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C-- "at -v 1L- -1 House baleful 1 Love in bloom MoviacR A KIM f.ll ADIRIO MoviesBy ANN GUARINO BURNT OFFERINGS At the Nataional, Columbia and ether Red Carpet Theaters. Rated PG. "HERE THE RED FERN GROWS Rated G. At the Guild 50th Theater. VIL FORCES are atjwork in HERE THE Red Fern the ramshackle mansion of Grows" is a tender adven Movies By JERRY OSTER NORMAN IS THAT YOUr l2 Rated PG.

At the Criterion and Trans-Lux 85th Si. theaters. THE MAKERS of "Norman Is That You?" are television veterans, and they must have been tempted to add a laugh track to this comedy about a father who discovers that his son is a homosexual. Canned laughter, in fact, is the only laughter that could be stimulated by this insultingly dumb adaptation of a Broadway play, which might have once raised some eyebrows with Its subject matter but now. only lowers eyelids.

The script (by George Schlatter, Ron Clark and Sam Bobrlck) has the zest and bounce of nearly-set cement. Schlatter, who also directed, preserved the "cumbersome staging of the play as if its entrances and exits were divinely inspired. The performances, by Redd Foxx as the father and Michael Warren as the son, are those of actors in search of cue cards. Pearl Bailey, as Foxx's wife, provides the only stimulation not by her acting (which is bad), but by the way she pronounces Tucson, as if it were in France, not Arizona. Okamoto overview Eight films by the little-known but veteran Japanese director Kihachi Okamoto are being shown through Oct.

29 at Japan House, 333 E. 47th St. For further information, call 832-1155. ture about a boy and his dogs in the Ozarks of the 1930s. And a real heartwarmer it is, too.

Based on Wilson Rawl's autobiographical novel, this beautifull.v made film should appeal to folks all ages, depicting as it does the devotion of a 12-year-old boy for two hunting dogs that he raises from pups. That loyalty genuinely touches the heart and prompts the poetry of the title: where the red fern grows, according to what the movie calls "Indian legend," is a place where love exists. "Burnt Offerings," tragically and rather perversely affecting a family of four: as the house grows gradually" beautiful, its inhabitants become ugly and unhinged. This quirky, contemporary Gothic-tale casts Karen Black as a weak-minded mother who talks hubby Oliver Reed into renting a seedy summer house that intrigues her. Their son, Lee Montgomery, is the first to feel the evil-in-resi-dence, which soon spreads to their aunt, Bette Davis.

Needless to say, the place comes replete with batty neighbors (an odd brother-and-sister act played with gusto by Burgess Meredith and Eileen Heckart). Ann Guanno 2 CD 79 Washington slept here METRO- GOLDWYN- MAYER presents A GEORGE SCHLATTER FILM at '4 XL DEDD FOXX PEARL BAILEY TOBUAH, IS THAT YOU?" 9th GREAT WEEK CINEMA 111 3rdA at 60thSt PU 0774 5 EMBASSY 46th St one at Newburgh, N.Y., and one at Mor-ristown, N.J. "The Old State House" of Boston, dates back to 1712 a reddish-colored facade with pediment-ed doorway is one of. the oldest extant public buildings of the Georgian period. Besides "Mount Vernon," where George Washington resided a ghostlike apparition of' historical importance she painted an imposing "Independence Hall." Another impressive historical site is the "Vicksburg Battlefield," a beautiful panoramic landscape with bright green foliage in the foreground overlooking the Mississippi River; in contrast is the bleak, drab-looking "Company Street" at Valley Forge, built by the men of Washington.

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8 at the Benton Bowles Gallery, 909 Third (33d floor), in a show called "The American Legacy Collection." Forget didactic details and clutter that's not her forte she's into spontaneity of form and color, and both work very effectively in conveying mood. Take, for instance, two historic buildings used as headquarters by Washington Unpretentious' as, well, Utah Dance By BILL ZAKARIASEN ''TTNPRETENTIOUS" is a bro- mide used too often in reviews, and at times the word's faint praise can damn its object. But I couldn't help but think of just that word while watching the Utah Reper-ory Dance Theater at the Manhattan School's Borden Auditorium Tuesday. The company, now in its 10th season, doesn't have an artistic director each of its 12 members has an equal voice in the committee running it. Moreover, out of the group's 55 repertory works, 34 have been choreographed by the dancers themselves.

No wonder the company has such fresh, open, easy-going communication. There are no stars just a group of nice-looking young people who happen to be good dancers. k- The company presented its credentials decisively in the opener, Jose Limon's "There is a Time," inspired by the "time to be born and a time to die" and so on passage in Ecclesiastes. A superbly unified work of Gothic power, it makes one wish Limon had set "Carmina Burana" and its wheel of fortune no one has yet done this sort of thing so well. The whole ensemble, particularly Kay Clark and Martin Kravitz in a silent pas de deux, seemed just right.

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"Session" is a riotous takeoff on those innumerable "ballet school" pieces that seem "de rigeur" in all dance companies, and like most good comedy, it doesn't wear out its welcome with inordinate length. The company had a ball with it, and so did the audience. Good company, good choreography, good show." Direct from its Sensational Las Vegas Engagement- Dinner from 6 P.M. Continuous Dancing i Open Nightly except Mondays All Credit Cards' Valet Parking A BOYS GREATEST ADVENTURE 8 RFrjNC 48th St.in Hotel Lex. PL2-I 48tl 90801 iVHERETHE A COMFORTABLE I I NIGHT HAVE, I I 1 EXOTIC FOOD I 1 I 1 ENTERTAINMENT- I I I 1 DINING DANCING I I I I ENTERTAINMENT I I Hawaiianlevue I I II in the lounfc nifhtly I 1: 1 1 FULL C0URSS I I DELUXE $QC 1 I DINNER I I PatV Fciliti I No Minimum.

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