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II Charger, Starter, Tester • 40 amp, 6/12 v Regular: $371.91 $269.35 Manual High Rate Battery Charger • 10/2 amp, 6/12 v Regular: $74.51 RADFORD AUTO Blyth 523-9681 FARM AND INDUSTRIAL PARTS Brussels 887-9661 PAGE 18. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1998. For Teens, By Teens OFF THE WALL Definitely something about 'Mary' By Erin Roulston Mark and Ashley, my fellow teen page writers, and myself have often used this paper as a venue with which to discuss our theatric interests. For those of you who hate hearing about these things, I apologize in advance because I am about to go on yet another tangent about the positive influence of theatre on teenagers. A group of my friends whom I know through school drama festivals and through the Blyth Young Company, who are all interested in performance arts, have decided to start a theatre. It will be based in Blyth, will take advantage of the facilities available here and will be run entirely by teenagers. The plays will be chosen by teens, directed by teens, and performedby teens. The sets will be designed by teens and built by teens. We have formed a board of directors, complete with president. We have assigned a head of publicity, a head of fundraising, an artistic director and, general manager. Everything that a real professional theatre has, only younger. We are all very excited. Firstly, because we are going to have another chance to act and amidst teacher strike threats to refuse to allow extracurricular activities, that By Mark Nonkes Missing, missing, the ideology of playing sports is gone. It has long been taught that playing various sports should be: done to enjoy one's self and done in fair- play. Where has this mentality gone? It is rare to find many professional athletes today who do abide by these standards of sport ideology. Perhaps this ideology is missing because immense amounts of pressure ride on the shoulders of professional athletes. The media is an easy target to blame, but we must remember that they are only printing what people want to read. The average spectator always seems to be looking for that next up-and-coming star. Also, many athletes are very hard on themselves and have only the highest of expectations of their sporting career goals. The pressure is so high for some that depression can be caused from a silver medal performance. Remember the Canadian Women's hockey team? They sobbed in is reassuring. We are also excited because here is a terrific chance to learn things about the world of theatre that we couldn't learn any other way, such as how much does it cost to build a set? Where does financial support for the Arts come from? How does a theatre decide what play to do? Our first season is slowly being planned. We are choosing the plays; we will do three altogether, one in November, one in February, one in May. We are picking directors and planning auditions. The auditions for our first play will be this Saturday, Sept. 12. We are welcoming anyone who is young and interested and, of course, willing to work in a professional environment. This theatre is not an opportunity for a bunch of kids to get together and goof off. This is work, a learning experience and the fun will grow from that. Those of us who are organizing this theatre can all agree n•-, one thing: this will be a professional establishment. What we cannot agree on is why we started it in the first place. Each of us has a different reason why we think this theatre is important. For some it is because they want assurance of an opportunity to act sorrow as they were awarded the silver medal at the Olympics. Others try to improve by taking performance enhancing drugs. More and more athletes in the amateur ranks are being caught for drug use. Even 10 years after the shame of Ben Johnson, it is still a bump Canadian sporting associations are trying to bury. However, the old saying, "You have to learn the hard way" proves true, Over the summer months, three major sport stars have been incriminated with the charges of drug usage. An Irish swimmer who won three Olympic gold medals was charged with tampering and two American track and field stars were caught for an illegal substance. Even worse, it is being revealed, that entire teams are using performance enhancing drugs. The people who get the worst end in these team drug scandals are the athletes, actually the least responsible. The government asks sport associations for good results, in this fall for fear of the end of Drama Club. They don't want a teacher's strike to interrupt their acting career. For others it is because running your own theatre is a good way tol get noticed by a university or college. But for me it is a million different reasons. A few months ago I saw West Side Story at The Grande in London. It was a very good performance, but unique in one way. It was performed by high school students. Critics were swept away by the talent of these students. I was not surprised at all. I have seen the talent that the teens around here have exhibited and I want to show the world what we're worth! And when our first play opens and the critic's reviews come out, I don't want them to say, "He (the professional director) did a great job with those kids." I want them to say "Those kids did a great job." Because this is all ours. It is our turn to stand up, be proud and prove our responsibility, indepen- dence and, of course, talent. The next meeting of this theatre company is Thursday, Sept. 10 at 8 p.m. Auditions for the first production, which will run in the end of November, are on Saturday, Sept. 12. return, the sport associations pressure coaches for the same high results. Thus coaches demand high results. Of course, ultimately using drugs.. is the athlete's fault because in life we always do have a choice. In the professional ranks of sport, athletes are paid for how they perform. The better they do the more they get paid. Are you aware that Mr. Mark McGwire, the most talked about man in baseball today, takes a drug known as androstendedione? This drug boosts testosterone levels and thus, enhances the performance -level of athletes. The drug is new; whether it is safe or not, is really up in the air, because there hasn't been much testing on it. How can sports be fair with some athletes using drugs? How can sports be fun with an intense pressure placed upon the athle.tbs? In a world where sport stars are considered superhuman, is it any wonder sport ideology can't be found. By Ashley Gropp There's Something About Mary has been one of the biggest hits of the summer and there's just something about this movie. Despite a premise based on stalkers, it is consistently amusing and absurd throughout. The movie begins in a small town in the mid-1980s, when certain circumstances keep a surprising couple (Diaz, Damon) from going to the prom. Thirteen years later he decides to look her up, having been thinking of her the entire time. Since then she has moved to Miama. He finally skips town and goes to Miami himself when a private investigator he hired lies to him, and moves to Miami in order to woo Mary himself. The plot is hectic, a little unbelievable and hilarious. Everything happens in a way that may be possible, although unlikely (with the exception of the injury that causes the cancelled prom date, which is completely unbelievable.) These improbabilities only make everything that much more humorous. It is refreshing to see an imaginative script like this in a film of today, because it seems that most movies, and especially comedies, of the last several years have relied too heavily on actors like Jim Carrey to sell, even though the movie itself may have incredibly bad writing. Mary is one of the few that actually has a script that deserves to be a hit. The script may be well-written, but it pales next to be finished product. The actors all do an excellent job. The earliness of the singer is a perfect satire of both -ndrrators_and musicals. Although she is absolutely -adorable in the title role, Diaz seems to take a back seat to her male costars. The men in the movie all seem frighteningly comfortable as the sleazes most of them play in the movie. There is no question what the motives of each are. They are loved, admired and despised at the appropriate times. Real life loves Damon and Diaz also have amazing chemistry together. The comfort they feel with one another 'is blatantly obvious. That is only one more thing to add to the list of good reasons to watch this film. All in all, Something About Mary is probably the funniest movie released this year and makes for an entertaining two hours. There is one warning, though. Some of the jokes are crude, so the easily offended may not want to go to this one. Ideology of sports missing, missing