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A wish co true Entertainment Bob Sanlct everything goes smoothly it usually takes many a month to get a book published A number of people moved quick however to help a 16yearold boy who had a special wish Patrick of La chute Que Is terminally Hi with a form of muscular dystrophy After working on a comic book for more than two years he told the Muscular Dystrophy Association about his dream to have his life work published to leave behind after he Is gone The association approached A World of Dream Foundation which In turn contacted The Young Naturalist Foundation publisher of children magazines Owl and Chickadee and producer of OWLTV The responded quickly text for The Crime Busters was quickly translated into English from French and everything from cover art to printing was com In record time From start to finish the project took less than a month The Crime Busters Is now available at Cotes stores across Canada and by mailorder from the YNV Segum receives royalties on all copies sold The remaining proceeds will be divided between A World of Dreams Foundation and the exhibition of oil paintings and sculpturci Hand an oil by Mr Itlckevlc ui called Hilt all try lire February InrnUal and a by Mi lUimond at Tares called Tranquility will r and Tans of there or library bourn phoi lh opening win chew parly Here ihe Bird watchers can start early Some of the young Canadian enter tainm looking for a break are be ing given a chance to step onto tre stage Presents New Faces a primetime special showcasing new professional talent from across Canada will be telecast early in the new year Victoria native David Foster a fivetime Grammy and four time Juno Award winner is the host The veteran producer songwriter ranger recording art Is and per former Is also serving as co- producer Among the performers arc George box Michelle Wright Dla mono in the Hough Tim tectum and Sue Medley Grant a 34 year old Toronto native became the first Canadian to conduct a world opera premiere in Vienna when Carmen Negro was introduced to Austria capital in May Now the producers want him back The opera returns to Vienna In January And has been ask to conduct It again Carmen Ncgra which has been showered In accolades Is a modern English language version of Carmen After Its encore In Vienna the pro duction the of a black man who is struggling through problems with his village priest will to five other countries Ballerina Karen ha Christmas present for Canadians Christmas night Kain and husband Petty offer a colorful and version of By MAK1UN ST HE Bit or the Federation of Ontario Natural Ills For many readers an interest in natural history begins with tlon of birds in their own backyard perhaps at a bird feeder An adult in terested In finding out more about birds can turn to several good field guides There are also books providing mare and specific information about species like the Atlas of Use Breeding Birds of Ontario But for youngr family members with questions about birds there Is limited information aimed at readers between the ages of eight and 12 This is the age at which an in in nature fostered In the right way may start children on a fascinating hobby which they may pursue with pleasure all their adult lives Also at time when so much of the natural world Is threatened an interest in nature can lead to a concern for protecting and what Is left of our natural heritage When 1 was young my father who had been raised in the country near Oxbridge taught me what fie knew about nature without my realizing 1 was being taught For instance every May we went looking for morels In my grandfather and as we hiked I learned the began to recognize and every child is lucky such a resident Federation of Ontirio Naturalists in cooperation with Kids Can Press Ltd has produced a book about birds which recalls the pleasurable learning experienced as a child The project has been a joint pro duct of writer and artist and is as entertaining to look The writer is Pamela Hickman education projects She has already produced a variety educational material in eluding kits on endangered species and acid rain Working with her Is freelance artist Judie Shore whose whimsical drawings grace the FON 1989 Conservation Calendar deals with all aspects of a bird life One section called Feet Are Neat points out the larieh of uses different species of birds have for feet and the of a bird feet Tor specific purposes Illustrations show how an grasps a slippery fish and how a woodpecker is equipped to cling to a As a writer Pamela Hickman has the knack of luring young readers In to learning without pain tor In stance what child could resist finishing a page on nests which begins with the fact that thi largest known In North America belonged to a Bald and weighed the same as two com pad cars and It was bigger than a hot tub The section of feet begins with the sentence Imagine what it would be like if you walked around tiptoes day That what There are other sections on