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THE CLACKAMAS PRINT
May 31, 1989
Page 14
Movie mania hits with summer on the way
This summer is going to
be filled with many movies, of all
descriptions and genres, from
Ghostbusters II to Friday the
Thirteenth part VTII: Terror in
Times Square.
: The first of these summer
movies.-.which is already out, is
Indiana: Jones and the Last
Crusade. This should be the hit of
the summer, that is unless
something else is-like Star Trek
V: The Final Frontier.
Star Trek V, which opens
June 9, is directed by William
Shatner, who also plays Captain
Jamfes T. Kirk. The movie brings
back all of the original cast and
sends the USS Enterprise on “the
most fantastic voyage ever.”
Forthoseofy ai who like
your monsters, or si ould I say
ghosts, a little closer to home,
then Ghostbusters n is the movie
fory< "y Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray
and Sigourney Weaver are just a
few of the returning cast members.
What is it about? SLIME, for one
thing and for a second how about
SLIME, in fact this movie has what
some describe as “rivers of slime.”
Will all this slime hurt the movie?
I think not, not if we don’t start
stomach sliming our movie-go i ng
buddies.
There are going to be two
comic book heros coming to the
screen this summer. The.biggest
and most anticipated of the two is
Batman. Starring Michael Keaton,
this S50 million movie has ‘Hit*
written all over it. From the top of
Jack Nicholson’s head all the way
to the bottom of the movie’s bat­
car, which looks like it could blow
the doors off a Lambourghini...
literally.
The second of the two
comic book heros to hit the big
screen this summer is The Punisher.
A not so well known comic book
anti-hero, but those who know of
him nfcver forget him. The movie
wiH star Dolf Lundgren and Lou
Gossett Jr. I don’t know if this is
favorable or deleterious to have
these two guys in it, I mean they
have both done good and bad jobs
of acting before, but lately the
movies they have done have been
bad.
What The Punisher won’t
give you in action, maybe Lethal
Weapon 2will. Danny Glover and
Mel Gibson are back and so is the
“magic” they say. Gibson’s
character has worked out his
suicidal tendencies, so he and
Glover will be able to kick ass on
a South African drug dealer. Funlly
a bad guy even the bad guy can
hate. Director Richard Donner
came back to direct this sequel
and in a recent article in “Premiere”
magazine he said that they are
going to play up the buddy-buddy
story and have a little less action.
Not too much less I hope.
For big time comedians
this summer both Steve Martin
and Robin Williams are coming
out with new movies. Martin’s is a
comedy about family life called
Parenthood. Ron Howard is
directing and from all indicators
this looksas. if it may be a really
good movie. Family life is big this
year with thirtysomthing and all
Photo by: Bruce Btrmeln
William Shatner returns
as Captain Kirk in “Star Trek V the Final Frontier," just one of the
many blockbusters due out this summer.
of the people having kids, there is
a large built-in audience for this
movie. That is unless it is a dog of
a script.
Robin Williams’ movie
is about an English teacher at a
school for rich kids who inspires
them. It is called Dead Poet’s
Society and it comes from
Touchstone, the production
company that can’t seem to do
wrong. Though this movie will have
its dark moments it will also be
funny (like life?). For those ofyou
who can’t wait until the summer
to see Robin Williams, there is a
film out now in the Portland area
by Terry Gilliam called The
Adventures of Baron Munchausen.
Williams plays the King of the
Moon but doesn’t take credit.
The film is well made and is very
funny, one of the funniest I’ve
seen in along time.
Other movies to watch
for are Do the Right Thing, by
ace director Spike Lee. Those of
you who don’t know him may
recognize him as Mars Blackmon,
Michael Jordon’s T.V. playground
partner. Casualties of War,
starring Sean Penn and Michael
J. Fox, is a war movie about a
soldier. Penn plays a soldier who
rapes Vietnamese women and Fox
plays the man who prosecutes
him.
Since this year is the
twentieth anniversary of the Apollo
11 lunar landing, Al Reinert is going
to release a documentaty combining
both news footage and footage shot
from the capsule it self.
And I suppose I shouldn’t
leave out A Nightmare on Elm
street 5: The Drcam Child. Freddy
comes back through the unborn
child of one of his victims. We are
all (yawn) waiting anxiously.
Have a good summer and
maybe I’ll see you in the popcorn
line.
Clackamas student develops computer program
by Um Jones
Moody who started his
formal education late is impressed
Staff Writer
Bob
Moody
has by the availability of instructors
developed a computer program and the closeness here at
that makes and edits icons for a Clackamas.
Before returning to school
point and run system.
“The program is called Moody said he owned a garage
Maxie, which stands for Maximum and was a hotel manager for several
years. When his wife Lea couldn’t
Icon Edition,” said Moody.
The program was wri t ten work with him at the hotel, he
in Basic 09 Aunix type system. decided it was time to change
Moody donated the program to careers.
It was last summer that
the OS9 Users Group of
America^nd in return he received Moody received his GED from
the entire library of OS9 free. This Clackamas. Being 46 years old
program will appear in Rainbow hasn’t held him back at all, if
Magazine in the July, August, and anything it has helped him excel
September editions.
in continuing his education.
His advice to adult
Moody is self taught. He
acquired knowledge of computers students returning to school is that
through reading and copying they “should take a spelling class.”
Moody, who prepares
programs from magazines. He
bought his first compute^ in 1982 other peoples taxes in the fall,
and has upgraded the system since says that he would like to receive
then. When hestarted out he used his bachelors in accounting, and
the computer for household tasks then plans to continue his
and games.
education and take his CPA exam.
In his off time Moody
Using a computer has
taught Moody about logic. “The enjoys, you guessed it, “playing
logic of computers has helped me with computers.” His program took
in life,” said Moody.
more than two months to create
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and he spent eight hours a day
sitting at the computer.
“I would get it done and
then go back and change the
program,” said Moody.
He didn’t think that the
program was perfect when he
finished, and he still feels that he
can improve this program. With
the success of his newly created
program and drive to get an
education, Moody is a very busy
student. He plans on attending
Clackamas this summer and
continuing his education here next
fall.
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