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é ^ T ? * inside: The Brat 'The Hunger 'Valley Girl ' Sparks Heaven 17 2A Thursday, May 5,1963 Daily Nexus Lighthearted Romp Through the Valley 'The Hunger' By JOHN KRIST brains) saunters up to Julie, who gives him the bad news. Shakespeare would, like, be totally grossed out. “ Like, I’m just totally not in love with you anymore.” A Visual Feast Although the beginning of the film is somewhat less than Then again, if he had lived and written in Los Angeles, By JONATHAN ALBURGER auspicious, things pick up a bit when Randy (Nicolas Cage) perhaps he would have cast a punker from “ Hollywierd” If a film can be voluptuous, then The Hunger is a sexy enters the scene. Dragged to a party by his best friend, who and a princess from the San Fernando Valley in the roles of visual feast. It is a glossy, campy, high-chic movie Romeo and Juliet. Either way, the Bard’s timeless story of overheard the address while at the beach, he puts on his fashioned around gorgeous star personalities, tauntingly adolescent love has found new expression in the unlikely best evening dress and crashes the party. tailored and voguely coiffed, who vamp through scene after The two of them are greeted by a strange sight — a form of Valley Girl, a genuinely funny and lighthearted scene with all the cliche affectations you would associate milling crowd of valley clones drinking soft drinks, dancing romantic romp through the Southern California subculture. with their names. Julie (Deborah Foreman) is an angel with a charge gingerly lest they muss their hair, and eating sushi. Randy, Have you ever wondered what substance there might be account and a numbing dialect composed primarily of with his stiff, upright, orange-brown hair and grungy underneath the sumptuous French blonde whose heavily sentence fragments and meaningless superlatives. When clothes with leather accessories is, needless to say, as out of accented, breathy voice tells American women to wear the film opens, she and three of her friends are merrily place as a slam dancer in a ballet production. However, Chanel No. 5? Or have you been an admirer of the ringing up an astronomical bill at a local shopping mall. As when his eyes meet Julie’s it’s love at first sight, and the they gaily trip down the escalator, Julie’s boyfriend rest of the story is rather predictable. Julie’s friends put the Tommy, a bitchin’ val dude with an awesome bod (but no pressure on, trying to coerce her into going back to Tommy, Randy attempts to woo her back to his side of the street, and true love eventually triumphs. It isn’t the story that makes this a fun film; it’s the way it is presented. The minds behind this gentle satire (writers Andrew Lane and Wayne Crawford, and director Martha Coolidge) have maintained a delicate balance by simply setting up the hilarious contrast between two lifestyles and letting absurdity run free without trying to manipulate situations for maximum silliness. They poke fun without malice, and explore the shallowness of SoCal chic without exploiting it Cage is excellent as the love-smitten kid from the wrong Deneuve and Bowie side of the hill. His puppy-dog face and honesty make him eminently mysterious, unknowable David Bowie, whose an appealing figure, and his maneuvers as he tries to progressive musical talents, steely glances, offbeat capture Julie’s heart are funny in their innocent sincerity. mannerisms and androgenous appearance have made him Foreman is also successful in portraying a girl who is only a pop culture icon for the last decade? Or have you been marginally less (»rainless than her friends, but who is taken in by the natural spunk and sexiness of Susan redeemed by her attraction to someone who seems to have Sarandon, whose career has catapulted from the early days all the earthiness and willingness to experience life that the of Joe and Rocky Horror Picture Show to Louis Malle’s vals lack. She is cute and silly, but one gets the impression Atlantic City for which she earned her first Academy that behind that inarticulate facade beats the heart of a real Award nomination? And, if you are like me, are you human being trying to come to grips with a screwy world. fascinated by the gothic folklore surrounding the vampire Although it might be a bit too much to expect a measage cum Count Dracula legend? in a lightweight film like Valley Girl, it does convey the Well, The Hunger may very well be an irresistable notion that the various subcultures to be found in Southern temptation, because it not only has frosty-beauty Catherine California are just different ways of generations at Deneuve, Bowie and Sarandon, but it interweaves these tempting to express identities different from those which three international actors into a yarn about modern proceeded them. Trite, fer sure, but true. Julie’s parents madness and ancient mythology. Like Bram Stoker’s 1897 are refugees from the ’60s who run a health food store — gothic novel Dracula, Tony Scott’s film is laden with late watching dad macrame while his daughter tells him about bedtime reading qualities: it is repleat with elegant (Please turn to pg.6A, col.6) (Please turn to pg.3A, col.l) Successful Adaptation of Pinter By KATHERINE D. unique to the English reveals itself continually; say — even worse is that ■ ZIMBERT playwright, Betrayal is in no each layer of lies is stripped they are perfectly aware B etrayal, the latest means simplistic, although it away to reveal yet another that they are not being theatrical output by is far more accessible and cloak of deception — it is honest with each other. renowned playwright Harold straightforward than most of reminiscent of a Russian “ What is it that you are Pinter, has recently been Pinter’s works. The doll. trying to say by saying adapted into a film, directed storyline is deceptively easy Pinter’s dialogue works that?” Emma asks Jerry by David Jones with the to follow: a man finds out much the same way; during the breakup scene, screenplay by Pinter. The that his wife and best friend nowhere in the course of the admitting just by the asking movie, which stars Ben have been having an affair film do the characters ac that they are not really Kingsley, Patricia Hodge for seven years, or the other tually talk to one another as communicating. and Jeremy Irons, is a man discovers that his much as they talk at one In Betrayal, the Pinter succesful conversion of lover’s husband has known another; somehow they pause serves as the means stage material into film about their affair for three manage to understand each for the characters to medium. The screenplay is years, or a wife finds out that other nonetheless. When the acknowledge and feel their basically the same as the her husband has been having lovers Jerry (Irons) and hidden thoughts and original script with a few multiple affairs for 10 years, Emma (Hodge) decide to emotions. Despite their cool deletions and added scenes; but all of this is revealed to break up, they never really dialogue, Emma and Jerry the action progresses much them after the fact. admit that that is what they become increasingly the same way as it does in Clearly one betrayal is not are doing; instead they distressed thoughout the the stage play — generally enough, and the title applies discuss what they are going breakup scene. The film backwards in time from 1977 as much to the state of to do with the flat they have medium brings even more to 1968. betrayal as it does to the one been renting and how to go attention to the pauses Complete with the ever instance that at first appears about dividing up the con because the camera focuses famous “ Pinter pause,” and to be the main plot. As Pinter tents. on the person initiating the a dialogue style that is would have it, betrayal What is so fascinating and pause; Jerry speaks; Emma so disturbing about this film looks at him; pause; she f the is what the characters do not (Please turn to pg.7A, col.l) sauta JL linrliniu VERONICA JOCHUM a i M I E S L * Pianist Any time's a wild time when you add the A non profit organization great taste o f Two Fingers...and this wild Two Fingers T-shirt! 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