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Page THE HERALD OUTLOOK April 8 1K9 Poles are more Ritter plays womanizer in Skin Deep than snow and ice I Entertainment BobSpence Thtnim Haws polar world is much more than a vast desert of snow and ice Canadian author Farley Mowat is fascinated by the Norths wide abundance of life and activity The New North a twobour TV documentary on how the North is changing follows Mowat on a 30000mile circumpolar journey The documentary focuses on what is new in this vast region The polar world includes Canadas Northwest Territories Alaska a large chunk of the USSR the nor thern portion of the Scandinavian peninsula Greenland and the Arc tic Sea Mowat concentrates on three themes the indigenous people and their struggle to maintain their cultural identities the growing in dustrial development of the North and the fragile economy The North says must remain a living world a place where man can coexist in dignity and certainty with a world he cherishes and nurtures and which in turn nurtures him The New North will be telecast Sixteenyearold Cheryl had paid a high school classmate to kill her father who had been sexually abusing her A Deadly Silence a based on the book New York Times reporter Dena Kleiman wrote about the case airs April 14 on CTV Among the issues raised in the is noninvolvement Some of the familys friends and neighbors had suspected the daughter was being sexually abus ed but they had said nothing Sexual abuse was a concept some people were too frightened to confront until a gun was fired Three years ago James Pierson a 42yearold American father was shot to death outside his Long Island home He was considered to be a typical middleaged American The crime made no sense Then the police investigation turned up information that stunned most of the community Clement a Welshman who was incensed by the cruelty mankind showed to badgers spent three years researching and writing a novel about it British publishers scurried away when he tried to get it published Clement a civil engineer who bad been forced to retire because of poor health decided to publish it himself He and a publican- named Bernard Kindred started a publishing company in the back room of Kindreds pub The Cold Moons an adventure story with animals playing the leading roles was published on Dec 8 and became an im mediate hit Penguin Books pur chased the paperback rights for- 140000 pounds The book about a colony of badgers fleeing from man is based on the mid197Ds slaughter of thousands of badgers thought to be carriers of bovine tuberculosis The Cold Moons which has become a bestseller in a number of countries is being released in North America on April 17 Clement died in January follow ing heartbypass surgery In Movie Theaters SKIN Why does it seen Blake Edwards is making one movie over and over again Maybe because this onceinventive writerdi rector has lately been filling his plots with the same hoary and whorey jokes slapstick and selfpity From 10 through The Man Who Loved Women to Blind Date Edwards has tried to convince us that nothings funnier than drunks tripping over their own feet while seducing anyone in sight This time around Edwards spins his jokes around John The TV star plays a celebrated author suffering from writers block who wallows in booze and onenight stands A clumsy tipsy wreck cant seem to close a door without pulling off the doorknob But he does bed every curvaceous babe in LA In what may turn out to be the mov ies stroke of commercial savvy the roles of conquests are played by a bevy of sexy starlets including Bruce Springsteens estranged wife Julianne Phillips Remember what 10 did for Bo Derek While the starlets are disrobing a fine cast of supporting actors is trying to add spice of a more characterori ented sort Theres sly Vincent Garde nia as Zacks bartender that likable schlemiel Joel Brooks as his lawyer and waspish Peter Donat as his agent Reed has the thankless role levelheaded wronged wife Viewers who havent tired of Ed wards cinematic antics may want to hang around for one of the weirdest gags in recent movies It has to do with the use of a condom a fitting subject for a movie full of promiscu ous encounters Leave it to Edwards though to turn this into a Playboy- style cartoon bit GRADE W LEAN ON ME Much like the inspirational Stand and Deliver this movie tells the story of an Ameri can educator who refuses to believe that his underclass students are infe rior That powerful actor Morgan- Freeman stars as Crazy Joe Clark the PaWerson high school prin cipal who brought the concept of tough love to public education Taking over as principal of High in 1987 the reallife Clark faced unruly drugusing students and teachers who were afraid to be disci plinarians In one controversial move after another Clark expelled the most incorrigible students chained the school doors to keep out drug pushers and literally goaded kids into taking pride in their ability to pass a minimum basic skills test Is Mr Belvedere really British ASK DICK KLEINER Angeles area My husband and I and friends of ours who like westerns are stumped Could yon please tell us the title of the TV western with Andrew as the ranch owner Wayne Maunder as his younger son and James Stacy as the Older son who was also a gun- fighter TND Texas Recently friends from England came to visit I told them one of my favorite comedy shows has an English star and we turned on Mr Belve dere they had never seen or heard of Christopher Hewett Please tell me whether or not be is really English If be isnt be sure plays the part well Ill mail your re sponse to my friends in Bromsgrove England Vancouver Wash A As the old joke goes if he were any more British he wouldnt be able to talk at all Hewett was born in Wor thing in Sussex He served in the RAF in World War II He began his acting career in England he was in The Lavender Hill Mob But he came to the United States in and he has lived here ever since Please give me some informa tion about Bronson of Per fect Strangers Im one of his biggest fans Nationality Age Where does be live Single SR Nampa Idaho A Although he gives the impression of being foreign as Balki is an American He was born in New York and raised in California He is single and lives in the Los Christopher Jack Hewett Wagner A To unstump you that was Lanc er which ran from 1968 to I would like to know who had the starring role in I Led Three Lives a TV show of many years ago GW Louisville Ohio A Richard Carlson played Herbert in that program which ran from 1953 to My girl friend and I are wonder ing if Frisco Jones Jack Wagner from General Hospital is coming back The show Isnt the same without him isnt he on any more and why CBB Cullegeville Pa A Why oh why Jack Wagner de cided he didnt want to do it any more and left the show to pursue other in terests As of now he will not be back Which came first the Beatles movie Help or the series of The Texas A Help came first it was re leased in 1965 The didnt crawl onto the scene until a year lat er Their series ran from 1966 to 1968 Send your questions to Ask Dick Kleiner Newspaper Enterprise Association 200 Park Ave New York N Due to the volume of mail personal replies cannot be provided OFF AMY OVER DELIVERY STREET PICK OF THE WEEK blue rodeo JUNO WINDIER FOR BEST NEW GROUP A Wednesday 110000 Thursday Friday Saturday ST Both fascist and pedagogue Clark is a considerably more complicated protagonist than the teacher Edward James Olmos played in Stand and Deliver Certainly Morgan Free man is more than up tp the task of capturing both noble and scary as pects of Clarks personality If only the movie didnt strive to inspire us in a simpler fashion than its central character can accommodate Director John G Avildsen likes tri umphant underdogs as evidenced by his hit movies like Rocky and The Karate Kid Here he slams home a drama that effectively taps into the mounting frustration over drug use and declining academic performance among American students One thing is certain You wont sleep through this movie From begin ning to end Avildsen has directed his actors to scream their lines After a while it turns into a style GRADE New Home Video MARRIED TO THE MOB Ori on A gangster comedyro mance from the freewheeling Jona than Demme Something Wild Melvin and Howard which means that its a most twisted gangster co medyromance Michelle Pfeiffer is a suburban Long Island wife whose hus band is a hit man for a local mobster Dean Stockwell When the mobster ices her hubby flees with her child to Manhattan in hopes of start ing a new life She doesnt get far though In one bit of quirky slapstick after another the mobster two clumsy FBI agents and the mobsters wildly Jealous wife Mercedes Ruehl refuse to let alone has a terrific appreciation of the kitschy melting- pot details of American life and Stockwell and are wonderful GRADE Film grading excellent good fair poor NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE There is lightat the end of the tunnel Please give generously 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