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Show B-4 The Park Record Saturday, June 6, 1998 Notes from the dark CITY BRED FASHIONS FOR MOUNTAIN LIVING Get two DELTA SKY MILES per dollar of purchase! . Bulworth rides on the coattails of one or two funny scenes. CDCE DtrVlUA MUIMAD fT"3 Learn to travel more with less hi l,P-isl June 6, 12 noon rrg I IT A fcnrniaiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiagftttfliaama Five girls. Five days. One rocking world! THE SPICE GIRLS MOVIE Available June 16th PICTURES dm ran m ic n it wwrcKwi mum Previously Viewed Video Blowout Sale over 1000 to choose from Conveniently Located Next to Payless Drug Open 7 days 10 ajm. to Midnight 645-9234 aaa I by Rick Brough RECORD GUEST WRITER "Bulworth" Warren Beatty, who directed, stars in and co-wrote the half-realized half-realized satire, "Bulworth," aspires to create a political twist on "Network" the story of a suicidally-depressed senator who goes off the deep end and starts telling The Truth. California solon Jay Billington Bulworth, a '60s activist who's evolved into a soul-dead, neo-conservative neo-conservative Democrat, secretly arranges for a hit man to kill him on the last weekend of his primary pri-mary election campaign. The knowledge of imminent death (plus a certain grogginess after three days without sleep) liberates him. Before he realizes what's happening, he's telling a black church congregation "Until you put down your malt liquor and chicken wings and get behind somebody besides a running back who stabbed his wife, you'll never get rid of people like me." If they want results, cough up some campaign cam-paign donations. From there, he zips over to a Hollywood confab, wolfs down hors d'oeuvres post-depression, he's got the munchies and assures the "big Jews" in the room that he's got something insulting about Farahkhan in his speech. It's little wonder that previews for the picture have drawn largely on those two scenes. They paint Bulworth as the ultimate anti- politician, someone who might at any time offend anybody. Unfortunately, the picture rarely becomes that rude, dangerous danger-ous or unpredictable again. In a racially patronizing plot twist (something the old Bulworth would have come up with) the senator gets down with the people by going native in South Central. He gives his campaign speeches in rap ("He's rhyming!" reports his alarmed aide, played by Oliver Piatt); Bulworth ventures out into the inner-city darkness dressed as a homeboy; grapples with the controls con-trols on a "low-rider" and gets in touch with The Truth through such characters as a haughty, enigmatic enig-matic groupie (Halle Berry); a raving homeless person and a Faginesque drug dealer (Don Cheadle). In terms of a political message, Bulworth isnt a loose cannon, he's a "Nation" editorial. He talks (or raps, rather) about the fat cats who own the politicians and the media, the loss of factory jobs and the venal insurance industry (Paul Sorvino, as the industry lobbyist lob-byist betrayed by Bulworth 's new philosophy, has a great mad-bull expression.) In particular, the movie looks like an infomercial for Hilary's health-care plan. Beatty the writer (with Jeremy Pekser) can be ponderous. Beatty the director can be antsy he's so fast with his images, characters and dialogue fragments, that you have trouble keeping up. Beatty the actor is a charm he plays up wonderfully the contrast con-trast between his dullard white- Ctnvmr& Holiday Village Mall 649-6541 A PERFECT MURDER Mon.-Fri. 4:15, 7:30, 9:55PM Sat. & Sun. 1 :00, 4:15, 7:30 & 9:55PM JIM CARREY show Mon.-Fri. 4:30, 7:00, 9:30PM Sat. & Sun. 1:30, 4:30, 7:00 & 9:30PM The Horse Whisperer Robert Redford Kristin Scon Thomas TnufftMn'' rtciwM w Mon.-Fri. 4:00 & 8:00PM Sat & Sun. 12:00, 4:00& 8:00PM The New York Times crossword puzzle TEEN-AGE Q. & A. 