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The Tampa Tribune, Monday, August 19, 1991 BayLife-5 IT DOC HOLLYWOOD 1:20 3:30 5:40 750 10 QQ PQ-13 It takes more than 'Pure Luck' to survive Compared to all other media, Tampa Bay adults rate The Tampa Tribune with the best Movie Information. HOT SHOTS 1:40 3:40 5:30 7:40 9:40 DELIRIOUS 1:30 3:20 5:20 7 30 9:30 PG BINGO 1:10 3:10 5:10 7:05 9:10 PQ REGARDING HENRY 1:50 4:20 7:10 9:20 PG-13 BOYZ THE HOOD 1:55 4:30 8:00 10:10 By TERRY KELLEHER of Newsday Funny thing about Martin Short's funniest film performance: Officially, it never happened. In "The Big Picture," a widely unseen 1989 satire directed by his friend and former "Saturday Night Live" cohort Christopher Guest, Short had an uncredited, unsalaried role as a Hollywood agent who gives new meaning to such pejoratives as VISIT OUR THEATRES 0" COUPLE) XXX FEATURES XXX Bit 1 TED'S BOGUS ADVENTURE 1:00 3:00 5:00 7:00 9:00 PG-13 PRIVATE BOOTHS, 971-3491 in a bid for box office. "The interesting thing about physical comedy," Short said, "is that in the '20s it was considered an art form in this country and now it's considered an art form in Europe. That's why you have somebody like Francis Veber making physical comedies and America saying, 'Let's do them' because 'Three Fugitives' made $50 million and people want to see it "I love doing physical comedy because I'm aware of how intricate it is," said the youthful (but not that youthful) 41-year-old.

"Walking into a mirror, walking into a wall, takes hours of preparation." POINT BREAK 2:00 4:40 7:20 9:50 I THEATRE 13417 NEBRASKA (FLETCHER NEBRASKA) smarmy" and "parasitic. Anyone we know, Marty? "Everybody would come up to me and say, urday Night Live, if you made him the new neighbor on 'Growing he wouldn't be allowed to do the sort of stuff he did on late night Films become their own form oi prime time. They're not about reaching the select, so-called hip audience of late night "I understand the process, and therefore you have two choices: You can never do movies, or you can continue to do them and try to do roles that are more suited to you, and keep carving your mark and gradually building enough stock 'til someone is willing to make an investment in you." The process started in earnest for Short when he came to Hollywood after his championship season of '84-'85 on "Saturday Night Live." "I was told I was the hottest guy in town," he said. "I thought 'Gee, that's great. I guess I'll be making movies And the best offer I had was a movie called 'Hot to with a talking horse.

So I said very naively to my agent, don't get it. If they want me to be successful, why would they give me this "He said, 'You don't get it. They don't care what you make. They just want it to be a commercial I know who you're doing," A i Nothing weird BEST ROMANTIC COMEDY!" M( -Pat Collins, WWOR-TV 5S NOW SHOWING! rfljfS) 1 if I A v.vmxnm II TnC. II OVt mm omktmubi I wiTMrun I uhmmi I vsasrrs I MMUMMTIMM niltaai I 1IMIWMWAVL I MM WUMOMMMM I NMMMMH I I II 25I-55M I mm ni-um 1 SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT NO COUPONS OR PASSES ACCEPTED he recalled last week.

"I wasn't doing anybody. It was just made up. That character symbolized a per Short ception of Hollywood greater than attributed to lack of studio support "Chris Guest had done This Is Spinal Tap'; he had done It all," Short said. "What he went through to get $5 million from Columbia to do 'The Big Picture," which was a wonderful script and still they buried it It's so typical of the struggle." The struggle goes on, and Short is up to it When attractive movie roles failed to present themselves immediately after "Three Fugitives," he turned to his second cable TV special, HBO's Martin Short Goes Hollywood." He also co-wrote a screenplay titled "Clifford," which provided him with the opportunity to play a 10-year-old boy. Shot under the Orion banner before Short began work on "Pure Luck," it still awaits release, now scheduled for early next year.

