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m 2-TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1984 Excellence in Canadian country music doesn’t pay Country fans may find this hard to believe, but it’s not a good idea to strive for excellence if you’re a Canadian country singer trying to get your records played on Canadian radio.Broadcasters are required by law to have 30 per cent of their programming fulfil Canadian content regulations, which means that out of four categories — music, lyrics, production and artist — at least two have to be Canadian.So if a Canadian cuts a song in Nashville, written by an American, it doesn’t qualify as Canadian content and some programmers won’t play it, no matter how good it is.It’s not that radio stations can’t play the record, but they’d have to make room for it by dropping an American record from their playlist.You might think Canadian ra- m 7 æ Country^ • - 7 Music | l m • * ÊË&m By DAVE MULHOLLAND dio programmers would be delighted to see their countrymen coming up with quality records that don’t require the crutch of government regulations.Certainly, some do feel that way.Unfortunately, a significant number of programmers make it quite clear that Canadian singers are a 30-per-cent minority and they’re never going to be anything else.GO WITH B-SIDE And it’s not just the struggling newcomer who faces this attitude.Anne Murray’s popular single, A Little Good News, has reached No.1 on both U.S.and Canadian charts, but some Canadian programmers are playing the B-side because A Little Good News doesn’t qualify as Canadian content.Winnipeg singer Len Henry’s recent single, Happy Ever After, is easily the best record he’s ever made.But the song was written and produced in Nashville and some Canadian radio stations, including the country station in Henry’s home town, didn’t play the record.Carroll Baker’s version of the classic Right or Wrong evoked this response from one broadcas- ter: “Sure, it’s one of her best records; we would have played it.if it was recorded here.” The quality of the record is acknowledged, but it’s still not going to get played.And a programmer’s comment about Canadian records in general: “If the B-side is good and there’s Cancon (Canadian content), we’ll go for the B-side everytime.” This attitude by broadcasters says that if the best song and best production a performer can find happen to be Canadian, great! But if they are not Canadian, settle for less than the best, just as long as it enables broadcasters to fulfil their legal requirements.WISHFUL THINKING Well, here we are in the first week of 1984; a new year, a new beginning, a new chance to reach new goals.It would be a great New Year’s resolution if fans de- cided to let the program director of their local country station know that they’d like to hear the best by Canadian artists, even if it means dropping American records.But, wishful thinking aside, the reality is that for the most part country fans are a passive audience mesmerized by the mystique of Nashville.And if no significant pressure is put on broadcasters, their attitude will continue to display a lack of spirit and faith in a Canadian country industry that could play a significant role in developing Canadian artists internationally.The realistic answer to Canadian country singers’ dilemma is an unfortunate one : If they want to strive for international stardom, leave the country.Go to the U.S., where their nationality won’t be used against them.Chilliwack’s Henderson won’t read writing on wall Call it stubbornness if you will, but Bill Henderson isn’t about to let the band Chilliwack die — even if there is nobody else left in it.Some music observers saw the proverbial writing on the wall last year when Chilliwack members Ab Bryant and Brian Ma-cleod quit the West Coast trio to devote their energies to Head-pins, the hard-rocking group they initially put together as a crea- tive diversion.Thing is, Henderson himself didn’t stop to read the writing.In fact, the sole founding member of Canada’s longest-running rock unit, which has logged an impressive string of hits since 1969, seems quite content for now to continue nurturing his baby with solid new pop material, aided and abbetted by a capable string of veteran session musicians.And he’s scoring results.Segue, a compilation album of Chilliwack hits issued in late 1983, led off with two new tunes recorded without Bryant and Macleod.One of them, appropriately called Don’t Stop, was immediately charted across the country, helping carry Segue to gold record status (50,000 sales) two weeks after the album hit the market.NEW ALBUM An all-new album is currently being polished for March release.Henderson, 39, insisted in an interview that there was absolutely no animosity involved in the departure of guitarist Macleod and bassist Bryant, who joined Chilliwack in 1978 and ’79 respectively and who, with Henderson, represented the band’s strongest configuration."We did have something going but I guess we just reached a peak, because for Ab and Brian it seemed to become increasingly more necessary to play a Head-pins style music — a harder rock — and it was not what I wanted to do.