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KJEELY WYGONIK, EDITOR
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Chet Bogan's Wolverine Jazz Band featuring
"Dixiebelle" vocalist will appear in concert
7:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 5, in downtown
Birmingham's Shain Park. The concert is free and
open to the public.
Favorite oldies
Livonia Music Under the Stars 7:30-9 p.m.
Thursday, Aug. 5, will feature the Grosse
Pointe Music Makers, Favorite Oldies at
Civic Center Park, Five Mile at Farmington Road,
Livonia. For information about upcoming concerts,
call 425-2326.
Benefit concert
Charles and Gwen Scales will perform at the
third annual Jazz Under the Stars, 6:30
p.m. Saturday, Aug. 14. a benefit for the
abused, neglected and abandoned children of the
St. Vincent and Sarah Fisher Center. Tickets are
$25 per person, and tax deductible. A country picnic
is included with admission, call 626-7527.
Radio show
SRO (Standing Room Only) Productions is
presenting "WSRO, On The Air," a simulated
1940s studio radio show complete
with announcer, 1940s songs, newscast and sound
effects table, 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, Aug. 6
through Aug. 21 p.m. and Sundays, Aug. 8 through
Aug. 22, at the City of Southfield's historic center.
The Burgh on the comer of Civic Center Drive and
Berg Road, one block east of Telegraph. Tickets
are $7, seniors and children $6, available at the
door, or in advance by calling 827-0700.
Alumni outing
he alumni associations of the 10 member
schools of the Mid-American Conference Tare
hosting a joint outing at Pine Knob 6:30
p.m. Sunday, Aug. 22. The $25 per person tickets
include hospitality and lawn tickets for the Beach
Boys concert. Call Bob Bradley, 476-4589 for information.
Deadline for reservations is Monday,
Aug. 16. Eastern Michigan alumni should call
(8001825-8664.
Children's classic
The Children's Entertainment Company will
present "Cinderella" 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays.
Aug. 11 and Aug. 18, at the Aaron
DeRoy Theatre in the Jewish Community Center
Main Building, 6600 W. Maple, West Bloomfield.
Tickets are $4 each, available by calling 661-1000.
Matt Brady's
isten to oldies, top 40s, country, and jazz
music performed by Doug Kahan, Double LTake
and Bizer Brothers, Thursdays, Fridays
and Saturdays throughout the summer at
Matt Brady's on 10 Mile Road in the Holiday Inn
of Farmington Hills. For information, call 478-
7780.
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The 140-year-old
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green of Sylvan Glen
Golf Course in Troy.
One-hundred-sixtyacres
of fir trees,
small bridges, and
manicured green
meet the eye as one
drives up and parks
in the gravel drive-
Inside, dark wooden floors, two fire;
places, lit by natural gas in winter,
filled with crates of red potatoes in
summer; wooden tables, chairs, and
slat blLnds preserve the comfortable,
pleasant atmosphere of the farmhouse
and stagecoach stop the inn
once was.
A Troy historical site, the inn was
recently restored by Peterhansrea Designers
of Birmingham. It opened for
business on Nov. 5, 1992. Co-owners
John Reaser and Nick Sorise and
their designers had the foresight to
keep the comfortable dimensions of
the tap room in front, the grill room
overlooking the golf course, and the
two upstairs banquet rooms intact.
There is a ramp to the entryway providing
easy access, and an elevator to
the second floor.
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The owners also had the foresight
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him, a graduate of the Culinary Institute
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St. Laurents is a lively, energetic
soul. In the month he has been at the
inn, he NAC installed A new rotisserie,
the focus of his Southwestern, country
and Cajun chicken dinners, re-
Drama explores impact
of Karen Silkwood case
BY KEELY WYGONIK
STAFF WRITER
Laborers standing up, courageously
demanding that management correct
workplace hazards is a story with
timeless appeal, especially in strong
union towns like Detroit.
Gordon Reinhart of Westland, the
son of a UAW' member, stars in "The
Half-Life of Karen Silkwood." at the
Attic's New Center Theatre.
The compelling drama tells the story
- of Karen Silkwood who died in
1974 while trying to alert the public
about health and safety irregularities
at the Kerr-McGee Nuclear Corp. in
Oklahoma where she worked.
