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Page THE HERALD Wednesday June 1 1989 Canadian drama hits primetime lineup Dead Poet Society comes alive Entertainment Bob Spinet Thomson News RECORDS ft TAPES SAVE SAVE SAVE Plaza Unit Georgetown 8731773 AFTER FIVE TONGS TO DO PUCES TO GO Void FOR YOUR LISTENING AND DANCING PLEASURE The June 27 show spotlights Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas and Canadian ballerina Veronica Tennant CTV is adding two new Canadian drama series to its 19891990 lineup Bordertown a weekly western series is set in the 1880s US Mar shal Jack Richard Comar an patrols the American side of the main street in a frontier town that spans the CanadianUS border bythebook Mountie Bennett John watches over the Canadian side Both vie for the af fections of Dr Marie Sophie The actionadventure series is produced by Canadas Alliance Eitertainment and Frances Teleimages The second new primetime series Is ENG a contemporary drama that follows the exploits of an aggressive TV news team Sarah Mark Humphrey and Art Hindle portray the key decisionmakers and newsgathers at the station E is produced by Alliance in association with CTV Among CTVs new daytime shows will be Shirley an hourlong afternoon talk show with Shirley Solomon as host She Is not the only host who will be doing a lot of talking Clarksons Summer Festival returns to CBCTV June for a second season The new twohour programs offer profiles of top Canadian and international artists They are fiddlin around in Atlantic Canada getting ready for the jamboree The Maritime Old- Time Fiddling Contest will be held July 7 and 8 in Dartmouth The Maritime OldTime Jam boree fallows on July A young Canadian lawyer has decided the best way to get a message across to street kids around the world Is through a car toon Peter who is based in Toronto has helped put together a special project aimed at educating children in the Third World about AIDS Dalglish who left the legal field in order to work with street kids will be profiled in a July 2 segment of current affairs pro gram His latest venture is a cartoon produced by the National Film Board that warns children about AIDS Dalglish and Derek Lamb of the wrote the script and Kal Pendle did the artwork The car toon will be distributed worldwide next year By DIAI1ANN NADEAU Herald Special Dead Poets Society takes us down that path of the good teacher inspiring students finer things I say and I mean it Although there are many good things about this movie there are major flaws in that it is terribly unoriginal and sinks into un necessary melodrama Yet it is often humorous and always well- acted Given the movies weve seen here lately Dead Poets is a pleasure to watch But dont expect anything exceptional It is Vermont 1959 Robin Williams plays the inventive English teacher John Keating Keating is an alumnus of the restrictive prep school where he is now teaching He takes a class of downtoearth disciplined serious seniors and takes them into a new world a world of are you ready poetry Do you have any idea how subversive poems can be That Shakespeare can destroy your relationship with your father That a latin phrase can be a call to revolution Well in i960 Vermont this stuff was hot A group of seven boys take on the mantle of the Dead Poets Society old underground club and meet in a cave in the night somewhere near the school They read poems ones by Whitman Thoreau their own each others They smoke pipes They play bongos Man this is how the sixties got started right Well maybe not You see they are all except rebel Charlie call me Nuanda VIDEO RANCH BETA NINTENDO Chocs Aom Mot Than 1000 NEW ARRIVALS Twins Runners Alien Claras Hud Distant Thundar MACHINE RENTALS CAMCORDER NINTENDO 8734700 DELICIOUS Rotisserie Style BARBQUE CHICKEN 232 GUELPH ST 8771646 LOUNG FEATURING x- oscgooot JUNE fftrnWWSHCRU cowed by parents and school alike Keating leads them to a path of selfdiscovery but they cant follow it Theyre too damn scared and obedient I had a lot of trouble with this obedience thing I grew up in the sixties and never believed what anyone over 30 years old told me Now the teenagers ignore Me And now comes our melodrama Headmaster Norman Lloyd St Elsewhere is really mean He doesnt like Keatings methods It all comes to a disastrous end when student Perry Robert Sean Leonard encouraged by Keatings ideas wins the role of Puck in that underground revolu tionary classic A Midsummer Nights Dream His father forbids him to participate but Perry goes ahead It is not a happy move and tragedy strikes in the form of teen suicide This ends Keatings career at the school I do not take teenage suicide lightly but Im afraid Tom who wrote the screenplay uses it in a manipulative and unnecessary fashion I found this profoundly disturbing Dead Poets Society is often fun ny and sometimes moving As I said there is nothing new nothing that hasnt been done before and better But for the less cynical among us this is certainly a wor thwhile movie YELLOW CAB HALTON HILLS HOUR SERVICE 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