“It became evident, I guess, on the last album (Opus X, released in 1982).When you flipped the album over you got a different kind of music.That sort of thing was happening in the live shows as well and, of its own accord, it really did not want to fit.” Cl ?y Music Chart LAST WEEKS years after the Osmond Brothers and Olive, 50, in waves.But with NO.TITLE ARTIST WEEK ON were discovered singing between grandchildren numbering 20 and 1.Say Say Say McCartney-Jackson 1 12 fights at a Los Angeles sports arena counting, the days are long gone when 2.Say It Isn’t So Hall & Oates 2 8 and on the streets at Disneyland, the entire family could gather around 3.Under Cover of the Night Rolling Stones 7 6 they’re switching hats again.a living room tree on Christmas Eve.4.Major Tom Peter Schilling 3 9 “We’ve just put another hat back on While Donnie and Marie were in 5.Love is a Battlefield Pat Benetar 4 9 and this time it’s a cowboy hat,” says Australia in November.Jimmy, 19, 6.Twist of Fate Olivia Newton-John 10 6 Alan Osmond, the senior member of was performing in the Far East.7.In a Big Country Big Country 6 7 the foursome that started a show busi- Meanwhile, Alan, Wayne, Merrill and 8.Union of the Snake Duran-Duran 13 5 ness dynasty on the Andy Williams Jay were playing Vegas and country 9.Owner of a Lonely Heart Yes 17 7 television show in 1962.music clubs, such as Billy Bob’s in 10.Gold Spandau 14 5 The four launched the Osmond star, Fort Worth, Tex., and the Palomino 11.All Night Long Lionel Ritchie 5 14 then took a back seat as the careers of Club in Los Angeles.12.Let the Music Play Shannon 19 4 Donnie, Marie and Jimmy began to The Osmonds gave up a good real 13.Roc kit Herbie Hancock 9 10 zoom.The brothers moved from the estate business in their home town of 14.Synchronicity II Police 12 8 earthy ballads of the Williams years Ogden, Utah, to move to Los Angeles 15.Talking in Your Sleep Romantics 23 4 to their own place in the popular mu- in the early 1960s, where they sang 16.Uptown Girl Billy Joel 8 12 sic scene.between fights at a sports arena and 17.Crumblin’ Down John Cougar 11 8 But with 14 children among them on the streets of Disneyland, hoping 18.Church of the Poison Mind Culture Club 16 9 and their ages ranging from Alan’s 34 for that big break.19.Don’t Stop Chilliwack 21 6 to Jay’s 28, they felt it was time for a “Andy Williams’s father was atten- 20.Break My Stride Matthew Wilder 26 3 change.ding one of the fights and saw us per- 21.Joanna Kool & the Gang 31 3 “I knew the kids were just not going form,” Alan recalled.22.Pale Shelter Tears for Fears 15 10 to accept me with a guitar around my 23.Karma Chameleon Culture Club 38 2 neck,” Alan, father of six boys, said Williams auditioned the four Os- 24.1 Guess That’s Why Elton John 32 3 during a recent stint at the Frontier monds, aged seven through 13, and 25.Killer on the Rampage Glenn Johansen 25 5 Hotel in Las Vegas.“We’ve found a they were on their way.26.Old Emotions Spoons 27 6 home in country music.” “My father hocked everything he 27.Suddenly Last Summer Motels 18 13 Their latest single, Where Does An had to buv us the tools (musical instru- 28.Running with the Night Lionel Ritchie 35 3 Angel Go When She Cries?, is witness ments),” Alan said.“He believed the 29.That’s All Genesis 39 2 to Alan’s claim as it moves up on the move to Los Angeles couldn’t be 30.Why Me Irene Cara 28 4 country charts.And they’ve been tab- wrong as long as we did it as a family.31.I Still Can’t Get Over Ray Parker Jr.37 3 bed by Billboard Magazine as the top He hated the idea of ever having to 32.One Thing Leads to Another The Fixx 20 13 new country group.look back and say we’d never tried.33.Pink Houses John Cougar Mellencamp PL 1 “We’re willing to pay our dues,” Os- “Our parents always told us if 34.Angel Eyes Lime 22 10 mond says of the switch to country.you’re going to do something, be the 35.Ready to Make Up Toronto 40 2 “We think ’84 will be our year.And our best at it.Don’t be satisfied with me- 36.Holiday Madonna PL 1 family image — God-lovin’, red white diocrity.” 