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Show The Park Record 0 Section B Thursday, July 27, 1995 D Page B3 Nine Months: A humorous look at a not-so planned pregnancy i-' 1' ' -jjhSN 1 , J r k i I ill it U I Julianne Moore and Hugh Grant star as expectant parents by RICK BROUGH Record guest writer Nine Months Starring Hugh Grant, Julianne Moore, Tom Arnold and Robin Williams Directed by Chris Columbus Twentieth Century Fox, 1995 l2 Hugh Giant's arrest on Sunset Boulevard might be a blessing in disguise if it distracts attention from his loutish American comedy debut. In fact. Grant's fairly graceful grace-ful handling of the Divine Brown episode is a model of maturity compared to the insensitive twerp he plays in Nine Months. Grant is Sam Faulkner whose career as a child psychologist has only given him a jaundiced view of parenthood and a determination to keep his five-year relationship noncommittal and childless. As soon as his girlfriend utters the word "pregnant." he nearly crashes his car into a backhoe. (In the story by director Chris Columbus, every presentment of parenthood is accompanied by a painful physical disaster.) Grant's character begins to stew relentlessly with the apprehension and resentment, as the tokens of his easy life are threatened all around him. Sexual interludes are derailed because Moore is concerned con-cerned the baby will be "watch Starstream... Week of July 27-Aug. ARIES (March 21 -April 19) Get out the love beads. It's a week of peace and harmony. You continue to da?zle everyone with your newly acquired charm and affection. If you're single and searching for love, you can count on some good opportunities to find a little romance. If you're in a committed relationship, you should benefit from the fire and passion that Mars brings to your solar 7th house of marriage and partners. If you're single and want to stay that way, spend the week at a monastery and hide your charisma beneath a brown hooded robe. TA LRUS (April 20 - May 20) It's time to deal with the unresolved issues from your past lost loves, old family feuds, unpaid parking tickets, and last winter's clothes that are still at . the drycleaner. On Saturday your ruler Venus (planet of love and money) leaves the cautious sign of Cancer and enters the extravagant sign of Leo (the zodiac spendthrift). You may suddenly feel the need to spend money like a new lottery winner with a taste for champagne, caviar, and 5,000-year old Ming Dynasty vases. (Careful with that. Haven't you heard the one about the "bull" in the china shop?) GfiMINI (May 21 - June 20) Okay. You're a little star struck. Now that your chatty ruler Mercury has moved into the flamboyant and flashy sign of Leo, your stories (or tall tales?) will probably include a few guest celebrities in your cast of characters in order to make things really interesting. On Saturday Venus joins Mercury in the glamorous sign of Leo. Your own appearance will take on added impor-. tance and you may decide to buy yourself your-self some apparel that actually doesn't have a t-shirt slogan written on it somewhere. some-where. CANCER (June 21 July 22) If you're due for a promotion or a raise, Thursday is a good day to mention it to your boss. Cut out (he previous sentence. sen-tence. Take to copy machine. Enlarge 500 and drop in your supervisor's in-box. in-box. The weekend finds your lunar ruler in the well-organized and fastidious fastidi-ous sign of Virgo. Now's the time to sort through your junk drawers and over-stuffed closets. It's also a good opportunity to untangle your fishing lines or necklace chains. However, if your fishing lines and necklace chains' are knotted with each other, not even the Moon in Tidy Virgo will help. Linda Ray's Starstream is All tfy w 'K cx.y I I ing;" Grant's beloved old tabby might be unhealthy for the child; and his snazzy red roadster doesn't have room for a child's seat. He's further unsettled by his encounters with a brashly cheerful couple (Tom Arnold and Joan Cusack) with three snotty kids, who seem to be the Ghosts of Christmas Yet to Come. (Arnold and Cusack are the most entertaining entertain-ing part of the movie, since they know how to be likable while showing just enough crassness to explain why they repulse the yup-pified yup-pified Grant. Most of Grant's angst-y behavior behav-ior isn't funny. It's abrasive and grotesque, especially if you count the nightmares where Grant imagines imag-ines himself as a praying mantis being devoured by his mate! It's easy to lose sympathy with Grant because in what, his third film as an international star? he's already desperately relying on a stock collection of cute mannerisms. manner-isms. He mugs, sticks his jaw out with a bashful smile, twitters his eyes when confused and, in moments of frustration, runs his hands over that adorable mop of hair. Columbus (creator of the Home Alone movies) doesn't do much to help out his star. And so it's utterly unbelievable when in mid-picture, Grant suddenly becomes the perfect per-fect sensitive husband and father. This supposedly occurs because LEO (July 23 -August 22) Could things get any brighter for you? You're being showered with both Sunbeams and Moonbeams on Thursday and Friday. It's birthday time for the zodiac's favorite royal highness. Gift hints for your adoring fans 1 ) A glamorous photo of Leo on a rented billboard surrounded by lights 2) Anything with a prestigious designer label or a jaguar ornament on the hood ; 3) A 1st class suite in Las Vegas with $ 1 0,000 worth of chips 4) The largest . box of Godiva chocolates available (Leo loves'the shiny gold wrapping) 5) Backstage passes to (who cares, as long as Royal Leo arrives in a limo.) VIRGO (August 23 Sept. 22) Your intuition is right on target on Friday. No matter what anyone else says, you know what's really going on. The Moon spends the weekend in your sign. Now everyone else can tidy up and worry about petty details while you go out and paint the town. The remainder remain-der of the week brings you the energy and motivation to make money which you'll want to spend on redecorating redeco-rating your house. Are you being irresistibly irre-sistibly drawn to someone? Any relationship rela-tionship that begins now may be fateful and destined for longevity. (That means it'll last longer than Andrew and Fergie, but probably not as long as Mickey and Minnie.) LIBRA (Sept. 23 Oct 22) No matter what you do this week, you'll have more fun if you do it in a group. People are going out of their way to communicate and spend time with you. Don't be surprised if you receive calls or letters from long lost friends and lovers begging you to see them again. The emotional Moon joins reckless Mars in your sign on Tuesday. Prepare to over-react to almost everything every-thing and fall in love with almost ; , everybody. - v, SCORPIO (Oct 23 Nov. 21) Have you taken advantage yet of the progress you're making in your career? If not, you've got another chance, Pay close attention. Someone out there is trying to provide you with a new opportunity to succeed. Call your favorite Sagittarian if you need some lessons on how to handle being blessed with fame and fortune. It requires a certain naivete- and optimistic innocence inno-cence to believe in luck. Here's the . , test. Did you clap your hands for ;. Tinkerbcll or did you go out for pop- corn? sponsored by Park City Draperies and Blinds, 649-3865 mini-vertical blinds, pleated-Duette shades 70 off." V in Nine Months. (a), he turns to mush watching an ultrasound of his boy fetus and (b), his formerly hedonistic artist friend (Jeff Goldblum) starts to talk about the emptiness of his own life. From then on, with Hans Zimmer's music swelling in the background. Grant becomes a perfect per-fect husband and parent. (It helps that in Columbus' script, no other painful problems of adjustment turn up to dog the hero.) However, you can't totally hate a movie where Grant and Arnold get into a fistfight with an obnoxious obnox-ious "Arnie the Dinosaur" huckster in a toy store. And the usual "wacky-race-to-the-hospital" sequence has one twist Grant's driving is so reckless that his vehicle vehi-cle (now a family-sized truckster) fills up with casualties. Robin Williams is less successful success-ful playing what is basically a frantic ethnic joke. He's a Russian emigre doctor whose previous experience with obstetrics is confined con-fined to rats and monkeys, and the role mostly requires him to shout malapropisms. (When a delivering mother needs a painkiller, he calls for "Anastasia.") The lesson of Nine Months is that, despite the alarms and hysteria, hyste-ria, Grant finds a happily-ever-after ending. (But after all his jerky behavior, it would serve him right if the kid grows up to be Macaulay Culkin.) 2 by Lynda Ray SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 - Dec 21) Luck. luck, and more luck. Good fortune for-tune seems to be camping on your doorstep on Thursday and Friday. The emphasis moves to work and career on Saturday and Sunday, but you're still out in front by a length. .You never doubt that the horseshoe wreath is waiting wait-ing for you in the winner's circle even when your odds are 100 to 1. On Wednesday your ruler, Jupiter the Generous, starts moving forward through your sign again. Like I said luck, luck, and more luck. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 - Jan. 19) You seem to be quite interested in the spooky and mysterious. You're seriously seri-ously considering ordering the entire 12-video cassette collection documenting document-ing the 'True Stories of Unexplainable Phenomena" co-narrated by the spirits of Edgar Allen Poe and Rod Serling Call This Toll-free Number. Not Available in Stores. Imaginative Neptune, Innovative Uranus, and Passionate Pluto are giving you some rather perceptive insights into the mystical mys-tical elements of life. Soon you'll be hosting your own TV show . . . "Eerie Happenings Beyond the Rings of Saturn". AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 - Feb. 18) The Moon in your opposite sign of Lavish Leo on Thursday and Friday may make you a little introspective and low key. Good luck may arrive via a generous friend and your relationship requires some personal attention. So how about coming back down to earth for awhile? Whether you like it or not, you're expected to be gracious and cooperative this week. Adventurous Mars has moved into your solar 9th house of travel and exploration. Have you booked your seat on the next space shuttle yet? ?. PISCES (Feb. 19 March 20) As the week begins, you're committed to your health and exercise regime. That begins to change on Saturday when lazy Venus wants your daily routine rou-tine to consist of hedonistic pleasures instead of hard work. Additionally, the Moon moves into your opposite sign of critical Virgo on Saturday. ,,v , ' Everything's a struggle. You just want to take a little nap in the poppy field before continuing on your journey to see the wonderful wizard, but then you remember your fitness goal.1 No naps - keep that heart-rate up, and high : step right over those poppies. V " , V-,' V. 'C.V- :x.': i ' Starsteam by Lynda Ray LIMITED M iU Orders poirmorld prior to August TICKET SECTION PRICE A. OrchFronl Mezzanine $71 .50 8 Rear Mezzanine 2J-2P $61.50 C. Front Balcony 3A 3E $46.50 D. 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