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Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), September 25, 1991, p. 35

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the HERALD Wednesday September 25 Entertainment Movie Review Machomen play out their fantasies By DAWN WOOD Herald Special If you like male macho movies Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man is a must to see This Don Michael Paul film glorifies primitive man in his bat against the technological in elite Celebrated are the good old days of street fighting and gun slinging while the new age of drug crime with a Japanese flavor is shown to be a little too futuristic and American for the good boys of misdemeanor crime Trie only redeeming features of this industrial western include a very weak statement about male bonding and friendship and the few are given from our heros Mickey is Davidson and Don Johnson Miami Vice is Marlboro two old friends reunited on the road to Burbank California The mam action centres around a roadside tavern offering a menu of brawling beer bon ding and broads with bared breasts The women are merely decorations for the almightly motorbikes the most dominant symbol of male machoism The bar is the old stomping grounds of the boys youth owned and operated by their friends After being away on the road for some time Harley and Marlboro return to the tavern for some unfinished business and find it is going to be closed down because of what else a mor foreclosure of million They decide to rob a bank to pay back the mortgage and keep the joint running but accidental ly they wind up with drugs in stead of cash This is to the displeasure of both the boys and the drug baron who is also the banker ready to shut down the bar and build what else a condo There you have the plot However there are some hints that is being parodied such as in the attitude towards women Likewise the awe inspired comments made about Marlboro s fine shooting ability by the armoured truck drivers are hard to take seriously well as Marlboro s nonchalance to his injuries He deals with a knife slash to the chest like he s in a script for a Band Aid cial and suffers no ill effects from multiple gun shots to his arms other than the loss of some blood In fact it seems to im prove his jocular wit What poses a question to this reviewer is the message being made about drug trafficking While Don Michael Paul provides a lot of detail about the treachery of the drug that is stolen Crystal Dream a cinogen that kills one in seven people by attacking the central nervous system once it is ad ministered into the user s eye our heroes who had stood for right thinking decide to sell it back to the baron rather than fighting against the drugsters for the sake of the larger The main flaw with this movie is that it doesn t rise about its macho attitudes There remains unresolved plots coarse language and pointless killings with very little satisfaction derived in the en ding The movie finished with Marlboro as a rodeo cowboy fulfilling this childhood dream and with Harley riding out into nowhere special with a willing female companion who just hap pens to strap her legs- across his engine showing that the good guys can still get the girls too Hilarious farce This scene depicting a police is fust one of the many fun filled skits those planning to at tend the currently running play See How They Run at the John Elliott Theatre in Georgetown will be sure to enoy Pictured above front row left to right Andrew Flnnigan the Intruder Christy Graham Penelope James Luckette Lionel Toop Paulette Police Sergeant Michael Burgoyne Bishop Stev Ness Cllve back row left to right Eddy Dumas Rev Humphrey Pamela Keywan Ida Maureen Burgoyne Ms Skilton Described as a hilarious farce the show which Is put on by productions will con tinue to run from Sept 26 to Show are p m and tickets are at either the John Elliott Theatre box office or Oxbow Books Main Street St Georgetown Herald Photo The Georgetown Kinsmen Club 1991 Hockey Pool 2nd Prize 75000 3rd Prize 30000 Prize 15000 Lie Registration Forms Available From MVP Sports Distributors The George Dragon Toronto Dominion Bank OTooles Roadhouse Office Magic Arena Roadhouse Georgetown Memorial Arena Acton Arena Knechtels GEORGETOWN CINEMAS 235 GUELPH STREET 8731999 LINEUP ENDS THURS SEPT 26 MICKEY ROURKE DON JOHNSON LAST DAYS HARLEY DAVIDSON AMD THE MARLBORO MAN WARMING COARSE LANGUAGE VIOLENCE Evenings at 7 9 1 p m FREDDYS DEAD I THEY SAVED THE BEST FOR LAST Evenings at 15 pm LAST 2 DAYS THb DOCTOR HURr WARNING MATURE THEME I Evenings at 7 STARTING FRIDAY SEPT 27 NOW PLAYING Evenings at 1 p m now playing A tremendously lifeaffirming story Evenings at 1 5 m NOW PLAYING Commitments I Is Terrific Rick Groer TORONTO GLOBE MAIL liMfiMcl coarse language Evenings at 7 p ALL SEATS 425

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