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Oocflion "STfeoo Hon-aOd PORT HURON. MICH. Wadnwdoy Sept. IS. 1982 BillBunn Lnffe was dlireamm-oomnie-fiirye MOVIE REVIEW New comedv misses Doint.

I 7 misses mark Unless uninspired silliness attracts movie au diences. "Zapped!" should be zonked at the box office. Change silliness to smuttiness. "Zapped!" is salaciousness without sexiness, vulearitv with- out vitality. famous was added, making it a memorable tale of a lone man of integrity standing up against four gunmen.

Fortunately, the lean editing left only Kelly's best moments on the screen. Kelly went on to a more sure performance as an adulteress opposite Clark Gable in "Mogambo" in 1953. Her growing maturity as an actress was awarded with her first Oscar nomination for best supporting performance. Perhaps because she left Hollywood for Monaco after only five years, Grace Kelly seldom projected much depth or range as an actress. She did, however, convey a distinctive, alluring screen image.

It was during the filming of "To Catch a Thief" that someone thought it would be fun and good publicity if the Hollywood star were to meet the reigning monarch of Monaco. It was the meeting that would shortly end Grace Kelly's film career. Kelly made the one movie that gave her a chance to prove the sort of future she might have had in films. Her portrayal of the ung-lamorous, long-suffering wife of the alcoholic Bing Crosby in the film version of "The Country Girl," won the actress her lone Oscar. Grace Kelly gave up Hollywood for another dream-come-true the life of a princess.

It had always been hoped that a particular film or a particular director or potential co-star would lure Princess Grace back to the screen, but it was never to be. By JACK GARNER Gannett News Service Before she became a regal princess, Grace Kelly was a regal actress. Though she had taken on the myriad tasks of modern royalty during the last quarter of a century, it is the movie actress most of us will remember. In a brief 11-film career in Hollywood, Grace Kelly etched in the minds of filmgoers the quintessential portrait of the refined sophisticated blonde in whom humor and sexuality sizzled just below the surface. In just five years from 1951 to 1956 the lovely product of Philadelphia's wealthy Main Line appeared in several of the most memorable movies of the 1950s.

They included "High Noon," "The Country Girl," "Dial for Murder," "Rear Window," and "To Catch a Thief." After a brief modeling career in New York, Kelly began to land TV cigarette commercials and small parts in fledgling TV dramas. Her New York breakthrough was in a Broadway production of Strindberg's "The Father" in 1949. Her first role was a forgettable bit part in "Fourteen Hours" in 1951. But this was followed by the role that first attracted attention in "High Noon." It was a troubled production. When the film's footage was first assembled, everyone thought they had a turkey on their hands.

But the suspense-building tick-tock time concept for which the film is It also is a comedy without humor, except the kind that might appeal to iunior hieh school Students with apologies to the more mature members of that aee eroun who've wished for secret ways to pop buttons off eirls' blouses and make teachers look ridiculous. But "Zapped!" contains enough crudity to limit its audience to adults who still think that seeing people in uieir underwear is funny. The plot device is that a scientifically brilliant but shy high school senior named Barney, played by Scott Baio, has a laboratory accident that Hives him telekinetic powers. Barney can move things by staring hard at them. He uses this eift to unfasten prettv stu dents clothing, hurl bullies into the bushes, and help his team win its first baseball game.

Barney's friend Peyton, portrayed by Willie Aames. wants to employ his buddv's ability to collect bie winnings at roulette. But Felice Schachter as Bernadette. Barnev's eventual Princess Grace of Monaco shown with actors Jimmy Stewart, left, and Bob Hope, during the 1982 opening of the "Grace Kelly Film Festival" in Philadelphia. She died Tuesday from injuries suffered in an auto accident Monday.

love interest, believes he should devote himself to scientific study of the phenomenon. The climax is a parody of the prom scene in i it i. i n.ij varne, in which Daiuey, irruaieu aiier being bopped by a watermelon, lets his powers TIT run wua. ine result is tne coarsest sort of Dar- i 73 7 tial strip show, with the camera set at waist level. The picture's attempts at humor rise no She's still city's pride, joy higher than this.

Pt i The screenplay by Bruce Rubin and director Robert J. Rosenthal contains almost nothing xzr vim, that viewers will recognize as a gag line. The comic Pits are ail visual, reiving on Robert Bia- lack's cartoonish special effects underscored by zoop-zoop sounds. i The rest of the production quality, including the acting, is equally low. Shorn of its indecencies and given canned in laughter, this movie would look like one of the old situation comedies that TV stations rerun instead of afternoon soao operas: "Leave It to 1 Barney" or "Gilligan's High School." The hilarity at this level includes emphasis on sucn tuncuons as oeicning.

passing gas. and PHILADELPHIA (AP) Princess Grace will be remembered as Philadelphia's once and always first lady, said Mayor William Green as the city mourned her death. Long after she become a Hollywood star and then a princess, Grace Kelly was not forgotten in her home town. "When people asked where she came from, she said she was from Philadelphia. She was proud of it," said Arthur Lewis, who wrote a book about the family.

A spokesman for Cardinal John Krol, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Philadelphia, said the cardinal would celebrate a Mass for the princess Friday. AP vomiting. As Heather Thomas says to two characters loudly venting themselves after each having downed 12 beers, "You guys are disgusting." She might as well have addressed this to the movie's makers. And she might have added baring. rated to restrict viewers younger than 17 without an accompanying adult, has nudity, some obscene language and mild sexual scenes.

