u14 Wednesday, May 27, 1992 After HOURS Letus entertain you Jonathan Green 365-7266 LOVE STORY Ladner romance writer Judith Bowen has won the “Best traditional romance for 1991” award in the first U.S. National Readers’ Choice Awards, a poll of-- of romance readers south of the border. Set in the Nicola Valley, the book is about a ranching couple’s marriage and the husband’s attempts to gain custody of his niece and nephew. CALL GODZILLA Popular movie director Juzo Itami, who recently made a film about gangsters, was slashed in the face near his home in Tokyo, police said Monday. He was sent to hospital where he is in stable condition. The 59-year-old Itami was attacked by three or four men as he got out of his car Friday evening in front of his house ina residential area of Tokyo. CRY FOR ME ARGENTINA Argentine singer Atahualpa Yupanqui, an artisan of the renaissance in Latin America folklore music, has died.at age 84. Yupanqui died Saturday, a day after declining an invitation to play in an informal get-together because of fatigue. Arts GLEISURE | Former museum co-workers travel the Kootenays with ‘wood’ thing on their minds Jonathan Green NEWS REPORTER : Two women from two very dif- ferent cultures had one thing in common when they visited Castle- gar this week. Arlene Otke, an educational program developer with the Roy- al B.C. Museum in Victoria, and TY aqwa. elh, a native elder from Alert Bay, were at the National Exhibition Centre Monday to talk about the diversity of something most of us take for granted — a tree. Titled Cedar, The Great Provider, Otke went into detail through the use of slides and visu- al aids to show how important the Western Red Cedar and, toa less- er degree, the Yellow Cedar, is to the Native People of the West Coast. With a height that can reach 70 metres, a diameter that can reach 4.5m and a life span that can reach 1,500 years, Otke said the cedar is a facet of Native life that stretches from birth to death. TY aqwa. elh, or Christine Mc- The Great Provider Dougall to her English-speaking friends, agreed with Otke. “The cedar is most important for the Kwakwaka’wakw people,” she said. “We get everything out of it. “That’s why we call it the great © provider.” The stop at the NEC was the first in a four-night swing through the Kootenays for McDougall and Otke. Following Monday’s present- taion, the two headed to Salmo for a similar show Tuesday, and will be in Rossland tonight. The tour ends in Otke’s hometown of Grand Forks Thursday. The standing room only crowd of 40-plus listened intently as Otke, through the slide presenta- tion, and McDougall, through a hands-on presentation, brought to life the many uses of the cedar, from the cradle the native baby sleeps in to the coffin the Kwak- waka’ wakw bury their dead in. ~ Although McDougall is native and Otke is white, Otke said it al- lows the two to trade off with each other, which is necesssary when it comes to travelling from place to place. “It means you have to have that familiarity,” she said. Although McDougall’s home of Alert Bay, east of Port McNeill off the northern tip of Vancouver Is- land, is a long way from any of the places she'll visit this week, it is ac- A Kwakwaka’wakw woman shredding cedar bark. Oh, the cedar tree! If mankind in his infancy had prayed for the perfect substance for all materials and aesthetic needs, an indulgent god could have provided nothing better. — Bill Reid tually somewhat of a homecoming for her. While working with Otke at the museum in the 70s, McDougall learned about the Ktunaxa people, Arlene Otke, educational program develope ny me, r at the Royal British Columbia Museum in Victoria. a tribe native to the area we now know as the Kootenays. As part of that work, McDougall was asked to come to the area in 1977 and educate the elementary school children of the Kootenays about the Ktunaxa, a job that saw her spend five months out this way. Afterwards, she returned to Vic- toria for seven years before head- ing back to Alert Bay. Now, eight years later, Mc- Dougall and Otke have been re- united through a federally-funded museum assistance program. Otke said the museum’s direc- tor made a request when the cedar presentation was being put to- gether. “The request was for a native el- der to accompany us to give first- hand experience,” she said. With one person in mind, Otke contacted McDougall about the presentation. “She said ‘Christine, why don’t you come along’ and I said ‘Why not”, McDougall said. Although McDougall said. the uses for the cedar change little from year to year, she said the abil- ity to find it does. Like the prob- lems facing area environmental- ists, McDougall said the people of the Kwakwaka’ wakw come up against logging companies when they go looking for,cedar. “We're fighting to get our land back,” she said. “Pretty soon, we'll have nothing.” And when that time comes, Mc- Dougall said she isn’t sure what her people will do. “I guess we'll make do with whatever we can get,” she said. “It’s a lot different from when I was growing up.” Palswing