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Tuesday •
Exit theater before
viewing ‘Exit to Eden
By Jay Robbins
The Battalion
“Exit to Eden”
Starring Dana Delaney* Rosie
O’Donnell and Dan Aykroyd
Directed by Garry Marshall
Rated R
Playing at Schulman 6
* (out of five)
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Tuesday, October 25,1994
7:00 p.m.
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Keep your eyes on the road,
hit the accelerator and drive
right past “Exit to Eden.”
This
Supermodel Iman turns in
one of the only interesting per
formances in a near-parody of
herself as the muscle behind the
smuggling operation. She and
her partner pose as guests on
Eden as they search for a pho
tographer whose pictures could
identify and incriminate them.
O’Donnell and Aykroyd pro
vide some limited comic relief as
they pursue the fugitives and
the photographer, who spends
his time
Top weekend
movies
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“The hundreds of tanned nude bod
ies that populate Eden form a bland,
almost embarrassing backdrop remi
niscent of an accidental turn into the
wrong locker room.”
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trying to
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the dom-
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Pulp Fiction
$21.7, Iwo weeks, L
The Specialist
$37 8, Ihree weeks, 2,509sew;
Love Affair
$5.4, one week, 1,585 screens
Little Giants
$9.9, two weeks, 2,022 screens
The River Wild
$33.2, four weeks, 2,13/screers
The Puppet Masters J;
$4 07, one week, 1,481 screens
Wes Craven's New Nighte;
$11 6, Iwo weeks, 1,8/Oscreens
Forrest Gump
$283.6.16 weeks, 1,873 screens
Only You
$15.4, Ihree weeks, 1,617screm
The Shawshank Redemption
$10.2, five weeks, 972 saeens
The Battalion
wants your input.
Warren Beatty Hick “Ishtar” as
the reigning chump of terrible-
horrible-no good-very bad
movies.
The disappointment worsens
because of the appeal of the sto
ry, which is based on a novel by
Anne Rice of “Interview With a
Vampire” fame.
Rosie O’Donnell and Dan
Aykroyd play a pair of Los Ange
les police detectives who pursue
two international diamond
smugglers to the island of Eden,
a resort designed to help its
guests overcome sexual repres
sion and find “true erotic re
lease.” Dana Delaney (of “Hous-
esitter” and TV’s “China Beach)
plays the dominatrix mistress of
the place.
nell in a black leather teddy and
garters, and Aykroyd, as a hy
per-prudish cop whose assign
ment really opens his eyes, can’t
help but draw a few chuckles
from the audience.
But those laughs are few and
far between. “Exit to Eden” is
boring. That’s hard to accom
plish when the dominant theme
is sex and the plotlxines twist
through sexual experiments like
bondage, fetishes and other
“games,” but this film does it.
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bodies that populate Eden —
far from creating an erotic at
mosphere — form a bland, al
most embarrassing backdrop
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turn into the wrong locker
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Pit bulls used in gang warfare, dogfights
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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) —
Sherry DeGenova cringes each
time she sees a snarling pit bull
being paraded down the street, a
common sight in inner cities
across the country.
“It’s terrible what’s being
done to these dogs,” says
DeGenova, kennel manager at
the Hartford Animal Control
Shelter.
More and more, she says, the
dogs are being used against oth
er pit bulls in illegal, high-
stakes dogfights. Then, when
they have been defeated and
maimed, the injured animals are
abandoned and left to roam the
streets.
Warring drug dealers also
train the dogs to be killers and
then use them as “four-legged
guns.”
“We’re seeing a disturbing
new trend, a nationwide trend.
Members of street gangs are us
ing pit bulls as status symbols
and as weapons,” says Rachel
Lamb, a spokeswoman for the
Humane Society of the U.S.,
based in Washington, D.C. “It’s
a huge problem in Washington.”
In the nation’s capital, the
Humane Society’s dog pound de
stroys as many as 10 to 15 pit
bulls each month, says Rose
mary Vozobule, director of hu
mane law enforcement.
“These are dogs we’ve found
running down the street or left
abandoned in boarded-up hous
es,” she says. “In some areas of
the city there are dog fights
every single night.”
In Hartford, the dog pound
recently had to destroy six pit
bulls confiscated at an impromp
tu dog fight in the inner city.
“In the cases of many of
these dogs, it’s doing them a fa
vor to put them to sleep, consid
ering how they’ve been treated
during their lives,” DeGenova
says.
Illegal “backyard breeders”
beat their dogs and bind their
legs to make them more vicious,
she says. They wrap heavy
chains around the puppies to
build up their chests, and some
times even pen their pit bulls
with smaller dogs and encour
age the pit bulls to tear apart
the weaker dogs.
Dog wardens say most of the
abandoned pit bulls are either
too maimed or too vicious to be
eligible for adoption.
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tally out of control, saysRalpk
Corson, the city’s chief animal
control officer.
“We have pit bulls in our
shelters that are absolutely
wild,” Corson says.
“Pit bulls are the dog of cite
among the gangs now. They®
them like four-legged guns,Tf
says, adding that the gangs’. 1 ?
begun breaking into the pout:
and stealing pit bulls that has
been picked up on the streets.
In the past month, eightpit
bulls have been stolen from till
Bridgeport animal shelter and
from other shelters around the
state,, says Richard Johnson,
president of the Connecticut Hi
mane Society.
Johnson says some of the
dogs were used as bait to help
train other pit bulls for high-
stakes fights that are held in
housing project courtyards and
back streets.
“We are talking aboutthou-
sands of dollars that can change
hands in one of these contests,
he says. “That would certainly
convince someone to breakint#;
shelter and steal a dog."
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