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THE HERALD OUTLOOK Saturday April Entertainment Blue Steer is tense but improbable FILMETER BLUE STEEL R Sometimes it seems like every other movie is about cops Few however seem to be about people Early on in rector Kathryn Bigelow new thrill er Uteres a pivotal scene in which rookie cop Jamie Lee Curtis Inter rupts a supermarket holdup aiming her gun at the robber who is pointing his weapon at a terrified clerk Bige low draws this moment out so that we feel the rookie cop s fear as she tries to apply what she learned at the po lice academy Its a powerful scene that viscerally communicates the realities of police work YELLOW CAB HALTON HILLS HOUR SERVICE SERVING HALTON HILLS 8732527 8732931 POSSIBLY THE WORLDS BEST BAR BOUE CHICKEN FRIES HONOLULU SPECIAL 8 5 Complete Quitter J Chicken Dinned 232 GUELPH ST 8731646 M0HSAT SUM CLOSED you Jittery In the second half though it can also give you the giggles the Clot hinges on some wildly improba behavior Still Bigelow who co- wrote the script directs with Teal conviction Thus the film holds your attention even as your mind tells you it s all preposterous Special credit must go to Curtis who exudes a blend of sensitivity and toughness that few other young tresses could bring to the role Silver fcnemies A Love Story works hard too though he has the less part Blue Steel a topnotch thrill er not as good say as the recent Bad Influence But it does offer Curtis and some creepy atmospheric fun GRADE PRETTY WOMAN R Cinderella stones change with the era in which they are written The latest bj screenwriter J F is set in glitzy LA and features a hardedged hooker Julia Roberts whose prince is a good looking it cold hearted corpo rate mogul Richard Gere According to the movie an ex change occurs Mogul takes hooker into his bed and as it turns out Into his heart hooker gets a great new Ro- JAM1E LEE CURTIS plays a rookie cop who discovers that the man she has been seeing is responsible for a se of brutal murders In Blue Steel Curtis is an increasingly skillful tress In the neglected movie Love Letters Curtis had a distinc lively tense presence In A Fish Called Wanda she was a new style sexpot with a flair for farce Here Curtis blossoms as a New York cop whose Mr Right a handsome well heeled commodities broker Ron Sil turns out to be Mr Wrong And we do mean wrong Bigelow won a cult following for her vampire comedy Near Dark Here she gives us the kind of charged psychological thriller that can make Drive wardrobe and some lessons in ladylike behavior Needless to say this is romantic bunk But as shrewdly directed by Garry Marshall Beaches Nothing in Common it smells like a hit We haven had such a full blown fairy tale since An Officer and a Gentleman though that was a better movie Romancehungry viewers may be willing to overlook the manipulative tendencies of the script even blissingout during the protracted schmaltzy final half hour The movie would be nothing with out its two lead actors Doing roman tic comedy for the first time Gere shows a looser more relaxed side It s turning out to be a good year for Gere with his very different work in In ternal Affairs still in peoples minds And Julia Roberts Sail Fields terminally ill daughter in Steel Magnolias is a knockout as the hooker making the character a veritable Eliza of Holly wood Boulevard With her long necked and innate graceful ness Roberts happily reminds one of that other lov lite turned Fair Lady Audrey Hepburn GRADE Face In The Crowd I Taka a clots look you may II lh lacs by row I you a pa of C rtamai courtesy Call I at or or drop In at Th Mara Qutlph Si I cli you 1a you a th on looking Nail weak I may your lu GEORGETOWN CINEMAS 235 STREET 8731999 Film grading good poor excellent fair DATE BOOK April 7 Today Is the 97th day of 1990 and the 19th day of spring TODAY S HISTORY On this day In 1949 the Rodgers and musical South Pacific premiered in New York C TODAY S BIRTHDAYS Walter n 1972 journalist Holiday 1915 singer James Garner actor Wayne Rogers 1933 actor David Frost 1939 en Francs Ford Coppola1939 rector Tony loot ball player TODAY S QUOTE Gossip Is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid Walter Winchell TODAYS MOON Between first quarter April and full moon April 10 TODAY S BY PHIL In some companies t s called the boardroom because it s where the f rm stores all its When someone says run that idea by me t means they hope it will jog out of s and be GOOEY GOOD GOOD FUN GREAT FOOD EXCELLENT ENTERTAINMENT Every Thurs Fn Sof WED APRIL GHOST RYDER apriis fact WITH SPECIAL I AFTEftNOONMArrNEE J a SPECIAL Win Two Tickets to the Blue Jays home opener Come in to Papa Nick s for further details CINEMA 2nd FABULOUS WEEK UK 1 Hi JllllA ItOISI HIS She miked off into his life and stole heart Sat Matinee at 2 m CINEMA 2 NOW PLAYING Hey Dude This Is No Cartoon u Lean Green And On The Screen Evenings at Sat Sun Matinee Sgl 00 at 2 CINEMA 3 HUM 2nd HILARIOUS WEEK RUM Evenings at ft WARNING May Offend 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