It is at Huron Theater 2, Port Huron. Bill Bunn Is a Times Herald Reporter. The former Grace Kelly gets a kiss from Marlon Brando as they both clutch Oscars during the 1 955 Academy Award Ceremony in Hollywood. Miss Kelly won for her performance in the movie, "Country Girl." Prince Rainier III of Monaco places a ring on the finger of American movie star Grace Kelly during their wedding ceremony in a Monaco Cathedral April 19,1 956. Princess turned down 70s Hollywood offer WHAT'S HAPPENING Thursday i i i jiii' jajwuMI ttfflm iiijb i ifii iwt r.

Farmers market, begins at 8 a.m., St. Stephen's parking lot, Port Huron. Story time for 3- to 5-year-olds, 10 to 10:30 a.m., St. Clair County Library. Admission free.

NEW YORK (AP) Princess Grace recently toyed with the idea of returning to Hollywood, but she resisted the lure of stardom for the sake of the prince who wooed her away at the height of her career. "I'm sure if I had met the prince when I was 19, I probably wouldn't have married at all," the former Grace Kelly said in an interview published in the September Ladies' Home Journal. The magazine said the interview was given in Taipei during a week-long visit to Taiwan. But the timing was right in 1956 when at the age of 26 she abandoned her role as an Oscar-winning actress and became the bride of Prince Rainier of Monaco. Hollywood couldn't forget her and tried to win her back more than 20 years later.

Grace, who died Tuesday in Monaco after an auto accident, was quoted as saying she had the chance to star in the 1977 box office smash, "The Turning Point." "In America, performers can have public and private lives and keep them apart. But as the wife of Prince Rainier I can have but one public life, that of being his princess." Saturday AP Princess Grace and Prince Rainier III of Monaco attend the installation of Pope John Paul II in 1 978. Polka bands will play at Oktoberfesf Farmers' flea market, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., in front of McMorran Place. Fiddlers' jamboree, 1 to 5 p.m., and square dance, 7 to 11 p.m., McMorran Junior Pavilion.

Home tour, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., St. Clair. Tickets available at the Riverview Mall gazebo. Cornmanders ball, 9 p.m.

to 1 a.m., American Legion Post 525, Smiths Creek. Membership tea, noon to 2 p.m., YMCA. Sponsored by the League of Women Voters, Port Huron. Food and bake sale, begins at 10 a.m., First Congregational Church, Third and Adam Streets, St. Clair.

Sponsored by women's fellowship. Free movies, "Seven Wishes of Joanna Peab-ody," "Dancing Princess" and "The Ugly Duckling," 2 to 3 p.m., St. Clair County Library. Family style harvest dinner, 5 to 8 p.m., Smith Creek Masonic Temple. Sponsored by Mount Vernon O.E.S.

Roast beef dinner, 5 to 7 p.m., Port Huron RIDS District Woodlands-Port Huron Branch, 1022 Varney St. Rabbit show, 9 a.m., Goodells fairgrounds. Sponsored by the Eastern Michigan Rabbit Breeders Association. Mexican Independence Day Dance, 9 p.m. to 2 a.m., South Park Community Center, 3110 Goulden Port Huron.

secretaries; Mrs. Wayne Boucher and Mrs. Robert Siebert, cash donations; Mrs. Lysle Smith and Mrs. Jack Carson, beverages; Mrs.

Kenneth Eastman, Mrs. Fred Thornton and Mrs. Richard Gilbert, booths; Mrs. Joseph Bostater and Mrs William Peacock, food; Mrs. Patrick McPharlin and Mrs.

William White, costumes; Mrs. John Whiting and Mrs. James Pocklington, decorations; Mrs. Sharon Bostater and Mrs. Harry Kostoff, entertainment; Mrs.

Paul Michalsen and Mrs. Anthony Zito, programs; Mrs. Robert Sills, Mrs. Jerry Marcozzi, Mrs. Alan Backman and Mrs.

John Falk, properties and transportation; Mrs. Buckley Collins and Mrs. Robert Spil-lard, publicity; Mrs. Craig Hall, Miss Bobbie Jo Rieder, Mrs. Charles E.

Barrett and Mrs. Roger Ness, service; Mrs. Clifton Friedland, Mrs. Larry Garrow, Mrs. John Robbins and Ms.

Kathy Roller, solicitations; Mrs. William Price and Mrs. John Heck, tickets; Mrs. James Acheson, Hospital Employee of the Year chairwoman; Mrs. Marshall Wittl-iff, Mercy Hospital Auxiliary president; and Mrs.

Albert McNash, Port Huron Hospital Auxiliary president. A little touch of Germany will come to McMorran Junior Arena Oct. 15 and 16 during me Eighth Annual Joint Hospital Oktoberfest. Proceeds from Oktoberfest will be used to buy equipment for Port Huron and Mercy hospitals. Festival-goers will be entertained by Marv Herzog's Bavarian Polka Band Friday night.

Bob Earl and the Imperials will play from 5 to 9 p.m. Saturday, with Tommy Reder and the Polka Towners taking over from 9 p.m. to closing at midnight. The Employee of the Year from each hospital also will be honored at the festival. And gift certificates from downtown merchants will be awarded to guests throughout the festivities.

German food and commemorative items will be available. This year's general chairwoman is Mrs. Walter Brooks. Mrs. John Lukovlch is co-chairwoman.

They have selected the following officers and committee members: Mrs. Bernard Lyons, Mercy treasurer; Mrs. S. Robert Hart, Port Huron treasurer; Mrs. James Shaw, recording secretary; Mrs.

Gerald DeLoy and Mrs. Arnold Larson, corresponding Sunday Fall Harvest Crafts Festival, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Anchor Bay Athletic Field. Sponsored by the New Baltimore Historical Society. Furniture stripping and refinishing demonstration, 1 to 5 p.m., St.

Clair County Farm Museum, Goodells. Mrs. John Lukovich Oktoberfest co-chairwoman Mrs. Walter Brooks Oktoberfest chairwoman.