Abu, Arbor comes to West Bloomfield! One o[lli•higan's finest Art FestitIals! Free Admission 2nd Annual West Bloomfield Art Festival Presented by: AIRToutir Pa gi ng LIEXL.15 Featuring 250 high caliber artists and contemporary craftsmen from over 35 states ITIEF1CIE LExus Sponsored by: West Bloomfield Chamber of Commerce REVIEWS page 95 sistible invitation for sophomoric repartee. Countless one-liners, non-sequiturs, sexual innuendos, awful puns, ridiculous sound ef- fects and bodily function jokes punctuate the film in a barrage of laughter-inducing kidney punches. The pop culture references in the film are not quite as esoteric as in the television show. But more people in on the jokes mean bigger laughs and a wider the- atrical audience for the cultish "MST3K." Call me stupid, but I giggled, chortled, guffawed and snickered through the whole screening, which should readily appeal to the dumb and dumber crowd. For someone who took science fic- tion films like This Island Earth far too seriously as a youngster, it was seventh heaven. If you're in a glum mood, I'd prescribe laughter as the best medicine. MST3K is guaranteed to tickle your funny bone. ® Q. A k.) 1/2 — Dick Rockwell 'Eraser' Rated R 6 Eccentric NEWSPAPERS June 29 & 30 Sat. Sun. • 10 am - pin CELLULARONE bowled outdoors at the Henry Ford Medical Center FIRST USA. on 15 Mile Road, just opposite the JUT I lo ward .1I if Lvents, Ltd. 'P 810-539-3332 Producing:America's Finest .111 Festivals July 11 - August 22, 1996 Prudence Bernstein painting T m PHOTO BY BRUCE MCBR OO Obsecuer the charge to kill Schwarzeneg- he past decade has seen ger, Williams and anyone else the development of a who might be in the vicinity, us- film sub-genre known ing every device imaginable — as the Schwarzenegger and some you probably would action flick; and this particular never imagine. Good guys and mutant strain has heretofore bad guys exchange missives and spread, seemingly, with an im- missiles with equal velocity un- munity to conventional criticism. til the big confrontation at the It is a futile task to attempt to end. The plot in this movie, just like corral and dissect these films us- ing ordinary methods, and one with Terminator I and II and might feel downright silly ana- True Lies, is only meant to serve as a context for relentless lyzing on the basis of con- action, spectacular special tent or plausibility. No, oms effects and glib dialogue. there is only one question For that alone, I suppose, it that needs to be answered when it comes to a Schwarzenegger succeeds. But after following the film. And so, with the Warner formula so precisely, film after Bros. release of Eraser, we will film, the action doesn't seem so ask the all-important question: exciting, the effects aren't that special and the dialogue? Not so Was it fun? In Eraser, Schwarzenegger clever. A movie can only one-up its once again plays a secret agent/superhero with a female predecessors so many times be- sidekick. This time he works with fore it rims out of breath. Sever- the U.S. Marshals, and his gal- al of the death-defying sequences pal is pop singer Vanessa seem to be pilfered from other ac- Williams. She's a former em- tion movies — and not just oth- ployee of a weapon's contractor er Schwarzenegger films, either. and Schwarzenegger has been Had this film been the first of its assigned to escort her into the kind, it might have felt a little Federal Witness Protection Pro- more crisp. Too much of Eraser gram because somebody wants feels like outtakes from previous releases. her dead before she can testify. Is it fun? Only when it doesn't That somebody turns out to be Schwarzenegger's associate cause total recall. (James Caan), a corrupt and al- ® 1/2 together unpleasant man. Caan and his band of turncoats lead — Richard Halprin Moshe Goldbard photographs T HE DETROIT JEWISH NE WS Stan Megdall glass Norman Sloman JAMCE CHARACH EPSIEIN sculpture Nancy Wolfe painting U SE U GALLERY Artists' Reception Public Welcome - Free Admission July 11 from 6-8 p.m. Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit 108 6600 West Maple Road, West Bloomfield (810) 661-7641 Gallery Hours Sun 11-4 p.m., Mon-Thurs 11-6 p.m. Vanessa Williams is about to enter the Witness Protection Program, and Arnold Schwarzenegger will do anything to keep her safe.