37.A Night in New York City Elbow Bones PL 1 and blue all over, is really what coun- PLAYING HOTELS 38.Read ’Em & Weep Barry Mamlow PL 1 try’s all about.A year after they first appeared on 39.Deca-Dance Rough Trade PL 1 HIT HOME The Andy Williams Show, the four 40.When the Lights Go Out Naked Eyes PL 1 During the holiday season, the Os-' monds hit the Utah home of the clan’s were playing some of Las Vegas’s top hotels and amassing hit records.Osmond brothers manage a timely style change TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1984-J Hemingway’s four wives get the last word on writer The Hemingway Women by Ber-nice Kert (NORTON-GENERAL): $27.95, 555 pp.There is a delicious irony in the fact that the American writer whose portrayal of females has been so castigated should be given a fresh biographical treatment by the revelations of the women in his life.Author Bernice Kert has provided a companion volume to Carlos Baker’s definitive biography of Papa Hemingway which throws added light on the writer’s life through portraits of the wives, companions and admirers of this imposing literary figure.His relations with female members of his own family were almost as tempestuous as his continuing marital tensions, and Kert sets out to prove that Hemingway’s utter contempt for his mother Grace was hardly justified.The ebullient Papa took sinister delight in maligning his mother as the root cause of his own father’s rather prophetic suicide as the culmination of a henpecked existence.Implying that Hemingway’s suspicion about any sense of female dominance was a red flag to the bullish Papa, Kert makes a reasonable and Kaleidoscope By RICHARD LONEY convincing defence of Grace Hemingway, as well as the writer’s younger sister Carol, whose marriage choice met with Hemingway’s disapproval.The four wives of Hemingway are treated with the same biographical scrutiny beginning with Hadley Richardson, the St.Louis beauty who was almost eight years older than the brash, handsome bachelor she met at the home of mutual friends in Chicago.Their courtship, and their married life in Toronto, Paris and other European locales is traced in considerable detail, until the fateful ski holiday which brought Hadley’s bosom freind Pauline Pfeiffer onto the scene.Hemingway’s falling into and out of love with Pauline ; the birth of their children Patrick and Gregory and their easy relationship with Jack (Bumby ), the son of Hadley and the writer ; the anger and recriminations that followed Pauline’s estrangement from her world-travelling, exasperating husband—all of these episodes in a wonderfully crowded life are fully documented in a smooth, easy style by Kert.All of the principal female figures who passed through Ernest Hemingway’s life was sketched fully.Martha Gellhorn, his third wife, who like Mary Welsh, his last mate, was a working journalist, has her own story told from the perspective that could hardly be expected to be fully realized in any biography that would have the fascinating character of Hemingway the writer as its focal point.The lives of such peripheral but influential females in E.H.’s life as Agnes von Kurowsky (his first love when he was wounded in Italy) and Adriana Ivancich (one of his many “daughters” to whom he paid a strange kind of courtship is his later years) are traced with keen attention to the way in which their destinies intertwined with the writer’s at crucial stages in his artistic career.Mary Welsh has had her own say in the Hemingway saga, with her book How It Was (1976), but the other female voices deserved to be heard.In The Hemingway Women they are given an open forum that is eloquent enough in their defence to cause more than a few ripples in the heavenly waters that Papa’s Pilar must be tacking through.Unknown Man #89 by Elmore Leonard (AVON): $2.95, 264 pp.It is one mark of the success of mystery scribe Elmore Leonard that his recently published La Brava is heartily recommended by the “And Bear In Mind" section of the New York Times Book Review.The other and fare more important truth about Leonard s books is that the proof’s in the pudding—take his paperback Unknown Man #89 for instance.There is no more realistic dialogue being written in this genre today.The Detroit backdrop to this tale of Jack Ryan, knockabout process server, is realistically portrayed, and the junkies and lowlifes that he encounters in his job are as authentic as Leonard can make them Ryan sets out to local one Robert Leary, a black stick-up artist who has a frightened, alcoholic, white wife, and a pair of pals named Tunafish and Virgil Royal who give Afros a bad name due to their lawlessness and ruthless lifestyle.Jack Ryan is plenty tough, seldom packing his .38 Smith and Wesson, has a pipeline into police classified information thanks to his highschool running mate Dick Speed, and his hands full in locating Robert Leary aka "Bobby