Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 26, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press july 1987 Page 15 entertainment film explores worst of writer Jack Kerouac he seems an unlikely subject for a film tribute a bloated drunk on National slurring his words and insulting but behind the bleary eyes there is once in a while these feelings their Way through the alcoholic Haze and Are an incongruous burst of eloquence from a pathetic the year is the to show is William buckles firing the embarrassing drunk is Jack the movie in which this is seen is what happened to a fit Ting question for fans of this beat generation unlike most film makers Richard Lerner and Lewis Macadams hold Back their rever ence for Kerouac and show the Man at his Best and at his its the worst we see from the outset with Kerouac appearance with Buckley in we hear from Kerouac Only daughter Jan who describes her father sitting stupefied in front of the be verly a bottle of whisky making regular trips to his could this be the same Man who captured the sights and sounds of the beat generation the Man who became a notorious literary figure beginning with on the Road gentle Man whose Spon movies Paul Mckie what happened to Kerouac produced by Richard directed by Richard Lerner and Lewis classification parental Cinema Vaneous prose rolled Forth like poetry As Lerner and Macadams Kerouac was All these rather than offering elaborate explanations about what did they give us from those who knew him there is Allen Ginsberg talking about How he met Kerouac and his Mother and watched in be mused silence As Mother and son got drunk together and called each other disgusting this strange behaviour is contrasted with Kerouac deep religious his staunch roman catholicism haunted him to the Point that near the end he admitted he commit suicide because he was a Catholic but he could drink himself to behind the tragedy lies his a and the literary acclaim that has come to him the film is full of wonderfully bizarre moments Docu menting a life that found the pulse of the postwar theres Kerouac appearance on the Steve Allen show in with Allen struggling to get anything resembling a straight answer omit of the yet the awkwardness dissolves when Kerouac reads from on the his voice suddenly the words tumbling out or William Burroughs talking about How much Kerouac influenced even coming up with the title for Burroughs the naked Kerouac first wife admit Ting that the biggest mistake of her life was leaving the Grea kindest Man she Ever adding to the atmosphere is late 40s footage of new used in conjunction with interviews of peo ple remembering in Routi the collage of and memories comes a portrait of a Man who developed a distinctive writing yet turned to drink because he had done All he a Man who wrote of a Independent but who lived with his Mother much of the the film avoids but through its honesty achieves a poignancy and insight perfectly suited to the helter shelter life of Jack movie characters revive memories of writer Kerouac who met a pathetic daily prizes of two tickets to the Lavatts super Challenge Boris Becker Kevin Curren and Philips tandem dual cassette from Advance electronics grand prize four tickets in the Box to the August 6th Lavatts super Challenge dinner for four at the Westin hotel limousine service Complete Philips video Home entertainment Centre from Advance electronics mini by idol Ilist of to of Lief place your entry form in the draw Box in the lobby of the Winnipeg free or at either Advance electronics 309 or 1300 Portage Lilit will Siul tie and Rojy hit us in i in i r jail j tandem ail t in Tufi Mill tit1 ill a my f ii to in Iii m v i p Jav t ii l tur entry form Nam address postal code a photo Sheedy was taught to rely on her not Good Sheedy shuns typical Hollywood Star image by Roderick Mann entertainment news service at age ally the fresh faced actress of War games and elmos already shows signs of not being or wanting to be your typical Hollywood last month she was featured extensively in the vegetarian and this month she has written a very personal article in the vegetarian times Story comes As no Surprise from the age of ally Sheedy has turned her Back on but nuts and fruits and but is that something confused heres part of what Shes written in a remarkably Frank article about her Mother now a successful literary agent in manhat Tan the late 60s she began doing strange things getting arrested for lying Down in the Street in to protest the War using our Kitchen to Cook up perfume that her women liberation group sold on campuses to fund itself showing up at the Paris opera in overalls and hiking boots tearing up and Down Broadway on her Bicy Cle writes Sheedy i to say the what had prompted the article Ive written for said Sheedy the other my first piece in a1s was published when i was about the same time 1 wrote that childrens Book Shi was Nice to 1 love to now 1 started a had her Mother known about the article not till she read she Felt it a bit she said dont do that so j but she such a Strong role Model for me when 1 was growing up i thought it was role Model she a Radical she forbade Sheedy to use makeup or Wear a Bra when she was growing her View was i try to get by on my looks i must develop my in grateful to her for but it meant i had no idea of even How to apply 1 wore it for of but never in so six months ago i got a Friend who does makeup to give me really because its time i began to look my without makeup and dressed casually i look and that help get the kind of roles i Sheedy has just finished a maid to opening july in which she plays someone around her own age Ive often lost roles because i looked too she flew to new York a few Days ago to audition for a movie and lost it because of her Youthful it was a sophisticated part so 1 Cut a picture out of a woman Magazine that showed a woman sit Ting at a bar with her legs looking the epitome of sophistical i thought ill look like but of course As soon As 1 opened my Mouth 1 was spoiled daughter in maid to directed by Amy Jones and also starring Beverly Tom Valerie Dick Shawn and Michael Sheedy plays the spoiled daughter of a Beverly Hills tycoon who spends her Days aim Lessly shopping and enter her fairy who changes removes her memory of family and wealth and says fend for she becomes a and of eventually finds her True its a Cinderella Story in re said great personally id always thought my fairy godmother would be a Glamor Ous creature in a White Ball in the movie Shes a bum who smokes like lob we Els Ilmis Syndicate ;