Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 6, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press october Page 13 entertainment watch out rambo theres someone in town who May even scare Hes a combination of James Bond witticisms and the Power of a Small this killing machine is unleashed to great effect in an action flick which makes first blood part ii look like a Church the body count in this movie would make a funeral director single Anderly matrix lays waste an entire army of highly trained of he has a Little help from rocket assorted Sharp and an amazing array of machine featured As the indestructible matrix is Arnold bizarre As it commando will make Schwarzenegger a household Little kids will be tripping Over their tongues trying to spit out the name of their new comic Book for without a commando is the Best action packed motion picture to Grace movie screens in a Long it has All the lightning fast pacing of but it also has a droll sense of humor which takes the Edge off some incredibly violent kudos Are definitely in order to Schwarzenegger for transforming his rather sullen screen image to a More lighthearted character you can Call a fellow who shoots people through the head with More ease than you can blink an his Deadpan delivery of silly puns and on liners is when saying goodbye to one of the baddies who has kidnapped his matrix youre a funny Guy i like that Why in going to kill you the screenplay by Stephen de Souza also gives Schwarzenegger plenty of Opportunity to flex his if Hes not ripping phone Booths out of Hes twirling bodies around his de Souza decided to make matrix a Little More human than most action the open ing credits of the film show a playful matrix with his beloved daughter Jenny Alyssa Jenny is kidnapped by a Disen chanted former Comrade of a Bennett Vernon Wells in order to Force matrix to assassinate the president Ofa latin american this propels matrix into action and the adventure and a fair bit of killing a witty Arnold Schwarzenegger takes care of entire army of highly trained bad Arnold takes command Schwarzenegger out Muscles rambo in action flick movies Paul Mckie commando starring add Schwarzen Egger and Rae Dawn produced by Joel screenplay by Steven de directed by Mark classification restricted the stunts in commando Are one particularly sensational stunt has matrix Dis embarking from a moving plane via the Landing this episode quickly blends into the next action the inevitable but thrill ing car Mark letters direct Ion is almost commando rarely lets and when the Audi ence does get a the time is filled in with amusing banter Between matrix and Cindy Rae Dawn Cindy had the misfortune of being in the wrong place at the wrong time and her car is confiscated by As Well As her when Cindy demands to know Why matrix has stolen her car he a Man i trusted for years wants me without a beat Cindy snaps in not Ive Only known you for about 5 minutes and i want you dead with Cindy matrix discovers his daughter is being held on a heavily fortified this sets up the predictable confrontation of matrix versus hundreds of armed the action is furious and when matrix runs out of weapons he resorts to flinging circular saw Blades and at one Point matrix this leads to the final riveting sequence Between Bennett and matrix with the audience perched on the Edge of their commando will be a monster Schwarzenegger presence alone makes it the excruciatingly exciting action guarantees Winnipeg poet tries hand at play writing by Bradley Bird you know him As a poet and the founding president of the Manitoba writers Patrick Friesen has turned his literary skills to playwriting and the transition was a Natu ral one for the 39yearold Winnipeg the direction my poetry has taken has led me to a Point where writing drama was an entirely Natu ral Friesen my writing when it first was published was fairly bar Bones kind of and then it started to mushroom and get a Little bit More dramatic More with the help of Kim artistic director of Prairie theatre and dramaturgy per Friesen has taken his third Book of this and adapted it to the the Story of a Young mennonite the shunning opens thurs Day at 160 Princess Street and continues to pets 12th season of theatre offers four plays on Prairie dont get the notion that the shunning will fill the 172odd seat theatre at flighty shakespearean when people hear that this is a poetic they make a mistake and think this is a script of highly Short metered in the language will be in the vernacular but Friesen the shunning follows a mennonite in search of love and Steps beyond the boundaries of his religious the Pride he has As an individual clashes with the Pride of the mennonite a mennonite who grew up in Steinbach one of his grandfathers was a Farmer near says the Story explores the relationship Between a proud individual and a proud the Story concerns two Brothers living Side by one has doubts about a Basic Church doctrine question of he said there cant be a hell if there is such a thing As a benevolent the Church approaches him and asks him to change his but he Friesen says the topic of disagreement is secondary to the Friesen natural Tangent plays Central theme Pride is the real key to the Story in terms of what happens to he isolates himself from his family and Community by taking and maintain ing his heretical Fri Sens work As a film producer for the Manitoba department of particularly script writ helped him with his playwright ing he wrote the based on the 100page from May to july this Colin executive producer of had approached Friesen in shortly after the was published by Winnipeg turn Stone the seed of the idea took Root but then Lay dormant until Fri Sens books of poetry besides the shunning Are the lands i am Bluebottle and unearthly horses besides writ Friesen runs two Winnipeg Reading series at Mary scorer Book store and at act ii his two act play will open in Al Tona on monday and Steinbach tues after the Winnipeg run it moves to