Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ANGELES -- Not everyone loves JURASSIC PARK. Parts of California's Red Rock Canyon State Park were torn up during filming; a park ecologist estimates that the filmmakers were responsible for $12,000 worth of damage to the park, only $9,000 of which has been paid for. "The Red Rock Canyon Park," a spokesperson for director Steven Spielberg's production company says, "was paid whatever they were to be paid...
...comes Free Willy, this month's feel-good sleeper. Preview audiences have gone wild for Willy, the story of two 12-year-olds separated from their folks. Jesse (Jason James Richter) is a troubled boy who, while cleaning up the graffiti scrawled on the walls of a seaquarium theme park in the Pacific Northwest, bonds mystically with a 7,000-lb., 22-ft.-long killer whale named Willy. Aided by his foster parents and two sympathetic adults at the park, the sweet boy makes it his mission to free the sweet beast...
...JURASSIC PARK...
...fanciful premise of Jurassic Park -- that DNA could be recovered from fossils and cloned to create live dinosaurs -- has already turned into partial truth. Jack Horner, the paleontologist who advised Steven Spielberg on the movie, thinks he has found red blood cells in a chunk of Tyrannosaurus bone, and extractable DNA might be inside them. The cloning part is still fantasy, but the DNA could be used to test the theory that dinosaurs and birds are closely related...
...failing, it's that Streisand's song selection is a bit too classic and safe. She includes two songs from Guys and Dolls despite the fact that she did one from that show on her first Broadway album. She closes with a tune from Sunday in the Park with George despite the fact that her first album started off with a song from that show. Back to Broadway's idea of adventure seems to be the inclusion of two Andrew Lloyd Webber songs from his yet-to-open musical adaptation of the film Sunset Boulevard. There's also a version...