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The Clackamas Print
Wednesday, October 16,1996
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From an idea by Matt Jones.
is random trivia. Answers on page 5.
This week’s
1. What actor plays the role of the detective in the 1990 movie Dick
Tracy?
2. Name the actor who plays the frightening character of Freddy
Krueger.
3. In the film Medicine Man, for what illness did Dr. Campbell find a
cure?
4. What was the name of the fraternity which accepted Lewis and
Gilbert in Revenge of the Nerds?
5. In the movie Days of Thunder, what was Tom Cruise’s character
name?
John Grisham’s
11. In what film does the following line come from? “We’re going to
Sizzler; we’re going to Sizzler.”
The Act III Hilltop 9
Theater in Oregon City
opened last Saturday.
On the first day of
business, Act III and
music station Z-100 ran
a special free promotion
to celebrate the theater’s
opening. The theater’s
screens ran showings of
free movies, including
“Matilda” and “The
Rock, ” during business
hours. Free soft drinks
and popcorn were also
provided for customers.
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7. In the movie A Few Good Men, the MOarines live by a code. What is
the code?
10. Where was the comedy movie Animal House filmed?
on yet another book by John
Grisham, the Master of the Court
room thriller. The Chamber
stars Gene Hackman and Chris
O’Donnell.
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9. What was the name of the baseball team in the movie Major
League?
The Chamber (R, MCA) based
. The fall movie season is not
known for great movies, because
it is after the big budget, summer
movie season and to a early for
the Academy Awards push of con
tenders. So I was
not expecting too
much when I de
cided to do a movie
review for this is
sue of the Print.
Well, I can say I
was pleasantly sur
prised with the two
big movies that
came out last
weekend:
The
6. Name the city where Drugstore Cowboy was produced.
8. What was John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd’s frequent religious
refrain as the Blues Brothers?
The second movie I saw was
Jon Roberts
A&E Editor
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The first movie was The
Ghost and The Darkness (R,
Paramount) starring Vai Kilmer
and Michael Douglas. The basic
plot line for this movie is that Vai
Kilmer, a 19th-century bridge de
signer, is called upon to build a
bridge near a city named Tsavo
somewhere in Africa.
Everything goes smoothly
until two lions decide to make it
their goal in life to stop the bridge
from being built by killing almost
a hundred people. So they call in
a big game hunter from America
(Michael Douglas) to deal with
the lions. The two men go
through a lot together as they try
to kill the lions before they kill
any more of the helpless workers.
The movie was very intense,
with a lot of blood and guts that
were usually hanging from the li
ons’ impressive teeth.
The movie will not win any
awards, but it was very entertain
ing and a fun, yet suspenseful
movie.
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The movie is about a young
lawyer (O’Donnell) who decides
to get his convict grandfather
(Hackman) off death row. He tries
to find a loophole, or possibly an
other person to pin the crime on,
to get his grandfather out of his
date with the gas chamber.
Hackman’s character was a
KKK member who bombed a lo
cal Jewish lawyers’ office, acci
dentally killing the lawyers’ two
three-year-old sons.
The Chamber is a decent
movie, although slow at times. If
you have seen the movie Dead
Man Walking, this movie will
seem like a rerun of another story.
Also, if you have read the book,
don’t see the movie because it just
spoils the ending and some other
plot lines.
Overall, both these movies
are very well done, with The
Ghost and The Darkness being
the best of the two. Both are en
tertaining and worth the cost of
admission.
Starting this week, the A&E
section win feature a column where
different writers can voice their
opinions about arts and
entertainment
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and then give one star to a movie
about racism in the deep south
Why is it that in our ever starring quite a few good actors.
changing society, people feel Yes, there were a few cliche
mainstream is bad? Under- scenes, but at least the whole
ground movies are a good ex-; movie was not cliche 1 ike ‘Barb
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ample of this new treqd.
Another problem with the
One person I wish to pick
on is Tim Appello, The reviews by Mr. Appello is he
Oregonian’s movie reviewer for never once ¿ays, “Now that
the last few years' He is of the movie may have had a shallow
opinion that movies made by in plot, but it was entertaining.”
People would rather know, in
dependent movie makers are bet
ter than those made.by big cor my opinion, what they are getting
porations. Shawn Levy, special for their money, then whether of
writer for The Oregonian, is of not the movie’s director could
have done better (i.e. Appello’s
the same opinion.
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cases but just because a movie give 77zt? Oregonian and Appello
is made through the mainstream one thing and that is, even though
channels, does not mean it is a I disagree with him almost 99
bad movie. On the average, percent of the time, he gets me to
Appello will give movies made read the section. So for that I tip
independently two more stars my hat to you Appello.
than most of the movies made
But if you want a good
movie review, look to Siskel and
through the mainstream.
How on earth can you give Ebert or here in the A&E sec
a movie starring Pamela Lee tion. And you don’t even have
called ‘Barb Wire’ three stars to pay for The Print
Jon Roberts
A&E Editor