4-C THE PLAIN DEALER, SATURDAY, JUNE 6, Cheech, Chong's TV 'Dreams' fuzzy are Some movies of the bought By Donna Chernin When they someday strike it rich, Cheech and Chong would like to invest in a rest home for old hippies. Flower children have been around since the 1960s. Cheech and Chong will call their place Laidback Manor, the aging hippies will be able to get all the dope they can smoke. Meanwhile, Cheech and Chong aren't doing badly as ice cream vendors. But the good humor they spread comes from dope, "Nice Dreams" is the third movie by Cheech and Chong.
Their first two grossed more than $160 million. Gross also describes some of their antics. audiences see in them is subject to conjecture. It often is hard to figure out what they are saying, let alone what they are doing. Yet, I occasionally laughed.
What helps redeem their irreverent comedy is the fact that Cheech and Chong also poke fun at themselves. They are forever lampooning their lunacy. After snorting too much cocaine, Chong hands over all their loot for a worthless check at a non-existent bank. To get their money back, they have to break into an insane asylum. "Come on, man, this is stupid." No crazier than their bungles is the local police sergeant played in a stupor by Stacy Keach.
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The added advantage is that these movies have been shown 'in movie theaters and have had the benefit of the studios' ad campaigns and -mouth advertising by moviegoers. Unfortunately, by the time TV gets done with the movies most have either been ruined by heavy editing or hom*ogenized to the point where they resemble TV programs. A case in point was NBC's "The Missouri Breaks" last Sunday. What makes the movie so special is Marlon Brando's running parody of Marlon Brando. He plays a hired killer who is to rid the range of rustlers, if you'll pardon the aliteration.
So what did NBC do? It cut some of Brando's best scenes. This could not have been for reasons of propriety because at least one of the most graphically violent scenes, in which a cowboy is shot in the back while occupying a privy, was left unscathed. The central theme was left alone: that of barbarism with a civilized face. But that alone wasn't what made the movie unique. It was Brando.
He is too expensive, and probably has too much integrity to do a guest spot on "Love Boat," so if we're to have him in our homes at all, it is to be through a movie rerun. To hack his scenes out is like chopping off the head of Michelangelo's David to fit it in Higbee's display window. "Missouri Breaks," in theaters, ran 126 minutes. That's six minutes more than NBC's 9. 11 p.m.
time period would allow. With commercials, the figure had to be cut more. for one, can abide reruns studded with horn also been exposed to a phenomenon unknown in Britain the high school marching band with its emphasis on precision marching at the expense of musical training. The experience has left her nonplussed, though as a guest unwilling to express herself frankly. "And all the money they spend on those fancy outfits," she did say, "how many instruments could a school buy with that money?" ALAN CAROL ALDA 'BURNETT the Tour Seasons A A UNIVERSAL PICTURE PG PARENTAL GUIDANCE SUGGESTED L1981 UNIVERSAL CITY STUDIOS INC NOT DE FOR BROOKGATE NOW CINEMA GATE SHOPPING CENTER MAYLAND Co- SMITH SNOW MAYFIELD LANDER 676 6810 SHOWING 461 8250 CINEMA CINEMA RANDALL PARK WESTGATE GREAT LAKES MALL RANDALL PARR MALL 210m 1 Center Mage tts 1 581 6400 331 1822 951 3500 He's mad.
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The sergeant smokes so much grass that he turns into a lizard. In addition to their clash with the cops, Cheech and Chong meet some weird fans at a new-wave Chinese restaurant. There Cheech discovers his long-lost Latino lover (Evelyn Guerrero) and when the two fellows go to her penthouse, life goes from bizarre to wild and crazy. "Nice Dreams" seems more structured and polished than their two earlier efforts. However, much of the movie still has a rough and improvisational feel that lets some sequences amble too long.
Rated adult for violence, language, nudity and sex. toots program. She also acts as an unpaid adviser to the BBC, which operates a program of radio and television music instruction for the many British schools which do not have. music specialists. While she travels about, her husband and two teen-age children back in Bradford are "managing very well" without her, she reports.
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Channel 61 ruined the flow of the movie, but at least there was a movie left to flow. But to' cut a movie as well is to reduce it to just another TV movie. The term "TV movie" for all practical purposes is a contradiction in terms. Another recent abomination was WJKW Channel 8's momentarily getting reels out of order in "Grapes of Wrath." That is John Ford's classic translation of John Steinbeck's novel about dust bowl Okies who set out for the bright promise of California. If you invert part of "Laverne and Shirley," that's one thing.
You cannot make a travesty of a travesty. Algebraically speaking, that creates a positive effort. "Grapes of Wrath," a least, was the victim of an accident, according to station officials. The others were not. But "Missouri Breaks" and "Grapes of Wrath" can be called art.
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