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THE HARTfORD COURANT: Tuetdoy, October 29, 1985 C9 4th ED. 3rd ED. 2nd Eft 1st ED Horrors Galore in 'Creepers' Spirit, Skill in Handel Concert Film Review CREEPERS, Directed and produced by Darlo Argento; screenplay by Argento and Franco Ferrinl; music composed by BUI Wyman, Iron Maiden. Motorhead, Goblin; costumos designed by Giorgio Armani. A Now Line Pictures release, playing at Showcase Cinemas, East Hartford.

Running time: 83 minutes. Jennifer Corvino Jennifer Connelly John McGregor Donald Pleasance Inspector Gelger Patrick Bauchau coherent whole. Little Jennifer, portrayed by Jennifer Connolly with an air of dazed unreality, has enough strange problems for at least a teen horror trilogy. Besides her Interest in Insects, she is a sleepwalker. And like so many young women in horror films, she is supernaturally curious.

And, of course, her willingness to take on absurdly dangerous missions gets her ever deeper into trouble although when things get really bad, she also can summon her bugs. Unfortunately, the special effects involving some of Jennifer's guides on her detective missions such as a sweet firebug and a fierce corpse-eating superfly are quite ludicrous. But otherwise, Argento displays his customary skill at horror chic. He plays Old World elegance against horrific sights as electronic scoring and macabre rock songs by Bill Wyman, Iron Maiden and others give "Creepers" a loud, mad buzz. Rated this film serves up a number of rather ghastly sights from slags crawling over a severed band to a sheet-metal decapitation.

Definitely not for the young and By MALCOLM L. JOHNSON Courant Film Critic "Creepers" refers to the crawly creatures who are the intimates of the young and innocent heroine of this new, arty vampire gothic from Italy's Dario Argento. Jennifer Corvino, the pretty but weird daughter of a globe-trotting American movie star named Paul Corvino, loves bugs. When she is being transported to the swank, snobby new school at Richard Wagner's estate in what one character calls Switzerland's Transylvania, the passengers in the car feel a bee buzzing in'their brains. The chauffeur and at the school for young women freak out.

Jennifer views the intruder as just another new friend. "But the poor little rich girl has trOtible making more conventional friends at her new school. She gets along with her roommate, but this sexually adventurous nymphet quickly falls prey to the crazed creature who stalks the Alps when the mtfon is full. "The other girls crowd in on Jenni-fer'like preppy harpies until she summons a swarm from the inky Music Review soloists and a 23-piece professional orchestra, was a joint effort of Immanuel's Woodland Concert Series and the Music Series of New Britain, based at that city's South Congregational-First Baptist Church. The chorus was essentially the combined choirs of the two churches, while the orchestra was an of some of the region's better younger players.

Both churches have high-quality music programs and have collaborated on several memorable large projects, one an ethereal Brahms Requiem two years ago. "Judas Maccabaeus" Is not an obscure work, but it probably fails to qualify as a sure-fire box office draw. This was plainly not a concern, however, to the hundreds of citizens who filled Immanuel's large sanctuary for this spirited and ex- Minding the P's and Q's of British Peerage Avoid Pertussis Vaccine If Kids Have Reactions I WvwH Manners actingly prepared and executed performance. Richard Coffey, music director at the New Britain church, conducted with authority. Not only did he elicit a clean, meticulously phrased performance from the singers, but more telling, be infused the orchestra with a real sense of style and cohesion.

The soloists some professional, some volunteer did not perform with uniform skill, of course, but none detracted from the artistic level of the performance, and several gave it a significant lift. Among the latter were tenor Hubert Bird, whose light, supple voice is ideally suited to oratorio work; soprano Joanne Scatter-good, who caught the celebratory flavor of "Hail, Judea, Happy Land;" and countertenor Scott Reeves, who was brilliant in his tricky passage work. Among the orchestra players, a special mention must be made of the crisp, idiomatic continuo work by harpsichordist Robert E. Smith and cellist Julie Charland. House Call doctor by the weight of his or her white coat.

