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...Sound of Music, based on the Richard Rodgers-Oscar Hammerstein musical comedy, satisfies nearly all the requirements for what moviemakers tout as wholesome family entertainment. It is tuneful, cheerful and colorful-exquisitely filmed in the Tyrolean Alps of Austria. It celebrates courage-the real-life daring of the Trapp Family Singers, who fled the Nazis in 1938. Though Director Robert Wise has made capital of the show's virtues, he can do little to disguise its faults.' In dialogue, song and story, Music still contains too much sugar, too little spice...
Virtually every blockbuster movie is a powerful fable of resilience. The audience finds vicarious strength watching Scarlett rebuild Tara, or Maria von Trapp spirit her brood out of Hitler's Austria, or Don Corleone take his cold-dish revenge. E.T. gives its viewers more, from less. Here is a fairy tale set in the most mundane of contemporary realities: a typical California suburb. The creature appears to his friend Elliott in a pizza-strewn back yard; he lives in a child's closet. As E.T. built his "phone home" device from old toys and household castaways, so Spielberg fashioned...
...tiny bit of insecurity, or even just once show a little warmth toward dear, chubby old Watson? It's the execution here that is overdrawn. This Holmes at one point looks at the unsuspecting Watson with a gaze so rich in emotion and so reminiscent of Captain Von Trapp that you can almost here the Alps singing in the background. This Holmes really lusts for blood when he grasps that poor unfortunate official's throat. And this Holmes really means to save mankind, all mankind, with his impassioned plea to the powers that be at the end of the movie...
...Widerman (H) pinned Thomas (CG), 1:48; 126--Kief (H) dec. Trapp (CG), 5-0; 134--Taylor (CG) dec. B. Baer (H), 10-4; 142--Burt (CG) dec. Oberg (H), 4-2; 150--Franklin (H) and Yost (CG) draw, 8-8; 158--McCaffery (CG) dec. Montgomery (H), 13-1; 167--Mason (H) dec. Metrick (CG), 14-5; 177--Chittden (CG) dec. Cimmarrusti (H), 8-4; 190--Williams (H) dec. Brown (CG), 10-8; UNL--Sattergrin (CG) pinned Beling (H), 5:23. Attendance...
...Chaney led Boston's attack with 22 points, followed by White, George Trapp poured in 24 for the visitors and Lou Hudson contributed...