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University Daily Kansan, June 8, 1981
'Outland,
OUTLAND
By MIKE GEBERT
Contributing Reviewer
Starring Sonn Clemery, Peter Boyle,
Frances Sturachman, James B. Skipping,
Written and directed by Perry Hyams.
Now that we have more outer space, relatively commonplace in the movies, it would appear that we are in for a number of space genre pictures. "Alien" was the space horror movie. "Outland" is the space western.
Sean Connery is the new marshal of the mining community on Io, one of Jupiter's moons. There has been a steadily increasing incidence of psychotic violence that, coming as a surprise to no one, is directly tied to the mining profession that gets a year's work from a miner, followed by his insanity.
It will further surprise no one that the sleazy operator (Peter Boyle) of the mining company is behind the drug ring. Or that when Connery gets closer, Boyle sends goons to kill him. Or that nobody will help him when two killers come in on the next stuttle to take care of Connery.
Actually, none of it should come as a surprise if you've seen "High Noon," Fred Zinnman's 1962 western, which starred Gary Cooper as a marshall alone against killers arriving on the beach. "High Noon" plot and a dawn of French Connection," and you've got "Outland."
But, frankly, as plots go, better to steal a good one like "High Noon" to bad one like a bad one like "Intermezzo", which last year's "Honeysuckle Rose" took, or to invent a brand-new bad one like most movies. "Outland" is sufficiently interesting to remove most of the storytelling and little too liberal with the "Alien" mmosphere. "Alien" was, by and large, the drearest-looking of the space movies. I almost have preferred the disco ambience of "Flash Gordon."
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(Almost). Actually, the settings are more clever and sometimes quite insired.
And there's nothing wrong with Sean Connery's creamy, world-weary marshal. Like "High Noon's" Gary Cooper, Connery has aged attractively, going from an interestingly handsome comedian to a romantic character actor. Richard Gere should be so lucky. Frances Sterhagen as a craggy, crubaby nurse is who Connery's only ally does a nice job as well, and while Boyle doesn't do too much, he gives a nice rendition of the sort of man—season the owner of a gun — who needs to plan a murder during commercials of a football game, that sort of thing.
One reason the appropriation of "High Noon's" plot doesn't seem bothersome is that writer-director Peter Hyams was just clever enough to know how to make things unimaginable. He genuinely exciting action scenes and you can teach any dog new tricks. Hyams did the same with a silly idea a few years ago in "Capricorn One;" keeping things the run, and making sure they out-of-the-ordinary, you can turn a western into a pretty fair space movie.
THE FOUR SEASONS
BY MIKE GEBERT
Contributing reviewer
Starring Alan Alda, Carol Burnett, Jack Weston, Len Carliou, Bess Armstrong, Rita Meno, Sandy Dennis. Written and directed by Alan Alda.
Recently, a prominent European director was speaking of the kinds of films made in America. You can make a "Star Wars," he said; you can make a "Hallowen"; you can make an "Animal House" and you can make a "Kramer vs. Kramer." But you can't always already made a great deal of money by making a film that fits in one of those four acceptable categories. 1 suspect
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"The Four Seasons" as its four-act structure implies, is somewhat like a play. It has been compared to Neil Simon—but it suggests, though only partially, that he wants too safe to really come across that way; it ends happily and heartwarmingly. And by making the characters upper middle-class New Yorkers, Aida ensures that the film has beautiful lines. It's not just like "Kramer," "Ordinary People" (Chicago, but still), "An Unmarried Woman," "Ann Hall" and so many others. There are people in other parts of the country, other income brackets. But then they really would be too much too much too much too much, too much fantasy for that.
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Like Alda, the audience loses sympathy for Cariou—he is reprimanded when he turns up that summer, as they all go boating, with his pretty, new wife (Bess Armstrong). He is obviously happier than he has ever been. The rest are alternately amused and offended.
