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Ii'Houston's Biggest After Office Party "Hors d'oeuvres served by Carol 4pm until 7pm Nicole Conn wrote, produced and directed Claire of the Moon, about two women who meet at a writers' retreat. ilce Cold Double Well Drinks in a Tall Glass until lOpm fJRegular Happy Hour Ct4.~e Prices untillOpm ~ced Down/Ice Cold Df 'lae Longneck Beer Bar riSeven Gorgeous Male Dancers from all over Texas dance MtJtJH for Your Viewing Pleasure trudes on her fastidiously chaste world, riTwo Giant Video Walls j ust a couple of months after Hollywood Noel bristles. She spends a lot of time dur- J "discovered" lesbians (in a small way) ing the film doing t-his-:-You see, Noel is a in the mainstream film Three of Hearts, a woman with some hangups. As her neu- small independent film about lesbians (in roses chafe against Claire's attitude, it's a big way) has found its way into local hate at first sight. @ theaters. If this timing doesn't seem re- You see where this is headed, don't 01= markable to you, name the last major re- you? lease to prominently feature lesbian char- But before we can get going, we must acters (Basic Instinct doesn't count). fi rst meet the other women at the retreat, J Since, unlike its bigger-budgeted prede- led by Maggie, a dyed-in-the-flannel dyke. ~ cessor, Nicole Conn's Claire of the Moon These others form an assortment of car- £ icatu res: the housewife-as-part-time is an independent effort, directed by a B woman and featuring a mostly female cast, author, the flaming Southern romance one reasonably expects Claire to be more queen, the New Age space cadet, etc. f honest and compelling, right? Serving primarily as (sometimes needed) Well .... comic relief, these other women are neg- The Claire of the title is a writerof some ligible in terms of the plot, played over- sort. The film begins with a flashback to broadly and without much grounding in an earlier heterosexual encounter in which reality. (For instance, the Southern belle Claire (Trisha Todd) packs up her Jaguar addresses individuals as "y'all"). and heads off to a seaside writers' retreat, Meanwhile, back at Cabin Four, things constantly lighting her brown-and-gold are heating up between our heroines. NEVER A COVER cigarettes and looking pensive. She spends Claire balks at Noel's "shrink" tactics. a lot of time during the film doing this. You Noel decides that Claire is a "cheap, see, Claire is a woman with an attitude. If garden-variety slut" for sleeping with men FRIDAY, JULY 16TH the exotic cigarettes don't clue you in to from the bar in town. The remainder of the Madonna's Back up Singer from Her Blond Ambition Tour this, her grand entrance into Cabin Four film proceeds much in the following man- at the retreat makes this clear. ner: Noel and Claire talk as Claire smokes DONNA DE LORY Enter Noel (Karen Trumbo), author, sex decoratively, Noel talks to Maggie about MCA Recording Artist Video and CD Giveaway therapist and mildly butch lesbian. When her problems, the writers talk about sex- CDs given away hourly from lOpm until 2am Claire, assigned as her cabinmate, in- ual semantics, Claire and Noel talk pro- An Endless Music Promotion PAGE 14 TWT JULY 9 - JULY 15 1993 ~ r vocatively over drinks. Note the common i SUPER SUNDAY SHOW thread. These women talk. At length. On .• No Cover till 12 • 25ft Draft a wide variety of subjects. Admittedly, ~ some of the dialogue is clever, but not all, :) and much of the material is, at best, Ill""T! J tangential to the story. After a while, it SATURDAY, JULY 10TH ! becomes all parry and no thrust. The gen- eral feel is that of mildly interesting din- Theme: JUNGLE PARTY featuring ner party conversation. But I'm not sure I'd J shell out six bucks to attend such a din- ~ ner party. 2 UNLIMITED •LIVE « Claire of the Moon basically boils down "Tribal Dance," "Get Ready For This," to one hundred minutes of foreplay. I "Twilight Zone" and more ... with special guest wanted to really like this film, but even its politics left me cold.