Lear”.Then, in a typical Elmore Leonard twist a slick underworld figure from New Orleans is introduced, along with his robot-like henchman Raymond, as cold and calculated a killer to be found in detective fiction.The southerners provide a touch of comic relief w ith their commentary about the northern culture that they find themselves in, but that is all that is comic about Unknown Man #89.Taut with suspense, always on the razor’s edge of un provoked violence, Elmore Leonard’s novels draw the reader into their starkly realized worlds with an ease that accounts for the writer’s growing success in the mystery field.Kert makes a reasonable and Pauline’s estrangement tromner tneir aesumes inieiiw.ncu .Nothing complicated about death in Didion’s latest .„f th» ted in a place where ‘normal’ his own conclusions.!’ n '1'.I'!''In1,!,m''n„S,t, By Michael McDevitt SALVADOR, by Joan Didion, Washington Square Press, 1983.Joan Didion is not the writer who would immediately spring to mind if one was contemplating sending an observer to the strife-torn republic of El Salvador.Though Didion is well-known for her sociological commentaries and her introspective novels, she has avoided the trap of becoming too completely identifiable with any political group.Her detachment becomes a bonus, however, in Salvador, a re- cently-published account of the writer’s two week visit to the Central American state.In a style reminiscent of a housewife’s diary Didion recounts her introduction to the tiny state and the inescapable fact of death that lingers virtually everywhere she goes.Regardless of one’s politics, it is impossible to ignore the reign of murder that dominates the place, or to avoid the fact that “.it’s taken for granted that government forces do most of the killing.” The author’s own terror at finding herself virtually unprotec- ted in a place where ‘normal’ rules do not apply comes through clearly in the book, as does her wonder at those who manage to put together some sort of routine existance in the tortured country.Didion does not act as a lecturer in these brief pages, but more like a tour guide as she introduces the reader to the places and things whose acquaintance she has made.Atrocities, injustices and political expediencies are pointed out but not harped upon, and one gets the refreshing impression of being allowed to form his own conclusions.It is fear however, that dominates the book.The fear that one can count on no benign force, nor friendly agency to protect one from violence that seems to have a life — and a will — of its own.Didion’s short work will cause no major upheaval in how people look at the current Central American unrest, and one can be sure it will have no effect on the State Department of a Ronald Reagan or the death squads of a Roberto D Aubuisson.Politicians will continue to explain their actions in complicated global terms, viewing opposition as naive or ‘simplistic’.There is nothing compli cated about death, however, and nothing simplistic in wishing to see it end.Algerian war film is Israeli crystal ball TEL AVIV (AP) — Israelis flocked to an obscure Tel Aviv movie theatre recently to see an 18-year-old film about a small but determined Arab guerrilla movement fighting a vastly superior military power.Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers was made in 1965 and has nothing to do with Israel’s war against the Arabs.But most Israeli movie critics are pointing to striking parallels between Algeria under the French and the West Bank under Israel.The movie, which chronicles the uprising against the French that ended with Algerian independence in 1962, is being hailed by these critics as a crystal ball for forecasting the shape of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.Shot in black and white, much of it by ' hand-held camera, the 1965 film’s account of the uprising through the biography of an Algerian street youth-turned-guerrilla leader has been internationally acclaimed as a masterpiece of political cinema.The film’s scenes of street riots, bombings by the Algerian Liberation Front and the counter-terrorism of the white settlers look so horrifying that most viewers have difficulty believing they are not real but staged.GETS HELP Pontecorvo, an Italian Marxist, made the film with the cooperation of the Algerian government.At the time, the staunchly anti-Israel regime of Houari Boumedienne refused to let the film be shown in Tel Aviv.The film was so uncomplimentary to the French that President Charles de Gaulle also banned it.The Israeli government, anxious to maintain good relations with France, was only too happy to go along.Yaaqov Agmon, an Israeli producer and prominent leftist, saw The Battle of Algiers in New York in 1967 and was struck by its possible applications to Israel.This year he saw it again in London and was determined to bring it to Israel.His main worry was that the Algerian ban still stood.