Savannah Morning News • Frktey, July 17,1992 Section C

BIG BOY: Little Adam is portrayed

by twins Daniel and Joshua Shalikar

Here's a glance at movies opening today in Sa-

vannah theaters:

• MAN TROUBLE - Ellen Barkin plays a clas-

sical singer and Jack Nicholson portrays a con
man posing as herattack-dog trainer in this ro-
mantic comedy. Rated PG^ 13.

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BEAUFORT WATERFRONT: Sailboats framed by colorful flowers on the beautiful South Carolina coast
SfMCill A Review
By ERIC RIES
Assistant Features Editor

By JOHN C. WILLIAMS and NATALIE PATTON
Staff Writers •*
EAUFORT,S.C. - Continuing a 37-year tra-
's wet- [dition that celebrates coastallife in the Low-
cwntry, the Beaufort County Water Festival
under way this weekend - with a prom-
and-wild raft ising lineup that offers sailing regattas, ski shows,
musical diversity, shrimp boils, skydiving, historic
tours and much more
races will open Saturday morning opens the festival with wet-and-
wild raft races in the Beaufort River, just a few yards
away from the perfect viewing spot in the city's Henry
the nine-day C. Chambers Waterfront Park.
The main events, though, the free ones that attract
the largest crowds, this year are scheduled for only
Beaufort County the closing weekend instead of both weekends.
Reacting to tighter economic times and recent
complaints that the festival had grown too long ~ run-
Water Festival ning until this year for 10days, with two weekends of
activities - the Water Festival this year is one day
shorter.
with a splash Organizers say that with good weather and the
trend for families taking regional vacations, this
year's Water Festival could draw 100,000 visitors from
the Southeast.
"It's been a lot of work putting it all together, but
it's been a lot of fun," said Danny Charpentier, a
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The nine-day, Beaufort Water Festival be- Show Band
gins Saturday and continues through July 26. SUNDAY
7:30 p.m. - Miss Beaufort County Pageant
Here are some of the highlights for this year's
MONDAY
festival:
7:30 p.m. - Talent Show
SATURDAY
7:30 p.m. - Opening ceremonies TUESDAY
in \\ \\n\\. s.r. 8:30 p.m. - Parris Island Marine Corps 8.30 p.m. - 'Reggae Night'
downtown businessman serving as commodore for the
1992 festival, "Tm going to miss it when it's all over."
Led by Charpentier, the Water Festival Committee
began work shortly after last summer's festival end-
ed, organizing and planning for this month's blowout.
The Water Festival began in the 1930s when Beau-
fort residents took to holding riverside picnics and
sailing races.
Looking even further back, festival organizers
point to antebellum days when plantation owners
raced barges on the Beaufort River and other tidal
waters as a cooling diversion from the heat and hu-
midity.
Saturday's opening-day events include a horseshoe
tournament in the waterfront park from 10 a.m. to 2
p.m., an all-day fishing tournament at Paradise Pier
on Hunting Island, opening ceremonies in the park at
7:30 p.m. and a performance by the Parris Island Ma-
rine Corps Show Band at 8:30p.m.
Sunday brings a poker run on the Beaufort River
from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., where area boaters travel
from point to point collecting playing cards to fill out a
poker hand.
A sailing regatta is scheduled from noon to 3 p.m.,
with the Miss Beaufort County Pageant set for 7:50
p.m. Admission to the pageant is $7 for adults and $3
for children.
• See FESTIVAL, Page4C
*•
WEDNESDAY
5 p.m. - Bed Race
8 p.m. - Teen Dance
THURSDAY
10a.m. - Antique Show
6 p.m. - Lowcountry Supper
8 p.m. - The Hollanders in concert
Assuming you've already figured out that "'Hon-
ey, I Blew Up the,Kid" isn't the cautionary tale of a
stressed-out parent who TNT's his child < "If you
don't get help at Charter, PLEASE get help some-
where!" I, Walt Disney Pictures' inevitable follow-up
to its explosively popular 1989 flick "Honey, I Shrunk
the Kids" holds no surprises at all
Just as the previous film's ad-line might well have
been "Let's get small," its sequel's unstated slogan
is "Let's get tall." In neither case is the plot compli-
cated or challenging - in the first film, a nutty in-
ventor (played by Rick Morariis) reduces his proge-
ny to mite size; in its successor, he enlarges his tod-
dler to a mighty size. But at least the situations were
somewhat imaginative in "Shrunk," and the kids
were personable.
"Honey. I Blew Up the Kid," on the otlier hand,
seems at a loss as to what to do with its not unim-
pressive special effects. And its star, 2-year-old
Adam (as played by twins Daniel and Joshua
Shalikar), is just a big baby in more ways than one.
Irritatingly heedless of parental orders at all times
(and not all that cute, either, whatever the filmmak-
ers might think >, he's the kind of kid who deserves to
be bent over a gargantuan knee and have his expan-
sive heinie spanked vigorously.
This time around, eccentric scientist Wayne
Szalinski (Moranis) has moved his family from Fres-
no to the Las Vegas suburb of Vista Del Mar, where
he is now employed by prestigious Sterling Laborato-
ries. Although he is a favorite of company founder
and president Clifford Sterling {Lloyd Bridges),
Wayne's immediate boss, the priggish and egocentric
Hendrickson (John Shea), loathes the flaky genius.
At home, meanwhile, Wayne is driving his family
and neighbors crazy with His various inventions,
which range from a mechanized mailbox to a junky-
looking solar-powered van. To his,wife and kids he is
a lovable and erratically brilliant lug; to the citizens
of Vista Del Mar. he is a potential menace.
Everyone's worst fears are confirmed, of course,
when an experiment goes predictably awry and baby
Adam - gradually at first, then more rapidly as he
• See BANG, Page 3C

