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Uncle Buck * (Universal) Rated M (at the Granville, Oakridge, Scott,
Coquitlam, Station Sq., Royal Centre, Park & Tilford and Clearbrook

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BUCK RUSSELL John Candy) has his fingers crossed.
After forty years of dodging commitment, he has made a
promise to his girlfriend, Geniece (Amy Madigan). Tomor-
row morning, he’ll go to work for her and racetracks will be

only a fond memory.

But, at midnight, his horse
comes in. It’s a call from his
brother asking him to babysit for a
few days. His brother has a niggl-
ing doubt about Buck's capabili-
ties but, after all, he’s family and
it’s an emergency.

His sister-in-law has more than a
few qualms abcut leaving her kids
in the care of an unemployed
bungler. After all, the last time he
was over, he burned the bushes
while barbecuing hot dogs.

~The two youngest, Maisie (Gaby
Hoffman) and Miles (Macaulay
Culkin), are sitcom-cute except for
the odd swear word. Fif-
teen-year-old Thea (jean Kelly),
however, does more than swear
by alternating between sarcasm
and vindictiveness to make her
uncle’s life miserable.

John Candy handles this raie of
the well-meaning boor who
ultimately triumphs about as weil
as he has in his past half-dozen
films.

‘The trouble is the script. It’s

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more of a mystery than a comedy.
Why do both parents have to
leave to begin with? Why do these
bland or annoying kids rouse
Buck’s slumbering parental in-
stinct? Why does he make pan-
cakes so big he needs a snow
shovel to flip them? And why does
everyone have such peculiar
names?

The solution to all this head-
scratching is simple.

Pass the Buck.
The Wizard of Oz: 50th Anniver-
savy Edition **** (MGM/UA
Home Video) ©
’ Everybody by now has not only
seen this classic, but can recite
whole passages of dialogue. What

Students’ work tours B.C.

THE ART work of three North
Shore students has been chosen to
tour the province as part of the
British Columbia Young Artists
Exhibition.

The exhibition will tour 18 foca-
tions in 6.C., starting at the Emily
Carr: College of Art and Design
Granville -Island campus. this

The - of Danika McBride
from Lynn Valley, Taizo
Yamamoto of Seycove Secondary,
and Lisa Collier from Sentinel :
Secondary were chosen by the
eight-member. committee of «art
educators to be included in the
tour. Their work was chosen from .
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“We are very pieased to honor
these artists in B.C.’s only pro-
vince-wide showcase of original
creative works by young people,’’
said Patricia Bovey, chairperson of
Emily Carr’s board of trustees.

Wyn Davies, chairperson of.the
selection committee, said his
group chose works inat reflected
a variety of age groups and which
showed techeical. competence as
well as a capacity to develop ideas.

Receiving honorable mention for
their submissions aig Erika
Pellegrini from Lynn V. , Nathan
Foren from Seycove Secondary
and Jessica Huguet from Montes-
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makes this version special, besides
a mint quality print, is the extra 20

rainutes of footage tagged on the ~

tail end. A promotional trailer is
included from the 1954 re-release
showing alternate takes and cut
scenes. Shots of the original Tin
Man, Buddy Ebson (forced to
withdraw due to illness), front his
rare recording of “If | Only Had a
Heart.’ Most interesting are the
reconstructed rausical numbers
‘The jitterbug’ and Ray Bolger’s
Scarecrow dance sequence (also
seen in “That's Dancing’), both
cut from the film prior to its

‘ release in 1939.

An illustrated booklet reveals
many behind-the-scenes details,
(although it tends to exaggerate
the film’s initial popularity) and, as
the commercials say, it’s affor-
dably priced under $30.

NORTH SHORE VIEWS

West Van Odeon: When Harry
Met Sally, Casualties of War, Par-
enthood.

Park Royal: Dead Poets Society,
Peter Pan, Cheetah, Batman.
Park & Tilford: Parenthood, The
Abyss, Uncle Buck, When Harry
Met Sally, Casualties of War, The
Package.

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Miss Baba
is fun for
kids, adults

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the plot or its appreciation by its
primary target audience.

And what is the plot?

The heroine of Miss Baba... is
foundling Oola, an orphaned
poodle raised by the prim and.
proper Miss Baba. On her birthday
several years after she was leit at
the orphanage, Oola is informed
by Miss Baba that the only clue to
her parents’ identity is a
mysterious ring inscribed in a
foreign language. . .

With the help of Professor Nod
(‘a wooly yak who specializes in.
ancient Asian languages, most of
them extinct’) at the Museum of
Animal Arts, Qola sets off on a
dangerous odyssey of discovery.
She is aided in this quest by the
Dolly Lama (“probably the only
llama in Mongolia’), Dash (“an
evil-smelling camel with an even
worse disposition’’), and a host of
other wacky characters.

Miss Saba in The Doorknob of
Destiny is a comic book-like spoof

that smacks of Indiana Jones and
the adveniure sezials that were
once a staple of movie matinees. !
defy any adult to try reading this
without chuckling throughout.

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