Halton Hills Newspapers

Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), February 27, 1988, p. 17

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Saturday February Entertainment Outlook I LOOKING INT EnchantedCanopy It IhrarlrH nchantnl Canopy ram I he raiiiforral roof by Thy PI bi II I Ml be I ful world ramfortsts and their in habitants lifts a of curtain of Ignorance that hangs these rich and fascinating ecosystems He recounts with relish high of who have of aerial to them to upper reaches I trees whin many of animals lue and die without tier legending to tin forest floor The construction of treetop imps is a new and exacting art utilizing the combined skills of botanists engineers alpinists and the modem high the rain forest has its own means of resistance selecting the star ting point for their Michael a sergeant in the Royal prepared lo as cend the first trunk using metal bolts and a Placing the metal splki the tret he gave it a blow and the tip ank through the bark and In the wood Hi i it second blow nothing happened third and the bolt I of shape but refused to go in The tree was evidently not called hardwood for nothing Metal drum in such with forci be mil a of w The author goes on to illuminate the com pi ix interactions of the rain rest world casually announcing the discovery of new apparent ly a common experience for those now working in this field He writes si evocatively of the multitude of marvels that it is hard to select one or two examples for a brief review In the vein of hard headed self in terra I with the following Most plants have yet to be screened and most that have been are those to the round natural pesticides wall to be discovered along with an equally remarkable range of phar maceutieali which kind tested for us over millions of years Already some fifty per cent of the drugs we use are developed from natural derivatives Cancer is one of the most feared diseases stilt on the increase jet cures hove been discovered by screening rainforest plants As these forests diminish their store of products of benefit to us Is going with them ASK DICK KLEINER Is he Priscillas own baby By Dick Kleiner Dear Dick On Dallas Wade played by Pnscilla Presley has a baby Is that child possibly cilia Presley real life son Mrs Westerly I Dear Mrs MBC No it snot Dear Dick I missed the Hallmark TV production of The Secret Gar den with James Will it ever be on again Do Hallmark lions get repeated or videotaped Warsaw Dear Unfortunately although the Hallmark Hail of Fame offerings are among TV s finest they arc not put on cassette The company is think ing of changing that policy but that the way it stands at the moment Dear Dick lam I years old and a big an of C Andrews novels Two questions Is she really dead Also I saw the movie based on her book Flowers In the Attic and I was very disappointed Why are all the movies based on novels so bad The ending Dear M M J You have a lifetime ahead of you to try and figure the an to tie riddle of good novels and bad movies It generally true how ever I think the reason Is the human urge to change things Movie produc ers directors and writers feel that they MUST make changes to Justify their fat paychecks About Ms An she died of cancer on Dec SAME DAY TAX RETURNS By Robert Matte In Movie Theaters SUES HAVING A BABY 13 Writer director producer John Hughes having plumbed the purport cd depths of teenage angst in movies like Sixteen Candles and Ferns Day Off now attempts to bring a pair of nubile young into the adult world The result movie is virtually a throwback to the romantic comedies of the and 60s a picture about facing up to responsibilities of marriage and parenthood without a whiff of themat freshness But at least the picture all slick sermonizing it represents some of Hughes most playful work The protagonists are nervous new Knsly Elizabeth McGovern and Jake Briggs Kevin Bacon two yuppies who settle uneasily into a cozy Chicago suburb where the neighboring husbands gab about their power mowers and the wives gossip while dutifully serving refreshments on the lawn Like a lot of young men of his Jake suffers from a Peter Pan plcx Scared of adulthood he never takes the plunge Jake may long for a career as a writer but he follows the more practical route a cushy Job in advertising Meanwhile he is plagued by all man of fantasies including the recur ring one of a dream who shows up tauntingly at the most Inop portune times Several strenuous fantasy a few maturation lessons and one traumatic breech birth later Jake comes to his senses This being an ultra romantic movie he gets to writer too Krisly about whom the movie has had only a secondary Interest gets a baby So much for the film sense of equality and liberation Kevin Bacon and Elizabeth em are delightful together They give the material more Invention and warmth than it merits And as Jakes best buddy a cad of a ladles man Alec Baldwin has the kind of chads ma that itars are made of GRADE THE SERPENT AND THE RAIN BOW R Director Wes Nightmare on Craven s tale of Ileal terror is based on a fiction Is about book by Wade Davis and it makes for skillful suggestive and gory thrill 19 1986 In Virginia Dear Dick My quest ii the theme song on the premiere of Growing Pains this year It was a Bill Pullman who looks like song called Swept Away Who was Jeff Daniels stars as a Harvard an the singer Saginaw Mich thropologist Investigating a Haitian Dear US That was Christopher powder thought to be able to trans Site A SPECIAL PLACE FOR EVERYONE A Country Wildlife Art Water Colours Country Folk Art Limited Edition Prints Pottery Pine Local Crafts 131 King St Terra Com 8772217 hair fashions THE SCIENCE OF PRESENT A new method of lightening and permanently brightening hair 118 GUELPH ST GEORGETOWN 8730865 a What new in movies and video Robert form Ihcy only I I chief Too mov makes a provocate DargeaC Moko of his however most Is the pinner of pode Baby Doe Duvallcr dictatorship in HUGO 700 pm A UNMUE FACILITY WITH ADEQUATE PARKING 7NITES90 DABBER INFORMATION LINE 8730666 JACKPOT ONTARIOS FUN SPOT ST NORVAL PRIZE BOARD SPECIAL OCCASION INN Time to 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