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E(id of id Diegrassi graduate from show solve the mystery of who killed Becky's husband. SURVIVING '90s A CTV special offers advice on how to survive the final decade of the 20th century. Live It Up A Survivor's Guide To The Nineties airs Nov. Live It Up hosts Jack McGaw and Sharon Seto welcome back formr co-host Liz Grogan for this hour-long special. And Cloris Leachman joins the crew as a guest co-host On tap: a look at how the workplace could change over the next 10 years; the domestic life of a family in the 1990s; the latest in environment-friendly vehicles; upcoming trends and even dating, 1990s' style with Helen GurTey Brown and Miss Manners looking at romance in the nineties.

Huckleberry Finn makes its Canadian TV debut Nov. 3 on Family Channel (8:30 p.m., ET). It's a delightful movie, though it doesn't quite capture the full Twain flavor. Sawyer (played by Raphael Sbarge) is now a young lawyer and Finn (Mitchell Anderson) is a rookie reporter. Both hurry back to Hannibal to help their friend Jim, a former slave, who is charged with murdering Becky Thatcher's husband.

Paul Winfield plays Jim while Canada's Megan Follows (Anne of Green Gables) plays Becky. Another Canadian, Zachary Bennett, portrays a young or- Ehan who tries to help Tom and tuck. Tom Sawyer has to resort to some fast talking and quick thinking to foil a lynch mob before he and Huck can try to 26 episodes were aired by CBC. Then, in January, 1987, Degrassi Junior High made its debut. It grew from the first series, but was not a sequel, said Schulyer.

Several of the old cast members won roles as some of the new characters. Degrassi High made its debut in 1989, as the Degrassi students moved on to high school. This season, they graduate. There will be at least one more Degrassi tale, however. Next summer, a two-hour movie, School's Out, will be filmed.

It will follow the Degrassi characters in their first summer after high school graduation. TOM ANDHUCK "Someday it may seem worthwhile to take up the story of the young ones and see what they turned out to be." Mark Twain. The celebrated author (whose real name was Samuel Clemens) was talking about "Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry" Finn, two of the most mem-morable characters created by the gifted 19th-century storyteller. And someone scriptwriter Roy Johansen has taken up the story. Back To Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Entertainment dips 'V By -x rKBQb Spence I 1 I Thomson News SS fM Service High, have offered a candid look at contemporary teenage life.

Issues such as teenage parenthood have been examined through the grit-encumbered eyes of reality. The origins of Degrassi date back to the late 1970s. Schuyler, then a junior high school teacher, and commerical editor Kit Hood formed Playing With Tune Inc. in 1976 to produce their first film, Jimmy: Playing With Time, about a marathon piano player. A number of other productions followed.

Wanting to move into drama, they purchased an option on Ida Makes A Movie, a book about a cat who entered a film competition and won for the wrong reasons. Using people instead of cats, they turned the tale into their first drama, which became the first episode of The Kids of Degrassi Street. Over a period of eight years, PRECISION GOLF 4 CISTCtfKSJCUOl LESC5 snsm 49CS CALL STU: 7ES4110 Fords Costless Judas Priest losing some of the faithful Cast members of Degrassi Iigh, the realistic, multi- award-winning drama series, will soon be waving goodbye to each other. The final season of Degrassi starts Nov. 5 on CBC-TV with a two-parter that revolves around Sexual Awareness Week at the mythical high school.

Linda Schuyler, executive producer and co-creator of Degrassi, explained why Play ing with Tune Inc. is wrapping up its popular series. It been a fabulous adven ture, but we wanted to bow out while we felt the show was still resh and strong," she said in a prepared statement. "I think we're leaving the series with the strongest season yet. Besides, many of the cast are growing up, moving on.

It was time." Thirteen new half-hour episodes will air this season. The plots revolve around topics that range from AIDS to rock and from lamily prolH. lems to first kisses. The series, and its immediate predecessor, Degrassi Junior Bateman popular Here are the week's Top 10 hard-cover fiction and non-fiction books as compiled by Maclean's magazine. Bracketed figures, indicate position the previous week.

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The Priest turned in a textbook example of headbanging at the right place in the wrong decade. Touring fresh after acquittal in a celebrated Nevada court case that charged the group's music was a factor in a teen suicide pact, the band that once billed itself as Defenders Of The Faith faith in metal, that is wrapped itself in the accoutrements of ritual once again. Not once did current events events that cut to the quick of this group's place in the censor-screened music it invented enter into the working-class 3uintet's merry-go-round of oom-laden metal stereotypes. And if the paltry turnout of 6,000 is significant, it would seem even the faithful are growing weary of the cliches. (Judas Priest plays Vancouver on Oct.

31.) From the start, as singer Rob Halford motored onstage atop a Harley-Davidson Lowrider (a showboating stunt he first used 11 years ago), it was clear that this audience was in for the same old song-and-jackhammer dance. Mind, it perhaps says something about the desolate nature of modern metal that Halford remains the most charismatic front man in the idiom. Possessed of a falsetto wail that has become a heavy metal template, Halford singlehandedly set the course for leather and metal-stud fash-ion. That fashion, in fact, was the only altered item in a 90-minute set that traded heavily in a new album's worth of dark imagery, Lyrics of guns, glory, evil, resurrection, Armageddon, lightning and destiny were Monday night's norm, punctuated by blinding flashpots, laser dazzle and staccato guitar licks from K.K. Downing and Glen Tipton.

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