
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, February 9, 1994                   TAG: 9402100222
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: 1   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Ben Beagle
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium

GIVE ME MOVIES I CAN WATCH

In our Tacky-Tacky-Tacky Department today we find those shorts that they run on HBO promoting movies you have to go the theater to see.

I tell these people now that I don't care how this or that movie was made, and I since I pay for HBO I would like to see some movies that don't require me to go to the mall and sit in one of those strange little theaters.

I don't need interviews with moody directors who are often unshaven and obsessed with a vision common people like Old Bennie here don't really get.

I especially don't need interviews with the players in these movies, who go on and on about what they think their characters are all about. I don't care what their characters are all about.

But they go on:

``I think that Isadora is a girl who has lost contact with reality in a very large sense while she is being pursued by the twin demons of lust and envy.

``I think Isadora may be the girl next door in this turbulent generation in which we live, and I hope my portrayal of her will in some small way help the real Isadoras out there who are pursued daily by the twin demons of lust and envy.''

This sounds like it could be coming from one of those overweight blondes who sometimes duke it out on talk shows.

The male actors - many of them also unshaven and sometimes wearing Pittsburgh Steeler caps - say largely the same thing:

``The character of Ronceval was to me a grim and daunting challenge. He was hard to get inside of at first.

``Then I realized that Ronceval is caught in a web of lust and envy. I had to feel his lust and envy, which I think I did in the scene in the barn during the thunderstorm as far as lust is concerned.

``Yet Ronceval remains always pursued by the twin demons of lust and envy. The envy part was pretty difficult.''

Well, it seems that old Isadora and Ronceval really get going in this flick, folks. Looks like they might be looking at an X-rating if they aren't careful with that barn scene.

I really don't care. I just want them to shut up so I can get on with my pay channel - which frequently shows one of those warm and wonderful family pictures in which the kids are all hooked on airplane glue.

I have to go now. HBO is showing this wonderful documentary about autopsies.

by CNB