European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 09, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Short takes Aladdin of musical successor to Beauty and the beast. Airborne pm. California teen ii forced to spend six month in Cincinnati with relatives. Shane Mcdermott. Another stakeout pg-13. Richard Dryfuss and Emilio i Sieve Star As Seattle police detectives. Addama family values pg-13. Practically everyone returns Anjelica Huston Raul Julia. The Beverly Hillbillies pc Jim Varney Heads a cast that includes Lily Tomlin. 0. A bran tale r. A 9-year old boy is torn Between the honorable life offered by his father and the Good life As presented by the local crime Boss. Chazz Palminteri and Robert Denio. Calendar or log 13. Three High school buddies Jason Priestley Gabriel Olds and Jerry o Connell take off for Hollywood in Pursuit of a fantasy affair. Bonehead a pc. Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtin re. Prise their saturday High tic Man r. 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Macaulay caulking. Happily Ivor Attar g. Animated sequel to Snow White and the seven dwarfs. Hard target r. Fast action and wild stunts pre Vail. Jean Claude Van Damme. Heart and Saul pg-13. Eat surf die and get a second Chance. Robert Downeyjr. Home Alan 2i Leaf in Haw Varic pm this sequel is an attempt to duplicate the original. Homeward bundt tha incredible journey g. Three pets make a perilous trip. Jason floes to he i the final Friday r. Your favorite hockey masked maniac Jason Jurassic Park pg-13. A sure Oscar nominee for special effects. Last action Here pg-13. Austin o Brien plays Young movie fan of Arnold Schwarzenegger. Vic in the line of fire r. Secret service agent Frank Horrigan Clint Eastwood against an Assassin John Malkovich. Malice r. Alec Baldwin Bill Pullman and Nicole Kidman Star in this so so thriller. A the Man without a face pg-13. Story about a Friendship. Mel Gibson. The meteor Man pm. Robert Townsend write i reels and stars. Or. Jones r. 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Val Kilmer stars As Doc Holliday and Kurt Russell portrays Wyatt Earp in Tombstone which hits the target. Buena Vista Chuck Vinch stall writer on movies Tombstone rated r must see Worth your time passable entertainment coming soon to a video outlet near you and you can wait the Best reason to see this film is the unlikeliest Val Kilmer As Doc Holli Day the gunfighter Gambler dentist who stood with Wyatt Earp at the . Corral. That casting May seem screwy at first but Kilmer and Kurt Russell As Earp Are outrageous one half of the team that strode into history in the famous 1881 gunfight at Tombstone Ariz. They enjoy the support of a uniformly Superb cast that includes Veteran b movie stalwarts Sam Elliott and Bill Paxton As Wyatt s Brothers Virgil and Morgan. Tombstone was a wide open Silver mining town when the earps arrived in 1879. Wyatt came in from Kansas where he had earned an embellished reputation by cleaning up the wild cow town of Dodge City. All the earps worked periodically As lawmen but More for the legitimacy such work afforded their private dealings than for a love of the Law itself director George Cosmatos and writer Kevin Jarre initially present the earps As opportunists looking to Trade on their Fame to become affluent businessmen. But they Are sucked into the factional violence that was erupting with the growth of the town particularly among a Loose knit group of rustlers cutthroats and thieves known simply As the when their own livelihoods Are threatened Virgil and Morgan want to fight to preserve not Only their own Honor but also to protect the terrorized townsfolk. Among the enemies arrayed against them Are curly Bill Brocius Powers boo Hethe loathsome Ike Clanton Stephen Lang and lightning fast Johnny Ringo Michael Biehn. Wyatt tries to talk his Brothers into staying out of the fight but they eventually sign on As town marshals. Then they find themselves facing not Only the cowboys but also smooth Dandy John Behan Jon Tenne the county sheriff who was jealous of the earps and who it is intimated had a hand in the Bush whacking of Virgil and Morgan in the Days after the shootout at the . Corral. Realism crams every scene and All the historically factual aspects of the situation which was better documented than most such episodes of the old West Are evident although Cosmatos and Jarre rearrange a few things. The character of Biehn s Ringo for example is beefed up and offered As Doc s principal antagonist. Biehn does Rich work opposite Kilmer. They have the film s wittiest scene when the gunslingers fling insults at each other in latin. Their eventual face off a swirl of poetic carnage subtly captures the fascination with gunplay that seems a part of America s heritage. Made up with a deathly pallor to reflect the tuberculosis that was already killing Holliday at age 28, Kilmer does unexpectedly textured work walking a Fine line Between pathos and parody. The movie swells when he s on screen and shrinks when he s not. Holliday was a Larcelous murderous alcoholic but for unexplained reasons he was completely devoted to Wyatt Earp. When Wyatt tells him he does t have to risk his life in the looming shootout Holliday is offended. That s a hell of a thing for you to say to me he retorts. In another scene when Ringo is raising hell and looking for someone to slap leather Doc comes Forward and drawls i m your Huckle the film s big failing is its women characters. Cosmatos uses them As props and does a poor Job. Early on Doc has the Beautiful Kate Joanna Pacula on his Arm while Earp has his wife Mattie Dana Wheeler Nichol son. But both women vanish about Halfway through the film. A third female character is even most problematic. Josie Marcus Dana Delaney member of an itinerant acting troupe passing through town strikes Sparks with Wyatt. The film uses her to bring out Earp s civilized intellectual Side but this entire subplot is peripheral at Best to the Central Story. Their scenes together consistently stall the film s momentum particularly near the end when Cosmatos almost lets it turn into a musical. Still in its larger than life portrayal of an event that epitomized the mindless Macho aggression of Ameri can Frontier culture and hastened the end of the wild West Era Tombstone is a worthy addition to the genre. It gets three stars. Page. 12 sunday january 9,1994
