Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 29, 1989, Winnipeg, Manitoba Entertainment Winnipeg free press october 1989 Page 18 Chuck features editor Slasher film sinks to new Depths shocker sickening and stupid you can say a lot of Nasty things about Wes Cravens but vile is the word that comes to mind right this sickening and stupid Slasher flick at the Garrick and Kings about a mass murderer who Doest quite die in the electric chair reaches new lows even for the Slasher the movie is distasteful and blindly even the preview audience of Slasher fanatics began hissing and groaning at the idiotic plot this awful Assembly of cheap horror cliches is brought to us Courtesy of the Man behind Nightmare on Elm no rights it that Fame is All Craven received for his creation since he didst retain rights to Freddy All of which explains the creation of Horace Pinker played with Savage Slasher movie gusto by the famous Mitch a Pale imitation of Pinker is a mindlessly brutal killer who gains an afterlife by combining Black electricity and the Power of the average to even though Pinker is exterminated at movies end did i give it you just know Craven is hoping for a return visit so he can get a return on his the rationale for the idiotic meanderings of the screenplay seems to be to pad out the movie to get us to the last 20 Here we get to see some Nice special effects work involving Pinker and his ability to live inside tvs and to unintentional comedy of by the time we get to these excellent Craven who wrote and directed has destroyed All credibility and turned his horror movie into an unintentional the goofy last part of the film in no Way bears any resemblance to the senselessly violent shocker must set some sort of record for the number of horrific deaths in 10 Pinker dispatches a few families and four policeman just to set the Story of course he uses one of those knives with a 12inch ragged Blade just to make us squirm in our Berg and Murphy discover a grisly sight in shocker even Slasher fanatics were hissing at the movies Paul Mckie the Hook to this terrible tale is that Young Jonathan Parker Peter Berg somehow dreams about Pinker and his murderous ways before they this Doest Stop Pinker from killing jonathans Foster but it helps Foster dad Michael Murphy track Pinker so How does the kid dream these things Hes a Foster kid who was found badly beaten when he was seven you dont suppose he could be the son just about everything you might suppose does especially after Pinker Fries in the electric chair and comes Back through wires and even inserts himself into other Peoples the Low Point has to be when Pinker takes Over a Little girls body and she swears and tries to Knock off our hero if the blood flow Doest turn you the script inanities surely at one Point Jonathan wades into a Lake to find a necklace that will Ward off a Friend tries to Stop but Jonathan insists on looking for five seconds later Jonathan says its stupid to go looking for the necklace and lumbers out of the but the big Groaner conies after jonathans Girlfriend Alison Cami Cooper is brutally with her blood smeared All Over jonathans House like a kindergarten class having a fingerprinting later on when Pinker is about to perform the cuisinart manoeuvre on up pops the ghostly Alison doing her Good Witch of the North impersonation to save poor the bizarre combination of bad Slasher elements and dumb writing make this difficult viewing even for fans who Lap up special and dont get too close to any of the because they All shocker is one current release that deserves to have its plug hysterical fans pushed Liszt from spotlight at Peak of his Fame critic coined term Liszt mania author Alan Walker is completing a biography of by Rod Curie the Canadian press Why would the great pianist Franz for two decades the undisputed virtuoso superstar of 19thcentury suddenly toss it All in and retire from the concert stage at the Peak of his Fame in a Berlin critic coined the term Liszt it was More like mass Hys the beatlemania of the Liszt was in demand cultured ladies swooned in his pres ence some collected his Cigar Butts and his Coffee Dregs As there was an endless Supply of medals and a time of hobnobbing with and the Money was Al though Liszt was generous to a donating to helping Strug gling Young musicians and enter Taining friends but at 36 Liszt left the spotlight for the culturally vibrant German Duke Dom of a Petty principality where he created and composed some of his most significant the Cost of outrageous Fame had been too author Alan Walker explains in Franz Liszt the Wei mar years the second of his grandly evocative three volume Liszt lists physical and emotional re sources were sapped by an increasingly demanding by tortuous travel and by the tangled mess of his personal affairs an angry former their three children and another woman in his life who was irrevocably bound in an unhappy in the same Way that a British born professor of music at Mcmaster University in traced lists exotic Early life in the first volume the virtuoso years 18111847 he now focuses on lists 13 years in compos organizing operas and staging major All this was in tandem with grand Duke Carl Alexander of who brutally exploited Liszt and whose aim was to turn his principality into another Athens of Liszt was poorly paid he called it my Cigar Money and was sometimes called upon to Wear silly uniforms when he performed on state often he was treated like an employee rather than a but this was a time and place that Liszt often found quite satisfactory when he did some of his most inspired befriended and assisted such musical talents As Hec Tor Berlioz and