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Loonies on the loose in Dream Team THE HERALD OUTLOOK Saturday May 13 1B89 Page 17 In Movie Theaters THE DREAM TEAM This Slightly oddball slapstick comedy pits four mental patients against New York City Not surprisingly the Big Apple s wins out The four patients played by Michael Keaton Peter Boyle Christopher Lloyd and Stephen are on their way to a Yankee game when their therapist Dennis is at tacked by some nasties after he wit a murder Left alone the quartet of patients wanders around the city getting in one jam after an other while trying to find out what happened to their good doctor Directed by Howard Zief f Private Benjamin the movie depends upon our finding the of the pa tients both cute and amusing Insanity here is nothing to take seriously In stead the four lead actors keep us en tertained with niftily differentiated nut cases The ever fresh and Michael Keaton makes some one when he sings Hit the Road Jack in the van and another in a black church when he mistakes the congregation s clapping for an tation to take off his clothes He an e Christopher Lloyd does another of his richly deranged and Stephen has a blobby silliness as the fourth crazy A subplot about corrupt cops isn up to the level of invention of the Iral situation and there s another problem Some of the early scenes are noticeably flat the later ones a trifle sticky But as buddy comedies go this one too bad GRADE W CHECKING OUT R In this ab surdist comedy about hypochondria the gifted English writer and director David tries a movie with an American setting Though it has its moments it s not as good as his En glish films Wish You Were Here Personal Services and Lisa Jeff Daniels stars as a California airline executive whose joke telling buddy falls over dead at a pool party Shocked by his friend s sudden death Daniels starts to imagine that he s on the verge of dying too He goes to a psychiatrist which works until the shrink dies Soon he scouting medi supply stores and driving his horny wife Mayron crazy He even has a hellish vision of heaven where the dead dress in bright resort wear and sing Dixie and ripiwntrr Esz MICHAEL KEATON and Christopher Lloyd play patients at a psychiatric hospital who end up in jail while In New York City in The Dream Team thing quite plausible out of a manic guy whose refusal to accept reality is alternately a sign of prankish imagi nation and a mark of antisocial behavior Playing a former ad exec who thinks he Jesus Christ Peter Boyle has at least two choice moments keep their distance from the characters a risky strategy for dfences weaned on warm Particularly alienating is a pro tracted sex scene between Daniels and his secretary in a car Still the picture has a terrific pop look and bits of macabre humor Fellow Peaches pep up pork chops FOOD Canned fruits have come to the res cue of many harried cooks who forgot to buy fresh fruits or did not find suit able fresh ones in the market Smallchildren especially like fruits such as cling peaches at lunchtime Use a can of peach halves to dress up and add flavor to a sauce for baked pork chops SOUTHERN PEACH PORK CHOPS 1 16ounca can cling poach In lute or pork chops Garlic powder 2 chopped or onhma MM meat shops OPEN DAYSI Sun 11im Sam 9am dried thyme cup bourbon or apple Juice cup heavy cream cup pecan halve Drain peaches reserving all liquid Slice peach halves to form fans- set aside In a Inch skillet brown pork chops on both sides Sprinkle with gar he powder and lemon pepper Place browned pork chops on baking sheet Fan peach halves over pork chops Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes or until pork Is cooked through Meanwhile drain excess fat from skillet Stir in shallots cook until lightly browned Stir In thyme and re served peach liquid Boll for 3 min until reduced and thickened Stir in bourbon boil for 3 minutes Stir in cream and heat through Pour sauce onto serving plate Top with pork chops and sprinkle with pe cans to serve This kitchen tested rec STORE HOURS 30 am 6 except Thursday Friday 30 a m 9 p m CkttmToMotml 211 Guelph Street Georgetown 8777361 CENTRE driacs will probably like it best its certainly better than the similar Burt Reynolds lick The End Perhaps the subject is just too limited and seemly for wide appeal GRADE New Home Video GORILLAS IN THE MIST 13 MCA Home Video Sigourney Weaver had her best full scale role to date in this film bio of An anthropologist whose study of go rillas in Rwanda helped to rescue the animals from extinction met an untimely death the victim of a still unsolved murder The movie Is best when it on Fossey interaction with the gorilla As Weaver plays her is openly enraptured by the animals imitating their move merits and sounds lost in a primeval reverie But too much of the movie is about other things including Fosse s aborted love affair with a dashing Geographic photographer Bry an Brown Us like leftovers from Out of Africa And the movie is short on a sense of the actual research that Fossey did GRADE V CROSSING DELANCEY PG Warner Home Video Should a mar riageabJe Manhattan Jewish princess Amy Irving choose the arrogant rakish literary lion or the affable downtown pickle man Peter Riegert At its best this is an urban folk tale a Jewish Moonstruck GRADE Film grading excellent good fair poor ENTERPRISE OUR LANGUAGE by Jeffrey McQuain One that is hunted or made a victim is prey Its pronounced like pray which t a bad thing for prey to do Something cut and dried appears settled or routine That the cut and dried definition no matter how you slice it I find the use of me and I confus ing in you and I or me and the gate post Is there a rule for correct usage A Use me in that idiom Between you and me and the gatepost or lamp post means that the conversation is to be kept secret or confidential The preposition between requires the ob ject me not the subject I let keep that just between you and me Sham refers to something false or counterfeit You have no trouble with sham if you remember that it 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