European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 20, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse What a it about i i of a 1 Nicolas Cage lift and Willem Dafoe Are in a wild at Romual Goldwyn company just out on the circuit wild at heart rated r. Not wild enough but if you care about movies you la have to see it. This goof bul tale of lovebirds 011 the Lam in the deep South from director David Lynch of twin peaks and Blue velvet Fame is a mixture of Deadpan comedy Road Movic Romance and the wizard of or. The Gist a Sailor Nicolas Cage and his Darling Lula Laura darn take off together Cross country. Her disapproving mom Dianne Ladd sends a couple of her lovers to bring Lula Back. Its innocence pursued by corruption and the a Eclectic cast Willem Dafoe Isabella Ros Scolini Harry Dean Stanton give it their All a especially Cage who does a Superb Early Elvis. At its Lunatic Best the movie is Blue velvet meets Blue Hawaii. But Blue velvet was genuinely disturbing this film is More showy than soul shaking. Still Lynch is probably genetically incapable of making something you did no to want to watch there s More imaginative bravado Here than in 10 films. A postcards from the Edge rated a Carrie Fishers adaptation of her own Book May seem More like Fortune cookie zingers than a flushed out screenplay but under Mike Nichols direction it is massively enjoyable thanks to the spirited comic grumbling of meryl Streep and the Star turn of Shirley Maclaine. They play a pair of movie pros a an egocentric sex Star of �?T50s musicals and her actress daughter struggling Back from her drug habit the stunner is the discovery that Streep can sing too. Avalon killed in i. Harry ruin Man Levinson s Multi Genera tonal acini Saga is a Heartfelt family album glued together by Liberal doses of Schmaltz. The movie spans 50 years a from 1014, when the family patriarch Armin Mueller Stahl Steps off the boat and into Beautiful downtown Baltimore to the ills. A a. A. A. A graveyard shift rated a there s a Man eating monster lurking in the basement of a textile Mill and the cast s Job is to go Dow n there and get picked off one by one. Though we never gel a Clear View of it the thing More or less resembles a giant Bat dipped in Wesson Oil. Based on a Stephen King Short Story. Millers crossing rated r. A thrillingly Good gangster film that Isnit really a gangster film at All. Rather it chronicles the escalating 1�?~121> Gangland War Between rival mob lords Albertl inner and Jon polite to provide a framework for matters of Friendship treachery and infidelity. It s As literate and intelligent As anything you la year. This movie stays with you. Good fellas rated r Martin Scorsese s spectacular spin on a 1 he godfather Saga. Based on the actual life and times of Malta lieutenant Henry Hill Ray Jott athe movie begins in l i.5.s, w Ith Young i Lenry As a gangster go Fer and ends in the Kos w Ith the boy who Quot always dreamed of being a gangster Quot turning government witness. Robert de Niro. Joe Pesci and Paul Sori no offer an beguiling rogue s gallery of mob types. Graffiti Bridge rated pm. Prince is Back As the composer writer director and Star of this sorta sequel to 1984 s purple rain. The Rocker and his scene stealing buddy Morris Day play. Rival nightclub owners a musicians in a fable about Commerce is. Art Good is. Evil spiritual is. Funky. The music costumes camera angles Etc. Are All mtg up to Date but the plot and dialogue belong in a fran Kie and Annette Beach movie Jacob ladder rated r. Tim Robbins stars As a Vietnam vet living in new York and plagued by nightmarish visions ghost riders in the subway Home less people ghouls demonic thingies that disco with his Girlfriend Elizabeth Pena. The people who leave this supernatural thriller muttering a that was weird Quot Are Likely to be the same people who found fatal attraction disturbing and intelligent. A a ,. A. Kindergarten cop rated pg-13. Arnold Schwarzenegger continues to amaze with his ongoing reinvention of himself. If Litis action comedy he a part terminator part Julie Andrews in the sound of music As violence prone cop who goes undercover As an elementary school teacher. A Good supporting cast includes Linda Hunt and Pamela Reed. Look. Who stalking too rated pg-13. Tins sequel is so thin it has to be stretched by flashbacks to make it to a big 81 minutes. But Bey. The less of this thing the better. Kirstie Alley and John Travolta return As the movie s supposed adults parents of the precocious Mikey Bruce Willis reprising his offscreen wisecracks and ins new Little sister Julie voiced by Rosc Anne Barr. The Nutcracker Prince rated g. A feature length cartoon about Clara and the Nutcracker made famous by Tchaikovsky a the Nutcracker Prince has the voices of Kiefer Sutherland and Megan follows and some modest charms. A a a a a a a Pacific height rated a v Yuppie version of the