminaries who attended her funeral were comedian Joan Rivers and producer Ross Hunter. IT'S LEGIT: Lauren Bacail's deal for her upcoming "Woman of the Year" Broadway musical calls for her to coin 10 per cent of the take, which insiders are predicting should make her the top-paid woman on the White Way with a weekly paycheck in excess of 30,000. Director William Friedkin, doing some fancy juggling to hoist himself up from the depths of his "Cruising" disaster, is preparing to direct and produce United Artists' adaptation of the Gay Talese "Thy Neighbor's Wife" best-seller while he prepare SUBURBAN THEATRES NORTHWEST rivvi --ijJ -MT. PROSPECT- mi nwiriw OOLOie HAWN IS TRIVATE BENJAMIN' 7:30 9:35 MOTION PICTURES MOTION PICTURES MOTION PICTURES MOTION PICTURES DOWNTOWN BoUIlE FkAtdhe SPECIAL SHOWINO SPECIAL SHOWING DOWNTOWN THE aMHJCAN vvjuniou OKWIQ i.1.T51TShXW SUNSH0LI0AY I 7s1n il "ltlU Jlt All UHM RCIMI ABM ALLIGATOR 8:00 10:00 JOHN TRAVOLTA GREASE 7:15 ,9:30 EJi adults QNLV-TMiPictun iVV1 wyhawaaieace. CmMm Imm A Wtm NitwiJ i i5 mm 1 Hi But ifflftr li wiyi Mnttl.

i tnr IT'S MY TUHN" PROSPECT uircvior nmiuru cuiia iuuk over uibi Annua now looks back on his "Don't Look Back" experience as one of the most disillusioning of his long career. "This business isn't fun anymore," he laments. "The day when people were interested in doing quality work is over." Those connected with his "Barney Miller" series haven't fallen into that mediocrity trap, he says, but he believes the situation in the industry in general has reached such a state that "it's hard to keep your enthusiasm for the business." What is ajding to Arnold's distress is his firm conviction thatLan industry-wide strike will put a halt to all TV and movie production for most of '81. "You've got the Screen Writers' contract coming up for renewal in March, and the directors' in June. And both of those guilds are going to be making demands the industry simply won't bow to." Representatives of the Directors Guild report it's still too early to discuss what their demands might include.

However, Leonard Chassman, executive director of the Writers Guild of America West, reports that his uhion will be asking for a substantial increase in fill minimums, and that their demands will also "cover the full spectrum of theatrical motion picture ssles, as well as pay-TV and video cassettes." 1 It was those latter two issues, of course, over which, this year's three-month-long actors' strike was waged. And from which the industry is still trying to recover. I'VE GOT NEWS FOR YOU: Now that Linda Laviji's "Love and Marriage" special has aired, look for her to acknowledge that her marriage to Ron -Liebnwn has gone kaput. Suburban Theatres PALATINE- 157 I ON TW 0A00VI TU6T 20 WEST WEST -JOIOailYPaUINWtRTOLDIllI'-710 ORIENTAL M.75 3 UOTHIRt DAY- ATOOO PLUS "ALLWATOr AT 9:35 AND HyiNPOWS" AT 6 30 -OAK PARK- iruoioiLivniin VILLA OAKS 12 "9 LIVES OF THE DRAGON" "BRUCE LEE'S LAST 0AYS" SONNY CHtBA 'BODYGUARD 4M E. ObDfiN MfSTMONT JmSil.S.

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