The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

ALTON IIILLfi OUTLOOK Saturday September 10 IMS Page Entertainment Outlook By Robert DIMatteo MARRIED TO THE MOB R Di rector Jonathan Demme and Howard Something Wild has an easy virtuosity Though his films teem with idiosyncratic Americana a wide range of and cultural signs they seem to unfold casually Demme skill and intelligence don t get in the way of our fun His latest is like Something Wild a twisted genre piece The genre this time is the gangster movie here transformed into guttering slap stick romantic comedy Continuing to prove that she as much sensitive tress as cool beauty Michelle elf stars as Angela DeMarco the perfect suburban Long Island wife Except for one thing Her husband Alec dwin is a hit man for mobster Tony the Tiger Dean Stockwell Alter Tony ices hubby Angela flees with her child to Lower East Side Manhat in hopes of starting a new life We all know how the mob likes to be one big happy family So It s not prising when Tony decides he wants Angela enough to track down and woo her even though bis own wife Mercedes has threatened to wipe him out if she catches him cheat leg Meanwhile two clumsy FBI agents are also on Angela heels One of them Matthew Modlne is overen thuslasUc and given to silly disguises He takes one look at and he s smitten The script Is just serviceable a farcespinning conceit that makes the FBI and the mob two sides of the same goonlsh coin But Demme and his cast make it breathe There a terrific appreciation of the kitschy melting pot details of American life a lively garish style that unites the film view of Long Island Manhattan and Miami where the lakes place Matthew and Michelle What new In movies and video make an odd al most pristine and weightless tic couple boyishness never q pick Kleiner quite hooks up with ties Meanwhile Stockwell and Mcr cedes threaten to steal the show Ruehl is a wonderful shrewish wife hilarious yet powerful and Stockwell Tony is a creep GRADE ASK DltK KLEINER Is she Powers or Power TUCKER MAN AND HIS DREAM PG There an appealing Frank Capraesque parable of a free- spirited American dreamer at the center of Francis Ford Coppola trait of Preston Tucker the tionary auto maker who took on the combined powers of the Detroit car manufacturers and their Washington politicians Framed by an assertively corny mock Tucker company promo film the movie is a celebration of the visionary Instinct done with nostalgic Norman Rockwell imagery Its deft and enjoyable but it also all on one level and ends up seeming shallow As Tucker the gifted Jeff Bridges has a beguiling sunniness and spunk You believe this guy could do any thing But like the movie as a whole Bridges docsn t deepen or grow in the role pro- Individualistan big bus bureaucracy scheme The real Tucker died a broken man one of several dark facts that don make it into this picture Please settle an going on in our beauty salon lil says no and Adele says yes The question Is Stefanle Powen the daughter of Ty rone Power Please let peace reign In oar shop again THE MANICUR 1ST Atlantic City NJ A Peace can now reign assuming Adele takes her loss calmly Powers real name is Stefania klcwlcx and Tyrone was never a Me win I saw an interview with Oprah Winfrey and sac said ber first name was backwards I that how they got the name of the chancier who pUyed husband In The Color Purple LJjlB Syracuse A No I asked Oprah that question and she said it was Just one of those strange coincidences We are fans of the TV program Full House There is a gap we can Stefanle Powen Oprah Winfrey not fill In the credit line each of the excellent cast Identified except Mi chelle the baby Who is she JJHJJ Hon to wd A She is actually twins as is usual ly the case with babies on TV shows They use twins since each one can work a few hours thus doubling the amount of time on camera Ashley 01 sen the baby who plays Michelle Is generally on camera with her twin Marcy Kate acting as her standin taw the film Somewhere In Time with Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour and thought the hotel they used for tbe letting bcanil It was listed In credits so know It a real place Can yon find oat the specific location and if it It open to outsiders My boy friend and I would like to go there IS War saw A Buy a ticket for Mackinac Island in Michigan I been there and it is very beautiful indeed Could please tell me who tarred lathe It movie State Fair with Pat Boone and Bobby Darin She played Alice JL- Texas City Texas A That was Pamela Tiffin My husband and I argued over Donna Mills of Knots Landing He says she once played Karen on One Life to Live and I say be wrong Who s right7 CM Gads A You are Judith Light was Karen Wolek Many years ago probably tbe CDs I taw a movie aboot several women at a college reunion I think it was called Girls and Candle Bergen one of stars Wu that tbe correct title and Is It on VCR Texas A No you re off by a few letters It was The Group based on Mary McCarthy navel Guelph Street Georgetown Ontario 8775241