Page M14 September 26, 1990. This Week DON T LET _ GREATER VICTORIA GOTO WASTE Household Hazardous Waste Drop-off for the Capital Region is Saturday and Sunday, September 29 & 30 at the old BC Forest Products Mill site on Gorge Road East 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information cal] our Recycling Hotline: 383-2696. \) s Bc VAAN BAGG Vermin PRanrws ( le | ) FALE Nee Been Gonmbe ( et a eeatheae Hon. John Reynolds, Minister of Environment THE FEDERAL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT BANK IS PLEASED TO PRESENT... LANCE SECRETAN “THE WAY OF THE TIGER” From 1967 to 1981 Dr. Lance H.K. Secretan built Manpow- er Ltd. into a $100 million company from zip. It was hard work, but paraphrasing | Noel Coward, he says, “It was — work that was more fun than fun’’. Today he is a philosopher, writer, best selling author — including “MANAGERIAL MOXIE” _and his most recent best seller “THE WAY OF THE TIGER” — as well as a workshop leader and one of North American's top-ranked keynote speakers. Secretan has a unique insight into the motivation of customers which, he asserts, includes everyone, be cause he defines a customer as “all those who come to us with a need”. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10 Come and hear these and other thought pro voking ideas that will refresh you, give you a renewed sense of healing and energy and change the very way you think 7:00 p.m. _ _ VICTORIA _ ~ CONFERENCE CENTRE " Tickets $75.00 abo a FOR TICKETS CALL: ier EATING AVAILABLE | A CO-OPERATIVE EFFORT BY: C] Federal Busi B C D Bank de dével Canads is 8 oeten Coe Tanto Canada AI THE MOVIES Postcards from the Edge &. offers vacation from drivel OSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE (Qdeon) Hilarious, incisive comedy drama about an actress’ (Meryl Streep) at- tempt to put her life in SiiverSereen 5) By DAVID RYLAND focus while dealing with drug problems and the domineering presence of her famous show business mother (Shirley Mac- Laine). Directed by Mike Nichols (The Graduate, Working Girl) and scripted by Carrie Fisher (adapting her own semi- autobiographical novel) Postcards tells its story from a perspective intimately familiar with its subject matter and gives a choice view into the world of moviemaking, showcasing the pitfalls and hard work that often replace celebrity and riches, without becoming preachy or maudlin. Streep gives her most unaf- fected performance to date as Suzanne Vale, a confused but determined actress whose life as the pampered child of a Hol- lywood star has led to nothing but feelings of resentment; loneliness, and a tidy little chemical dependency. When an overdose results in a stay in a rehab center, Suzanne finds her- self remanded to the custody of her mother (MacLaine, perfectly cast in a role fashioned after Fisher’s own mother Debbie Reynolds) on release, in order to work. With the combined pressures of a harried shooting schedule on a cheesy B-movie, a relation- ship with a cute but slimy, low- grade producer (Dennis Quaid), the growing tensions evolving from close proximity to her mom, and the nagging tempta- tion to fall back into drug addic- tion, Suzanne is near to toppling off the edge and into the abyss. In this, her debut screenwrit- ing credit, Fisher shows a sharp, bristling wit and a real flair for confrontational dialogue that makes this one of the finest scripts of the year so far. Ob- himself to be the true Wizard of Odd in American filmmaking circles. But now comes Wild At Heart, an all-out bombardment*of POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE star Meryl Streep delivers a rous- ing rendition of a Country and western tune, viously her own experiences and insights into the working of the film industry helped to shape the story's compelling drama and credible presentation, but there is also so much of the pain- ful honesty and expressiveness that makes up great movie writ- ing, it would be difficult to see Fisher as a one-shot wonder. On the strength of its terrific script, finely tuned performan- ces, and Nichol’s admirably restrained direction Postcards From The Edge proves an intel- ligent, probing and funny vaca- tion from much of the insipid drivel this year’s cinema has had to offer. Look for Gene Hackman, Richard Dreyfuss, Michael Ontkean and Rob Riener in small supporting roles, and be ready to be impressed by Streep’s solid on screen singing debut. ****(Mature) Language. WILD AT HEART (Towne) If you have seen any of David Lynch's previous work you know that this guy has nothing to prove in the area of creating cinematic weirdness. From his debut film, the nightmarish Eraserhead, through the bril- liant and disturbing Blue Velvet and right up to his recent suc- cess with the eccentric TV series Twin Peaks, Lynch has shown oo 619 FORT ST. 383-9821 ast NEEDLEPOINT Po. 2207 OAK BAY AVE. 598-2721 VICTORIA'S WOOL SHOPS graphic violence, sex and classic Lynchian weirdness that makes Blue Velvet look like Brief En- counter and Twin Peaks like Leave It To Beaver. It's as if someone said to the director, “Come on Dave. Stop holding back. Let’s get really weird!” and Dave said, “OK.” Wild At Heart is essentially a love story and a road movie. It follows the exploits of Sailor (Nicholas Cage) and Lula (Laura Dern), young lovers who go on the lam when Sailor breaks his parole after serving 22 months for manslaughter. Sure, it sounds pretty straightforward, but Lynch isn’t the kind of guy to let sleeping genres lie. Before it’s all over, viewers will be witness to lots of steamy sex, lots of talk about steamy sex, various road acci- dent victims, exposed brain mater, some Elvis songs, a guy named Mr. Reindeer, another guy who put cockroaches in his pants, some of the worst teeth in film history, an exploded head, a dog making off with a severed hand, and enough whacked out references to The Wizard of Oz to let everyone know that we’re not in Kansas anymore. The most astounding element of all this though is that Lynch ° manages to present a coherent story focusing on the totally committed relationship of: the two leads. For all its bizarre trappings Wild At Heart remains true to its basic theme of love conquering adversity (even when the adversity is con- cocted by a director who claims that he is most proud of the fact that this film presents the first ever mother and daughter team - vomiting in the same movie). It’s a wild trip for fans of the utterly unconventional, but the faint at heart need not apply. ***1/2 (R) Frequent coarse lan- guage, nudity, suggestive scenes and gory violence.