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C5 EtITERTAIIIMPIT The Vancouver Sun, Friday, July 8, 1994 REVIEW Delightful ride with gals on bus to beach it771: it i i .141 4, A-- '') 1 -N tr. i .4.4 N. peatn 't' of doWS'''- l't 11' 1 i 1 i t''' 14 A. AAN -1 4 I -I, 1 11 -C. '4, i q- 4:..

,,,,) s- z. i'l KATHERINE MONK Sun Movie Critic Vrkr BLACKPOOL-bound bus of women (above) head for beach -4- 1,.....,:........,,,,,. TONIGHT'ONLYhMEETtTHEDIRECTOR TONIGHT ---sA otor "A MUST SEE. 1,, A superintelligent i comedyfor rude girls everywhere. 99-A, tam NOLALE vOG "Sheer entertainment a spicy feminist brew." ism SM FRANC0C0 OtrACif ell th3 "An effervescent vision of sisterhood." It sks Neatir Atari.

sm Fitmusco wall "Boldly irreverent and AL I '7 hilariously disapproving. La. I keg Rot al Aoriott Crial 1 Kul, um SHOWS DAILY 7:30, 9:30. M111111: FRIDAY i UTURBAY METAL Sat MATINEES and HEAVY ICEIT MTARTREIc 0 60 FILM FESTIVAL IN 70 '444 '4, tNit4 1.0it, ,2. It Yr 4 ,4 ,:3:1 Action adventures come to life On the largest 70 MM screen in the Lower Maiela4- with wrap-around sound.

Anything larger would have to be an IMAX FRIDAY AND SATURDAY EVENINGS AT 10:45 P.M. ONLY. JULY 89 JULY 1516 JULY 2223 THE WRATH OF KHAN THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK THE VOYAGE HOME-: JULY 2930 AUGUST 56 IP 0--- THE FINAL FRONTIER THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY tIMAX hints are 3 tunes larder Man Conventrundi it) MI Ticitiet are Hireable at tne Ur it, io, ,:,1,7,7 10 taneb laroer than 35 MM 11 Pare near Seante, dor! So; iiti -to itileires titiV2 to; intornrtion ond to 'Lind; te, i.irijr.ifF Don I miss the Star Trek Federation Silence exhihrtion on at Soence ti.io Id alt I MietX a eL ff0.1PA THEATRE AT CANADA PLACE 4. mw tIOLLYWOODu38-12" First on the bus is Ginder (Kim Vithana Ginder left 1 her husband Ranjit for reasons I A that aren't completely clear. Strug- gling with cultural exile and caring for her young son by herself, Ginder is considering a reconciliation.

But Ginder isn't the only one who's confused. Hashida is the model child. At 18, she's on her way to medical school and fulfilling her par-Mature. ents' dreams except she just found out she's pregnant with her black boyfriend's child. While no less severe, Asha's struggle is entirely different.

An older woman bound by tradition, Asha watches the next generation with disgust until she too finds herself swept off her feet by an older white man, to boot. With colorful characters like the feminist "protocaller" Simi, the boy-crazy Madhu and Ladhu, and Reldia, the Chanel-toting visitor from Bombay who challenges "Old World" il 11 1 lf ----1 1 ---1, 4.... .,1 -II tli 1 KAY ladies, it's not often that we have the oppor- tunity to leave the oppressive patriarchy of our homes so let's have a visibly feminist day," says Simi or something close to it to her busload of -beach-bound women. There's nothing particularly hilarious in what Simi says. If anything, she's right to point out the fact all the women on the bus from the pregnant protege to the single mother are oppressed.

So why then, is Gurinder Chadha's Bhaji on the Beach BHAJI Of so incredibly Starring Kim VI funny? Harkishin, Sari Because real comedy treads the Mo Sessay line between Caprice Threata tragedy and farce, and that's exactly what director Chadha succeeds in doing in her first, and expectedly inconsistent, full-length dramatic feature Bhaji on the Beach. Assembled from the storylines of six different women, Chadha es a touching tale of pain, intolerance and human compassion into a simple movie about the women of the Saheli Asian Women's Centre and their bus trip to Blackpool one of those cold, tacky tourist Meccas on the coast of England. 6 BHAJI ON Starring Kim Harkishin, Santa Mo Sessay Caprice Threatre. 0 THE BEACH Vithana, Jimmi Khajuria and Mature. THE BEACH hana, Jimmi Kha juria and Ini25 Leslie Neilson Pnscilis Presley 0,1 Simpson ai 's NAKED GUN 33 THE FINAL INSULT Suggestive scenes language.

swearing violenCe 7:30 32 SHORT FILMS ABOUT GLENN GOULD Adults Students $3.25 thinking, and you've got all the ingredients for some extra spicy comedy. But watch out for the burn. As the women attempt to find themselves in the midst of Blackpool, the men get jealous and zoom off to find them. The gender split gives Chadha a line to play with not just in terms of plain, simple editing, but narrative development as well. Dancing back and forth on either side of the gender and color borders, treading the line with the grace of a belled fool, Chadha succeeds in lancing petty problems and the festering sores of domestic violence and gender oppression.

It's not always funny, its not always pretty it's not even consistently well-shot but thanks to a wonderful cast and sincere direction. Bhaji an the Beach is a delightful film full of surprises that will stick in your heart like a deep-fried dumpling. OPLAZO 88 wow' ITHEffIRE tas4 OiNFRAD 2:15 75 IcavV16 140 I ITU The he (Row I ITU BUDDHA The (ROW 1 1 ISIDNITE Gu SPECIAL Terrnml City Presents Fri. sat. my 9 12:11 ma $5 so rug' 0 hestootedtruel Bluth tholonee Throughout rpirro Sex BC WI Cl000rtrouon 4 niuccrommunq ifilitluvr738e631.11 Brown doesn't feel good about rap profanity Double bill Sun.

7:30 BLUE (14 YEARS) 9:30 THE DOUBLE LIFE 34'EARs'OF VERONIQUE Associated Press songs that include profanity should be kept off the air. "I'm a religious man and I don't think they should be played on the air where your kids or sister or your brother will have access to it," he said. "They should be put on the shelf, X-rated, and not sold to minors." Brown added: "Rappers have a message but sometimes go overboard. I want no part of that." $22c) THEATRE AEAll YOU LOS ANGELES James Brown doesn't want to become the godfather of profanity-laced rap. The Godfather of Soul asked rap artists not to mix his records with songs using X-rated lyrics.

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"He stated that he was here to get me," she said in court papers. He was quoted as telling a guard: "1 do not care ifl die tonight. I want to see Courtney." Sceeles was arrested on charges of criminal trespass and stalking. Cobain committed suicide at the couple's home in April. 4.

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Camera. A roomful of Mike Tyson walinabes turned out Thursday for a shot at portraying the jailed former heavy: weight champion in an IIBO movie due out next year. There were Tyson affectations gold teeth, sleeveless shirts, tattoos, close-cropped haircuts but no dead ringers. And there were two guys named Tyson brothers Leonard and Melvin. Neither had experience on the screen or in the ring.

"Were amateurs," said Melvin, a 6-foot-I, 227-pounder. His brother, who is 6-3 and 230 pounds, is a big Tyson fan. The movie, Tyson, is based on a biography written by former light heavyweight champion Jose Torres. Filming starts in August. Tyson is serving a six-year prison sentence for rape and won't be out until May 1995 at the earliest.

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