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Seller il entertain often between 710.(XKH87O.0O0 more details 1 tS1 wT i C 11 nti rum II A- l pi I 1 -r U bv ' i I m I I I 1 I -1 -"mm 1 Vi i f r.f us -r , tt ,fji Geronlmo Ct. if OSEU$ ?m CITY & DEER VAWEY PROPERTIES O & l70Ri(C'6 DMSEflTlY FOR YCUl O 20-YEAR RESIDENTS 6 TOP PRODUCERS O NEtfRfflEX In Hi.ferle OU W I Urn, 2.5 kerb per tide. Under eMttnctiM. AwHier BrijbtM design! 289,000 ter tide INTRODUCING VALUE RANGE MARKETING L w This revolutionary m marketing plan Is the most 0 f effective way for buyers and sellers to achieve their J real estate ooals! Call Georoe & Judy Glauser for a at 647-8061 or 647-8060. 3 r ) Stunmer 1 IP Mil T in? : sum. is-yr :i L Summer m ovie re makes h ave trouble overcoming originals by Rick Brough RECORD GUEST WRITER The Hunchback of Notre Dame 12 Disney's latest animated offering is lively, picturesque and tuneful but creatively, it's more in the realm of Pocahontas than Lion King. Of course, the film-makers set themselves no easy task. How do you fit Victor Hugo's kindly but grotesque bellringer into a musical if (as Charles Laughton famously played him) his voice is as misshapen mis-shapen as his form? The best answer they could con-' jure up is to give Quasimodo a pleasing, but modest voice supplied sup-plied by Tom Hulce (Mozart from Amadeus). As a result, the Hunchback speaks and sings as pre-sentably pre-sentably as a summer-stock juvenile; and you're left wondering why the cathedral choir never recruited him for a few solos (maybe with a hood over his head.) The gypsy girl Esmeralda is spoken spo-ken by Demi Moore and, in the recent Disney tradition of cartoon heroines with a dose of spunk, she proves in one lively scene that she can outwit the lumbering soldiers from the Hall of Justice. The most unique twist on the story is that the normally handsome-but-dull Captain Phoebus is presented as a witty charmer (drolly voiced by Kevin Kline). Venturing underground to find the beggars' Court of Miracles, he observes, "Hmm. We seem to be in the Court of Ankle-Deep Sewage." At times. The Hunchback seems to have three central heroes instead of one. (And when Quasi and Phoebus team up to help Esmeralda, bickering all the way, the film briefly sounds like a buddy flick.) But of this trio, it's Quasimodo who comes out at a disadvantage dis-advantage an indistinct character a lot of the time, coming into focus only to present the usual pathos. The movie tolls out the familiar themes of the story we should take pity on the outcasts, whether they be deformed or gypsies; beauty of spirit isnt seen on the surface KCTMtl Meeifieenl dd net & mnitti view ie iw J bdnas 2 bslki end ree mm. Seler ni entertain effen belMen 2K).000-2$0.000. F AWAY MEADOWS H On the Golf Course between 10th green & 11th tee 159,000 ivo-. 1 Designers Merchants- , if .T" r With a little encouragement from his gargoyle pals Hugo and Laverne, Quasimoto, the reclusive bell-ringer of Notre Dame, realizes that being cooped up in the cathedral belltower is for the birds and prepares for a spectacular adventure. (Quasimodo creates a miniature fresco of the Paris he sees from his tower); and the self-righteous who rant about perversion and lust would best look in their own hearts. The prime example here is Judge Claude Frollo, (voice by Tony Jay) the Hunchback's cruel father figure who only looks after him because he is forced to do penance for causing the death of Quasi's gypsy mother. The film has its comic relief, of course, primarily from Esmeralda's goat and three gargoyle buddies of the Hunchback. The snooty Hugo is voiced by Charles Kimbrough (Murphy Brown); the party gargoyle gar-goyle Victor says things like "Let's pour the wine ar J cut the cheese," is done by Jason Alexander, who is already famous for voicing an animated ani-mated character. (At first, I thought, "Hey, it's Duckman.") And Laverne is voiced by the late Mary Wickes, who died last fall with only a handful hand-ful of her lines left to be done. (A trouper through 55 years of film and TV, she was usually seen as a peppery pep-pery nun in movies like Sister Act.) i