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weekender september 21 1985 p17 weekender ainment elegant country dimcg in rncivxiuns plrcic cui 2946vs weekender movie scene warning sign better as thriller by ian bailey warning sign as food for thought this scienceoriented movie is pretty taste less it works better with the heart as a riveting thriller warning sign often sermonizes a tendency that seems inevitable thanks to its topic genetic engineering as the movie begins a genetics lab in northern california is contaminated by one of its ex periments a virus that produces the blood- lust of rabies without the foam at the mouth the lab is quickly quarantined by the army inside the head of security kath leen quinlan has to cope with a legion of bloodthirsty infected scientists outside the lab her sheriff husband sam water- ston tries to make sense of the gobblygook spouted off by a military specialist yaphet kotto who talks from both sides of his mouth one side talks about how the contamina tion involves nothing more than a spilled yeast experiment while the other side warns of a biohazard horror the likes of which the world has never seen as a movie about scientists warning sign echoes an observation that time magazine critic richard schiekel offered in a recent article on movie scientists schiekel described a shift from the movie scientist as a meddler in things man was never meant to touch ie frankenstein trying to create life to a depiction of the scientist as the creature of large and face less government with its secretive ways and bland explanations this is the approach taken in warning signs script written by the films director halbarwood and his partner matthew robbins but its developed in such a folk sy way that it seems simplistic warning sign easily depicts scientists as hostages of their government bosses but its sermons on the potential evil of their work never cuts deeper than the waterston charac ters fear of germs and the trite warn ings of a scientific rebel played by costar jeffrey de munn the film is much more effective when it works with the compelling premise of the trapped scientists director robbins makes the most of the tense situation pre sented by the quarantine by juggling the plagues power and the pressures inside andoutide the lab markville r v4 markville compromising positions good characterizations help this droll mystery about a suburban housewife susan saran- don who tries to find out who murdered her cal and joanie sam waterson and kathleen quinlan are forced to restrain fairchild jeffrey de munn when he is exposed to a genesplitting accident which could turn him into succeeds in sinking lower than any other movie has this summer f v4 year a homicidal madman in warning sign the sciencefiction thriller is now playing at markville dentist a philandering cad who was in volved in illicit pornography nicely directed in closed suburban settings by frank monsignor perry aa m follow that bird a story adapted from the sesame street tv series saturday sunday matineesf peewees big adventure a pretty dumb movie wherein cult comedy star peewee herman paul reubens sets out on a crosscountry search for his stolen bicycle fans may enjoy peewees pecu liarities but strangers to the character can expect a long dull ordeal where laughter is an embarassed reaction to a movie that sets out to plumb the depths of badness and a wingding as the result of a recent wingeating contest the people at fathers res taurant in markham were able to turn over 23850 to the markham stouffville hospital fund recently from left to right are marie grossi of j fathers david potter of the wing and a prayer team paul charbon- neau and tracy evans both of the wing nuts team steve debeau bar tender tracy morgan waitress and iggy natoli bartender sjberd wittcvecn of the dragon a highpowered thril ler about a new yorkpolice captain who sets out to break a chinese crime gang for reasons that are more racist than legal although this violent film is engrossing it lacks a perspective on the bigoted central character played by mickey rourke rourkes performance is convincing but the movie never comes together to either explain or condemn him r brutal vio lence coarse language vz thornhill square creatorpeter otoole plays a scien tist who tries to clone his dead wife a com edy aa walk into the past future kill a science fiction film r teen wolf this movie starts with a dubious idea its about a teenager played by michael j fox who starts to change into a werewolf but midway through it takes a satirical view on the premise in the way you would least expect the results work quite well teen wolfs attempts to turn the werewolf myth on its ear are aided by foxs practised frazzled performance pg ratings excellent good fair poor street ready to open by paula crowell staff reporter take a walk into the past along main st in unionville next saturday the town of markham and merchants on the street are celebrating the official opening of the new streetscape and it wont be any ordinary ribboncutting type of ceremony terry cowan owner of unionville house restaurant is one of the many merchants involved in the festivities he described the event as a celebration of wlmi the street might have been like at the turn of the cen tury thats part of the reason unionville has attracted as many people as it has he said it has what people perceive to be the oldfashioned smalltown atmosphere on the 28th well have horses clopping by hay rides and horses pulling wagons were hoping it will be a really fun event the street will be decorated in the old style with union jack flags and banners hanging from wooden posts mr cowan stressed that the celebration is not a marketing strategy but a celebration of the street itself were celebrating the front of the main st we just- happen to be occupying the buildings on that street he said the merchants and members of mar kham council will dress in period costume to add to the historic feeling of the event activities such as a maypole dance and square dancing will take place throughout the weekend the celebration kicks off saturday 10 am and runs until 6 pm sun day hours will be from noon to 6 pm entry forms will be available for a draw on a 1 800 shopping spree on main st and a second prize of a weekend for two at the ramada renaissance hotel the celebration gives official recogni tion to improvements made on the street during the summer among them the street was repaved interlocking stones were installed on the boulevard a new sidewalk was made telephone and hydro lines were buried and plants and flowers have been placed all along both sides of the street the merchants plan to make the celebra tion an annual event mr cowan said he expects the street to be an inspiration for other ontario towns who wish to olddate rather than update we fully expect in the next couple of years well be a guide for other main streets that want to improve he said re ferring to the street asthe vhazelton lanes of the north hazclton lanes is a tradi- tional huddle of shops in the heart of york- ville in downtown toronto-