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ON SCREENMOVES THE LION KING BABY'S DAT OUT PG MAVERICK PG 1 1:00 1:00 3:00 5:00 7:00 9:00 11:30 1:30 3:30 5:30 7:30 9:30 11:00 1:30 4:15 7:00 9:40 SPEED II I LOVE TROUBLE PG RENAISSANCE MAN PG-13 11:00 1:10 3:25 5:40 8:00 10:15 11:25 1:15 4:20 7:00 9:40 11:25 2:00 4:40 7:30 10:10 THE SHADOW PG-13 WIDOW'S PEAK PG THE FLINTSTONES PG 11:00 1:10 3:25 5:40 8:00 10:10 11:15 1:20 3:15 5:30 7:40 9:40 11:15 1:15 3:15 5:30 7:30 9:30 BLOWN AWAY It WOLF I NAKED IN NEW YORK I 11:00 1:50 4:30 7:20 10:10 11:15 1:45 4:20 7:00 9:50 11:20 1:20 3:20 5:20 7:20 9:20 HMMWMtt mm FORREST GUMP PG-13 WIDOW'S PEAK PG THE FUNTST0NES PG 12:00 3:00 5:45 8:30 12:20 2:20 5:00 7:159:20 12:102:105:107:109:10 FORREST GUMP PG-13 LITTLE BIG LEAGUE PG GETTING EVEN WITH DAD PG 1:00 4:00 7:00 9:45 12:152:40 5:05 7:30 9:55 12:35 2:45 5:00 BABY'S DAY OUT PG I LOVE TROUBLE PG WHEN A MAN LOVES A WOMAN 12:30 2:35 5:157:20 9:30 12:00 2:30 4:55 7:20 9:45 7:35 10:00 Off screen, Tom Mantis also cuts through guff The star of Forrest Gump seems made for the role, clear-headed, sensitive and short on arrogance. St ill SunshineifS tU, ACTIONS II I Spee mm way vr 4500 Ulmerton Rd. (Hwv. 688) Just south of St. PetersburgClearwater Airport rwi i ii it mill ip iir mi I I nl'J 'J 3 Hl I riViU I'J I Od Pit Gates Open Grandstands Time Trials Racing GRANDSTAND 3.00 pm 4.00 pm 6.00 pm 7:00 pm $12.00 $5.00 FREE FREE $15.00 Open Wheel Modifieds Street Stock Figures 8's Auto Trader Street Stocks Adults Children 6-12 Mini Stocks Oval Drags Under 6 Parking Pits ffl Racing Every Saturday Nighll FOR INFO CALL (813) 573-4598 OR 573-4660 PERIPHERAL VISIONS GO FISH (R) (84 min.) Max (co-writer Guinevere Turner in a fine acting debut) is, in her words, "a carefree lesbo looking for love" and finding it in an unlikely place, the arms of a homely hippie named Ely (V.S.

Brodie). Their touch-and-go romance is as effective as most heterosexual couplings in movies; we pull for their success as much as any Sleepless in Seattle or Four Weddings and a Funeral liaisons. That's due to the brash cinematic skill director Rose Troche brings to Go Fish, which resembles Spike Lee's She's Gotta Have It in terms of its grainy black-and-white look, erratic pace and frank feminine sexuality. Troche and Turner turn the film into a universal comedy without sacrificing their obligation to the lesbian community. Whereas most gay-themed films focus on the tragic, Go Fish doesn't carry the weight of a revolution on its back or become what one character describes as the typical "soft-focus sisters of the woodlands" drama.

Max, Ely and the rest of their sharp-tongued friends are simply the girls next door and what they do with their lives is nobody else's business. Opens today at the Tampa Theatre. NAKED IN NEW YORK (R) (91 min.) Mix the neurotic romance of Annie Hall with the nou-veau Bohemian style of Reality Bites and dilute the combination with self-assured but misguided hipness. The result is Dan Algrant's Naked in New York, an occasionally amusing ex-love story. Eric Stoltz remains a very watchable actor, even if his frustrated playwright Jake Briggs is a sketchy weakling who never compels our empathy.

Jake is on the brink of producing his first play off-Broadway, but at the possible expense of his college crush (Mary-Louise Parker). Brief turns by veterans Kathleen Turner, Timothy Dal-ton, Tony Curtis, Ralph Macchio and Jill Clay-burgh add polish to Algrant's pedestrian script, with cameos by numerous Manhattan glitterati such as Eric Bogosian and Quentin Crisp to lend credibility to the setting. Jake's turmoil isn't involving, the love-or-money conflict is tired and the jokes that score seem like warmed-over Woody Allen. But the cast tries hard. Opens today at Movies at Pinellas Park.

