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2 THE AGE, Thursday 2 October 1986 REVIEW TELEVISION Hypothetical, even Dracula can be useful Hoges and an old boy network (ME? jo SHOULD the Government issue free syringes to drug addicts? Should prison authorities make condoms available to inmates? Will the 'Women's Weekly' run a 'safe-sex' campaign for its homosexual readers? Should doctors breach confidentiality in order to save lives? These are just some of the legal and ethical dilemmas Geoffrey Robertson presents to panellists in his latest hypothetical, 'Does Dracula Have on ABC tonight at 8.30. Robertson, the Australian-born, London-based barrister who honed his own courtroom skills on the whetstone of John 'Rumpole' Mortimer's experience at the bar, takes a particularly jocular approach to the most publicised, least understood disease of our times. Some might take offence at the ribaldry and mischievous send-ups of panellists and scenarios. At the same time, Robertson is so candid and informative that he succeeds in filtering the muddied confusion surrounding the syndrome. Panellists faced with his hypothetical dilemmas include Dr Neal Blewett, the Reverend Fred Nile and Professor Luc Montagnier.

who discovered the AIDS virus. The editing is rather messy, but the program is no less stimulating for that Times may change but the sitcom is always with us PRODUCERS of American TV sitcoms can be relied upon to quickly take advantage of changing trends in society and ie them as raw material. Unfortunately, they cannot be relied on to get them right. A decade ago, in 'The Brady Bunch', they presented a picture of a "blended" family like none that has ever existed. Now, they have latched on to the changing position of women to provide more variations on the theme of the nuclear family.

"Role reversal" is the theme common to two programs running side by side on Channel 9 on Wednesday nights 'Who's the Boss' and 'Growing Pains'. In 'Who's the Boss', (7.30) Angela, a successful advertising executive, has hired Tony, a widower with a young daughter, to act as her live-in housekeeper and nanny for her young son. Role reversal? He huffs and puffs and disapproves as if she were not his employer and it was not her house he's living in. In last night's episode, Tony's young cousin, Anna, had come out to America to be married, and Tony was expected to act as chaperone (in Angela's house) until the wedding. The message, of course, was to show how oppressed Italian women are compared to American women.

But if Angela, and Maggie, the wife in Growing Pains' (8.00), are typical, American women still have a long way to go. In this dual-career marriage, Maggie is supposed to be a successful journalist but, in last night's episode, she was shown as the over-protective mother being counselled by her wiser husband, and coyly agreeing to buy some sexy underwear he has chosen from a mailorder catalogue. We know that true democracy exists, however, because we once see Jason putting some groceries away. Both Angela and Maggie are typical, plastic blonde American mothers, and both programs are typical American sitcoms, relying on throwaway lines followed by pauses for canned laughter. The annoying thing about them is that they are patronising while pretending to be sympathetic to women.

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YEARS AOO THE BOTANIC GARDENS IN SPRINGTIME. The next few weeks will be the season In which to view the Melbourne Botanic Gardens in their most attractive dress A glance at the Melbourne Botanic Gardens is well calculated to dispel the prevalent idea that there is nothing picturesque in distinctively Australian vegetation. It is not always the exotics that have the best of it The tree ferns, which are seen to advantage in the fern gully, now beginning to burst into leaf, vie with each other in the magnificence of their frondage. The stems of some of them are clothed epiphytes and climbers, and the festooned canopy of trees and interlacing parasites affords a secure retreat from the fiercest mid-day sun. 1 'The Age', 2 October 1800.

TAI The winning numbers in Tattslotto draw number 542 were 11, 44, 30, 13, 14 and 28. The supplementary numbers were 40 and 2 and the first division prize pool is $1,827,701.65. iJ TATTS 2 The winning numbers in last night's Tatts 2 draw were 32 and 21. The first division prize was $529. In 1985, there were 558,764 students enrolled in Government schools in Victoria and 245,176 students enrolled-in non-Government schools, (source: Australian Bureau of Statistics.) GRANVILLE, the western Sydney suburb, is a long way from the wilds of Kakadu.

It's even further from the North American cash registers that took nearly $A13 million from people attending the opening weekend of 'Crocodile Dundee. But the money behind the Paul Hogan film got its start three decades ago when a couple of Granville teenagers enjoyed a few cigarettes outside a milkbar near the railway bridge that fell down a while back. Denis Johnson was just a bit of a bod-gie back then. Now he works the Gold Coast for the investment broker who raised the $8.9 million that enabled Hogan and his mate John Cornell to make the film. "I read Hoges was going to make a movie in 'Rydges, so I gave him a belL spoke about old times and said what about me raising the Johnson said by car telephone as he drove back to the Gold Coast in his Jaguar yesterday.

He works for Morgan and Co, Brisbane stockbrokers. The principal, Paul "Porky" Morgan, was a bit of a star on the rugby field so he used his sporting contacts to raise money for the film. The result was that the likes of Dennis Llllee and Greg Chappell joined just about the entire film crew in the investment The carve up of film profits is a snake pit But Hogan and Cornell were so confident that they gave other investors the unusual gift of getting their money back before they took their investment And the 50-50 split after distributors take their piece is unprecedented in Australian films. Johnson is taciturn on how much investors will get back from 'Crocodile Dundee's' North American season. 'They'll double their money.

