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Wednesday December 1991 the HERALD Entertainment Page7B Movie Review Christmas video plays to Actors style of Comedy By DAWN WOOD Herald Special If trekking off into the cosmos is not your idea of holiday enter- tainment then perhaps the video release of National Lampoons Christmas Vacation starring Chevy Chase is more to your taste Christmas Vacation is one in a series of films featuring Chevy Chase as the head of the family Earlier pictures included Vacation and European Vaca tion Basically Christmas Vacation is a slapstick sophomoric parody of the trials and tribulations that we all go through around Christmas time Except with the Griswalds of course everything is magnified and done to excess In order to bring out Chases comic style the movie is broken up into a series of episodes This allows Chases style of comedy to blossom He relies on the cir cumstances surrounding him and his polite and sometimes not so polite reactions to draw out the laughs Characteristics of his style include the forced grin total coolness in the face of absurdity and his selfcompromising nature The plot centres around the Griswald household and the weeks leading up to the event of Christmas As the day ap proaches various factions of the Griswald clan arrive at the Griswald abode Against this influx of relatives all of whom have their own set of quirks and trying personalities Chase is determined to excel in creating the perfect Christmas display complete with lighting his house to the point that it would put any car dealership to shame Behind the yuks and slapstick is a comment on what Christmas has become Everything is covered the family the extend ed family and year end office politics If youre a Chase fan or up to your armpits in cranberry sauce and scotch pine needles then Christmas Vacation might just be the lifesaver that you need Dressed for success Jessie Jacob models a new spring suit now available at Elizabeths Fashions for diners Linton left and Mabel Sanderson right at a fashion show in the North Golf and Coun try Club Monday Elizabeths Fashions does mon thly shows at the club during the winter months while guests enioy lunch The shows end In Decem ber but start again this spring Herald Photo Tis the season for book buying By VINCENT EGAN As Christmas comes closer and shopping days grow fewer books become an ever more distinct possibility for the remaining names on your gift list A book well chosen is nearly always well received Here is a roundup of notes on some of the 1991 highlights in publishing Amazonia by Douglas and Mclntyre pages Much of the worlds attention has been focused recently on a vast area that most of us have never seen The Amazon River its tributaries and particularly its fast disappearing rain forests the loss of which could have almost incalculable consequences for the worlds at mosphere Mclntyre now 73 has known the area intimately for years and in this memorable volume of personal narrative and color photographs he opens our eyes to the beauties and terrors of Amazonia where some tribes of natives are shot on sight by hunters GEORGETOWN CINEMAS STREET NOW AMERICAN TALE ENrtafutl-Mp- ml Columbus The Great Adven ture by Paolo Taviani Orion 273 pages Prof Ta viani probably the leading authority on the life and achievements of Christopher Col umbus has adapted his four- volume scholarly history of the great adventurer and his times into a onevolume absorbing biography of this gifted and dar ing sailor a genius in the full sense of the word This is just as much of a pageturner as any mystery or adventure yam Northwest Passage by Ed ward Struzik Key Porter pages Subtitled The Quest for an Arctic Route to the East this is a largeformat chronicle of the explorers who over a span of five centuries battled the Arctic ice in their search for a commer cial sea route from Europe to the Orient a battle that was even tually won in 1906 by Ad- mundsen of Norway Nearly 100 photographs and illustrations some historical some contem porary by Mike supple ment the gripping text Diary of an Arctic Year by Stephen J Krasemann Books 192 pages 95 A talented and observer of nature Thunder Bays Krasemann here relates some episodes grouped by seasons in his life in the far north Some are amusing some serious reflecting for instance his fears about the quickening pace of commercial development and the effect that such change is having on the young native peo ple of the region as well as on the wildlife His photographs are fresh and unhackneyed Cars Detroit Never Built by Edward Sterling 224 pages Antique cars are beautiful of course and can be seen in countless automotive museums But theres no museum for those eyecatching cars of tomorrow that have been displayed at motor shows but never put into production EnM0 it p rf Ml LITTLE MAN TATE NOW PLAYING THE ADAMS FAMILY Evenings at 1 pm Sun 200 LAST 2 DATS BEST WISHES for the HOLIDAY SEASON and in the COMING NEW YEAR are HEARTILY EXTENDED ihk FROM ALL OF US TO ALL OF YOU The Mayor CounclUorB and Employees of Halton Hills Mi lELLS DRIVING SCHOOL SPECIAL CHRISTMAS COURSE December 24 pm Gift Certificates Now Available APPROVED BY ONTARIO SAFETY LEAGUE from retl phone 8772671 THE CORPORATION OF THE Town of Hills Halton Hills Drive O Box HILLS Georgetown L7G Notice of an intention to stop up and close a portion of the Dublin Line the Third Line and Seventeen Side Road the Town of Hills In the Region of Notice is hereby given that the Council for the Corporation of the Town of Hills intends to enact several bylaws to stop up and close the following unopened road allowances Dublin Line from Lot to Lot 2 Third Line from 15 Side Road to 2 Km south of the Side Road 3 Seventeenth Side Road from 650 m west of the Fourth Line to 500 east of Highway No Third Line from to 800 south of Fifteen Side Road The Council or a Committee will hear any person who claims that their land wilt be prejudicially affected by the Bylows and who applies to be heard at its regular meeting to be held in the Council Chambers at the Civic Centre located at 1 Halton Hills Drive Georgetown the day of January at the hour of 700 This Notice was first published on the day of December Janet Stewart Clerk for the Corporation of the TawnafHalJanHiUs