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Press

ou thought the original

ins was a little too frantic, you

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Joe Dante holds nothing back in a

manic extravaganza designed to leave
your head spinning.

Gremlins 2: The New Batch (War-
ner Bros.) is such a frenzy of activity
that Zach Galligan and Phoebe
Cates, the actor stars of the original,
are only in the sequel to provide
some continuity.

Unlike the first effort, in which
black humor and uncontained
viciousness marred the fun, Dante’s
film is better suited for family
audiences — but not youngsters. The
shot of a gremlin being shoved into a
paper shredder is clearly not accgp-
table for pre-teens,

Much of the humor is aimed at
adults — there are so many visual
jokes that you'll probably need to
use the rewind button a couple of
times to appreciate them all. Watch
out for the Batman logo-shaped hole
in a wall after a gremlin crashes
through, and for the brief return to
Oz for the demise of the Wicked
Witch,

Throughout there are pointed digs
at corporate life New York-style, and
it takes no effort to guess the origins
of the showpiece Clamp Tower set-
ting and its developer-tycoon owner.

There’s even a visit to a trendy
Canadian restaurant in Manhattan

Wah returns to give reading

Fred Wah, a long-time Kootenay
resident, will return this month for a
reading Jan, 18 at the Kootenay
School of Writing and Jan. 19 at the
Langham in Kaslo.

Wah has agreed on short notice to
pinch-hit for writer Dianne Schom-
perlen, who had to postpone her
visit.

Wah, whose parents ran the old
Diamond Grill Cafe in Nelson, and
who worked there himself waiting
tables, will read from his new work,
much of which deals with his life in

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Humor geared for adults
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where waiters dress as Mounties and
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Gremlins 2 will most appeal to
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They’ll have no problem believing
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offspring haven't yet reached
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Repossessed (Carolco) — Linda
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Funnyman Leslie Nielsen plays the
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Midnight Cabaret (Warner Bros.)
~~ There's much to,admire in this
stylish and inventive erotic thriller.

Pece Dingo’s film has a sparkling
start with a bizarre dream sequence
in which a terrified woman is chased
through rain-drenched streets by a
naked man. Indeed, throughout the
movie, the director’s cunning mix of
dreams with reality keeps the
adrenalin flowing.

But wooden acting and corny
dialogue undermine some impressive
shadowy images created by the direc-

“tor of photography, Bernd Heinl.

The story concerns a young ac-
tress, played by Tariia Richards, who
finds that her stage role as the bride
of Satan in a Manhattan musical
revue expands i into her offstage life.

The i is on prime

(Turner-

time TV — and wrestling hosts Mean
Gene Okerlund and Jesse Ventura
are on hand to cornment.

The feast of gags guarantees that
this zany comedy has something to
amuse- everyone.

It’s worth renting if only to see
veteran Ned Beatty and Lana Sch-
wab ham it up as TV. evangelists

Nelson as a boy and teenager. His
new book — his first novel — he
describes as a “‘biotext, a cross bet-
ween verse and novel, a life story.”’

Wah now is associate professor of
creative writing and English at the
University of Calgary. He received
his bachelor’s degree at the Univer-
sity of B.C. and his master of arts at
Buffalo.

Many Kootenay residents will
remember Wah as the moving force
behind the school of writing at the

— Tennessee Williams's.
play was written for stage, not
screen, and it shows in this
claustrophobic adaptation by direc-
tor Peter Hall.

Although the acting by Vanessa
Redgrave and Kevin Anderson is first
class, the film is too heavy on
dialogue and very, very static.

It’s not helped by characters who

David Thompson University Centre.
When the Social Credit government
closed the school in 1984, Wah
moved to Selkirk College in
Castlegar where he taught writing in
the graphic communications depar-
tment. At the same time, he founded
the Kootenay School of Writing,
with the support of DTUC faculty
and students.

He has written many books of
poetry, including Loki is Buried at
Smoky Creek, Waiting for Saskat-
chewan, which won the Governor-

are standard fare for Williams —

Redgrave plays the familiar
female,

one is strictly for the ‘playwright's
fans.

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right.

Spike Lee’s much praised Mo’ Bet-
ter Blues, starring Denzel
Washington, will be available Jan. 17

Chuck Norris is back with Delta
Force 2: Operation Stranglehold as
the leader of a top-secret commando
force (Media-ICVS, Jan. 9).

High-tech sci-fi thriller Circuitry
Man has androids battling for con-
trol of a drug business in a toxic
wasteland known as Los Angeles.
(RCA-Columbia, Jan. 9). Hardware
(Cineplex Odeon, Jan. 17) features
an out-of-control robot in a post-
nuclear world. Even the Teenage
Mutant Ninja Turtles face a warrior
robot from the future in Attack of
the Big Macc — a new animated ad-
venture arriving Jan. 10.

