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Show Park Record Thursday, August 7, 1986 Page B7 'About Last Night' is good, despite cliches if n..-u. if .4,.. ,(1 71 'f 1 , v 4 MiAbout Last Night In "About Last Night", Rob Lowe is a Beautiful Young Man on the Chicago singles scenes who has a one-night stand with a Beautiful Young Woman (Demi Moore.) When they decide to make a relationship out of it, they open themselves up to pressures from every direction. He's reluctant to commit. She's so eager for something permanent that she gets hysteria attacks in her anx-iousness. anx-iousness. The movie works best in the individual in-dividual moments between people. When Moore breaks off the affair with her boss, he tries cliched charm: "I thought we had something kinda special." "No," she says. "It was kinda sleazy. And now it's kinda over." If only the whole were as good as the parts. But the affair follows a predictable path: John loves Mary; John and Mary have tensions; John and Mary become jealous; John loses Mary... The movie is structured a little too neatly, especially with the lovers' best friends set up as the Male-Female Male-Female extremes of the singles scene. Jim Belushi is Lowe's piggy buddy, a love-em-and- leave-em type who guzzles beer and scans women like quarter horses. Belushi comes off more likable than he should, because we're familiar with him from "Saturday Night Live." Elizabeth Perkins, a newcomer, comes off less well because she maintains a permanent sneer on her face. She's the man-hater who beds them nevertheless loathing them and herself every second. But she still has her good moments. Demi Moore is the best scratchy-voiced scratchy-voiced leading lady since Debra Winger. She gives a gutsy, poignant performance. Lowe (normally a weak perfomer) does his best acting here. Thanks to them, you have a rooting interest in seeing them make it to the cliched happy ending. Aliens Somebody once said that science-fiction science-fiction movies were Westerns in outer-space. If that's true, then "Aliens" is the most exotic, effective effec-tive hard-punching version ever of the cavalry-and-Indians story. It's also one of the most effective sequels ever done. Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) wakes from a 50-year sleep as the only survivor sur-vivor of the space ship Nostromo (ravaged by an Alien in the first movie.) She returns with a crew of soldiers back to the Alien's home planet, where The Company, in its usual wisdom, has since set up a colony. col-ony. "Aliens" doesn't deal in the unrelenting claustrophobic terror of the first film. It does lay out a long, quiet opening on the planet which has you on the edge of your seat, wondering when, oh when, are the creatures going to leap out ! Once they do, all hell breaks loose, and the aliens swarm over the soldiers as fiercely as the Apache in an old oater. Weaver, as Ripley, set the mold for a tough heroine in the first "Alien", and in the second film, no one comes close. But she also exposes ex-poses her raw nerves from the Nostromo experience. And Ripley's Six farce parts are open The Brickyard Playhouse is holding auditions for its September production of "Footlight Frenzy." The high farce features parts for two women and four men. Auditions will be held Monday, Aug. 4, from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Brickyard Playhouse, 1300 East Cutler to show paintings Gravce E. Cutler, a native Utahn, has spent many years in Utah painting pain-ting watercolors and oils of the mountains, rivers and deserts. The artist said, "My landscapes, seascapes and city scenes are an expression ex-pression of sharing a personal vision about the poetry and mystique of nature and life." Cutler has shown throughout Utah and California. Grayce's work will be on exhibit in the Main Gallery from Sunday, Aug. 10, to Wednesday, Sept. 3. Carl Purcell's watercolors will be shown in the Lower Gallery. Carl, also a native Utahn, spent many memorable hours in the rock canyons ca-nyons around Kingman, Ariz. These early experiences among the rocks and sand washes have left an , UEBV --e - Rob Lowe discusses life, the universe and everything, including love and relationships, with Demi Moore in "About Last Night." (TOniokioC by Rick trough and HfUlCKlCfe Robin Moench Now Showing At the Holiday Village Cinemas : American Anthem (not yet rated) A Fine Mess (not yet rated) Haunted Honeymoon Howard the Duck ( not vet rated ) AttheAvon(Heber): Top Gun Legal Eagles At the Ideal (Heber): The Great Mouse Detective Detec-tive i2The Karate Kid sensitivity emerges as she protects the little girl (Carrie Henn) who has survived an alien attack. The aliens get the chance to munch on a great gallery of character types: the rookie, not-very-smart commander (William Hope); the shifty company man (Paul Reiser); an hysteric (Bill Paxton); a synthetic (Lance Henriksen) who's more reliable than Ripley suspects; and a veteran dog soldier (Michael Biehn) who's her equal. The mnvip also has heavv weaponry; gruesome moments to make you shudder; and climax upon climax till you think you can't breathe anymore. V2FIight of the Navigator Naviga-tor "Navigator" has my favorite