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Show Park Record Thursday, January 30, 1986 Page B9 Americanized 'Red Shoe' has a French s ml f the films you have read ?&i'ckie. movie review b 'eavoilabie for horne viewing of 1 . Record entertainment Rich Brough and Robin STnch hove recycled their capsule Zmaries and list some current ideo offerings below. The Man with One Red Shoe This is the best of a recent breed of ' edv-American films that are !k of successful French films, caS The Tall Blond Man w ith One Black Shoe The basic plot is the same as that nl the French film, with two spy hiefs battling each other. CIA head Ross (Charles Durning) decides to lead his rival (Dabney Coleman) on a wild goose chase by picking someone so-meone at random and planting the idea he is an important spy. Their pigeon is a concert musician ,Tom Hanks) who is wandering through the airport and happens to stick out because he is wearing one red shoe. From there on, director Stan Dragoti diverts from the Gallic version ver-sion with a jazzy, American style and a bit more emphasis on bash-bash bash-bash slapstick. While the two rival spy factions tail the musi-cian-ultimately clubbing and shooting each other to a pulp-Hanks walks through it blithely blithe-ly like a young Mr. Magoo. This gives Hanks a passive role in his own movie, but he is surrounded by funny characters. Carrie Fisher-why is she stuck in supporting suppor-ting roles now? is a mousy musician musi-cian who likes to get Hanks alone so she can strip down to her leopard-skin leopard-skin underwear and play Trazan and Jane. She is the discarded "dippy woman," but she is as sexy as slinky Lori Singer, the nominal leading lady. Fisher's husband (Jim Belushi) is a burly, suspicious percussionist, but he keeps getting run down by the spies. In a funny sequence straight from the Lou Costello school, spy bodies pile up in Hanks' apartment, butonlyBelushispotsthem. The spies also include a bumbling kill-crazy agent (Gerrit Graham), a mouthy tubbo (Irvin Metzman) and a schmuck ( David Lander, televi- Video Views b.vllick Brough and Robin Moench sions "Squiggy"), who wanders around the sewer in search of clues Hanks may have flushed down the toilet. Dragoti's American movie may kick the refined hilarity of the original, but it is one of the brightest spy spoofs since the days of "Get Smart." " RB My Science Project "My Science Project" fits nicely on a double bill with "Real Genius" or "Weird Science," other teen hits of last summer. But you might get the stories mixed up. The movies share an infatuation with nerds and an effort to transform them into regular guys. And in all of them the magic of advanced ad-vanced technology takes center ring. Mike (John Stockwell) spends most of his time under cars. His sidekick, Vinnie (Fisher Stevens), is a jive-talking, TV-snorting Brooklynite. To earn his high school diploma, Mike has to come up with a science project for his teacher, a former hippie (Dennis Hopper) who entertains the kids with stories of freaking out on banana peels. With graduation day closing in, Mike digs up a weird gizmo in military graveyard to use as a project. pro-ject. It is the engine of an alien craft that landed on earth during the '50s. And it turns the high school into the vortical center of a space-time warp. Supernerd Sherman (Raphael Sbarge) has thick glasses, a nasally guffaw, wears synthetic button-downs button-downs and works in the library. But he redeems himself by fighting off everthing from dinosaurs to Viet-cong Viet-cong as a hallucinogenic river of time takes over the school halls. Just one of the boys is Ellie (Danielle Von Zerneck), a homely bookworm good to the core who wins over Mike. Director Jonathan Betuel gets an A for his lively, likable cast. But whoever stole the original blueprint for last summer's prototype teen flick should hang it up before it is repeated again. RM 1 2Lost in America Albert Brooks' story of Yup-piedom Yup-piedom is goofy, ironic and nightmarish. Brooks plays David Howard, an ad man who worries that he and his wife (Julie Hagerty) are living too controlled a life. When a hoped-for promotion doesn't come through, he bolts and decides to go on the road, with eyes glistening in memory of the central film of this youth, "Easy Rider." "We have to touch Indians," he urges his wife. The couple hit the road in a huge Winnebago motor home and decide I hat, before getting back to the roots of America, they will make a quick stop in Las Vegas. Unfortunately, the wife chooses that moment to become uncontrolled. While David is sleeping, she finds a roulette table and loses the entire nest egg of their life's savings. After talking so much about getting get-ting back to the basics, the Howards are left with exactly that and it is a horrid prospect. "We're in hell," David says And you share his Iran-tic, Iran-tic, scared feeling, even as you appreciate ap-preciate the joke from an ironic distance. Brooks is a daringly low-key movie comic. His jokes may be relatively broad, but he never jabs you in the ribs to make sure you get them. And even when his ad man says ludicrous things, he is played by Brooks with an uncondescending conviction Hagerty. with her Alice' in Wonderland voice, is a good complement comple-ment to Brooks. Her best moment is the casino scene, where she gives a wonderfully funnyscary look at a Vegas highroller. "Lost in America" fits a tempo that very few comedies have these days. But it is an intelligent, funny portrait of a self-realization odyssey that tries to hit the ground running and instead breaks both ankles. And if ou want to pinpoint the identity crisis of the '80s generation, is there a better image than Brooks' huge Winnebago rolling down the highway to "Born to be Wild"? RB j V -- V : 1 A ft i f r : - :i yt ' hi -5 O i v -; 7 f ' xi V ill- Neal Palumbo Meet the Press Dave Kehr (left), film critic, Chicago Reader, said he was attracted at-tracted to his job because "I have a deep and abiding interest in getting in (to movies) free." Wall Street Journal writer Julie Salamon's previous experience was in reporting on commodities, which prepared her for Hollywood flicks, she said. They and other critics exchanged views on movies at a seminar Friday during the U.S. Film Festival. Your ChamberBureau... ...Your Opportunity! .J ; . I owners of t, , u pl- ritv we are coenizant of the many promotional and marketing ""her von h. . i ,, i.,i, hudet. ... 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But the weasely bureaucrat in charge of the mission (Charles Napier i has sec Kambo up to find no one. so the U.S. government has an excuse to forget the POW issue. When Rambo confounds him and actually finds prisoners, he is abandoned aban-doned to be captured by the Vietnamese Viet-namese and their Russian masters. Anvone else would be doomed, but as his commanding officer ( Richard Crenna) reminds us, we are dealing with Rambo. Stallone is tortured with leeches ,uid electrical shocks, but he comes through to blow away the enemy, upends the treacherous Napier who actually draws more audience hatred that the Communistsand Com-munistsand in his longest speech, he grunts out that the war isn't over until the last veteran gets the respect due him. It sounds hokey, but Stallone stirs your blood into a whirlpool and director George Cosmaos whips the Mory along in a hard-hilling fashion, as opposed to the rollercoaster style of Spielberg, for example. The quieter moments are highlighted by the sympathetic presence of Julia Nickson, who plays I Jumbo's Vieinamese confederate. Inadvertently, the picture gives a hint of what went wrong with the real Vietnam war when the bad guys chase Rambo through an occupied Vietnamese hamlet full of women, old people and children. Rambo blows up the village and the Communist troops. We never see what happened to the civilians and the movie apparently doesn't care. However. "Rambo" rarely makes such missteps and maintains an iron grip on the audience's emotions. -RB A Classic I Recommended I Good double i feature material i Time-killer 1 For masochists only 1 . N With Confidence! t , r . This spacioub home in prestigious Silver Springs has 3.750 sq. ft. of living spate. ?00 sq. ft. of storage. 600 sq. ft. of decks and a 600 sq. ft. garage with automatic-door opener. Luxurious amenities in this 6-bcdroom. 3.5 bulli residence include two fireplaces. 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