But I wouldn't want to say they could get back five times as much just in case I'd raise their hopes too high," he said, sounding just a bit like Mick Dundee. Sporting chance THE Queensland Liberals are pinning their hopes of a political return on a -e new just wants them to sign. A number of NSW lessees are about to begin a test case against the brewer. In the meantime, Mr Bond's publicans north and south of the Tweed River have come up with a cogent method of showing their chagrin about their new master. This week hoteliers agreed to put their weight into raising funds for defence of the America's Cup; but they won't be backing the Bond syndicate boats Australia III and Australia IV.

Instead, they'll collect for the Kookaburra syndicate led by another high profile Perth businessman, Kevin Parry. To add insult to injury. Parry's pair of Kookaburras recently signed a sponsorship deal with Australia's biggest brewer, CUB. Culture costs FOR the past year Brisbane city streets have seen dinosaurs, a World War I tank and aviation pioneer Bert Hinkler's plane as the Queensland Museum moved shop from a lovely old brick building that leaked to a new air-conditioned headquarters incorporated in the Queensland Cultural Centre on the south bank of the river. Never one to miss out on unveiling a new plaque, the Premier, Sir Job Bjelke Petersen, will open the $30.9 million museum this afternoon but his self-proclaimed low-tax, low-charge Queensland Government plans to charge admission to the new museum and the average family will pay $12.50 to see exhibits.

The Opposition discovered the rise tucked away unannounced in the Government Gazette and has been having a field day at the Government's expense, saying it had been kept quiet because of the election. The luckless Minister for the Arts, Mr Peter McKechnie, blithely dismissed the museum admission charge, saying that even though the power was there to charge, it did not mean it would be introduced. Not in the run-up to the election anyway. whose well-intentioned, wildly imaginative solutions to everyone's problems provide the catalyst for the comedy and adventure of the piece. 'Five Times Dizzy' shows off the talents of established actors (Jane Clifton, Joanne Samuel, Ray Meagher) and unknown performers (Helen Kambos as Yaya and Rebekah Elmaloglou as Mareka), all of whom embrace their characters with a relish borne of the chance and the challenge to do something deliciously off-centre.

By comparison, "The Haunted School', (an ABCRevcom co-production starting tonight at 5.30) is a rather conservative, conventional children's costume drama which promises to mildly entertain rather than stimulate its young viewers. Adapted by Helen Cresswell from an original story by Carol Drinkwater, star of the series, it centres on Fanny Crowe, a well-bred but feisty young English school ma'am. Finding herself in reduced circumstances, she opens a bush school on the set of 'Five Mile Creek'. The natives a malevolent slag who runs the store, her yokel husband and others are restless and become more so when Fanny decides to set up her school on the site of a burnt-out inn which is said to be haunted. The opening episode successfully establishes an atmosphere of mystery and a potential love interest for Fanny in the form of a handsome young blacksmith (James Laurie).

But overall, the production tends to be so stagey and the performances so hammy, that 'The Haunted School' smacks of condescension. meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland, on 17 October. On that day, the International Olympic Committee will decide' which city it's between Brisbane, Barcelona and Paris gets the 1992 Olympic Games. Next week, a 26-member team leaves Australia to put Brisbane's case to the IOC The flag bearer is Brisbane Lord Mayor Alderman Sallyanne Atkinson, who has been boning up on her schoolgirl French by listening to French language tapes in the mayoral limousine. Marching behind her to Lausanne in Brisbane's cause will be the Federal Minister for Sport, John Brown, former Olympians Kevan Gosper, Michael Wenden, Michelle Ford, Jon Konrads and Herb Elliott.

The delegation is a national push to win the 1992 games but as 17 October falls in the middle of the Queensland election campaign, a Brisbane win would be worth quite a few votes to the Liberals research suggests Sallyanne Atkinson is the best thing the Queensland Liberals have going for them. Cup switch THERE is no love lost between Alan Bond and his Queensland and New South Wales hoteliers. For months, they have been fighting the Perth wheeler dealer's decision to sell their hotels into a huge trust as part of a deai designed to slash the huge borrowings Bondy splashed out to take over Australia's second top brewer, Castlemaine Tooheys. The sale of the hotels went through some months ago, but hotel lessees are still resisting the At 7.30, SBS starts showing 'Five Times Dizzy', a winsome and whimsical Australian drama series adapted from Nadia Wheatley's award-winning novel. Essentially a life-enhancing comedy, it revolves around a Greek Yaya (grandmother) said to be endowed with magical powers, her 11-year old Greek-Australian granddaughter, Mareka Nikakis, and their largely likeable but loopy neighbors in inner-suburban Smith Street, where Mr and Mrs Nikakis run the Anzac Delicatessen.

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