Bob Hunter

e strictly personal ®

THE LAST time I saw Sleeping Beauty was when I took
| my small kids who cre now adults. There have been a lot
‘of bridges under the water since then.

Last weekend, I took my cur-

. Fent seven-year-old, -the excuse .

being that’ it was part of the
. lad’s cultural heritage. .

A case can be made, from an

‘ecological standpoint, -

_and most influential movie. But

‘Disney contributed other items
“aswell, 0.
“Alice. in ‘Wonderland,
everyone agrees, was chock-full

OF, . Political’: and * sociological .

White. and. the

stilt: drives

that-,
Bambi was our era’s greatest °

forces of Nature.

Yet what is his contribution,
from the point of view of plot
development? If .it weren’t for
the three Good Fairies, he
would never have defeated. the
awesome Dragon Lady Witch,
in order to be able to kiss the
nubile Princess.

At every turn, ‘the poor
Prince is a tool, if you'll excuse
the-expression, of the feminine
Even the
Princess, laying there, beautiful
but :-really dumb, with her red

’ lips and gold hair and blue eyes,

e” is dominating him! Admit it.

“The moment he. kisses her,

she’ -awakens.. It is only when |}
*. SHE™ awakens, you'll
"that the world of joy and hope ~

note,

I’. and ‘the good life and all THAT

just as’ 1: : Suspected - I...

was; after all, viewing

reawakens too. The: key is the .
PRINCESS’. |
: 'the,.oh hum, Prince’s.
“tant. masculinist ‘writer’ might

awakening,
A. mili-

e: find: in. this proof” that - Walt

‘Disney - was’ Jane Fonda’s ©
., REAL father! :

Sure, the Prince. never nodd-

| off on'the job, to his credit,

~:ainlike’ the: .nerd ‘pickle. of a

Princess, but, then, so what? .

: Without the Witch to_battle,. -
the: ‘Fairies to cover his flank —
again, so. to speak’ — and ‘the

"Princess to - neck: with, . as in
““necrophelia (after all, she’s as |]

~ “good as dead if he: doesn’t. per-

form), ‘the Prince ‘really doesn’t.

“accomplish ‘a damned thing in

the: whole. movie on his own,

‘does. he?

*He’s'a pawn! ©

".) -This.was the warning I ask

ed to pass On to my son bye’.

* posing him.to the’ matriarchical ©

message of ‘Sleeping Beauty. 1..

- wanted to say: Beware, my son,
of the. female. forces that con- .
“trol.
-y alike. Beware,-as well, son, of: |}
J the. ‘feminization. of..the. great .-]>.;

nature: .and - civilization

biological energies that animate
creation. .
‘But ‘at another level I didn't

- REALLY. want to warn him. |

ile *. wanted him. to” find out for

~before their time.
“That. “leaves”
the only~ viable

& ‘Rambo,’ and,. indeed, eventually; --
> slays:the’ witch-turned-dtagon i in-.

"much the same way (using .14th

century: military technology) as’
: Stallone’, offs. the Commies: in- »

i imm-to- Vietnam epic.
“That is, he .fires.a swor

“ stead: of a’ground-to-air, rocket ‘

at an .airborné armored enemy:
* with “100 times the. yepowers a
: . did. he?”

and knocks it. out! Olay!

the : Prince, a
< climbed-into the car,.I. asked
; chim, with, elaborate casuatness:

“So who was the’ strongest per-

": son in that movie, after.all?”” .
He looked at. me as' though 1
Was.
~ Shrugged, °
Prince!” And: he. .added, - for “
good measure: “Of. course!”?

himself.

“After. it: was over, as we.

an. aging : dough-brain,
and — said:

«I didn’t Jet him see it, but I

.; grimaced into the rearview mir-

ror as we pulled away from the

cinema. :

Didn't learn a bloody thing,

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up district
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ABORTION MEANS |
NO JUDGE |
NOJORY |

commented that that was the
bridge former Highways Minister

West Vancouver on Marine
Drive.

‘By BILL ARMSTRONG
Contributing Writer

West Vancouver District Council —

North Vancouver. counterparts in

. beautifying the intersection area at

the north end of Lions Gate
Bridge. :
' Tentative plans call for remov-
ing the centre divider barriers and
replacing them with a wide median.
planted with trees and shrubs.

INTERSECTION UPGRADED

The intersection of Marine Drive .
and Capilano, Road will be
upgraded, and a signpost will be
constructed in the rebuilt median, .
along with three flagpoles.

_ The sign would be double-sided,
with the North Vancouver crest on
the side facing .west to welcome -

travellers to that district.

Plans call for the West Van-
couver crest to be placed on the
east facing side, with the median
extended approximately 50 feet
west. —-

$16,000 COST

West: Vancouver’s share of the.
total cost would be $16,000. -

Although. ‘most .of council

” thought it would be of value to the
- community, Ald: Donald Griffiths

said he. had examined the traffic. -
flow ‘and thought it: would benefit. .
North’ Vancouver residents more

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Lions Gate Bridge.

‘Ald, David Finlay thought it was a :

~ worth it if it only spurred the pro-.
~ yincial government on ‘to build'a
’ better bridge across the Capilano
* River, rather than ‘‘that crummy —
_ two lane bridge there now.’’ *

“Mayor Derrick Humphreys ; ™

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