C2 - Friday, December 7, 1984 - North Shore News

MISS MANNERS SUGGESTS

Separating business and friendship

EAR MISS MANNERS:

When I returned to my hometown from

school several years ago, an acquaintance
introduced me to a salesperson at a local clothing
store for men. This woman gave me several years of
excellent service, even holding back items for me
until they officially went on sale.

In the meantime, | have
developed a very good friend-
ship and close political ties
with a gentleman who also
works at the same store.

My problem is that both
people work on commission,
and | am unsure about the
proper thing to do. The man
is my friend and ally, and tru-
ly needs my business. The
woman is wealthy and does
not need it, but obviously
feels | owe her my loyalty
based on her prior service. |
tend to agree, but feel badly
for not giving business to the
man.

‘Passion’ takes no prisoners

Above all, | wish to offend
neither party. Whar should |
do? While there are rules of
etiquette on this point for
realtors and lawyers, I am
unsure as to how one handles
this kind of thing in other
professions.

GENTLE READER: You
have confused two sets of
obligations here, one for the
business world and one for
the personal.

If you keep doing this, you
will get into deeper and
deeper trouble, with both
those who provide you with
services and those who are

VERYONE seems to be the victim in Crimes
of Passion, victims of their own attempts to
come to terms with emotional and physical

love.
Set in the seedy side of
town, where hookers strut

the streets and tred-looking
men come to watch sleepy-
eyed strippers, Crimes of
Passion centres around
China Blue and the tricks
(customers) in her hfe.

The storyline ts not new.
Prostitution makes prisoners
out of both men and women
says the plot over and over
again. Marned couphes are
not always honest with one
another and everyone has dif-
ferent needs in love While
there’s nothing earth
shattering about all this, the
steamy performance by
Kathleen Turner as the part.
time prostitute China Blue
adds a gulsy glitter to the
film

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By COLIN LAMONT

While you may not believe
that a successful fashion
designer by day puts down
her pen to walk the streets by
night, Turner rivets your at-
tention on China Blue. Don-
ning a blond wig and short
skirt, she plays her own fan-
tasies of love while acting out
the fears and fantasies of her
male customers. “‘You can
have any truth you want,”’
exclaims the sensual street
walker to a back street
preacher out to save her soul
Anything you want for $50

But reality soon rears its
ugly head for China Blue as

the preacher (Anthony
Perkins) curns from his bible
to violence as the tool for

your friends. What would
happen if you cut off the
salesperson who had given
you good service, in favor of
your friend, who then did the
job badly, lovable as he may
be in private life?

Miss Manners strongly ad-
vises you to learn to separate
these realms.

Loyalty to a friend means
sticking by him, through ups
and downs, forgiving lapses
or errors of judgment. When
you can no longer do that
wholeheartedly, tolerating
the bad with the good, the
friendship is in danger.

Loyalty to a_ business-
person, however, means
rewarding good service. You
would be within the realm of
good business manners to
withdraw your patronage
from this woman were you
dissatisifed with the service
(regardless of whether other

saving her soul. Perkins 1s
full of hetl-fire and brimstone
as he pursues the _ hapless
hooker from her night-life
back into her day life as
Joanna, the fashion designer.
Crying out for help himself,
Perkins decides the only way
to save the wayward girl 1s to
destroy her.

Both Perkins and Turner
fill the sexual scenes with
searing-hot talent. The street
preacher is fascinated with
hookers and sex, but con-
siders himself a saviour,
haunted by sin. China Blue
slowly realizes that her pain
ful games of passion are hur
ting her and decides to take a
chance on loving one of her
own customers

The mounting emotion
that brings all the pame
playing to an end in Crimes
of Passion snaps
back into reality

Turner and

everyone

Perkins are

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troubles made it difficult for
her to perform well, as you
would have to consider in the

when you pdtronize the store
and then excuse yourself to
make your purchases, ex-

plaining that this colleague
has always been your sales-
clerk.

‘Miss Manners

case of a friend).
withdraw it
who has made special and
successful efforts to please
you as a customer is, in
business terms, rude.

But to
from someone

Personal circumstances
have nothing to do with it.

Miss Manners advises you
to greet your friend heartily,

well paired in this film. From
beginning to end it is their ac-
ting that saves the story from
running low on plot and thin
on emotion.

Opposites by nature, their
characters fight for control
of their own lives and those Dec. 8th
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