WIDOW'S PEAK (PG) (101 min.) Mia Farrow reminds us why Woody Allen was interested in her in the first place with a gently convincing performance as Miss O'Hare, an Irish woman whose youthful scandal has rendered her the town's conversation piece. Widow's Peak is the impolite nickname for a village "where widows are as plentiful as freckles on a redhead," according to one resident, and its prim matriarch is the ever-delightful Joan Plowright Enchanted April). The slender plot thickens when a vivacious American (Natasha Richardson, Do Anything) moves to town, setting off a droll farce with a climactic twist. Held over at Movies at Pinsllas Park BITTER MOON (R) (139 min.) It's difficult to tell if Roman Polanski's latest film is a failed attempt at another of his trademark psycho-sexual thrillers or a failed spoof of that genre, with film-school symbolism and an arch musical score by Vangelis. Peter Coyote hams it up as Oscar, a Henry Miller-style writer living in sin in Paris, who becomes obsessed with Mimi (Polanski's wife, Emmanuelle Seigner) and leads her into a decadent, degrading affair with the expected tragic results.

Most of the lurid tale is told in flashback, as Oscar schemes to trap a married couple (Four Weddings and a Funerats Hugh Grant and Kirstin Scott Thomas) in a kinky scenario reminiscent of Harold Pinter's The Company of Strangers. Bitter Moon would be better described by the title of one of Polanski's films when he used to be a vital filmmaker Repulsion. Opens today at the Beach Theater in St. Pete Beach. C- THE SCENT OF GREEN PAPAYA (Not rated, probably PG-13) (104 min.) Directorscreenwriter Tran Ahn Hung's first full-length feature is a remembrance of paradise past.

Lush scenery frames the story of 10-year-old Mui, a servant girl who matures and falls in love with her employer, just as the winds of war begin to blow. In Vietnamese with subtitles. Held over at the Beach Theater in St. Pete Beach. STEVE PERSALL VOTED 1 At The Tampa Bay Adult Entertainment Awards Ladies Couples Welcome Adult Videos Novelties Magazines Leather Lace Swimwear Hi-Tech Video Arcade By BOB STRAUSS Los Angeles Daily News LOS ANGELES Fresh from his Philadelphia Oscar triumph, Forrest Gump star Tom Hanks already is being touted as a contender for Best Actor at next year's Academy Awards.

Simple-minded but virtuous, eternally naive but blessed with infallible common sense, athletically gifted and dumb lucky to an astounding degree, Forrest is an endearing but deceptively tough job of technical acting. His personality is supposed to remain constant throughout a tumultuous series of wrenching events, and that isn't easy for any actor to pull off. On top of that, the academy loves the mentally challenged. (Cliff Robertson won Best Actor for Charly'm 1968, as did Dustin Hoffman for Rain Man in 1988, Peter Sellers was nominated for Being Therein 1979, and young Leonardo DiCaprio earned a nomination for playing a retarded boy in last year's What's Eating Gilbert Grape.) Oscar voters also adore Southern accents; Hanks graciously admits he stole his from the young Mississippian Michael Humphreys, who plays Forrest as a boy. Perhaps the best reason for giving Hanks another Oscar is that he will have to make another acceptance speech.

As you may recall, Hanks stopped the awards show last March with an emotional, ethereal and sometimes incomprehensible plea for tolerance of gays, like the AIDS patient he had just been honored for portraying. It moved many to tears and probably an equal number to scratch their heads. "It was pretty much busted syntax," Hanks acknowledged. "I would have been more poetic if I didn't have so much plasma rushing through my brain at the time it came up. Foremost in my mind was to address what I perceived to be the real reason why I was standing there, which is that this movie wouldn't have been made, and I wouldn't have been receiving whatever attention and accolades I had if it wasn't for the fact that so many gay men are dead of AIDS.

So, I had thought a little bit of how I was going to put that. "Given that circumstance, you can be very political or somewhat poetic. I tried to be poetic. "At the same time, the issue of tolerance that was raised in the movie was something that I think is a common-sense issue. I thought the best way I could point that out was by mentioning the fact that I had a teacher who was gay and I'm really glad I did 'cause that was another reason why I was standing there.

"Beyond that, I am given over to rambling sometimes. I would've liked to have been able to get off a little shorter and sweeter, but, man, oh, man, you're suddenly standing in some bizarre, surrealistic painting, and you don't know what's happening to you. It's an incredibly personal moment that's playing itself out in front of 3-billion people. "All I was trying to do was give credit where it was due and to let it be understood that there is a much grander scheme of things to our lives that is much more complicated than who wins a trophy." New Location 4829 N. Lois Ave.

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