I must transmit my reaction to a i letter in the Oct. 11, 1985, issue of the Journal of the American Medical! Association in which the writer Robert Cilley of the University of i Michigan) describes tension head-' aches and a "new disease" he "intern's neck," which he attributes to the weight of a white coat worn by' medical residents in training the coat loaded down with helpful man-' uals and diagnostic equipment. 1 As described in the letter, "Onset is usually in July, with the start of residency training. The pain is reli-' ably relieved by removing the white coat and temporized minimized by. frequently adjusting the coat's posi-.

tion on the shoulders. The problem appears to be self -limiting, since, the majority of residents lighten; their coat as they advance In rank." Cilley also includes a chart based on, 12 house officers showing the weight' of coats in each of four years of, residency training. Write to Timothy Johnson in; care of The Courant, Features De-; partment, 285 Broad St, 06115. 1 Wed. Shop Dntn.

Springfield and Longmeadow 10 to Weal field and Plaza 10 to EaBtlleld.Hampshlro Mall, Enfield Square and Holyoke Mall 10 to By TIMOTHY JOHNSON, M.D. Tribune Media Services I know you have commented before on the part of the DPT vaccine and I know' you feel it Is worth the risks. I can't remember, though, who you said should not take it. Which children should not receive the pertussis vaccine? A recent summary published in Child Health Alert (September 1985) says it best, I think, regarding when to avoid the pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine. "It is now officially recommended that children who have, bad certain reactions to the vaccine should not have further injections.

The reactions Include fever of 105 degrees or higher, a shocklike episode, severe crying lasting at least three hours or an unusual, high-pitched cry (within two days), convulsions (within three days), an allergic reaction, or severe alterations in consciousness within seven days. "Further, children with certain suspected or proven neurological problems (such as uncontrolled epilepsy) should not receive DPT injections, and in certain other children the vaccine should be delayed (for example, if they develop neurological problems between the routine DPT Injections)." The next step is to judge your Reprinted from late editions of Monday's Courant. By STEVE METCALF Courant Music Critic Our major (i.e. big budget) music organizations are seized these days by such an all-consuming fear of red ink that qualities such as adventuresomeness, risk and unorthodoxy are rapidly becoming quaint, passe1 notions. So the music lover, in an effort to bear something other than a continuing rotation of Western Music's Greatest Hits, turns to chamber groups, to small alternative arts spaces, to college and university concert series.

And, in this area at least, to churches. An admirable case in point is the Sunday night presentation of George Frederick Handel's oratorio "Judas Maccabaeus" at Im-manuel Congregational Church in Hartford. The production, featuring an 80-voice chorus, a dozen and a half collateral privileges of the siblings of heirs presumptive who succeed, the rights of duchesses who were divorced in interesting trials, the children of peers who disclaimed their peerages, and so on. She only asks you to stop saying "Princess Diana." And nevermind that British newspapers do it all the time. Wherever did you Americans get the notion that the British always behave properly? DEAR MISS MANNERS When visiting friends or relatives, not merely a drop-in-and-say-hello occasion, is it necessary, advisable and proper to ask permission of the hostess to use the bathroom, especially when you know where that certain room is located? When it cannot be done discreetly, asking permission seems like announcing to all present that you have to go.

But I have seen an almost offended look on the face of a hostess when I returned from an "unauthorized" visit. GENTLE READER "May I use the bathroom?" is an idiomatic expression, not to be taken literally. Miss Manners has never heard of a hostess's refusing permission. Miss Manners is the nam de plume of Judith Martin, a columnist for United Feature Syndicate. Write to her in care of The Courant, Features Department, 285 Broad Hartford, 06115.

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Then Jennifer flees to her only remaining human ally, a crippled entomologist played with a thick Scottish burr and his usual pale blue stares by Donald Pleasance. She has one other semi-human chum. Like Tarzan, the good bug doctor keeps a pet chimp around for comic relief and plot tricks. There certainly is no lack of plot twists and turns in "Creepers." Now like ''Carrie," now like "Exorcist II," now like "Friday the 13th," this new film from the director of "Suspiria" spills over with feverish imagination when it comes to weaving traditional and not so traditional horror elements into a bizarre but semi- plicated, and disputes have been known to last for centuries. Miss Manners will concern herself only with the basic outline.