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He's a cheerfully skittish presence on the campaign trail. Now deciding he doesn't want to be hit, he jumps from pillar to pillar, the baffled press corps in pursuit. Oliver Piatt is also fun as the increasingly-frantic aide tripping trip-ping a fire alarm to cut short an embarrassing speech; having a tantrum over a snort of cocaine; and asking "Have you heard if Dick Gephardt has an opening?" Bulworth is supposed to be a fable about a politician rousing the people. (It's set in June, 1996, when the deadly-dull Dole-Clinton Dole-Clinton contest was shaping up.) But instead of "I'm mad as hell and I'm not gonna take it anymore!" any-more!" we get a rap about giving free air time to politicians. And when the "shocker" ending end-ing comes along, we're only sickened sick-ened because we half expected it. 12 "Hope Floats" Sandra Bullock fans will probably prob-ably put up with this more than other people. "Hope Floats" is a weeper, no doubt, but is well acted and sensitively directed by Forest Whittaker. The film starts with a nicely-skewered nicely-skewered imitation of one of those sado-voyeuristic "reality" talk shows, where Birdie Pruitt (Bullock) shows up, thinking she's going to get a makeover. Instead she's confronted on national TV with her husband (Michael Pare) and best friend (Rosanna Arquette) who confess they've been sleeping together, while the tactless host (Kathy Najimy) clucks in mock-sympathy. - Her life shattered, Birdie has no choice but to pack up With young daughter Berniece (Mae Whitman) and return to the small Texas town where she was the reigning Girl Next Door, designated desig-nated Queen of Corn a record three times. Birdie's exasperating eccentric mother (Gena Rowlands) is a taxidermist who dresses her stuffed animals as dolls or lawn jockeys. Her husband is alive but lost too clouded by a stroke and Alzheimer's. Birdie's nephew (Courtney Ray), always rolling around in some costume or other, PHOTO COURTESY OF SIDNEY BALDWIN Warren Beatty is Senator Jay has been left by his mother, who's in California. And Berniece ! ; (played with real-kid angst, anger! and humor by Whitman) desper-',' ately believes her new life is only; an interlude until Daddy shows , up to reunite the family. !j In a house full of disconnected people, you'd expect a ; Depression Fiesta, but there's a ;! quiet, wounded humor in the first J half of the movie. Whittaker's direction and Steven Rogers' script have a nice feel for the ; 2 bickeringhurtfulloving way ; " mothers, daughters and grand- ; daughters talk to each other . ; especially with the tone set by the masterful Rowlands. Whittaker nicely evokes the " history that Birdie has to deal ; with especially when she has to. seek out an employment agency ", and beg a job from the former , high school chub-ette that she used to mock (or ignore? She can't remember). One major weakness in the film, though, is that it keeps ask- ing, "How many ways can we kick the perky Sandra Bullock in the teeth?" She cries on the inside J and cries on the outside (almost ! always accompanied by a weepy ; ballad). Here she is taking to her J bed in a funk; walking in the ; J rain; getting boozed up; or cry- ' ingretching over the toilet bowl. (Bullock, however, knows how to play a tearjerker as if there was some residue of warmth and J humor that hadn't been quenche yet.) The picture slows down when . Birdie is romanced by old flame ". Justin Matisse. He's quiet, strong and charming, as played by Harry" Connick, Jr. He willingly moved, 2 back home from the big city so he could be his own man. Truly, he is; the King of Corn. As in most romancers, you ; know that Birdie will recognize , him as Mr. Right. But first it will J take a visit from her guiltily ! craven husband before Birdie anij Berniece both can emotionally ;J ; exorcise him from their lives. The cast is filled out with an ! array of unknown faces (mostly regional Texas actors, I'd guess) ; I and the ironic casting of Arquette as the two-timing best friend. Ten; years ago, she would have played; the dumped-on wife. : I J? "A'N str"t!kamas viest for avwelot Fri. 7:15 PM Sat.-Thurs. 2:30 & 7:15 PM PG-13 Fri. 9:20 PM Sat. -Thurs. 5:00 & 9:20 PM EMERALDS & DIAMOND$ 20 a EMERALD 12 a DIAMONDS APPRAISAL $460 OUR PRICE $350 28 CT 14 K EMERALD BAND APPRAISAL $47Q OUR PRICE $250 MOM) Answers for June 3, 1998 DAD ElIC I PERnCLASPriSPASMr E L A NUR A I S TLiH" Q V E L A -L J. J. Jl M illil i E 1 6 A R O . 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