Richard and opened his House to famous travel lers like George Eliot and Hans Christian As in the first Walker has Woven an enchanting account of lists liberally sprinkled with gossipy the Book also captures the social and political scenes of the Day and the hungarian born pianists involvement with and rivals and it took Walker 10 years to com plete the first volume of the biography and another six for the the third and final volume is scheduled for scripted or and formal disasters succeeds by Randal Millroy this was not Only consistently Worth watching but consistently cheering formal disasters was strictly a on shot sad to but theatre x mounts shows fairly and youd be a Mug to miss the next the local company is adding prearranged material to its usual be called tradition Al last nights show featured Only two open ended amidst a variety of scripted on that might be bad news for those whole thrilled to watching Robert Steve Mclntyre and their associates take the wildest chances with reflexes and innate in the mix Drew the Best of both the planned and the review formal theatre Gas station free and the capacity crowd applauded both that theatre x takes and not All of them but the bravery has substance behind and is beginning to having some prepared material at hand is a Good investment if Noth ing it could save the company on a night when the improvisational magic int having this much material dozen almost As Many writers could have been an throwing so much wit against the Wall to see what would but it was enter Taining without for All its too soon to predict the Best As the three instant compositions produced the pro Grams most Brilliant and also the Heartiest in the first Mclntyre and Kyle Mcculloch worked on the spot with a few Bare concepts provided by the individual contributions of automobile Acci dents and Zsa Zsa Gabor seeded a wickedly funny soap opera that Fea tured a wonderfully overt top turn by Mcculloch As everyone favorite tarnished plus some singular notions about a second free passage centred on trolls and with the install Able Slade at his vocal and physical Best which is very Good the third was a kind of tag team with turns taken not Only by the aforementioned three but by other members of this uncharacteristically Large cast Darrell Wayne Stewart car Brian Sheldon Michael Ron Tannis Tauni Robert Cathy Ellen Peterson and Lora of the scripted Only a few used the entire Mclntyre Billy Bob Ali suffered some Early show but made some Good Points about cultural Oliver written by Jenkins and Coral savaged child abuse in a Newfoundland orphanage to the tune of the and did it with wit rather than sensationalist the other musical numbers were but there was trenchant musical commentary from Nesaty at the Hay ing provided so Many splendid scores on tape for Childress it was Nice to see her live for the Shorter sketches said a lot for individual and team Effort in both the performing and the Mccullohs absurdist natural woman came to life through the chemistry of comfortable partners Gottli and Petersons via which she performed with Carmi Chael was a Sharp but gentle lament for the Fate of train travel in this what a parcel of rogues support sexism offends new Host show bits from the news services new York a Deborah the successor to abcs today cohost Jane says Shes relieved the uproar Over the show appears to be but Shes also offended it started in the first a skit on abcs saturday night live last week compared the Situa Tion at the show to All about the movie about a Young actress schem ing to oust an aging theatre played by Bette its pure and said who joined Abc news in january Pauley leaves the program at years but her contract at Abc extends through Model weds Goodman new Orleans a actor John the Blu Collar Hus band on the hit sitcom has a real life Bride Annabeth the couple were wed Friday night at a Church on fashionable Charles a Fleet of Limo one of them containing to series costar Roseanne queued up for the and were introduced two years Baryshnikov worried new York a Mikhail who resigned recently As artistic director of the american Ballet is beginning to feel Gravity tug on his 41yearold i worry a lot about the Baryshnikov told life for the Maga Zines november when will i dance my last Ballet maybe i already i still can dance parts much better than a lot of but i set a Standard for and once i Stop reaching that i cant i wont myself to do he remains his orthopaedic surgeon William Hamilton said Baryshnikov May be in the Best shape of any 41yearold person in the Highway hits Road a the country music group Highway 101 is denying reports of a saying concert dates for 1990 Are being including a tour of Europe in published reports two weeks ago said the four were breaking up be cause Singer Paulette Carlson was planning a Solo along with the rest of the is heavily committed to Highway 101 and their priorities for the coming Sarah a spokesman for the said this Gabor shouts insults new York route rap actress Zsa Zsa under sentence of three Days in jail for slapping a gave a Star performance this hijacking a television talk comparing herself to Mother Teresa and shouting insults and obscenities at her she exchanged insults with a blonde actress in the audience who dared to suggest that she gave blondes a bad name and that the Public was fed up with you Are a goddamned she told critical actress Madonna Chris Tian As television bleeped out the she you will never make it with the i know women like you Are so Beautiful but you Are 20 pairs of tickets to be won on november Bill Cosby in person in concept at Tho Arena november 11th turn to the classified pages for details and entry ;