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Page THE HERALD Wednesday November Im Jane Fonda stars in creaky movie Old Gringo FILMETER DRUGSTORE COWBOY A star tling surprise Pacific filmmaker Gus Van Sant has come up with a low budget triumph about young addicts who rob pharma cies to support their habits Us a movie that flies in the face of much Bush antidrug rhetoric adopt When he finally decides to go straight Bob does so knowing that it probably means the end of his rela tionship with his wife Kelly Lynch She t want to give up her drug induced highs The controversial literary William Burroughs himself a former junkie a small role as an old ad With his eerie voice and wellknown attitude about drugs Burroughs is the right nihilistic presence to preside over his movie He even offers what would seem lo be the film message In Movie Theaters OLD GRINGO Jane Fonda has spent too much of the last decade playing role models instead of roles That tendency continues in this soggy stilted historical romance adapted from a Carlos novel in which the the star plays are a governess in her to build a new life for her self the governess goes to Mexico to work for a wealthy family to find that she has wandered into the middle of the Mexican Revolution Also turning up is the reallife writer Ambrose Gregory Peck that great cynic who wrote The Devils Dictionary and who actually spent his last days in Mexico According to the movie Bierce Is very attracted to the go but a bit long in the tooth to start a full blown love affair That isn the case with a hot blooded general Jim Pancho Villas revolu tionaryarmy who sweeps the govern ess off her feet Spurred on by these two men the woman awakens to new possibilities loses her virginity to the general and discovers her political consciousness No oneawakens to politics the way Jane Fonda does It something she s done several times before most memorably in Coming Home But her awakening here is corny Perhaps this triangle story turns into one more oldfashioned ro mance m which a woman seems to fulfill herself through the love of men So much for Fonda much vaunted feminism n almost respect the movie plavs like a artsy old time epic he camera seems wowed the b the actors don sttnd mi i senti write whizes a lot rid Fond widens her and quivers The big gest Ics is to tin repimtion of Am Bierce who con across as a boozy geezer win GRADE as a means to curb other freedoms Sounds familiar GRADE New Home Video EARTH GIRLS ARE EASY Vestron Which creatures are more alien a trio of furry extra lerres trials Jeff Goldblum stand up com ics Jim Carrey and Damon Wayarts or Valley Girls Geena Davis and Julie Brown That s the implicit question behind this giddy junk i musical comedy from English director Temple Absolute Beginners The aliens land in Daviss swimming pool and soon re the toast and bane of Southern California The movie has an audacious candy- colored qualitv and its studded with MTV style musical numbers The ways offbeat Goldblum makes a bet ler alien than Davis does a Valley Girl yet this off screen couple still manages to strike some sparks to gether on screen The movie runs out of steam though GRADE Film grading excellent good fate poor THE WORLD ALMANAC DATE BOOK Nov 1 1989 Today is the 305th s I f 1st day of autumn TODAYS BARBS BY PHIL Do you suppose all networks use the same cricket to let you know youre watching a nighttime scene set in the country How come the welghtllfter in the fam ily almost never Is able to muster the strength to take out the trash Ml AMBROSE Gregory Peck Harriet Jane Fonda in Old Gringo a movie based on the novel b Carlos TODAYS HISTORY On this day the first train passed through the Pass an ancient route to the Indian subcontinent from the northwest TODAYS BIRTHDAYS Stephen Crane 187 novelist Grantland Rice 1880195 sportswriter Sho- lem 18801957 novelist James Jackson Kllpatrlck 1920- journalist Gary Player 1935- golfer Fernando baseball player TODAYS QUOTE A man said to the universe Sir I exist However replied the universe The fact has not created in me A sense of obliga tion Stephen Crane WATCH FOR NOVEMBERS EXCITING SPECIAL SET 8731409 It s provocative too daring to suggest that people do drugs because drugs are fun and because they want to relieve the pressures of everyday life at least temporarily selfde struction rather than relief comes lat er As Bob Matt Dillon the leader or a gang of four robberaddicts says to the head of a rehab program like drugs I like the whole lifestyle Yet in its funky non moralizing way this is a very hard hitting movie about drugs The style is a deadpan black comedy one with roots in the woozy underground flicks that Warhol and Paul Mornssey used to make and with similarities to the fierce outh movie River s Edge Van lets us share the hab its of his junkies even as those habits seem The results of such a casual depths view are funm and disturbing Malt Dillon gives what his best performance to date as Bob a fellow plagued superstitions but who much bothered out law manner he 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