Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), January 27, 1990, p. 21

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THE HERAUXOUTLOOKSfftBrday Pag Entertainment Outlook What made Zsa Zsa Documentary details towns demise su a b star it m and arts thel FILMETER In Movie Theaters ROGER HE R Firsttime direc torwriterproducer Michael Moore returned to bis hometown of Flint Mich the birthplace of General Motors to film a documentary about what happened when closed ranged the time frame of certain events to bolster his argument How ever this isnt all that damaging since the movie is clearly Moores highly partisan view As a documen tary Roger and Me has far more in common with the antiestablishment of The Atomic Cafe than with say the scrupulous investiga tion of The Sorrow and the Pity Along the way Moore gives us a scathingly funny portrait of 60s greed bow a powerful American corporation tried to put a new public relations face on Its cruel pinched old one And in a ploy worthy of GM Warner Brothers which distrib uting the film has pledged to save a seat at each showing of the movie Just in case Roger Smith ever decides MICHAEL MOORE center is flanked by residents of Flint Mich the town that General Motors forgot In his documentary Roger and Me down many of its plants putting people out of work Its a re cord of how Flint became an econom ically ravaged city a place where rats This sounds like grim stuff but it isnt Biting Is what it Is The film Is structured around Moores attempts to meet with Chairman Roger Smith in order to bring him to Flint to see what he has wrought Not Smith proves elusive But the people Moore does talk to are star tling darkly humorous subjects One woman standi before a sign that says Pets or Meat shell sell you rab bits to cuddle or skin them before your eyes for dinner This muckraking documentary is developing a curious history After J laying to enthusiastic audiences at Urn festivals a backlash has devel oped led by a Film Comment arti cle that details how Moore rear- hTh OF IU4JOVJULLS HOLDING LTD AIRPORT SERVICE PARCEL DELIVERY BURGER KING sssr TAKE A BIT OUT OF WINTER TRY OUR NEW EDWARD S APPLE CHERRY PIES On Sole 4A NOW ONLY lA7 is DAILY LUNCH SPECIALS For Under 400 Acrait Front GO Station 37 King St Georgetown 8773541 MAKE ANY OCCASION SPECIAL RtuminwfOf 8731409 Available at The Herald Office in either 8x10 or 5x7 Sizes the HER A Georgetown to see the film GRADE MUSIC BOX There are striking examples of foreign directors who successfully made the transition to Hollywood Roman and Milos among them there are also examples of gifted foreign filmmakers lured by Hollywood whose Americanbased efforts fall short A pretty good case could be made against the American movies of Greek director Constantin CosU-Gav- too The man who gave us the crisp sophisticated political melodra ma of Z and the complex moral In quiry of The Confession has lost his bearings in bis recent American- based movies the white suprema cist expose Betrayed and now Mu sic Box Both were scripted by Joe and both are ruined by simplistic plotting and motivation and by a talk that has always been a weakness of CostaGavras films For that matter Music Box is as muted and logy as it is talky Its too bad too because the subject is a po tent one bow little we may know about the people we love Her brow knitted In earnestness Jessica stars as a harddriving Chicago lawyer defending her beloved Hun garianemigre dad Stahl against charges that he was once a Nazi GRADE Film grading- excellent good fair poor ASK DICK KLEINER b ill Iks mot reports about Zsa Gabors Mai she was described u movie our Everyone it Louies natural would like to bow when or If she ever a star la toy movie and 1 Kala mazoo Mich A Poor Zsa Not only was she ootid guilty bat now the elite crowd from Lotties Is questioning her cre dentials While she was never a major star she did have quite a few solid roles in some Important Urns Among them LIU Moulin Bouse Diary Of a Scoundrel Arrlvederd Baby and Picture Mommy Dead Please settle an argument be tween me my family and friends f say Jamie Lee Curtis wai one of the on Eight Is Enough MJL Stuart A You say Incorrectly She wasnt As a young girl I watched a show It was my favorite afterschool show There was a young girl and boy and Jody and their butler- housekeeper What was that show and who played the parts and what years was it en and are they all lhr- Mrs Idaho A That was Family Affair and It ran on CBS from M through Se bastian Cabot was the butler and the children were Kattty Carver Anlssa Jones and Johnnie Cabot and Jones are dead the others alive I would be you ten me the lame the actor who plays on Another World MJL Hollywood A That is John Aprea Gabor Patrick Could you tell me what became of Patrick Macnee of The Aveng ers Is he Hill living ROM Kent Walk A Macnee is still living still debo nair still acting He has Just published bis autobiography Blind In One Ear which has a lot of good stuff about his old Avengers costars par ticularly Diana HERES A GREAT DEAL YOU CAN HANDLE Now you can serve for 275 per person with a 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