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SUMMER FILM PREVIEW
Ted Danson (right)
and Howie Mandel play sidekicks on
on their luck in A Fine
Mess, a any comedy
inspired by a classic
Laurel and Hardy
short.
A FINE MESS
aurel and Hardy would be pleased.
The bumbling silliness of the historic comic duo is the inspiration for director Blake Edwards new
film, *A Fine Mess*, starring Ted Danson and Howie Mandel as two equally bumbling ne'er do wells.
Laurel and Hardy would seem to be a natural for the director who, with Peter Sellers, created the modern master of bumble, Inspector Clouseau, in the *Pink Panther Films*. Indeed, "They were Blake's favorite comedy team," commented co-star Mandel.
Although loosely based on a classic short by the comic legends, *A Fine Mess*, "is more of an homage," said Mandel. "It
was originally called *The Music Box*, which was the famous Laurel and Hardy short with them trying to get a piano up a flight of stairs. But this movie is a completely original story it's very physical comedy, wacky with chases—1 guess it has a little piece of every one of their movies in that sense."
"I play Dennis Powell, a roller skating hamburger stand water who's been working his whole life to save up for his own fast food restaurant. Ted Danson plays his buddy, a movie whose dream is to become a big star. This story is about the "fine mess" he (Danson) gets us into when he sees something he not supposed to see."
John Carpenter turns his word sensibility to Chinatown in *Big trouble* in *Little China*. Kurt Russell (second from right) stars as an adventurer who helps a friend (Dennis Dixon, second from left) find his kidnapped wife.
BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA
come to dinner in China
in town in John Cabellier. *Big
Trouble in Little China*. After
you finish the tea and the dum
sum, how about a stroll through the underworld, with such exotic attractions as the "Room of the Upside Down Hall" the "Honorable Hall of the Infernal Judge"?
You'll know you're in big trouble when you bump into Jack Burton (Kurt Russell) and his pig hauling truck, the Park Chop Express. Jack is helping his friend Wang Chi (Dennis Dun) recover his lost green-eyed bred kidnapped by Lo Pun (James Hong) and his fledgish thugs.
Aided by Grace Law, a sensuous attorney played by Kim Catalin, and Egg Shen (Victor Wong), a clairvoyant bus driver, Jack and Wang enter an imaginary under world rules by Lo Pa. According to leg end, Lo Pa is a cold-blooded spirit imprisoned in hell by the First Emperor of China, who can only regain his virility by coupling with that one in a million green eyed woman.
Pretty kinky, buh? Big Trouble starts off as an action adventure comedy, falls into high gear as bizarre circumstances mount and winds up as a kung fu monster ghost story. Whew!
However, Big Trouble is a $25 million production, filmed mostly in Los Angeles with a great deal of special effects from fiery explosives to an 8-foot human skull which emits colored smoke.
"It's an ensemble piece, and it's very complex," says Carpenter, who is famous for his low budget, gripping thrillers like Halloween and Christmas.
But stripped of its haunted facade, the basic premise of *Big Trouble* is still good guys versus bad guys. This ancient tradition of storytelling "goes back to the days of Ulysses and Shakespeare," Carpenter says. And, though it may sound simplistic, Carpenter believes that's the key to every one of his films sheer fun intertwined with subtle messages.
Albert Pang
Wil Rodney Dangerfield (finally get some response?) Maybe he in his new film, *Back to School*, where he plays a businessman who goes back to college.
BACK TO SCHOOL
movie's hard," says Rodney Dangerfield, his long doleful face looking more sorrowful than ever.
"When you're telling jokes to a camera, you don't get much of a response. Know what I mean? It's not much solace to a man who's used to making millions laugh that the cameraman and the boom operator are trying to keep from falling down with laughter while filming *Back to School*, Dangerfield's latest movie.
"They're laughing because they weren't expecting that," says director Alan Meters. "Rodney makes up material all the time. I leave at the end of the day, exhausted from shooting. He goes home to polish jokes and continue to work."
In *Back to School*, Dangerfield plays a self made millionaire who signs on as a freshman at college in order to help his son through a bad time. It's a comedy of errors with Dangerfield triumphing in spite of himself amid the usual complement of rapid fire one liners.
(Summer Film Preview continues on next page) ►
Joan Goodman
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