Show vmm— iV rr Page14— ThaHefaJd Journal Logan Utah WodnendayMy 8 1998 i ONE BIG HAPPY rra trash nr FUCDWOHAUI KINDS or CRMCRnSk nfK06MZ& i i DO VXJ1HNK THAT DECENT PEOPLE HIM HTELLKENCC Quaid show his AND 60GD TASTE MATCH SHOWS LIKE AND FREAKS I lUKf LOS ANGELES (AP) — As a novice' director Dennis Qnaid proved lobe one smooth operator For Everything That Maes a TNT name debuting veterans Mare Winning-h- m Sunday he cast sure-footand Hsrve PresnelL Quaid shot the contemporary western dnuna on familiar turfr not far from nis Montana spread Wife Meg Ryan and the couple's at Jack were on hand for support And the feeding mafe role thrt of a tough rancher struggling! through T financial Mid wwnrinnJ hid tin- - went tn i star— Quaid himself “It was one leu actor I had to deal with" direc- - i4'' r Vs y S’ - i ed CATHY xr seems iMtESHW-SI8L- E TO TAKE A MCATION f IASAEE XT SEEMS iwrsnc MKSM SBC ID mosuErt urn MANS hour own lBUSMESS WE A WCATON rWESWT MMEEHOU COULD TAKE A UMfr WEEKEND XT SEEMS MESNN sacra WEA MCATION U MUST MOnEAMS WE A MCA' TIM! EWAN-O- M MULTIPLE CHOICE NE tf' La tor Quaid said laughing Maybe the safeguards were unnecessary: The uneasiness he fob about tak ing charge of the $9 million TV production was TIME OFT TO REPlEMSH TIB SOUL AND shoit-live- Euan uns kURWUFC is rf 3 A "vSp A - 't V VK ' d i r k 'V 'cV I “Most of the minutiae of acting I find frustrating and boring I don’t have the patience for it” he said “But I loved it as n director I found myself obsessed with it Making every little decision what kind of shirt somebody was wearing or 'Let's tweak the frame change the Mocking' I loved it He also found himself very protective of the ' :J£vTS '' : REEDS JtJ t K A 'Whi ' j'xs: ' - BEETLE BAILEY "It'S your child You’re responsible for everything in it You take pride of ownership in it and AP photo you take the blame” he said “It's all yours’’ Quaid confessed to befog pleased with Everything Dannie Quid b shown In a aceno from the upcoming That Rises which tells the story of Montana ranchTumor Network Television original film Everything That ers Jim and Kyle Gay (Qnaid Winningham) and fVeea which debuts on TNT Sunday Aliy 12 Quid their teen-ason Nathan (Ryan Meniman) his dbncting dsbut wHi the film in which ho afeo imku As Clay fights to keep the bank from taking land tvs about a Montana femae struggle to hold onto that is his family heritage a greater tragedy strikes: isnd passed through generations Nathan is paralyzed in an accident Before he can with Natasha help his son cope with his injury Em has to overwrapped he was off to ir ge co-st- come his own crippled emotions Ptesnell plays the family’s longtime ranch-han-d rocker Meat Loaf is Jim's best friend Red Mark Spragg’s touching script is brought cleanly to life by Quaid who found its heart without losing its humor and honesty The first-tim- e director also does visual justice to the drama’s sweeping outdoor scenes and ultimate moments “I really love telling stories with pictures” said Quaid “That's where I kind of surprised myself a bit You read a script but to actually envision die mechanics of how it’s going to be done where to pot die camera how does the scene play itself out I was terrified of that “Going out die first day I found I already knew how to do it It wasn’t tins huge job It was about putting one foot in froot of die other” He was MflmwBwi by directors he’s worked with and others whose films he admires including Martin Ritt and his 1963 western Had While Quaid hadn’t planned to pull duty on both sides of the camera there were advantages “With my scenes Fd just do a couple of takes I would do one on one end of die scale a little more emotional and one sort of neutral and one another place and move on I didn’t spend s lot of time dwelling on myself I found myself more concerned with the other people It may have helped me as an actor 1 may not have worried so much’’ There are some 40 movies on Qusid’s resume He first gained attention a confused adolescent in 1979s Breaking Away then went on to score juicy roles in The Right (1983) The Big Easy (1986) and Gnat Ball t of Fire (1989) He and Ms Ryan met while making 1987’s Interspace Quid just managed to squeeze in his directorial HAGARTHE HORRIBLE LocKlryte rJBMYHA itmn PEANUTS f A u to debut The day after Everything That Rises Richardson in a remake of the 1961 comedy The Parent Trap It opens in theaters this month the spot to When he gets time off be has enjoy it: his 300 acres in Montana “I call it a place I don’t call it a ranch We don’t have any animals on it no cows 1 used to have hones out I’m not there enough to really have a relationship with them So it’s not fair to them or t- - jut ' me” The land along die Yellowstone River represents a retreat from Hollywood for Quid’s family and pals it’s beautiful hiking it’s floating “It’s on the river Friends come up and play volleyball oo the front lawn — all that Kennedy family stuff We get our Super Soakers and have fights with 10 or 12 ng "jreiybody tuns into