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is$!f^xS!S^^Aw!-..... - " - -.- . . "*"* Sarah i 4 Walk Prou. By David Baker Entertainment Editor After screaming my way through Alien (which will be the subject of next week's review), it was a relief to scream my way through Walk Proud, but here I was screaming with laughter instead of terror. What director Robert Collins is trying to accomplish in this, his first film, is a mystery. No two segments look like they were directed by the same person and, as a result, the film has no distinct point of view toward its charac ters. Never mind the fact that several of its scenes have been A. _ 1 At- - ! _ A * I sioien in ineir entirely irom sucn movies as Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Islands in the Stream, Ode to Billy Jog; and The Warriors. As the story (or what passes for one) goes, a poor Chicano boy falls in love with a rich Anglo-Saxon girl. Their romance, however, consistently takes a back seat to the boy's allegiance to his street gang, Los Aztecos. Eventually, of B aSf?Tll J i k *1| ftl 'li HmMnrvnHBB i^^^^irTirnn Ho/combe and Robby Bet d' crawls into course, the eirl tells him he must t choose between her and the gang e members. p And if the story itself isn't r hackneyed enough, Evan Hunter's ^ script is composed entirely of lines like "Eeef I steek theez guhn een f heez face, hee'l peez een heez t nnhnti " -> What really kills Walk Proud, r though, is that the producers f allowed Robby Benson to play the I love-struck Chicano. He's almost i as believable as Arnold Sch- d warzenegger attempting to por- F } semen Done X interview Required 5 XYTEX Cor i call: 788J After 5:00: 7 Hi p ||pf f 1 fin n I ii nWiiiiiir ffli i n| Bull i i i i i i i i i L ison ) obscurity ray Queen Elizabeth. To top off iverything, the producers alsc knrmiffnH Doncnr* #/\ / O I O \ ivi uiiiivu utiioun IU sing \::: > mc novie's theme song, "Adios, Yesterday." I suppose today's producers igure that once a project is rashed, they might as well trash it .11 limn O in uic way anvi iiu^a; duuicucca evel in the trashiness like they did or The Greek Tycoon and The Jetsy. Unfortunately, Walk 'roud's PG-rated trashiness loesn't stand a chance against the l-rated junkiness of those two. ?rs wanted I Remuneration \ poration ( 4797 ( '94-7945 ; 1 jPpjplp 9?? 1* . * j M ||Piip|iS?liM|i9(^ g^iiiT^awas illllllWlWiMMBB?M * * ^ 14 Ohio Players, Chocolate Milk . . 1 6 Patti LaBelle 22 Kiss 2 3 Average White Band 23 Kenny Rogers : 24 Kiss f 25 Yes u 28 Kiss 129 Aretha Franklin, Ashford and Sii Bar-Kays, Peabo Bryson, Rick Ji 30 George Benson, Denise William! Chic, Rose Royce, B.B. King . . . 30 Pointer Sisters 30 Kiss 2 Pointer Sisters ?. 3 Kiss d rvmty uritty uirt oana 6 Osmonds 8 Bad Company, Carillo 1 5 England Dan and John Ford Cole J 20 Kinks 21 Kinks 24 Blondie 29 Bay City Rollers 8 Chicago Need Extra MONEY? ) Receive up to $80.0 f month by being on jj 1 blood plasma progr \ Call or visit _ I I M Snyiona haoorai 1 620 Gervais St. 25 l vw "BU< I A \ v WeglveVWowi up to $1tOOO* point job just fo You ve probably seen "60-Minutes" or the ABC ? We re the people wh< VW "Bugs like yours ir ically decaled BEETLEt Now here's your oppor the world s most umqi receive over $1,000 in c If you have a VW Bu< what year or mileage. ; ance. call the BEETLEE ber for more informatior "Cash and Mnrnhanriitn Call now ?There are lim in your area. Beetle Call toll free 2^ (800)528-6 II BBSS JUNE Fox Theatre, Atlanta Fox Theatre, Atlanta Carolina Coliseum P anri Dollrr\/\r? Atlanti v/u^i i UUMI \J\JI 111 niioi no Carowinds Charlotte Coliseum Omni, Atlanta Greenville Memorial Auditorium Asheville Civic Center npson, irnes Atlanta Stadium Atlanta Stadium Carowinds Omni, Atlanta JULY Capri Ballroom, Atlanta Greensboro Coliseum Music Hall, Atlanta Carowinds Omni, Atlanta ?V Carowinds Fox Theatre, Atlanta Fox Theatre, Atlanta Fox Theatre, Atlanta Carowinds JGUST Carowinds CENTER ! |254-2280| 0 Q H Mon. - Fri. |p p] 7:30-3:30 tej o 98 NEW DONORS | | am. Until 2:30 H rfei^HP^ 4-2280 g'OWNERS Illtilip iers^jgj and a free custom r homing a good time. BEETLEBOARDS featured on MV and NBC-TV National News ) have transformed over 9,000 ito custom painted supergraph30ARDS' tunity to become a member of je international car club and ash and merchandise values' 3 or Super Beetle, no matter ind minimum state auto insurJOARDS 24-hour toll free numited BEETLEBOARD openings raoaios I hours, 7 days a week 050 Ext. 3060