"'Clifford' was the first time a. studio bankrolled my peculiar take on what is funny," said Short "The humor is the closest thing to 'SCTV' that one will have seen in the movies. But as you'll recall, played from 12:30 to 2 a.m., so you're not inclined to say with a movie like this, 'Let's go up against Terminator In the Touchstone remake of "Father of the Bride," due for Christmas, Short gets peculiar again as a fussy "wedding coordinator" with a Clouseau-like accent that baffles harried dad Steve Martin. Late-night hipsters may applaud this recrudescence of weirdness, but Short is determined not to leave prime-timers scratching their heads for too long. "I can remember reading a review of 'Cross My Heart' and I agreed with it," he said.

"They said, 'Martin Short is very good in this movie, and he can no doubt make a living for the rest of his career playing these everyman kind of roles, but it would be a shame, a Of course, that was never my intention. But if you're a bizarre basket case every time you're on screen, that can be predictable as well." just agents, which was that the in dustry is a total lie, a total Short's personal view is not so jaundiced, as shown in a New York conversation designed to promote his new movie, Universale "Pure Luck." The movie is a broad comedy- Ed Grimley with-action film about an accident-prone accountant (Short) who teams with a straight-man detective Without questioning the effort that went into "Pure Luck," Short's admirers may be mildly disappointed that it offers nothing weirder than the red tint of his hair. "It reminded me of Lucille Ball and Danny Kaye," he said. On "SCTV" and "SNL," the Canadian actor created the likes of elfin supernerd Ed Grimley, albino entertainment legend Jackie Rogers Jr. and sweaty Nathan Thurm, cornered rat and counselor at law.

"The Big Picture" excepted, his large-screen characterizations have been limited to likable schnooks in comically desperate circumstances: the silent-screen hero daunted by real villains in "Three Amigos" (1986), the nervous dater of "Cross My Heart" ('87), the timid grocery clerk possessed by a miniaturized Dennis Quaid in "Innerspace" ('87), the inept bank robber and devoted father in "Three Fugitives" ('89) and now the walking disaster area of "Pure Luck." "People have asked me many times how come people from late-night TV are so provocative and then they go to movies and they're not as provocative," Short said. "The reality is, the analogy is going from late night to prime time. As brilliant as Bill Murray was on 'Sat (Danny Glover) in the search for an accident-prone heiress (Sheila Kelly). "It's definitely the kind of movie (Dean) Martin and (Jerry) Lewis would have made in 1956," Short said. "I love that kind of movie.

And The lesson was doubly reinforced in 1989. In the spring, NBC canceled "The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley," a Saturday-morning series that combined live action and animation in its critically praised one-season run. "I think the cartoon show I did was as progressive as Short said. "It had reviews like we wrote them ourselves. And NBC couldn't take that show off fast enough.

They thought it was too odd. If I had done 'Ed Grimley, Boy Scout it would be on today." In the fall, "The Big Picture" quickly went dark a fate Short you know what? I think the public loves that kind of movie." OIK REGENCY SQUARE I 1-75 HWY 60. BRANOON 684-4668 NOW SHOWING! Like "Three Fugitives," which Cmetux Oocon MAIN STREETS 1 1778 NORTH DALE MABfiV 961-0654 cmc VARSITY 6 FOWLER NEBRASKA 971-5566 Cmmix Ohjon HLLSBORO EIGHT 3306 HILLSBOROUGH AVE 872-7905 one OLD HYDE PARK 7 1609 SWANN AVENUE 251-5566 paired Short with Nick Nolte, "Pure Luck" is the Americanization of a NO PASSES ACCEPTED FOR THIS ENGAGEMENT French hit by writer-director Fran-- cis Veber. Both films, based on "Les Fugitifs" and "La Chevre" respectively, blend buddyism and slapstick Mike Clark, USA TODAY HURT Branagh enters the 'house of Hitchcock' WILLIAM THE the English invasion of France to a condemnation of war. "That is sort of the purpose of this ongoing DOCTOR PG'13l tmtmiwumtmmtiitTWinui.M.

ffifjl 1 museum, why Shakespeare has been done for hundreds of years. When it's done well, it can work at any time," said Branagh, who received nominations for best actor and best director. NOW SHOWING! CINEPLEX OOCON MUSRORO ENVKT UOe W. HILLSBOROUGH 872-7905 tome VARSITY FOWLER NEBRASKA 971-5568 AMC THEATRES OLD HYDE PARK 7 OLD HYDE PARK VILLAGE 16D9 SWANN AVE. GENERAL CINEMA NORTHDALE COURT DALE MABAY A NOSTHDALE BLVD.

