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By NICOLK BYRI)
Staff Writer
Taste buds will be tempted with
Cajun shrimp stir-fry, com fritters,
(ihiradelli ehoeolate-ieed cheesecake
and much more at (he 11th
annual Taste of Columbia this
Sunday at Rivcrbanks /oo.
The event, which is held by the
Columbia Restaurant Association,
will have more than 25 booths rep
Film's pron
I MOVIE REVIEW~
INDECENT
PROPOSAL
Ity ItKIAN SHKI.TON
Staff Writer
The plot is aboui love, sex and
money. The cast features Red ford.
Demi and Woody. How could a
film that offers till this go wrong':
Let me count die ways.
It goes by the name of "Indecem
Proposal," but a more accurate title
would be "Decent Proposal
Indecent Follow-Through." Aftei
all, die premise, or die proposal, il
you will, is the best thing about die
film. Can love be bought with inert
money? the film asks. The answei
is 110, but it can at least be renter
for a modest fee.
Allow me to explain. Dem
Moore and Woody Harrelson plaj
David and Diane Murphy, ai
extremely happy couple who rui
into financial dire straits whih
building the house of their dreams
On a whim, they go to Las Vega
to strike it rich and run into ami
able billionaire John Gage (Rober
Redford) who offers them a dea
they can't refuse: $1 million fo
one night widi Diane.
Oh sure, they wrestle with th
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resenting some of the best restaurants
in Columbia. p
Deborah Sliee. Riverbanks Zoo C
spokeswoman, said. "This is the k
zoo's biggest day of the year. We I
had an attendance of 10,000 last I
year and are expecting an even big- .S
get crowd this year." C
Visitors will be entertained
throughout the clay with Top 40 p
music by Ross Holmes and the a
Ross Holmes Band. c
lising plot los
in the end, they decide that one p
night of meaningless sex is worth j
its weight in gold. I
Pretty nice set-up. isn't it? loo
bad what follows is the most unre- \
alistic tripe you're likely to see this I
side of "The Bodyguard." 1
Everything after this wager seems <
like it takes place in some parallel <
universe where logic has been per- (
' manently banned. t
David and Diane are given some
genuinely sweet moments together \
| and have a lovey-dovey catch t
phrase included in their repertoire i
that you will know will be said <
1 again at some crucial part of the |
: movie. Sure, Diane comes after her I
hubby with a knife one day after he 1
1 leaves his clothes strewn about, but
f what loving couple hasn't done this I
- at least once or twice when the sit- i
uation merited it?
r It's when they get to Vegas that i
' "Indecent Proposal" loses its foot- i
ing. The contrivances start becomi
ing more obvious, and the quesf
tions concerning the character's
1 motivations start flying fast and
i furious.
i Why doesn't the couple just take
the $25,000 they win the first night
s and run? What the heck are they
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t "wild tiling" on top of the afore1
mentioned money? Isn't it too
r much of a coincidence that the couple,
in their greatest time of finane
cial need, just so happens to meet a
t, nice billionaire who just so hapcomedienne
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It just took you fifte<
to drive to class. Now y
spend another twenty r
hunting for a parking s
that your teacher doesr
exam without you.
You need to move c.
pus. You need to move
Mill. What we offer is o
apartments within wall
from your classes. If yo
take the walk there is a
stoo out front. Yes, evei
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raste of C<
Some of the restaurants partiei- go
ating in this year's Taste of 11 r;
Columbia include: A.J.'s, Julie's, la:
ley WesM Bar & Raw Grill, ula
.i yard's Thicket, Longhorn Steaks,
'.G.I. Friday's. Olive Garden, The ^u,
Spaghetti Warehouse and Zorba's
ireek Restaurant. ?
Serving hours are 11 a.m. to 4
>.m. Riverbanks /od will open at 9 ^(1
i.in. and close at 5 p.m.--Food tick- Ri1
ts, sold in 50-eent increments, will at
t in 'indecem
tens to take a liking to Diane and eti
ust so happens to offer them a bri
tuge wad of dough? sol
Heck yes, it is. but if the film sit
vere done with even the slightest vo
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tall bad. Alas, the characters' an
ictions are even more ludicrous wc
dter the one-night stand between
iage and Diane and more ques- Re
ions whiz through the old noggin. an
Why does the couple make the pe
,vhole thing such a big deal after oo
Jeciding that it's just sex and the in)
noney is more important? Why (hi
Joesn't die couple just buy another ajj
[liece of land when diey find out tj1(
their original site for their "dream sc,
louse" has been repossessed? ca
It's probably not Gage's youthful an
looks since Redford, whose age has ,
finally caught up with him. looks -n
like that guy in "Indiana Jones and p,
the Last Crusade" who drank out of
the wrong Holy Grail. That just ^
leaves the money, but why would
non-materialist Diane fall for a guy ^
just because her character, like virW
tually everything else in this movie,
is poorly and inconsistently written. ie
If Demi Moore were a better 11
actress, she might have been able
to overcome this major plot hole. sa
Alas, she just gets sucked in and at
appears to be a conniving, money- 10
grabbing, opportunistic witch. ^
Even worse is Woody Harrelson,
who, after die break-up, becomes a
whiny drunk and then a boring h;
architecture teacher who gives riv- in
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issy knoll. Admission to the
de of Columbia is free with regr
admission.
lhe zoo will oiler a free shuttle
. service I'rom the parking lots
eystone One and Two and 220
rncbridge oil Cireystone
ulcvard next to lanbassy Suites,
vcrbanks /xx> is located oil 1-26
the Cireystone Boulevard exit.
t' delivery
ng lectures on the magic of
cks. Harrelson, both drunk and
tier, has only two facial expres>ns
(angry and goofy) and one
cal style (monotone) and would
best advised to quit the movies
d go back to the one-dimensional
irld of television.
The third partner in crime,
dford, does more than just look
cient. lie also gives the laziest
rformance of his or any career,
ing through the motions and giv2
very little personality at all to
is apparently unemployed billione.
I say unemployed because, in
s film, you don't ever actually
e Gage at a job. You see him at a
sino, at Diane's citizenship class
d at restaurants, but you never
e him behind a desk or even talkg
about business. Yet another
iw in die script? Could be.
I could literally go on for hours,
it limited space only allows me to
ratch the surface of "Indecent
oposaT's stupidity. You may
onder, after reading this and oilier
views that pan the movie, how
e film even got made.
To answer this question. I'll just
y that when I viewed this film, I
tually saw people crying at the
tally unbelievable happy ending,
[aybe 1 shouldn't knock them
icause I was crying too.
They were tears of joy because 1
id never been happier to see closig
credits in my entire life.
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