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THE HEKALD Wednesday June 1W Dick Tracy is not deep FILMETER In Movie Theaters DICK TRACY PG Its not as flat as Ishtar Warren Beattys last ma jor production but this longawaited liveaction epic based on the Chester Gould comic strip is thin and twodi a minor entertainment inflated beyond all meaning and then topped with Madonna The result is like a half melted sundae on which a big cherry has been placed to divert attention Alas the camouflage fails This is comicbook moviemaking without the resonance of Batman or even the kiddle giddiness of Teenage Mutant Turtles Goulds beloved strip about the straight arrow detective may never have had much social meaning be playing with gangsterera ste reotypes but it did have punchy graphic power Gould drew vivid un sightly bad guys Seldom have and physiognomy been joined together with such creepy success But why pump up this simple strip into a fulllength bigscreen movie After all many young kids dont know Dick Tracy and all the marketing ploys in the world may not endear this squarejawed old fashioned charac ter to todays more scifioriented tykes Many kids probably even know who Warren Beatty is and nothing he does here will change that Beatty seems to think that playing Tracy as stolidly as possible will make him a satisfying cartoon hero Instead he just seems stiff and sub dued The best thing about the perfor mance is his lemon yellow fedora and raincoat That leaves Madonna to charm us Doing her best MonroeMae West as bad girl Breathless Ma- honey Madonna is a visual knockout her cabaret singing both silky and steamy But the role is embarrassing She spends the whole movie trying to woo Tracy virtually throwing herself at him while he keeps rejecting her for good girl Tess Trueheart Headly Its impossible not to think of vanity here The renowned off screen lady killer has cast himself as a supposedly dashing action hero who spurns the advances of the hot est woman in the world What does work The juicy hammi ness of Al as arch villain Big Boy Caprice and Dustin Hoffman as the appropriately named Mumbles Playing an orphan kid who keeps res cuing Tracy Charlie is Ilk able no Annie style mars this child actor The wild make up effects are fun and for a while so is the visual scheme with Its empha sis on primary colors and blatantly artificial backgrounds The movie may not be a bomb but neither Is it much more than bear able GRADE LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN When Hubert Selby book of the same name was published In 1965 it shocked people with its raw language and tortured view of working class Brooklyn Now belatedly Ger man director Edel has come up with a heavy handed urban night mare that feels neither timely noris torical The movie plays like a cross between a pretentious MTV video and one of those breast beating serious Hollywood movies of the 50s and 60s especially The Man with the Golden Arm all filtered through a Teu tonic sensibility What makes the movie worth see ing at alt is Jennifer Jason Leigh as a hooker This chameleonlike actress never gives the same performance twice Though she also played a pros in the recent Miami Blues she was a very different character Here she s fleshier and coarser The potent image of this thickheaded tart strutting and stumbling her way through the dirty streets will outlast the movies attempted fusion of Chris symbolism labor unionism and arty expressionism GRADE W New Home Video IN COUNTRY Warner A heart felt if stylistically corny adaptation of Bobbie Anne Masons novel Set in small town Kentucky the film is about the residue of feelings left from the Vietnam War how the pain and shame of that particular conflict have carried over into the next generation Bruce Willis surprised a lot of pie with his unusual performance as a reclusive traumatized vet while the young English actress Emily Lloyd Cookie disappeared into the role of a feisty teenage Kentuckian GRADE Film grading excellent good fair poor Foxs J is for Andrew ASK DICK KLEINER By Dick Kleiner Q What does the J stand for in Michael J Fox V Dalton Ga A Would you believe it stands for Andrew Well it does Here is the ry as Fox told me himself His real full name is Michael Andrew Fox When he became an actor and wanted to join the Screen Actors Guild he wanted to call himself Michael Fox but there already was an actor by that name So they suggested he use his middle initial He felt Michael A Fox sounded sort of silly so he simply took J arbitrarily It stands for Andrew ries Paradise I was shocked to find out that the actress on Paradise is listed as Sigrid Thornton I find it hard to believe they are not the same person K Haverhill Miss But are two entirely differ cnt people Thornton is an from Evanston 111 Can you give me some on Frank B Sagi naw Mich I would like to know whatever happened to Audie Murphy C E Santa Maria Calif What happened to actor Jim Hut ton J R Dothan What information can you give us about David Janssen ME Fairmont V Q Please tell me if Gloria is still li Mrs DS Kalama zoo Mich A All of have passed in Murphy in Hutton in in 80 and in A few years ago around the Christmas holidays I saw a movie called Silent Night Lonely Night Shirley Jones was in it but who was the man who starred with her Is it on video cassette J Pa A Lloyd Bridges was the man and yes it is on a video cassette Ask the man for I recently saw South Pacific on TV An actor playing the bit part of a sailor looked very much like Lee Majors His name was not in the its but could he have been in thai film J Fairvlew Pa A No South Pacific was filmed in and Majors first job was in The Big Valley in 1965 In what movie did Walter Huston sing September Song Mrs H A A That comes from Knickerbock Holiday but Huston sang it on stage Charles Coburn sang it in movie Michael J Fox Lloyd Bridget Recently my daughter and I saw the movie A Shock to the System with Michael Caioe and Elizabeth Mc Govern I told my daughter I bad al ways enjoyed McGovern on the TV BUY ONE GET ONE FREE ON ANY SIZE PIZZA 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memory of one for you This way your holiday la guaranteed to be fun and you dont even have to be yourself in it if you choose a little frill And theres only a slight chance of an accidental lobotomy Since this wife hates Mars Doug decides this is the best way to go Before the implant can be made it becomes clear that Doug has already been implanted that he is not in fact Doug at all If Im not me who the hell an I has to go to Mars to find out pursued by vicious agent Richter Michael Ironside not to mention his wife Sharon Stone Top Cohaagen Ronny Cox wants him alive but we re not sure why Although Verhoevens cen- Earth is a disaster the movie is set in his Mars is terrify A dry red planet with no hideous domed cities Mars is QUICKPfK THE QUICK PLACE TO SHOP populated by mutants and rebels and vicious government agents Cracks in the faulty domes have resulted In a large mutant popula tion and Cohaagen who is running the planet Just doesnt give a damn The makeup on these peo ple Is fantastic and a three- breasted woman is guaranteed to make you blink a few times On Mars Doug discovers the truth and it has more than a few twists The movie goes into high gear violence losing some of the philosophical edge and inner anguish that made It more than an action picture in the beginning However it is acompelling ending nonetheless the chase scenes fast- paced and not tired cliches Arnold is good in this Hick managing to convey a sense of uneasiness fear and selfdoubt His action scenes are also well done his powerful build giving a strong sense of invincibility ny Cox bad guy Is also strong a businesslike villain with money aa the bottom line The ultimate CEO as envisioned by Ivan greed is good taken to its ultimate conclusion The rest of the cast is fine with Rachel as Melina Dougs real love interest Verhoeven is a fascinating direc tor his futuristic visions combin utter banality with evil so ram pant and embedded that it leaves you numb This picture like RoboCop is amazingly violent and not for the faint of heart Even If you re not an Arnold fan Total Recall Is appealing as visually ar resting in its own way as the much softer and prettier Dick Tracy Carton Cigarettes Cigarettes pkgJpM Thurs Weekend New Movies All Older All The Time NINTENDO Machine Games 99 Weekend Games a Machine PLAYING THIS WEEK