THE HERALD OUTLOOK Salunlay 1990 3 Entertainment Soap star 1989 was a box office bonanza for films was Travoltas partner FILMETER was the best year at the box office ever with a handful of super- hot movies bringing in a lions share of the money But unless youre on the payroll at Universal Pictures or Paramount the news is less than thrilling Only the breakthrough of a trio of lowbudget independent films Do the Right Thing Heathers and sex lies and videotape can be considered encouraging Here then in alphabetical order are some of the top achievements of the year Dont despair if you havent heard of a few They may be opening In your area soon if not most are or will be available on home video HENRY V Kenneth new rendition of the Shakespeare play is a work of at least as much chutzpah as classic Its a strik ingly antiheroic film of a heroic play HIGH HOPES English director Mike Leighs view of Margaret Thatchers England is social comedy with rude biting power JAN SVANKMAJER ALCHE MIST OF THE SURREAL Eight dazzling strange short films by the Czech master perhaps the most brilliant animator now working LETS GET LOST Bruce Weber the photographer responsible for a lot of those maleworshipping Calvin Klein ads turned out to be the right man to make this extraordinarily evocative documentary about jazz trumpeterJunkie Chet Baker THE LITTLE MERMAID The most delightful Disney animated movie in years and the one picture released in 1989 that is truly for the whole family MY LEFT FOOT This of Christy Brown the Dubliner who triumphed over cerebral palsy to be come a celebrated painter and writer BOOLIE Dan Aykroyd hires a chauffeur Hoke Morgan Freeman to drive bis mother crotchety old Southern Jewish matriarch Daisy Jessica Tandy inDnving Miss Daisy BATMAN The big boxoffice winner is also a wonderfully atmo spheric darkly funny entertainment Wagner for the comicbook crowd CASUALTIES OF WAR Brian study of the rape of a young Vietnamese woman by a squad of American soldiers may be the most concentrated emotional and visually arresting of all Vietnam movies DO THE RIGHT THING Spike Lees controversial portrait of sim mering racial tensions in the Bedford- section of Brooklyn ends up muddled but the first twothirds are full of funky insights DRIVING MISS DAISY An al most perfectly realized transcription of Alfred Pulitzerwinning play about the relationship between an Atlanta Jew Jessica Tandy and her black chauffeur Morgan Freeman DRUGSTORE COWBOY Gus Van Sants offbeat lowbudget tri umph looks at a quartet of young ad diets who rob pharmacies to support their habits This movie says more about why people do drugs than a doz en moralistic exposes HEATHERS New director Mi chad Lehmann and young screen writer Daniel Waters collaborated on this audacious pitchblack satirical comedy that parodies John Hughes- style teen flicks follows the form of many inspira tional ill week TVmovies However it has a fierce passion and lustiness rare for the genre and a magnificent performance by Daniel DayLewis as Christy ROGER ME Fledgling film maker Michael Moore returned to his hometown of Flint Mich to make this marvelously engaging yet sear ing documentary about the closing of a General Motors plant and its effect on an entire community SEA OF LOVE The years best thriller this contemporary film spins a haunting web of passion and deceit and Ellen Barkin sizzle SEX LIES AND VIDEOTAPE Shot for only million Steve So- derberghs first film is a startlmgly CRITICS choice VIDEO Rentals Service Open Every Night Till 10 pm JL 235 Guelph St VCfl or Microwave Repair With This Ad 8730754 DAILY LUNCH SPECIALS For Under 400 Across From GO Station 37 King St Georgetown 8773541 GOOEY Hut GOOD TRY OUR NEW DELIVERY SERVICE 308 Guelph St fresh idiosyncratic comedy of con temporary manners intertwining the fates of four people in Baton Rouge VALMONT Bad timing good movie Many critics have been hard on Milos version of the same Choderlos de Laclos novel that fueled Dangerous Liaisons But its a fine movie in Us own right offering a more sweeping social view of the