MTERTAINMEN grown up as two extremely dif• story is laced with intrigue and because relationships take time ferent people. When they finally suspense that, when executed, to develop, so does the film. The meet again, the sobbing and is nothing less than brilliant. Accidential Tourist is a film screaming is endless. Beaches Both Close and Malkovich de• lover's film in that it has subtle• would have been perfect for a liver powerhouse perfomances, ties rarely seen in today's mov• T.V. movie because of its over• but the performance from Mic- ies. Director Lawrence Kasdan done theme, but for the big hillePfeifTer steals the film. Ms. brings out exquisite perform• screen, it simply doesn't work. Pfiefi-er portrays one of the vic• ances firom William Hurt and WORKING GIRL: This is tims of Close and Malkovich Geena Davis. This film only the brightest, most delightful with carefully orchestrated vul• seves to reassure the fact that film of the season, highlighted nerability that is remarkable. William Hurt is the best actor in by Melanie Griffith's break• ACCIDENTAL TOURIST: films today. Ifyou have patience through performance as Tesa You either love or hate this film and a love for fine filmmaking, McGill, a secretary trying to based on Anne Tyler's novel. The Accidental Tourist is for climb to the top of the corporate William Hurt stars as Macon you. ladder. Along the way she falls Leary, a travel writer who re- Other holiday recommenda- for Harrison Ford and as a team .•ViiJ'.-"-; they work together on a deal. ta However, Tess' boss, portrayed m: X-mas Holdovers: wonderfully by Sigourney "If you have patience and Weaver, is already seeing Ford. Catch Them While All these ingredients add up to a a love for fine filmmaking, AAA- film everyone can eryoy. The 1 They're Hot screenplay by Ken Wade and the direction by Mike Nichols are The Accidental Tourist There was a virtual feast of stars, produces, and sings the first-rate. Look for Alec Baldwin films this past Christmas sea• entire soundtrack for the film. and Joan Cusack in terrific 8Ui>- is for you." son, and I was fortunate enough However, as irresistable as Ms. porting roles. to view most of them, lliia col- Midler is in Beaches, she cant DANGEROUS LIASONS: um n is devoted to those releases save the film fi-om its heavy- Afilm masterpiece from director centlyhaslosthisBon. His wife, tions include Rain Man, Dirty that are still playing 'at a thea• handed melodramjc story. Ms. Stephen Frears set in 18th cen• portrayed by Kathleen Turner, Rotten Scoundrals, and ter near you." Midlerstars along with Barbara tury France, prior to the French can't cope any longer and wants Women on the Verge of a BEACHES: Anyone who is Hershey as two friends who Revolution. Glenn Close and a divorce. Macon finds comfort Nervous Breakdown. This is a Bette Midler fan shouldn't have grown up together through John Malkovich star as people in Muriel Pritchit, a dog trainer, a good time to catch up on these miss this film. It is a self-indul• letters to each other. They met playinga game of seduction with portrayed by Geena Davis. The films before we get aflood of new gent work by Ms. Midler, who on a beach years ago and have the young and innocent. The film is about relationships, and releases once again. Dylan and the Dead Come Alive On Vinyl by Pete Fornatale and makes it obvious he cares about On one hand, Dylan's lauding a Dan Mulvihill what he is saying. The Dead known felon such as Gallo is It is indeed a rare live album sounds terrific backing him up. offensive and reprehensible. which is akAa to capture the Brent Mydland's backup vocals However, the song itself is won• spirit and energy of a concert. also stand out. derfully written and is a true Dylan and The Dead com• The first side closes with test of Dylan's talent that he can bines the liveliness of The "Queen Jane Approximately* make someone as shady as Gallo seem like a hero. Grateful Dead and the brilliance and "I Want You" from the clas• of Bob Dylan. The six show sic mid-sixties Dylan albums. The album climaxes with a summer tour of 1987 was an On these Cracks, The Dead and version of "All Along The Watch- unparalleled event which trans• Dylan mesh particularly well. tower^ that'ssogoodit vergeson lates well onto vinyl. Jerry Garda's lead guitar is frightening. Garda's guitar tight and Brent Mydland's key• w(R-k on this trackisquite possi• The album, as did Irian's set boards add a dimension to the bly the best he's ever done. It's while performing at the Mead- live Dylan sound which has not no wonder that The Dead have Dwlands, opens with 'Slow been achieved since Dylan turned thisintoaconcert staple. Train." This is one of the two toured with The Band in the The album closes with songs on Dylan and The Dead mid-seventies. which originally appeared on "Knockin' on Heaven's Door," the 1981 goepel album Slow The second side opens with This, though a bit long winded, Train Coming. This version of the controversial track from the ^ translates very well onto the rec- "Slow Train" is awe-inspiring. Desire LP, 'Joey.' This is a 10 1 ord. Dylan and The Dead is a Though Dylan's vocals are not minute song romantadzing the 2 solid live album and a worthy exactly like those of Roy Orba- late mobster Joey Gallo and can .1 purchase for all fans of these son, he sings with a passion that be interpreted in different ways. bands. New Voice Arrives on Pop Music Scene By Pete Fornatale Brickell and the New Bohemi• easy to relate to messages and acoustic song that is the twelfth tom Line performances they did As the old saying goes, "You ans developed a strong cult fol• look at them with a twist. The song on the record. Interest• a heralded cover version of the can't judge a book by its cover." lowing. They became espedally result is majestic imagery which ingly enough it is not listed on Led Zeppelin classic "Fool In the By the same token you cannot popular on the campus of Texas' really makes the listener take the outside of the album. "Noth• Rain." Judge an album by its hit single. Southern Methodist University. notice. Much ofthe music on the ing" is a song about trying to get Brickell and her band are Edie Brickell and the New In 1986, the band signed with record is the end result of the an upset friend to open up to you, currently touring the U.S. and Bohemians' Shooting Rub- Geffen Records. After much dif- individual band members Jam• a very human sentiment which there has been some talk that berbands at the Stars is proof ficul ty between the band and the ming with one another. The is easy to relate to. The album they will appear in the New ofthis. Though the album's first record company a debut album band comes together particu• also uses changes in speed and York area again. There has also hit single "What I Am" is repeti• was released last year. As it larly well on songs like The rhythm of the music to enhance been talk of the band doing a tive, overdone, and so catchy stands now the album is number Wheel' and 'Beat the Time." the meaning of the music. This second album. that it's offensive, the rest of the 2 on the Billboard charts. The band is much less promi• is done particularly well on Though the single is over• album is wonderful. The 22 year old Brickell and nent on "Circle," "I Do," and -Now." played and overdone, but don't The New Bohemians were a her band have a unique and "Nothing." All three of these Edie Brickell and the New let this stop you from listeningto band founded in the early 1980s. intriguing style which combines songs are more mellow and fea• Bohemians also have a lot of thia album. Shooting Rubber- They were basically a garage elements of rock, reggae, folk, ture Brickell's wonderful voice interesting material which re• bands at the Stars would be a as band with a small cult following. and Jazz. The band sounds very and lyrics. 'Circle" is a rather mains of yet unrecorded, wonderful album to anyone who Duringa performance at a bar in together and the music mixes depressing yet beautiful song particularly a wonderful acous• is looking for a unique perspec• Texas, a girl named Edie Brick• well with the lyrics, Brickell's which claims 'everything is tic song called Times Like tive at pop music in the late ell joined them on stage. Edie lyrics basically take simple. temporary anyway." "IDo"isan This.' Also at their recent Bot• 1960s. .