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THURSDAY FEBRUARY 14 1991 THE MIAMI HERALD 9G UNIVERSAL STUDIOS FLORIDA IE wmmMM Jgainlbw1 Silence is filled with horror t-'-- i ro dod arr-s-Hgof A I MYERS RELEASE unDTXArT qtjIM JVC found in The Silence of the Lambs Demme shot it straight with stretches of documentary grit but matching sequences in which he uses conventional movie tricks (with a lesser talent we might call it formula) The result is scary enough but demands two caveats Those who come to The Silence of the Lambs with no expectations (of book of director) will be badly frightened and maybe appalled and those who arrive with memories of the story will be oh-so-slightly disappointed a tough little B-movie but there's more to gross you out in one of paragraphs than in all of two hours Still see it alone On the other hand make it a dinner date 4mc BAKERY CENTRE 7 us a 662-4641 U4TH) ARTISTS MOVIES AT THE FALLS U-iliuH JbTMit 2SS-S2O0 NOW SHOWING WOMETCO BAY HARBOR 4 96 ST rt Qf OUAS 066-2441 6tmc OCEAN WALK 10 iUrUMRSC 9204300 Qunirp Cmame CINEMA 10 ffMFUCi 031 A 442 2299 WOMETCO pa KENDALL 9 Kendo or Fl Tpe w-sooo esting here not even sympathetic any special way (by comparison her victim in The Accused was a summit piece of craft) Naturally Anthony Hopkins as Lecter makes off with the movie It could not have been otherwise given the way Demme sets them up but Hopkins is wonderfully chilling and nastier-than-life The source material the second of novels to involve Lecter (the mad doctor was a hideous supporting character in The Red Dragon made by Michael Mann as Manhunter) is among the more horrifying pieces of pop literature in modern times (though The Red Dragon is surely meaner) Its reputation perhaps explains the advance word-of-mouth that has made Silence of the Lambs the hottest ticket in town this year But surely rep had something to do with that as well a director of unpredictable qualities he made Something Wild scary and Married to the Mob hilarious where it ought to have been the other way around Not much of that topsy-turvy scheme is to be SILENCE FROM 1G The tension is between Starling and Lecter a battle of wills at first then a kind of oddball unrequited romance Behind his bars and the walls of Plexiglas between them that keep Lecter from nibbling on his visitors the bad doctor decides to help Starling find the bad guy His consists of riddles anagrams and absurdly difficult puzzles and in the end no help at all really But all she has and that given the horrors this character is charged with is something of a mistake Something of one Not a killing flaw however this is one terrifying movie Its only other weakness is the oddly shallow nature of performance though not sure the part allows much more than she gives it Starling is a straight-arrow heroine a naif sent up to do mental battle with Lecter a twisted genius then out into the field to put up a more physical but no less demanding kind of fight job to seem overmatched and not much room for bravura turns in a part so narrow Still not inter CMCCX THEATBP 0 CTOP eS FOB SH0WTMC3 NOA ses OR COUPONS ACCEFT'-O VOME'CO MIAMI LAKES 10 A UAM 1 3AM 556-38 10 INTRACOASTAL 8 73 E1R0SI 946-7416 PEMBROKE PINES 8 Swjwifes sn-iUMjeno 437 7790 -StmrtHi POPCORN (R) 1 20 3 20 5 20 1 20 9 20 IIONHEAR! (R) 1 00 3 00 5 00 7 00 9 00 NEVER ENDING STORY II (G) 1 30 3 30 5 15 7 15 9 15 SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (R) 2 00 4 30 SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY (R) 1 15 3 15 5 15 7 15 9 15 7 30 10 00 NDERGARTEN COP (PG131 2 15 4 40 7 OO 9 45 AWAKENINGS (PG13) 2 00 4 30 7 00 9 30 Cast: Jodie Foster Anthony Hopkins Scott Glenn Director: Jonathan Demme Producers: Kenneth Utt Edward Saxon Ron Bozman Screenwriter: Ted Tally Based on the novel by Thomas Harris Cinematographer: Tak Fujimoto Music: Howard Shore An Orion Pictures release Running time 1 17 minutes Vulgar language violence gore adult themes AMERICAN KICftBOXER (R) 1 40 3 40 5 40 7 40 9 40 WARLOCK (R) 1 00 3 00 5 00 7 00 9 00 THE GRIFTERS (R) 2 15 4 45 7 15 9 40 MISERY (R) 2 00 4 03 5 55 8 00 loW FLIGHT OF THE INTRUDER (PG13) 1 10 3 20 5 30 7 40 9 50 home alone ipgi i 45 3 45 5 45 7 45 9 45 EDWARD SCISS0RHANDS (PG13) 1 15 3 15 5 15 7 15 9 15 WARLOCK (R) 2 10 4 10 6 10 8 10 10 lO POPCORN R) 2 00 3 45 5 30 7 9 20 mi Gays speak up against Silence DANCES WITH WOLVES (PG13) 1 00 4 30 8 00 KINDERGARTEN COP (PG13) 1 00 3 10 5 20 7 30 9 40 MERMAIDS (PG13) 1 10 3 10 5 10 7 10 9 10 ONCE AR0UN0 (R) 2 10 4 25 7 00 9 30 12 15 500 SILENCE OF THE LAMBS 7 30 10 00 GODFATHER III (R) 2 00 5 00 8 00 GREEN CARO (PG13) 1 45 3 45 545 745 945 AWAKENINGS (PG13) 1 45 4 05 7 00 9 25 LA STORY (PG13) 1 30 3 30 5 30 7 30 9 30 SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY (R) 2 05 4 05 6 05 8 05 10 05 EVE OF DESTRUCTION (R)l 30 3 30 5 30 7 30 9 30 KINDERGARTEN COP (PG13) 2 00 4 00 5 55 8 05 10 10 AMERICAN KICKBOXER (R) 1 20 3 20 5 20 7 20 9 20 HOME ALONE (PG) 2 10 4 10 6 10 8 10 different era THOMPSON FROM 1G ents took her to musicals in downtown Detroit where blacks were relegated to the balcony and encouraged her to enter show business They urged her little brother to enter medical school Neither child