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What would you do Voices Tel: 822193

with your life or your body? of Swindon Open Daily gam - 6 pm
Sundays 9am - lOam
Lisa Clark considers the moral dilemmas Swindon Museum would liketo hear
posed by Indecent Proposal and Sommersby from people with memories of
Swindon for their new Oral History
Would you? You would? How Project.
could you! This fierce moral battle Launched at the end of May, the çoldwyn
began minutes after the credits for Oral History Project involves making
'Indecent Proposal' started to roll. tape-recorded interviews with
The film, now showing at the MGM, people who are willing to talk about
begs the question: Would you let their memories. These might be of
your mate have a one-night stand the First and Second World Wars,
with another person, if in return, you school days, working (for example
received £750,000? at Garrard's, Wills or the Pressed
Diana (Demi Moore) and David Steel factories), sport or enter- CINEMAS
(Woody Harrelson) an unshakeable tainment (one of the managers of
couple who've just lost their savings the Empire Theatre has already
at a Las Vegas Casino table, been interviewed). What about
seemed to have the dilemma home life in the 1920s and 1930s. SATURDAY
sussed. 'After all' says Diana, it's Was your family so large that you MORNING
just my body, not my mind'. needed two sittings at lunch? MOVIES
Ah, but she didn't figure John The original recordings will be
Gage (Robert Redford) into the added to the Museum's Sound FOR KIDS
equation. The man oozes charm, Demi Moore in Indecent Proposal Archive, while extracts maybe used
and in real life certainly wouldn't in exhibitions and educational work. AT THE MGM
have to pay for an escort. of the French film 'The Return of This kind of information can bring IuuulIuu uuuuuuiu uuiuuuuu uuIuIuuI
Although the idea of boy loses girl Martin Guerre'. so much to an exhibit, giving a
to older man was done recently with It showcases Jodie Foster as personal view of life in the years
Nicholas Cage and James Cann in principled heroine who uncovers the which made Swindon what it is 5 June
'Hollywood in Las Vegas', Indecent truth about Jack Sommersby today. Stay Tuned PG
Proposal is drawing the crowds on (Richard Gere), a man who returns At present the Museum's staff
the popularity of young stars, from the Civil War claiming to be her have to borrow a cassette recorder
Harrelson ('Cheers') and Moore husband. and microphone. They are looking
('Ghost', 'A Few Good Men') with Besides the minor historical for a sponsor to supply equipment
anchorweight Redford. hiccups (was there really a black or money, so they can obtain their 12 June
Director Adrian Lynn hasn't judge in the deep south so quickly own. Princess & The
tapped into the sexual paranoia he after the war?) it gained points with Anyone who is interested in uuuuuuuu Goblin U
did in his earlier film, 'Fatal its non-Hollywood ending. And more contributing to the project should
Attraction', but it looks like he has importantly, it raises the question: contact Isobel Thompson or Jill
another winner. Would you claim to be another Jefferson-Jones at Swindon
Sommersby, more visually person, even if your life depended Museum & Art Gallery, Bath Road,
pleasing of the two films, is a remake on it? Swindon. Tel: 493188 uuu u.Ilu ..I..u.. 19 June

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