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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (July 1, 1987)
It's a dog's life This Swedish import feels more like Woody Allen than Ingmar Bergman. B Y MY LIFE AS A DOG Sophisticated & elegant understates this special home Perfect for entertaining or a very private lifestyle. Features include contemporary design, main floor family room & sensuous m aster suite with jaccuzi for two. Also private deck with huge spa. Written by: Lasse Hallstrom and Reidar Johnson Directed by: Lasse Hallstrom Starring: Anton Glazelius $179,000.00 CALL SIAN BURT JEPPESEN Q3 641-9335 E L E A N O R __ M A L 1 N is mom is coughing blood, his dog’s in the kennel, his dad’s run ning bananas somewhere in Central America, and he’s been sent to live H ______ WILEY P * . Ml AlKNtS EDIFACEII (ed-i-fus) with a country cousin who seems like an amalgam of Ozzie Nelson, Jack Tripper and Mortimer Snerd. The old guy down stairs is dying, very slowly, and the young boy experiencing all the family turbulence, while muddling through adolescent turbu- “Your face is your future CARE FOR IT, PROTECT IT Booklet tells WHY? HOW? WHEN? The future lies in kinky people, really Because those kinky people are us, really. $2.00 refundable MICHAEL P.O.Box 29025 PORTLAND, OR 97229 503-239-6934 Have a skin care party as a fund raiser for your organization. A sk us how. You Can’t Miss This One! OPEN HOUSE July 12 1:00 to 4:00 2951 SE Main F in ïêêêè ÉÊI VPE * * m j 68,000, Entertain in Elegance 2 Bmi, Redecorated with exquisite taste. Everythin# is New; Plush WW carpeting. Gas Furnace and H20 Tiink. 200 amp service. Range w, grill top. Hot 1\ib w/gazeho effect and 1100 sq' deck Built-in speak ers. storm windows and an Alarm System. Entire upstairs is MRK with All Brass Accessories and a raised Built-in Bed. 3 1,500, Just lusted — W oti ’t Last Fresh and clean move right in I/its of windows, super for plant.. French Doors into splendid Bed room with Built -in Bookshelves. Fantastic Lot with Flowers Galon and Garden Area. Seller will help with financing B Y Now's The Ttme To lust Your Property! Call now for your Free Home Analysis A member of Oregon Multi Listing Service and The Portland Board of Realtors Scott Bottaro 230-0429 B ridgetown R ealty 2305 N.E. Broadway Portland. OR 97232 287-9370 Just Out. 24 . July. 1987 E L E ANOR M A L 1 N PERSONAL SERVICES Written by: David Leland Directed by: Terry Jones Starring: Julie Walters, Alec McCowen, Shirley Stelfox he gave up a paunchy businessman with a little Willie to start her own business. Ambition, natural leader ship ability, and the knack of noticing what sells cause Christine Painter, heroine of this bawdy comedy, to notice she can make a lot of money hostessing sex for men with specialized interests. When she embarks on her new career, she doesn’t even know what French polishing is, even though she has posted an ad for it. Chris tine displays chutzpah, good humor, and experiences good luck and a supportive clientele. (One enthusiastic customer loans her money from his hank to Finance her little lust nest; others pay to do her yard work — she’s such a good taskmistress.) Christine builds a thriving business cater ing to men with kinky tastes. The English have been so repressed and so kinky for so long it’s become genetically imprinted I S ■ 1 10,(XX), Nf.W. Fri-Plex Just Reduced Four years old. One 3 Brm I 1/2 Baths. TW Town House 2 Bern \ Bath units Always Rented Excel lent Condition. Well Maintained FHA Blind Assumption lence, has grown to identify with Laika, the Soviet canine cosmonaut, who slowly starved to death when her doggie bag Finally got empty. How can this be a comedy? It can be, if it’s done very carefully. The second son of two, Ingmar is too rambunctious to remain with his mother. She has started down that relentless road to death, and needs her rest. Ingmar is sent to live with a cousin and his wife, who share a rented company house with an older couple. The old geezer keeps a catalogue and gets Ingmar to read him the lingerie ads. Most of the people who work in the rural setting seem to work at the glass factory. There aren’t very many recre ational options. The soccer’s nice, but how many times can you play “ I’ve Got A Loverly Bunch of Coconuts” and really appreciate it? Sex seems pandemic, or is it just Ing mar? Those Swedes from the country must I • CRYSTALS 8c GEMS • RITUAL ACCESSORIES • METAPHYSICAL PRACTITIONERS CRONE MAGIC 249-0444 PORTLAND 12-6 TUE.-SAT. 1405 NE BROADWAY expect Lancet to announce the location of the gene for kink any day now. And it is funny. Guys in rubber suits tied up in lock boxes. Guys in schoolgirl outFits being whipped for being late. An aged wing commander who flew 217 missions in bra and panties. A reporter asks him if it’s true Christine supplied sex to men in wheel chairs. She did, “ for a minimum charge, of course.” Julie Walters is tawdry perfection as the energetic strumpet, Christine Painter. Loosely modeled after Cynthia Payne, the celebrated madame whose case came up before a magistrate who was one of her regular customers, Walters makes every thing that can be made of this role. She oozes good natured rational thinking. She sees through bullshit like cellophane, and analyzes the profound social schizophrenia happening around her with acerbic wit. There’s more than a little irony dished up when you stop to think that the people who Finance and patronize prostitutes are the same ones who make and enforce laws against them. Merry madcappery occurs throughout this very funny film, with solid suport be an exuberant lot, and the subject of sex is gotten next to, thought well of, knitted over everything else. Ingmar misses Sickan, his dog, and his fragile mother, in that order. Amidst de nials, reckonings, afFirmations, and not knowing what’s happening to his dog (Mom!), Ingmar picks his way through the friendships, flirtations and competition, with a lot of help from his friends. This is a little town where all the men are in love with Berit, the blonde wr-mother. Most of the little girls are in love with Ingmar. Ingmar experiences tumultuous changes, familial changes, physical changes, sep aration and death. He approaches deepen ing relationships, grave losses and burgeoning sexual awakening all at the same time, as best he can. Like Woody Allen’s Hannah and Her Sisters, My Life As A Dog treats the human condition, in all its saddest depths and most glorious highs. All the generations are represented affec tionately. Amidst embarrassment, pathos, death and despair, life does go on, and any number of hearts do beat as one. • from McCowan and Stelfox, who as a “ mature” purveyor of personal services comes off as shopworn, sagacious, and a nice person. In a year proffering several Films on the subject of prostitution, two of them com edies from a realistic viewpoint, one wonders what can be going on. Unlike Lizzie Borden’s Film, Working Girls, which satirizes the johns and emphasizes the sisterhood of prostitutes, Personal Services features the inextricable relation ship of hookers to the community and the community to hookers. • "La Bam ba" premieres July 10 Written and directed by Luis Valdez (Zoot Suit), and starring Lou Diamond Phillips as Ritchie Valens, Esai Morales and Elizabeth Pena (Down and Out in Beverly Hills). La Bamba premieres at Oregon Art Institute’s NW Film & Video Center at 8:00 p.m., Friday. July 10. Music by Los Lobos recreates the Valens sound, somewhat updated. Should be good. For more info, call 221-1156. — Eleanor Malin Therapeutic Massage Karen Austen, M.A., L.M.T. State Licensed Swedish Acupressure, Medical, Sports Massage Massage Gift Certificates Available Six Week, Stop Smoking Workshops Available Bv Appointment — 292-4206
