Weekend East, 31 March 1995

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    16 1 WEEKEND east YOUR WEEKLY FAMILY NEWSPAPER -MITA (P) 128/10/94 VOL 10 No. 12 Friday, March 31,1995
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    • 219 1 DISTRIBUTED FREE TO 75,000 HOMES IN THE EAST GEOFACTS: Page 3 GOING PLACES: Page 6 WEEKLY UPDATE: Page 7 FOOD: Pages 16 S: Pages 21 23 i A 'ty'ju, 'A .S ND co vV' > Church raises in just 5 months Pastor of small East Coast church with only 300
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  • NEWS
    • 353 2  -  By JOYCE PAUL THE next time you see an elderly person trying to walk down a flight of stairs, don’t just watch him, but empathise with him. That’s the message the National Council of Social Service hopes to send to youngsters. It has brought in
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    • 333 3 She leaves hubby and three kids to wait on tribesman in African village ENGLISH housewife Cheryl Mason ditched her husband and three children to run off with a Masai warrior and live in a stinking mud hut in Africa. And she’s so happy that
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      169 3 What is the world’s longest country? NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Like a shoestring strung down South America’s western coast between the Andes and the Pacific, the Republic of Chile is the world's longest country and a land of extremes. Only 110 miles (177 kilometers) wide on average, Chile is nearly twice
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    • 272 4  -  By JOYCE PAUL A SMALL group of 300 members of a Pentecostal church raised $5 million for a new church in just five months. The group has pledged another $1 million, leaving the church with only $1.5 m to go to
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    • 240 4 THE church took a bold step of bidding for the $2.75 million, 30-year leasehold land even though at that time, the church was only 10 months old and had a meagre building fund of $140,000. To bid for the
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    • 424 11 84-year-old sends punks packing twice with bare hands woman wrestles bandit, stands up to thug holding gun to her head NATIONAL ENQUIRER THIEVES had better forget about robbing 84-year-old shop owner Louisa Assaff. The tough senior citizen, who is the owner of Louisa’s Store in Newport, Vermont, doesn’t appreciate giving
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
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  • GOINGPLACES
    • 371 6 The sights will charm you... the bull will floor you DESTINATION... ...SPAIN /F YOU are looking for a country steeped in history, culture and artistic traditions, you can have an enriching experience in Spain, the land of flamenco music and dance. A good place to start
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  • WEEKLY UPDATE
    • 448 7 DRAMA “The Wandering Songstress ’95” Sunday and April 3, 8 pm. Drama Centre. $lO and $l2 at The Substation and Union Book Company (Bras Basah Complex). Three singers, two from China and one from Hong Kong, come to Singapore to work in a night club. They are
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      111 7 “Rashomon” April 7 and 8. Saturday student’s matinee at 3. Drama Centre. $8 and $lO. Student’s matinee at $5. Tickets at The Substation and Haji Hashim Bookstore (Joo Chiat Complex), or call 733-8969, or fax 734-3374. Rashomon refers to a large gate in old Kyoto, the ancient
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  • FILM
    • 452 8 Anthony Hopkins’ solid portrayal and film’s Oscar-winning shots give ‘Legends’ substance ROMANCE, war and family saga these are what make “Legends of the Fall” a beautiful epic, though it runs a little long. It tells the story of Colonel William Ludlow (Anthony Hopkins), a
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  • HOMETHEATRE
    • 215 9 POLICE ACADEMY 7 IF YOU still enjoy the slapstick humour of “Police Academy”, you may want to catch this seventh addition. This time, the nit-wits find their adventures at a police academy in a foreign land. You will find familiar faces such as Sergeant Tackleberry (David
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    • 203 9 SECOND BEST THIS film, set in scenic Wales, is a moving story about the bond between father and son, and deals with the themes of loneliness and loyalty. James (Chris Cleary Miles) is a silent, angry boy who lives in an orphanage. He is haunted
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous

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  • ENTERTAINMENT
