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the movie is over your forearm is blackâ€" andâ€"blue from where your date has grabbed it during the moments of susâ€" pense. Why is Bruce Willis so effective in a movie like this? Maybe because he comâ€" binaanhfivdyuhktkp:yfiqum the appearance and manner everyman. The title of the movies describes the basic plot device: Here is a man who will not give up.who'i"nflldlitfifi‘t,'how ly carries on in the face of adversity. The dangers and tests he faces would daunt a Jmmfl.d.ufit&w“p with receding hairline, there is no choice. After all "My wife is on that plane!" Again this time he a on vacation. n.'-i-'-m.'.?:n. Airport, waiting for his wife‘s flight to "Die Hard 2," subtitled "Die Harder," enters Bruce Willis in a decathlion of violenea,andheph?ofimineverymnt. including wrestling for guns, jumping onto ]convgyor belh,u:mcejofl? % eaping onto wings of moving lanes, and fighting with the authorities. This is one of those thrillers like the "Indiana Jones" series that I categorize as Bruised Forearm Movies, because when Die Hard 2 is terrific entertainment â€" PAGE 14 â€" WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 1990 Entertainm to make some desperately needed changes. Things were kind of flounderâ€" ing for a while. I was letting a lot of people, like managers, make decisions for me. So I really decided then and there that I was going to take control." Luba began by taking control in the recording studio. No longer would she listen to the advice of experiencedâ€"stuâ€" dioâ€"types who insisted that highâ€"tech sampling was d)u;l“vnve of tg:e h;utm". Though not displeased wi previâ€" ous albums (a selftitled miniâ€"LP in 1982, Secrets and Sins in 1984, and Between the Earth and Sky in 1986), Luba felt they were taking good songs fered a serious setback when a highway accident involving her tour bus landed several key members of her band in hospital. Without much choice in the matter, Luba found herslf on hiatus. But she used the time to reâ€"evaluate her artistic values and direction. Despite her accomâ€" plishments, she felt there was a great deal to be done. "I had no choice but to stop and ponder the nature of my career. It was a very diffcult time â€" it really took its toll, and I wasn‘t sure if it was all worth it," Luba says of the emotional and physical strain she experienced." But during her threeâ€"year layoff, Luba came to a few conclusions. She had let too many people, with too many opinâ€" ions, influence her artistic direction. It was time to get back behind the wheel. It was time to do things Luba‘s way. ‘‘There‘s really nothing posiii've you can get out of an accident like that, but it was at least positive in that I was able that anything good could possibly come out of her misfortune. Just when her career was building momentum (she had three album reâ€" leases under her belt and a string of music awards, including three JUNOs for Female Vocalist of the Year), the At the time, it never occurred to Luba P S Periees Sp o his burt Mffer‘a plane crash) security chief admits he have ‘a on his handsy in sven then Will wotk is mot over, and by the end of the movie he is A skilled band of terrorists, led by a former CIA operative, plans to seize conâ€" trol of airport operations by electronically bypassing the control tower. They‘ll shut off the airport lights, leave dozens of planes circling overhead, and then cause one flight to crash as a warning. What they nnthamnyfuebd%phum tn;l'ritthedifla&wh illis, who has a cop‘s practiced eye, spots one of the conspirators, follows him intoalwg‘mauddimmflhzn plot is afoot. But he can‘t convince the chief land, on a crowded evening during the Christmas season. And scheduled into the same airport at the same time is a military jet bringing a South American drug tyrant Any hints about the next album? Well, I‘ve been thinking about it, and I really won’tknowunfillutul%pt into it," she says. "I know it‘l}l be different in some way. When I look back at my songs they‘re all different. Maybe that‘s a radio programmer‘s nightmare â€" but I‘m not comfortable or satisfied with repeating myself." proach evident on the album, carried through to her live performances. With band members (most of whom are not her original band members) who play their instruments without benefit of simulated assistance, Luba is playing new songs, and even some of her older stuff, the way she feels them. Even the seemingly unassailable How Many has been rearranged as an acoustic piece. ‘"We used to use a lot of drum seâ€" quencers, and I was always gt‘r.lfiod of those things because I never when something was going to trigger someâ€" thing else and start it in the middle of another song," she says. "You couldn‘t always depend on them, but you can depend on musicians." Luba is presently on a national tour, ghicgn ::engs her amlil herthb:ynd to ambri tonight where will %erformatflighlnnds,willbehudingto urope in the fall, and will probably be heading back into the studio next direction. law‘ songs. I decided to write songs that could :J:hyedonanmunictfiihrorpim be able to stand on their own." The result was the release of All or Nothing in the fall of 1989, an album which is proving that Luba‘s instinctive course, I decided to get back to what I I wasn‘t very familiar with studio technology. So rather than take a crash and just complicating thi “rwmmmmlsm â€" half my life â€" so I‘m no bozo. But I g!way-lg‘thmo;hinptomdn. were a move in the right approach to the A more serious problem.involves the whole rescue operation itself, When Norieâ€" fi-mmmfinmmwm mited States to stand trial, there was little serious effort to save him: At the end, he was a refugee in his own country, reduced to seeking asylum in the residence of a Vatican diplomat. Would anyone have the means, the money and the will to mount such a vast and complicated terrorâ€" ist operation simply to save one drugâ€"conâ€" credibility that might have capsized a lesser film,p;(‘r example, how about the scene where the tower informs the cirling airplanes that they‘ll be out of radio eonhkct“pforneoulve’:;boursandlhmnd just circling ! can‘t those planes simply establish radio contact with other ground transmitters and be diverted to alternate ai ? Because then Willis‘ wikmunmwmldn'tbeupthere in the sky and in mortal danger, that‘s singlehandedly taking on whole planeâ€" loads of mercenaries in a fight to the finish. Because "Die Hard 2" is so skillfully constructed and wellâ€"directed, it develops a momentum that carries it past several 100 But, on the other hand, I don‘t care. "Die ontrealâ€"based singer/songwriter Luba performs at The Highlands in e Lawrence Gordon and ‘his partners mist 5 hnmmm ;. this sequel to a relatively untried director. y Bmthydldtbndltmng:mil ie > Roger Ebert is an American film critic. _ nal "Die Hard" (a movie I didn‘t enjoy nearly ‘as much as this one), producer am on ol in e Inteemine ghi:eqqmlfioadm;nuum fairly hrgo‘.fi'"â€"wâ€""-'w""â€""m" %;phd in slow motion. But no matter. crash was scarily convincing. Given the enormous success of the origiâ€" Hard 2" is as unlikely as the Bond pictures and as much fun. And during a summer when violence and mayhem are allowed to substitute for imagination and good writâ€" ing, this is an especially wellâ€"crafted picture. It tells a<stoi ‘we can identify with, it has a lot of i 4 supporting cblnc&en,ithndl_ug action sequences with calm precision, ithuaeo?hl;lof scenes that are worth writing home (6. One of tl;‘:n is a phumcrnh. Not everybody‘s favorite image, I‘ll grant you (and this is a feature that will be severely edited before it becomes an inâ€"flight moâ€" vie). Watching the plane burst into flame on a runway, I knew intellectually that I on a runway, I knew i lly thi