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THE HERALD OUTLOOK Saturday February Page 15 Entertainment January Man fails in any season FILMETER ute so they do a little bit of every thing Kline a likable theatertrained type who tends toward big effects on screen Is downright hyperbolic here This is simply a movie that doesnt work a botch made by talented peo ple GRADE New Home Video PASCALIS ISLAND PG13 Ever read the novels of Lawrence Durrell those period tales of perfumed exoti cism Heres a British film that takes you into such a world Set on a beautiful Greek island in its the tale of a spy Ben Kingsley for the Ottoman Empire a tired functionary whose careful missives may not even be read by the folks back home Sudden ly hes galvanized by the arrival of an enigmatic Britisher Charles Dance who claims to be in the Aegean on ar- cheolgical business In Movie Theaters THE JANUARY MAN R The new movie year gets off to a shaky start with this latest effort from screen writer John Patrick Shanley author of the wonderful Moonstruck At his best Shanley mixes moods with al chemical skill At his worst as here he tosses together elements that re fuse to cohere This decidedly odd romantic come- dycumthriller stars Kevin Kline A Pish Called Wanda as a renegade cop who relies upon astrology com puters and other esotenca to solve his cases Now hes stalking a serial kill er aided by a weirdo artist Alan the suave villain in Die Hard On the personal front Kline still cant get used to the fact that his exgirlfriend Susan Sarandon dumped him for his brother the po lice commissioner Harvey Keitel This sounds more sensible than it plays The movie is screwy Scenes begin as drama and suddenly veer into crackpot comedy others start out jo key and turn jejune Characters be have improbably presumably so that the killer can hound them better The actors dont seem to know what is ex pected of them from minute to min- Directed by James Dearden who wrote Fatal Attraction the movie grows rather precious and flowery as its characters fates are elaborately intertwined And what does the shock ing ending mean But Kingsley is su perb and for the most part the pic ture casts a civilized spell GRADE DIE HARD R A driedout and newly Bruce Willis flexed his muscles in this popular action ad venture Playing a sort of hipster Willis is a New York cop who arrives in LA on Christmas Eve to visit his estranged wife Bonnie Bedelia at the highrise office building where she works When a group of foreign terrorists enters the building Williss wife and the other employees are taken hos tage Eluding the terrorists Willis spends the movie playing a series of nasty catandmouse games with them in various corridors and shafts This picture is fun if you like stylish selfmocking viciousness of the ma cho school Theres no way though for some of the more spectacular sual effects to come through on video KEVIN KLINE a former supersleuth on the trail of a serial killer finds his life complicated by his exgirlfriend Susan Sarandon in the new come dy The January Man How did Donna Mills get started Question regarding Donna Mills of Knots Landing In a column you said she did not have a part on One Life to Live But I remember her first TV appearance was on a soap op era What was that soap opera Council la A Youre right Donna Mills in all her blonde glory was a regular on The Secret Storm for a while But she was most famous as Laura on Love Is a ManySplendored Thing from 1967 until Could yon provide some infor mation about Edward Woodward The Equalizer Im Interested in his background family and what movies hes made besides Breaker JV Trenton NJ A Edward Woodward comes from Surrey England He studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art He has been practicing bis considerable craft since 1955 He is now married to Dotrice the daughter of Roy Father on Beauty and the Beast and they have a fiveyearold laughter Woodward has three grown ASK DICK KLEINER children from a previous marriage His other movies include Becket Young Winston and The Wicker Man He is a very urbane gentleman as his hobby collecting walking sticks attests On Beauty and the Beast what roles do Jay Roy Dotrice and Ren Woods play SJ F rillo Texas A as noted above plays Father is Joe Maxwell the assistant DA who often works with or against Catherine Linda Hamil ton Ren Woods plays Edle Somewhere In the 30s there was a horror movie called The Gorilla Kills Another Man or maybe it was just The Gorilla Bat a couple of cousins doubt there was such a movie Was there Mrs Rock Hill SC A Are you sure youre not thinking of Gorilla My Dreams The only movie I can find was a horror spoof The Gorilla from with The Brothers and Lionel Atwlll RECORDS ROY ORBISON Mystery Girl 1 99 STEVE KISS Smashes Thrashes Hits 999 TRAVELLING WILBURYS TAPES ERIC CLAPTON Crossroads FLEETWOOD MAC Greatest Hits MICHELLE SHOCKED MELISSA ETHERIDGE 999 OVER CDs ARE MARKED IN WHITE WHICH MEANS OF7 Tuesday Wednesday 1100600 Thursday Friday 00 Saturday 232 STREET ST PLAZA GEORGETOWN Cornar of and MounUlrwltw fid GRADE H THE PRESIDIO R Some critics were very hard on this San Francisco- set thriller and almost no one went to see it Its realiya pretty decent mov ie with colorful Bay area locations and a few thoughtfully written and acted scenes Sean Connery stars as a robust martinet of a provost at the Presidio military compound Years ago he came into conflict with a young MP Mark Harmon now he and the exMP turned city cop are as signed to work together to track the killer of a female MP Along the way succumbs to daughter Meg Ryan a freespirited hot number Dont get the idea that this is a seamless movie The resolution of the mystery Is very and the movie has pretensions to seriousness that it cant always validate But you may agree that there are far worse thrill ers out there GRADE Film grading- excellent good fair NEWSPAPER Face In The Crowd ft Take close look baa winner the by the arrow your you re the lucky wli of a pair Georgetown Cinemas panes Callus Of B822 or drop In 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