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CHICAGO HOPE STAR AND
EMMY AWARD WINNER

MANDY PATINKIN

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o you ever dream of a
world where people
grow their hair long,
preach love and kind-
ness, ride around in Volkswagen
buses and follow their favorite
music group across the country?
Well, for the past 30 years an ec-
centric group of people called
Deadheads has been living in this
pseudo-reality, a world full of
love, drugs, and Grateful Dead
music. Tie-Died: Rock 'n Roll's
Most Deadicat-
ed Fans, a
movie directed
by Andrew Be-
har, is a cine-
matic (and I
use this term
loosely) slice of
life of these
DAN
surviving hip-
ZIMMERMAN
pies.
SPECIAL TO THE
Anyone who
JEWISH NEWS
has ever won-
dered what it's
like to be a Deadhead, or is just
nostalgic for the free love and
spontaneity of the '60s, will be
fulfilled by Behar's 80-minute
journey through the ranks of tru-
ly the most dedicated fans on
earth. Tied - Died is a documen-

tary, telling its story
If's more than iosi tWiriaik.s it's a way of life.
through the eyes of
Grateful Dead faithful.
In fact, there are only two
key elements missing
from this movie: paid ac-
tors and the Grateful
Dead.
Instead of Jerry Gar-
cia, you'll be introduced
to a guy from Boston, a
girl on Ecstasy, a 12-year-
old kid who's spent his
whole life following the
Dead, and an as-
sortment of other
k `n Roll's Most Deadicated Fans
hippies and ven-
,..._
dors, cops and ston-
ers. It is through the eyes
of these characters, the
real deals, that you'll wit-
flows Mut=
ness the excitement and
mayhem of being on the
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road with the Grateful
Dead.
And when I say mayhem, I ple-flick, a cultural study if you
mean it. Instead of using his film will. The film takes you on a jour-
images to glorify or condemn, Be- ney through five West Coast
har portrays Deadhead life from cities as you follow your heroes,
every possible aspect, to show the the Grateful Dead. You'll indulge
complete picture. As the movie in the sights and sounds of life on
progresses, one thing is clear: the road, all the joy and happi-
What a long, strange trip it's ness, trial and tribulation. This
film deals with such controver-
been.
Tie - Died is not a movie about sial issues as losing one's dog on
music — you won't hear a single the road, the ethics of Deadhead
Grateful Dead tune — but a peo- etiquette and, also, the ultimate
and most controversial Deadhead

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' hoto: Marc B an-Brow

Dan Zimmerman is a senior at
Berkley High School.

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Jerry's Kids: The Final Tri

CALL-FOR-TIX (810) 645,4660.

Rated R
This film is drenched in the
velvety greens and deep browns
of Ireland, as well as the pathos
of a nation divided by geo-
graphical and metaphorical bor-
ders. But those only serve as a
backdrop for a charming, un-
sentimental coming-of-age sto-
ry about Danny (Matt Keeslar),
a young man who loses his
mother before he is old enough
to understand her and gains a
father whom he understands too
well. Albert Finney is superb as
Father, the sergeant of the vil-
lage,
. an
. area full of by check-
points in northern Ireland,
whose greatest ambition is to
solve the murder of the cemtm.y.
He is alternately brutal and ten-
der, a lion at home, a lamb on
the streets. The discoveries he
and his son make about them-
selves and each other in the af-
termath of his wife's death form
the core of the movie, as well as
Danny's first taste of true love
and true friendship. The writers
and producers of this film have
an agenda, the subtext of which
,is the beauVr4ndizoodness,

Matt Keesiar is Danny, in Castle
Rock Entertainment's The Run of
the Country.

Ireland and the possibilities the
land still holds for the young, de-
spite the bloodshed and despite
the dazzling specter America
presents. Where else but in Ire-
land would a youthful courtship
start with the question, "Who's
your favorite poet?"
Rating: Four out of four bagels

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Get Shorty

Rated R
Get Shorty meanders for a
yvhilein ;a clensity of locales and

shady characters before it lets
in some light, and even then it's
dim. But hold out, anyway, for
the second half, especially the
final scene. Performances by
Gene Hackman as Harry
Zimm, the cheesy horror film
director, and John Travolta, as
a Mob lackey and aspiring
screenwriter who could give
Zimm the true crime story he
desperately needs, are nothing
short of great, Even Danny De-
Vito is convincing as an A-List
Hollywood actor who is both el-
egant and absurd. They man-
age to wring some life out of a
script that doesn't manage to
make us care about what hap-
pens to the money that's got
everybody up in arms and fuels
the plot. Oddly, for a film based
on a novel, Elmore Leonard's
book of the same name, the di-
alogue doesn't crackle or pop.
Its profanity is rather banal,
and seems to float above the
plot rather than move it along.
As a parody of mobster buf-
foonery and Hollywood excess,
Get Shorty falls way short of the
mark.
Rating: Two out of four bagels

-Julie Edgar

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