The Los Angeles Times from Los Angeles, California • Page 267

FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1994 F17oc 5XS ANGELES TIMES llEAJ: Historical Shot of the O.K. Corral Warren Beaitjr Julie Christie ROBERT ALTMAN'S MPAA rating: PG-13 tor "strong gunflghts, some language and sensuality." Times guidelines: Its gunflghts are Intense but sporadic. 'Wyatt Earp' Kevin WyaKEarf f9ntinued from Fl 1 ii iavne. he carries "Wyatt Earp i DeeMeWaey Morten Ban "My Darling Clementine" remains the best), this is probably the most true to life. But despite all these things to admire.

"Wyatt Earp" offers little to get excited about Partly it is the film's habit of pushing too hard, of forcing its emotional moments, and partly it is the glum, morose way Kasdan has envisioned Wyatt's story as a kind of Greek tragedy with boots on. Though superior to the recent Kurt RussellVal Kilmer "Tombstone," it could do with some of that movie's sense of fun. Not exactly a failure, "Wyatt Earp" is more accurately described as simply not the picture it wants so hard to be. IT. I) ierlFamy BuCunton JoamMng JoateMarea A Tig ProductlornKasdan Ptcturos production, released by Warner Bros.

Director Lawrence Kasdan. Producers Jim Wilson, Kevin Costner, Lawrence Kasdan. Executive producers Jon Slan, Dan Gordon, Charles Okun, Michael GrHlo. Screenplay Dan Gordon and Lawrence Kasdan. Clnematograpner Owen RolOTian.

Editor Carol Littleton. Costumes Colleen Atwood. Music James Newton Howard. Production design Ma Random. Art director Gary Wlssner.

Set decorator Cheryl Carasst. Running time: 3 hours, 9 minutes. In general release throughout Southern California, 4 2:00 4:30 7:00 9:20 FeElsxl 1822 VermontAve iZH his shoulders, and if that finally iKoves too much of burden, the IHame is not his. I i tCZDirector Kasdan, Whose, best-iSSnembered films remain his first rftwo, "Body Heat" aiid "The Big has ventured into the West fUrore; his 1985 "Silverado" almost i3'ed the genre's revival before it "Wyatt Earp" is more satis -K3m ying, partly because.1 its reported tlSSO-million budget allowed for like a hundred speaking rjmts and 92 different sets, includ-tZiag 10 distinctive saloons. iZThough it is always diverting to JJwb; loving re-creations of every-P4hing from the laying of railroad kli'ick to the skinning of buffalo, all SJefully photographed by Owen "J-Hoizman, in some ways this overly tBchematic pictorialism is evidence "Wyatt; goes iMMMPor while it is hard to deny a film T3 ambition, "Wyatt Earp" is for-KKer trying too hardj its excessive termination tol be seen as a Cinntai 213 664-2169 ww MmtMinemaw IBBJUi jii iw rm tWtf'i nnwi- Klssic is too earnest and obvious to lldODOffliul IM successful.

Especially since idan, though clearly a student of at Gfflmtwmmmfmuiwo 1 re genre in general and the films MMiS john Ford in particular, has to do without the innate feeling Fyjftsr the iconography and emotional jjwstency of the West that made "Dances With Wolves" and 2X3Bnt Eastwood's "Unforgiven" so j23ccessfuL "i I Since that Tombstone, untight (which historians pin-38Tint as having really taken place a less euphonious location at the SiSJier end of the block) is what! ESSost people associate with Earp, Jgjasdan opens his picture with ai Siet pre-corral sequence. It is the tSubrning of, the battle and the ggurshal is drinking coffee in one of jthose saloons, waiting to be joined brothers Virgil (Michael Mad-JSM and Morgan (Linden Ashby) JSffld best friend Doc Holliday (Den-iMeQuaid). ELtlFor the idea of family, the no- lr 1 Delightfully Funny! Kevin Costner is "Wyatt He carries the film on his shoulders, and if that finally proves too much of a burden, the blame is not his. It's a downright fully guaranteed good-mood restorative." -Paul Mall, LOS ANGELES READER Marcus, a later love of the Mia Farrow Joan Plowright Natasha Richardson That "Wyatt Earp" takes pains (( Utterly Delightful to accurately identify Marcus as Jewish, or to cast European-born Isabella Rossellini as Holliday's repeatedly articulated by jRarp patriarch Nicholas (Gene Hungarian paramour, Big Nose. Kate, is an indication of the film's interest in historical accuracy.

In fact, of the almost numberless pictures made about Earp and Tombstone (of which John Ford's winning Irish social comedy." "Very Funny! 1 BBMsW i According to the Gordon -Kasdan script, what tipped the balance in Wyatt's personality was the outcome of his romance with hometown sweetheart Urilla Sutherland Annabeth Gish). Post-Ur-illa, he was different, "a cold man, God forgive you," as an acquaintance puts it, whose implacable, unbending approach to law en- forcement accompanied him and his brothers from Wichita to Dodge City to Tombstone. To his credit, Costner can convincingly play both sides of the equation, the sheepish, grinning suitor as well as the careworn, emotionally blocked marshal who dresses all in black and barks at miscreants, "I'm Wyatt Earp it all ends now." Also worth seeing are Dennis Quaid, who lost 43 i pounds to amusingly portray the i tubercular gambler Doc Holliday, and Joanna Going, of TV's "Going to Extremes," who plays Josie rvL A This movie is entertaining every step of the way. i rIJ7l Roger Bert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES wacKmanj mat noming counts so ZSSSich as blood; the rest are just JS9angers," is taken totally to heart the five Earp btothers. They mmmay form romantic liaisons or even tSSarry, but it is the brothers who J2tne first, and Wyatt who is first among equals.

reintroduced as an Iowa teen-ager JSRJempting to flee the cornfields J2nd enlist on the Union side in the Civil War, Wyatt is next tracked to SDtough frontier town in Wyoming, the duality of his nature is exposed. As played by Costner, SKifyatt in his early 20a is half -boy, J2hUlf-klller, someone 6hyly awkr "ward who can turn hard and re-SUess when he has to. Workshop to Honor McLuhan's Birthday The Teachers' Forum will celebrate media theorist Marshall Mc Luhan's birthday July 21 with a workshop at the Midnight Special Bookstore in Santa Monica, 1318 Third Street Promenade, at 730 p.m. Information: (310) 939-2923. 1.

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