“We telephoned the Algerians from Paris and asked them not to interfere,” he said.“Obviously they didn’t, since the film is here.” Israelis who have served in the army in the West Bank will recognize the barbed wire barricades, the sullen Arab faces, the body searches, the frantic chases after shadowy suspects in narrow bazaar alleys, the officers telling reporters that with just a little more time and force the unrest will be quelled.SWEEPS AREA Coincidentally, as the film’s run began, a new wave of trouble swept the West Bank.A Jewish settler was stabbed ih the town of Nablus, and a bomb killed six in a Jerusalem bus.The settlers clamored for reprisals, and an 11-year-old Palestinian girl was shot dead.Police are holding a settler as a sus- pect.The film “demands that the viewer tackle the analogies that reach into his life, be he a carrier of weapons, a shopper in the (Arab) market in Jerusalem, a victim of hostilities, a peace activist or a nationalist,” wrote critic Yaron London.Yoman Hashavua, the governing Likud Bloc’s weekly, belittled the comparison.If anything, it said, the film shows the Algerians as dastardly people.” BELVEDERE 2 [Next to Place Belvedere Sherbrooke.Tel.: 562-3969 3 EROTIC HITS "HOT AND SAUCY PIZZA GIRLS" ."LUSTFUL FELINES" \\ "JADE PUSSYCAT" WEEK: FROM 7 30, SUN.CONTINUOUS FROM 2 P.M.18 YEARS ii OPPOLA FORD FRANCIS 14 Yl \RS f \ unique und fxmer/u/ nuxion picture cxpencnei A UNIVERSAL PICTURE JACKIE GLEASON Students $3.50 SMOKEY WEEK: 7 30, SUN 1 30,7 30, RUMBLE WEEK 910, SUN 310.9 10 Admission $4 50 4—TOWNSHIPS WEEK FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1984 Cellar and serving tips for the neophyte wine drinker It is becoming quite fashionable these days for those who have developed a taste and interest in wine to think about setting up a small cellar.And, given the ever-spiralling price of the world’s finest beverage, putting wine aside now for later consumption makes perfectly good sense.For the beginner, a kitchen cupboard, an unused hall closet or an out-of-the-way corner of the basement can all serve as a repository for that special bottle of ’61 Barolo or ’75 Château Palmer that auntie dropped off at Christmas but a word of caution lest your favorite vintage so carefully stored turn into the grapes of wrath.Whatever spot you choose for your ‘cellar’ should be cool and dry.Cool in this instance means between 50 and 60 degrees faren-heit with no danger of freezing and little chance of rising over 70 degrees.A good way to insure a constant temperature is to insulate the area with fiberglass bats or insulboard.Dryness is also essential since a damp cellar encourages the growth of mold and several other Wine Bits By TIMOTHY BELFORD unhealthy micro-organisms.Dryness also results in a minimum of odors — any of which can permeate a wine cork and drastically alter the taste and bouquet beyond recognition.It is also essential — particularly if you intend on keeping a bottle or bottles for a long time — that the room or closet be dark and relatively free from vibration.Too much sunlight will hasten the development of a wine bleaching it of colour and shortening its bottle life while constant movement is anything but healthy.Wine to be kept for a long time should be stored on its side so that the cork remains damp thus preventing the seepage of air into the bottle.Wine intended for immediate use can stand upright while bottles with screw tops are fine anyway you want them.A question coming up with increasing regularity is, “How much wine and how much cheese should I allow for a tasting party?” If you intend on doing any kind of analysis or comparison, I have found that four different types are about all most people can digest and still not become too confused.If it’s a party you have in mind, count on about one half bottle per person — unless you have the same friends I do in which case count on slightly more.As to the cheese, once again it depends on the number of guests and the purpose of the gathering.Generally speaking however, you can be pretty safe with about eight ounces per person accompanied by a variety of bread and/ or crackers.Both of the above are merely suggestions that I have found worked in the past.But remember.better to be on the safe side than sorry.Cheers! ¦t *#v.RL-JL-É.—Hi hBhhhhhhmi A simple wine cellar can he set up in a variety of spots.Train-photographs receiving belated recognition NORFOLK, Va.