period erotic tale WHEN HARRY MET SALLY It may be a yuppieera knockoff of Woody Allens Annie Hall but this Rob Reinerdirected romantic come dy has its own goodnatured charm and humor Born on the Fourth of July Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Distant Voices Still Lives Friendships Death A Taxing Womans Return Bright ness The Fabulous Baker Boys True Love Enemies A Love Sto ry Monk Straight No Chaser Triumph of the Spirit Crimes and Misdemeanors Story of Women BEST ACTOR Daniel DayLewis My Left Foot Morgan Freeman Driving Miss Daisy Jack Nichol son Batman Tom Cruise Born on the Fourth of July James Woods True Believer Nick New York Stories Al Sea of Love BEST ACTRESS Michelle The Fabulous Baker Boys Jessica Tandy Driving Miss Daisy An nette Bcnmng Valmont McDowell sex lies and videotape Ellen Sea of Love Johnny Handsome Winona Ryder Great Balls of Fire Heathers BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Martin Short The Big Picture Sean Connery Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Danny Do the Right Thing Beau Bridges The Fabulous Baker Boys Marlon Brando A Dry White Season BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Dlannc Parenthood Cook ie Laura San sex lies and videotape Lena and Anje- lica Huston Enemies A Love Sto ry Mary Stuart Masterson Imme diate Family NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE BURGER St Georgetown ffVIWO KIDS MEAL PACK Li Chene Eitra Cofee A Different Jungle Animal Each Week I MVtSIOS Oh 8771234 8777J0O AIRPORT PARCEL DELIVERY Watch For January Specials 118 St ST 8731409 ASK DICK KLEINER I watch the daytime soap Gen eral Hospital and I was wondering if the lovely actress who plays Anna La- very is the same actress who played tbe dancer in the John Travolta movie Saturday Night Fever VP Copperas Cove Texas A Her name is Finola Hughes and she did dance with Travolta but in Stayin Alive not Saturday Night Fever Is Ellen Corby who played Grandma Walton on The still alive If so what is she doing now JH Bristol Va A Corby suffered a stroke in 79 and was therefore unable to appear on the series during its last season ex cept for one notable reunion show She is still living but unable to work any more Where can I purchase a video of The Last Temptation of Christ with Da foe I thought it was a tre mendously powerful movie that did not get a fair chance in the theaters I saw It while on vacation is a large city and would like to see It again LT Texas A The videocassette for the movie has been released I would suggest you keep checking with your local video store Was Kene who used to he on Matlock in the 86 movie Tbe Gladiator I say the actor in that film is not hut my hus band says it is Please settle this for me Abilene Texas A One for your side It was Stan Shaw Whatever became of the person female who played Peter Pan In a film in the 20s She acted under the name of Betty but I believe her real name was Perry Is she still alive AGR Eureka Calif A Betty Bronson and that was her real name by the way died in when she was She had a fine film career m the 20s and 30s she was the leading lady in Ben Hur 36 and Al Jolsons costar in The Singing Fool in She even did a small role in Evel Knievel the year Hughes Are tbe actors who play Peter Brady in old Brady Bunch se ries and Tad Martin in the soap opera All My Children brothers MN Atlantic Iowa A No Michael Knight who plays Tad Martin and Christopher Knight Peter Brady are unrelated Michael does have two brothers but neither one is a Christopher My husband says Buck Owens and Porter Waggoner are at least years apart in age I say they are clos er Whos right Conway A You are Owens was born on Aug 1D29 and Waggoner exactly a year later on Aug TAPES CDs Join Our Exclusive TAPES CD CLUB Ask us for details on how our bonuses will help you increase your tape andor CD collection in the ALICE COOPER Trash CASSETTE ROLLING STONES Steel Wheels MADONNA Like A Prayer RUSH Presto BAD ENGLISH Bad English LOTS MORE SPECIALS AT GREAT PRICES GTR TAPES 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