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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1996-03-13, Page 22Mie By John Schedler Without a doubt the week's best new release is the Oscar nominated Braveheart **** (Paramount), Mel Gibson's epic biography of 14th century Scots warrior William Wallace. Despite a few slow spots and a running time of almost three hours, the movie is rich in wonderful performances and spectacular battle scenes which are historically accurate and graphically brutal. In addition to starring, Mel Gibson also produced and directed the film. The current videocassette is the pan and scan version while the lasderdisc is presented in the widescreen format which preserves the film's original panavision cinematography; a widescreen tape version will also be made available this fall. (Rated 18A - for violence) Don't let the fact that Muriel's Wedding *1/2 (Alliance) appears to be a light and breezy comedy fool you. The film is a dark and very nasty comedy/drama about some of the most unlikeable people I have seen in a movie this year. (Rated 18A - very rough language) In the Prophecy "1/2 (Alliance) Christopher Walken plays the Angel Gabriel whose revolt in Heaven is put on hold when a key soul in his scheme hides in the body of a little girl. Scary stuff especially if you like this sort of movie. (Rated 14A) Among the other new and unpreviewed releases is Assassins (Warner) a thriller about two hit men (Sylvester Stallone and Antino Bandaras) hired to bump off a beautiful electronic surveillance expert. (Rated 14A) Spike Lee's latest film is Clockers (MCA/Universal) a drama about two brothers, one a drug dealer and the other a hard-working family man who become involved in a murder. Based on the popular book series, The Babysitter's Club (Columbia/Tristar follows seven, 13-year-olds through a summer of babysitting parents and boys. (Rated PG) Fans of Jim Carrey will want to check out Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (Warner - $24.95 or less) another mind numbing comedy from the Jerry Lewis of the 90s. (Rated PG) For those who enjoy wrestling there is Royal Rumble '96 (Coliseum) the latest in bone crunching excitement from the masters of shrill thrills. (Unrated) In the classic movie department are six Saturday Matinee B westerns from the vaults of Republic Pictures. The last of the studio's singing cowboys, Monte Hale is featured in Outcasts of the Trail and Under Colorado Skies while Rex Allen stars in Border Saddlemates and Silver City Bonanza. My favourite though is Allan "Rocky" Lane who out-shot and out- fought the bad guys in Silver City Kid and Bandit King of Texas without singing a note. (Each tape is bargain priced at under $10). O Out of hibernation early An uncommon. creature in northern Huron County was spotted in the backyard of Linda Uyl's Blyth home, March 5.. The small white opossum hid behind a few boards, not quite sure what was causing such a commotion. ire .S NIENS SHOP MOVING SALE We are expanding to serve you better 50°A) off Men's Shirts, Sweaters, Cotton & Dress Slacks & more 252 Josephine Street Wingham (519) 357-4221 PAGE 22. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1996 Grey Central Echo Students take tour of `1{-W Record' et- A VISIT FROM THE DAIRY EDUCATOR By Jenna Fischer and Lacey McCall Dairy Educator Carol Bowman visited Grey Central on Wednes- day, March 6. She showed the Grades 4, 5 and 6 a video about milk and milk products. Carol talked about different kinds of dairy cows. The Holstein gives the most milk. She also talked about how a cow can't milk until she has a calf. Then the farmer milks her for 10 months. Some pupils also had fun being cheerleaders, while the rest of us played a game. At the end the pupils had crackers and cheese. There was swiss mild cheese, gouda cheese and many more. The children also got a milk pencil and a book mark. We had a lot of fun and we learned a lot about milk. MEDIATION WORKSHOP On Wednesday, Feb. 28 the Grey Central Peer Mediation Training Group ventured off to The Ark in Brussels to learn more about peer mediation. They were accompanied by Mr. Garland, Brussels P.S. students and their principal Mr. Kemp, and by the manager of The Ark, Mrs. Sallianne Patch. When we got there we had a little icebreaker competition to get acquainted with each other. After the competition we discussed conflict and then we did a few activities. We even found out about our conflict styles, such as fox and owl. After we did that we talked about communication and what kinds of communications there are such as avoidance, confrontation and communication. We also did some communication activities. Around 11 a.m. we started to do role-playing. We were split up into groups of four to five people. Two would act as the people having the conflict and another two would mediate while the last person (if there was one) would listen to the conflict and comment on it. The role plays went from missing pencils and being pushed around by bullies. TRIP TO K-W RECORD By Amanda Stratton On Wednesday, March 6, the Grade 7 and 8 classes went to the Kitchener-Waterloo Record. It was part of our unit on newspaper which we began in February. We left the school at 9 a.m. and arrived at the Record at about 10:20. We split into four groups and began our tours. The first place my group stopped was the room where they keep the giant rolls of newsprint. There were seven hundred rolls and each weighed one metric ton. On the way to the pressroom our tour guide showed us some pictures on the wall of various ways they recycle. They use recycled paper, they reuse the paper core the newsprint comes on, they filter chemicals in photolabs and much more. In the pressroom we heard how loud the machines worked and got to see how fast they run. They print 19 papers in one second at 40 kilometres an hour. Next we went to a room to observe the pressroom because our guide couldn't talk over the noise of the huge printing press. Then from the same location, we observed the distribution area. This was where we saw the flyers added, news- papers put into bundles, wrapped in plastic, bound with nylon cord and sent to trucks and vans for delivery. Next it was off to the library. This Rfrary was nothing like the one at school. Their information was all kept on a computer data- base. They also had copies of all the newspapers on microfilm. After that, we went to the newsroom. This is where the reporters write their stories for the newspaper. It's also where copy editors edit papers, where 100 photos a day come in on satellite along with 1,000 news stories. People listen to police dispatch calls and everything is made to look like a newspaper. After the newsroom we saw the studio where pictures are taken. It had rounded corners so it wouldn't reflect the bright lights. We also saw some of the most interesting photos taken by photographers. Some of them even won awards. Then we went to• the display advertising room where large advertisements are made. We also saw the reader service room where people take calls, and handle reader subscriptions and concerns. Another interesting thing that we saw during our tour was all the different name changes the Record has had. It started out as Daily News. Later it was changed to Daily Record. Eventually it became Kitchener Daily Record then finally Kitchener-Waterloo Record. We also saw lots of trophies and awards for photography, journalism and one trophy was awarded to the whole newspaper. We finished up our tour by seeing a credit card-sized ad in the paper about us. It said we had visited the Record and we were told it would have cost $90 to have printed! I think everyone enjoyed this trip because it was very interesting and we learned a lot of things that we didn't know. I don't think anyone realized how much work goes into a newspaper. Aa"