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E ntertainment Anne M ichaels wins theatre—. L oroneT 494 (iPornp Sf Phnno 5R1 0303 “A GRITTY. ELECTRIFYING AND SUPERBLY ACTED PIECE OF PULP FICTION...” U.S. literary honor MktuMi O D«M, VIC Tim I* TIMtS COlfMMfcT Southam Newspapers gist. Also a poet and composer, OTTAWA — Toronto w riter Anne Michaels spent 10 years writing her Michaels, who has been racking up novel. awards for her first novel, Fugitive Fugitive Pieces also won England’s Pieces, has picked up another one — a $66,000 Orange Prize for fiction, On­ 18A: Brutal violence and coarse $75,000 U.S. literary honor. tario’s $12,000 Trillium Prize, the language throughout Michaels was one of five writers who $5,000 Chapters/Books in Canada Best Nightly 6:50 & 9:30 each took home $75,000 for a Lannan First Novel Award, and the Beatrice Literary Award, an annual honor creat­ and M artin Fischer Jewish Book ed in 1989 by the Los Angeles-based Award. Born in 1958, Michaels teaches Lannan Foundation. creative writing at the University of The awards are given to writers of Toronto. fiction, non-fiction and poetry whom Since 1989, the Lannan Foundation the foundation believes “to have made has awarded 75 writers with a total of significant contributions to English-lan­ $3.4 million. Previous winners have in­ Rowan Atkinson stars in the feature movie Mr. Bean, which sees the guage literature and to emerging writ­ cluded Alice Munro, Seamus Haney, mischievous character create havoc when he is sent to Los Angeles. ers of distinctive literary merit who Noam Chomsky and demonstrate potential for outstanding Sandra Cisneros. m CINEPLEX ODEON CINEM future work.” T h e L annan Michaels has won an array of awards Foundation was es­ CllieSAVE TIIESDA O D EO N C IN E M A S 355 VANCOUVER ST • 562-2935^ Atkinson finds Mr. Bean for the lyrical and powerful novel, tablished in 1960 THE EDGE KISS THE GIRLS MOST WANTED which tells the story of a terrified or­ b y t h e late fi­ Daily at 7:00 4 9:25 Daily at 7:15 & 9:35 Daily at 7:30 4 9:45 14A Violence & phan boy who is rescued from the nancier J. Patrick 18A Violence and disturbing14A Violence coarse & Coarse Language. easy for children to enjoy Flolocaust by a kindly Greek archaeolo- Lannan. language. content ♦w*mnteoin CiB

by PETER BIRNIE they’re watching it as we speak.” III------Southam Newspapers Atkinson has been a household name r TV SCHEDULE - TUESDAY, O ctober 14,1997 The Christmas turkey on his head —in the U.K. for two decades, graduating r that would be the fondest memory from Cambridge to delight audiences 6:00 p.m. 6:30 p.m. 7:00 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 8:00 p.m. 8:30 p.m. 9:00 p.m. 9:30 p.m. 10:00 p.m. 10:30 p.m. 11:00 p.m. Rowan Atkinson has of his counter­ on TV’s Not the Nine O’clock News be­ o ® Friends (CC) F ra sie r (CC) 3rd Rock Dharma/Greg Marketplace Venture (CC) the fifth estate National/CBC News(CC) N e w s (CC) part, Mr. Bean. fore displaying the sketch-comedy 0 ® Francophone Ce soir Virginie (CC) La Fa c tu re B o u sco tte (CC) Au Nord du 60e (CC) TSIejournal Le Point C e soir In the new movie Bean, Atkinson skills he’d honed at university in a pop­ 0 (5:00) Baseball National League Series, Game 6 (Live) M a g azin e J o u rn a l Movie Benny & Joon* ★ * (1993) Johnny Depp,ft ICC) N e w s (CC) again dons the turkey — but only for ular West End revue. And this from an o CBS N e w s N ew s (CC) ET Seinfeld (CC) JAG Blind Side ft (CC) Michael Hayesft (CC) Dellaventura ft (CC) N e w s (CC) U.S. audiences. electrical engineer with two degrees ABC News News(CC) Wheel Jeopardy! H o m e Im p. Soul M a n (R) H o m e Im p. : Hille r & O ilier N Y P D Blue ft (CC) N e w s (CC) In a telephone interview from his from Cambridge. o London home, Atkinson explains that “The two strands rambled along in o NewsHour With Jim Lehrer Wishboneft (CC) Nova (R) ft (CC) Frontline The American ft (CC) Missing/Tibet As Tim e... the infamous big-bird scene from Mr. parallel,” he says of comedy and engi­ © Shaw Tele. Plugged In School District 57 Meeting 'Shaw Telepages Bean’s Christmas special is too well neering studies, “then one took over 0 1 2 N e w s (CC) W heel Jeopard y! Spin City NewsRadio Murphy Sud. Susan W Five f t (CC) C TV N ew s * known everywhere on Earth except the and the other got left behind. It was a © C . Brow n Mummies Hometown Student Bod. ReBoot(CC) The Dark? Breaker High Nighthood Jake and the Kid (CC) (CC) | p U.S., where the Bean phenomenon has fairly seamless transition over a num­ © Pull Together It’s Time Medicine Dotto's Cafe Cybernation Cosmic Making Babies Good Sex H ealth A Round Peg yet to catch on. For that reason, it will ber of years.” • ;Pride and Prejudice (Conclusion) (CC) B iog raph y Julia Child Pride and Prejudice (Conclusion) (CC) m be repeated only in American versions. It was in 1983 that the frog-faced ac­ © Our neighbors to the south played an tor’s cult status first took off, as he and © (5:00) Baseball National League Championship Series, Game6 (Live) SportsDesk (CC) NHL Shots 'NHLPA Bloopers III SportsDesk even more important role in the actual writer Richard Curtis came up with the CD Larry King Live(CC) The World Today (CC) Sports lllus. Moneyline Newsnight Showbiz Burden/Proof Sports lllus. Larry King development of the film. It has so far snide medieval knight Atkinson played © Prime Time Country ft (CC) Spotlight Phyllis George DallasCrime Story ft Dukes of Hazzard ft Prime Time Country ft (CC) ,Sp otlig ht taken in an astonishing $100 million in the TV comedy Black Adder. © (5:30) Big Ticket ft Daily Top 10 ft N e w R oc k in’ C o u n try ft After Hours ft US in such widely divergent places as Series after series of the wickedly 03 Rescue: Baby Jessica Blast: Science of Explosion Trauma II: Life in the ER Rescue: Baby Jessica Blast: Science of Explosion H om e A gain Australia, Spain and Slovenia, but it funny “situation tragedy” were cranked Bramwell Paint Repair Linehan Liver Birds B. Walters I Love Lucy Laverne Children Bramwell was designed to find its biggest success out, leading Atkinson to note the dif­ 0 ) Chicago Hope Frasier (CC) J us t S h oot N e w s (CC) Sports Night Married... working for the Yankee dollar. ference between fans of Black Adder 09 ft (CC) Michael Hayesft (CC) N Y P D Blue ft (CC) Atkinson says it was time for Bean, and Mr. Bean. 60 N a tio n a l (CC) Pamela Wallin (CC) B BC N e w s jBusiness National(CC) Big Life Pamela Wallin (CC) N a tio n a l (CC) | buffoon with a brain, to leave his Lon­ “They’re certainly quite distinct in this 0 ) Degrassi Degrassi COBRAft (CC) War of the Worlds ft (CC) Out of the Blue ft Movie Colonel Chabert ★★ (1994) ft don home and adapt. country,” he says. “Black Adder is an ex­ ffi Exhibit A EXNTV(CC) Forbidden Places (CC) Discovery.ca (CC) Wildlife TalesW ildlife Exhibit A EXNTV(CC) Fo rbidden I “The thought of him climbing out of tremely verbal and very English sort of 00 M. Stewart Renovator Homes For Dinner? Nature Walk Outdoors M . S te w a rt R e n o va to r H om es For Dinner? Healthwatch a cab in Los Angeles and blinking in cynical cruelty — it’s full of ironies, it’s ______i (5:00) Movie Terror... Real TV C op s f t (CC) Vibe Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Keenen 1. Wayansft (CC) Paid Prog. the sunshine gave us a full of sarcasm, it’s got satire. m Movie Duet for One ★ * (1986) Julie Andrews. Homicide: On the Street N Y P D Blue f t (CC) Movie Let’s Get Lost (1988) ,*» tremendous leg up,” he says. “Only by “With Mr. Bean you don’t need to be QD doing that were we inspired to make educated to appreciate him. That’s why SD Little House Skylight Being Jewish Last of Wine Isl. 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