26 - Wednesday, October 3, 1990 - North Shore News

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MEWS photo Mike Wakefield

RENOWNED WILDLIFE artist Christine Marshall discusses art with Collingwood School students
Terilyn Bisset (left) and Kim Douglas. The artist was in town last week to donate one of her
Paintings to the school as a fundraiser.

Vodka-soaked film a little dry

Texasville ** (Columbia) Rated
Mature (at the Park & Tilford,
Granville. Station Square and Co-
quitlam cinemas)

VER WONDER what

happens to certain

characters after the
curtain falls? In the case of
The Last Picture Show,
director Peter Bogdanovich
fills us in. Picking up 33
years later, the middle-aged
characters are lumbered

with Texas-size mid-life
crises.

TIM
BELL

film review

Duane Jackson {(leff Bridges)
now runs an off business that’s $12
million in debt. Both he and his
wife, Karla (Annie Potts), have had
affairs and his children are pro-
miscuous, jail-bound hellions.

The myriad of supporting char-
acters in this vodka-soaked town
have similar disaster riddled lives,
facing everything from unwanted
pregnancies to insanity.

Proving misery loves company,
the former homecoming queen,
Jacy Farrow (Cybill Shepherd)
returns to her old stomping,
grounds to lick her wounds. Both
her marriage and son have died.
Duane’s old feelings for his high
school sweetheart are stoked by
Jacy’s flirting, but he resents her
friendship with Karla.

Seemingly endless characters
pop up fora cheap laugh or to wr-
ing tears from their pitiable condi-
tion. The trouble is that there are
no three dimensianal figures ex-
cept for Karla, Duane and Jacy.
The women are busty drunks and
the men are weak, gun-toting

+, The numerous subplots

~ cuntrived and just add contu-
sion toan overlong film.

That said. Bridges and Potts arc
excellent and it’s laudable to see a
film risk relying on Characters in-
stead of explosians to entertain,
Dona Flor and Her Two Hus-
bands **% (Fox Lorimar Home
Video) Rated R

This saucy romp follows Dona
Flor (Sonia Bragga) losing her first
no-good husband to drink, gambl-
ing and prostitutes, But she starts
to miss his charismatic energy
when she marries a conventional,
dull pharmacist for-security.

Order Your

Fortunately, her first husband
returns from the grave to satisfy
her devilish desires.

Considered pretty hot for 1977,
this Brazilian film has a couple of
brief erotic scenes, but on the

See Film Page 31

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