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Newsday (Suffolk Edition) from Melville, New York • 205

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fit CLIP and SAVE i a i 1 1: Remake of French Hit MMMKmovie reviewMNNMM Your Representatives in Confess for Suffolk County As a service to Newsday readers who wish to contact their elected representatives the local office addrefwes arc given below If you cannot tell which Congreauional District you live in your town hall can give you Hint information and a cartoonist I St eve (iultcnliergi to ieiiks of hysteria exhaustion and elation The three bachelor roommates are overage adolescents who share a glitzy ient house playpen Sworn enemies of marriage ami child rearing they fall in love with a G-iiinnlh-old female uhiifulnned on their doorstep The preview audience with which I saw the inovie roared the first time ami each time thereafter that the huehelurs had to change a dirty diuer I do not myself find dirty dinars amusing My youngest child still wears diaicrs and I know morcatmul them than I can to know But here were three self-centered bachelors panicked and reM-lled by their first close encounter witji dirty diais-rs I laughed with everyone else at the incongruity of it Danson the unwitting father of the child plays an indefatigable skirt-chaser man is one giant gland" says his roomie Selleck) The mother a British actress has left iier to lie raised hy her fat her The original scenario has been altered very little in lie remake just minor changes in the plot and an infusion of idiomatic American one-liners says Danson to bis mother (Celeste Holm) ascrewup" Irene a screwup" says she "Now you're a father" The remake is like the original good fur a lew laughs and a few tugs at the heurtstriiij But the judgment of my original review applies to the remake: sitcom farce they play is at odds with the sincerity of the emotions tin1 story is meant to Kclleek Danson and (iuttenhrrg made me chuckle more than their French counterparts Not necessarily liecnuso they're funnier But lie-cause it's funny to see familiar American bachelor icons from and "Cheers" and countless movies become the love slave of an infant who must lie fell diuorod or enferlaiueil every waking moment Men and a liab" i- (lull but it's agreeable enough if' ou re in a klli bv coo -late of mind V4 THREE MEN AND A BABY (PG) Three swinging bachelor roommates fall in love with an infant left in their care Hollywood remake of recent French kitchy-coo Men and a is amiable hectic cute predictable farce Tom Selleck Ted Danson Steve Guttenbeig At area theaters Ity Joseph (clmis IK PATERNITY teats could be administered to movies I susect that Coline Kerrcuu's 1985 French comedy Men and a Cradle" could he shown to have sired the current litter of American baby movies: from Arizona" to Room" and Men and a to the upcoming Having a Writer-director Serreau's "Three Men and a only played art houses got mixed reviews and eariutl small change at US box offices But Hollywood studio executives und writers studied it closely It won the French Academy Award und was nominated here for a best foreign film Academy Award Touchstone the adult movie division of Wall Disney Pictures bought rights to an English-language version Serrcuu was supMsed to do the Hollywood remake of her film But deals unlike handprints and star names are not set in concrete in Hollywood When it came time to start Serreau was out and Ixonard Nimoy was director of Men und a Nimoy hud parlayed a career of playing Mr Kpock into taking the directorial reins on the last two "Star Trek" movies In "Star Trek IV" one of the big hits of lilSti Nimoy revealed a Hair for light comedy Men and a Baby" is pure Hull' so Nimoy was not a bad choice Ilis frenetic staging suits the farcical material And lie cranks up his characters an architect (Tom S'llifki an egotistical actor in TV commercials Ted Dunsoni A Virtuoso Hobo in FIRST DISTRICT Amaicanartl AqurUafur Hrllpnrl Illii guint Hridgrhampkjn Hnukliavrn I'alvrrtnn rntrivarh Onlrr Munch- I Warn CuU'hottur Kaat Hampton llul Moriclu-a Kaat Kaat port Kaat Qimiiur KmI SrUukft 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But her rigorou- 1 1 1 lias liiiighi'Mi'd her spirit as well as her body And to K'tiirn to liic compori-oii to WisnIv Allen's it's cpiue accurate up to a (Miinl Forsyth the Scottish comic genius rc-ioii-sihlc for (JuT" ami Hero" has confounded tin- iiidustry as Allen did iuue years ago with "Interiors" hy making the most serious film of his earcor lake i a profoundly subtle austere melaiuhohc and poe guard mood piire utanil family relation -hips Adapted from Marilyiim- Roliinsiiu's novel is the story of two orphaned teenage sisters in the Northwe-l in the Hl'iOs Into their lives comes their aunt their mother's sister a misfit and iioiK-onforiuist who let) home when she was not much older than them The sneially adept sister Lucille (Andrea Bur-chill is soon embarrassed by her aunt Sylvie -who slinnes under a Folded nevvspaiM-r on a park lieiicli like bum and pyramids empty tin cans and stacks newspajM'i's all over tile bouse The younger sister Ruth 'Sara Walker) a tall gawky silent misfit herself falls under the aunt's sx-ll It's as if the (MTsonality differences Im-iween the two girls is a genet le replay of the dif-ferences that divided their aunt and mother The "normal" sister soon moves out of the house and into the home of a social pillar of their small town And the local establishment miIiv chief churchwomeu judiciary are (mised to separate the aunt from her remaining niece The film has funny moments based on cliar-ueter but it's llirough-lho-glass-durkly view of society Forsyth is one of a handful of film makers who regularly make me smile So selfishly I hoe that next time out he lilts the scale on the side of whimsy But I oxm1 him to exieri-meat until like Woody Allen he finds exact -ly the Italanre that oilers him artistic challenge und satisfies his udmirers Hclmis 1 1 HOUSEKEEPING (PGi Snnsrtivu and poignant diama about an independent woman a winrterer who Vies to mother her two oiphaned teenage nieces Temlii perl urina nee by Christine Lahti in a startling ctwntj'' of (jico Min from Bill Forsyth 'Local Hero" Gregory Girl With Sara Walker Andrea Burctntl At the Regent Hiei'er Bioadway and 67th Street IJ HEARD that wn- Bill Forsyth's But I was unprepared hy the industry scuttlebutt lor the run wiiif conuert ion First hol'ore sjieakiug of clowns luriied tragedians let's talk alxnit hums vagrants and hols is Sylvie the heroine of Forsyth's film is a le-iiiale holm love to travel hy she says "esaeially the passenger cars" l'sually she rides the freight trains in a Imx ear I'd lieen wondering how Meryl Klreep and Jack Nicholson millionaire siijs-rslar actors wen going to transform themselves into la-lievahle and sympathetic holms in "Imnweed" which igiens Ik 1 1- Now that I've seen Christine Iihli do it superbly in I know it can Ik done She sets a standard of excellence against which the performances of Streep and Nicholson will have to he measured come awards time Iahti is brilliant as the compulsive rover Sylvie who returns for a while to her home town just its the characters played by Streep and Nieholson in the film of William Kennedy's novel return to their home town of Alltany As Ialiti plays her this female holm is a wire of silk a lean hardy genuinely independent woman a solitary portion who has few social graces but who has the survival skills to have thrived on the road since adolescence without being maimed or embittered weathered III CO Part 1113 Prepared by Community AlTair Deportment CLIP and SAVE.

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