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The Cincinnati Enquirer TEMPO Wednesday, September 13, 1995 C9 1 Stunning 'dockers' strikes new note 19th Annual Simon Kenton Festival Saturday, September 16 10 a.m. 5 p.m. MOVIE REVIEW Clockers (R; realistic violence, profanity) Harvey Keitel, John Turturro, Mekhi Phi-fer, Delroy Undo, Isaiah Washington, Regina Taylor. 129 minutes. At National Amusements.

Sunday, September 17 Noon -5 p.m. Antiques, Crafts, Demonstrations, Street Exhibitors Food Booths "A Simon Kenton Family Reunion" Old Washington A Historic District of Maysvllle, Kentucky For more Information, call (6061 759-7411 diss'', rm. BY MARGARET A. McGURK The Cincinnati Enquirer Spike Lee doesn't make movies about heroes and villains. He makes moves about human beings.

In Clockers, a murder mystery played out in the constricted world of a housing project drug ring, he has spun a gripping human tale against a familiar backdrop. It looks entirely new in Lee's hands. It is both a violent, urban tale of a young man wedded to evil who is wrenched into salvation, and a riveting suspense story leavened with humor. The movie is elevated above typical inner-city dramas by the strength of novelist Richard Price's story and by Lee's vivid, sometimes breathtaking technique in translating it to the screen. The story follows Strike (Mekhi ey Strike earns buys him no pleasure; his only payoff is fear.

He is despised by his family. The ugliness of his life literally tears him up inside. By the end he is spitting blood. Lee then defies convention again with an ending that suggests redemption, or at least escape, for Strike, for his brother, for Tyrone and for Rocco. As usual, Lee draws fine performances from his cast.

Lindo is a standout. His performance as Rodney sheds the role of the father-figure he plays for his pathetic minions and reveals the brutal killer inside is utterly spine-tingling. Clockers is a tremendous film and a major addition to the work of a vibrantly talented director. der. Rocco (Harvey Keitel), a detective on the case, doesn't believe the confession and obsessively stalks Strike to get the truth.

Strike is driven to the breaking point by an ever-more menacing Rodney and a cop from the housing project called Andre the Giant (Keith David) who is trying to protect a little boy enthralled with Strike. The boy, Tyrone (Pee Wee Love), is drawn into the poisonous web around Strike in a chilling reflection of Strike's relationship with Rodney, until his fate and Strike's are inextricable. Lee stands the ghetto-gangster genre on its ear by stripping away any vestige of glamour from the business of drug dealing. The mon elite COLLECTION JL pronounced mek-EYE Phi-fer) a crew leader for a neighborhood drug boss named Rodney (Delroy Lindo), who woos young recruits with lectures about thrift and responsibility. Rodney's expanding hold on Strike's life leads to an order to kill a rival.

A few days later, Strike's straitlaced, hard-working brother Victor (Isaiah Washington) walks into a police station and confesses to the mur Especially for Large Size Petite Fashions Perfectly Proportioned for the Icge-sized Petite 5'4" under. Sizes 16WP-26WP HEALTHBEAT Finally! No more styles that fit straight off the rack. 241-7090 Open houses to mark next week's designation as National Adult Day Care Center Week are 2-5 p.m. Sept. 20 at NORCEN Behavioral Health Systems, 7710 Reading Road, Rose-lawn; 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Others haye hit the market, too, under different names like Audio-Vision CDs and i-trax. "I've got all these cool things to do, and I'm going to go ahead," says AIX Entertainment's Mark Waldrep, whose i-trax process was used for discs by Kitaro, Boiled in Lead and Civilization. But at prices higher than music CDs (but less than most CD-ROMs), consumers might sour on the format, Lisa Lewis at Music Marketing Network says. "Within two years, every single disc will have some visual components, even if it's something as simple as a catalog or brochure," says Charly Prevost, a columnist for CD newsletter ICE. But he hopes for bigger and better things, "like handwritten lyrics.

Dylan and Beatles fans especially could appreciate things like that." Stereo owners need not worry about compatibility problems. Enhanced CDs play on regular CD players, unveiling their extra features when put into a PC's CD-ROM drive. Causes of market confusion during this introductory phase: Many releases (Alice in Chains, Mariah Carey, Rolling Stones) were pushed back as Apple, Microsoft, Philips and Sony worked on technical standards. Also delayed: introductory discs from Microsoft (due this fall) and the Recording Industry Association of America Qanuary). Nonetheless, this summer, some discs BY BRUCE HARING and MIKE SNIDER USA Today Slowly but surely, the recording industry is launching what it hopes will be the next wave of entertainment software.

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