hawshank portrays
dark life on the inside |:

Violence, desperation anda glimmer of hope

_ The Shawshank Redemption
*kx (Columbia) Rated Mature
(at the Cineplex Odeon cins-
mas)

RAT'S THE ditfer-
ence between an
RRSP and an RIP?
One’s a plan; the other's a
plot. Banker Andy
Duphrene (Tim Robbins)
’ knows. An unfaithful wife,
booze and a loaded .45 sent
him to Shawshank Prison for
wo life terms. And back in
the mid-’40s, life really
meant life.

Shawshank is a lot like other
Big House pictures. It comes
with violence, desperation and
the occasional glimmer of hope.
Of course, there has to be The
Wicked Warden, in this case
zealot Warden Norton (Bob
Gunton) and his goosestepping
guards.

Regular beatings by a vicious
gang force Andy to build a pro-
wective ring. He befriends anoth-
er lifer, Ellis Boyd “Red” Redding
(Morgan Freeman) who can
scrounge an nything for a price.

Andy finds that a convicted
murderer who offers sound
financial advice has a lot of

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friends, right on up to the war-

den who moves him from the
prison laundry to financial laun-
dering.

Writer/director Frank
Darabont makes an impressive
debut showing the grey world of
life on the inside.

Great acting, especially by
Robbins and Freeman, also
helps. James Whitmore has a
plum role as the aging prison
librarian, Brooks, who gets his
walking papers efter 50 years in
the slammer. His short bow-
legged steps and befuddled reac-
tions at the whir of city life offer
the most memorable image.

Although a little draggy in
spots, the movie benefits from a
script that closely follows one of
Stephen King’s best stories.

The characters smack of
fa siliarity, but there are enough
plot twists to keep us amused.

There’s a lot of brutality, but
with King’s trademark dark
humor and satisfying irony, this
is a jail visit that won’t make you
stir crazy.

Terminal Velocity xx (Holly-
wood Pictures) Rated Mature (at
Famous Players cinemas)

Charlie Sheen’s career is real-
ly plummeting. But a nice kind
of plummeting.

He's “Ditch” Brody, a hot-
shot skydiver dealt a blow when
a first-time jumper (Natassja
Kinski) takes a fata! plunge. Or
does she?

Ditch finds out the K.G. used-
to-Bs are up to no good, threat-
ening a new Cold War and only
Yankee know-how can bail the
world out.

The two-word title says it all.
It’s action; fast, loud and dumb.
Anyone who has been speon-fed
TV formula can predict exactly
what's going to happen. Charlie
coasts along in his undemanding
roie, hut shares zero chemistry
with Kinski.

But with cars dropping from

planes, mid-air rescues, and

more than a few computer-gen-
erated special effects, you get
your money’s worth of stunts
and action.

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Honjin hosted grand opening party

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represented, and Honjin also has

a good variety of Noodles and

) Donburi ($5.25 to $9.95),
Teriyaki and Agemono ($6.25 to
$12.50) and tempura ($5.15 to
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3 ~=—s The restaurant’s Robata
(Japanese-style barbecue)

A includes such intriguing items as

Ebi Shiitake (shrimp meat with
fresh mushrooms, $3.95), Hatsu,
Kimo, Sunagimo Shioyaki (chick-
en heart, liver and gizzard on a
skewer, $1) and Tara Miso (black
cod marinated in a bed of miso,
$6.95).

Honjin dishes sampled by
Table Hopping were all well
made. The Assorted Sashimi
included slices of tuna, salmon,

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appetizer featured raw tuna pre-
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at Honjin was gracious and effi-
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Honjin hosted a grand open-
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