(AP) — In the 1950s, commercial photographer O.Winston Link spent his spare time and money taking pictures of Norfolk and Western steam trains simply to capture them before they disappeared into history.Now, more than 20 years after he finished the six-year project, his photographs are receiving widespread public recognition and critical acclaim.“I’ve liked trains ever since I was a little kid,’’ said the Brooklyn-born Link, 68, as he toured a Chrysler Museum exhibit here of 57 of his 2,200 train pictures.“There’s lots of action, smoke, nice sounds nice smells.They’re going someplace in the country.” The photos, most of them taken at night.show trains as a surreal backdrop to rural life along the N and W railroad tracks in Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina and Maryland.TRAINS GO BY Three people chat on a porch while a train roars by in the background; teenagers in bathing suits lounge by a swimming pool at night while a train passes behind them; young lovers watch a drive-in movie as a train chugs along beyond the screen.In another scene, a tired-looking woman sprawls in an easy chair in her living room while a young boy excitedly waves to the train passing just outside a picture window.The project began in 1955 when Link, a freelancer who shot pic- tures for annual reports and other company publications, was on an assignment for Westinghouse.One night he wandered over to Waynesboro, N.C., and, using synchronized flashes, took a picture of a locomotive pulling into the station.He sent a print to N and W and asked their permission to do a self-financed project of train photographs, taken primarily at night.“It was a part of America — life along the railroad — that no one had ever seen or noticed,” said Link, who sti-1 lives in Brooklyn, N.Y.“Mainly because no one would ever be out at that time of night.” Railway officials liked the idea.“They gave me 450 engines, 2,500 miles of track and several thousand employees and word from the president to do whatever I asked,” Link said.Link was given his own key to the railway telephone boxes so he could call dispatchers and find out what time a train would arrive.Drivers would slow down the train or make the engine belch white smoke at just the right moment.Link, who spent up to six days arranging lights for a single night picture, knew he was working on deadline.By the time he finished his project in 1960, steam trains were rapidly being replaced by diesels, which Link respects but doesn’t find quite as exciting.Link, working with one or two assistants, used up to three 4x5 Graphic view cameras on tripods and as many as 60 flash bulbs per shot.Mao’s contribution outweighs sins PEKING (Reuter) — A new documentary film on the life of Mao Tse-tung that had its premiere in Peking today only hints at the late Communist party chairman's 10-year Cultural Revolution, which China’s leaders now call a disaster.When the story reaches that turbulent period from 1966 to 1976, a thoughtful, cigarettesmoking Mao is shown riding a train, while a voice says he made mistakes that caused great damage.The 80-minute film, called Mao Tse-tung, refers only briefly to the “great leap forward” in 1958, when Mao caused econo- mic chaos by setting overambi-tious targets.It does not mention two of his three wives, including Jiang Qing, leader of the now-jailed Gang of Four who seized power during the Cultural Revolution.Its scriptwriters say the film, which will be shown on national television to celebrate the 90th anniversary of Mao’s birth Dec.26, highlights the late chairman’s crucial role in the Chinese revolution, despite his later mistakes.The film is in line with the offi-cial Communist party assessment of Mao in 1981, which praised him as a great revolu- tionary.But it makes no direct reference to the Cultural Revolution when Mao replaced most of his old revolutionary comrades with extreme leftists.Scriptwriter Gao Weijin defended the glossing over of the Cultural Revolution.“The Cultural Revolution is not shown in pictures, but in the narrative we do say that the errors he made in the latter stages of his life caused great damage to the cause of the party and people,” Gao said in the English-language China Daily.“However, judging his life as a whole, his contributions outweigh his errors.” Fiddler finally arrives on Soviet roofs MOSCOW (AP) — Nineteen years after Fiddler on the Roof opened on Broadway, the Soviet Union’s only professional Jewish theatre group has staged its own version of the bittersweet musical, complete with surprising amounts of Jewish tradition and religion.The house responded ecstatically during one of the show’s two Moscow performances last week.But the quality of the spectacle seemed secondary to the event itself as the audience applauded and cheered, some wiping tears from their eyes.