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Show Page B6 Thursday, October 1, 1987 Park Record "Prayer for the Dying" honors A Prayer for the Dying In this political thriller based on a novel by Jack Higgins, a gangster hires a terrorist on the run to kill a rival hood. The terrorist's reward is freedom freedom from having to kill again. Martin Fallon (Mickey Rourke) is a 35-year-old with centuries of hate under his belt and a lifetime of murder behind him. Hoping to gain freedom for Northern Ireland, he's spent a decade in the IRA, performing perform-ing homicide by directive, furthering further-ing the cause. After a busload of children is accidentally ac-cidentally blown up, Fallon decides the fight has no winners and abandons aban-dons the movement. But it won't abandon him. Now his own people are after him, the police are after him, and an undertaker-mobster undertaker-mobster named Meehan (Alan Bates) wants to employ Fallon's expertise ex-pertise to rid himself of a rival. Having put down his gun, Fallon takes it up one last time. His price is a passport into a new life outside the United Kingdom. Unfortunately, Fallon's churchyard chur-chyard hit has a witness a fiesty priest, Father Da Costa (Bob Hoskins). The only way Fallon can silence Da Costa, short of a bullet, is to seal the priest's lips by sharing the secret of his guilt in the confessional. confes-sional. Fallon's cold deed becomes the priest's sacred trust. As Fallon's best friend in the movement dogs him with a silenced gun, Meehan's wild-eyed brother Billy also awaits a chance at the renegade, and police investigators bear down hard on the honorable priest. Fallon's only brush with the absolution ab-solution Da Costa urges him to try comes from the priest's niece, a blind girl who senses Fallon's frustrated decency. Rourke unwraps his tough-tender character with his usual skill and a credible Irish accent, a slept-in wardrobe war-drobe and the look of an extinguished extinguish-ed saint, which is the look this part calls for. He is, after all, an anti-hero, and even in Higgins' zone of gray the black and white are clearly drawn. Like the movement, Fallon can't win. Fatal Attraction Glenn Close's obsessive lover is probably the best deterrent to any married man meeting a twinkle in the eye of a prospective one-night stand from across a crowded cocktail party. Brief romance, in director Adrian Lyne's version, is more than a quick tumble and a guilty thrill. Taken to an extreme, if that stranger you just picked up is strange enough you'll wish you'd spent the night with the family dog. Dan (Michael Douglas) is an average, devoted family man with a lovely, affectionate wife and a pixie-faced pixie-faced daughter. For no other reason than opportunity and curiosity, he spends a night with an attractive unmarried un-married woman he barely knows. Alex (Glenn Close) appears to be a sophisticated urbanite who knows the sexual ropes. An agreement entered into by consenting adults to share an illicit moment is an agreement agree-ment to recognize the futureless nature of the fling at least, in these circumstances, that's what Dan expects. ex-pects. China Ridge Restaurant Holiday Village Mall, Park 649-5757 m Open daily 11:30 a.m.-10:00 p.m Sat. & Sun. 5-10:00 p.m. -V Nightly Dinner Special $5.95 Includes: Egg Flower Soup Steamed Rice & One of the following: Pork Chow Mein Cashew Chicken Beef Broccoli Egg Foo Yung Take out available- please ask for special In this case, when love goes bad, it also gets ugly. Alex's instability deteriorates, her threats escalate, and the revenge she exacts for her imagined abandonment takes on increasingly in-creasingly dire forms. Suddenly, "Love with a Perfect Stranger" turns into "Halloween II." And if you don't mind being clobbered with the cheapo trick at the end, you can admire the well-developed well-developed build-up. The fun in this movie is watching Glenn Close take off Alex's masks until by the end she's a bare twitch, a madwoman in deep and studious obsession. Michael Douglas as Dan, on the other hand, is forced to put masks on, one after the other, until he's a Michelin tire man of guilt and fear, so encircled by his duplicity he can barely move as he watches his happiness hap-piness recede out of hope of recovery. Only Anne Archer as Dan's wife stands shining in her simple innocence. in-nocence. Sunlight glows around her, surfaces shine. In her neighborhood there are no shadows. Over in Alex's neck of the woods, though, the lurid other-world of the meat-packing district creeps around in a strange illumination, a steam-vent steam-vent fog. Meaty carcasses ride around on the blood-stained shoulders of silent men. The converted con-verted warehouse where Alex lives is armored by clanking, steel-coated doors, serviced by a cage-like freight elevator, surrounded by an eerie night life. In Dan's house light prevails. In Alex's, everything is shadowed and bolted. Never since Glinda and the Wicked Witch of the West has the battle between good and evil been set up in starker terms. But where does Dan fit into this. His casual cheating rains horror on his family, yet his penalty seems light. As a comment on modern lifestyle, "Fatal Attraction" doesn't have much to offer. But it's a slinky grabber of a thriller. m Sweet Lorraine "Lorraine" is sweet, but not too sweet. Maureen Stapleton plays the beleaguered owner of a family resort hotel in the Catskills. The hotel has seen better days, better club acts, and a swanker clientele. But it, and Lillwnviits ai- fectionate guardian, are stilj plugging plugg-ing along, keeping alive with the help of a rambunctious college-kid staff, a cantankerous salad chef (Lee Richardson), and respect for an institution. Lillian has decided to sell the Lorraine Lor-raine to developers who will tear the old girl down when a young relative arrives, bringing fresh hope and new ambitions for the down-at-heel veteran of many kosher summers. Molly (Trini Alvarado) is Lillian's granddaughter, who is struggling through her own precarious season as her parents divorce. She escapes to her grandmother's hotel and learns about life in the kitchen, ruled by Lillian's longtime summer lover, Sam. Tradition assumes great importance impor-tance in Molly's life her world has temporarily slipped its moorings. Her crusade to save the hotel poses a dilemma for her grandmother. But other kinds of lessons are destined to find Molly that summer. She falls in love with the hotel's young handyman, a working-class local attracted to Molly's sweet ingenuousness in-genuousness and sobersided eagerness to learn. City M tl S I 7 - LUNCH SPECIAL Egg Roll, Chicken Chow Mein, Pork Fried Rice S2.95 Monday-Friday , n:50a.m.-3:30p.m. iff"11 J j 21 Chicken Chow Mein Sweet & Sour Pork Chinese Mixed Vegetables Szechewan Chicken (hot & spicy) NS - i X f 7 . in Li U fell Posing as a man of God, Martin Fallon (Mickey Rourke) prepares for a "hit" in a cemetary in "Prayer for the Dying." Reel World The best things in "Sweet Lorraine" Lor-raine" are the Stapleton-Richardson autumn romance and the staff of youngsters who inject the hotel with fresh blood as the season opens. Director Steve Gomer has a nice trick of using the kitchen as the heart of the establishment, the swinging sw-inging in-out doors revealing the vacationers in the dining room, then the hard-pressed kids hauling trays and throwing out one-liners in the kitchen. Gomer's family owned hotels in the Catskills like the Lorraine and during the preparation for the movie he met and married a woman whose family also ran one. The romance comes through in a nice breezy way, very much like a clear June morning at the Lorraine, with fresh bagels on the menu and no rain in sight. Mary Mair diplays her trivial music genius Mary Mair sang on-key last week, answering our musical trivia questions and winning a sandwich from the Main Street Deli. Mair knew that Rolling Stone magazine's first cover (in 1967) featured John Lennon; that the Champagne Lady was one of a series of soloists on Lawrence Welk's show; and that Johnny Mathis sang "Chances Are" as aliens kidnapped the little boy in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." 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