The plant was under a fixed-price
contract with the federal government
to produce "fast breeder" reactors,
using plutonium instead of uranium
as fuel. The term "fast breeder" refers
to the "breakthrough" by which, instead
of the fuel being exhausted, the
system would actually make more
plutonium than it used. The fast
breeder reactor was never built in this
country. After billions of dollars, the
unaccountable disappearance of
many pounds of bomb-quality pluto-
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Theater: The Attic's New Center
Theatre, 7339 Third at West
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Curtain time: 8 p.m. Thursdays
and Fridays, 5 p.m. and 9
p.m. Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays
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Tickets: Thursdays and Sundays,
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PREVIEW
nium, the problem of disposing of nuclear
waste, and the poisoning of numerous
workers — the Carter Admin-
vamped much of the menu, and added
eggs made-to-order rather than
steam table eggs to the popular
brunch served Sundays 10 a.m. TO 2
p.m.
He's also managed to change even
the texture of the hot fresh rolls delivered
with every meal. They steam as
you break them, taste mildly of sourdough
and are presented attractively
wrapped in a white linen napkin —
with a round hill of butter on the
side.
Salads and entrees are served in
farmhouse-thick bowls set on wide
white platters.
St. Laurent's hands make a fpiick.
kneading gesture as talks about
his passion for quality; his belief in
fresh Michigan produce, tangy
sauces, chicken marinated in lime,
basted with honey and herbs, and
ribs that "fall off the bone."
Trained to be "health and taste
conscious," St. Laurent believes "the
customer should see what they're getting;
if the menu says red and green
peppers and fried potato peels, that's
exactly what will be on their plate."
The spinach salad with pine nuts,
blue cheese and apple cider vinaigrette
is a house specialty. Soups
change daily, though chicken soup
with dumplings and vegetables is a
house staple.
Beginning courses feature familiar
spicy wing dings with blue cheese dip.
fried cheese sticks, chili, and unfamiliar
tasty grilled shrimp on re-
istration killed the program in the
late 1970s.
Reinhart portrays Tony Mazzochi,
the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers
International Union official who
Silkwood sought help from in Washington
D.C.
"My character doesn't tell Karen to
steal evidence about the wrongdoing
at the plant, but he tells her they
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IncludM orh are the executive
producers; Peter Macgregor-Scott
is the co-producer. The screenplay
is by Jeb Stuart and David
Twohy.
Like millions of people
throughout the world, Arnold Kopelson,
the Academy Award-winning
producer of "Platoon." and
producer (with Herschel Weingrod
and Timothy Harris) ol
Warner Bros.' and New Regency 's
"Falling Down," was a fan of
"The Fugitive" of the hugely successful
television series -tarring
the late David Janssen as Dr.
Richard Kimble.
The show premiered on the
ABC television network in September
1963 and enjoyed a fouryear
run.
The final episode, in which
• Dr. Richard Kimble Is accused of his wife's
murder in "The Fugitive/' a tense suspense
thriller based on the hit television series of the
1960s.
Kimble CORNERS, the one-armed
man and Gerard corners Kimble,
was seen bv more people tKan anysingle
episode of a regular television
series in the history of television
until that time. Its 72 percent
share of all television viewers
that night set a regular series
record, which was not exceeded
until 13 years later, with the
"Dallas" episode in which J.R.'s
attacker was revealed.
"It has always been my dream
to produce a major motion picture
based on the series," Kopelson
said. "The story is one we can all
relate to; we sympathize with Dr.
Richard Kimble, falsely accused
of killing his wife. We know he's
innocent and root for him to find
the real killer.
"We're also infuriated with
Gerard's obsessive pursuit of
Kimble. Why doesn't he understand
that Kimble is innocent
and there really is a one-armed
man?"
"The Fugitive" was shot over a
15-week period on location in
North Carolina and Chicago.
Filming proved to be a homecoming
for Harrison-Ford and Andrew
Davis, as both men hail from the
"Windy City."
Actual surgical rooms, a
morgue and hospital exteriors
were provided by the University of
""Chicago Hospitals at the sprawl- ^
ing 102-year-old University of
Chicago.
To prepare for his role as a physician,
Ford spent several days
with doctors at the University of
Chicago Hospitals, making
rounds and observing surgical
procedures.
