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Page THE HERALD OUTLOOK Saturday April 21 1990 Fourth War flick is scooped by history Entertainment Outlook New Kids sold most albums in 1989 ROCK ON FLLMETER In Movie Theaters THE FOURTH WAR This smallscale thriller about a vendetta between American and Soviet border patrol commanders is set at the CzechWest German boundary In 1988 before the Berlin Wall toppled and the Cold War came to an end So like the recent Hunt for Red October the movie has been scooped by histo ry Still a certain timeliness remains in this study of two Cold War warriors who have outlived their usefulness Without an official skirmish to en gage them they have to manufacture a private war with each other Directed by veteran John heimer the movie features the flinty pairing of Roy Scheider and Jurgen Prochnow as rival colonels Both ac tors have the properly weathered toughguy look for this maleoriented thriller They also have the right mel ancholy manner for what is at bottom a portrait of two military dinosaurs In the emblematic scene the two men are reduced to throwing snowballs at each other across a border checkpoint This is a thoughtful action flick though a logy one continues to be a director in decline a shadow of the vital craftsman who gave us The Manchurian Candidate Seven Days in May of Alcatraz and The Iceman Cometh Here he us a minor movie that will eventually pass the time agree ably enough on HBO or on home vid But its just not strong or enough to warrant a special trip to the movie theater GRADE LOVE AT LARGE Poor Alan Rudolph Few contemporary Ameri can filmmakers have more conceptu talent and daring and less common sense less ability to translate a full blown romantic vision into a breathing movie This protege of Robert shares that great di rectors nose thumbing attitude to ward Hollywood commercialism but he lacks moviemaking skills Except for the largely success Choose Me the result has been a succession of cinematic hothouse flowers that wither before our eyes The idea behind the latest Rudolph effort promising What if seemingly normal people lived secret lives Styled as a film noir romance that is also a parody of film noir the movie stars Tom Berenger as a private eye investigating a twotiming lover Along the way Berenger finds all manner of amorous duplicity and more oddball behavior than one mov ie can handle Like Rudolph likes strangely eclectic casts Vet this one never jells Berenger seems to be Slaying a dumb dolt of a dick Maybe is performance would work at the level of a Carol Burnett sketch but it cant carry a film Meanwhile Anne Archer the wife in Fatal Attrac tion la stuck playing a caricature of afemmefatale Some of the other tal ents who turn up include Ruby Dee Kate Capshaw Neil Young and Eliza GINOS PIZZA GINOS WINGS SOLO BY THE POUND Details FREE DELIVERY 00pm Guelph St Georgetown 8734499 Perkins None is at his or her best in this gorgeously designed but murky puton GRADE W New Home Video MIRACLE MILE HBO When it was released last year Steve DeJar- lowbudget thriller about the last minutes before nuclear in Los Angeles divided critics Some thought it a real sleeper others slept through it Its actually half ter- amateurish and definite shop on Boulevard the voice an the other end says that nuclear missiles have been launched from a North Dakota silo Is the voice that of a crank or a new Cassandra Certainly the timing is terrible Edwards is in the middle of falling in love with a waitress aspir ing artist Mare and now he and the kooks have to worry about how to save themselves from destruction Alas the movie selfdestructs It s hard to know how to take certain ROY SCHEIDER and play border control commanders locked in a deadly struggle in John The Fourth War ly worth checking out on video Tht film offers a fresh blend of romance cockeyed humor and nightmare A is made to seem both foreign and strangely beautiful a mix of swaying palm trees gleaming skyscrapers and whirling giant ham burger signs Anthony Edwards stars as a road musician who answers a ringing pay phone outside a coffee scenes Are we to laugh or bite our nails The tone is unstable and the film never achieves the urgency it needs Still it s an interesting tion to that subgenre the endof apocalyptic thriller GRADE tt Film grading excellent good fair poor OK weve rewarded the most re spected records of 1989 with Gram- arid the most popular records with American Music Awards Now its time for the National Association of Recording Merchandisers to recog nize the most purchased records of By actual sales figures for the past calendar year the bestselling album of 1989 was Hangin Tough by New Kids on the Block Editorial aside ugh The same LP won as bestselling album by a group and bestselling al bum by a new artist Ugh Ugh Bobby Browns Dont Be Cruel was the bestselling album by a male artist Paula Abduls Forever Your Girl the best seller by a female Tone Loc won for bestselling single of the year with Wild Thing The next phase in musical tech nology is arriving with Warner Broth ers upcoming release of Mozarts The Magic Flute on CDROM The whole musical education package only costs but you need a Mac intosh computer with Apple CDROM drive to actually play it We realize isnt rock n roll But Warner promises pop music releases on CD- ROM shortly To illustrate what CDROM is ca pable of here what your Mozart disc provides minutes of audio in eluding the 143minute actual perfor mance plus alternate rare recordings of the opera narration and notation by experts and definitions of musical terms computer graphic screens the story line commentary German text and English translation sidebar screens offering listening graphics tests and if vou have a MIDI interface a program whereby you can play along with the orchestra Soon CDROM for Read Only Memory and CDI for Interactive will provide a synthesis of entertain merit and enlightenment that is going to somehow combine Bad English with the Encyclopedia Britannica and make it accessible to all We cant wait It was purely chance but Fine Young Cannibals and the Kentucky Headhunters found themselves sitting side by side on the album chart the other week Winger vocalist Kip Winger do nated a band Tshirt to a celebrity chanty auction and received a polite a note from the sponsors Unfortunately it was addressed to Debra Winger Critics picks Best Rock n Roll Song of the Decade So Far is Bird- Paula Abdul house in Your Soul a delightful the wall little ditty by a band named They Might Be Giants which was also- a delightful off the- wall little movie TMBG for short is the duo of guitar ist John and John and John are from Brooklyn and they are an acquired taste worth acquiring Worst Rock Roll Movie of the Decade So Fa is CryBaby a truly awful exercise in camp minimalism as opposed to camp excess which mighthave been fun It stars a wood en Johnny Depp and an even more wooden Amy Guest appear ance by a morewoodenstill Trad Lords Hie sound tracks OK wait for the CDI and make up 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