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'Terms of Endearm
By Margarita Pate
Movies about children dying of leukemia or spouses having
deadly strokes at too early an age often lose viewers because
the/ are about real situations too sad to think about.
Such is the plight of "Terms of Endearment," a beautiful
movie about a group of people whose lives are intimately intertwined.
It's sad, but the kind of sad that makes one cry in
appreciation of someone else's suffering.
Shirley MacLaine playes her role with genius. The role is a
bitchy woman, but the viewer doesn't seem to mind, instead
feeling attracted to that aspect of her personality.
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Their relationship is antagonistic, yet loving. MacLaine is constantly
yelling and degrading her daughter, yet they lie in bed
together munching and talking like two girls at a slumber party.
There's a lot of love between them, but it's almost as if it's
more than they can handle.
'Milk and Honey'
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"Milk And Honey," probably the last col- One" are pas
lection of fresh John Lennon material, has Ways" even
finally arrived three years after the senseless its romantic
hnllpts of Mark fhanman murHer#?H thp emnhasis.
former Beatle. For the m
The new album is a sequel to 1980's ultra- love for Lenn
romantic and melancholy "Double Fan- more.
tasy," but fails to recapture the mood of the Lennon un
previous Lennon efforts. Honey" fro
The immediate feeling that seizes the Although so
listener is tl\e intense love between Lennon musician's fa
and his wife Yoko Ono, who wrote six of murder, the
"Milk And Honey's" 12 tracks. album dimini
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POEMS OF romance and unbreakable has been ret
bonds by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and because the
Robert Browning dominate the ill-fated Len- together. Hi:
non couple's message. Although "Milk And throughout t
Honey" reeks of sincere and direct devotion, "I'M STE
the musical assemblage gives off a definite who I am"
odor of unevenness. Face It" fea
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are the main problem. The ex-Beatle's wife's were in his li
obscure talent is, for the most part, not Three trac
worth the time entailed in experiencing it. listener's ui
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ty Ono even after three years, she becomes ir- album's first
ritating and masochistic through her songs. "Grow Oli
The woman has little vocal abilities, and her and hopeful
lyrics run from ridiculous to mildly Time" has
interesting. confusion of
"Sleepless Night" and "Your Hands" are Whe
examples of Ono's incoherent babbling. The Living illi
latter describes her obsession with her lover's
hands and skin, and the former strings The more th
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genre ? although he made
Autum" two years later.
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Henry Fonda portrays the
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nightmare of war, as a journ;
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sb. 23-25, explores the story of Lebanese civil war.
ent' shows humor a
Debra Winger is splendid in her role as the victim. She's
fresh and genuine. She leads the viewer through her life from a
young, recently married woman to a still young, but dying,
mother of two little boys.
The relationship with her husband is very unnerving. He is
likable, even when one wants to hate him. He's also weak and
unsatisfying, but the movie's forced emotions prevent disliking
him.
Jack Nicholson actually plays a sane person. He's a potbellied,
drunken ex-astronaut living off the laurels of his
earlier life. He was a hero, and he's finding it difficult not being
what he used to be.
He's a welcome interruption in Shirley MacLaine's life.
Their "love affair" is brazen, yet not without its own
glamour. One feels good that these two find each other.
"Terms of Endearment" shows the things ordinary people
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films this month
The West German movie, directed by
the hazards Volker Schlondorff, features director Jerzy
e horror of Skolimowski and writer Jerzy Kosinski in acJickelodeon
ting roles. . .
h. The film will be shown Feb. 16-18. ^
hot Liberty Other movies on February's calendar^
:-13, is con- follow:
he Western
"Cheyenne "INVESTIGATION OF a Citizen Above
Suspicion" (1970), playing Feb. '7 and 8, is
Itoddard, a an italian film that satirically examines
lall Western politics and Fascist ideology.
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a smug, mentally unbalanced police
chief who plants evidence against himself to
, Stoddard test the sleuthing abilities of his underlings,
i formed ? his own status and his moral and social
:hange with superiority.
ss. Petri, a communist, won an Oscar for this ^
id Monday, film.
>trangelove' An exciting new Australian epic, "We of
the Never Never," will be shown Feb. 9-11.
he film exa
computer THIS FILM focuses on the struggle of
> the Soviet Jeannie Gunn, the outback's first white
woman to establish a cattle station with her
. president; husband during the turn of the century,
rlihy, Fritz Gunn learns to adjust to the strange ways of
tar. the aborigines and crude stockmen, and to
draw comfort from a hostile, arid land.
) details the Directed by Igor Auzins, the film sports a
alist (Bruno seemingly unlimited supply of Australian
>rs in the talent and awesome scenery.
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face. It's sensitive, funny and emotionally moving. It's one of
those films that make the viewer cry, but also come out of the
theater talking about the people in the film, how they treated
each other and how they loved, forgetting even if just for a
short while, ever having cried.
The characters and relationships portrayed in this film are
warm and friendly, yet guarded. The characters don't ask
anyone to come into their lives, yet they seem to welcome the
intrusion.
spanning several years, me mm moves quickly yet 0
smoothly. One becomes attached to the characters and their
lives. The viewer wants to know what's going on with the
characters and how they're feeling. The movie has credible
characters and is itself believable.
No one is forced to cry or even asked to. One is simply asked
to feel.
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