22 - Wednesday, uly 18, 1990 - North Shore News

Clay vehicle is simply offensive

The Adventures of Ford
Fairlane * (20th Century Fox)
Rated R (at the Park & Tilford,
West Van, Granville, Oakridge.
Station Sq., Coquitlam aad Clear-
brook cinemas)

HEN THE Black
Plague strikes in
L.A., there’s only
one victim. The on-stage
death of Bobby Black
(Motley Crue’s Vince Neil),

lead singer of the metal
group Black Plague, triggers
a mystery than can be solv-
ed only by Ford Fairlane
(Andrew Dice Clay).

An oid musician partner turned
bad-boy Deejay Johnny Crunch
(Gilbert Gottfreid), hires Mr.
Rock’n‘Roll Detective to locate a
groupie named Zuzu Petals. Since
he’s actually being paid in cash
and not in the gald records or
koala bears that his rock clients
usually fob off on him, Ford takes
the case. His little victory dance
outside the radio station (one of
the very few funny bits) is short
circuited by Johnny’s on-air elec-
trocution.

Weaithy, humorless Colleen
Smith (Priscilla Presley) also hires
Ford to find Zuzu, During the in-

TIM
BELL

film review

vestigation, the rocker is up to his
duck’s tail in corruption, crude
quips, cigarettes and CDs.

But who cares about plot? That's
not what people are coming to
see. The movie is being sold on
the controversial personality of the
Diceman. His stand-up routine of
gay-bashing. women-hating and
general anti-anything-that-ain’t-C
lay viewpoint is reviled by even
other bad-boy comics like Sam
Kinnison.

Here, however, the nastiness
has been watered down con-
siderably. He makes a few jokes-
for-the-john {usually at the ex-
pense of ‘‘bimbos’’), but the hos-
tility is brushed off as a distancing
technique.

That’s right — this posturing P.J.
is really a pussycat. He has pater-
nal feelings for an orphan and he
even admits to his much abused
assistant that he loves her.

Yeah, sure.

But even more offensive is the

Rogers thinks small

From page 21

His latest feat was a miniature
log cabin which he built as a
house-warming gift for a customer
whose friend had just bought a log
cabin.

But most people buy his cre-
ations because they remind them
of the past, he says.

Roger's hobby — he’s adamant
about keeping it a hobby — began
30 years ago when he built his first
dol!’s house for his daughter.

When his wife died 2% years
ago he began making more houses
and antique reproduction furniture
until he ran out of space for it in

his home. That’s when he decided
to start selling it.
On Oct. 20 and 21 he'll be
displaying his wee work at the Na-
tional Porcelain Doll Show at the
Richmond Inn.

Although his mini-creations are
commundin, wore and more at-

. tention, Rogers is determined to

keep his world a smalf one.

“1 don’t want to get to the
point where I'm mass-producing
it,” he says, “I take great pride in
what I do and I do it with feeling. |
just want to fill in my time, take
my time, and enjoy doing it.”

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Most names are chosen because
the parents like the sound of the
frame, not realizing that it creates
one's degree of intelligence, per-
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LINDA e
RYAN °¢

LEE
STEVEN

if DAVID is mostly called DAVE he
will show some different qualities —
being much more versatile and
quick-minded although some of the
legal name qualities would still
prevait.

One is affected by every nickname
and the surname used so a more
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Jerry Lewis Syndrome. You know,
where a comedian thinks he can
sing. Sam Kinnison ground out
Wid Thing on MIV, Oppourtunity
Knocks’ Dana Carvey tamed Born
to be Wad and now Clay has a
bash atl Ain’? Got You.

What we've got here is an Edsel
called Ford Fairlane.
Scaramouche *** ¥%2 (MGM/UA
Home Video, Criterion Laser-
disc) Unrated

Don’t fet the title scare you off.
There are no subtitles. It's made in
the USA.

Stewart Granger stars ina lavish,
witty swashbuckler set on the eve
of the French Revolution. A
cynical rogue is travelling to meet
his anstocratic father for the first
ume when he talls base over apex
for Janet Leigh. A Freudian
nightmare is narrowly avened
when he discovers she is his sister,
As if that wasn’t enough, the oily.
but lethal blade, Count de Main
(Mel Ferrer) fillets Granger's best
friend in a duel.

The inevitable grudge match 15
the best sword fight captured on

tm, lasting st. and a halt minutes
and entirely without music.
NORTH SHORE VIEWS
West Van Odeon: Die Hard 2,
Ghost Dad, Ford Fairlane, Back to
the Future 1H.
Park Royal: Days of Thunder,
lungie Book, Dick Tracy.
Park & Tilford: Ford Fairlane,
Back to the Future Hl, Die Hard 2,
Ghost Dad, Jetsons, Robocop 2,
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Showtime Hotlines: Famous
Players 681-4255, Cineplex Odeon
687-1515.

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