Mind you, I am grateful for small favors. I know of only one film coming out this summer that is better than "The Four Seasons"—Laule Mall's "Atlantic City," which, wonder of wonders, does not fit into any of the categories. Between "Take This Job and Shove It!" and "Bustin' Loose" this film looks very good indeed. But why isn't it better?
The amazing part is that Aida, TV's Mr. Sensible, is willing to wink the image to show how forging and smug such a type can be. And while the picture wraps with a safe, funny face, it also shows the edges of some very serious subjects.
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"The Four Seasons" is about three married couples who vacation together in spring, summer, winter and they are Alan Alda and Carol Burnett, Leni Caruio and Sandy Dennis, and Jack Weston and Rita Moreno. Initially they are so sweet and wonderful and that you want Robert DeNiro to come home and spend springtime retreat. Fortunately, that doesn't last. Cariou announces to Alda that he is divoring Dennis because she borhes him.
That fall they go to visit their kids at the same preppie Eastern college and they return upstairs, but they turn up like the ghost of Marley in the Christmas Carol "Alda" is further unset
Jack Westen, as the pug, comically hypochondriac friend, turns serious when none of the rest will listen. Bess Armstrong announces that she is sick to death of the prejudiced friends who still cared for her. Armstrong also told doctor who supplied车载 Stocium from Dennis. And everybody gets on Alda's case for being damnable nice.
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That winter they go skiing together—and an amazing thing happens. The movie turns out to be smarter than you thought it was going to be.
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Although he said his office tries to avoid it, Malone admitted that a reduction in charges and their level does occur in Douglas County.
"There is no way the system could survive without some give and take," he said.
"You've got to prioritize your cases.
The number one priority of a district attorney is to prosecute those who have committed crimes against others."
The individual who has not committed those crimes may be able to benefit from the system, he said, and the crime was not as severe or damaging.
"You've got to start making some concessions along the line," he said.
"There is no reason to proceed with a trial on two felonies if the individual is willing to plead guilty to one, with the same sentence." Malone said.
He pointed out that in cases with multiple crimes, sentencing is nor more concurrency for all charges of which the individual is found guilty.
Under that stipulation, the defendant had the advantage of having fewer crimes on his record, but there is no evidence why because the punishment is the same.
Malone said he considered three elements before deciding whether plea bargaining is the most favorable way to handle the crime.
Expedient was the lowest priority of the three, he said. He said his office sometimes reduced charges in exchange for the tax payer's time and money.
Another consideration is the evidence that may have changed after further investigation of the charges.
"If additional evidence has come to light that makes it more difficult to prove the case, then the level you've charged, the amount of money but to ample the charges," he said.
The most important consideration, he said, was the disposition of the case, and the defendant's case history.
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In negotiating a plea outside of court, Malone said there was no coercion exerted upon the defendant by the district attorney's office.
"If the man is 'gully, then I'm sure going to try and get the least possible conviction for him," Norwool said.
"The plea must be voluntarily and individually decided through his counsel. And the defense must initiate the process." he said.
Norwood also said he never pressed a client to plead guilty is the client was reluctant.
Malone said it would not only be a physical impossibility to ablieve bargaining, but that it would also be inhumane.
"We never use that as a hammer over the guy's head. Using coercion to get a guilty plea is totally in contradiction of what a prosecuting attorney is interested in. His first responsibility is justice, and then conviction."
"I suppose that in a pure criminal justice system, you would go stricly with what the facts are and prosecute the case based on that," he said, "and the judge and jury would determine the sentencing.
Although plea bargaining may not meet the ideologies of a pure criminal justice system, Malone said it has been an accepted practice for years, and has been deemed acceptable by the U.S. Supreme Court.
"If that were the case, then they wouldn't even need judges and juries, computers could do the whole thing. "Here comes assembly-line justice."
"We're dealing with people," he said,
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Malone said such a system would be callous, and would disregard the unique nature of the defender and the circumstances surrounding the case.
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