premise in a summer movie. On a warm Fourth of July night in Florida, young David Freeman stumbles into a forest ravine and knocks himself out. Waking up, he runs home but a different family is living there! It's eight years later, and David hasn't aged a minute! And the answer has something to do with the wreck of a spaceship that has been discovered by the Army. 3200 South in the Brickyard Plaza. Interested actors may call Anne Burnett at 486-8468 for further information. infor-mation. "Footlight Frenzy will be produced produc-ed by the Intermountain Actors Ensemble Inc., a non-profit theatre company. undeniable mark on his personality and his art. "Watercolor has fascinated me ever since I ruined my first piece of watercolor paper," Purcell said. "It has a sparkling intimacy that is deceptively simple looking and it combines the accidental and controlled con-trolled which forces the artist to adopt a method of attack which I refer to as controlled abandonment." abandon-ment." There will be a reception honoring the artists on Sunday, Aug. 10, in the Main Gallery from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. This reception is free and open to the public. The Kimball Art Center hours are Monday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sundays noon to 6 p.m. I it "t4 From here on, the territory is more familiar. David is made a guinea pig by the army. But he sneaks into the spacecraft and makes contact with the operator, an idiot named Max, who addresses him as Navigator. (Somehow, David's brain has been crammed with guidance data.) Together, they break loose, and David has to figure out how to get them both home. The latter half of the movie steps into cliche, especially that old joke about the alien who starts babbling like a jive earthling once he soups up on data. In this case, Max talks like Pee Wee Herman! Even with that, the story has several great jokes. When David stops his spaceship at a Southern roadside gas station, another passing pass-ing tourist tells the attendant, "Well, your animal farm isn't so hot, but that flying saucer is first-rate." Kids should thoroughly enjoy the whole picture. And the story overall has a great "Oz"-like theme of David seeing his family through new eyes. After eight years, his bratty little brother is a teen, and plays big brother to him! Haunted Honeymoon Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner star in this dreary comedy as two radio actors, stars of a horror-melodrama horror-melodrama show, who are about to marry. But Wilder feels strange jitters jit-ters as they travel to his ancestral mansion for the nuptials. Meanwhile, Mean-while, the family doctor (hulking Paul Smith) is planning a weekend of horror to cure Wilder's phobias; one of the relatives is plotting to kill off the others; and the family's rich dowager aunt (Dom DeLuise) announces an-nounces at dinner that one of their number is a werewolf. Wilder co-wrote the film and directed. Like some of his other efforts ef-forts ("Sherlock Holmes' Smarter COZY PARK MEADOWS HOME Completely furnished, including WD and refrigerator, 3 bedroom, 2 bath home has low utilities bills. Live in Park City's .. favorite family neighborhood. CAROL FULLER 649-4400 $89,000. ih& BEAUTIFUL HIGHLAND ESTATES HOME This 3 bedroom, 2 bath home has a beautiful mountain setting. Quality construction, garage and deck. Seller looking for an offerll 2421 Snowview. INGRID NIGGEMEIER 649-4400 f ,- f JUST A SHORT WALK From this turn of the century, 2 bedroom home will put you on the town lift or Main Street. Rear parking and storage sheds are added extras. Sits on 2.5 lots. 1125 Park Ave. $69,900. SUSIE PETRONE 649-4400 Brother") it falls wretchedly short of the spoofery he created with Mel Brooks in the mid-Seventies. The comedy here consists of a group of English actors overacting at being over-sinister; bathing the film in over-atmosphere; Wilder shrieking at various perils; and DeLuise doing his entire role in drag. Brighter spots: Radner, largely wasted, has a nice bit doing "Ballin' the Jack" with DeLuise; and Wilder has a good moment doing a bit reminiscent of "Young Frankenstein" Frankens-tein" where he sits over an inert body and pretends the legs are his own. 'Maximum Overdrive Steven King, directing his own work for the first time, doesn't do much better than other film-makers. But he manages a nice rehash of a late-Fifties-style of monster movie. The tail of a comet passing over the Earth causes machines to turn homocidai, massacaring their owners. This phenomena traps a small group at a redneck truck stop. Huge, marauding diesel trucks squash some of the humans and force the rest to give them fuel. Emilio Estevez is the young parolee who takes command of the situation. Pat Hingle plays the scummy owner, who manages to bazooka a few trucks since he has a huge illegal cache in his basement. (If they have so many weapons, why not blast the trucks at the start? You don't ask such questions in dumb, low-budget horror flicks.) A Classic Recommended Good double feature material Time-killer For masochists only PAEIC CITY HOMES A MEMBER OF THE SEARS FINANCIAL NETWORK 4. 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