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THE HERALD Wednesday October 31 1990 Entertainment- Movie Review Sibling Rivalry lacks focus and cohesion By DIAHANN NADEAU Herald Special Kirstie Alley latest film is on par with her previous efforts Sibling Rivalry lacks focus cohe sion and just about anything else that makes a film worth ching It too bad because Alley has a fine corned ic tough it just that the Cheers magic t rub bed off on her movies Madhouse Summer School Prince of Bel Air to name a few The idea is promising Mar Alley a bored housewife has a wild fling with a sexy stranger Sam who has a heart attack and dies and she doesn even notice it happening However the plot dies at about the same time Nick a blinds salesman Bill accidentally whacks the body and thinks he has murdered the stranger He calls Marjone at home having found her lost wallet where she is preparing a family dinner for the brother in law she has never met Before leaving the house she finds out that her brother in law is in fact the dead man The two fake a suicide and although it is a funny scene the idea is completely implausible she is the wife of a doctor and he is the brother of a policeman Do they believe that pills can be digested after death Don t they know about autopsies Com Television Degrassi High enters final viewing season By BOB Thomson News Cast members of High the realistic multi award winning drama series will boon be waving goodbye to each other The fiml season of starts Nov on with a around Sexual Awareness Week at the mythical high school Linda Schuyler executive pro ducer and of exphined why Playing With Time Inc is wrapping up its series It s been a fabult us turc but we winled to bow out while we felt the show was still fresh and strong she said in a prepared statement I think we re leaving the series with the strongest season yet Besides many of the cast are growing up It was Thirteen new half hour episodes will air this season The plots revolve around topics that range from AIDS to rock n roll and from family problems to first kisses The series and its immediate predecessor Degrassi Junior High have offered a candid look at contemporary teenage life Issues such as teenage have been examined through the grit encumbered eyes of reality The origins of Degrassi date back to the late 1970s Schuyler then a junior high school teacher and commercial editor Kit Hood formed Playing With Time in 1976 to produce their first film Jimmy Playing With Time about a marathon piano player A number of other productions followed Wanting to move into drama they purchased an option on Ida Makes A Movie a book about a cat who entered a film competition and won for the wrong reasons Using people in stead of cats they turned the tale Into their first drama which became the first episode of The Kids of Degrassi Street Over a period of eight years 26 episodes were aired by Then in January Degrassi Junior High made its debut It grew from the first series but was not a sequel said Seven I of old cast members won roles as the new characters High made its debut POOD EMPORIUM DALIAN CUISINE dinner Tues Sun PIANO BAR NOW OPEN Book Your Chrlslmoj Party Major 10 MortihWw L7G J Bob Spence in as the students moved on to high school This season they graduate There will be it least one more tale however Next summer a two hour movie School Out will be film ed It will follow the Degrassi characters in their first summer after high school graduation Someday it may seem wor to take up the story of the young ones and see what they turned out to be Mark Twain The celebrated author whose real name was Samuel Clemens was talking about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn two of the most memmorable characters created by the gifted 19th century storyteller And someone scriptwriter Roy has taken up the story Back To Hannibal The Return of Tom Sawer and Huckleberry inn makes its Can TV debut Nov on Family El It a delightful movie hough it t quite capture the full Twain flavor Sawyer played by Raphael Sbargel is now young lawyer and Finn Mitchell Anderson is a rookie reporter Both hurry back to Hannibal to help their friend Jim a former slave who is charged with murdering Becky Thatchers husband Paul Win field plays Jim while Canada s Megan Follows Anne of Green Gables plays Becky Another Canadian Zachary Bennett trays a young orphan who tries to help Tom and Huck Tom Sawyer has to resort to some fast talking and quick thinking to foil a lynch mob before he and Huck can try to solve the mystery of who killed Becky s husband Youth Orchestra extends deadline The National Youth Orchestra announced an extension on its original October deadline for receipt of audition applications for the 1991 NYO session Auditions are expected to be held across Canada from January 7 through January 15 1991 Applications from young musicians will be accepted up to the time auditions commence In most regions a live audition will be possible Otherwise students may audition by cassette Interested musicians should immediately contact the office 1032 Bathurst Street Toronto Ontario M5R 3G7 Telephone SPORTS CARDS A HOCKEY k Pack Pad k O P C PROSET set Plastic Sheets 2800 PI BASEBALL 90 Upperdeck 1 75 90 Bowman 89DonruS lOOnd 90 Blue Jay Sets Score Young SuperStars 1195 1900 edy at the price of plausibility doesn pay The plot deteriorates further when Marjone sister Jamie Gertz starts seeing Nick s brother Ed O Neill The whole plot suddenly unravels without milking the suspense when Nick confesses to the crime forcing to confess to her sins aud ice is left asking themselves Is this if Yes it seems it is Alley is good especially in her sobbing scenes crying is something she does well Elliott is as sexy as ever but severely underused Scott Bakula Quan turn Leap plays the cuckolded husband Came Fisher is Alleys sister in law Frances Sternhagen John Randolph and Matthew Laurance round out the Cast No one is bad although the characters are cardboard figures and especially has to play a total cliche the free spirited younger sister a type ex to much better effect in Sex Lies and Videotape Carl Reiner directed this mess proving that his son Rob is really the director in the family Reiner has a magic touch while Reiner Sr seems to have lost it some lime ago Sibling Rivalry has its funny moments but most it is a waste of time talent and money GEORGETOWN CINEMAS 235 GUELPH STREET CINEMA 1 NOW PLAYING 1 SHE DID SIBLING IT RIVALRY WO BOY Evenings at 7 1 5 p m Matinees Saturday Sunday at p CINEMA 2 NOW PLAYING Would you give up everything you have for everything you ever wanted Then meet to Destiny jxn Evenings at 7 9 15 pm I Matinees Saturday Sunday at 2 m CINEMA 3 NOW PLAYING CLASSIC THIS MOVIE SOARS 5 OUT OF 5 STARS Evenings at 9 5 p Matinees Saturday Sunday at COMING THIS FRIDA Y TUESDAYS PASSWORD THURSDAYS MICKEY MOUSE