Thursday
September 28,2000 VOLUME 101, ISSUE 22
PULSE EDITOR: MONICA HANDE
Classic film reigns supreme
■ ‘The Princess Bride'
continues to captivate viewers
after more than a decade of
watching
“The Princess Bride”
Starring: Cary Elwes, Mandy Patkin,
Chris Sarandon, Christopher Guest, Wal
lace Shawn and Andre the Giant.
Rated:PG
By Josh Ryneal
Oregon Daily Emerald
Much like a Twinkie, “The
Princess Bride” is still fresh, moist
and tasty even 13 years after its ini
tial release.
Rob Reiner’s inventive comedic
fantasy, apart from the “Monty
Python” films, probably has the
largest cult following of any come
dy from the past two decades. Emi
nently quotable, “The Princess
Bride” will inevitably cause a room
of viewers to silently mouth the di
alogue along with the characters,
which is not a displeasing achieve
ment, considering all the forget
table drivel released each year.
Reiner keeps the story moving
along fluidly and the complicated
plot easy enough to understand.
Westley (Cary Elwes) is a stable boy
who falls in love with Buttercup
(Robin Wright). Before their love
can be realized, however, Westley
finds himself kidnapped by pirates.
Hearing of Westley’s death, Butter
cup is engaged to marry Prince
Humperdink, a cad with less than
good intentions for his new bride.
When Buttercup herself is kid
napped by a gang of villains, who
should come to the rescue but
Westley, disguised as the “Dread Pi
rate Roberts”? Of course, many hi
larious hijinks ensue as Buttercup
is recaptured, freed and lost again.
Elwes’ performance here is very
likely the best of his career (not a
hard feat, considering his stinky
roles in more recent films such as
“The Crush”). Wright has little to
do but to look beautiful and stare
longingly at the camera, but
princesses in fairy tales usually
What’s Up?
Why would we spend our time re
viewing a movie that came out a
long time ago instead of a new re
lease? Because there is a plethora of
cool movies out there that nobody
has ever seen or that everyone has
forgotten about. “The Princess
Bride” represents a movie that is still
in the back of everyone’s mind but
maybe hasn’t been given center
stage lately. You can expect to see
more obscure movies that you may
or may not have heard of reviewed
in future issues.
don’t have considerably proactive
roles anyway.
The rest of the cast is loaded with
actors recognizable to all those not
in a coma during the ’80s, and gen
erally speaking, they do a decent
job. Industrious film actor Wallace
Shawn, who has appeared in more
than 40 films, plays the maniacal
Sicilian criminal Vizzini with his
usual flair and personality, while
Mandy Patinkin brings dignity and
Turn to ‘Princess Bride/ page 10B
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Dr. Ruth offers advice
on college sex, uh, life
■The relationship expert
guides students through
college in a mere 190 pages
Monica Hande
Oregon Daily Emerald
How old is Dr. Ruth, anyway?
A lot has changed since the 72
year-old ventured off into the world
of college. How much could she
possibly know about college life to
day?
Surprisingly, a lot.
In “Dr. Ruth’s Guide to College
Life: The Savvy Student’s Hand
book,” Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer
lends advice to students regarding
select issues a student faces in col
lege, usually for the first time.
(While Pierre Lehu is also a co-au
thor, his voice is never heard.) She
covers all the basics: leaving home,
roommates, dorm living, drugs,
friendships, dating, entering the
“real world” ... oh, and sex. And as
you can imagine, considering the
psychosexual therapist’s reputation
for speaking frankly about the mat
ter, sex dominates the largest chap
ter of the book: “Sex: Need I Say
More? Yes!”
And boy, does she say more —
more than most people would care
to know about the subject! If you’re
looking for a book about sex, read a
book about sex, not college life. In
fact, she plugs one of her own
books, “Sex for Dummies.” Try this
if you’re desperate for Dr. Ruth’s
■sexual guidance.
Despite the sipgle out-of-place
chaper, Dr. Ruth demonstrates her
fairly extensive knowledge of col
lege life in the late 20th century, or
early 21st century, as it may be. Al
though she may not have personal
ly experienced everything she dis
cusses in her book, she tells it as if
she has. I felt as if she was retelling
my experience with going to col
lege, pinpointing exactly how I felt
about each situation. Somehow,
this woman knows what she’s talk
ing about.
But that doesn’t mean her advice
is necessarily worth taking. For ex
ample, how many times have you
been told to “just say no” to drugs?
Turn to Dr. Ruth, page 10B
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