Newsday (Suffolk Edition) from Melville, New York • 79

1 a' -fi 1- MOVIES BH TS Squabbling Lovers Tell It To the Judge tt THE WHOLE TRUTH (U) When a young architect sues her persistent ex-lover gives new meaning to the wont courtship A lightweight but good-natured comedy with Dan Cohen Dyan Kane Paul Kahane Written and produced by Dan Cohen Directed by Dan Cohan and Jonathan Smyths At the Quad Theater 13th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues Manhattan By John Anderson STAFF WHITER DID YA hear the one about the guy whose girlfriend took him to court for breach of romance? According to him she was suffering from subpoena envy But seriously folks Whole really would have been an 85-minute one-liner if not for some of writer-producer-star Dan very funny observations New Yorker Dyan performance and considering all the White House whining about our national mania for litigation a topical comedic premise: If you solve your love problems on your own take them to court All they really needed was Judge Wapner Vanessa (Kane) an up and coming architect has had an affair with Dan (Cohen) but now wants him to leave her alone Dan who wants to know why back off insisting she really loves him When she goes to court to get a restraining order given the opportunity to air their dirty laundry in public and take full advantage What follows is the of romantic comedies In account charming suave and she help but love him In version a self-absorbed lout who treats her like garbage and endangers her job We eventually find out bug- A Burnt-Out Superstar Redeemed on a Ranch PURE COUNTRY (PG) Pin shmaltz although they know what that means in this country where reat-lfe crooner George Strait plays a superstar singer tad up with the spotSght With Isabel Glasser Lesley Ann warren John Doe Rory Calhoun Written by Rex McGee Directed by Christopher Cain At area theaters PART II NEWSOAY FRIDAY OCTOBER 23 1992 Pleaae see WHOLE on Ftage 85 country singer plays a country superstar suffering spiritual burnout We know this because he wears a three-day beard and a ponytail sure signs of Satanic possession On the way to his spiritual rebirth and self-realisation actually help his rodeo-riding sweetheart save her ranch Honest If I lived in Missoula or Deadwood or Provo or any of those places movie studios probably consider the cultural outback of the United States probably be insulted because the shamelessly contrived possibly be aimed at anyone else Dusty (Strait) a sort of El vis-Garth Brooks hy- brid struts his way on stage and off signing a few perfunctoiy autographs here suffering ennui there One night during a performance he has some kind of epiphany about the dead-end nature of stardom Although supposed to be a moment of clarity the crowd swims before his eyes in Blo-mo and his voice Blows down frankly I thought he was OD-ing He cuts short the show Please see COUNTRY on Page 85 By John Anderson STAFF WHITER THE FINAL KICK in the head was probably the moment when the rodeo started and the cowboy with the flag rode around the ring to the strains of the The complete version With slow-motion cloeeupe of the flag I know whether to salute or go blind which is not only a country movie but an anti-city anti-cultural elite movie is the kind of film they just make anymore and probably since Audie Murphy was in his heyday Here George Strait a non-actor but a perfectly respectable and well-regarded A Hit Man as Cartoon Hero THE PROFESSUMUL (U) Graphically violent animated feature bom Japan starring Golgo 13 an al-pro htt man with nine Ives thick sideburns and no remorse At Cinema Wage 100 Third Ave By Gene Seymour STAFF WRITER intelligence all of whom have been brought together by a ruthless industrialist who wants to pay back Golgo for killing his son An amoral chap Golgo the most likable guy to root for But compared with the blade-brandishing wackos and howitzer- wielding zealots coming at him Golgo seems almost virtuous in his spare use of bullets brains and kicks Despite some 'moments of conceptual daring is the sort of thing your brain would come up with if it were undergoing delirium treatments from overexposure to live-action body-count epics like the series II book artist Takao moat popular and disturbing creation Duke Togo aka Golgo 13 a professional killer with an inscrutable and unfathomable code of ethics Golgo the amoral criminal owned by no one hag many antecedents in American pulp fiction But an anti-hero like this been seen in too many American films except for and other crime epics starring the late Lee Marvin And true to the tradition of hard-core Japanese animation gets more baroque with its bloodbaths than any action director could In this story Golgo has to contend with lower forms of life in the FBI CIA and military UJp HE UI hurts Animated cartoons supposed to hurt But after watching the many ornate ways a body can be bashed slashed gouged riddled you can be forgiven for checking your rib cage for ruptures Which in a way is a tribute to the blunt power generated ly this feature starring Japanese comic Golgo 13 is tbs animated Tito i 0 A ijHaWfe.