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EDITOR: MICHAEL ROBERTS, 369-1011 THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1989 SECTION Dining newsD-3 TeIevisionD-6 GardeningD-7-9 ComicsD-15 Jim Knippenbcrg Tipoff 1 Full weekend Plan it carefully enough, and you can fill this weekend with hot rocks, action at the mall, something for your face and who knows what all else Stony sights llot rocks on the museum circuit: The Cincinnati Mineral Society shows off Treasures of the Earth at the Museum of Natural History. Besides exhibits from the museum's gem and mineral collection, there are demonstrations, a chance to check out and join society field trips Mineral Society, we mean, as opposed to society in the sense of your social betters on a field trip to, say, a Lily Pulitzer shop illustrated talks on Smithsonian gems, )t fir" 7 L' 4 ill I ii it Jeremy Irons doubles the horror playing twins in Dead Ringers. Irons on video New videos include Irons' 'Dead Ringers' BY HANS KELLNER Knight News Service Jeremy Irons was robbed. Despite a nod from the New York Film Critic's Circle, which named Irons' devastating dual role in Dead Ringers the best male performance of 1988, Irons' best work has been forgotten amid the clamor for Dustin Hoffman's Oscar-winning Rain Man. Why the snub? It might have something to do with the fact that Dead Ringers, arriving in video stores this week, is the suffocating story of twin gynecologists whose twisted medical hijinks and sexual confusion lead to drug-addiction and madness.

Hollywood can't hand out its golden statues to a movie like that. For director David Cronenberg, whose previous movies include the 1987 remake of The Fly, as well as cult shockers like Rabid and The Brood, this dark tale is relatively tame stuff. But for the average moviegoer, and especially for Irons, 40, a British stage actor who once ranked playwright Harold Printer as his favorite collaborator, Dead Ringers is strange stuff. The film is loosely based on the true story of the Marcus brothers, twin doctors discovered decaying in their garbage-strewn New York apartment in 1975. Cronenberg's fictionalization traces the final weeks of Elliot and Beverly Mantle, two Canadian gynecologists who have stretched the term "brotherly love." Elliot, suave and confident, and Beverly, his insecure, bookish twin, have impersonated one another for years, flawlessly assuming each other's personalities at work and snaring each other's women in bed.

As Elliot sharply reminds Beverly, "You haven't had any experience until I've had it too." When actress Claire Niveau (Genevieve Bujold) consults the Mantles, Beverly's initial medical curiosity turns quickly to obsessive love. As the Mantles' carefully ordered universe of "share and share alike" begins to crumble, the result is chaos. "I'm not a fan of horror or science fiction," Irons said in an interview last year. Despite his reservations, Irons took the roles because they offered "the opportunity to explore deviant personalities in an unusual way, to say the least. (That's) David's stock-in-trade, but I've always been made to be so normal.

I don't want to spend my career as boring." He prepared for the roles by watching other twin movies, such as Hayley Mills' Parent Trap and Bette Davis' Dead Ringer. "But I discovered," he said, "that the performances are overwhelmed by the twins business. The actors don't have the alive response, because your best stimulus as an actor is not knowing what the other person is going to do. The control becomes almost mechanical. "So I tried to respond to myself as much as to the moods.

I aimed to find out how they were similar what made them twins instead of just the good and bad brothers." jL i Brideshead Revisited (1981). The British mini-series based on Evelyn Waugh's novel set in Brideshead Castle. With Anthony Andrews. The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981). Based on John Fowles' novel, the story of a scandalous romance in Victorian England and a modern-day romance at a movie location.

With Meryl Streep. Moonlighting (1 982). Drama about a Polish construction crew sent illegally to London to renovate a party leader's apartment just as the Solidarity strikes begin. Sigourney Weaver in Gorillas in the Mist. This week's video releases This weekend's video releases include four top titles from last year.

Enquirer film critic Jim DeBrosse liked them all. CROSSING DELANCEY (PG) Vi A charming little romantic comedy that speaks softly and carries a big stick for mmmmmm hitting single women who think they're too I 4n tQ Sefraya(1983). Harold Pinter adapts his provocative and witty stage play about a man, his unfaithful wife and her lover. With Ben Kingsley and Patricia Hodae. good for men with lesser careers.

