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...Alpay), who vanishes to Turkey in search of his roots and returns with what he claims is extra footage for Saroyan's film; his mother, Ani (Egoyan's real-life wife, Arsinée Khanjian), an art historian and adviser on the fictional film; Celia (Marie Josée Croze), Raffi's stepsister, who blames Ani for their "freedom-fighter" father's death; and David (Christopher Plummer), the customs inspector who interrogates Raffi on his return to Toronto. The characters talk endlessly. "The opposite of denial is the tendency to talk too much," says Egoyan. In some of the film...
Though he looks like a Beatle with his shaggy hair and steel-rimmed glasses. Harvey Croze, 28, is concerned only with the music of the forest. The Oxford-trained zoologist has spent the past three years listening to and looking at elephants in Tanzania's Serengeti National Park. He explains his passion for pachyderms: "The elephant is second only to man as a modifier of ecology. He has been around for 15 million years and is the biggest land mammal, but we hardly know anything about...
...Croze, a member of the Serengeti Research Institute, has plenty of company in his pursuit of knowledge about how the animals of East Africa interact with their environment. He is one of 79 American and European wildlife scientists now working at research stations in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda; never has the region hosted so many experts of this kind. Financed by governments, foundations and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the scientists are striving to conserve the world's largest reservoir of wildlife. Decades of indifference and exploitation have driven some species, such as the cheetah...
...game animals-as many as roam the rest of Africa combined-but the lush woodland is being turned increasingly into savannah. Neighboring farmers burn off trees to create pasture land, elephants topple trees. It had been believed previously that the elephants felled trees simply for food. Croze argues that the real reason is a destructive urge born of overcrowding. Other scientists believe that, as elephants are driven into the park for refuge, their overall number is decreasing. In Uganda, elephants in overcrowded parks have begun to develop heart conditions because of stress. The hartebeest population in Nairobi National Park...
Hearth & Home. In Detroit, Mrs. Eleanore Croze won a divorce after testifying that her husband refused to be kissed because he was afraid of germs. In Milwaukee, Mrs. Geraldine Lewinski filed for divorce with the charge that her husband insisted that she put pin curls in his hair...
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