968-5059 RECENCY SQUARE 1-75 HWV. SO 684-4668 251-5566 oo oooooooooooooooooooooooQQOooooi if. lV Vy ilk MV "1 By HILLEL ITALIE of The Associated Press Kenneth Branagh, classically trained actor and Academy Award nominee, still has stars in his baby blue eyes, gushing about movies like a salesman pitching the world's best insurance policy. "I want to make pictures, theatrical experiences, that involve you completely the head, heart, all the senses, a visceral experience, not just kind of an intellectual exercise," the actor-director said excitedly during a recent interview. "I want to communicate to all people.

Movies should be for anybody, for anything they want, for them to have a serious time or a fun time, not for a group of friends or a bunch of critics." Crowned as the "new Olivier" after the commercial and critical success of "Henry the 30-year-old Branagh enters the house of Hitchcock with his new film, "Dead Again," in which he also stars and directs. "Dead Again" is very much a movie about movies, with suspense, romance and references to Hitchcock thrillers such as "Dial 'M' for Murder," "Spellbound" and "Notorious." It opens nationwide Friday It takes place both in the present and during the 1940s, which is seen, appropriately, in glossy black and white. Dual roles Branagh has dual roles as a famous '40s conductor, Roman Strauss, and as hard-boiled Los Angeles detective Mike Church. His off-screen wife, Emma Thompson, plays both Strauss' wife and a tormented woman called Grace with whom Church falls in love. Andy Garcia is featured as a newspaper reporter and Derek Jacob! appears as an antiques dealer who puts Grace under hypnosis.

It is, admittedly, not a realistic film, unless you know others like Grace, who suffers from nightmares because of a murder committed in her previous life. Branagh, however, is less interested in building a case for reincarnation than in pushing the cause for movies themselves. "I remember seeing 'Chitty Chitty Bang he recalled. "It was in two parts with an intermission, and at intermission it's the first time the car flies, goes over the cliff and that kind of thing excited me. "It also excited me because other people were doing it at the same time.

You're aware of lo "Some people want it to be obscure, but I say make it accessible and I literally just mean that. It's there for people to go. Movies are more affordable and they're easier to get to. And I feel that does not have to exclude complicated ideas or complex emotions." Branagh had seen many of his idols on a giant screen and, to his great surprise, they didn't seem much smaller in real life. He wrote to Olivier, asking for advice on a Chekhov play, and received a cordial reply.

He met Albert Finney backstage and directed favorites such as Jacobi, Paul Scofield and Ian Holm. There also was the time he was rehearsing for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and heard a famous voice intone, "I hear we're going to hear a bit of your Hamlet." It was John Giel-gud, and the actor later made several useful suggestions. "One thing about running up to some of those legends is their gift for absolute humility. There's nothing more exciting to meet someone and they disarm you absolutely by being on your wavelength. They leave being even greater in your estimation," Branagh said.

"But I don't need to meet everybody. Woody Allen's a great hero of mine, but I don't necessarily want to meet him. I don't expect anything from him. He's a hero because of his work." Uncomfortable discussions Branagh now is a star himself, but isn't quite comfortable discussing it. He's only directed two pictures, after all, hardly enough for a good film festival.

He's very much in the middle of things, thinking of future projects and of how much higher he has to climb, still able to imagine himself on either side of the screen. "I'm still in the toddler stage," he said with a laugh. "I'm not even walking. When I'm watching, I'm thrilled by all the things that are possible, and it isn't, 'Oh, I could use that shot' I just like it. "A picture like 'GoodFellas' I adored.

I was completely captivated, on every level. That's what I aspire to: a story matched by the 0 on rn Kenneth Branagh stars as private detective Mike Church in "Dead Again." the power of popular entertainment. It's different on a big screen with a lot of people than a tiny, tiny screen and two or three people." Branagh was born in Belfast, but moved to England at an early age. Talented and ambitious, he graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, joined the Royal Shakespeare Company and eventually put on productions with his own Renaissance Theatre Company. He's always been a bit cheeky.

