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16 The Chronicle November 1 - 7, 2016 chronicle.durhamcollege.ca Entertainment Canadian icon Lee Aaron on music longevity Tommy Morais The Chronicle Her Bodyrock album went platinum in Canada. At just 22 she toured Europe opening for Bon Jovi. She’s known as the Metal Queen— a play on her album of the same name— a title she still carries more than 30 years after the record’s release. These days the 54-year old Lee Aaron, juggles motherhood with life on the road. Born Karen Lynn Greening, Aaron is currently touring in support of her latest studio album Fire & Gasoline. The new effort is her 11 career studio album and Tomboy is her first single in 20 years. The average mother might be grocery shopping on a Friday night, but Aaron sings her heart out onstage on top of her motherly duties. “What I’ve been doing is targeted pockets of dates rather than doing a full-cross Canada tour. I’m sort of breaking up the touring,” she says. “My husband is also a musician, it makes it easier to understand [for our two children].” For Aaron, touring is different now than it was in the 1980s. “The music industry is not what it used to be. It’s not the days of record companies putting $50,000 in tour support. When you go out you have to figure it out and make it financially viable.” She remembers her early days, touring with Bon Jovi in Europe during the spring of 1985. Tyler Hodgkinson The Chronicle As the crowd roars and heavymetal music pumps through monitors, three quick dings of a bell signify the battle of titans at an independent wrestling show. This was the scene at Rocktoberfest, a card full of body-thumping bouts put on by Oshawa-based promotion Pro Wrestling Eclipse (PWE). The event, which took place at the Royal Canadian Legion Hall, attracted an audience of about 100. International wrestlers like former Total Nonstop Action (TNA) star Johnny Devine and Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) legend Shane Douglas headlined “I knew we had made it when we came back to these same places and we were now headlining,” With success came pressure from record labels for more of the same. “There would be a hit song by a new artist and the record label would say you have to write something like that.” Aaron and her band decided to forgo record company demands and made the album they felt they should make instead. The resulting work, 1989’s Bodyrock, was a commercial success. “Of course when you have success everyone takes credit afterwards,” she admits. In the early 1990s the musical landscape shifted and Aaron, like many musicians at the time, felt the repercussions. “In pop-culture, grunge hit like a tsunami and it pretty much annihilated the careers of everybody that was doing classic melodic rock,” she explains. “I’m not the only person who felt a victim of that. I continued on.” She soldiered on, but the waves just kept coming. “I showed up one day in Vancouver and these banker boxes were on my doorstep. I discovered I was almost half a million dollars in debt that I wasn’t aware of and I had to declare bankruptcy in 1996.” Although she is best known for anthems like Metal Queen, Hands On and Watcha Do To My Body, Aaron experimented with jazz and blues following her bankruptcy. the talent. Devine has wrestled at multiple events for the promotion, but it was the first time Douglas stepped foot into the PWE ring. He says he would love to return to Oshawa. “I went to my roots and started singing jazz and blues never expecting that to be successful.” A second career was not an option. “I can’t ever remember not thinking I was going to be a singer; I always knew what my passion was.” The singer was recently inducted into Brampton’s Walk of Fame. “If my agents can make sure my schedule allows for it, I want to be back in November,” he proclaims to the packed house. Douglas has been in the business since the early 80s, and been under “I think in a weird way it meant more to my parents,” she says of the induction. “All those years of screwing up and piano lessons...they invested in me. It’s really more of a payoff for them.” To Lee Aaron, it represents more than just another award. “At home I have Toronto Music Awards and a Canadian Music contract to World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) in the past. However, he is arguably best known for a promo turning the NWA championship into the ECW championship in 1994. Douglas took on Jake O’Reilly and hometown hero Cody Deaner in the main event. Deaner, who has found success in TNA and now Global Force Wrestling (GFW), has the moniker “King of the ‘Shwa.” He is a fan-favourite, and received a warm welcome from the rowdy crowd. Other combatants, including Buck Gunderson, Phil Atlas, Kat Von Heez and Cat Power also wrestled at Rocktoberfest. WWE Hall of Famer “Hacksaw” Jim Duggan was scheduled to appear at the event, but was unable to attend. Roddy Untereinter, a long-time supporter of PWE and attendee at Rocktoberfest, says he likes PWE because it has something big-time Publisher Association songwriter award, this one has the significance of a lifetime award achievement”. Judging by her youthful appearance, you’d never know she’s been in the music business for more than three decades. “I resist the temptation of feeling old, I probably would feel [age] if I wasn’t continuing to be an artist and doing records,” she laughs. Rocktoberfest a slobber-knocker for Oshawa fans Hometown wrasslin’ show a hit Photograph by Tyler Hodgkinson Cody Deaner (left) and Shane Douglas in the main event. Lee Aaron is currently on tour promoting her new Fire & Gasoline album. Photograph courtesy of Faithful Productions promotions don’t have: a good roster. “I like PWE because it has the best talent,” Untereinter says. “My favourite wrestler is Rage.” According to PWE founder and owner Sean “Dr. Mask” Morley, without dedicated fans like Untereinter, the company would not be where it is today. “The fans have supported me very much, through every up and down,” he says. “I appreciate them and wrestling is all about the fans.” “I had an event here, I don’t know how many years ago, I think it was a fundraiser for Parkinson’s, which my mom had. We had a problem with the ropes where they were all breaking, it was a horrible night, but the fans came back.” He says Rocktoberfest is a big event for him and PWE, but every show is just a promotion for the next. PWE returns to the Royal Canadian Legion Hall for November Bash ‘16 on Nov. 26.
