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Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), August 29, 1987, p. 10

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HILLS OUTLOOK Saturday 1S8T Entertainment Outlook Traditional western making a comeback GEORGETOWN CINEMAS 235 GUELPH STREET 1 STARTS TODAY ITS THE BEST FILM OF THE SUMMER m rutin Ikhtil i It was until Ihut w RICHARD DREYFUSS ESTEVEZ STftKEOUT Its a tough nil but somebodys got do it 1OTIIWIW If III Mill Ml fill Mil WW if I AMI Dost- Dggu COARSE LANGUAGE Evening at A 1 p m brutal violence Matinee Sat Sun at 00 2 3rd GREAT WEEK Ifrlmd CM BUT tun CANTBUYME LOVE Evenings it IS Millnce Saturday A Sunday 3 MATINEE SATURDAY AND SUNDAY AT 2 ONLY 3 STARTS TODAY Al 1 was Just thrilled read great news from Hollywood Hit traditional Western is making a comeback It rue Doth Bonanza and arc being remade Into TV movies and pilots tor several new Western scries are In the works In other words It looks as II there II soon be something other than Bugs llunny or the discerning Intelligent adult to watch on TV Mosey on down to the Sony boys back Now granted It could be argued thai new TV movie Is something less than an epoch making event Indeed a cynic might point out thai he film Is unlikely la hi 1 paragon slam bam action considering that both Marshal Dillon and Miss Kitty must be In their 90s by now Is gonna gun down the no- good Weevil Kid Marshal Sure am Ma am You tell him ah right here a wait In for him Nurse says he can come round durln vlslfln hours Still no right thinking person can deny that the traditional Western constituted the high water mark true culture ranking Just slightly ahead of the Collected Works Shakespeare and well above The Iliad Homer It is a truth universally acknowledged that the of human civilization Is a pizza no anchovies a six pack and High Noon on the late show And that why It such a crime that the would be sociologists the world arc trying their best to our delight at the Western comeback by claiming that It fleets the stampede back lo conservative values in Ronald America This claim Is silly absurd and Insulting nine first place you and I do not live In Ronald Reagan s America We live In Ronald Reagan s which Is a slightly different matter ASLtEPtR toe damns as any DIRTY DANCING earn a plan at on of the lop ten pop mas patty maims there with SATURDAY FLASHDANCEond FOOTLOOSE Eveningi at A 15 Only ALL SEATS ANY SHOW ON TUESDAYS Moreover angrily reject any that I love Westerns I am a On the contrary I lovt Wtsltrns precisely because I Weirs View TRIO NOW AVAILABLE PARK STORE MOVIE RENTALS All lovers were dismayed when Ron was In the first place This is because he made such lousy Westerns Any one of us could have told the Americans that their big mistake was not electing Jimmy Stewart Instead If you want to be led by a cowboy actor for Pete sake elect a good one But the core of the problem Is the Implication that Westerns arc popular because their heroes are men who talk softly and shoot loudly As such the argument goes we secretly wish that the NATO Alliance were led by Admittedly Westerns have a certain moral simplicity which Is appealing Lite In the 1980s would undoubtedly foe much easier II your only concerns were talk in straight shoolfn square and looking Tor the man who hot your Pa Onlheother hand your Pa might not be too keen about this state of affairs but let leave that aside moment But this whole line of argument misses the point Westerns are not popular because the heroes are simple straightforward and trigger happy they re popular because the villains are simple straightforward and triggerhappy The big problem with the modern world is that the villains refuse to Identify themselves by wearing black hats and saying Harhar bar when they bum down a homestead RADIO CITY LIVE ENTERTAINMENT EVERY WEEK Thursday Friday Saturday LOWER LEVEL LOUNGE Open Men 5 1 00 a 8777811

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