a kid when they get out there in the summer” Turning his droughts back to work Quaid said Everything That Rises has encouraged him to consider directing a feature film How about directing his accomplished wife? “I dunk the fust day would be daunting for me but 1 think we could get over iL Yeah Id love to do that" r:wv‘s:r ? K t j i Elsewhere in television L TWA Flight 800: The July 17 1996 explosion of the airliner that took off from Kennedy International Airport bound for Paris is the subject of The Learning Channel's TWA 800: The Investigation The program (10 pm EDT Thursday) details federal findings in the crash that killed 230 people and asks how the expense of new aircraft safety standards might be weighed sgsinst the “acceptable risks” of flying Not quite enchanted ‘Madeline’ By Robert Danerstein Movie review p Sctlpps Howard Nowt Service Making good children’s films must be tough judging by how few there are Requisites include a strong script credible child acting and mort impor-tand-y the ability to conjure something magicaL Madeline the latest movie directed at younger idienccs mixes elements from four popular stones by Ludwig Bemelmans but never quite reaches enchanted proportions The picture creates an idcal-ize- d story-boo- k Paris but remains duller than h should have been This isn’t to say that there's anything drastically wrong with Madeline which probably will score points with girls especially those who love the books Moreover the production has class thanks to the presence of two serious adult acton: Frances McDormand and Nigel Hawthorne McDormand Miss Clavel the nun who presides over the Paris girts’ school located m “an old house that was covered with vines" Miss Gawd proves able and understanding a teacher who obviously cares about her charges particularly the independent-minded orphan Madeline portrayed here by REAL LIFE ADVENTURES Hatty Jones Hawthorne plays Lord Covington owner of die building in which die school is located a comfort- - CLOSE TO HOME HGOeNAND mo 7x&r ave&MQNmt 1 SO 7&Y 70 WRITS tJUST CANT owe BVTZ S£M 70 DO IT ui Chnckwittof’shtock - lines wear prim uniforms and oo special occasions don frilly party dresses that turn them into pastel princesses The movie revolves around attempts by Madeline and her companions to save the school After his wife (Stephane Aqdran) dies in embittered Lord Covington decides to sell the schooL In an accompanying plot development Madeline is kidnapped along with her neighbor the rambunctious Vfespa-drivison (Kristian de la Osa) of the Spanish ambassador It seems the boy's tutor (Ben Daniels) wants to collect ransom Also included is a chapter in which Madeline falls into the Seine and is rescued by Genevieve a dog who adds cuteness Miss Gavel agrees to ignore seb rot regulations She allows the girls to keep Gerevieve so long as the animal doesn’t stay in the ng home Mining from the production — which unfortunately ends to dreg — is a sense of urgency and wonder thrt could have turned Madeline mo superior children's fine This mmnw movie probably will play better on video but should be welcome calm to a chaotic addings r ! RrtetiVG Win at bridge By PUMP Alder "Now toot you're My recovered Ml Dawkins wo can tol you too Indh 1ho12-twoporaDon too Mavenous moah toe tvee weeks of bod tort mg environment in which girls march in straight In real life the distribution of the deal permits many wrong plays to go unpunished However in a class situation the instructor can fiddle with the cards so thrt a misstep is fataL When I used this deal there were only two variations the third I had envisioned never occurred How would you play in four hearts? West leads life sin-gleton diamond striking gold East wins with the king cashes the diamond ace and gives West a diamond niff Back comes the chib jack to your ace What now? When playing in a suit contract yon should spend few moments counting your winners and losers All rigid so it takes minutes or hours but yon should still take that time Let's start with losers Yon have already given np three diamond tricks And the third spade in your hand is a potential loser And winners? Well yon have nine tricks: two spades five hearts one diamond ruff Always ruff high when you can afford to do so ©1MSbyNEAnc Nwth andooedub A 4 Some of my students nervously drew all the missing trumps Thus they ended with those nine tricks losing a spade to West at the end The better players realized that they had to ruff the third spade in dummy for their 10th trick So after drawing (wo rounds of tramps with honors from hand they continued with a spade to dummy’s ace a spade to their king and a spade raffed with dummy’s heart jack Back to hand with a dab raff the last trump was drawn and the contract rlaimmt To my surprise no one by railing the third spade low and suffering a deadly over mis-stepp- ed visa WmA Sill Q 741 J OJtlTia 4 Q 4 Jim K1 A K Q Q A J 40 Wert It I III st Cut Nerth Pan ao Pan Fan Opening lend: 4 Kaa Vulnerable: East-WeDealer South to II 0171 A K S 8 |