FEATURE
'Immediate Family* enjoyable
Immediate Family is a touch
ing movie about a young couple
who are unable to have children.
■ They then try to adopt a child.
Starring Glenn Close and
James Woods as the couple, the
movie seems a lot like thirty
something comes to the big
screen. Now don’t hold this
against the
actors; they
didn’t produce
the movie,
theyjustactin
it. The couple
is supposed to
live in Seattle,
though it was
filmed in Van
couver BG Have
you started to notice that almost
everyone in the movies anymore
lives in Seattle, or at least the
Northwest?
The two get in touch with
their lawyer who in turn puts
them in touch with an unwed
mother, played by Mary Stuart
Masterson. She lives in Ohio,
doesn’t get along with her step
family, and likes Guns and Roses,
to fill out the entire pregnant
teenager cliche’. Where imagi
native Character development is
lackingMasterson makes up with
superb acting. She creates the
roll and forces the viewer to accept
everything she does throughout
the movie.
Woods and Close, on the
| other hand, though they both
' delivered excellent performances,
seemed hindered by their down
to earth roles as an average white
couple. Close may have done bet
ter had she a knife in her hand or
an 18th century dress on. Woods
needed an onion field around.
It is always seems that when
I start nit-picking that I didn’t
like the movie, this is just not the
case. I will list
now any part
of the movie
that
I
thought de
served praise.
The musical
score - any
movie that
has a Van
Morriso n
song in it automatically makes
the soundtrack beyond reproach.
Kevin Dillon gave an excellent
performance, the one of his ca
reer so far. If he continues to de
liver this caliber of performances
he will have a long career ahead
of himself. The ending - now I
must admit that it will probably
touch me differently than it will
you because I was adopted. I hope
that my biological mother loved
me just as much as Masterson’s
character loved her child in the
movie. I guess the proof would
be that she gave me up for adop
tion rather than trying to raise
me herself. That is the point of
the entire movie, so you have a
choice: read my article again for
free, or spend five dollars to see
the movie. I’d do the latter.
THE CLACKAMAS PRINTNovember 8,1989
Page 7
Leonard purchases drum store
by Angela Wilson
Feature Editor
Marty Leonard, former mu
sic student at Clackamas, has
pursued a career in music and now
he’s in the “business.”’
Leonard attended Clackamas
from 1971-1973. He.was active in
the music program at CCC play
ing the drums and other percus
sion instruments.
“I had decided to pursue music
as a career, and I knew that Clacka
mas had a good music department,”
Leonard said. “I came here to lay
the foundation for what I wanted
to do in the future.”
After attending Clackamas,
Leonard moved to San Jose, Cali
fornia and studied percussion at
San Jose State. From there he
moved to Edmonton, Alberta,
Canada where he taught drums
for the Edmonton Drum Corps.
Leonard then returned to
Portland and opened a sheet music
store. About five years later he
moved to Los Angeles to “pursue
a playing career.”
While working in Los Ange
Marty Leonard, former student at Clackamas, has been enjoying
hiS Career in music.
Photo by LaneScheideinan
les, Leonard played percussion for
the soundtrack music to the Fox
television series Star Trek the Next
Generation, Disney’s Duck Tales,
andhe also performed a tribute to
Lynol Hampton in the 1987 Play
boy Festival of Jazz.
“Playing in the Playboy Festi
val of Jazz was probably the high
point of being down there,” Le
onard said.
Leonard is currently living in
Portland, and he has taken a shot
at entiepreneurialship by purchas
ing a percussion shop. He is the
owner of The Drum Store, located
at 7985 S.E. 17th Ave. in Port
land.
“We arc developing the store
into a full drum and percussion
center,” Leonard said.
Childs' play..
Nousen to speak
“Washington from the Inside”
is the title of a lecture to be given
next Wednesday by Steve Nousen,
former legislative assistant to
Senator Mark Hatfield.
Nousen was a social science
teacher at Canby Union High
School for 11 years, but left teach
ing in 1984 to work for Senator
Hatfield. He served as the sena-
tor’s legislative assistant for three
years, and was also a professional
staff member of the Senate Ap
propriations Committee for a year.
Nousen is currently the manager
of government relations for the
Port of Portland.
The lecture, sponsored by The
Clackamas Print, will take place
at noon in the small dining room.
Children enjoy some good Fall weather as they play outside near Orchard Center.
Photo by Lane Scheideman
STEVE NOUSEN
Manager of Government
Relations for Port of Portland
SPEAKS TO
STUDENTS
ON
"WASHINGTON
FROM THE INSIDE'
November 15th at Noon. In
the Small Dining Room.
Thia ia a public service message of this publication.
Open Auditions
for
The Clackamas Drama Club’s
winter production of
"A Broadway Revue"
being held
November 13
Needed:: 20 - 30 performers (male &
female) and many Backstage helpers
Stop by McLoughlin Hall Theatre to pick up audition info, and forms
* If you enjoy singing and dancing, acting, or
just love theater, please come!*
This is a public service message of this publication.