Amityville horror in which a deranged tenant Michael Keaton rents space in a victorian House in san Francisco and proceeds to dismantle the place As Well As the psyches of his Yuppie land. Lords Matthew Modine and . A great premise for a comedy. Alas the film is a solemn faced thriller. Quigley Down under rated pm. An honest mostly enjoy Hie Effort to revive the Western. Easygoing Tom Sellack is an american Sharpshooter summoned to Australia by a wealthy rancher Alan Rickman. When he finds out what Rickman has in mind a exterminating aborigines not As advertised Dingo a Selleck demurs and a blood feud follows. The rescuers Down under rated g. Disney s 29th animated feature and its first sequel bring Back Bernard and Branca from the rescuers 1977 in a fast paced adventure. The Chi pirating action sequences Challenge the work of Spielberg and Lucas and reaffirm the Power of animation to present extravagant fantasy on the screen. Reversal of Fortune rated r. A sinfully entertaining tragicomedy of manners. This lifestyles of the Rich and infamous is based on the real life Casc of Claus von Bulow Jeremy Iron who was charged with trying to murder his wife socialite Zillio Niware sunny von Bulow via an insulin overdose. It s narrated by. Sunny Glenn close from her irreversible coma a a mordant comedy touch. A. A. Sibling rivalry rated pg-13. Can love kill Carl Reiner s new comedy with Kirstie Alley As a wife whose Impromptu infidelity goes haywire when her partner Dies tries to mix macabre graveyard farce with sentimental family comedy a but the lines Aren t there the films style is Slack and it does t work. Texas ill rated r. A Texas burlesque. Which May not he exactly what people were expecting from the Long awaited sequel to 1971 the last picture show. Still this film starring Jeff Bridges Cyril Shepherd Timothy Bottoms and Annie Potts is like its characters a a bit thick around the Middle and prone to self indulgence but basically likable. Thres men and a Little lady rated pm. In the improbable follow up to the 1987 hit three men and a baby we re asked to believe that the three sex swinging bachelors have been happily living for five years in a Brownstone commune with their sex baby Hoarder and her Mother. We can to. It s an of Crtright overdressed sequel As usual. A. Waiting for tha Light rated pm. Light and likable. Single. Mom Teri Garr moves her kids and her eccentric aunt Shirley Maclaine to a dive of a diner she a inherited in Washington state. Auntie is a former circus magician with a few tricks still up her sleeve that she cheerfully passes on to the children. But a hoax they pull on a neighbor has unexpected results. Before you can say Quot just kidding a the townspeople arc building 3 religious shrine in his Apple Orchard and looking for Christ s profile in a Sunbeam. A. ,. White Palace rated r. A predictable opposites aurut Romance is saved mostly by the steamy chemistry Between its stars James Spader and Susan Sarandon. She a a 43-year-old waitress he a a 27-year-old and exec. She lives in a Pigsty and likes the Oak Ridge boys he a a neatness Freak with an opera collection. She a. Well you gel the this Page these Short reviews Are of films currently on the cafes theater circuit or expected shortly and Are compiled from reports by wire services and staff reviewer Chuck Vinch. _ save this Page to Check each week before you go to the movies. We expect to update it once a month. A lengthy review of a Rocky Vuis featured on Page 9. Locations and times Tor movies on the cafes circuit can be found on pages 8 and 9. A special note this month cafes has had Many prob lems getting films from the states due to operation desert shield and a Lack of space on the Mac flights. Consequently a number of substitutions have had to be. Made for films already scheduled. The movie schedules provided on pages 8 and 9 Are the most current cafes could Supply but unannounced substitutions of some of the films listed should be expected. Page 4. C. A to plus sunday january 20, 1991 television the worlds window on War late in november an Abc news producer was in Baghdad Iraq Cooling his heels in a government ministers office in Hopes of making arrangements for Tom Brokaw to visit the iraqi capital. When the producer finally did get an audience he found the iraqi official was watching to a Larry King live on Cable news network to be precise. And As War began it was probably no cd Aggra Tion to suggest that president Bush and iraqi Leader Saddam Hussein could have been parked in front of to sets watching the same program. Along with much of the rest of the world they might Well have been listening to the extraordinary coverage of the bombing of Baghdad thursday morning by can correspondents hiding from iraqi guards in their Baghdad hotel rooms in order to Tell the world what was happening. The iraqi interest in in no a Washington coverage has been intense