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i Sunday May 31 1992 Entertainment Keavsha News B7 I Sister winner for Whoopi proves powerful death of her pilot husband In Ko- Tht Baltimore Sun rea while flying an F-16 fighter jet took the Air Force and manufacturer General Dynamics to court to prove a faulty plane caused the crash not pilot error The movie debuts Saturday night on the premium cable service (with repeats June 2 5 9 14 and 18) Ms Dern an Academy Award nominee for "Rambling Rose" pilots the movie pretty much solo Do not tune In "Afterburn" expecting to see The US Air Force did not cooperate in the making of the new HBO Pictures film and the few flying scenes and other airplane shots play obviously as models and mock-ups But do tune in for a persuasive performance by actress Laura Dern She portrays a real-life Air Force widow who after the 1982 DAKOTA STEAKHOUSE CHUCK WAGON SPECIAL Sun Tues Wed Nitesl NY Strip Steak Ranchero mm Style Potatoes Cole Slaw 95 Only Baked Beans and Corn on the Cob 8040 Sheridan Rd Ph 414-654-7500 Special Country One pan fried egg any style Two tender pancakes Two slices of fresh country bacon or sausage links Served with Wisconsin Grade butter and hot maple syrup 199 Offer Good Mon thru Thurs 6 AM-ll AM Also serving Lunch A Dinner Spectate 2301 -63rd St 654-7770 Drive-In 30th Roos Nightclub singer Whoopi Goldberg joins convent to avoid hitman in 'Sister Act and Mario Iscovich as lorls and the sisters from the convent to the casino rooms of Reno all wonderful slapstick and filled with enough comedlc bits to keep audiences rolling in the aisles until the credits flow There are first-rate performances all around especially from Smith Goldberg and Wickes (Monty stoical nurse in Man Who Came to But Najimy is the Willie Mays of She steals the movie and pretty hard to do when around Nunn and Keitel are just fine given the limited parameters of their characters Bjr Doloras Barclay AP Arts Editor After enough infighting to make Orson battles with studio bosses look like a romp In the sandbox Touchstone Pictures emerges a winner with its irreverent comedy Act" But there's another winner star Whoopi Goldberg who spent most of her time during the filming fighting Disney chief Jeffrey Katzenberg over what she viewed as racial stereotypes Despite their differences and a legion of script doctors that included Carrie Fisher Act" Is outrageous fun and delicious deviltry The laughs keep coming but best of all much humanity at work a movie that Just pardon me makes you feel darn good Goldberg glams up a bit for her role as Deloris Von Cartier a Diana Ross wannabe who with big hair and two off-key backup singers performs tunes In a ratty Reno lounge unfortunately her lover is mobster Vince LaRocca (Harvey Keitel) who whacks his chauffeur with Deloris a witness gotta go And she does Eddie Mulcahy (Bill Nunn) a cop been trying to send Vince up the river for a long time decides to hide her out in a convent For Deloris a lapsed Catholic like doing time in the real big house And also where the fun begins What a whopping good brew of characters: an austere mother superior the best of Maggie Smith shy and sweet Sister Mary Robert (Wendy Makkena) the elderly and droll Sister Mary Lazarus (Mary Wickes) and the perky and impish Sister Mary Patrick (Kathy Najlmy) Deloris known as Sister Mary Clarence has trouble flt- Two films By Roger Ebert I saw two films made with passion One is elegant and intellectual and the other is raunchy and offensive but both were made by directors who knew exactly what they wanted to do and made no compromises "Best by the Scandivanian director Bllle August is -a quiet intense three-hour drama based on a screenplay by Ingmar Bergman It is about the romance and marriage of a strong-willed young Lutheran pastor and his equally stubborn wife Lieutenant" by the New York director Abel Ferrara Is a noisy intense portrait of a cop who is out of control Played by Harvey Keitel In one of the performances of his lifetime this lieutenant Is REALLY bad the scum of the earth trapped 2830 -75th St 654-8809 ting into the strict regimen of convent life She especially has trouble with institutional food and the lack of drink and sneaks but one night to a neighborhood bar unknowingly followed by Mary Patrick and Mary Robert who pump up the volume and turn the place inside out The pride and joy Is its terrible choir a truly awful group that would make saints go out and kill sinners Deloris takes over adds her own spin and