flight feathers how to get started bird watching how to feed birds and how to attract birds to your Interspersed throughout the re suggestions for com piemen activities like how to fix bird food or Instructions constructing a out of material likely to be around the unless the was visually resistibli And It Is starting with the cover by Ron Berg In which motifs repealed Inside the book twine about the title An owl perches on the and a dots the I Inside interesting and humorous Illustrations erupt from every page In the section entitled How Birds Live the tiny hieroglyphs of bird tracks Bander across the page from a broken eggshell The with the question What will happen to the baby bud that hatched out of this shcIP The sketches of birds will fascinate the young reader There is a Nuthatch clinging to edge of a page a wildeyed mother bird flat on a nest brooding young a wren singing so that one can almost see the throat vibrate and a Ring billed gull scavenging trench fries In this book young readers will be introduced to a new and fascinating world in which they will learn how different species of birds are suited to different environments and how they may best observe birds and en them to stay around The book conveys to the reader the author enjoyment of the natural world St Xavier rocks on Local rock band St arc en Joying a short break from the club circuit until Dec and when they will return to he Mustang Bar in Brampton to play a double bill with Dirty Deeds a tribute to ACDC The last few weeks the band had been asked to play In Chatham Scarborough Lindsay and the Hi Life In Brampton During this short break the band Is finishing three or four new original songs to be recorded during the first January Then It back to Woss in Hamilton on Jan IS and Then a weekend In St Catharines has been provisionally Tilt Wednesday December Page I Entertainment Cocoon crew returns but not for the better Cocoon and were looking forward to the sequel I have bad news for you Cocoon The Return Is a terrible movie and a complete disappoint It is sometimes ridiculous seldom funny and always boring I must have checked my watch every 15 minutes the surest sign of a bad On the surface Cocoon II looks like It has all the Ingredients for a successful sequel to a charming and popular movie I Six seniors move to another planet where no one ever gets sick no one grows old and no one ever dies just In cose you miss ed the original All the major actors are back to reprise their roles although Brian Dennehy makes only a brief appearance at the end Sen man he probably realized this film was going to be a dud But this Is Just a superficial resemblance The director Is not Ron Howard it Is Daniel This Is a crucial change and think it the reason the Is so completely lifeless The gang has returned to beam up some remaining pods only to find that the Institute has picked up one or the cocoons For some reason It takes the aliens five days to break Into the place and rescue their sick comrade This Is completely and the idea of the movie was never realistic to begin with There Is no build up to the return of the senior six five minutes Into the film they re there Then all they do Is putter around swimming and dancing soon becoming ill and old Amazing how much can go wrong in five days The film has a lot of depressing moments with too few uplifting scenes AT THE MOVIES Welch and Steve Gut return as the young lovers and are they tedious This the se cond weekend running I ve had to watch Guttenberg play a character named Jack and I can t take it anymore I am coming to hate his acting let alone his boyish face Welch Is pretty and that all there Is to be said about her How about the real actors the old I don even want to talk about t it s so bad Hume Cronyn a character manages to die and a good thing too at least he won have to do Cocoon III Its pathetic to see such stalwarts as Don and Maureen Staple ton wandering aimlessly through the script trying to do something worthwhile I hope they made a lot of money because they t going to win any awards this time out Cocoon II is Just so bad that I could go on forever enumerating the flaws What sticks out most Is the meandering script with no plot line to speak of Honestly I Just cant describe how Scattered and the story is The ting stinks the film moves at a snail pace only slower There It a degree of cynicism in the movie that Is a product of the wish to produce hit without bothering to work at It Guttenberg Is the best Illustration of this he sleepwalks through his part You know he only in It for the money as Is the director If ever a sequel deserved to bomb it Is this one What a pity that such a lot of talent was so completely wasted This Is one of the worst films seen this year GEORGETOWN CINEMAS STREET CINEMA 1 GREAT WEEK Daily at Daily Matinee at 2 00 p CINEMA 2 Daily Shows At 2 00 p m 9 15pm IflpAflEHTAl CINEMA 3 NOWPLAYINOl Wednesday Thursday tO at 2 Friday at 2 6 I THE GIFTI MOVIE GIFT 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