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Billed as a "classic thriller with a
twist of romance," "Someone To
Watch Over Me" is something to look
forward to now that the summer
movie season is finally over. The new
film from Ridley Scott ("Alien" and
"Blade Runner is one f tne firs
films to come from Columbia Pic
tures since David Puttnam took over,
slashing budgets and stars paychecks
and promising no more nightmares
like "Ishtar."
"Someone To Watch Over Me"
stars Tom Berenger as Mike Keegan,
a recently-promoted detective from
Queenstown, New York City, and
Mimi Rogers as Claire Gregory, a
highly sophisticated, megarich, Man
hattan lady.
The two characters could not be
farther apart, as the opening party
scenes graphically illustrate. The first
scene is at Keegan's home, where he
is celebrating his promotion with
colleagues and family (a very close,
tight-knit community it is, too). The
second is the opening of an uptown
nightclub, where Gregory witnesses
the murder of a close friend.
Why the murder is committed is
Richard Smith
Cinema
not important. What is important is
that Gregory is seen by the murderer,
Joey Venzer (Jerry Orbach), who
narrowly misses making it a double.
With Gregory the only witness and
Venzer still loose, she needs protect
ing. This becomes Keegan's first duty
in his new role.
"IVe never seen anyone killed
before," says Gregory, still recovering
from the shock.
"IVe never been a detective before,"
says Keegan with an understanding
smile. And now we have a movie on
our hands.
Their two lifestyles are still, for the
meantime at least, neatly contrasted.
Even Keegan's craggy face looks out
of place in Gregory's stylized, sym
metrical apartment. However, with
the killer moving in, Gregory quickly
develops a trust for Keegan over the
other detectives, and their relation
ship develops even quicker.
The sexual chemistry between the
two is obvious, and it would not be
so painful if it weren't for the fact
that Keegan has a magnificent wife
and kid back home. (Nobody can care
much for Gregory's drippy boyfriend,
however).
In fact, the relationship, its com
plications and its implications
develop so naturally that the lurking
Venzer becomes almost superfluous,
and the thriller loses some of its edge,
the murder being nothing more than
a vehicle to get Keegan and Gregory
together. This is something of a
disappointment since, with Scott
behind the cameras, a more suspense
ful film might have been expected.
Certainly Scott is in form when the
killer and his associates are stalking,
particularly in the Manhattan apart
ment late at night. Gregory rarely
seems to be in great peril though, and
in any case she is more interested in
Keegan than in the potential danger
that is closing in. This is really no
matter, the pace is still fast if not
furious, and the romance more than
makes up for any lack of thrills.
Characterization is extremely
strong in this film. Rogers is convinc
ing in the difficult role of Claire
Gregory, who finds herself very much
in love perhaps for the first time
in the midst of danger. Berenger
is extraordinarily watchable as Mike
Keegan, forced to rethink radically
his attitude towards his job, life and
lifestyle.
However, it is Lorraine Bracho as
Ellie Keegan who steals every scene
she is in. She's an ex-cop herself, and
her loyalty to her husband and
disbelief in the situation he has
somehow created is crucial to the
success of the film. It is a role Bracho
excels in. She is someone to watch
for in the future.
"Someone To Watch Over Me" is
well worth a visit. Audience reaction
at Saturday night's sneak preview at
the Plaza Theatre was positive.
Not for the first time, however, the
billing is wrong. "Someone To Watch
Over Me" is more a classic romance
with a twist of thriller than the other
way around.
Durham club rocks till the break of dawn
DTH Julie Stovall
BSM President Kenneth Perry speaks at the anti-Bork rally Monday
Rally
from page 1
labeling of Bork's opposers as radical
special interest groups.
"I am not an ideological extremist,"
she said. "I am a person concerned
with the rights guaranteed to me by
the Constitution."
She added that neither women nor
minorities were special interest
groups.
Jaye Sitton of the Women's Forum
told the crowd that Bork believed in
interpreting the Constitution by the
intentions of its founders.
"Bork has to realize that the
Constitution was written by a group
of white, male property-owners," she
said.
Lightning Brown, education coor
dinator for Carolina Gay and Lesbian
Association and a member of the
Board of Directors of the Human
Rights Fund, compared Bork to Sen.
Joseph McCarthy.
He said both Bork and McCarthy
were a threat to freedom of speech
and the right to privacy.
Brown told the crowd that a right
to privacy does exist in the
Constitution..
"Would you want Robert Bork in
your bedroom?" he asked the group.
The crowd responded with a boister
ous "No!"
The rally was co-sponsored by the
Women's Forum and the Campus Y.
Marlene Calderon, who helped
organize the event, said she was
surprised by the crowd's enthusiasm
and participation.
"It was a huge success," Calderon
said. "We're really happy with the
way the rally turned out."
By JAMES BURRUS
Staff Writer
U2, Let's Active and Sid Vicious
posters hang on the walls. Over the
loudspeakers come the sounds of the
Stones. In this small but cozy cafe
there are tables for dining and bar
stools for drinking beer. Some people
are eating chili; others are sipping on
bottles of Dos Equis. It could be two
in the afternoon or two in the
morning, for this is the Midnight
Rock in Durham, a place that finds
it hard to quit serving warm food,
cold beer and that good ol' rock 'n'
roll music.
The Midnight Rock, located at 744
Ninth St., is open from 1 1 a.m. until
3 a.m. The laundromat-turned-bar
began operating Aug. 7 under the
ownership of Mahnee Dinsmore and
Jim Soolom.
The center of the Midnight Rock
is music, whether it be prerecorded
or live. Friday and Saturday nights,
the club features live acts. Two
weekends ago, Dexter Romweber
played the club with the Versatones.
The Versatones have become the
house band and will play every
weekend.
"(The music of the Versatones) is
rock 'n' roll with a little bit of the
Athens sound thrown in," Soolom
said.
Soolom said the club will probably
stick to showcasing local acts instead
of trying to draw in a regional or
national college band. He mentioned
jazz on Sundays as a possibility for
the future.
Since the club does let people under
21 through its doors on band nights,
the Midnight Rock draws in Duke
students as well as local regular types,
Soolom said. Students living on
Duke's East campus can walk to the
hangout, while those on West campus
must take a bus.
Although the crowd is varied, it is
necessarily small; the club's capacity
is only 75. "It's a small intimate
crowd," said Soolom.
Dinsmore handles the restaurant
side of the business. Right now, the
menu features burgers, omelettes and
chili. Dinsmore said she plans to enter
the bar's vegetarian chili into the
WCHL Chili Cookout.
In the future the bar may offer a
salad bar and have different cuisine
nights.
"I hope we can do some ethnic
nights or more exotic cuisines that
are just not available around here,"
Dinsmore said.
Besides hot food, the Midnight
Rock also offers cold beer in a lot
of varieties. The club has eight
American beers in bottles, three on
draft and 25 imports in bottles,
Dinsmore said.
Soolom said he got in the business
because it "looked like a profitable
venture adding something Durham
has probably needed for a long time
a rock 'n' roll late-night place."
He said, "It's probably worth a trip
from Chapel Hill."
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