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15th Anniversary Special
~ Saturday Night Live

. - Rating: Not rated. Running time: 92 minutes.

~ On October 11, 1975 the Not Yet Ready For Prime

Time players hit the airwaves with
Saturday Night Live. As well as

entertaining millions with their peculiar
brand of wit, Saturday Night Live has
been pivotal in shaping the careers of
many entertainers. At the beginning of
the 1989-90 season, Saturday Night Live
celebrated its 15th anniversary. 7
Contained on the cassette are highlights |
of classic sketches from the first to the 15th season,
including Jaws II, Beethoven III, Coneheads Meet
the I.R.S., Roseanne Roseannadanna, Blues —_.
Brothers, Nick the Lunge Singer, Star Trek, The ~
Festrunk Brothers, Hercules Widettes, Toonces the
Cat, and Theodoric of York. ;

7 ' Freejack | |
Starring Emilio Estevez, Mick Jagger, Rene
Russo. Produced by Ronald Shusett, Stuart Ohen. -

Directed by Geoff Murphy. Rating: R. Running...

Time: 110 minutes. — * a
One minute race car driver Alex Furlong.

(Estevez) is maneuvering his race car.down the

_ track at breakneck speed, the next

_ minute. he finds himself flat on his
in a strange place with some even
stranger characters hovering over top -
of him, Totally.shaken by this bizarre
turn of events, Alex manages to
escape... only to discover that he’s been
catapulted into a nightmare worldof jf
the future.

It’s the year 2009. Bonejackers —

bounty hunters from the future — are raiding the
present to provide new bodies for the super rich.
Alex learns that he crashed on the speedway, but

_ at the moment of death he was snatched forward in
time. The transfer was supposed to have totally

erased his mind, but something obviously went —

back ae

. Be

wrong. .

Now he’s a “freejack”, and he’s running for his
life from a relentless bone} acker (Jagger) who
stands to make millions by bringing Alex in. Alex’s -
only hope of getting out of this alive is to find his
fiancee, Jule (Russo), But there’s a problem; only
one day has passed for Alex, but for Jule it’s been
18 years. He doesn’t even know if she’s still alive.

- A IDE DEG = Reviews by

‘Harriett Fjaagesund

will turn up on the way.
Little does Jeremy dream
that his footsteps are about
-tocarry him into an .
adventure that will forever
alter the course of his life.

THE BEST FROM
. THE STACKS
These selections are
available at the Terrace
Public Library.

1812.
by John Ibbitson
Juvenile fiction published —
_ by Maxwell Macmillan
Canada

of fate, he finds himself a
private in the 41st. _
Regiment of Foot in the
British Army! The ,
Americans are threatening
to invade Upper Canada, ,
and it is up to the British
Army and the Canadian
Loyalists to stop them. -

Jeremy Fields’s family
came to Upper Canada in
1784. His parents wrestled
_ with 200 acres of poor

farmland that eventually
killed
them
both.
Now
Jeremy
is 15-
years-
| old; both
his parents
are dead, and the family
farm has-been stolen from
him by his Uncle Will. Not.
knowing what else to do, he
gets out for York to the
south. Maybe something

40

unfolds when he is made
batman to General Isaac
Brock, the man who holds
the future of an entire,
country in his hands. A cold
and seemingly distant man,
Jeremy soon learns there is
more to General Brock than
first meets the eye. Not
only is he a shrewd
campaigner, Brock quickly
teaches Jeremy what it
means to serve, and to
fight, for something you
believe in.

This is an absorbing book

Terrace Review — May 15, 1992

oy iceeh name do emma a

Through a strange twist _

But Jeremy's true destiny

gigantic tornado that

flattened a quarter of the ©

town and nearly funneled
Burl and his red Mustang

for adults as well as
juveniles.:This is how
history should be written!

The Storm Season — 5.45 total oblivion. ~

‘by William Haupiman But that twister changed
Adult fiction published by Burl, somehow made: him
Bantam Books feel more vibrantly alive. It
ma was almost as though he'd |
When Burl Drennan left +43 ‘ ;
the little Texas town of been waiting his whole life

tes _ for that particular twister
Nortex with his rock band, ‘to come roaring through his
Uncontrolled Meltdown, he jife, He soon becomes

swore he'd never return. —_ hooked on chasing twisters;
But then nothing in his. wildest

the band ‘dreams can compare to the
folded _ thrill of pure terror he

and =< experiences when facing
college one of these deadly storns.
lost its But there are other
appeal, storms sweeping into Burl’s-
so he life — he falls in love with a
ended beautiful Native American.

right back —
from where he started, back wom ae iather’s to

in Nortex. So he found terminal illness, and a

himself a place to live ina train disaster will test his

run-down motel, a job with : . _
the railroad, and sat back loyalties to himself and his

and waited for something to This is a hard book to put
come along and change his gown, ; -
life. And what came along, Reviews by

much to his surprise, was & © “Harriett Fjaagesund