be shot in Eter

Movie moves in on Hyder

house. with commanding totem
soaring intrusively into raptor
flyways.

Dateline... Eternity: In the bad Copies of the script are not yet in
old days, you’d round a sharp turn circulation, but this film is touted
where Canadian macadam ends in locally by the moniker "Leaving
a cloud of dust, under a bedeviling Normal", a peculiar title even by
sign saying you were about to Hyder’s wild reputation. Basically
access Ajaska’s friendliest ghost it seems to concem two city
town. The sign’s gone now, but women who decide to move out to
“the ghosts and bumpy dirt road the fringes and let their hair down.
remain. It is about life at the end of the
Down International Avenue you road. The sets suggest a ’B’ grade
can see in the distance a high rise flick, but a closer look shows
totem poie that wasn’t there a Edward Zwick directing Meg Tilly
month ago and, no, disgruntled (The Big Chill; Psycho II) and
natives haven’s closed this road- Christine Lahti (Gross Anatomy)
way and taken over, The totem is in the lead roles. This combo
part of a movie set, and you've should give a leg up on box office
entered a real life time warp with revenues. The cameras begin
a fantasy name. Hyder has gone rolling in downtown Eternity,
back ‘to the future and been Alaska on May 27th for a four-
reinvented as "Eternity, Alaska" by day, Hollywood-style work week.
a Vancouver film studio. "Leaving Normal", the film, is a

This village is a natural for this mini-boom for local fabour and
event. One look last summer by business, including nearby Stewart
the Vancouver people and they where essential services are obtain-
realized many of the sets they able. This is the area’s fourth
needed were already up, requiring movie since 1978, following “Bear
only some fine tuning, such as the Island", "The Thing", and another
new sign over Hyder’s Glacier Inn unremarkable non-event. Any
reading "Eternity Bar", which is newly built sets will pass to the
just up the street from Eternity’s property owners where they stand,
Amaruk Hardware, which in tum including the Longhouse with
in catty-cornered to the new Long- totem, a nice addition to Hyder’s

by Tom Taggart,
Special to the Terrace Review

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labour, casting for extras was done
on May 18th, with preference
given to Alaskans over Canadians.
Surprisingly, not everyone "from
here to Eternity” tumed out at
central casting, as there seems to
be a certain ambience, not easily
elucidated, about what’s going
down. Ready or not, this film is
Hyder’s alter ego, and coming to
gtips with it is a dicey matter, sort
of like meeting your twin.
Responses vary widely, from the
gatekeeper at the Midnight Sunspa
("I'm already a star, what do I
need that for?") to the expectancy
of a local teenage siren ("Why
shouldn't I win a part... at my age
Madonna was a hick!").
Whatever, it’s the pinnacle of
any joumalist’s career to post a
column from "Eternity", and this is
one opportunity this writer
couldn’t let pass. "Normal" should
be a success, with a tip of the hat
to the late Tom Williams of Hy-
der, the last ghost made here,
going down off-camera in a blaze
of gunfire eight years ago this |
month.
reference to the "Hyder shootout" .
that took place May 13, 1983. Tom
Taggart is a 13-year resident of
Mount Dolly, Alaska, near Hyder,
and a frequent contributor to the
Terrace Review.

VISA

Terrace Review — Wednesday, May 29, 1991 B11

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