disappointed them Her brother now is an internist and psychiatrist in Minneapolis Thompson 60-something spent 2 Vi years at the University of Detroit majoring in fine arts and creative writing and studied piano and voice at the Chicago Conservatory With an eye on show business she moved to New York typing for the Housing Authority A cousin knew an agent who got her into an amateur contest at Apollo theater Club dates followed and Walter Winchell the hugely influential gossip columnist gave her a rave: Jo Thompson a delightful ebony calypso thrush Her first Miami engagement was at the long-defunct Cork Club then a struggling nightspot I set the place on Thompson laughs and a 1953 Miami News review confirms that figuratively she did just that: Miss Thompson made local bistro history by transforming what was almost a morgue into what looked like Grand Central Her career also took her to pre-Castro Cuba where she played the Sans Souci the Tropicana and Cuban television Miami Beach is where she met Dunmore then a correspondent for a Pittsburgh newspaper The couple however spent their married years Detroit where Dunmore became an urban specialist and director of Community Affairs for Chrysler where they reared three sons reflects Thompson just too racist remember going into stores to try on gowns and was told have no dressing rooms for colored try on gloves or shoes the stores want a white hand or foot to go in after a And you were never called by your last name even if you were married to a doctor or you were one marriage and the birth of her three sons curtailed her career as a fiery chanteuse Her kids didn't follow her into the performing arts one went to Harvard Business School and works for Ford another to Cornell and teaches high school Spanish a third to Carlton College and is a certified public accountant Greg the Spanish teacher persuaded her to revive her career to benefit the scholarship fund The upshot was debut at Carnegie Hall a show Greg directed Aretha Franklin recently tapped Thompson to perform at one of her celebrated soirees in suburban Detroit The subtext of the Links show may be and but Thompson is coy about just what the entails a surprise the she says laughing She resist a hint: not an evil madness but a kind everybody can identify with Especially Tickets are $60 per person with cocktails at 6 dinner at 7 and the show to follow For information call 893-2582 nity All three say they were excluded from preview screenings of Silence of the Lambs until the last minute because the words of Jen nmgs knew this film was going to be According to Jennings Orion has tried to off the gay commu by lending prints of the film to AIDS fund-raising organizations such as AIDS Project Los Angeles attitude is now have a problem with this film because of the AIDS bene fits' says Jennings Jennings and Signorile are not appeased by statements and they predict a national gay backlash against the film asking gays and lesbians not to see the Jennings says want to send a message to Hollywood that gays are not going to give these types of movies their box-office support any longer" has proven time and time again that they are incapable of creating positive gay characters DAVID EHRENSTEIN film critic for the Advocate gay character committing acts of violence against women gay men are not the ones responsible for violence against women In our society violence against women is largely perpetuated by heterosexual Jennings Signorile and Ehrenstem say they are additionally troubled with the way Orion has treated representatives of the gay commu PROTEST FROM 1G lover in the Signorile who this week devotes his OutWeek column to The Silence of the Lambs and claims to one of the stars theorizes that the depiction in a popular film of a violent serial killer as outwardly gay will lead to an increase in gay bashing the film makes some people feel comfortable with the idea of hurting or even killing gay Signorile says once again gay people are depicted in an extremely negative GLADD recently purchased full-page ads in Hollywood trade publications chastising the film industry for its promotion of gay stereotypes Among the films cited in the ad: Bird on a Wire which featured a lisping fey male hair-dresser House Party which contained an anti-gay rap song and Crossing and Darkman both of which featured gay villains has proven time and time agam that they are incapable of creating positive gay says Ehrenstem makes Silence of the Lambs so troubling is the off-handed way in which the killer is depicted They couldn't have made him more stereotypically gay and evil if they tried Once again our old friend the gay monster is on grand display" Jennings says he is further because the film features a Live Two Tales of Passion Infidelity and Revenge when THE GREATER MIAMI OPERA PRESENTS ITS 50th ANNIVERSARY PRODUCTION OF HEAVENLY Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci MASCAGNILEONCAVALLO FEBRUARY 18-24 1991 Dade County Auditorium 2901 Flagler St Miami Larry Frascella US MAGAZINE HAMLET VUXKNEJt AROS ATOM WkPMP MWANT tar At to EC' Do You Turn Somersaults A Russian Loves tary by Alesksei Arbuzov Tonight at 8:15 pm 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