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Out of Africa (PG) is a "big” That diminutive dastard, Danny
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But somehow, the big impact
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isn't there. •And, the reason it loveable villain since Captain
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misses is named Robert Redford. Hook. DeVito isn't much scarier
Sunday 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
He's not Out of Africa — he's than that fairy tale bad guy. He
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is so cute, so funny that you just
just plain out of it.
Granted, this is primarily don't believe he could really do
Meryl Streep's picture. As Baro- anything bad. Of course, this
ness Karen Isak Dinesen Blixen, picture demands a great deal of
Streep is indeed the central fi- suspension of disbelief through-
gure. But the central event in out. •
The opening set-up, in which
this period of Dinesen's life is
supposedly the great rera.ance Turner takes off from her idyll
with the character played by with Douglas for a trip into the
Redford. And how can you have bowels" of an African dictator-
a great romance with a dead ship, is as artificial as a paper
flower.
fish?
Once past this blessedly brief
Streep, on the other hand, is
superb. Her characterization of plot contrivance, we're into a
the gutsy Dinesen is fascinating fast-paced, furiously funny
series of adventures and mis-
from first to last.
She is by turn arrogant,
adventures.
The dilemmas are as hair-
manding, passionate, pleading
as the situation requires. This is raising as any ever faced by
a different woman than any of Pauline (as in The Perils of-),
Streep's other major screen Batman, or Indiana Jones. And
roles. She gives us a conpletely the escapes are just as unreal.
credible character with dimen- But isn't it fun?
Along with DeVito, the other
sion and complexity.
One of the outstanding facets second banana who provides lots
of Streep's portrayal is her flaw- of laughs is Avner Eisenberg.
less Danish accent. She has a He plays the great holy man,
marvelous ear and an uncanny who is the only one who can
knack for creating the very stop the poWer-mad dictator
from starting an African war.
rhythms of foreign speech.
Eisner has a soft, fey kind of
But, alas, for some of the cri-
tics' taste, she does it too well charm that is truly refreshing.
and they have made snide re- Recently seen on Broadway in
marks .about Streep with his own one-man magic show,
To CUTLASS CIERA
"another clever dialect." I fail to Avner the Eccentric, Eisenberg
understand why they fault her is a real find. He should have
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Sequels are tough. They have
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was probably the smartest thing to be original enough to be in-
he could do, since no one would teresting, yet they have to carry
accept Redford as an En- over enough to satisfy. The
glishman anyway. Redford's Jewel of the Nile succeeds ad-
golden blow-dried locks are not mirably on both counts. If you
right for the real life character's liked Romancing the Stone,
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bald dome, either. Let's put it you'll have a good time at The
Jewel of the
all to mis-casting.
TORONADO
The photography will not dis-
appoint you. It is as magnificent
as you expect. And the lush
musical score helps you enjoy
the panoramic shots. By all
means, see this one in a theatre
Coalition Will
with a big screen.
Former Detroiter Kurt Last: Poll
Luedtke vaults into the
Aviv (JTA) — Most Is-
superstar category himself with
his script for this one. The story raelis expeet the National Unity
does have an epic sweep and is Government to last out its nor-
engrossing throughout. The only mal four-year term, according to
lapse is midway in the Streep- a public opinion poll by the Pori
Redford romance when the Research Institute, published
dialogue starts to sound a little last week in the Haaretz daily. \
The poll showed that 61.3 per-
soap-operish. But part of the
blame for this must lie with cent of the representative sam-
Redford's lackluster perfor- ple of 1,200 Israelis queried
••4)0 down plus 4% use tax. plates. I st. mot
thought the coalition would not
mance.
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