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Whitby Free Press, 21 Sep 1994, p. 7

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'j 12 Who wins this cliche slug-fest? [ from the ThursdavSentember16, 1869 edition of theI If you want a clear winner, youll have te, follow bath shows for eM1WIITVIrCHRONICLE several wecks. A word of praise: both shows make"ample use of 0 The Town Council will raise $13,,446 by direct taxation te, operate Whitby this year. color in the OR. Tbcre's almoat cnough shivers i the blood-red 0 e mbe of the 34th Battalion of Mil~Iti il attend a camp in East Whitby 1 Townshipn for their annual drill on Sept. 20. shees t hie te clche. Amos. a Grocer R. H. Jameson was presented with a silver tea service by his friends and And don't forget: Uncle Bill olers a special prize for the first well-wishers at a supper bel d in the Royal Hotel. reader to, spot the firet origi nal cliche in eithcr show. 0 The Town of Whitby will collect $100 from the sale of dog tage this year. ~Whitby F"..Pesý.Wedne9Ç4y, SePteMPr,2l1994 .P g7 Cliche. h......t..ry. clichehto th genr We won't even discuss St. Elsewhere and its contribution. But then if you rnissed Sunday night's back-to-back TV pilot medical hospital drama movies: To ERR is...Huaiid and Hawks Hope. you may have niissed the most compact evening of cliches in tv history. Try this one: aging surgeon, facing his own mortality, watches bis very own banda begin to tremor as he poura his breakfast orange juice. la this the end? But in the OR1, where to ERR ie Humid (that's wherc the show 7 gete its name, get it?), he can overcome his tremore and roll back #4f the calendar thirty years. Meanwhile, two younger surgeons, each with a point to malce, bury personal animosities to operat.e on Siamese Twins. When -one twin encounters complications in post-op, fcuding surgeons contribute their special skille. And working as a team, they ... (We won't mention distraught parents in the waiting room as a Back in the adinin office, the aging surgeon swaggers up to the corral. With Soe deft hand he catches one, two, three, flues, on the wing. And be knows bis gunhand is re..... . Sorry. Wrong cliche. The aging surgeon fails ini the test dissection of an orange. "But 1 know 1 can do it,". he says te the younger adniinistrator. "I taught you everything you know." "You cant remove the seeds fromn an orange, then no brain Ç eurgery." "It was a seediesa orange!» On Hawks Hope, a young bitter female resident doctor, knnwn for ber technical skils and lack of heart, meets a patient- witb terminal disease. "You'll play with the Hawks next year," she saye. "No," saye the patient. "'Mat's a fate woree than death." "Have it your way," she quipe. It is ber way of softening the blow. Soene Ill: Dedicated, but tired doctor ponders whether bis bectic unrelenting schedule is worth it. Working in a public hospital and ail. "I'm going out for lunch,» he tells colleagues, stepping over two corpses, a couple fighting over a revolver, and a drug deal, ail in the OR. Pan to the other faces: lunch? T7hie is unusual. WhatVs up? I h MYRTLE METHODIST SUNDAY SC.HOOL CLASS, CJ. 1893 Inteback row are: Oscar Downey, Innis Grant, Mr. Dalton David Hubbell, Mr. Up is acrose town. To The Clinic. For The TaIk. With the Ricb, Dowson and AI Carmichael. In the middle row are: Mr. MofTatt, 'ank Briggs, George Smooth, Politicaily Hip surgeon. McTaggart, Wesley Batemnan and George Downey. In the front row are. unidentified, "We'd like you te join us. Witb regular day bourg. Ski cbalet in and Sandy Johnson. Whfýt by Archives photo February. Condo ini Barbados. $120 thou te start. Plus bonuses," says Dr. Hip. 10 YEARSAGO - .. .. .. .1 . - 1fromn the Wednesdav- Sentember 19- 1984 edition of the

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