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FOR MORE I INFORM RTI ON CALL (409) 845-1515 nov&v \AGGIEyA S /^CINEMA/ Broadcast News Friday Oct.7 7:30pm/9:45pm Rudder Theatre Saturday Oct.8 7:30pm/9:45pm Rudder Auditorium WILLIAM HURT ALBERT BROOKS HOLLY HUNTER [b)0^©©qjiim Bring in 3 unpaid traffic tickets and get 50 cents off the regular ticket price v. Friday/Saturday Oct.7/8 Midnight Rudder Theatre THE ROAD WARRIOR Only $2.00 for each movie! Page 6 The Battalion Friday, October 7,1988 Reviewer: ‘Punchline suffers disjointed stor\ Photo courtesy of Columbia Pictures Induslriesl Lilah Krystick (Sally Field) and Steven Ciold (Tom Hanks) are aspiring comics in the film “Punchline.” By Shane Hall Staff Writer “Punchline” is a comedy/drama that does not fully succeed as either. The film, about two struggling nightclub comics, opens today at the Plaza Three Theater in College Station. While it boasts some great performances, it also suffers from a disjointed story. making people laugh. All of this makes for what could have been a good human comedy until writer- /director David Seltzer tries to do too many things with his script. The story lacks a solid unification. For much of the film, the stories of Steven and Lilah seem like two different mov- Review The conflict of Field’s character forms the basis for most of the film's dramatic Tom Hanks plays Steven Gold, a failed medical student who works nights as a stand-up comic at the Gas Station, a New York nightclub. Sally Field plays Lilah Krytsick, a New Jersey housewife and mother of three who performs at the same club and almost never gets a laugh. At the begin ning of the film, she’s so desperate to succeed that she meets with a joke dealer (played by Paul Mazursky) to buy 25 jokes for $500. What’s more, Lilah’s'frequent perfor mances at the club do not thrill her brut ish, insurance salesman husband (John Goodman), who would rather have his wife at home cooking and taking care of the kids. Steven soon takes Lilah under his wing to teach her a few things about content. Her husband, John, angry at his wife’s never being home at night or having din ner ready when he comes home, would just as soon see her abandon her dream of making people laugh to be with him and the kids. As he tells her, she might someday remember the people who love you even when you’re not funny. But when Lilah gets her first laugh, she be comes more determined to succeed and John becomes more resistant. Steven, a talented comedian con stantly hanging onto a hot shot talent scout (Kim Greist) in an effort to be dis covered, is trying to make enough money to pay his roommate the back rent he owes so he can get back into his apart ment. For some unknown reason, a love in terest between Steven and Lilah is sug gested out of the blue, but it never devel ops and is ultimately tossed window. Not until the film’s end dote tcrcnl stories actually come t r.After Lilah enters a talenti awarding the winner a spot! Johnny Carson show, her husband a complete 180 degree changeua and decides to go see his wife pi At the end, he discovers he levs she did. The ending demonstrates wht h line” is innappropriately namedl: of a punchline, you get anovedt mental, "and they lived happily Ml ter" scene between Lilah and )th for what happens to Steven, «i to wonder. Tom Hanks is hysterical asS Gold, delivering plenty of quick ott zingers during his scenes. Ashistl ter says, “I’m Mr. Comedy.' 1 Sally Field gives a convincing malic performance as Lilah. I’ nately, her funny scenes in the I gest that her character could bawl even more interesting had Sells lowed a more comic element into story. And again, the sappyendE suggested love interest between^: characters seems unnecessary. To sum it all up, if you're looki a punchline, you won’t finditheK 1 Former official: Our nation still racially divided societ] AUSTIN (AP) — The former federal official who person ally confronted then-Alabama Gov. George Wallace in one of the most dramatic civil rights showdowns during the 1960s said Thursday the United States remains racially separate and unequal. Former U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzcnbach said anti-discrimination laws of the 1960s have helped some, but the nation continues to march toward a racially divided so ciety. “If we really open our eyes, we’ve learned that the prob lems today are worse than they were 20 years ago,’’ Katzen- bach said in a speech that kicked off a two-day seminar on ur ban problems being held at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library. He said the country has moved backward since 1968 when a presidential panel, the Kemer Commission, reported a na tional crisis in race relations. “We have indeed moved further toward those two societies; black and white, separate and un equal.” Katzenbach said the migration of affluent and middle class whites from the cities to the suburbs, followed by the flight of business, has hurt minorities trying to rise from thegh® He said the lack of job and educational opportunity s’ violence and crime in the inner cities. “I hope that all of you are prepared to face and fact that our urban problems, and their resolution,Kit 1 cably tied to the problems of race,” KatzenbachsaW 1 most whites refuse to tie the two problems together.' blacks “arc too eager to exploit it.” Deputy attorney general, Katzenbach confrontedfe Gov. Wallace on the steps of the University of Alabanii Katzenbach, enforcing a federal court desegregation' asked Wallace to step aside, saying, “From the outset.j nor, all of us have known that the final chapter of this h will be the admission of these students.” After repeated requests by Katzenbach and as fefc | National Guard troops stood on the campus. Wall® stepped aside and the students were enrolled. On Wednesday, Katzenbach said current must be addressed. “If this country does not faceuptoi ban and race problem, we will in the not to distantfu® 1 our leadership in the world,” he said. Beta Theta Pi Presents THE BOURBON STREET BASH Featuring X AVION also appearing THE KEROUACS n BOUREG^I s ’' PROCEEDS BENEFIT Special Olympics OCTOBER 15, 1988 6:30-12:00 a.m. Brazos County Pavilion Tickets are $6.00; 8:00 at the door. Cold beverages and Gideon’s Barbeque will be available rickets will be sold at MSC, Blocker and Sbisa. 14 // TUB BASH IS BACK! I ‘*i ]\/r