from the outset of the crisis since the kuwaiti invasion last August. But the networks coverage of sports and the entertainment Industry has also been Well received in Baghdad according to in no sources. If Hussein a ministry officials tuned in tuesday As expected on the eve of War a can official predicted at the time there was at least one disappointment in store for them. A a Showbiz today a he said with a sigh a will probably not mister Rogers wearing his Cardigan and using hand puppets from his make believe world videotaped Public service messages last week aimed at easing children a fear of War. Quot the least and Best we adults can do is let our children know that Well take Good care of them no matter what a Fred Rogers the soft spoken Host of mister Rogers neighbourhood said in a 15-second spot addressed to adults. Rogers videotaped four messages a two for adults and two for children a which were aired two Days before War broke out. With images of . Soldiers broadcast into millions of Homes Rogers said in an interview even the preschoolers who make up most of his audience can sense trouble. That a when it is most important for families to talk he said. There san irony in the fact that in an area of the Globe where women generally enjoy few of the rights that their Western counterparts do female the world sees Samdani Hussein checking his watch wednesday As the dead line comes near in a report from can correspondent John Holliman in Iraq. To journalists at e increasingly gaining the right to cover Large scale War and die in the desert wit their male colleagues. Each of the to networks has included women in their rotations of personnel in the persian Gulf since iraqis aug. 2 invasion of Kuwait and Many female reporters and producers Are also perilously situated in persian Gulf states outside saudi Arabia. A a a a a a. A a a a a / a a. Female print reporters have covered combat in limited numbers at least As far Back As world War ii. Nevertheless War reporting has traditionally been an overwhelmingly male bastion and Only one woman a Liz Trotta then of Abc news a covered the Vietnam War on a regular Day to Day basis for a network. Despite her own reputation As a Tough Aggro Sive. Reporter Trotta is opposed to women serving in combat. Quot they simply done to belong in combat a she said. A a lot of things like the feminist movement have clouded the Basic differences Between men and women a but Arentt female War correspondents also women in combat a you done to have to fight the War when you cover the War a Trotta said a War is wonderful a Trotta adds a before it a a a a a. Three customers sat in the Bourbon Street burlesque club in new Orleans wednesday night watching a television carrying news of the attack on Iraq rather than the stripper dancing slowly on the runway. About 50 people sipped drinks while listening to a rousing piano rendition of a Margari Taville at Pat of Briens piano bar while across the Brick arc Coeway the Jukebox was turned Down and the presidents speech was turned up. But in Las vegas the same night gamblers continued to pour coins into Casino Slot machines seemingly oblivious to the . Attack on Iraq unfolding on nearby television screens. A a in a sure Well kick Saddam a butt a said one Man taking a break from a Blackjack table at bin Ion a Horseshoe club,.�?oit�?Ts no reason to run out of Here Quot Fred Rogers of a mister Rogers a Young Soldier in fatigues faces an Abc today camera in the saudi desert smiling As he greets his fellow citizens in the United states. In Illinois just activated reservists a Apt. Priscilla Smith and staff sgt. Doug Martin Are being interviewed on lbs this morning about the Call impaction the ii la mimics. A i m a College kid Back Home Quot a baby laced Marine in Battle gear says soberly on Aik Quot a Good morning America. This video prelude to actual con lick Lias gone on for months and thank goodness for it. 1 Lam pc Rcd by restrictions placed on the Media what to has done Host during the Gull crisis a Vulva to other medium could do As Well or As extensively a is put a human face on w a. Delta Burke of designing women and her hits band Gerald Mcraney of major dad have been on to lately talking about their recent visit with . Troops in the Gulf. A t a a w v a a a it a % it it a abcs Linda Patillo one of the female w a correspondents in saudi Arabia. They show the usual clips of smiling stars and . Yet the symbolism of those clips is powerful and inescapable for you suddenly won de just How Many americans who normally would be laughing at burkes and Mcraney s us comedies a or at cheers on Abc or Roseanne on Abc or the Simpsons on Fox a Are now in the Gulf. So who Heller to Pul on to who better to Lill . Television currently than . Hoops and their loved ones this article was complied in to parts i a the a los angles i Mes and Othef nov. January 20. 1991 Sunda a to plus c Page .5