At age 13, he wrote to the local newspaper, complaining about the poor coverage of children's books and suggesting himself as a reviewer. The features editor took him up on the offer. To get backing for "Henry which Olivier released to great acclaim during World War II, he simply approached a producer and asked for backing. Forget that Branagh had appeared in just two films and had never directed before: He would direct and play the title role. Again, his wish was granted.

Filmed in just seven weeks, "Henry was both overpowering and intimate, with spectacular sets of battlefields and palaces and the raw, spontaneous feel of a neighborhood talent show. Olivier's version had been a tribute to British patriotism, but Branagh updated this epic about Movie Times oooo6ooooooooooooooooooooooooQOooc Fri. SEPT. 6 and Sat. SEPT.

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5:40. 8:05. 10:25 Pure Luck (PG) 1:45. 5:20, 7:45, 10 The Doctor (PQ-13) 1:40, 4:45, 7:30, 10:20 Robin Hood (PG-13) 1:20, 4:25, 7:20, 10:15 1H1 Dalmatian fit 2 A 6 WAYS TO GET YOUR TICKETS Hot Shots! (PG-13) 2:10, 4:15. 7:10, 9:25 Mystery Date (PG-13) 2:15.

4:45, 7:15, 9:45 Boyz the Hood (R) 7:50. 9:55 Bill Ted's Bogus Journey (PG) 2:45, 4:50 HORIZON PARK 4 ((13) (72-2619 Double Impact (R) 2, 5, 7:30, 9:45 101 Dalmatians (G) 1:30, 3:30, 6 Mobsters (R) (, 10:10 Body Parts (R) 5:10, 7:20. 9:30 Robin Hood (PG-13) 1:40. 4:30. 7:15, 9:55 The Pistol (G) 1:50 MAIN STREET 8 (813) 961-0654 City Slickers (PG-13) 2:05, 4:10, 7:05, 9:15 Robin Hood (PG-13) 2, 4:30, 7, 9:30 Double Impact (R) 2:35, 4:45, 7:35, 9:45 V.I.

Warshawskl (R) 2:25, 4:35, 7:25, 9:35 Mystery Date (PG-13) 2:20, 4:20. 7:20, 9:20 Mobsters (R) 2:15, 4:25, 7:15, 9:25 MOVIES AT MISSION BELL (813) 962-6637 Doc Hollywood (PG-13) 1:20. 3:30, 5:40, 7:50, 10 Hot Shots! (PG-13) 1:40, 3:40. 5:30. 7:40.

9:40 Delirious (PG) 1:30. 3:20, 5:20. 7:30. 9:30 Bingo (PG) 1:10. 3:10.

5:10, 7:05. 9:10 Regarding Henry (PG-13) 1:50, 4:20, 7:10, 9:20 Boyz the Hood (R) 1:55, 4:30, 8, 10:10 i Bill i Ted's Bogus Journey (PG) 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 Point Break (R) 2, 4:40, 7:20, 9:50 NORTHDALE COURT ((13) 968-5059 The Naked Gun lh (PG-13) 1:30, 3:30, 5:30, 7:30, 9:30 Terminator 2 (R) 1:30, 4:15, 7:15, 9:55 Pure Luck (PG) 2:10, 5, 7:30. 9:40 The Rocketeer (PG-13) 2.10, 4:45, 7:20. 9:40 101 Dalmatians (G) 2, 4, 6 Return to the Blue Lagoon (PG-13) 7:40. 9:45 The Doctor (PG-13) 1:45, 4:20, 7:10, 9:50 OLD HYDE PARK 7 ((13) 251-5566 Mystery Date (PQ-13) 2.

5. 7:35, 9:55 Doc Hollywood (PG-13) 2:05, 5:10. 7:40, 10 Hot Shots! (PG-13) 2:10, 5:25, 8, 10:30 Regarding Henry (R) 8. 10:25 Mobsters (R)- 1:35,4:15 101 Dalmatians (G) 1:30, 4, 6 Terminator 2 (R) 7:10, 10:05 The Doctor (PG-13) 1:50, 4:45, 7:25, 10:20 TAMPA PITCHER SHOW (613) 963-0578 Dying Young (R) 6:45. 9 TAMPA THEATRE ((13) 223-8961 Longtime Companion (not rated) 7:15 TWIN BAYS 4 ((13) (37-2436 Don't tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (PG-13) 2:15, 5, 7:45.

