Show Naiad Jouflwl Logan uuh Fndn SHERMANS LAGOON ( M JOW - Cl Sisters’ ftjm Ihearteamiing movie k By Sheila Norman-Cul- p Associated Press Writer Having trouble talking about sex with your teenager? What if you were desperately trying to hide a past as a rock V roll groupie who bedded musician on the planet? every drugged-oChuckles and wry smiles abound as uptight suburban mom Susan Sarandon gets blindsided by a visit from Goldie Hawn her old partner-in-crim- e in director Bob Dolman’s sweetly nostalgic buddy film “The Banger Sisters” Two women who relished a wild past find themselves on a present-da- y collision course — and Sarandon has to decide how much she CATHY ut MEM HME RUM BACK ' PAR TWEED MUCHO PANTS ID THE SECURITY OF MIDI A SPARKW TANK PAIR A LACE SWAT A LEATHER BOMBER urn BUSINESS SUITS BUT OFFICE WEAR IMS BEEN FREED FOREVER I WOMENS PUN WITH COLOR ! PUN WITH TEXTURE? Plan urn ’ mood' THEN PULL IT All TOGETHER Idmi THIS SEASONS ACCESSOR APFhoto (Left to right) Susan Sarandon and Goldie Hawn in Fox Searchlight Pictures' The Banger Sisters” Movie review bim In one scene she cries as she realizes her entire wardrobe matches the institutional beige on the walls of the Motor Vehicles Department Eva Amurri — Sarandon's real-lif- e daughter — is a hoot as Vinnie 's spoiled younger child a teenager who should never be given the keys to any Her screaming breakdown in the DMV office is a classic situation any family can identify 'I with Rush displays the same fine comic touch he showed off so well in “Shakespeare in Love" ' Not everything rings true Would a corporate lawyer with political aspirations in Arizona say “that’s OK honey” when his wife reveals a sexual history that fuel headlines for months? could for? The ending is a tad tod pat and Vinnie’s bus the she into runs Along way disgruntled eldest daughter probably should have been passenger Harry (Geoffrey Rush) who decides angrier at her mother's sexual hypocrisy El Camino that even Suzette’s rusty baby-blu- e : Still it's clear Dolman loves his two lead is better than public transportation Harry is as characters neurotic as they come a perfect foil to the hip- -' He does not criticize Suzette for being a Suzette drunk ' needing the attention of strangers or livAs could be expected Vinnie — now the in past nor does he bash Vinnie for ing Lavinia — is less than pleased with this a wanting perfect family so much that she near- especially as Suzette manprise them smothers ly ut find to older Lavinia's drugged-bages rock The V roll soundtrack is a crowd- daughter (Erika Christensen) at a hotel after the and includes a song written and per- -' pleaser senior prom and brings her home w Hawn's formed Chris Robinson by As Suzette tries to get Harry to loosen up Black The of Crowes how to understand Lavinia’s family struggles No Oscar performances in this bunch — just this sexpot in fuchsia could be linked to their a string of funny moments in a film that mom and the two our flaws accepts friends realize that some bonds do stand the Released by Fox Searchlight Pictures “The test of time Hawn's character produces laughs but Saran- - Banger Sisters” runs 97 minutes and is rated R : for sexual situations nudity and drug refedon steals the spotlight with her fears and rences Three stars out- of four wants to reveal to her very curious family Dolman a first-tim- e director who also wrote the script poses some questions that many a baby boomer has tried to duck: When does the past finally become the past? When a certain era is over is that it? Or does it live on because it shaped who we are now? Suzette (Hawn) a fiftysomething whose tight bright attire draws attention to her crisis of sorts enlarged breasts has a mid-lif- e after getting fired from Whisky A Go Go the venerable music dub on Hollywood’s Sunset Strip Broke and disheartened Suzette decides to look up Vinnie (Sarandon) in Phoenix OK it’s been 25-3- 0 years but what are good friends BEETLE BAILEY HAGAR THE HORRIBLE cr : pie-dip- py er son-in-la- PEANUTS HERE'S THE WORLD FAMOUS 5ER6EANTOFTOEFOREI6N LESION CAMP1N6 OUT WTHE PE5ERT UXTHHlSTROOFSM Cats take center stage at auction t I PORTLAND Maine (AP) — Every dog has its day as the