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Both films open in essentially : same way: a rich, white man ces over a slum tenement and is mpletely . indifferent to the oblems of his black and Hisâ€" nic tenants. In the 1970 verâ€" n. starring Beau Bridges as landlord, he wants to turn the ilding into a psychedelic getaâ€" y for his wild lifestyle. In the 91 version, starring Joe Pesci, wants to collect the rent, end no money on repairs, and entually inherit all 27 of his hers slum buildings. Thus es the Age of Aquarius fade o the Age of Trump. in the 1970s movie, the tenants the building play important les. The movie coâ€"starred Pearl iley, Diana Sands, Lou Gossett d Mark: Bey, among others, d Bridges ended up fathering a ild by one woman, falling in ie with another, and adopting e baby . In the 1991 version, the nants of the building act more a chorus than as a group of dividuals, and Pesci‘s romantic ° consists mostly of making wd proposals to women who are t interested in them. Of course, it‘s not entirely fair compare these two movies, en though the makers of The per must have seen The Landâ€" d. The Super is not remotely as ibitious as The Landlord, which its own way wanted to open the Carol D. Currie * ! 20 King St. N., Waterloo thove Larry‘s Hair Design) he Super is a cynical 1991 iation on a more idealistic 0 film named The Landlord, | the ways in which the two s differ are interesting, and ressing. We‘ve gone from Sunset Strip to Fantasy Island, Dallas to Degrassi High, then down the Road to Avonlea. And getting here together has been more than half the fun‘! rude comedy replaces idealism he Super Waxing ue Facials (Yonâ€"Ka Product) Pedicures/Manicures Eyebrow & Eyelash Tinting Electrolysis Pesci‘s performance is enterâ€" taining; he‘s squat, energetic, utterly confident, unselfâ€" conscious and essentially warmâ€" hearted. He deserves a better screenplay than this one, by Sam Simon, which throws in little lessons in humanity almost acâ€" cording to a formula. And he deserves better direction than Rod Daniel‘s; there are two scenes in which Pesci gets taken by a sharp local hustler (Ruben Blades), and Danie! misses the comic payoff in both of them. As the movie opens, Pesci, a middleâ€"aged man, is still under the thumb of his domineering father (Vincent Gardenia), whose theory about rental buildings is simplicity itself: collect the rent, and don‘t spend a dime on imâ€" provements. The old man gives his son a tenement, which the son allows to deteriorate in the apâ€" proved family fashion, until a judge finds him guilty as a slumâ€" lord, and sentences him to spend 120 days in his own building. Of course, he doesn‘t like cold and rats and malfunctioning electricâ€" ity any better than anyone else, and so he makes improvements â€" over his father‘s protests. See Pages Bâ€"9 to Bfi The Super lacks that idealism, and is intended as a comedy; Pesci‘s character is made delibâ€" erately loud, uncouth and offenâ€" sive. A lot of the dialogue is in the "insult humor‘‘ sitcom style, where people say crude things to each other and the laugh track assures you that no one is ofâ€" fended. Without a laugh track, however, a lot of Pesci‘s oneâ€"linâ€" ers sound like the sort of comâ€" ments that, delivered by a white man in the hallway of a Harlem tenement, would be more likely to inspire a homicide than â€"a chuckle. eyes of its white character to some realities of American black life. Skin Care and Electrolysis Licensed 747â€"1108 What‘s finally depressing about The Super is that it doesn‘t have the nerve to be any one thing. It wants to be crude and rude, but it ends with sentiment. It wants to be about whites and blacks, but is incurious about the lives of its black characters. It wants to be about slumlords and their victims, but goes all mushy. 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