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ON NOVEMBER 16TH KIDS GET TO
HELP KIDS IN THE FIGHT AGAINST CANCER

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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16TH, 1997
4:00 P.M.— STATE THEATER

by writer Joe Eszterhas and platter-
patter Bacon is mostly in flying orbit
around old radio legends Freed and
Wolfman Jack, Calista Flockhart as
Diney comes through with the film's
fine, suggestive performance.
She has the gravity of a girl old
before her time, touched but not real-
ly thrilled by Karchy's bumbling atten-
tions and deeply unimpressed by Billy.
Diney is about to throw herself into a
safe, mediocre marriage with a store
owner; she is all the bright, sensitive
girls who play it safe, because they feel
that is their only honest option.
Guy Ferland's movie (more
Eszterhas', atoning — but not nearly
enough — for Showgirls) has a ripe
local feeling. It is wired by Bacon and
his duke-of-cool "slanguage." And it
sports a caravan of great old songs:
"Night Train," "High School
Confidential," "Lonely Teardrops,"
"Mule Skinner Blues," "Little Diane"
and the new, catchy "Medium Rare"
(written by Bacon).
The music is welcome, for the story
is locked-in pat, a mix of familiar nos-
talgia and forced moral choices. As the
law tries to corner Billy as a payola
bandit, Karchy comes to see that he's
been used by his hero. But Eszterhas
isn't about to peel all the mucus of
schmaltz off a buddy bond; we are
invited to admire the boy for having
the guts to perjure himself because,
well, the feds seem skunkier than
creepy but cool Billy (better half a
hero than none).
And — Yankee doodle dandy! —
Karchy's dad becomes a proud citi-
zen. For Schell, it's been a long, long
trip from playing the arrogant Nazi
in The Young Lions, the suave thief in
Topkapi and the cocky defense attor-
ney in Judgment at Nuremberg. He
serves up a Hungarian accent like
Cleveland goulash on a cold day, and
the look of Old World savvy in his
eyes says: Look at me, still acting.
Rated R.
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— Reviewed by David Elliott

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Movie reviews are written by
David Elliott, film critic for The
San Diego Union-Tribune and
other staff writers for Copley News
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The Tnuatron Dance Theater of Israel returns to this year's Mid East/
West Fest with the goal of sharing their lives through the emotional
translation of dance. The performance is a benefit for the Barbara
Ann Karmanos Caner Institute. Proceeds support the Institute's
Hazards of Tobacco (H.O.T.1 program, which uses smoking-related
cancer survivors to deliver the message of tobacco prevention
firsthand. The program reached more than 20,000 Detroit-area
students in 1996.

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Major Sponsors: Amstore, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Lufthansa, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Israel - Cultural Department, Ben Teitel Charitable Trust - Gerald Cook, Trustee.
Other Detroit Schools' Sponsors: Community Foundation for Southeastern Michigan, Hudsons, NBD Bank.
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