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OUT OF HOLLYWOOD

Af1er Hours. A yuppie ventures disastrously, hilar– iously into trendy SoHo. Martin Scorsese's fizzy direction makes this the year's most outrageous shaggy-people story. Back To The Future. Robert Zemeckis made the year's biggest h11 out of the Oedipus myth: a sly, charming time-travel comedy about a boy any mother could love. Blood imple. A seedy bar, a wayward affair, a

double-cross murder- time– tested ingredients of the 8 movie, which Prodigy Brothers Joel and Ethan Coen have al– chemi,ed into a textbook thrill– er with a deliciously acrid tang. Brazil. Terry Gilliam's dysto– pian fantasy sounds a lot like Orwell"s but - in its wit, ex– travagance and 1oie de mour,r - looks like nothing from 1984 or 1985. After a noisy campaign to secure its U. . relea e, Brazil won a slew of year -end criucs· prizes. Thank you, anta. Into The Nigh1. Michelle

ylvester ta/lone starred in the box· office hit Rambo.

Pfeiffer (about whom, wow!) and Jeff Goldblum are two lost souls trapped in Oirect0r John Landis" L.A. mghtscape, where every black soul gleams like Bakeli1e. Funny, sexy, highly toxic. Our of Africa. Aided by the luminou Meryl Streep, Direccor ydney Pollack turns Isak Oinsen·s gnomic memoir of her life in Kenya into an elegiac romance about lost love and a lost landscape A haunting. hypnotic expenence Prini's Honor. Jack icolson plays dumb, Kath – leen Turner play chic, as two Mafia hit folk doomed to hit on each other. Artful black comedy in Director John Huston·s cla sic mode· sardonic, but not quite as tough as 11 talks. The Pruple Rose Of Cairo. A ew Jer ey wait– ress ( M,µ Farrow) seeks romantic 1ransfigura1ion at the local movie house and, alas. finds 11 in Woody Allen's graceful fantasy Ran. Akira Kuro awa'a adaptation of Km~ Lear 1s an awesome act of re1maginat1on 1hat realizes the screen·s pmential for epic grandeur. o quibbling a masterpiece. Wetherby. Frayed fr1endsh1ps, mordant humor and a death that blasts away at an English town·s smug– ness. Writer-Direetor David Hare revives an ancient pleasure a movie that forces the viewer to think. It is very much worth the bother. Kiss Of The pidcr Woman. William Hurt and Raul Julia demonstrate how much emotional power superb acung can generate even m the most alien of settings - a story about a homosexual and a pol1t1 - cal prisoner in a South Amencan Jail. ilverado. Who says the Western 1s dead 1 That thar genre was obviously JU t playing possum Wi1nc~s. A dark beau1y from Peter Weir abou1 a b1g-rny cop (Hamson Ford) who sexually awakens an Amish Widow (Kelly McG1lli ).

Kansa, City Royals celebrate their vicrory afrer the World Series.

A RECORD SEASON

ball game." Modern eras youngest 20-game winner twenty-year -old Dwight Gooden achieved the pitcher's triple crown, lc:ading the league in victones ( 24), strikeouts ( 268) and earned run average ( 1.53). Then he promptly became the youngest to win the Cy Young award too. Three hundred wins after four attempts, Phil iekro, 46, finally entered the exclu 1ve 300 club with an 8-0 win on the la t day of the season. That earned him another record - he succeeded atchel Paige as the oldest man to throw a huwut. Three thousand hits over hadowed by Rose's phenomenal numbers, Rod Carew qui– etly became only the 14th player to reach 3,000. Afterward, he and Angel manager Gene Mauch stole a fir t base memento. Three hundred win pitcher Tom caver turned 54,000 Yankee tad1um rooters into temporary White ox fan la t August when he returned to the city where he en J<>yed his best years to po t the big victory. Then he doubled over in relief and waited for the cheer

The license plate on his new red Corvette reads "'PR -1192," and there isn't a baseball fan worth his Wheaties who doesn't know what it meam. On eptember 11, at preci ely 8:01 p.m., 44-year-old Pete Rose strode to the plate at Cincinatti's Riverfront radium and with one swing of the bat put his name above Ty Cobb"s for "Most Hit , Career." Rose· t1m1ng couldn"t have been finer. In a year when fans suffered revelations of extensive drug use by players, interminable labor talks, a ministrike and two more Billy Martin brawls, the accomplishments of Rose and a few other milestone achievers were a spectacular anti– dote to the pain. The big hit. when 1t finally came, brought on a seven-minute standing ovation from 7,237; the Corvette ( presented by Red own– er Marge chott ); countless promot1ons ( in - eluding Rose on 10 million boxes of the Break fa. t of Champions); and, from the man himself, some rare tear , Then he gor the obligatory call from Ronald Reagan. 'Thank you, Mr. President," said Charlie I lustle, who added as only he could, "you mi sed a good

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