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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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where waiters dress as Mounties and serve, you guessed it, chocolate moose,

Gremlins 2 will most appeal to parents of Children from. Hell, They’ll have no problem believing the awful antics of these out-of- control glove puppets and might even feel consoled that their odious offspring haven't yet reached gremlinity.

Repossessed (Carolco) — Linda Blair, the head-turning star of The Exorcist horror flick, has devilish good fun reprising her role in this laugh-a-minute spoof.

Funnyman Leslie Nielsen plays the exortist with a heart condition who is called out of retirement to again confront the foul language — and litres of -green-pea vomit — that spew from the repossessed Blair.

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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.

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“tor of photography, Bernd Heinl.

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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,

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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.

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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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NBC’s interest in Dark Shadows goes back to 1988 when most TV scriptwriters in Hollywood were on strike and the networks were scram- bling to find already established con- 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.

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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,

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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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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.

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