Amy Irving is torn between an egotistical novelist (Jeroen Krabbe) and a nice-guy pickle salesman (Peter Riegert). DEAD RINGERS (R) Jeremy Irons films and more. Including winners from the Spectrum Awards Jewelry Design Competition, which is free but may cost you a bundle if you pass a jewelry store on the way home. Call 62 1-3889. Surgical visits New wrinkle on the facial circuit: The Facial Plastic and Cosmetic Surgery Center, pretty much your full service facial repair crew, celebrates its move to a new location with an open house, tours, questions, answers and free info on this uplifting subject.

The office, a job, is equipped with areas for minor procedures; post-op rooms; a rear entrance for patients who don't want to tramp through the waiting room afterward, and more, all designed for the comfort of patients looking to ease wear i caused by the sands of time. It's 1-4 p.m. Sunday at 8044 Montgomery Road, Kenwood; call 331-9600 and say i something mean about gravity. Musically. Hot licks on the bandstand: A crowd of veteran musicians, led by one of the city's most venerable, let fly a benefit at Amber Park p.m.

Sunday. Such as: Teddy Rakel and his piano; Shirley Jester i and her trio; Mary Ellen Tanner and her voice; and Ella Lemker, the 90something pianist who built an enormous following in a 21-year run at Sorrento's. The concert is mostly vintage stuff, which is to say no Blue Oyster Cult tunes; $5 a head, for the Arthritis Foundation, covers admission and hors d'oeuvres; cash bar is on your own. It's at 3801 E. Galbraith Road.

Mall sounds Hot tips on the mall circuit: Two treasures here, beginning at Beechmont Mall, with miniversion of the popular All About Kids show. Focusing on needs and interests of families and kids under 14, it offers stage shows music, puppets, clowns, stories, fashion every 30 minutes for kids. For parents, there are experts and service providers in booths to answer questions and share info. It's free, as are food samples from Chiquita and Partridge, none of which are banana-flavored wieners. Or wiener-flavored bananas.

Mall tips II: Another freebie, this one a good deal louder and perfect for kids who gotta dance, explodes at Northgate. Sequal, a group specializing in a raucous sort of dance sound, brings Dance Beat '89 to the mall at 7:30 tonight, 1 and 3 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday. There are also autographs, meet-the-artist sessions, videos on a giant screen and free drinks.

It's open to all at the mall; follow the decibels. Center stage Fine lines on the stage circuit: Covington Latin School mixes drama with life in the Junior Drama Group's production of Addict. The play, eight vignettes about users 14 to 18, is not a documentary but is a slice of life. Not pretty lives, these, but they do have a message for troubled kids and families. Going a step beyond the usual, the school has counselors there after each performance to meet audience members, answer questions and provide direction in an informal sort of way.

It's at 8 p.m. today and Saturday, same next weekend I IS astounding in a oouDie roie as rwin I physicians. The brothers go off the deep end iJ when their obsessive relationship is threatened by the love of a worldly patient (Genevieve Bujold). A gripping but often disturbing plunge into psychological horror. GORILLAS IN THE MIST (PG-13) -The true story of Dian Fossey, whose 20-year Quest to save the last mountain gorillas in the Jim DeBrosse Film Jeremy Irons The Wild Duck in The Mission (1983).

Adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's play about a family that becomes unraveled when a husband is unable to cope with his wife's infidelity. With Liv Ullmann. Swannin Love (1984). Adaptation of a tale of doomed love from Marcel Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past." The Mission (1 986) A pacifist priest and a reformed slaver try to save innocent Indians in Argentina in the 1750s. With Robert De Niro.

Dead Ringers (1 988) David Cronenberg's psychobiological thriller is a provocative character study about the identity crisis of a pair of twins. world ended in tragedy. A photographic marvel that succumbs to Hollywood dramatization and over-acting by star Sigourney Weaver, who was nominated for an Oscar. TUCKER: A MAN AND HIS DREAM (PG) Jeff Bridges is Preston Tucker, the dreamer, Inventor and master of hype who challenged Detroit with a car decades ahead of Its time. Francis Coppola infuses the movie with Capra-esque warmth, and star Jeff Bridges makes a winning hero.

CCM's 'Requiem' to honor Corbett Jimmy Buffett Riverbend bound Corbett file 4i 'it Industrialist, philanthropist and community leader, J. Ralph Corbett was born Dec. 5, 1896, on Long Island. He married singer Patricia Barry in 1930, and came to Cincinnati in 1932 toworkforWLW-AM. BY CLIFF RADEL The Cincinnati Enquirer Good news, Parrotheads! Jimmy Buffett, who said he wasn't going to tour in 1989, is coming to Riverbend this summer.

