36 - Wednesday, November 2, 1988 - North Shore News

film

NO LAUGHING
MATTER...

Punch Line *% (Columbia)
Rated 14 years (at the Granville,
Oakridge, West Van, Westminster
and Clearbrook Cinemas)

DID YOU hear the one
about the moonlighting
suburban housewife?

Sally Fietds plays Lila and she’s
sneaking off at night to a comedy
club called the Gas Station. And
ihere, in front of a room full of
strangers, she tells some of the
lamest jokes you ever heard about
her sex life with her Polish hus-
band.

And the rest of the comedians
aren’t much better. Except for hot
young comic, Steve Gold (Tom
Hanks). Trouble is, Steve iz only
funny on stage. The rest of the
time, he’s a hostile, self-centred
bozo. But to be fair, he is under a
lot of pressure dodging his father
who thinks he’s still attending
medical school.

Lila decides to overlook Steve's
emotional shortcomings when he
teaches her how to be funny. She
drops the single entendres, learns
how to work a crowd and — ta da
— she’s a big hit.

Except at home, that is. Her
stiff-necked husband doesn’t see
anything funny in subsisting on
boil-in-the-bag meals after a hard
day in the insurance jungle. He
wants her to quit chasing the
spotlight and get back to running
barefoot through the kitchen. But
even seeing her family go without
three squares a day doesn’t make
her give up her dream.

The story up to this point isn’t
exactly mint fresh but it does offer
some laughs. Hanks performing
for some hospital patients and
Fields frantically dressing and get-
ting dinner ready in about 90 se-
conds are two scenes that score.

Then ... Steve falls in love with

N. Yan poet is

contest finalist

LIKE MOST people who enter
contests, Dale Zieroth did noi
expect to win.

But he did, and his poem The
Death of the Violin was selected
as one of six finalists in the
Canada Poetry Contest sponsored
by the Canada india Village Aid.

Chosen from more than 3,060
entries submitted from across
Canada, Zieroth’s poem por-
trayed a real-life situation — his
daughter struggling to learn the
violin.

“| was surprised and pleased
when ! heard | was selected as a
finalist,’’ said Zieroth, a creative
writing and English teacher at
Douglas College. ‘‘One enters
these things, but doesn’t ever ex-
pect to win.

“Being selected sixth out of
3,200 isn’t too bad at all.”

Loca! poetry lovers can sample
the finalists’ poetry fare — in-
cluding that of winner John Pass
of Madeira Park on the Sunshine
Coast — in the October issue of
the magazine Books in Canada
and later in the upcoming an-
thology.

For Zieroth, the contest is not
the first publication for his work
— he has already published three
books of poetry, the most recent
of which is When Stones Fly Up.

Through the contest’s $5 entry
fee, the Vancouver-based
organization raised approximately
$15,000 to use for dams and wells
in drought-stricken Indian
villages.

tare

- Excellent
— Very Good

— Average
- Poor

Lila and proposes. Then the com-
ics get a chance to grab the brass
ring in a contest with the winner

getting a shot on Carson.

As good as Hanks and Fields are,
they can’t overcome these trite
complications and the sticky sen-
timentality.

TIM
BELL

film reviewer

But seriously, folks.

Movie mogul Sam Goldwyn
could have been talking about this
movie when he said, ‘Our com-
edies are not to be laughed at.”’

Shoot to Kill * (Touchstone
Home Video)_ Rated R

Sidney Poitier comes out from
behind the camera after 10 years
to star in this thriller shot right
here in B.C. He plays FBI agent
Warren Stantin who is out of his
element in the great outdoors near
the 49th parallei, hot on the trail of

‘ordaenaten House

4 cold-blooded psycho.

The killer is making his escape
posing as a member of a fishing
group guided by Kirstie Alley. Her
backwoods boyfriend, Jonathon
Knox (Tom Berenger), doubles up
with Stantin to track the maniac
through some scenic B.C.
wilderness before he can cross the
border with his hostage.

It may look interesting on paper,
but don’t be fooled. The dialogue
is hokey and john Scotts’
overembellished score is out of
place.

The actors do what they can
under the circumstances, but out-
side of the supernatural scenery,
this one is dead on arrival.

New on Video
Sunset (RCA/Columbia) Rated R
Bruce Willis is Tom Mix and
James Garner is Wyatt Earp,
teamed to solve murder in 1920's
Hollyweod in this Blake Eawards’
comedy.
Anna (Vestron) Rated M
Sally Kirkland gives an Oscar

nominated turn as a faded actress ©

who regrets befriending Paulina
Porizkova.
Biloxi Blues (MCA) Rated M
Matthew Broderick is Neil
Simon’s alter-ego, Eugene, in this
autobiographical account of boot
camp during the Second World
War.
The Seventh Sign (RCA/Columbia)
Rated R
Demi Moore gets noticeably
distraught when she discovers her
pregnancy is the key to the
apocalypse.

North Shore Views

West Van Odeon: Punch Line,
Gorillas in the Mist, Madame -
Sousatzka.

Park Royal: A Fish Called Wanda,
Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Clara’s
Heart.

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