24 - Wedsesday, October 18, 1989 — North Shere News

Johnny Handsome not a pretty picture

Johnay Handsome * (Tristar)
Rated R at the Capital 6, Station
Sq., Richport, Eagle Ridge and
Guildford Cinemas,

HERE WAS a bad
moon rising when Joha
Sedley (Mickey Rourke)

was born. As a result of his
mother’s drug habits, he
was left with a cleft palate, a
severely disfigured head and
the sarcastic nickname
“Johnny Handsome.’’
Most of his life was spent
scrounging a living in the
shadowy world of crime,
where his intelligence and
loyalty were valued.

During a robbery the shadows
deepened when the only man
who treated him like a brother is
gunned down by their double-
crossing partners, Rafe and Sunny
(Lance Henrikson, Ellen Barkin).

Johnny is the only one captured
and sentenced to hard labor but
he refuses to rat, not out of loyalty;
he plans on balancing the scales of
justice when he’s released.

A savage attack lands him in
hospital where he undergoes
plastic surgery, speech therapy
and a chance at a normal life —
new job, nice girlfriend (Elizabeth
McGovern), the whole nine yards.

But can a new face change the
man it masks?

This is not a world of logic. Two
operations to remove massive
cranial tissue leave a scar above
Mickey's nose the size of a shaving

Teacher loves
kids, dance

From page 23
year he decided to open his own
ballet school.

In the beginning teaching was a
means to an end, he says, but
“What came to a surprise to me
is how much | enjoyed teaching
young children.”

Walker began teaching Kinder-
dance — dance for three and
four-year-olds. Years later a friend
asked him why he didn’t teach
two-year-olds. Walker was unsure
of how successful such a program
would be, but one month into his
first Tiny Tu-Tu's for Two class he
was asking himself why he hadn't
done it years ago.

“(said this is silly. There are a
lot of teachers who will put
children into ballet slippers when
they're too young. | started
teaching the really young ones to
protect them from injuries.”’

Walker emphasizes how impor-
tant it is to keep children out of
pointe shoes until the age of 10 to
reduce the risk of damage to the
muscles.

The youngest of four children,
Walker says he was well-groomed
for teaching kids after babysitting
his many neices and nephews.

“I've always loved kids. It
never dawned on me when I
began teaching them that | was
doing anything unusual.”

Twelve years ago Walker sold
his Edgemont Viliage studio and
now teaches in Highland United
Church in North Vancouver, in
addition to freelancing at com-
munity centres and day cares.

His only philosophy on dance is:
“Everyone can dance.”

“We shouldn't compare
ourselves to anyone else. You
should put all the pluses in front of
you and forget all the negatives.

“| believe that you should
think what you want to be. The
problem we have is that we don’t
think big enough.”

Thanks to Walker countless little
people have learned to think bi;,

AND WATCH STREEP INSTEAD

who were accused of murdering
their infant daughter. Despite evi-
dence supporting Lindy’s claim
that a dingo was the culprit, they
became the focus of a nationwide
witch hunt.

Gossip about their
misunderstood religion ran ram-
pant. But through all the ghastly
innuendo, Lindy rarely betrayed
her emotions in public and that
unwillingness to play up to the
jury carried a staggering cost.

Superb acting (a given with
Streep), sharp direction by Fred
Shepisi and a great script makes
this one of last year’s best.
NORTH SHORE VIEWS
West Van Odeon: Closed due to
labor dispute.

STAY HOME

Sunny are about the two most
unlikeably, bickering low-lifes to
ooze out since Deliverance. Why
are they together? Surely one
would have killed the other by
now.

This film should have gone
under the knife to remove the
murky atmosphere and earpierc-
ing soundtrack that director
Walter Hill trowels on. Then
again, surgeons can only do so
much.

A Cry in the Dark *** % (Warner
Home Video) Rated M

This acclaimed film tells the
disturbing and true story of
Michael and Lindy Chamberlain
(Sam Neill and Meryl Streep),
Australian Seventh Day Adventists

Meryl Streep ...superb, as usual,
in A Cry in the Dark.

Park Royal: Turner & Hooch,
Shirley Valentine, Lethal! Weapon 2
Park & Tilford: sex, ties and
videotape, Parenthood, The Fabu-
lous Baker Boys, Sea of Love,
Breaking in, Halloween 5.

24 Hour Showtime Hotline:
Famous Players 681-4255;

Cineplex 687-1515.

film review

mishap. A lifetime of speaking
through a cleft palate is cured by
six weeks of therapy.

Granted, maybe they just
wanted to zip things along but
these characters ... McGovern is a
“good girl’ type, who stands by
her man, even after he throws her
out of his apartment; Rafe and

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