turns the group into a finger-popping Joy that becomes the hit of the diocese Church attendance soars and the convent soon is overrun with camera crews and other media hounds When Deloris unwittingly gets her face on television Vince sees her and Instant rub-out material The chase takes De- made with in a spiral of corruption crack addiction and compulsive gambling It would be easy to say is in good taste and in bad but that would miss the whole point After the safe films I saw at this festival forced to the conclusion that the best taste emerges when a director follows his heart and his obsessions and does not bow in the direction of predictable box office elements for example will certainly be classified NC-17 when it goes before the rating board and that will be bad for its commercial prospects Yet to cut this film would be unimaginable It is the story Of a vile weak man who has essentially abandoned his family for the consolations of crack and who uses his badge and his position on the New York police force to steal deal drugs and Featuring: Complete Italian Menu Henny Penny Chicken Fish and much more Large Cheese and I Sausage I oausage a jK I Qi ffler tM-92 Emile Ardolino Men and a Little directed from a script by a lot of writers Scott Rudin produced with Terl Schwartz as executive producer passion of commit crimes against women The Keitel character looking exhausted and mean-faced is strung out in the final stages of drug addiction He ricochets around Manhattan out of control one of the lowlifes he is sworn to police In the course of a couple of days he steals and sells drugs steals from thieves visits prostitutes and in a scene of cruelty so intense many will turn their eyes away stops two young women who are driving without a license and on the threat of arrest makes them humiliate themselves while he masturbates What is the purpose of a film like this? Abel Ferrara whose earlier credits Include and of New is fascinated by evil people on the fringes of society Here he Now Open Wednesdays DELIVERY AVAILABLE Closed Mondays NEW HOURS: TuM-Thurt 11 am-10 pm Frt 11 sm-11 pm Sal 4 pm-11 pm Sun 4 pm-10 pm NIGHT -XCLUB CLUB NEW GRAND BUFFETI featuring all homemade Italian Food WED thru SUN 5-9 pm 499 children 6 and under eat free PIZZA SPECIAL MON a TUE ONLY Largs Ptzza Cheese and 2 addhlonal toppings with pNeher of soda 599 m-w Ohio In only 2117-91 St 694-9670 SPAGHETTI SPECIAL Large order includes meatball I or sausage bread 1 butter and salad $j50 WHERE THE STONE AGE MEETS THE YtafAk ROCK age A CKILMM- NSW COMW SAT-SUN M-TH THE ADRENALINE ALONE COULO KILL YOU THE ULTIMATE HIGH (BO IMIHIM SAT-SUN 12 FSS VliljiAMfMtiHliotowHi 91 st Street 694-8853 ROBOT NICK JESSICA DiNiw Noire Lance CAPE FEAR The Buena Vista release of what is truly a collaborative effort is rated PG Motion Picture Association of America rating definitions: General audiences All ages admitted PG Parental guidance suggested Some material may not be suitable for children PG-13 Special parental guidance strongly suggested for children under 13 Some material may be inappropriate for young children Restricted Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian NC-17 No one under 17 admitted creation shows how a badge and a gun can give one of those persons the license to mistreat victims and society But at a deeper level he is also making a powerful uncompromised portrait of crack addiction this film shows a man spiraling out of control down into a hell of his own making CORN HUE MUSIC 'Vcvuety Noon Til Midnight Sat June 6th Headlining Act "SPECIAL Also Featuring: CAN Hit mqs Qg siSi UN ivst list laun -a PuJa is a Sensational Ntfl Row WNCN RADIO WHEN: FRIDAY SATURDAY JUNE 5th 6th WHERE: 2901 Sheridan Rd ALFORD PARK WHY: To Raise Funds For Our Local American Cancer Society of Kenosha County FAR ah AWAY UN0M' 1pgi3cti KteSlHi WHOOPI GOLDBERG No Sex No Booze snsirm CDT TOUCMtTOM nctum SAT-SUN M-TH m-m SAT SUN 1:15 4:15 7:00 9:35 BEER BRATS Sicced 'Tligit 4 PM Tii Midnight Frl June 5th Headlining Act BROTHERS Also Featuring: and other Blues Artists m-TH fttao tor Pam-lii 'Ciimteu M-TH hMint i 5:10 7:30 9:45 6 AMD linii 0 SAT SUN $250 pmaikiiM uadw On ftie Corny Of Sheridan WEiro Is Relative pern Displays Demonstrations By THE US ARMED FORCES Army Navy Airforce Marines Coast Guard Jim (Bamy) Barnhill Would Uko To Extend Hla Thanka And Appreciation To Tho Many People Supporting TMa Event Including Senator Joo Andrea SHOWN AT 8:45 FRI-SAT LATE SHOW SHOWN AT 10:30 WON A (PG) mV- 5 Sl t- s-.