The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 42

"rr 8D Lively flits The Miami Herald Wednesday October 28 1987 Film Festival plans fund-raiser tonight Keaton in Baby: Maybe her IN basket in Baby Boom The Miami Film Festival rebuffed by the state when Gov Bob budget-trimmers removed its $100000 line item kicks off its series of Recovery with a fundraiser tonight at Club Nu on Miami Beach The first bash is open to the public at $25 per person which buys music by jazzman Nestor Torres two hours worth of free drinks and door prizes ranging from dinners to a cruise Proceeds from the party will go to the Film Society of Miami sponsoring organization of the festival Festivities begin at 9 pm at Club Nu 245 22nd St Miami Beach Tickets are available through BASS outlets or at the door For more information call the Film Society at 377-3456 BILL COSFORD Tite By BILL COSFORD Herald Movie Critic Baby Boom is being hailed as Diane return to comedy which when you compare it to such grotesqueries as the lead dramatic role in The Little Drummer Girl is doubtless true But so what one wants to ask to shriek when Baby Boom is squealing along at its most precious Return to comedy for this? The film is contrivance enough to make Spielberg gag And yet and yet no denying the movie its elemental pull It's a big bundle of fluff you don't know whether to sit there and watch or charge the screen and tickle its itsy nose but power-fluff Not a scene seems fresh and not a line particularly true But by the end such carping seems like accusing a newborn of lacking savoirfaire Keaton plays a perfectly loathsome Y-character named JC Wiatt a member of the A-team at a large management-consulting firm JC who is to upward mobility what Sylvester Stallone is to Bozo-ness is the kind of woman exec who is fully capable particularly when given a chance not to dither (a la Annie Hail and her annoying descendants) Keaton is funny when tough and funny when soft the Baby Boom combination for all the calculations and shameless cooing (the dubbed for sake) is quite appealing enough to make you want to vote Republican I ane Keaton finds a bundle universal solvent able to cut through badness of all kinds After first spill JC attempts to tidy her up with household spray cleaner not to be believed of course not even marketing consultants are that removed from reality And yet and yet Keaton is awfully good and it is good to have her back doing this kind of thing a first-rate comedian UK il: A in Movie Review Baby Boom (PG) 'z CAST: Diane Keaton Sam Shepard Harold Ramis Sam Wanamaker James Spader Pat Hmgle CREDITS: Director- Charles Shyer Producer- Nancy My ers Screenwriters Nancy Myers Charles Shyer Cinematographer VSilham A Praker Music Bill Conti A United Artists Pictures release Running time 103 minutes Vulgar language Herald movie critics rate movies trom zero to tour stars Excellent Very Good Good Worth Seeing a Fair a Poor Zero Worthless of referring to herself in slogans as in worry the Tiger Lady is on the unmarried natch and shares a co-op with a fellow workaholic (played by Harold Ramis) with whom she has agreed to an uneasy truce where a relationship should be When JC a baby by the kind of movie contrivance that requires no mere suspension but outright meltdown of disbelief everything changes Exit Steve he lasts only through the first Movie Review Prince of Darkness (R) CAST: Donald Pleasence Jameson Parker Victor Wong Lisa Blount Dennis Dun Susan Blanchard CREDITS: Director John Carpenter Producer- Larry Franco Screenwriter Maertm Quatermass Cinematographer Gary Kibfce Music: John Carpenter Alan Howarth A Universal Pictures release Running time 103 minutes Vulgar language violence and gore crawl out your mouth pretty grim Fortunately it make much sense so it's never really scary at all The sole mystery is the apparent collapse of Carpenter's skills as a storyteller Prince of Darkness is shapeless Prince of Darkness a offer diverse evening Noon TlrTPAGlO fjmovoqonio op on Me 0 Soonscm SoonsoeO by Mom for feeding when little Elizabeth lays waste to some pasta Bolognese and the kitchen color scheme at the same time Exit upward mobility once the boys at the office sense that JC is taking motherhood more seriously than the Big Account they stop talking about making her a partner And before long exit New York altogether as JC and little bolt the jungle for Vermont where this being the movies they will meet Sam Shepard and discover that he is single and looking Baby Boom means to be a grand affirmation of the principal Babies Us only better and it certainly gets this done though there remains some question as to whether it needed doing in the first place The guys and gals on the corporate make are all distorted here not a Sam Shepard in the lot But then corporate climbers bond lawyers brokers and related greedheads are an easy target The Y-people are stupid too at least until they come to terms with baby Elizabeth (actual ly twins named Kristina and Michelle) who is a kind royal mess and almost utterly lacking rhythm as if it had been slashed and then badly reassembled like a Carpenter victim The performances aside from those of Donald Pleasence (a Carpenter stablemate) as a priest and Victor Wong as a physics professor drafted apparently for his ability to round up a number of grad students as devil-fodder are uniformly bad the music (by Carpenter with Alan Howarth) loudly telegraphs even the small est scare Even the