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Waterloo Chronicle (Waterloo, On1868), 10 Aug 1983, p. 12

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ness, but writer Paul Brickman â€" also makâ€" ing a most auspicious debut as a screen director â€" utilizes them in an intelligent and refreshingly unpredictâ€" able way. Brickman himself takes risks in his someâ€" There are "a lot of familiar story eleâ€" ments ir! Risky Busiâ€" n n esnt e » But even as the openâ€" ing credits were still progressing across the screen, that threat seemed to evolve into a promise of something stylistically more imaginative and theâ€" matically more proâ€" vocative. Happily to say, at the end of the picture‘s 96 minutes, I felt considâ€" erable pleasure and satisfaction with what I had seen, an allâ€"tooâ€" rare personal experiâ€" ence in movieâ€"going this summer., Victor Stanton Chronicle Special Risky Business | refreshing and _ distinctive na lesenm ;, 3 _â€" 2000dsen (Tom Cruise) gets an enlightening lesson in free enterprise from his new friend Lana (Rebecca De Mornay) â€" while his parents are on vacation â€" in ‘‘Risky Business,‘" a contemporary comedy about sex, love and the free enterprise system. as an Movie Review eeemme. _ almost surreal ~ ue PR T P« I + j ’v ig_h school senior Joe mneleas. 1 PAGE 12 â€" WATERLOO v ppppgopmmne se ic OO _ CHRONICLE, wWEDnEsoa case in soâ€"called ‘‘youthâ€"oriented comeâ€" ailloss Canadian-produced Losin‘ It â€" makes his character in Risky Business appealingly humorous without saâ€" crificing believeability. ASs is MOSt onfton +L. Cruise â€" remembered perhaps for his porâ€" trayals of the psychotic cadet in Taps, of a greaser in The Outsidâ€" ers and of a "sensiâ€" tive" teenager looking for manhood in the i7 / _ d At the heart of the picture, too, is a strong, likeable perforâ€" mance by Tom Cruise, as a kind of upperâ€"midâ€" dle class Everyboy who achieves _both sexual and entrepreneurial ~maturity under the tuâ€" telage of a heartâ€"ofâ€" flint call girl. (Brickâ€" m a n , consistently throughout this movie, takes a cliche and turns it on its ear, often adding to the picture an odd ominous tenâ€" sion.) appreoach to story â€" telling and in his delibâ€" erate exploration of an actual theme that ulâ€" tim a tely reflects rather cynically on contemporary materiâ€" alâ€"oriented society. most often the In its background Chicago locations, and especially in the nerveâ€" tingling musical backâ€" grounding by the Gerâ€" man synthesizer group Tangerine Drea m , Risky Business evokes a strong atmosphere of emotional anxiety . This may seem a strange ingredient for what still remains baâ€" sically a comedy, but it is perhaps this very ingredient that makes this movie very much a comedy of distinction. 1 inoiinatinteditt ..A.4. 3 trayed in a manner that edges away from the expected stereoâ€" types. sociate prostitute Supporting roles â€" the boy‘s parents, his high school buddies, a Prinâ€" ceton recruiter, the girl‘s pimp and an asâ€" An eerily cool porâ€" trayal of the proStitute by newcomer Rebecca DeMornay is most efâ€" fective in setting up a relationship of some dramatic proportions. (Again, B rick m a n doesn‘t make concesâ€" sions to audiences‘ exâ€" pectations about this character and her relaâ€" tionship with the youth.) written and porâ€" 10, The rare event, which will run through Aug. 31, will fashion three collections, â€"the International Collec tion (gifts to the uniâ€" versity from governâ€" ments around the world),. the Gazette Collection (works by graduating fine arts 1 ol € M C famous artists as Ken Danby, William Kure lek, the Group of Seven and many others, in cluding Eskimo and Inâ€" dian artists, will be on display beginni Aug. 18 when uwnnfi Art Gallery presents its Permanent Art Collecâ€" tion . _ Rare display at Gallery ts to the uniâ€" from governâ€" around the the Gazette 1 (works b) ng fine arts ret" Aug. 17â€"20 at Adult Rec Cen| corner of King . Allen Streets. The Kâ€"W Amateu Theatre presents "N Time for Tears â€" & preâ€"Nostalgic Caba n °0Ms on paper, oils, textiles, sculpture and ceramics. ternational :l‘hâ€":at}"e Poster Collection. ln(-ludgd in the show Following the show Theatre presents No Time For Tears _ Centre, King and Amateur ""No the Admission is pay what you can with $1 minimum charge and tickets are available at the door. Reservations are preferred and may be made by phoning the Adult Rec Centre or the collection will again be distributed throughout the campus to various departments where they will remain on display for three years. The Art Gallery is pay WPIRG at For more information call 744â€"4052) ph) 40 Cc r mA ECY of Waterloo Campus Centre. located in the Modern Languages Building, University of Waterioo, with hours Monday to Friday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The gallery will be closed Sundays for this show only. time is University

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