~

General’s Award for 1985, and
Music at the Heart of Thinking.

As well as the readings, Wah will
conduct a prose workshop Jan. 19
from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the SUB in
Nelson. Pre-registration is required.
Students are asked to bring a bag
lunch, along with ideas or problems
in dealing with a prose/poem
narrative.

Both readings are sponsored join-
tly with the Canada Council and are
free.

Dark Shadows comes
back from the dead

By BILL ANDERSON
CP Televison Writer

LOS ANGELES (CP) — For
those who think vampires are more
fun than a barrel of monkeys, NBC
presents Dark Shadows.

A revival of the old Gothic
daytime series, Dark Shadows begins
Sunday with the first half of a four-
hour mini-series.

The will be

Dark Shadows played for five
years in the 1960s, but went off the
air soon after creator Dan Curtis —
who is masterminding the comeback
— quit the series pleading burnout.

Now, after making such acclaimed
TV horror movies as Dracula and
Frankenstein, and the epic mini-
series drama War and Remembrance
and The Winds of War, Curtis says

Monday, with a cliffhanger ending
that leads into an hour-long weekly
series starting Friday Jan. 18.

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strike and the networks were scram-
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cepts.

The premise of the show is that a
200-year-old vampire — played by
English actor Ben Cross — has been
mistakenly released from his coffin
‘and is terrorizing a fictional town in
New England.

Despite Curtis’s credits in the
horror genre, however, he said ina
recent interview in Los Angeles that
“this is not going to be a terrorizing
show — it never was.”

“This is basically a fantasy with
some horror elements in it. We're
not saying this is anything other than
fantasy and fun.’’

In Sunday’s premiere, viewers see
the possibilities in this approach as
Curtis playfully wallows in every
cliche of the Gothic form, including
a visitor arriving in an eerie small
town, a mossy mansion high atop a
stormy cliff and a hideous. monster
out on the loose.

After a time, however, the
limitations of this become all too ap-
parent.

What starts as chilly fun soon
+ecomes a tedious parade of
whitened fangs, glassy cyeballs and
hissing zombies running around in
the ever-present fog.

BUSINESS

Economy depends on war

come “out winners if there's a
Protracted war in the Persian Gulf,
analysts say.

“This war is very, very different,"’
said Jack Slibar, an analyst at Cand
sultants International, a
that assesses investment risk in aif.
ferent parts of the world.

“The reason is because at no other
time have we had a war that could
affect the global economy so
drastically."

At stake is not only who would
win, but a key source of energy to
keep the world economy running.

About 13.5 per cent of the world’s
crude oil production could be affec-
ted in a Gulf war. Oil facilities are
Prime targets in.a war, and it takes a

long time to rebuild a refinery,
Slibar said.

If Iraq is defeated quickly, the
economy may not suffer
much, other economists said.

But they said a war lasting months
could worsen the recession and drive
up fuel prices. The Canadian dollar,
though, could go higher because the
country is seen as a safe haven.

In a “worst case scenario’’ por-
trayed by Slibar, Iraq and the U.S.
led forces are wanged in a drawn-
out war,

Refineries are hit, and Saudi
Arabia cannot meet the
multinational forces enormous ap-
petite for fuel. They compete with
the rest of the world for supplies

Prices

The consensus among other
analysts interviewed is that war could
send oil prices above $50 @ barrel, at
least temporarily. Oil was around
$27 a barrel in early January.

Sharply higher energy prices
“would just wreak havoc with the
western economies,"’ Slibar said.

“*We'd no longer be looking at the
R-word. We'd be looking at the D-
word,”” he «said, referring to the
recession worsening into something
like the Depression of the 1930s.

The worst may not happen, but a
long war would have an economic
impact.

“What will happen is, I guess,
most likely the recession will last
longer,” said Peter Pauly, economics

Under such circumstances, Slibar
said, oil prices could quickly rise to
$60 US a barrel and then perhaps as
high as $100 ‘‘if things go bad."’

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products come from oil; Rising oil
prices will “richochet through the
economy, basically forcing severe
Price increases,’’ Slibar said.

Oil prices sustained around $76 a
barrel would mean regular unleaded
easoline at 96.5 cents Cdn a litre in
Canada, he said. It would hurt
millions of drivers and businesses
that have to transport their goods,
Home heating oil would cost much
more.

Every 10 per cent increase in oil
Prices would result in a 0.2 percen-
tage point rise in Canada’s inflation’
rate, Slibar said.

“If this were to go on for a
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you would see the number of
bankruptcies soar.”"

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started in April, the agency said.

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Since last April alone the unem-
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