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Rating: PG, 114 minutes

Available April 15

Stars: Whoopi Goldberg, Dianne Wiest, Tim Daly, Bebe Neuwirth.

Whoopi Goldberg stars in this movie about an investment banker on the rise until her male co-worker (Tim Daly) steals her promotion. After striking out on her own, she creates a mythical white male "senior partner" and takes the corporate world by storm, until she has to prove that her associate is indeed real.

Rating: R, 148 minutes

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Stars: Kevin Bacon, Robert DeNiro, Dustin Hoffman, Jason Patric, Brad Pitt.

This drama is a story about friendship "that runs deeper than blood.'' Based on a true story, it is about four men who grow up in New York's Hell's Kitchen.

After playing a prank that went awry, the four were then sent to reform school, where a prison guard brutalized them. Fifteen years later, they come together, once again, to get revenge against the guard.

Preacher's Wife

Rating: PG, 125 minutes

Available April 29

Stars: Denzel Washington, Whitney Houston

After the wife of a reverend, played by Whitney Houston, begins to doubt her husband's effect on their troubled community, an angel (Denzel Washington) is sent to fix things. The angel, however, begins to fall in love with the preacher's wife.

Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

Rating: PG-13, 120 minutes

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Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes, John Leguizamo, Paul Sorvino.

The new and updated version of the Shakespeare classic is set in the modern-day world of Verona Beach. The two families, the Montagues and Capulets, have now become feuding gangs.

Rating: PG, 121 minutes

Available April 15

Stars: Gwyneth Paltrow, Toni Collette. Alan Cumming

Jane Austin's 1816 classic novel is brought to the big screen and stars Gwyneth Paltrow as a wealthy young woman who plays matchmaker in other people's affairs. Her matches make a mess of everyone's lives until she finds a match for herself.

Extreme Measures

Rating: R, 118 minutes

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Stars: Hugh Grant, Gene Hackman, Sarah Jessica Parker, David Morse

Hugh Grant stars as an emergency room doctor who investigates the mysterious death of a homeless man. His search for the truth puts more than his career in jeopardy after he discovers underhanded medical experiments performed by a higher-up (Gene Hackman).

Thursday, April 10, 1997

by Kelly Ann Monahan staff writer

Blasting music. Bright lights. Tons of unfamiliar faces. Many social butterflies know these places all too well. In fact, these bars and night clubs have become part of the.i,rbirthright.

But if you want a taste of something different, a casual place to relax, hear music and meet people without all the fuss, coffeehouses and similar small venues may be just what you are looking for.

The Lansdowne Folk Club is one of the most striking places in probably one of the most unexpected settings. In fact, the club is found in a large brick building owned by the borough of Lansdowne.

Aha, looks are very deceiving.

You would not expect to find so many people and so much talent in a not-so-typical location. But the club draws crowds of a wide age range over the Philadelphia area. It also books fairly big name acts like The Kennedys.

Pete and Maura Kennedy, a national acoustic folk rock act, who packed the 87-seat venue at their fourth performance at the club on Thursday, March 27, feel that most people come to the club because it is like a "big family a very openminded scene."

Their performance was the epitome of vitality, spotlighting Maura· s sweet voice and Pete's creative guitar licks. The audience flocked to sign their mailing list and buy their CD "Life Is Large" after the show.

Christine Havrilla, the opening act, performed alternative acoustic rock with the refreshing energy and humor that paved the way for The Kennedys. Havrilla, who has been performing live for four years, enjoys playing at the club because " people actual-