Guns N* Roses No Nastier Than Rolling Stones

An Analysis
By J.D. CONSIDtNE
Th« Baltimore Sun
As much as rock 'n' roH still likes to play
at being rebellion incarnate, we all know
that it's just an act. Rock is part of the es-
tablishment now; it's the music of restau-
rants and waiting rooms, the sort of thing
parents sing along to while the children roll
their eyes hi embarrassment. And as such,
most rock bands these days exude all the
menace and malevolence of a roomful of
Rotarians . get the drug problems that eventually
Except, that is, for Guns N* Roses.
These guys were trouble from the start.
Even before most fans had ever heard "Ap-
petite tor Destruction," the album's cover
- taken from a painting by artist Robert
Williams - was getting the Gunners in trou-
ble, outraging women's groups with its ap-
parent misogyny. Geffen Records, the
group's label, immediately redesigned the
package in hopes of quieting any controver- But as the Gunners launch what ought to
sy. But Guns N' Roses was only starting to be yet another scandal-studded tour, (a sta-
stir things up. dium spectacular featuring Metallica and
Since then, the band has been embroiled Faith No More), it is worth wondering
in a seemingly endless string of scandals. It whether enough is enough. Granted, Guns
isn't just the usual range of rock star drugs- N' Roses have made great records, but does
arid-debauchery, either, although the band that entitle the group to act like morons or
has hardly stinted in that department, as live like barbarians? At what point does ar-
anyone who watched a sloshed Slash and tistic achievement begin to balance out anti-
Duff curse their way through the American social activity9
Music Awards a few years back can attest. Or can any amount of music excuse this
No, what put Guns N* Roses into the bad- band's behavior''
boy big leagues was serious business. For- For many older rock fans - those raised
on the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix and the
drummed Steven Adlcr out of the band, or Who - the answer is as immediate as it is
the public puDchouts that muddied Axl obvious: No way. As far as these listeners
Rose's marriage to Erin Everly. Those are concerned, Guns N' Roses crossed the
were minor infractions compared to some of line too long ago for there to be any hope of
the stuff of which this band stands accused coming back now Why, compared to Guns
- thing? like advocating racism (in the N' Roses, even bands as dangerous as the
song "One In a Million"), or inciting a riot Rolling Stones seem like harmless dilet-
(during a concert last year outside St
Louis, Mo.). • See QUNS, Page 10C NO WALLFLOWERS: Slash, Duff, Axi Rose of Guns N' Roses