i to MOUNTAM LUXURY M DQt VAUiY Atmott ne 4 bdm 4 bath eendo itk 2 cer lerige. Many spgradei end hot tub. 449.000. VALLEY LLS 20 Panoramic view: of Heber Valley 49900 JL: t't0s 1 'i . ranee oaiei e . - t si i SIS A So. it As usual, the Disney animation looks gorgeous, whether depicting the swirling colors of the Festival of Fools, or the dark flames of Paris under an Inquisition. Hunchback is well done, all right, but isnt a definitive version. It isnt equal to the memory of past Hunchbacks done by Lon Chaney and Laughion; the Esmeralda of Maureen O'Hara ; or for that matter mat-ter the Frollo of Cedric Hardwicke, whose one evil "lance could say as much as the ..drtoon Frollo with his fiery a.id flamboyant "Lust" production pro-duction number. The Nutty Professor l2 An early scene of Mission: Impossible scored an unintentional laugh, when Tom Cruise "disguised" himself as a middle-aged man and came out looking like Ben Kingsley after being hit by a custard pie. By contrast. Rick Baker's work in The Nutty Professor is brilliant. You can believe that 400-pound college col-lege professor Sherman Klump is a Judy Glauser 647-8060 - i' mnwv" ei 6. T J'i-m'zZ WOOtO ft 9ECUIO OVtt 4200 $d FT. Beit trice per tfitre reetl 4 bedroomi. i beHn end unfinisked walk-out basement. 2 fireplace), large redwood deckt. On 12 acre. (JI9,000 ThePrudential Coleman Real Estate Saddleview Office Park 2200 Park Avenue, Bldg B Park City, UT 84060 800-553-4666 i , r te ! .. Vikr -J 1 IB 1 1 j real person, especially when brought to life by Eddie Murphy. (In a semi-comeback. semi-comeback. Murphy captures the gentle, false jollity of a character who is inwardly mortified about his weight.) After a while, you come to think that his hyper-obnoxious alter ego, Buddy Love (played by the slimmed-down Eddie) is the special effect. Unfortunately, both of them (and several other Eddies, too) are undone by a raunchy, cliched script. Klump is a brilliant, tubbily eccentric scientist who cant find anything that reduces his flab. He gobbles diet shakes, crushes exercise equipment and has acupunture needles nee-dles stuck in him until he resembles a porcupine. Finally, spurred by his love for demure colleague Carla Purdy (Jada Pinkett), he uses himself him-self as a guinea pig for his recombi-nant-DNA formula, which turns him into slim, handsome Buddy. (Although the movie is basically a re-make of Jekyll and Hyde, it uses the specific twist supplied by Jerry Lewis that the Hyde persona is outwardly, a more attractive person. That notion doesn't last long, as Buddy (overdosed on testosterone by the formula) turns out to be braying, loud, and arrogant. Carla really loves Sherman, but dates Buddy, saying that she sees something some-thing kindly in his eyes. (Poor Pinkett is forced to play a love object who is tolerant, with both Sherman and Buddy, to the point of idiocy.) Besides the fact that the Buddy character is migraine-inducing, the movie relies on ideas we've seen before. As in the incredibly lame. Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde, there are gags about the formula wearing off, with Buddyls torso suddenly inflating. inflat-ing. Copying a gag from Coming to America (where he also used BakerTs make-up), Murphy plays several characters, including a Richard Simmons-like exercise guru; and almost all of his fat, flatulent flatu-lent nuclear family. (This is another picture you can blame on Blazing Saddles, but even Mel Brooks knew when to stop.) The movie also uses another cheat: Remember those jokes you saw in the preview, like Murphy stomping down a city street like Godzilla? Since the writers cant figure fig-ure out a Way to work' them into the plot, they're interjected into the movie as dream sequences. The film also features James Coburn as a college donor, and Dave Chappelle as a rank nightclub comic who ridicules Shermanls ample behind ("You got more crack than Harlem!"). The only actor who steals scenes from Murphy, however, is Larry Miller as a butt-kissing college col-lege dean whols greasier than the fried chicken that Klump scarfs down. 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