Bad news, Deadheads! The Grateful Dead isn't. Buffett, who sold out one show at the amphitheater in 1988 (and could Buffett In 1936 he founded the NuTone a manufacturer of electrical devices. The Corbett Foundation, begun by Raloh and at the school, 22 E. 11th in Covington, it $2 for adults, $1 for students. BY RAY COOKLIS The Cincinnati Enquirer J.

Ralph Corbett was a very special person to the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. So the school is honoring the late arts patron's memory this weekend with a very special work. Giuseppe Verdi's Requiem Mass, a powerful choral masterpiece with the air of a grand opera, was a favorite of Corbett, who died Oct. 3, 1988, at the age of 91. CCM will perform the work Saturday and Sunday in Corbett Auditorium, part of the CCM performing arts complex built with funds donated by Corbett and his wife, Patricia.

"It's a sad circumstance," says mezzo-soprano Catherine Keen, a CCM graduate who returns as a soloist in the Verdi. "But I couldn't think of a better work to perform and a better reason to perform it. "It's a special thing." Keen and two of this weekend's other three soloists were recipients of scholarships provided by the Corbett Foundation. "My husband was a man who loved music that was powerful like the old Italian school, Italian opera," says Patricia Corbett. "So this happened to be one of his favorite works." Composed in 1874, the Requiem was conceived in "rather vast dimensions," as Verdi wrote, to commemorate the great Italian poet-novelist Alessandro Manzoni, who had died the previous year.

Verdi, an agnostic, intended the music more as a grand public ceremony than as a religious work. Con- Jim Knippenberg's column appears Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. Patricia Corbett Corbett in 1955, has contributed more than $30 million, more than 70 of it In Cincinnati. Among Its many recipients: the College-Conservatory of Music, Music Hall, Mercy Montessori School, Riverbend Music Center, University of Cincinnati Medical Center. J.

Ralph Corbett died Oct. 3, 1988, in Cincinnati. have easily sold out another) has two dates reserved on Riverbend's 1989 calendar, Aug. 1 and 2. His record company says so.

His management company says so. Riverbend, through general manager Mike Smith, says: "All we can confirm is that a representative from our firm is on the West coast negotiating to bring Buffett to Riverbend." Smith says not to look for the Grateful Dead, who brought 16,229 tie-dyed fans to Riverfront Coliseum April 8, at Riverbend in 1989. Although the band will be touring amphitheaters this summer, "their tour is set and there are no dates available for a return engagement in Cincinnati." As for Riverbend's rock concert series, whose lineups were set to be released today and go on sale Sunday: Their release and sale dates have been delayed for a week. The scheduling process that determines which act will go into which series is being held up by negotiations for shows starring Metallica and the Cult, the Beach Boys and Chicago, .38 Special, Neil Young, Yes, Eric Clapton, Melissa Etheridge, as well as that head Parrothead, Jimmy Buffett. Catherine Keen ductor Hans von Bulow dismissed it as "Verdi's latest opera, in ecclesiastical indeed the "Lacrimosa" section was originally written for the opera Don Carlos.

Yet listeners through the years have been moved by the dramatic impact of the Requiem's religious utterances. "There's something that's so tremendously spiritual about it," Keen says. "All the colors, the chorus, the huge sounds Patricia Corbett says she's glad CCM chose to honor her husband's memory with this music, using Corbett Scholars as soloists. "I love the idea. I think it was just a happy choice," she says.

"I'm going to be a most devout spectator." CCM faculty member Elmer Thorn- At the movies Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie a fascinating documentary. D-11. Burning Secret a young boy who comes of age in post-World War I Vienna with Faye Dunaway and Klaus Maria Brandauer. D-13. John Cusak stars in Say Anything, a romantic comedy.

D-12. Weekend Movie Guide. D-2. as will conduct the Philharmonia, choruses and soloists Ria Hagiwara (soprano), Catherine Keen (mezzo), Walter Pool (tenor), Dale Travis (bass) in Verdi's Requiem at 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday in Corbett Auditorium.

Tickets are $5 general admission, $2 senior citizen rush. Call 556-4183..