Portage la Prairie 4 and Selkirk Mca balks at warning labels on records los Angeles daily news los Angeles Mca records has became the largest record com Pany to announce it would ref use to put warning labels on records with explicit or controversial Mca records joined get Windham Hill and Tommy boy in taking the Tough stance in response to the efforts of several organizations asking for warning stickers or other restrictions on never will you find a sticker on one of our said Mca presi Dent Irving speaking to re after mayor Tom Bradley press conference denouncing the re cent attacks on the music Ive personally reviewed every rec Ord Mas put out in the last 50 and i Haven found any that were spearheaded by groups the attack on Rock lyrics has been spearheaded by the politically connected parents music resource Cen Ter in As Well As the National both groups have complained about increasingly graphic lyrics of Many Rock n Roll songs and equally graphic visuals from Rock their efforts so far have yielded hearings before a Senate com Mittee in which several senators including Tennessee Democrat jx1 under new management Clare Leckie proprietress lunch to a a dinner 6kx to Calk 9471526 Reserve now for your thanksgiving full course dinner adults children 10 under Choice of traditional prime rib or new York dessert Church ills trifle Fine food in a Beautiful setting 331 Smith Bert whose is one of the founders of the Pyrc spoke out strongly against Rock n in several major record managers and others have formed an anti censor ship group called the musical major headed by Danny president of Gold Mountain records and manager of Miami vice Star Don among its members Are executives from the above mentioned rec Ord Kroc pm program director Ric Carroll and artists such As John Cougar Glenn Daryl Hall and John Andy Taylor of Duran Duran and the intensity of the at tacks has caught the music Industry by with efforts such As band Usa for Africa and live the music Community was expecting a Pat on the Back rather than a Swift British drummer Blackwell says Krupas record broken i designer fashion show luncheons aboard lord Selkirk m presented by cold and vital shopping Centre 8 to 11 to models by Academy of modelling Pally dockside luncheons except i i ital it i Giuili 5822331 dancing and live entertainment nightly comfortable surroundings final month due to cancellation the great Hall is available at Golden Oak inn 862 Regent 2241681 from the news services England British drummer Rory Blackwell has claimed a world record by beating 191 separate Drums in succession in before an audience of at a Holiday said the previous record beating 100 Drums in one minute set by american Gene Krupa at the Detroit motor show in August its All a matter of said who was a drummer for the lord Rockingham band whose hoots Moon became a hit in the British pop charts in soup evolution new York two decades after Andy Warhol helped spawn an Art form with silk screened portraits of a Campbells soup the pop artist and the soup maker joined forces to unveil their latest this is the Best thing since Joan said at the Whitney museum of american Art where he and Campbell served up show bits advertising deadlines for social thank saturdays 12 noon prior to publication weekdays 12 noon 2 prior to publication add one Day if a Holiday intervenes no phone orders for More information Call free press classified seniors eat through october except for thunks Yiying monday october i Altos is offering a special value to senior citizens during the month of monday to i to 9 citizens can cat two or the Price of and adults if come Earl reservations regular service also available ome style meals great service ms6m5 224i6bi con Ikirt two to Ifo lnn240 Wau and a Nykalo pal and water opium his portrait of the Box for the company new line of dry soup its a real evolution for every body for Warhol and for Camp said Leslie a Campbell divorce after 14 years London Mary a 1960s pop sweetheart whose record those were the Days was produced by the beatles Paul Mccartney and sold eight million has been divorced from american record pro Ducer Tony and had been married 14 off Boycott list Denmark Brit ish Singer Cliff Richards has been removed from the in list of artists to be boycotted for performing in South a danish concert tour organizer Arne in charge of the pop stars coming tour of West the Netherlands and said he had worked through South african Church Lead including Bishop Desmond to Clear up what he called misconceptions about Richards attitude toward he said a telex from the in special anti apartheid committee said Richards had been removed from the list on the basis of his pledge not to perform in South Afri Ca again until the apartheid system is Warhol dry soup mix Francois Hertel Dies Montreal Francois pub dramaturgy and former Jesuit has died in Hospital Here after a lengthy the cause of his death was not immediately re author of More than 40 books ranging from philosophy and essays to poems and Hertel is considered to have had a major Impact on Quebec intellectual he taught some of the Cream of Quebec Intelli Gencia and political including former prime minis Ter Pierre Elliott former Quebec intergovernmental affairs minister Jacques Van Morin and Camille the architect of the parti quebecois language Hertel was born Rudolphe Dube in a Small Community on the South Shore of the Lawrence very bad joke Toronto a plastic bag of icing meant to look like cocaine and circulated with the soundtrack album of the hit to show Miami was intended As a joke but its a very says g spokesman for Mca the packages were delivered to fewer than 100 says Tive Vic president Ross and Only to radio programmers and record reviewers in the company is terribly embarrassed and Mca in no Way can be seen to condone this kind of enclosed with the record was a note Reading is asst Here the Pope on Miami vice Reynolds says a local tons representative had the idea and the company went along with ;