special effects are surprisingly crude For the scenes in which Satan Jr makes the water drip up all you have to do is turn your head upside down and you can see just how they did it na Sackstein was at her virtuosic best playing with brilliant tone penetration and temperament That Dance really crackled with fire TONIGHT AT FESTIVAL MIAMI: "Sounds of Tomorrow" New Music Oy Young Composers free 8 pm UM Gusman Concert Hall 1314 Miller Dr Coral Gables 284-3941 ff 0I1E OF THE OEST MQUIES of the year: CeneShalit SBC-Tt TODAS MICM NOW SHOWING COAL GABIES GEbCRAL CNtHA RIVIERA CINEMA SOUTMUS NhjBTh MIAMI BEACH GENEflAl ClNCUA INTERCOASTAL J'O'Wt 666-8513 945-1272 Eileen Heckart The Coconut Tyrone Banyan festival November 7-8 1987 By BILL COSFORD Herald Movie Critic In Prince of Darkness a seasonal offering from John Carpenter the man who made Halloween it turns out that generations of sleeping priests have been guarding a canister containing the essence of the son of the devil himself for centuries Satan Jr is a vague-looking mass of green slime with the power to make water drip up instead of down which he does frequently and then to make it come back down and squirt into the mouths of unwary bystanders which in turn makes them zombies under his control Also he can organize the homeless by telepathy and make bugs UM players By JAMES ROOS Herald Music Critic Three world premieres and two distinguished revivals rewarded those who attended Festival Miami's fourth chamber concert at the University of Miami's Gusman Hall UM faculty composers Don Wilson Jon Van Der Slice and Dennis Kam unveiled new works Of the three Van Der Time Shadows was the most intriguing both in sound and conception The title according to the composer refers to of musical that behave "as visually observed shadows might during the course of a summer day: appearing disappearing overlapping contracting and eventually lengthening into that last phase corresponding to the quiet fade-out Additional performances would no doubt make Van Der of strings brass and winds much clearer for the initial effect was fragmentary as snippets of tone interchanged among the instruments However The Other Music Ensemble a group of 11 UM students was well-prepared by Kam and gave a good account of itself both in Van Der score and own Triple Play for strings brass and winds Here the players seated in threes and backed by piano and double bass contrasted darting rhythmic sequences with more sustained sections in the style of neo-classical Stravinsky While BEST BET MIAMI has been the subject of several critical books recently Come discuss them with Arva Moore Parks at 7 pm at the South Dade Regional Library 10750 SW 211th St Miami It's free Call 223-8140 ETC THE SHELL AUCTION features Shells and related items for auction 7 pm presented by the Greater Miami Shell Club at the Museum of Science 3280 Miami Ave Miami 854-4247 CONCERNS OF THE THIRD WORLD features poetry stories and music about older people 1 pm performed by the Vinnette Carroll Repertory Company in the auditorium Broward Community South Campus 7300 Pines Blvd Pembroke Pines FREE 963-8849 7 Music Review the work held intermittent interest it was not most original or effective creation nor was Wilson's Infra Red Cycles No 3 Though often a provocative composer in electronic media Wilson here merely took a festive little tune and dressed it in minimalist garb Repetitions of it were kept from turning interminable as the composer varied the volume and texture of the computerized sound which at one point imitated intruding trumpets Still the pieces were good contrast to the more works by Erik Satie and Heitor Villa-Lobos Susan Boardman and Paul Pos-nak soprano and piano did a delightful job with three sets of amusing Satie songs the Trois Melodies de 1916 Ludions and the eccentric music hall-inspired La Diva L'Empire Board-man projected the piquancy of Spleen particularly well and declaimed Le Chapclier with flaring tone and mock seriousness for its Mad Hatter illogic Altogether each seldom-heard song had tongue-in-cheek charm As to unjustly neglected Ciclo Brasileiro for piano a rich portrait in three movements of Minstrel Impressions a Dance of White Indians plus Native Planting Song and Rosali- Eli Wallach Ofi' 2 any an Trees and Coconut Grove have a lot in common The banyan tree has character and Coconut Grove has characters It's only natural that the two should inspire a festival now in its 1 1 th year It is sponsored by the Coconut Grove Chamber of Commerce and benefits Miami Children's Hospital Nearly a million readers will learn all about it in a full page advertising feature in the Weekend section of The Miami Herald on Friday November 6 Readers will learn about the Banyan Bash kickoff at Biscayne Baby's on Friday night and the Banyan Brunch at Mutiny Bar Grill on Sunday And in between and all day Saturday and Sunday are arts crafts ethnic food and street entertainment To help bring the crowds to the Grove and to benefit your restaurant store or business tie-in with your advertisng message at a reduced rate See your regular advertising representative for details or call Rose Salgado The Miami Herald 666-7981 WEEKEND Friday November 6 The Jvfiami Herald Advertising Deadline: Monday November 5 eT Flowering peach Clifford WHAT "0l 10 ioL 00 IF G0D VsKED Y0L T0 B1ILD AS akk: Odets TMEuZl LAST The Oldest A Largest ALL FLORIDA ARTIST FOR-SALE PA TR0NS28th ART 1(H0 AM-600 PM MuMumPlanetarium.