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LIKE NEARLY every other Agatha Christie work, The Mousetrap features a group of people whom chance has thrown together in a secluded place and who have a murderer in their midst. Complete with the usual drawing room scene, Christie's play is as pleasant as it is familiar--or is it familiar? The plot turns might surprise even the most jaded mystery buff...
...action of The Mousetrap takes place at Monkswell Manor, a countryside guest house that opens its doors for the first time as the play begins. Director Adam Schwartz effectively uses Leverett's Old Library's natural set-up to simulate a house, owned and run by a couple of newlyweds, Mollie Ralston (Holly Cate) and Giles (Bill Salloway...
...between a detective-story writer and a caterer. And Cannell's 21 Jump Street will spend an hour each week following the exploits of a group of undercover cops on the high school beat. Fox officials admit that much of this is hardly breakthrough material. "Have we reconceived the mousetrap? Do we feel any necessity to do so? No," says Diller. "But we will by definition take more risks...
...Walt Disney Co. does not make just "movies" for its theme parks. Puny two-dimensional shadows projected on a flat screen would not do for the entertainment empire built on Uncle Walt's idea for a better mousetrap. At Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., and at Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., visitors sit in round theaters and are treated to postcard-panorama film tours of China and France through the technocraft of Circle-Vision 360. The 100 small panels that make up the huge screen in the Energy Pavilion at Disney World's Epcot Center rotate in sync...
...Around the clock, caravans of yellow school buses deposit scores of yellow-shirted fire fighters. Senior citizens in Enterprise, Ore., spend their mornings stuffing 1,800 beef and ham ^ sandwiches for the blaze busters' lunch. Sophisticated technology, made up of computers, radar, video cameras and satellite dishes -- dubbed the "mousetrap infrared system" -- helps pinpoint and track the fires...