saying goes Cats will have theirs as well as they brush aside “man’s best friend” to take center stage at an' art auction Friday’s auction at Skinner Inc in Boston features an accumulation of feline art from cat devotee Kaja Veilleux and is described as the nation’s first auction devoted solely to “rare cat art” The painting receiving the most attention is “My Wife’s Lovers "which is expected to fetch between $450000 and $750000 “Even though I’m an auctioneer myself and have my own facility this was too near and dear to me to sell myself” said Veilleux owner of the painting that depicts 42 Persian and Angoran cats Skinner began putting together the auction when Veilleux decided to sell his collection of 50 paintings Veilleux who keeps three sqay pats as' pets in his home in Thomaston Maine said he decided to sell the art after moving to an island where it would be difficult to show the " paintings and protect them against theft The auction grew to incorporate contemporary pieces and objects said Colleene Fesko director of American and European paintings for the auction house Serious collectors and feline fans from as far away as England France and Italy are participating in the auction Fesko said Some 150 lots from the 18th 19th and 20th centuries are up for auction They range from such paintings as “My Wife’s Lovers" to several lots produced locally by disabled adults - i ! I MOTHER GOOSE AND GRIMM ' ' REAL LIFE ADVENTURES Win CLOSE TO HOME : t 9-2- AtfUef)' 0 ' It is strange hov unusual items crop up in twoaor threes Regular readers will ' remember that two weeks ago 1 featured a deal in which Brian Glubok responded two clubs with a low tripleton He then used Blackwood and bid six nortrump On a club lead this contract would have goine three down but West naturally led a spade and Glubok made' his slam A few days later I saw this deal in the Washing- ton Bridge League’s bimonthly magazine Sitting South was John Adams a DC-are- a expert Haying in a pair event where trying for coups always tempts the imaginative Adams rather than open with a mundane one Touting MmsoH m Dm Married ManTMioDoea diamond began with one club WM cam quickly Houaewoffc" Birs female devoted mUllona of lane his singleton! West made a on acquired weak jump overcall two-hea- rt ' it ' Veilleux said Today many works are in the hands of cat lovers who do not wish to give them up ' “To get someone to part with their cat painting is damned near impossible" said Veilleux owner of Thomaston Place Galleries Veilleux has been acquiring cat paintings in Maine arid across the country for years The purchase of “My Wife's Lovers" was a coup for Veilleux who went to work after receiving a tip at an antique auction 1 988 He ' traveled to California and persuaded the owner to part with the painting: More than 1 00 years old it was commissioned in 1891 by the late' Kale Birdsall Johnson of San Francisco Veilleux is the latest in a succession of owners of the work which measures 6 feet by 8 12 feet and survived San Francisco's fire and earthquake of 1906 At the time the painting was created cats were being transformed into household pets after being used in barns to catch mice “It was a status thing to have these beautiful cats That’s where the domestication came into play” said Steve Triola of Cat Fancy maga- zinc Fesko who also has a pet cat — named Meissen for die rare German porcelain — said people love cats not for their obedience or for things they can be trained to do but for their r beauty at bridge By Phillip Alder w It is only in recent history that cats went from moil sens to Victorian status symbol to ' mainstream pets Older cat paintings are rela-tively rare in the United States because the paintings were commissioned by the wealthy and North responded two spades No Blackwood for Adams just a simple jump ' Straight to six Notice that on a club leadi the contract goes four down But understandably West ' selected the heart king permitting Adams to claim the 13 top tricks he had had his eye upon: five spades one heart and seven diamonds At several tables the whs a boring six diaV ‘ Arid what happened to monds ' those declarers? 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