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With This Coupon • Expires 2-2-89 J1 11 68 ■ FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1989 ake out your hand- kerchiefs, ladies, and be prepared to look up the phone number of your best friend in high school because the new Bette Midler film, Beaches, is going to in- spire you to have a lot of memories. Beaches is a touching and humorous film about women's friendships through years of ups and downs. The two friends first meet on the boardwalk of 1957 Atlantic City as 11 year olds. C.C. Bloom (Mayim Bialik) is a budding Jewish singer from the Bronx and Hillary Whitney (Marcie Leeds) is a wealthy, WASP girl from up- per crust San Francisco. C.C. admits she rides subways as Hillary tells about her horse riding. As opposites do attract even in friendships, the girls become fast friends. Hillary cannot find her hotel and is enamored with C.C.'s talent and worldy ways as she watches her audition. Bialik is a dead ringer as a young Bette Midler. She can belt out a song as well as stand up to her stereotypical overpowering stage mother, Leona (Lainie Kazan). She brings Hillary back to her hotel and they pledge to keep in touch. The girls spend years writing letters to one another and sharing their adult, diverse lives through the mail. C.C. (Bette Midler) struggles to make it as a singer and actress and Hillary (Barbara Hershey) goes to law school. The plot seems somewhat contrived as the two women do not meet again in person until Hillary shows up on C.C.'s doorstep. One wonders with all her family money why Hillary does not fly to New York sometime earlier in her life to meet her pen pal. They wind up sharing C.C.'s apartment . and solidifying their pen pal friendship. Hillary seems to flower under C.C.'s warm and loving in- fluence. She practices com- munity activist law as C.C. continues to struggle as an actress. Their strong friend- ship includes singing one . 1196 HAGGERTY RD., Just S. of 14 in The Country Ridge Commons Mon.-Thurs. 11 a.m.-11 p.m., Fri. 11 a.m.-12 Mid., Sat. 5 p.m.-12 Mid. • 788-0505 I AVIVA KEMPNER Special to The Jewish News COUPO N GET SECOND SAME PIZZA FREE SLAB OF RIBS Bette Midler's 'Beaches' Film Is Touching And Humorous Former Detroiter Aviva Kempner is a filmmaker whose current project is a documentary about Hank Greenberg. as as g 0 0 410 Pictured in a scene from the ne w film, Beaches, are, from left: John Heard, Bette Midler and Barbar a Hershey. another's holiday songs. In one hilarious scene, C.C. tires of singing more Christmas songs with Hillary until she is reminded by Hillary that "I sang all those dreidl songs for you!" A funny tribute to inter- religious relations. Throughout the film, Midler also sings five original musical numbers. _ Their sharing becomes somewhat strained as a man comes into the picture they both like. John Pierce (John Heard) is the play director who gives C.C. her big break. C.C. is interested in him beyond professional reasons but yet he is attracted to Hillary. Before the relation- ship goes beyond a fling, Hillary has to fly back to San Francisco to care for her dy- ing father. The women return to their letter writing stage and leading their divergent lives. C.C. marries the director and succeeds as an actress. The differences in style and looks between C.C. and the director are reminiscent of the screen marriage between Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford in The Way We Were. It's the spirited Jewish girl marrying the low-keyed, WASPish ar- tistic type. Hillary marries one of her own kind, her father's lawyer, and gives up her career for marriage. When the girlfriends meet once again with their respec- tive spouses, their conflicts become apparent as the friendship is strained with the new players and life- styles. In a fancy department store scene, Midler and Hersey act out their jealousies and differences. Midler is at her best in her sarcasm. One does not envy Barbara Hersey who has to counter the attack from such a powerful actress. But Hersey carries it off, especial- ly when tragedies befall her later on in the film. The girls not only do make up, but help one another through their most difficult moments. Male movie goers have had their share of "male-bonding" films which are usually full of "cops and robbers" chase scenes and the butting of male egos. Actually Midler's role in Outrageous Fortune contained many elements of this category. But in contrast to this macho posturing are a genre of "female-bonding" films that draw on a different source of electricity for energy. Instead of car chasing scenes that are full of blood and violence the female films explore the territories of feel- ings and emotional ties. Beaches, produced by Midler's production company, All Girls Productions, celebrates the importance and strength of female friend- ships, even between those from such diverse cultures as New York, Jewish and WASP upper crust. Beaches captures the intensity of these friend- ships as well as the strains in a loving and poignant man- ner. As you leave the theater, you cannot wait to call up your best girlfriends and reminisce about the old days. Bubatron Theater Opens Ann Arbor's first Jewish marionette theater, the Bubatron, will perform its first feature-length show, "Tales of Wit and Wisdom," on Feb. 12 at the Performance Network, 408 W. Washington St., Ann Arbor. Performances will be at 1 and 3 p.m. The show is an adaptation of Jewish folk tales and fables. Stories range from the .cn 0 -J