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________ 7_ WEdNEsdAy, M arc I h 15, 2002 [he CI ac I camas P rínt ’Smooch’ this movie away MAGGIE JIRASEK Editor-in Chief "Death to Smoochy,” a wild, un- jredictable, dark comedy is Warner frother’s newest attraction and vill change your outlook on :hildren’s TV forever. Director )anny DeVito created a piece that s everything else but a movie for ¡hildren. Starring Robin Williams, Edward Norton, Jon Stewart, Catherine Ceener and Danny DeVito, “Death to Smoochy” shows what really goes on behind the scenes of children’s TV programming. The novie tells the story of Rainbow Randolph, the colorful star of a children’s television show, who af ter a bribery scandal gets replaced >y a purple rhino named Smoochy (Norton). Of course, the rhino is much more handsome and suitable for the show and therefore wins the children’s hearts. Randolph is not happy with the situation at all and tries to do ev erything to get back to fame and destroy the oh-so-cute and puffy Smoochy. Especially after Randolph finds out that Smoochy is having an affair with his ex-girl- friend, the top-programming ex ecutive at the network, Nora. He turns into a psycho and starts plot ting revenge. When the Mafia, Irish gangs, punch-drunk boxers, dwarves and children get in volved, the results can get insane to some degree, if not bloody. Although the movie shows a sense of humor and creativity, it lacks character development. Just when you think that you can predict a certain individual’s ac tion in the movie, something to tally out of context occurs and makes you wonder whether that character might have been brain washed behind the scenes. Wil liams, for example, goes nuts in his role as Randolph and turns out to be a psycho 15 minutes into the movie. He is so bent on revenge that it becomes hilari ous but disturbing at the same time. Towards the end, Randolph decides to be the good guy and wants to save everybody. The movie was also very bloody at times and the lan guage used was not the one you would use around children. Es pecially the character of Randolph seemed to like cussing, at times to extensive de grees. In a private screening at the Warner Brother’s Studios Friday, March 1, DeVito tested his piece to a crowd of college students. Afterwards, in a question-and-answer session, he admitted that there was pressure to tone the movie down a little and that he him- Stuff of Dreams: form and function combine in decorative art show ERINNLERTEN Staff Writer Sometimes a chair is just a chair, but at Matières de Rêves: Stuff of Dreams, currently showing at the Portland Art Museum, a chair might be Ruth Francken’s “L’homme chair,” inspired by the “sit-in” demonstrations of the 1960s. And a bed might be the monu mental canopied bed made for Emilie Valtesse de la Vigne, the courtesan who inspired Zola’s “Nana.” Throughout the ages, ex ceptional objects have been cre ated that exceed the requirements of utility, the conventions of tradi tion, and standards of craftsman ship. Direct from the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, situated in a wing of the Louvre Palace in Paris, Stuff of Dreams offers 100 masterpieces of French decorative art dating from the middle-ages to present. Includ ing glass work, ceramics jewelry and silver as well as furniture, these objects carry with them fas cinating stories of the people who commissioned, collected, used or loved them. Also in the exhibit is the clock from Marie Antoinette’s bathroom in the Tuileries Palace, and the burled wood and gilt bronze ceremonial cradle of the Due de Bordeaux. The Portland Art Museum, through its connections with Ma dame Hélène David-Weill, Président, L’Union Centrale des Arts Décoratifs, was approached to work with the French museum in organizing a traveling exhibition featuring some of its most impres sive works. This international ex change is curated by Penelope Hunter-Stiebel, Consulting Cura tor of European Art and Odile Nouvel, head of the 19th century art department at the Musée de Arts Décoratifs. The Musée des Arts Décoratifs, widely recognized as the foremost private collection in France, has temporarily closed its galleries for renovations until 2003. Following its premiere in Portland, the exhibition can be seen from June 1 through Aug. 11 at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, and from Sept. 22 through Jan. 5 at the Birmingham Museum of Art in Alabama. Stuff of Dreams will be on dis play in Portland through April 28. For ticket information call the Port land Art Museum at (503) 226-2811 or check out their website www.pam.org. To reach Erinn Lerten goawayrocks@hotmail.com or drop by B-104. A scene from the new Warner Bros, movie "Death To Smoochy" starring Edward Norton as Smoochy, and Robin Williams as Rainbow Randolph, from Director Danny Devito. self went a little bit overboard, make a lot of sense and are vio Smoochy,” rated R for lan squirting the blood from a lent in a sort of humorous way guage and sexual references, bottle off camera. DeVito also but do entertain you, then you will be released March 29 na warned that this is definitely would probably enjoy it. If you tionwide. To reach Maggie Jirasek e- not a movie you want to bring think that this comedy is a soft children’s tale, then you better mail bunny_97222@yahoo.com your kids to. If you like movies that don’t , stay away from it ‘Death to or drop by B-104. Everything you want in a newspaper and more... It’s free.
