Page THE HERALD OUTLOOK Saturday January IKS Patrick Swayze drives them crazy Entertainment ASK DICK KLEINER We are big fans of the movie Dirty Dancing bat what is really driving as crazy Is this We think weve seen Patrick Swayxe in another movie only he changed his name Wasnt he called Lee Montgomery when he did Girls Just Want to Have and GH Dorr Mich A No They are two different people Would yon please help with some information We were wonder ing the old Ma and Pa Kettle movies Are they still Can I boy videos of them FV mopolls A The movies are still around and yon may find them from time to time on some very late movie show To my knowledge none has been re leased on a cassette the Kettles just didnt pan out The two stars are long gone Main died in 75 and Percy Kilbride in A year or so ago I saw a movie about the JamesDaltonColter gang It starred reallife brothers who played brothers in the movie I think it was called The Long Riders bnt Im not sore about that Who were the brothers Killeen Texas Patrick Lisa Hartman A You are right about the title The reallife brothers who starred in it were the Carxadine Reach and Guest brothers The movie is now out on cassette Is the girl that played he char acter on Knots Landing the same actress who played Mary on Little House on the Prairie MM A No Lisa was Cathy Geary sometimes known as Ciji and Melissa Sue Anderson was Mary Can yon tell me if Baddy Rich the drummer and band leader is still living I thought he passed on several months ago MEW Houston Texas A Yes he died last April I loved the book The Thorn- birds and was thrilled by the mini- series I thought the music in it was beautiful Who wrote it and can I get a copy of ft Fairmont A That lovely score was by Henry Mancini and it is available on an RCA record My wife and I have been discuss ing old movies One was Ebb Tide I thought Ray Milland and Frances Dee were the stars but she thinks Goddard was the female lead Also the film Ramona I said I thought it was the first Technicolor movie Were Loretta Young and Don Ameche the stars Erie Pa A Youre both wrong about the fe male lead in the film Ebb Tide it was Frances Farmer But youre right about Ramona Ameche and Young had the leading roles It was one of the early Technicolor re leases but not the first The Trail of the Lonesome Pine beat it by a few months both it and came out in Send your questions to Ask Dick Kleiner Newspaper Enterprise Association Park Ave New York Y 10166 Due to the volume of mail personal replies cannot be provided Year in film is an eyeful of fun FILMETER 1588 gave us quite a few decent movies and a host of good perfor mances though there were no flatout great movies Some of the following may not have played in your neigh borhood but most are or will be available on home video The best movies of 1988 in alphabetical order A WORLD APART This directo rial debut for cinematographer Chris Menges has a beautiful bracing plicity Its the moving portrait of a dissident journalist Barbara Her- in 60s South Africa seen through the eyes of her alert quizzi cal daughter BABETTES FEAST on Orion Home Video in March The winner of last years Oscar for Best Foreign Film is about the meeting of asceti cism and a sensual French housekeeper Au- dran decides to cook a loving met meal for the stern Danish reli gious community where she lives and wh epic magic she works BEETLEJUICE The and wildest comedy of the year Tim Bur tons slapstick ghost farce has lots of laughs and a great production design A dellciously campy musical satire from John Wa ters this is the tale of 60s Baltimore teens beset by silly dance crazes tow ering hairstyles bad complexions par a racial tensions LITTLE This twopart sixhour version of the teeming Dick ens novel dares to tell the same com plex story from the perspective of two different characters The second part flags but few films take us so deeply into the world of the imagined past THE THIN BLUE LINE HBO Video in January As if one of those tabloid TV shows like Americas Most Wanted were lifted into the realm of art this brilliant highstyle documentary by Errol Morris ex plores the reallife case of a Dallas copkilling discovering along the waj 9 DENTURE THERAPY CLINIC AW TRENTON DT 18 CHURCH STREET GEORGETOWN ACROSS FROM LIBRARY AND CULTURAL CENTRE 8772359 that the man actually convicted of the crime is most probably innocent THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING This threehour amato ry epic by the risktaking director Philip Kaufman intertwines love sex and politics via novelist Milan source material Its the years most delicately thoughtful and poetic A film WHITE MISCHIEF Nelson Home Video A blend of caustic upper- class satire and silky romantic melo drama this fact based drama ex plores the last days of English colonialism in 1940s Kenya centering on an infamous murder case that rocked fashionable Nairobi society Ravishing Greta Scacchi and dashing Charles Dance star WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT The years best cinematic roller- coaster ride is also a deeply felt enter tainment with tantalizing associations WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN and MAT ADOR Two bold and funny films by Spaniard Pedro Almodovar the first new foreign filmmaker to stand a chance of making it big in this coun try in several years Women pivots on an actress luscious Carmen Maura whose phone machine sage reveals that her lover has be trayed her Matador is an erotic murder mystery in tuttifrutti colors The Accidental Tourist High Tide Bull Dur ham Dear America Letters Home From Vietnam Special mention to independent Portland filmmaker Jim dazzling animated short Suspicious Circumstances BEST ACTOR Tom Hanks Big Alec Guinness Little Dor- Dennis Everybodys All- American Dustin Hoffman Rain Man The Last Temptation of Christ Gene Hack- man Mississippi Burning Eric Bc Talk Radio BEST ACTRESS Bette Midler Beaches Meryl Cry in the Dark Sigourney Weaver Go rillas in the Mist Working Girl Jodie Foster The Accused Barba ra Hershey World Apart Susan Bull Durham Michelle Pfeiffer Married to the Mob Car- men Maura Women on the Verge Glenn Close Dangerous Liaisons Judy Davis High Tide Shirley Ma- ghost in a comedy that was one of 1988s hottest films cLaine Madame Sousatzka Rowlands Another Woman Me- lanie Griffith Working Girl BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Michael Keaton Beetlejuice Dean Stockwell Married to the Mob Tucker Divine Hairspray BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Diane Venora Bird Miriam Mar- Little Dorrit Juliette Bin oche and Lena Olin Unbearable Lightness of Being Mercedes Married to the Mob BEST DIRECTOR Pedro Almo Women on the Verge BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Henri Alekan Wings of Desire BEST SCREENPLAY Frank Galati and Lawrence Kasdan The Accidental Tourist JeanClaude Carriere and Phil Kaufman Un bearable Lightness of Being Ron Shelton Bull Durham Christine Little Film grading excellent good fair poor aHatHflVr itfHI ftV A J b it a I m IRiggpg iWmB Js wt claim your II you if WIS a M by arrow yours pat tat Call to ft not a wash 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