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‘Tiger Lady’ turns
into a homemaker

4 BABY. BOOM * (cosirox Home Vigeo Rated PG

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WINGS * *** (Paramount) Rated G: | _ module

“The house lights dim and a glow «
gradually brightens asthe ° :
» Wurlitzer rises from beneath the
Stage. Gaylord Carter plays.a stirr-
ing overture and we are’back to. =
1927 when the Orpheum celebrated °
its first anniversary.
On May 7 the’ Golden, Age of
* Silent Movies was recreated with a
showing of Wings, the Hest Picture, -
*,. 00-1927, In honor of the Occasion, ©
_ the dapper star of the picture,

“ BOOM 1S right. _ -kaboom. This bomb earns one star and
only because of the charm of Baby Elizabeth.

to bea forlorn money pit and J.C.
starts Lo Crumble from the finan-
cial stress and boredom. /
Handsome, unattached town
_ vet, Dr. Cooper (Sam Shepard) :
enters the picture and a love/hate
“ relationship blossoms between the

OF he heart-melting toddler can't?
help but: become the focus of the ;
movie but, for some strange .."

two, Meanwhile, J.C.’s hobby.”
“ becomes a cottage industry.that—”
~ sweeps the nation. Yeah. Sure. ©

Charles “Buddy” Rogers, was’,
present to reminisce about his ¢o-
stars and the making of the. first.

. ‘réason; the filmmakers change the:
‘story’ s direction in mid-stream to a
22 well, Iet’s start at.the beginning.
: TC ‘Wiatt (Diane Keaton) isa.’
= driven, successful! ‘Tiger Lady"*
. fora Gotham managenient con-
‘. sulting firm: She lives: with anoth
workaholic (Harold, Ramis) and.

“Somewhere in, the background, :
° the baby crawls around maintain:
ing a low profile, showing, more®
“sense than her supposedly savvy?
mother, who faints under pressure.

“Oscar winner. >
Although, overly Jong, | the filrn
remains remarkably fresh, after 60
“years: The basic story of two.
viator friends in-love with the
‘Same woman during the First 2",
‘World Wai, is standard fare; but oy
the flying sequences remain among
the best ever filmed.,Since there
were. no back-screen shats in. those . |.
ays, th brave’ actors had to fly in.
ogfights, adding’ tremendously to:
the realism. «., > -
“The pantomime acting is Test Bo
stylized than many other films of ©
the era, with'Clara Bow (the ype
-Girl) especially. memorable asthe .
woman‘in love with Rogers. The :
comedy stil works, 7% “
Fortunately for, those wha" mis
ed the one- “time rmanice, th
film is available on'video, com
plete with, the excelle

those interested, Paramount: has
aiso released six other silent fi Im.
(graced by Gaylord Carter’ s
Wurlitzer. brilliance): Old lron-
sides: The Wedding: March; W
Fields i in Running Wild, The‘

Docks of New York,’ the original

“Ten Commandnients, and th Las

Command.

in,’some syrupy concoction by
Bill Conti grates.the same irritating
song Over endless montage a

Like the score, the whole cloyin
2 film finally becomes an, endurance
: test, going out, ‘not with a ban,
but ‘with’ a whimpe: