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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1988)
E A T I N G O U T There is a vortex, and you can be CAFE DE PARIS p r e s t - n ls A Rtrniantu Dinner for sucked into it x-.-V: . Valentine’s Day Barfly S a t u r d a i a n d S u n d a y . I r h . 1 1 a n d 14 Script by: Charles Bukowski Starring: Mickey Rourke, Faye Dunaway Fresh H om e C ooked M exican Food At Mayas our food is prepared with produce and meats delivered and cooked fresh daily. M ayas also fea tu res A C om plete Vegetarian M enu MON-SAT 11-10:00, SUN 12-6 1001 SW Morrison at 10th Across from Galleria on Light Rail Dinner 6 days a week Private parties available for lunch and dinner Reservations 274-2773 112 SW 2nd Ave Portland, OR. 226-1946 Valentine s D ay f ~D1NNFFC Monday rr\ Saturday 4 :50 - /croo 6T o r reservation^ jo y -o f a f iq &T N tv 'Kearney ' IM D IG IM < £ M CANS G R & A T FOOD! simple suppers • east indian feast desserts from 5:3 0 tuesday - Saturday 3725 SE D IV IS IO N 2 3 8 -1 4 7 0 WELCOME VICTOR PRITZKER PASTAHUTIES Delphina's, where the art of cooking ts combined with the art of eating, offers the finest Italian food to the city of Portland Lunch Monday through Friday Dinner seven nights a week Call for reservations D qpHpg-s _ J B a r f l y starts with a fight ending behind a M Jr seedy neighborhood bar. Eddie, the bartender, is working over Henry Chinaski, drinker, poet, juicer, ne’er do well, boozer. Again. Chinaski, whose character is based on Bukowski’s own marinated-in-spirits existence, is a loser. BUTTERTOPS RESTAURANT 3 2 4 4 S.E. B e lm o n t Chinaski views life, as often as he can finagle, through the bottom of a bottle. He has a lot o f energy, but instead of overdrive, he operates in overweave. He can’t get the key to work, breaks the lock and goes in, curs ing uselessly. In one of the many good moments in this film, he sits down, gets a strange look on his face, realizes he’s in the wrong apartment. An opportunist, he takes some food and a bottle o f wine. When Chinaski finally whips the bartender, good-looking womanizer Eddie, a friend who won a lot of money betting on Henry offers to split the take with him. Henry won’t take the split. This is one ot the many times Henry could • prosper but refuses to. He does, however, take enough fora few scotch and waters, and wanders across the street to a very slightly less tacky bar. There he meets Wanda, played by Faye Dunaway. Henry ¿.nd Wanda are perfect for each other. Neither one wants to work, both are losers o f the sorriest kind (Wanda can’t even steal com right), and both live to booze it up. Misfits by most people’s definition, still Henry and Wanda are only two characters in a huge microcosm — the one of communal alcohol worship. If you've ever had a drink in a seedy bar, you’ll recognize all these characters. Henry gets bloodied so much he doesn't even bother to wash it off Rourke, at times looking like Alfred E. Newman, blood on his front teeth, at times seeming to do a W.C. Fields imitation ( “ Here s to all my friends ’’), brings a sincere feeling of violence as an ongoing entertainment factor. Barfly ends with a fight starting behind a seedy neighborhood bar. Special Valentine Menu Call Early for Reservations! Breakfast ~ Lunch - Dinner Afternoon Tea -- Sunday Brunch Catering Housekeeping Directed by: Bill Forsythe Starring: Christine Lahti. Sara Walker, 2112 N W. Kearney. 221-1195 Andrea Burchill — Graduate of the famous Cordon Bleu, Paris and chef at many of California’s finest restaurants, Chef Victor has come to Cascades and created an exciting new din ing experience. Same casual atmosphere. Same reasonable prices. First class prompt pleasant service. And great food. wo young girls are left at their Grandma's house one Sunday afternoon. Their mother drives to Lake Fingerbone. Into it, actually. Though it’s done as lightly as one can. House keeping starts with a suicide. Lake Fingerbone also holds the remains of the girls’s grandfather, who perished in a horri ble train wreck. All they ever recovered from the wreck was a little floating debris and a lettuce — flashback to a photo being taken ot the event — the crowd on the ice. where the train went in. a guy holding up the lettuce. :-'x> T Come up to the mezzanine and try Dough Traders Hand Spun Pizza, served by the slice or whole pie. Calzone is made fresh daily and is also available for “Home Baking.” Choose a beer from a selection of twelve draughts and forty bottles from over twenty countries at Captain Ankeny's Well. Tap Beer Available “to go ' Cascades 333 N W 23ra Portlana Just Om • 22 • February ivxx 274-2305 Mezzanine Level - Sew Market Village - 50 SW Second .Ave. Portland. Oregon 97204 223-1375 24-DOUGH Suicide and an uoiding melancholy aside, this is a humorous turn although not a light one in any sense ot me woru ^jhti is Oeugntful as Sylvie, os mercuria ano wmnjsy as her name There s a gorgeous .ook to ine film which was shot neat a gorgeous British Columbian lake The mists and wov>uec hilis ot the area add to the mystique of Sy I* ie w no > only real Haw is being her own woman .n a world thai doesn t allow that. •