Only the reigning queen and her mother (as the widow of the previous king) are addressed as "Your Majesty," other members of the royal family being addressed as "Your Royal Highness." Children of the sovereign also use the prefix "the," as in "Their Royal Highnesses, the Prince and Princess of Wales." The peerage has five grades: duke (not to be confused with royal dukes), marquess (mpst use the good old English spelling rather than the French earl, viscount aud baron. The female equivalents, for wives or widows (the latter styled dowager, if the succeeding peer has a wife) are duchess, marchioness, countess, viscountess and baroness. There are also countesses and baronesses in their own right. Except for dukes and duchesses, who are called by those titles, peers and peeresses are addressed as "Lord" or "Lady" with the name of the senior peerage they possess. Legally, the children of these people are all commoners.

However, dukes, marquesses and earls tend to have other titles as well, and by courtesy, their sons-and-heirs-apparent (as opposed to an heir presumptive, who Is heir but not son to someone who is still therapy. Volunteer assistant heeded. converse and play cards with clients in program. Flexible hours between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.

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Busy Folks home written by a fellow student who will charge a few bucks every month to tell your parents you are alive and well. There's even a personal service company that will supply a man with exemplary wife. The woman promises to be a gem. She will meet repairmen in his home, take the dog the vet and the clothes to the cleaners. She will gas his car, wrap his gifts, drop off the film and plan parties.

I'm thinking of starting a service for the man who has everything and in the market for the quintessential wife. We're talking top of the line here: not a work horse who picks up after him, but a woman of his dreams. This woman would insist, "Tell that wonderful story about the rest-room in Milan" and laugh just as hard as she did the first 47 times she heard it. She would eat hamburgers for 20 years and sit back and listen to testimonials later that described him as a self-made man. She would say she's tired when he doesn't want to go out and give him the black olives from her salad when she loves them as much as he does.

Personal services may be the wave of the future. But don't be surprised if a computer gets a Father's Day card a post office box number gets named in Mom and Dad's will a child runs to the nanny when he or she is hurt and men realize that droppping off the film and waiting for the repairman not what a wife is all about. SCOOP) presumed, sometimes by courtesy, to be able to produce a son) use the next family title down until after, courteously enough, the funerals, not the deaths, of their fathers. Younger sons of dukes and marquesses are styled "Lord" before their given names and family surnames (which are apt to be different from the peerage name), dropping the surname on second reference. Their wives use the husbands' given names, rather than their own, with "Lady." Daughters of dukes, marquesses and earls have the courtesy title of "Lady" preceding their given names and surnames, keeping the designation if they marry and change their surnames.

The younger sons of an earl, and all sons and daughters of viscounts or barons are styled "The Hon." before their full names, but that designation is never used except on envelopes. Then there are titled commoners: baronets, whose degrees of honor are hereditary, and knights, whose are not. They use "Sir" before their full names, but are addressed with the title and given name only. Their wives use "Lady" with the surname only, never with their given names (a common American error) unless they happen also to be the daughters of dukes, marquesses or earls. This is only the beginning.

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Oct 31 9p.m.-1a.m. Take Exit 21. off 1-91 r- he is not "Princess Diana." You perhaps know the lady Miss Manners means the blond one who wears hats so nicely uui uua uui always uiauageu iu I -keep her hair out of her eyes; the one who seems to attract so much i attention. Born a commoner, she was staled "Lady Diana" by courtesy i because her father is an earl. She is 'r-aom, having married up, "the Prln-UXfigs of Wales." Only should she become queen consort would a roy-laT title appear before her first f-rrame, as ''Queen Diana." Is that clear? Of course not.

We Americans de-; cided long ago that the idea of classifying some people as, by virtue of birth or marriage, belonging toa higher order of humanity than jjtfeeir fellow citizens, was not for us. Our highest title is as in ITWr. President." But the British do show up on our shores now and again, and mild interest Is taken In their wardrobes and other appurtenances, so one may want to know the correct usage. The subject is infinitely com Lend a Hand: Volunteer Greater Hartford needs your help. More than 350 agencies file their Seeds with the Voluntary Action enter for the Capitol Region.

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