Billie Jean legend
bets left to die

THIS IS ONE legend
that won’t live on and
on.

By COLIN LAMONT

In fact, The Legend of
Billie Jean is a movie that
dies countless times, done in
by a shaky script, dull direc-
ting and too many teen
screams.

Director Matthew (Dragon
Slayer) Robbins offers us his
idea of a serious teen hero
flick that can only be laugh-
ed at. Robbin’s latest movie
attempts to fly Supergirl! star
Helen Slater to new heights
as a seductive young rebel,
fighting for the rights of
youth.

Billie Jean Davy (Slater) is
a totally tanned, blond-
haired teen with the right
looks but who lives on the
wrong side of the tracks.
Along with her younger
brother Binx (Christian
Slater) Billie Jean strugyles

Terrific

to grow up under the cloud
of living in sleazy low-rent
trailor court on the outskirts
of Corpus Christi, in
southwest Texas.

Fatherless, the two teens
live with their widowed mom
and very little money. Binx
blows an insurance policy
left to him by his dad on a
shiny red motorscooter,
much to mom's horror.

The scooter is stolen by
the town bully Hubie Pyatt
and by the time the
broken-hearted boy gcts it
back, it looks like it has been
through a demolition derby.
Sister Billie Jean rides to the
rescue and presents Hubie
with a $608 (to the penny)
bike repair bill.

Hubie wimps out of pay-
ing the bill and old Billie
Jean lays him low with a
kick to the crotch. Hubie’s
dad offers the outraged girl
payment for the bike but in-
stead tries to rape her in his
office. Billie Jean’s kid
brother wings the dirty old
man with his own pistol and

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the chase is on.

Director Robbins attempts
to show us how adults can
only be expected to exploit
the young. Heck, any kid
knows that. But his film
becomes ridiculous when the
rebel princess Billie Jean and
her gang of friends manage
to drive through the streets
of the city in an old battered
station wagon without once
being spotted by police.

After the shooting of old
man Pyatt, their faces are on
every channel and newspaper
in town but no-dne sees
these kids.

With the motto of ‘Fair is
fair’ young Billie Jean ref-
uses to turn herself or her
gang in until old Pyatt pays
his bill. The town teenagers
worship her and her cause.
Pyatt refuses to pay but
makes a bundle selling color
posters of Billie to her ador-
ing friends.

It's obvious these kids can
trust no one over 20 except
the sympathetic cop (Peter
Coyote) who tries to taik the
rebels into surrender.

To make a long legend
short, Billie cuts off her long
golden: locks to resemble a
punk-styled Joan of Arc and
won't budge from her cam-
paign for fair play and
honesty from adulis. She
finds brief love with rich-boy
Lloyd (Keith Gorden) and
builds up a cult following
that any saint would be pro-
ud to call her own.

In the end, youth trium-
phs, the revolution is over
and the gang goes free. All
we can hope for now is that
director Robbins won’t can-
nonize Billie and make
another film about her.
After all, fair is fair and
enough is enough.

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