Director Davis and co-producer
Peter Macgregor-Scott, working
closely with special-effects expert
Ray Arbogast and stunt coordinator
Terrs Leonard, devised what
promises to be one of the most
spectacular train -wreck
sequences in celluloid history.
"The Fugitive" is rated PG-13
(Parents are strongly cautioned.
Some material may be inappropriate
for young children».
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Rated: R 'Restricted Under 18
requires an accompanying
parent or guardian)
Running time: 130 minutes
Rating (out of a possible four):
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REVIEW
• Juicy character parts for Steve
Buscemi and Harvey Keitel.
So what goes so horribly wrong''
Plenty, but not at first. The opening
scenes, with the ancient Japanese
tribal drums underlying the
good manners at a corporate party,
have plenty of energy Then
"Rising Sun" quickly enters the
land of the boring buddy movie
whodunit.
Connery and Snipes play Los
Angeles police detectives investigating
a murder. The victim, a
beautiful young woman, appears
to have been strangled following
kinky sex on a corporation board
room table.
The Japane.-e bigwigs who own
the new skyscraper where the
murder took place want to avoid
the negative publicity They start
to plant clues that Connery's
"Senpai" (or wise older man)
knows are too good to be true.
The story portrays American
animosity for the Japanese, who
are almost universally portrayed
here as sneaky and underhanded
in their billion-dollar business
conquests. Americans, business
people or cops, compete in a constant
game of "catch-up."
It doesn't take a genius to figure
out who was with that woman
on the table. How she died becomes
another mystery, but after
a while we don't care, sickened to
the point of desensitization after
seeing her strangled again and
again on a clue-filled surveillance
camera video.
Visually, the movie is a
stunner, thanks to cinematographer
Chapman, who employs a
palette of deep reds. A standard
car chase takes on the richness of
time travel in "2001: A Space Odyssey"
when colored lights shine
in windshield reflections.
Snipes appears weighed down
by the movie's endless chatter
and the usual cop movie baggage
of a nagging ex-wife and a kid to
support, He shares the audience's
desire to get on with the action.
The ever-wise Connery character.
meanwhile, has links to the
Japanese that make his motives
suspect — the only element in the
film that sustains some mystery .
Despite his thick brogue '.which
only gets deeper with age 1 , Connery
reads much of his dialogue
as if it came from fortune cookies.
Even Buscemi and Keitel.
powerhouses in "Reservoir Dogs,
don't have much to do here. Buscemi's
investigative reporter,
dubbed "The Weasel" by police,
is supposed to cause trouble b\
digging up an old bribery charge
against Snipes, but it doesn't add
up to much, just like so much of
the movie.
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa has an
intriguing part as a Japanese millionaire
playboy singing karaoke
to Cole Porter's "Don't Fence Me
In" in the opening scene. He also
eats sushi off the stomachs of naked
bimbos, one of many reasons
why the movie should rile women
as much as the Japanese.
The moviemakers try to appease
both groups by inserting a
Japanese woman (Tia Carrere
from "Wayne's World"), an expert
in high-tech video doctoring, who
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Murd«f myttery: From left, Wesley Snipes as Web Smith, Sean Connery as John Connor,
Dak in Matthews as Professor Sanders and Tia Carrere as Jingo Asakuma in
"Rising Sun."
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helps the detectives crack the
case. Not surprisingly, she also
provides love interest for both
lead actors.
Much of the blame here must
fall on Kaufman, the director of
"The Right Stuff," "The L'nbearable
Lightness of Being" and
Henry and June," who has always
had trouble keeping his
movies under two hours. He
picked up the script when Crichton
lost interest, inserting an
overly complicated narrative device
meant to hide the fact that
the storv is essentially a snoozer.
"Rising Sun " is now showing at
these suburban movie theaters:
AMC Americana West, AMC
Southfield City, AMC Wonderland,
GCC Canton Cinema, GCC
Novi Town Center, Quo Vadis,
Showcase Auburn Hills, Star Rochester
and United Artists Fairlane
To leave a message for John
Monaghan, dial 953-2047, mailbox
number 1866, on a Touch-
Tone phone, fax him a note at
591-7279. or write him in care of
Entertainment, Observer & Eccentric
Newspapers, 36251 Schoolcraft,
Livonia 48150
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