Entertainment chronicle.durhamcollege.ca November 1 - 7, 2016 The Chronicle 17 Photographs by Dean Daley A fan of the book Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Kaylee McMann (left) standing in front of the movie poster and reading the book. Miss Peregrine novel stands above movie Film adaptation doesn’t live up to the hype Dean Daley The Chronicle If you haven’t read the book “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children”, then the movie might have been good. But if you did read the novel then the movie is a letdown. Both novel and film are focused on the lives of peculiar children. What makes these children so peculiar are their special abilities. The children’s abilities include super strength, the ability to create fire and levitate. Both novel and movie are set in the present and during World War II, with the inclusion of a time loop, which allows certain peculiars to take a day and restart it over and over again. In both film and novel, the time loop day happens during World War II. Both stories also feature themes related to the holocaust. Like the Jews in World War II, the peculiar children are being hunted. Furthermore, the book and film have the same villainous characters: the hollowgast and the wights. Hollowgasts and wights were once peculiars, turned into monsters by an experiment. To regain their human form, hollowgasts eat peculiars then they become wights. Hollowgast seems to be a play on words with holocaust as wights is with white. While the book and movie have quite a few similarities, there are also many differences; the biggest difference is the way the children find out the wights are Nazis in the book. This was left out of the movie. When comparing the book to the movie, it becomes apparent the movie version of “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” does not have the level of detail or the hard hitting plot points the novel had. The novel explores emotional ties between characters, while the movie shows brief connections. The novel showed internal struggles that Jacob, the main character, had to face throughout the story; however, the movie lacked most of the internal strife present in the novel. The movie and novel had different climaxes. The movie’s climax was purely for cinematic drama, while the book builds on crucial plot points and heartfelt moments. The book’s climax also leads to a sequel. The movie’s does not. The cinematic version of “Miss Peregrine’s Home” showed a glimmer of the emotional and psychological ties displayed throughout the book. In the movie, Abe, Jacob’s grandfather, tells bedtime stories about his stay at Miss Peregrine’s home. After Jacob finds his grandfather dead in the woods, Jacob needs therapy to deal with his loss. Another watered down relationship in the movie is between Abe and Emma, one of the children at Miss Peregrine’s Home. Abe’s relationship with Emma seems very shallow and one-sided in the movie but not in the book. In the novel, there is a deep relationship not just between Abe and Emma but also between Abe and Jacob. The first chapter in the novel builds on pictures and stories shared between Abe and Jacob. Jacob is confused by the stories of real life monsters. Jacob comes to believe Abe created monsters out of Nazis because they killed his family. The novel also shows the deep pain Jacob felt when his grandfather died and how it affected him mentally. Jacob went to a psychiatrist for several months and had vivid nightmares of the night Abe died. This shows the profound attachment he had to his grandfather. The novel also reveals the relationship of two lovers, separated from one another because of the war. Even though Abe and Emma loved each other he decided to join the war. Abe and Emma sent letters to one another constantly and when the war was over Abe promised Emma he would find them a new home to live in North America. Throughout the years the letters became less frequent. Finally, Abe sent Emma a letter with a picture of him holding a baby: his baby. The picture broke Emma’s heart. Abe and Emma’s relationship was well developed in the novel. However, Jacob’s internal struggle was not developed in the film. In the movie, Jacob’s inner demons seem to be hidden and not important. His main issues are trying to understand what happened to his grandfather and what his grandfather said with his dying last words. Jacob also barely struggles with whether to stay with the peculiar children or return home at the end of the movie. In the novel though, Jacob struggles with his thoughts, with his love of Emma, and with his dreams about the night his grandfather died. Jacob was seeing the monster and his grandfather in dreams for months while seeing his psychiatrist. Lastly, Jacob struggles with whether or not he should stay with the peculiars or if he should go back home. He realizes he didn’t have much to go back to, and the peculiars needed his help. So he stayed. If you read the novel then the movie is a letdown. Not only were Jacob’s struggles done in more detail in the novel than the film but the climax also had more detail. The climax in the movie and the novel both feature hollowgasts and wights. The movie had many wights and hollowgasts fighting against the children while Miss Peregrine, the peculiar who protects them, was locked away. The Baron, the villain of the movie, used his team of hollowgast and wights to attack Jacob and the peculiar children, who end up defeating the wights and hollowgasts and their leader. This victory is the climax of the movie. The movie climax also added a very random love interest between two peculiars. This side story was unnecessary, and did nothing for the plot. The novel of “Miss Peregrine’s Home” has a very different climax. The children are put against the one wight who had been Jacob’s psychiatrist and the one hollowgast who killed Abe. The children manage to defeat the hollowgast, but the wight pulls a gun on the children and steals Miss Peregrine and one of her friends. Afterwards the wight shoots Millard, one of the peculiar children. Nearing the end of the climax a fight between Emma, Jacob and the wight occurs. The fight ends with Jacob killing the wight. Then he and Emma jump off the lighthouse they were fighting on. They survive the jump and a Uboat arrives. They then realize some Nazis are wights. This establishes Nazis as monsters for peculiars and Jewish people further cementing the underlining theme of WWII and the holocaust in the story. While the movie and the book have a similar theme and setting of WWII, the movie would have been better if given a different name. The movie lacked significant plot points and development the novel had. The novel showed character attachments, internal struggle, and a heartfelt climax. If you’ve read the novel “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” by Ransom Riggs don’t bother with the movie. If you haven’t read the book and don’t plan on it, then give Tim Burton’s adaptation a try.
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