    • 247 10 WATCH Latin American dancers swing the night away at this pub. Level Two “The Watering Hole” at Orchard Towers is holding a Latin American Festival from today till April 15. Visitors will also get to see “chilli hot girls from Australia” who dazzle with the
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    • 136 10 AN INDOOR family entertainment centre has planned a monthlong celebration next month to mark its 11th anniversary. Ken-Air Funworld at Parkway Parade, which has been providing fun for the family, has a wide range of game machines. You can look forward to skills and redemption games;
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    • 176 14  -  IF YOU’RE one of those who can’t get the tune “All I Wanna Do” out of your head, you’ll be glad to know that its singer will be in town next month. Yes, Sheryl Crow (right) of the long, curly locks
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    • 127 14 SEE models strut their stuff for a good cause. Lane Crawford will be sponsoring the charity premiere of the much-talked about film, “Pret-A-Porter”, at the Capitol Theatre on April 14 at 9 pm. Proceeds from the screening of the film, which takes a behind-the-scenes look at
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  • 386 12 Workers find pet in a kennel squashed like accordion THE KOBE QUAKE NATIONAL ENQUIRER A POOCH was rescued after she miraculously survived an incredible 44 days buried in the rubble of Japan’s recent killer earthquake. “I was astounded that any living
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
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  • WEEKENDFOOD
    • 383 16  -  Treat yourself to this all-time breakfast favourite with a twist By MARGUERITA TAN IF YOU like zhu jiang fen with stuffings, pop down to this stall at Haig Road. The owner, who only wants to be known as Mr Yap, has been running Mun Chee Kee
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    • 405 17  -  Pizzas cooked in wood-fired oven, American-sized T-bone steaks and pork chops By CELINE TAN WAITRESSES who burst into Italian opera while you dine. This is what you’ll find at the newly-opened Spageddies Italian Kitchen at Tanglin Mall. A partnership between the WyWy Group PAC-AM Food Concepts, which also
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    • 103 18 JAPAN’S Cherry Blossom Festival comes to Singapore at ANA Hotel’s Unkai Japanese Restaurant next month. Chef Yasuo Yamaguchi will whip up the spring time delicacies in a set Sakura Kaiseki lunch and dinner menu, starting tomorrow. Traditional favourites, including zensai (boiled small bamboo shoots),
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  • Page 17 Advertisements
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    • 158 17 THE RAJAH OF CURRIES We are savouring you a tasty challenge! You can't go wrong with our "Tua-Kong" Curries Daily Fish Head/Mutton Curries etc. 15 Upper East Coast Rd 5(1545) at Soy Eu Tua Coffee Shop Tel 445-8516 Opening Hours: Bam Bpm daily WE GUARANTEE YOU THAT OUR COOKED FOOD
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  • 277 18 ALEXIS BROWN suffers from cerebral palsy and lupus, but instead of worrying about herself, the 11-year-old brightens the lives of other sick kids by publishing a newsletter for them. Spunky Alexis, of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, is the creator of the
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  • CENTRESTAGE
    • 187 19 IF YOU have always thought of giving acting a shot here’s a chance for you to translate that into reality. Hone your skills with Ivan Heng (right), the man who created a niche for himself in theatre with David Henry Wang’s “M Butterfly” in 1990.
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  • Page 19 Advertisements
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  • 462 20  -  World premiere for Eric Khoo’s film By MARGUERITA TAN MORE than 100 films from 39 countries will be featured in the Bth Singapore International Film Festival starting on April 13. Two German silent films from the 1920 s “Nosferatu” and “Metropolis” are to be screened
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  • Page 20 Advertisements
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  • Page 21 Advertisements
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 172 21 t o KjL vfl FEELING ALONE... Fleischman (Rob Morrow) feels lonely despite having girlfriend Maggie (Janine Turner) around. A SENSE of being isolated haunts one of the characters in the next episode of “Northern Exposure”. Fleischman encounters a rare diagnosis of pancreatic tumour but despairs when he realises there is
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  • Page 22 Advertisements
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