the tour, Otke will re- turn to the museum and Mc- Dougall will home to Alert Bay. Wednesday, May 27, 1992 158 Nothing ‘Lethal’ about No. 3 Jonathan Green NEWS REPORTER - While on the campaign trail in 1988, George Bush promised a “kinder, gentler na- tion” for the people of America‘ if elected. Now, four years later, it appears Richard Donner still hasn’t subscribed to that theory. Donner became one of the more recog- nized directors in Hollywood with 1987’s bof- fo box-office smash Lethal Weapon. Realizing that action,excitement and numerous scenes of guys beating the snot out of each other go over big time, Donner brought us. Lethal Weapon 2 three years later and has recent- ly bestowed the surprisingly titled Lethal Weapon 3 upon us. Like its predecessors, No. 3 is packed with everything that will keep you glued to your seat. Unfortunately, the plot looks to have been left on the has no problem turning bumbling employees into foundation material for his new houses. , After fixing up one of his ‘bank guards’ with a cement bodysuit, Travis pays a visit to the cop shop in a scene that made about as much sense as the recent riots in L.A. Gun in hand, he gives another one of his ‘guards’ a fatal dose of lead head, oblivious to the fact that cameras might be on. Cameras in an interrogation room? Nah. With Mr. Travis now captured on home video, the recently re-instated Murtaugh and Riggs, along with internal affairs’ beau- ty Lorna Cole (Rene Russo), set out to do the force proud. Along the way, they discover that Mr. Travis has a penchant for dealing in confis- Cia ted cutting room floor this time out. does have cen- bad the same can’t tres around the impending re- ‘The camera angles, sound and stunts are Ae 3 ae What plot it reminiscent of the previousWeapons, it’s too scriptwriting.’ firearms and “cop killer” bul- lets, and de- termine the sooner he is stopped the be said for the plot or tirement of Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover) and the last case he is assigned to with partner Mar- tin Riggs (Mel Gibson). From the opening scene, Murtaugh re- minds Riggs that he has only eight days left until retirement and would just as soon do things by the book, such as let the bomb squad investigate a potential bomb, rather go against police protocol. True to form, Riggs downplays Mur- taugh’s concern and, true to form, the end result is chaos. ; In what might be the best- use- of- a-Lin- coln Continental-as-an-explosive-device (is there an Oscar for that?), Riggs detonates a bomb inside a parkade and the two find themselves walkign the beat because of the overzealous blast. Each day from there is a new day, as the two sergeants find themselves in unfamiliar territory as beat cops, including an amus- ing scene where Riggs tries to cite a jay- walker and almost ends up shooting him. While on the beat, Murtaugh and Riggs stumble across a bungled armored car heist that is weakly tied to the chief bad guy of the movie, Jack Travis (Stewart Wilson). Travis is an ex-cop who now plies his trade as a construction magnate, one who better. The movie is loaded with action, including a late chase scene that will literally have you putting a death grip on the armrests of the theatre seats. (Just try to relax that grip up- on leaving, theatre managers frown on miss- ing seats.) Joe Pesci, the informant Murtaugh and | Riggs were assigned to protect last time out, reprises his role as Leo Getz, this time act- ing as the agent trying to sell Murtaugh’s house. Although entertaining in LW2, Pesci comes across as annoying this time, making me wish it had only been a one picture deal. Donner does a good job with what he has to work with. The camera angles, sound and stunts are reminiscent of the previous Weapons, it’s too bad the same can’t be said for the plot or scriptwriting. As a person who would include the origi- nal in his list of all time favorite movies, I walked away from number three feeling a little disappointed.But, hope springs eter- nal, as the ending’ lead me to believe that Lethal Weapon 4 is being written at the same time as this review. Lethal Weapon 3 ends tonight at the Civic Theatre in Nelson, runs next week in Trail, and hits the Castle Theatre starting June 5. Glen Freeman NEWS REPORTER If you have eclectic tastes — or even know what eclec- tic means — you'll love Arkansas Traveler. Michelle Shocked’s hig- gly-piggly collection of hits leaps barriers that have tak- en snobbish musicians years to put in place. Not only has Shocked proven that she can be a hell- fire and brimstone blues musician, but she en- tertains all with rock and country tunes that are true to their roots. Arkansas Traveler began in 1991 when Shocked, flanked by her father, fi- ancee and cat, began a back- to-the-basics tour of the United States, Michelle Shocked Long Way. dience. ‘Shocked’ by Michelle's Shocked took some time That song and Letterman landed her a whole new au- Come a Long Way is a light, cheeky tune that is the backbone of Traveler. 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