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Movie Review THE HERALD September 1990 Ghost enthralls even cynical reviewer By DIAHANN NADEAU Herald Special Before even seeing it Ghost had two strikes against it as far as I was concerned Patrick Swayze and the very disappointing Always another ghostly romance from early this year However Ghost manages to suc ceed in a way that Always could not and Swayze turns in a lovely and tender performance erasing the memory of his last two outings and Next of Kin Ghost tells the story of two Manhattan yuppies Sam and Molly Demi Moore and make you care about them an achievement in itself Sam is a banker Molly is an artist specializing in pottery They have recently moved in together into a fabulous loft apartment and are talking about marriage Things couldnt be better which worries Sam a pessimist at heart He is right life is too good and on the way home from the theatre he is murdered by a thief He rises from his body and watches himself die in a scene that conveys the enormous fear and confusion that such an event would cause He follows Molly around helpless to contact her and soon discovers that his murder was not an accident and that Molly is also in danger He stumbles across a con artist medium who for some reason actually hears him much to their mutual surprise Mae Brown Whoopi Goldberg would like to ignore Sam but he harasses her until she gives up and goes to see Molly Sam slowly learns the mechanics of being a ghost pick ing up some pretty neat tricks from a pretty weird subway ghost Vincent Schiavelli in a memorable role The reasons for the murder are unveiled and although there are no surprises here the mystery about the murder is not all that im portant What gives Ghost its wonderful spirit is the love and longing that Sam feels for Molly and the way that director Jerry Zucker and screenwriter Bruce Rubin have made the other world so real plausible possible believable Swayze is really good as Sam usmg his dancers training to con vey the terrible problem of being a ghost without any physical presence where once he was so able so real so athletic His love for Molly is on his face every se cond of the movie and he shows it without ever seeming overly sen timental or corny Demi Moore is beautiful and tender as Molly her love for Sam and her loss reaching into the au dience her pain so real you can almost feel it Whoopi Goldberg is hilarious as Oda Mae her face a delightful map of mischief her eyes an endless source of amusement Screen newcomer Tony Goldwyn plays best friend Carl and holds his own with the other three Ghost is an utterly utterly romantic film and quite beautiful its open and naked commitment to love Even this cynical movie reviewer found herself believing in ghosts and maybe even more portantly love Dark Man deserves dark place By GARRY J MURDOCH the Herald Crime may have a new enemy and Justice may have a new face but that doesnt mean the makers in Hollywood have a better movie for the matter In fact Sam director of the just released movie Dark Man is probably crawling into a dark place right about now just to avoid criticism of this over publicized film Believe it or not the movie is a cross between The Phantom of the Opera and Hard to Kill who also wrote the film script kept the premise fairly easy and unoriginal One brilliant scien tist on the verge of a major break through is horribly disfigured in an Arts Council receives 3 million KINGSTON Ontario Culture and Communications Minister Hugh P ONeil recently announc ed two grants totalling million for the Ontario Arts Council OAC The million package has two components a million grant for allocation to small and medium- sized arts organizations and in dividual artists across the pro vince and a million grant to match an endowment by the Chalmers Family to the OAC earlier this year The ministrys million grant will establish a new Venture Fund With the recent Chalmers endow ment they will together generate nearly a halfmillion dollars per annum to support new artistic ven tures We are taking exciting first steps today in support of the in novative and pioneering work of experimental artists in Ontario said ONeil The Venture Fund is designed to help these artists develop and produce their pro jects The Venture Fund represents an ideal partnership between the private and public sectors said ONeil explosion made by a bunch of real bad guys Well after somehow living through the explosion which went off right in front of him he is blown a glass window and blown feet through the air and crashlands into a lake where he is somehow saved After waking up days later total ly covered in bandages he runs out of the hospital dawns a hat and cloak and takes after the dumb founded bad guys in his first major starring role as the scientist an upgrade from his role in Suspect where he played a deafmute does what he can with the role which is severely limited because half the time it requires him to pretend to be someone else This is all part of his plan to get back at the bad guys Too bad Of course the movie is pretty predictable because the audience knows he will eventually extract his revenge killing off the lowest of the gang responsible for his disfigurement right up to the head honcho in the end The real question is whether or not he will get his girlfriend back who will or will not accept him the SPECIAL OFTHEWEEK i- EVERY FRIDAY RIBSTEAK DINNER INCLUDES SOUP SALAD ROAST POTATOES ROLL MARTYS TOO RESTAURANT Georgetown Market Place way he is Unfortunately by the end of the movie one is so concern ed with beating the crowd out of the theatre that one doesnt really give a damn whether they get back together or not For such an over publicized film and for all the hype it plays basically hke a film Although there are interesting affects some shots look so fake while yet others look so good that the audience cant help but wonder if ran out of money halfway dunng film ing or if this is the way he intended his film to look in the final cut As in most recent films no sense realism can be applied here although it shouldnt be expected from moviegoers in the first place One finds himself saying Do you believe this or Give me a break more times than necessary Added to this are a cou ple of gruesome scenes not really necessary to complete the film Lets just say if one wants to go see a film one should only consider this if they get to the front of the line and the guy with the yellow bow tie says their first choice is sold out Then again perhaps one should just go home Learn to Drive and Survive Young Drivers of Canada GEORGETOWN CLASSROOM 16 MOUNT AINVIEW S NEXT CLASSES TO START SEPTEMBER 630 NEXT 4 WEEK PROGRAM STARTS OCTOBER 10th WEDNESDAY b THURSDAY EVENINGS 8770751 IF BUSY CALL 350000 GRADUATES RECOMMEND YOUNG DRIVERS OF CANADA