28 — Wednesday, January 22, 1992 - North Shore News

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Prince of Tides

Nick Nolte’s performance key to
Streisand’s bittersweet romance

The Prince of Tides * x ¥2
(Columbia) Rated 14 years (at
the Park & Tilford, Granville,
Oakridge, Coquitlam, Richport,
Scott, Station Square and
Clearbook cinemas)

Tides isn’t a soap opera
— it would have been
the perfect title.

[ T’S TOO bad Prince of

Tim Bell

’ (FILM REVIEW

Director/star Garbra Streisand
doesn’t avoid the suds entirely in
bringing Pat Conroy’s bestseller to
the screen. But her work behind
the camera is more impressive
than in front. (Not that she’s bad,
it’s just that the glamor and

. Charisma that makes her a star
dwarfs her attempts to play a pro-
fession as “mundane” as
psychiatry.)

However, she’s not the focus of
the story. Nick Nolte gets the
meaty lead as Tom Wingo, an
out-of-work teacher whose mar-
riage is collapsing.

Since his brother’s death, some-.

. thing i is gnawing at him. He can’t
pin it down, but whatever it is, it’s
keeping Tom emotionally distant

‘from his family.

. His twin sister, the successful
New York poet, Savannah (Melia-
da Dillon} is even more disturbed.
Her latest suicide attempt has
driven her psychiatrist, Dr. Susan
Lowenstein (Streisand), to enlist

Tom's help in finding put what is
causing Savannah io self-destruct.

In the process, he learns his
problems with his wife (Blythe
Danner}, mother (Kate Nelligan)
and father (Brad Sullivan) stem
from his childhood.

But they aren't the only ones
suffering. Susan’s husband, a
snobbish concert viclinist Jeroen
Krabbe) is emotionally cruel and
unfaithful. Her son (real-life son
Jason Gould in an impressive
debut) is the usual teen with an at-
titude.

Well, you can see it’s an ocean
of persona! angst out there, and
Tom is the Prince of Tides. (I think
that's the point of the title, al-
though these literary allusions re-
main more than a little vague.)

Primarily though, this is a slick
and sentimental love story be-
tween Streisand and gravel-toned
Nolte who offers one of his best
performances as her temperamen-
tal opposite. He gets the best com-
ic zingers and has a funny running
gag trying to find a place to puff in
a non-smoking environment.

Prince of Tides isn’t a snake pit
of despair — it’s a romance; bit-
tersweet and pure Hollywood.
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The 17 extra minutes clarifies

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Scots dinner celebrates Burns

THE SEAFORTH CAMP of the Sons
of Scotland are holding a supper
and dance on Saturday, jan. 25 at
6 p.m. to celebrate the birth of
Robert Burns, Scotland’s immortal
bard.

Organizers say there will be
traditional Scottish festivities as
well as the “Great Chieftain O°
the Puddin’ race,’’ which is
designed to delight naggis lovers in
particular.

Included in the celebration will
be toasts, speeches, songs, piping,
highland dancing and entertain-
ment by the Pacers, featuring
singer Rob Stuart.

The event begins at 6 p.m. on
Saturday, Jan. 25 at the Coach
House, 700 Old Lillooet Rd. in
North Vancouver. Tickets cost
$30.

For more information call’ 929-
4840 or 929-1080.

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Photo submitted
NICK NOLTE (2s Tom Wingo) in a scene from The Prince of Tides with Canadian actress Kate |
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