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Page THE HERALD December2H 1989 1989 was really an astonishing year We are at the end of a most astonishing year a year of earth quakes I am not thinking about California but about the great ear in eastern Europe thai have started to free the political continent that was locked for almost years What the future will bring is totally uncer tain and can possibly know Gorbache s bold experiment will even partially succeed There is however a faint hope at this moment thai the overwhelming problems have created for ourselves through our scientific and economic might be solved b a concerted on rt of all the of his The amazing Madame de Stael said almost years ago long before Lenin Hitler and Stalin could do their worst scientific progress makes mo progress a for if mans power is in creased the checks that restrain him frorr abusing must be strengthened Which reminds me of a film I want to share with you hoping thai my review will tempi you to go see The film is called Roger and Me Throughout the film Michael Moore the creator of Ihe movie is in pursuit of Roger Smith the mighty Chairman of the mighty General Motors Corpora Mr Smith is hiding iwav on the top floor of his headquarter in Detroit surround ed by security devices worthy of a left or right wing and eager minions that shield him from the nasty winds of Mr Smith is always somewhere else always unavailable and begin to wonder a while if he exists at all or if he is i figment of the imagination an invention of men and lobbists Why is Michael Moore in pursuit of Roger Smith Well Mr Smith has closed down the General Motors plant in Flint Michigan and moved it to Mexico and lower wages ending the Amuican dream for ih people of Flint Michael Moore s observes the decline of a once pro sperous town the boarded up hops and the unemployed workers Some of them leaving the town as if a dreadful disease h is TRISHA ROMANCE The Ice Castle Orders Accepted 348 Street next to GLASS IN THE CENTRE Georgetown Campbell House Gallery 115 MAIN ST S GEORGETOWN Above McCarthy Tea Room 8730674 RITERION CO SALESSERVICE INSTALLATIONS CARPET VINYL TILE 126 GUELPH ST Georgetown Ont L7G4A5 MY WED DEC 27thSAT DEC 30th WST0REWIDE CREDIT NOTES ISSUED FOR CHRISTMAS RETURNS CAN BE USED AFTER DEC 30th MAIN ST S Across from Knox Church 8732851 broken out others being evicted from their homes on Christmas Eve the Sheriff deputy while others still art to manage with ad hoc jobs rather desperate attempts to afloat I could not help but think of Georgetown closing almost SO years ago Michael Moore wants to ask the great Chairman a few questions as to the necessity of the plant closing and he finall gets his chance at the end of the movie There we are at a lavish Christmas party for the ex of General Motors at the Waldorf in New Mr Roger Smith turns out to be i in elf with pink cheeks and wonderful I insincen jovnlm He reads aloud thosi tuneless great sentiments from Dickens gie classic A Christmas Stor vou feel bringing up Don get me wrong Contiarv what mi this is no grim film It is a fun film black and satirical and be but nevertheless can watch the icons of the American Right like Bob Anita P it Boone and even Ronald Reagan make absolute fools of themselves simplv because they can t resist a movie camera that s pointed towards them Are we in danger of becoming tht victims of these clowns that television has elected for us for want of belter material I don think so in particular not now after seeing this hilarious movie People in power can do a lot of damage in our kind of society but not as much damage as Mr for instance inflicted on his in Romania lately The democratic way the way of the movie Roger and Me if you like is that assumptions remain open to amendments and interpretations Untidiness and inefficiency thank God bind democracy to human ex islence and keep it from becoming another ideology in disguise do not know if I have found any readers for this column that was started last May If did I wish them a 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