Friday, March 18, 1983
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lue GQ search. . .
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I looked down at him.Jle didn't move. What a gift it
must be to be able to sleep through anything. I thought.
"1 came to present you with a bill for damage to the
Showcase," Mona said. You could tell she had been
elected the mouthpiece for the gang. "But when I got
here 1 ran into her," she said, indicating Pemberton.
"She toldnie a sad little tale about a guy she calls the
GQ Guy and an even sadder little tale about how you
agreed to work for no money, to find the GQ Guy for
her out of the goodness of your heart."
She tore up what I presume was the bill for the
damages and stared at me with Perry Mason eyes. "After 1
heard that one, the only thing I wanted to know was.
What's in it for Gumshoe?" You may be able to fool this
little tootsie, but you won't fool me. You want her for
yourself, don't you? You'll wander around doing your
flat foot act for a couple of days, show up at all the
right speakeasies and make a few very public efforts to
And this guy, and score big points with Diane here. Then
you come in with the sad news that there is no GQ Guy,
or a barfly you know says he left town or something. She
puts on the big downcast face about how she'll never get
the GQ Guy , and simpers about what a fool she has been.
"Then you," she said, pointing at me, "will put on
your best heci-with-a-hcart face and tell her that a "rod.
in love is redundant and maybe she'll feel better about the
whole thing after a drink that turns into dinner that turns
into dancing that turns into who-knows-what with that
lovable lug. Miles Gumshoe."
1 thumbed through my mental Rolodex of profound
one-liners for a snappy response and came up empty.
Time for a brief dodge. "What about her," I said, pointing
at the dame whov name I didn't know. "How does she
fit into the wclconVing party here?"
"She came hereto apologize for beating you senseless
at the Showcase," Mona said gruffly.
I leaned back in the chair. '"No problem," I said
magnanimously. "All in the line of duty."
"fortunately, we talked her out of it." Mona said.
"Oil," I said, my voice floating around the room like
a dime-store balloon and falling nowhere near anyone's
ears. "Well, you seem to have everything figured out,
don't you?" I said, hoping that if 1 kept talking 1 would
eventually have something worthwhile to say. "Let's say
you ore right, and 1 duped Diane Pemberton here with a
littlv" bit of tough-guy breezetalk and I'm actually out to
get her tor myselt. jt mat's true, how come 1 am going to
the Drumstick tonight to meet the GQ Guy?" I said,
sitting back smugly as if 1 had just found Dorothy an easy
way out of Oz.
"We're going with you," Mona said defiantly.
"He wants me to meet him alone," I said.
"So that you can tell Pemberton here that you almost
had him and he got away, right?" Mona said.
I looked at the dames one at a time, at faces that had
heard all they wanted to hear from me. well, when in
Rome, bet heavily on the lions. "OK, we go to the Drum
stick. But don't be surprised if the GQ Guy gets scared
and bolts when he sees that I'm not alone."
"Believe me," Mona said. "We won't be surprised."
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By Steve Abariotcs
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Ever since John Car
penter released "Hall
oween," low-budget hor
ror films have consistent
ly copied Carpenter's ut
ilization of stupid char
acters and implausible
plots without embracing
his jolting cinematic
style. When the camera
stops moving, or the
subject is somehow
placed awkwardly within
the frame in a Carpen
ter film, it's time to
hang onto your seat be
cause something is about
to happen. The scare
then comes or it doesn't.
Or it nearly comes, fol
lowed by a relaxed pause
and then it really comes!
The scene must be skill
fully set up and executed
or the film will not
successfully grab the aud
ience by the throat. The
latest horror film, en
titled "Curtains," is no
John Carpenter film.
If you enjoy seeing
beautiful women butch
ered with a variety of
sharp implements, this
film is for you. Despite
one or two scary mo
ments and some nice
imagery, "Curtains" is,
for the most part, a
waste of time.
The story is plaus
ible enough; an eccentric
movie director invites six
gunning actresses up to
his mountain estate to
audition for the psych
otic leading role in "Aud
rey," his upcoming film.
The "casting session"
turns into a bloodbath,
with scenes of bloody
pursuit that are drawn
out far too long.
Despite a script with
potential and a story
with possibilities, "Cur
tains" does not work
primarily due to bad
direction and editing
that lacks integrity. At
one point, a car brakes
hard to avoid a doll
that has been myster
iously placed on the
road. When the vehicle
skids to a stop, it is
still about a half a
mile away and the flighty
young lady leaves her car
and walks the rest of the
way. The familiar
"haunted doll" motif is
never developed and in
the end this "whodun
nit" becomes something
more like "who cares"
or even "why do it?"
The scariest thing about
this film is how it ever
got released. With the
horror genre being in
the sorry state it is
these days, one must
ask the question: Would
six girls really go at it
this hard for a role
in a horror film? The
three dollars for a tic
ket to this film would
be better spent cast to
the wind from the open
window of a moving car,
disappearing in the rear
view mirror. "Curtains"
is playing at the State
Theater.
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More than 200 film pro
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