10:05 Dying Young (R) 2, 5:15, 8, 10:30 Thelma Louise (R) 1:45, 4:30, 7:30, 10:15 Backdratt (R) 1:30, 4:15, 7:10, 9:50 UNIVERSITY COLLECTION 971-8223 Bill Ted's Bogus Journey (PG) 7:25, 9:10 Bingo (PG) 1:45. 4 Body Parts (R) 7:50. 9:30 101 Dalmatians (G) 1:15, 2:45, 4:20. 6 Terminator 2 (R) 1:30. 4:15, 7:05, 9:40 Pure Luck (PG-13) 2, 4:30, 7:15, 9:20 Delirious (PG) 2:15, 4:40, 7:45, 9:50 Regarding Henry (PG-13) 2:20, 4:50, 7:35, 9:55 UNIVERSITY SQUARE (813) 977-1410 Robin Hood (PG-13) 1:15.

4:10. 7. 9:50 Hot Shots! (PQ-13) 1:45, 3:40, 5:40. 7:40, 10 Double Impact (R) 2:50, 5:15, 7:35, 9:50 City Slickers (PG-13) 2:45, 5:05, 7:25, 9:45 VARSITY ((13) 971-5569 The Doctor (PG-13) 2, 4:40, 7:15, 9:55 Doc Hollywood (PG-13) 2:10, 5:30, 7:40, 10:15 Mystery Date (PG-13) 1:40. 5, 7:20.

9:45 Mobsters (R) 2:20. 5:25. 7:55. 10:20 Point Break (fl) 4:45, 7:25, 10 Bow the Hood (R) 1:50, 5:10, 7:35, 10:05 The movie listings are submitted by Bay area theaters. They are subject to change without notice.

These listings reflect only today's movie times. Tampa BRITTON CINEMA ((13) 137-4536 Mobsters (R) 4:50 Terminator 2 (R) 2, 7:15 Hot Shots! (PQ-13) 2:30. 5, 7:40 Bingo (PG) 2:15, 4:40,7:20 BUCCANEER PALACE CINEMA (813) (844879 Dying Young (R) 7, 9:20 Backdratt (R) 6:45, 9:30 CINEMA PUBS NORTHOATE (813) 932-2535 Dying Young (R) 6:45. 9 Backdratt (R) 8:45, 9:15 EASTUKE CINEMA (813) 821-8963 Double Impact (R) 2:30. 5, 7:30, 9:55 Body Parts (R) 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10 Boyz the Hood (R) 2:15, 4:45, 7:20.

9:45 FUN-LAN DRIVE-IN (813) 234-2311 Terminator 2 (R) 8:30, 10:50 Body Parts (R) 8:30 Ths Naked Gun 2Vi (P6-13) 10:05 HILLSBORO ((13) 872-705 Doc Hollywood (Pfl-13) 2:40, 4:40, 7:40, 9:40 Terminator 2 (R) 2, 4:30, 7, 9:30 The Doctor (PG-13) 2:05, 4:25, 7:05, 9:35 Pure Luck (PG-13) 2:20, 4:20, 7:20, 9:20 Delirious (PG-13) Bingo (PG) 2:30, 4:55 OPENING DAY DISCOUNT KIDS UNDER 12 and SENIOR CITIZENS 62 AND OVER SAVE $2.00 Frl. SEPT. 6 at 3:30 Sponsored By: TIclirnpaTrbune OPENING DAY SHOWS IN PERSON: LAKELAND CIVIC CENTER BOX OFFICE and all TtcxmrSmm, OUtletS (service charge added at outlets) BY PHONE: (813) 287-8844 Use VISA or MASTER CARD (service charge added to phone orders) BY MAIL: Send self-addressed, stamped envelope with check or money order payable to LAKELAND CIVIC CENTER, Walt Disney's World On Ice, 700 W. Lemon, Lakeland, FL 33801 ($1.25 service charge per ticket, 15 cap) ALL SEATS RESERVED $9.50 $11.50 PRICE INCLUDES TAX Regarding Henry (PG-13) 8, 10:30 Bingo (PG) 2:10 Terminator 2 (R) 4:15. 7:10, 10:05 Hot Shot! (PG-13) 1:30.

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