What kind of cauliflower I didn't like?
Meatloaf?
Single?
Uh-oh.
Try the Zappa pack. It's Cheese Whiz for one.
Cheese Whiz changes everything.
Some people drive miles out of their way to buy what they think is the best dog or cat food.
But the fact is, this is all you have to drive.
Because you don't have to go further than cat foods for every stage of your pet's life.
To me, there's nothing better than Purino One.
Purino One, second to none. Now for your dog and cat.
H&R Block is prepared to take care of anyone's taxes.
We have to know the changes. We have to know the forms.
Choose H&R Block to get their tax returns done right.
We're America's tax team. Put us to work for you.
Throughout the Denver area, there's a growing concern for personal fitness and health care.
To provide timely medical information, Channel 7 has developed your health today.
Jenny Craig Weight Loss Centers will be your information source in the area of weight loss and nutrition on Your Health Today.
Let Jenny Craig show you more about how to begin a happier, healthier, and more nutritious way of life.
Contact Jenny Craig by calling 1-800-76-JENNY for a center near you.
And watch for Your Health Today on KNGH, Colorado's 7.
Don't need no diamonds. Don't need no pearls. As long as I got you, I'm the king of the world.
Quiet, boys! Go to church!
That's the Amateur Night performance that launches a career for the five heartbeats in a new musical about the rise of a singing group that's made up of five very different members.
The movie was directed and co-written by Robert Townsend and made a lot of waves with his debut film, Hollywood Shuffle, a few years ago.
That was a send-up of Hollywood's favorite cliches about black actors.
Now Townsend gets the chance to star in a role that is not as cliched as Duck, who is too shy to ask a girl out on a date.
Can't dance. Don't know how to talk to women. It's a virgin. Look at that dumb little look on his face.
The heartbeats get some dance tips from an old hooper played by show business veteran Harold Nicholas.
One of the movie's scene stealers is 12-year-old Tressa Thomas as Duck's little sister with a big voice.
The five heartbeats tells the story of that singing group over a period of some 30 years as they hit the top and then when Eddie, their lead singer, hits the skids.
There is really too much story here for one movie, too many characters, too many years, and so there are some gaps in the narrative, but the energy in the film is joyous, the acting is strong, and after a slow start I found I was really caring about these characters.
And we continue our split view throughout the show because this picture didn't touch me. I mean, I like films about musical acts getting together.
I think a better film like this involving young women from about 18 years ago is a film called Sparkle, which I thought was a really special film, and I think if people are interested in this kind of picture that would be one that they should rent.
Here I felt that all the story lines were kind of predictable. I mean, you got the one on drugs and the one, actually the one that I did like was the kid who gets involved in the church.
I thought that may not be original, but at least it was freshly done.
The rest of it I just saw were, you know, the crisis, the triumph, and really wide swings so that it seemed kind of a mechanical story to me.
The music's good, but that's off of a soundtrack.
I liked, you see, when the movie started I didn't know who all the characters were for about 20 minutes.
There was very erratic editing, and I thought this movie just doesn't know where it's going, and then somehow, so that I had some of the same objections you had, but somehow as the movie got along, then I found out what the relationships were,
and as I began to care, I found that there were little scenes for each character in which that person was faced with a problem in his life and had to solve it both for himself and in terms of the group, or not solve it.
The whole story about Eddie, the lead singer, and what happens to him I didn't think was cliched, and even if it was, it's based on, actually on some real life stories that Townsend used so that you can't really claim it's cliched.
I think you put your finger on it when you said that there are too many stories in too many years. Frankly, Spike Lee, I think, did a better job with another musical group in Moe Better Blues, where at least we saw some richness in the character.
This thing is just too, just too much.
I liked it. Coming up next, the object of beauty with John Malkovich and Annie McDowell in Big Trouble as they come close to losing their bankroll in Europe.
Please don't talk about liquidating me.
Where should we push it to this time?
Not that place again.
Let's take it to budget transmission.
But how far is it?
It says here there's a budget transmission just up ahead.
Well, let's go. It's gotta be better than that last place.
We have a warranty good anywhere we go. Where to, Wilma?
Driving. With budget transmission, we're set for life.
Channel 7 and AFC are offering a free tax guide to help with your 1990 taxes. Pick yours up at Channel 7, AFC, or the Ville Italia Mall information booth.
For details call 922-5900 and look for AFC's weekly tax tips every Monday on 7 News at Noon.
A child who has been abused lives in a terrifying world. So far this year in Colorado, more children have died from child abuse than any time in our history.
Now's the time to take action. If you suspect child abuse, call your local county social services department and do it now.
It's a sport, just a game. But it gives us an opportunity to do things most people only dream of doing.
So when we get a chance to help others, there's just no better feeling.
For several years, the Denver Nuggets have carried on a giving tradition called the NET Foundation.
Every year, Nuggets players donate countless hours and hundreds of thousands of dollars to various charitable organizations in the Rocky Mountain region.
The Denver Nuggets NET Foundation, a giving tradition.
Would you call it greed?
Would I call what greed?
What's been coming between us?
That's John Malkovich and Andy McDowell as a yuppie couple in London living off their credit cards in The Object of Beauty, a strangely appealing drama about a pair of most unlikable layabouts
living the high life in a London hotel room until they start running out of money.
And Malkovich suggests to McDowell that she sell her valuable little Henry Moore sculpture.
McDowell has a better idea. A larcenist wanted that.
