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The Orlando Sentinel, Saturday. November 17, 1 984 E-5 The living-room sofa is safe. CARS GIRAFFE From E-1 From E-1 nya's population growth. Gilmore says the zoo isn't sure how many giraffes it will receive and won't know until they reach the gates of The Dark Continent attraction. She says Busch Gardens has been assured that there are enough giraffes to make up a breeding herd from one to three males and at least 10 females.

The giraffes will be part of a shipment of more than 60 animals captured in Africa by the International Animal Exchange for American zoos. cold weather. Tractor-trailers modified to accommodate the giraffes will haul the animals, Gil-more says. The giraffes will be used by Busch Gardens to revitalize the bloodlines of giraffes in American zoos. Years of crossbreeding and inbreeding have blurred some of the reticulated giraffe's features.

Busch Gardens initially hoped for a herd of 25 reticulated giraffes, a distinctive breed whose grazing land is threatened by Ke Originally scheduled to arrive in Tampa last June, the giraffes are now expected to reach' the zoo in December. The delay also has created additional problems in transporting the giraffes to Tampa. Busch Gardens had planned to transport the giraffes in crates on trucks, with the animals' heads protruding through holes in the tops of the boxes. The winter delivery date, however! requires that the giraffes travel in enclosed trucks to protect them from the Department of Agriculture station at Newburgh, N.Y., for a Second quarantine that will last at least 30 days. Gilmore says a new series of blood tests administered by the U.S.

Department of Agriculture was primarily responsible the giraffes' lengthy quarantine in Kenya. i i GARBO From E-1 from all such hazards. "Here's the deal, and I have three teen-age boys, so I know what this is all about," satfs Lamm, 48. "In my day, you couldn't take a date anywhere. You either had to make out in your car or forget it.

You certairj-ly couldn't go to your parents' house, like you can now with both parents working. "Nowadays, everybody has an apartment, and if they're going to college, dorms are coed anyway. They can rent hotel rooms, tocj, which was kind of forbidden in my day." The only places kids don't go, it seems, are those once favored by their parents: lovers' lanes and drive-in movies. Parks often close at sundown, housing stand where isolated dirt roads once ended and security has become a concern. "The nuny ber of safe trysting spots," historian Lewis notes, "has been drying up at an alarming rate over the it 1 1 years.

Safety devices built into today's cars also have helped put the skids to parking. Automatic seat belts and shoulder harnesses ren der movement difficult, and the ultimate automotive saltpeterj cars that talk, make desire unlikei ly. Tinny voices bark orders toj buckle up, buy gas and check the oil. A technological advance on two down the line and the voices will be programmable. The new car, with help from Mom and Dad, will chant, "No you don't No you don't!" And there's no relief in either from the voices or from the sloped hoods and squared rears of! the carbon-copied cars streaming! off assembly lines.

The next Lewis wrote in The Automobile and American Culture (University! of Michigan Press, will be; "electronic pygmies," and "heaven forbid that normal-size people! ever have to find the way in Even the most determined, ingen- ious and acrobatic of lovers will, find them an all-but-impossible! challenge." Last built in 1924, the Dort was best known for its "fat man's steering wheel." "It wasn't like the tilt wheel, where the steering column moves a little. It was a steering wheel that would slide up and get out of your way," he said. "That made possible the impossible, too, even though it was a very narrow coupe with a very narrow front seat. I think a lot of things happened because of that wheel. Not everyone who bought one was fat, I'll tell you." With fund memories of rumble seats "You could hunker down and pull the lid over you" Tea-gue, 60, built a "Ramble seat" on a two-passenger AMX in 1966.

It was never produced, but other innovators were afoot about the same time. Mike Lamm, for instance, worked wonders with a simple hacksaw. "When I was in college, I drove a VW Beetle," says Lamm, West Coast editor of Popular Mechanics and former editor of the monthly magazine Special Interest Autos. "What I ended up doing was sawing off the gear shift lever to the size of a pencil, level with the seat height, so you could slide across the seats." A wide, plush bench seat was the first thing Lamm and his contemporaries looked for in a car. Brainwashed in a society trained to think that the right toothpaste can be the key to social success, young buyers today prefer a cramped machine with plastic stuff on the outside to make it look like it goes fast.

Changes in society have rendered the bench seat unnecessary, if not obsolete. Even in big cars, romantics had to be wary of stiff necks, police searchlights and bushwhackers, bands of mischievous high schoolers who, unable to get dates, dedicated their weekend nights to making life difficult for those more fortunate. Hi Ml I-Aff Gilbert and Jane encounter the film star Catherine Hicks (left) and Ron Silver star in 'Garbo be alone." Gilbert's quest gets him jumping through hoops. He meets a number of fascinating characters along the way, including an elderly paparazzo (Howard Da Silva) who once got a picture of Garbo sunbathing without a top she'd rolled over," he says, "I'd be a an irascible old actress (Hermione Gingold) who lives in the past, and a gay man named Bernie who lends Gilbert a pair of pants. Also helping Gilbert is Jane (Catherine Hicks), a vivacious actress who works in his office to pay the rent.

As you watch Gilbert pursuing his mission, keep in mind that this film is not only about a son's love for his mother, but also about a mother's love for her son. Estelle's request to see Garbo before she dies may seem like a selfish wish, but Gilbert profits by it. Director Sidney Lumet (Ser-pico, Dog Day Afternoon) has a nice feel for animating the big-city characters that writer Larry Grusin has created. These people exist in a world where doormen, delicatessens and derelicts are natural features of the landscape. The real Greta Garbo doesn't appear in the movie, but the actors who do manage just fine without her.

Ron Silver (Best Friends, Heartsick) is able to look Icroft), is a pretty nice person, just Ipushy. She's an old-style radical whose life has been one crusade after another. Walking along the street, for example, she stops to lecture a group of construction workers who are shouting sexist remarks at passing women. "If your head's in the toilet," she tells them, "don't blow bubbles." On the same day, she gets arrested when she steals vegetables from a supermarket as a protest to the store's unfair pricing policies. "The world is full of little injustices," she explains.

"Either they bother you or they don't. Me, they bother." What you've got to understand about Estelle is that the 'fusses she makes are for the benefit of other people. The story is set in motion when Estelle discovers that she is dying lof cancer. All her life, she has admired Greta Garbo and has, in fact, considered the actress to be an idealized version of herself. Before she goes, she wants to 'meet Garbo; Estelle sets her son ihe nearly impossible task of finding the famous actress who is known for saying, "I vant to bert, "I'm working my way up from the mailroom at Blooming-dale's," it's a strange, inside joke.

The film's New Yorkishness extends even to the extras. In a party scene, I spotted such Gotham celebrities as movie critic Archer Winsten, playwright Adolph Green and writer George Plimpton among the guests. In Garbo Talks, Manhattan seems like the center of the universe just as all who live there believe it to be. Expatriate New Yorkers may feel sad as the movie ends. Personally speaking, I had a little trouble readjusting to Central Florida.

properly put-upon as Gilbert without earning our contempt, while Anne Bancroft (The Graduate) does some very subtle things with a very broad character. Both seem like the sort of people you're likely to meet in New York. The actors in many supporting roles seem like authentic New York types, too, and in some cases actually are. Harvey Fier-stein, who plays Bernie the homosexual, is the man who wrote and acted in the Tony-winning play about a homosexual, Torch Song Trilogy, that is currently a hit on Broadway. When Bernie tells Gil- Sentinel Photo Reprints Visit our downtown Orlando office or call 420-5524 for prices and details.

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