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B-s BUFFALO COURIER-EXPRESS, Monday, June 28, 1982 \Cr ong. my wor gey an io Movie Review 'Rlade Runner Is-fExplosive‘ ust in time for the Fourth of July Comes \Blade Runner,\ a cinemat- ic fireworks display. Lights and colors flash intermittently on the screen, and the soundtrack's got plenty of explosions too. 'The filmic fireworks - otherwise known as \special effects\ - are |. among the bestI've seen. Not only do they help to create a convincing : early 21st Century setting, but they're also visually compelling. . Odd collages ofbreathtaking tech- nology and alarming taudriness z mingle to form the film's alien |_ environment. ' Art director David L. Snyder (a former Buffalonian), cinematogra- pher Richard Yuricich, design con- cept consultant Syd Mead and - especially - special effects wizard Douglas Trumbull have done their work well. A rainy, nighttime Los Angeles of the future is presented that's as exciting as it is eerie. ' F] Giant, electronic billboards clutter the midnight sky as compact air- < cars pierce the darkness. Everything, from the punkish clothingto the compact gadgetry,. R commments wittily, on the present - while also establishing a coherent future. Much of what we're shown about this strange milieu is left unexplained, but enough is. sketched in sq that the picture makes sense. Still, we're in a foreign land and it's hard to know what's what; getting your bearings is half the fun. If it weren't for the intriguing setting and the dazzling effects, 'Blade Runner\ would be a pretty routine movie, a drab detective story. Directed by Ridley Scott - who's best known for \'Alien'\ - the new film is even narrated in a style that imitates the corny, tough- guyese that Philip Marlowe fans know backwards and forwards. The narration is (mercifully) dropped early on, but the sulky tone lingers on. -The hero is Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former blade runner. In the past, his job was to track down 4nd: Hestroy errant robots (called Zrépli¢ants\) that duplicateshuman Befigvior nearly perfectly. \More Aproan than human\ is the motto of the Egrell Corp., the company that gredtés these replicants. Deckert's rétifed because ... but let him tell tt:2J quit because I had a belly full of giiing.\ :: Circumstances force him back Into the game to locate and blast four (or five) runaway replicants, ang fn the process something weird begins to happen. Deckard comes to regard these mechanical men as man beings. a In \Blade Runner,' world. That would be peculiar enough, but the movie seems to actually share his attitude. At first, I thought that Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Daryl Hannah, Brion James and Joanna Cassidy (who play the robots} were much better actors' than the people cast as humans. Then I realized it's just that the hal & cas is Harrison Ford tracks down and \retires . the film is kind of mixed, I suspect i By Jay Boyar Dislay s mechanical that it could have been written by the Stepford wives. 'Blade Runner'' isn't a movie for everyone, but there's probably a large audience for this kind of thing. Although my own response to that my blender and toaster oven BLADE RUNNER from the Ladd Co., releasedthrough Warner Bros.r directed by Ridley Scott, starring Harson Ford, Rutger Haver, Sean Young and Edward James Olmos. At Boulevard, Seneca and Holiday theaters and Bram-y Drive-In. MPAA cating: R Courfer-Express rating: ### (based on a five-star system) would just love it. Rolling Stone: - NOTHING BEATS a summer va- cation. At least that's what the Go-Go's are hoping: their second LP, \Vacation is almost complet- ed and should be out by the middle of July. It will include such favor- ites as Beatnik Beach,\ \Worlds Away,\ ''We Don't Get Along\ (a Kathy Valentine tune already re- corded by Phil Seymour) and maybe the Capitols' toe-tapper \'Cool Jerk.\ Spicing up the LP's sound will be some saxophones and - synthesizers - \nothing we can't do live,\ says Kathy Valentine. With the album's title track out as a single, America's sweethearts: have hit the road, and there are some spiffy notions for \'Vacation\ tour merchandise. \We want to sell suntan oil, beach towels and stupid sun hats,\ explains guitarist Jane Wiedlin. Adds singer Belinda Car- lisle: \Our T-shirts will say, DON'T BOTHER ME, I'M ON VACATION: We'll point to them when people want interviews and stuff\ After hitting the likes of the Hollywood Bowl! and Madison Square Garden (\It was. bad enough opening there,\ gasps Belinda. \I don't «know if I can handle headlining.\) the group will head for Europe in November. i PAUL MCCARTNEY is recording his next album in Longdon, with George Martin again producing. That's the good word from Police drummer Stewart Copeland, who was recently summoned by McCart- ney to play on a track. \It was one of his ballatis - he was muttering a few lyrics as he went.along,\ says Copeland, who adds that he was \a bit mystified\ to be playing on a mellow tune. \We wound up jam- ming for about 20 minutes. Paul was very enthusiastic about it; he said he was going to make it into a song.\ > Copeland's other projects include , directing a film about London's \_ By Christopher Connelly\ latest crop of punks, featuring shch leather-bound groups as the Afiti- Nowhere League. \All the trend-set- ters are gone,\ says Copeland, comparing the '82 crew to theiSex Pistols-Clash era. 'It's much more ritualized; the gigs are all sticky and wet. Lots of gob flying through the air.\ For a bit of surcease from that scene, Copeland's taken up polo. \I played in boarding school. Now I play with a lot of retired military people from Oxford. The social aspects are quite cool.\ » As for the other Police men, Andy Summers has completed an album with Robert Fripp and has another LP planned with Pat Metheny, and Sting is poring through film scripts. The band has tentative plans to play an outdoor show in the United States in August and to begin recording its fifth LP in September. \WE'RE TAKING A bit of a rest now, because George is quite heavi- ly into gardening, and he gets tired .of recording.\ So says producer . Phil McDonald of George Harrison, , who's in the studio recording his next LP. Players on the still-unti- tled disc include bassist Herbie Flowers, keyboardist Mike Moran, drummer Jim Keltner (who's been in England with the Ry Cooder tour), plus \George on everything. It sounds pretty good,\ says McDo- nald, who adds that he's using a drum machine to toughen up Harri- son's sound. .The album should be finished in July for release this fall, but McDo- nald - acclaimed for his recent efforts with Squeeze - cautions that 'George is a perfectionist; he do- esn't want to rush things and wants & to get them nigh on perfect. I think you really have to be a George Harrison fan to appreciate his mu- sic. 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