He suggests hiding the sculpture, claiming that it was stolen, and getting the insurance money to help pay their debts.
Well, it is against the law. I hate to break it to you. Of course, prison is one way of cutting down on hotel bills.
Before they can put that plan into effect, the sculpture is stolen for real.
Now, completely without assets, Malkovich contemplates his own suicide and his obituary.
Best known for his wit, wardrobe, and business acumen, Bartholomew died penniless and in an untimely death without a watch in an overpriced London hotel room which he could not afford.
Malkovich is terrific playing a louse. The other key player in the story is the hotel maid, a deaf mute played by Rudy Davies, who was suspected by the hotel manager of swiping the statue.
Mrs. Arthur, I think perhaps the most sensible thing to do would be to search wherever it is that Jenny lives.
Now, what happens in the story is that Malkovich and McDowell are brought closer together by this event, by the theft, forced to scramble for some money, they are forced to focus on each other,
and their tentative surface relationships needed that crisis to affect some bonding.
And I was very surprised that I stayed with these mostly unlikable characters.
Annie McDowell is not at her best here acting. She isn't very convincing expressing anger.
But John Malkovich is excellent and was becoming his signature role, the smug jerk, who secretly, and he really does this very well, who secretly loathes himself.
He seems very competent, but you really know that he doesn't like himself.
And this is a fresh script written and directed by Michael Lindsay Hogg, I guess worked on Brideshead Revisited. It's a good film.
I liked it a whole lot. What I liked about it was the fact that at the very same time it was a character study of the personalities of all the people involved,
the couple, the maid, her brother, the hotel manager, the security guy, each one has a different and peculiar personality.
And at the same time it's a little bit of a thriller in which you trace this valuable object that it goes from hand to hand and almost gets lost and gets found again.
It disappears, it reappears, so that there's a lot of ingenuity in the construction of the screenplay,
and at the same time a lot of subtlety in the characterization. Often those two things don't go together.
Well, you make a real good point about those side characters. And when you say the word screenplay, you know,
we have been knocking American movie scripts now for the last few years. They seem to really have deteriorated in quality.
Somebody really wrote specific characters here. I forgot about the brother of the maid.
That's a real good punk character. And not written punk fly off and be flashy like it might happen in an American film,
but the kid's got a problem there, and he's fascinating. This is a really good writing.
Well, you know, if you took the story of this screenplay and described it, you could see how it could really be turned into a crummy would-be comedy,
in which this couple doesn't have any money, and then the sculpture is stolen, and then it turns up again, and then it disappears again,
and people are running around the hotel, and there's all the...
The fact is that the dialogue here, the timing, the way the scenes are handled make it into a good movie.
And so you're right. It's the writing. It's the writing that makes it something special.
When we come back, Daddy Nostalgia, with Dirk Bogart's first performance in a decade, is a man who gets ready to die.
I think of the past, and I burst out laughing.
Here's Grandpa introducing our new big bag of microwave popcorn.
For when you're with friends.
And I have our singles bag, for when you're not. And now we're going to trade.
Not a chance, Gary. Not a chance.
Big bag or single. New, from Orville Redenbacher.
You know, Grandpa, for a single gram of fat, you could have three whole cups of our light popcorn.
Or some light potato chips.
Oh, really?
Yeah, really. Three of them. Orville Redenbacher's light microwave popcorn.
You could eat a ton of it.
One diet soft drink cools a hot thirst like no fizzy diet cola can.
Crystal light diet soft drink mix, with no carbonation, so it quenches better.
Beyond a shadow of a doubt.
Light, luscious, crystal light, with Nutrisweet, the coolest quencher under the sun.
Now we come to a movie that deals in a very private and tender way with a man who knows that he's going to die.
The man is played by Dirk Bogart, a very good actor.
He was a British salesman who was married to a French woman, and now, at the end of his life, has little to say to her.
But after he has serious heart surgery, their daughter, played by Jane Birkin, comes to stay with them at their home in southern France.
And this is almost the first time in her life that she and her father have really talked to one another.
When you've gone, I shall have no one to talk to except the old women here.
You've got money?
Mm. I sometimes wonder if we ever had anything to talk about.
The dialogue in this movie is especially well written, and there's poetry in moments like this one, where Bogart frankly considers his approaching death.
I'm not ready to leave the party, and I'm very irritated when I think life is going to stop suddenly.
And more irritated to realize it'll go on without me.
I don't care for that at all.
We have a great talent for life, you and I.
Don't waste it.
Daddy Nostalgia was directed by one of the best directors around right now, Bertrand Tavernier, who also made Round Midnight.
It was written by his former wife, Colo Tavernier O'Hagan, about the death of her own father.
So this is sort of an autobiographical film about saying goodbye.
Dirk Bogart is perhaps the best actor Tavernier could have possibly chosen for this role, where he projects not only resignation, but also intelligence, regret, and humor.
What touched me was that the father and daughter did get the chance to say goodbye.
What touched me even more was that the husband and wife were never quite able to cross the barrier between them.
And that, I think, is really the greatness of this picture, because, again, I think that normally when you make a movie like this, the tendency is to wrap everything up neatly.
And so that the husband and wife have at least one scene of mutual respect, and then there's hope in some way, you know, that he'll live on in their memory.
No. This picture is written hard, but is also very tender.
The relationship between the father and the daughter is beautiful.
And why can't we live with both things?
Why can't we live with a man who has no rapport with...