fidOTPfwStWffl ExHab KenDryden examines The Game BEST AVAILABLE Tremors high on Scale In a sixpart TV miniseries Ken examines the role hockey the fabric of Canadian life former National Hockey League allstar roams from NHL games to minor hockey games from dressing rooms to liv ing rooms For me Dryden said in a Toronto telephone interview it was a chance to look at a whole tot of different things about Cana dians kids growing up their rela tionship with their parents how things have changed in the past years And community life what things do we have in common What brings lis out of our separate homes As much as anything hockey is a part of life in this country it is not a life apart Because of this it offers a very interesting reflection People will behave in hockey ah they do elsewhere Minor ides parents and children with the opportunity to see each other in unguarded moments said the former Mon treal Parents in the stands feet away see their child involved in something the parent cannot con trol You look out on that tee sur face and you see the kid who never gives up and you see the kid who quits It is also fascinating for the child to look into the stands and see his parents react in an un controllable environment Around home it is a comfortable controll ed routine Portions of the miniseries Ken Drydens Home Game are based on chapters of his second book Home Game which was released shortly before Christmas In the looks at the anatomy of the game how players react on the ice and why the impact of hockey on a Scar borough family how the tradi tional Canadian childhood game coexists with the cash circus of the NHL reflects back on the 1972 series looks at the impact of hockey on a and the magic of the game Ken Drydens Home Game will be telecast on six consecutive Sun days by starting Feb In his two most successful TV series Vegas and Spencer For Hire Robert starred as a likeable private detective who tracked down the bad guys DAILY LUNCH SPECIALS For Under 400 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of Perfection Nevada No job is too dirty including emptying sep tic tanks with a broken hose The septic tank mess is the last straw though and and Earl load up all their worldly goods and head out of town intent on success On the way out they discover the town drunk seated on a hydro pole Vil goes to rescue him only to find him dead That is the beginning of the invasion of the giant worms four of them creatures with spiky bodies and huge mouths filled with hideous tentacles and blessed wild rapacious appetites Our brave heroes go back to town Looks like we should have left yesterday to warn the others Soon the villagers arc holed up in the general store cut off from the outside world and besieged by the The beleaguered citizens include Rhonda Finn Carter a graduate student study ing seismic movements in the area and a survivalist couple perfectly played by tire and Michael Gross with enough ammo to win the San- war The worms are no fools and manage to circumvent every move VIDEO PLUS 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