"); 1`1:•;" t MORT AT THE MOVIES MORT ZIEVE 'Official Story': Great Film With A Message more is said. The Official Story has been Nothing As we watch, we realize that LAS VEGAS NIGHT sponsored by on Congregati Beth Achi Southfield Mile 0 Did You Remember to send someone a gift subscription to Saturday, March lst, 8 p.m. to 12 midnight For further information, 352-8670 Licensed M1126563R Proceeds for General Fund ■ THE JEWISH NEWS? AL'S SAVES YOU MONEY! CUSTOM WALL MIRROR SPECIALISTS nominated for an Oscar as one of re the best foreign films of the year. the crimes we are told about all The nomination should simply happening to nice, we Al's Stocks It All! have been for best film of the intentioned people like us. As the year, from anywhere. It is magni- wife and mother realizes what TABLE TOPS TUB ENCLOSURES ficent, perhaps one of the best has happened in her country and to the people around her, we, too, SHOWER DOORS films of the decade. • 1/4, 3/8, 1/2, 3/4 thick The subtlety, intensity and realize, with some alarm, "It • Chrome or gold frames • Clear, gray or depth of this film will touch, could happen to us." If there ever bronze glass • Clear, bronze or move and provoke you. Its shat- was a film which reminded us textured glass • Beveled glass terhig climaxes will sweep you again how easily our precious • custom units liberties could be stolen by a • patterns away. The great achievement of predatory government, this is it. film-maker Luis Puenzo has been But don't think for a moment to make an intimate, personal that this is a political tract. It is . story that serves as one of the not. It is an overwhelmingly ef- most powerful indictments of fective personal drama. TUB ENCLOSURE I don't want to take away any authoritarianism and political NOW Reg. repression ever made. There are of the film's enormous impact only by no scenes of torture or brutality. telling too much. Let me say poa ses The Official Story Mn military vehicles racing that GLASS & AUTO TRIM f c on- heartbreaking question o el CUSTOM WALL MIRRORS through the night. No sadistic science in which a mother must l• TIRES & ACCESSORIES VISIT SAVE $75.62 soldiers beating or killing inno- consider giving up what she loves 64 YEARS SERVING MEM) DE I FlUIT #458 OUR cent people. 353-2500 the most in order to do what she SOUTHFIELD: 24777 Telegraph EXPIRES 3-7-86 On the contrary, life appears to knows is right. SHOWROOM Other locations: Wayne and Lincoln Park be perfectly normal and routine. Given that this is not a teenage Only slowly do we realize that rock'n roller, or a blood-and-guts something is terribly wrong. shoot'em up, it's hard to say how The scene is Argentina, 1983. long it will be in town. But you The people,we meet are members can't affort to miss it. So I urge of the establishment: suctessful, • you to hurry to see one of the well-to-do, sophisticated. They great films of the '80s, The Offi- party, chat and gossip. The central characters seem cial Story. particularly happy. He is a mid- Fabulous membership activities you can attend only ,11: level government bureaucrat. She teaches history at a prep school. They have a lively, beau- tiful, intelligent child that they Transporta- PEWABIC POTTERY and lunch. love very much. In fact, the child 11 R.M. tour of Friday, March 7, seems to be the central focus of tion provided. their lives. Gradually, we learn that the A J Com m ittee 10 R.M. cake and coffee and a view of spring fashions at child has been adopted. And that Monday, March 10, is when we .begin to suspect that B _ acks Firing HATTIE'S! some horrible dark secret lies be- New York — The American hind the adoption, something Jewish Committee has joined - that can destroy the lives of these with two Christian groups in an Wednesday, March 12, 7 P.M. cocktails and canapes with interior designer, seemingly happy people. amici curiae brief to the United SUSAN WINTON-FEINBERG at her gallery. Norma Aleandro is incredibly States Supreme Court arguing real as the woman. You see so de- that a state may not intrude on a in the kitchen of his restau- eply into her soul that she is al- private religious school's decision with CHEF DUGLASS 9:30 A.M. Thursday, March 13, most translucent. You under- to dismiss a teacher who has vio- rant! stand her feelings so well that lated that school's basic religious you forget she isspeaking in beliefs. Spanish and hardly need to read In the case of Dayton Christian Please check off: the sub-titles. It is one of the Schools, Inc. v. Ohio Civil Rights I am becoming o member, great screen performances. Commission, Linda Hoskinson, a ❑ , In an era of terrific child actors, teacher at the schoO1 since 1974, Pewabic Pottery enclosed is o $15 check out. She became pregnant and was ad- the little girl here stands Hattie is exceptional. I didn't catch her vised by school officials that she 0 I am becoming o Life Member, enclosed Susan Winton-Feinberg name in the credits but - can't t could not renew her contract be- forget how completely natural cause the school's religious belief Cooking with Duglass Is a check for: and delightful she was. All of the was that a mother should stay $250 if 85-86 dues not paid. actors are outstanding. There home with her small children. Make checks payable to: $235 if 85-86 dues are paid - isn't a weak performer or a wrong moment in the entire film. 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