“The important thing is that the play was put on at all,” said one close observer of Soviet culture.For impresario Yuri Sherling, the cultural and social importance of the production was paramount.“Jewish theatre in Russia carries very deep, subtle, humane functions,” the former Bolshoi Theatre ballet dancer said in an interview in his Moscow office.“We are not only creating shows.We are not only trying to drag tears out of the eyes of the audience.We teach the audience the language of their ancestors, which they, regretfully, were absolutely deprived of the right to master.” The musical, mostly in Yiddish with some Russian, included what Sherling called “the first lines in Hebrew ever spoken on a stage in the Soviet Union.” Soviet authorities forbid the teaching of Hebrew or publication of Hebrew texts.RARE EVENT The performance of the musical surprised many observers of Soviet culture since such events are rare in a country whose officially atheistic government restricts nationalist or religious movements.Although the Soviets deny charges of official anti-Semitism, many Jews complain of harrassment and discrimina- tion.They say they have trouble keeping their traditions alive in a society where religious education is forbidden for people under 18 and the constitution prohibits proselytizing.The musical revolves around a Russian Jew named Tevieh, his family and fellow Jews in the village of Anatovka, and their faith as it is tested by progress and repression.In the Soviet production, the repression of the Jews is by the czars, thus predating the advent of the Soviet state.And the pogroms by Russian villagers, played out before the audience in the U.S.production, take place off stage here.But it still seemed remarkable that Sherling was allowed to stage a play with such strong themes of faith and tradition — even if only briefly and in a theatre far from the centre of town.RESERVE NOW! MCMBiR TRANS OCEAN TRAVEL Business or Pleasure Just Drop In.Or Give Us a Call Services are free 66 King West — Sherbrooke — Tel.: 563-4515 Zenith 59010 TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY, JANUARY «.Pottery book, exhibition features Townships scenes Indian Scene, is one of many decorated plates on display.Eastern Townships scenes are prominently featured in both a new book, just published by the McGill- Queen’s University Press, and a major exhibition just opened at McGill’s McCord Museum in Montreal.Both book and exhibition have the same title, The Potters' View of Canada: Canadian Scenes on Nineteenth- Century Earthenware.Author of the book and guest curator of the exhibition if Townships-born Elizabeth Col-lard, consultant on ceramics to the National Museum of Man in Ottawa.The book is the first to be devoted exclusively to this type of china which, in recent years, has come to be highly valued by museums and private collectors alike.There are over 170 illustrations in the book and some 200 items in the exhibition.The author-curator, wife of the editor emeritus of the Gazette in Montreal, Edgar Andrew Collard, was born in the Methodist Parsonage in Sawyerville, daughter of the late Rev.George H.Forde, who also held Towns- hips pastorates in Cookshire, Dunham, and Stanbridge East.Her schooling was at St.Helen’s School in Dunham and at Cookshire High School.In both the book and the exhibition Mrs.Col-lard gives prominence to such Townships scenes as Georgeville and the Outlet of Lake Memphremagog, which appeared in the 1840s on items as varied as tea bowls, foot baths, and soup tureens made in Staffordshire for export to Canada.Her own first interest in these wares was sparked by seeing one of these Canadian scenes on a dinner service originally owned by a Richmond family.That was in the 1940s and marked the beginning of research which led to the publication in 1967 of her first book — Nineteenth-Century Pottery and Porcelain in Canada (long out of print but scheduled for a new edition by the McGill-Queen’s Press in the autumn of 1984).The Potters’ View of Canada is her second book.The McCord exhibition, at 690 Sherbrooke St.West in Montreal, will remain open to the public until the end of October 1984.Designer for the exhibition was Luc Matter.The McCord Museum hours are Wednesday through Sunday, 11 a m.- 5 p.m.This Lake teapot is decorated with a view of Georgeville, Quebec.' .Passe-Partout thrives on distinctive Québécois style MONTREAL (CP) — To hundreds of thousands of Quebec children, the characters of Passe-Partout are as familiar as Mr.Rogers, Oscar the Grouch and Miss Piggy.Weekdays and weekends, mornings and evenings, up to 600,000 fans between the ages of two and six, park themselves in front of the TV for 30 minutes to tune into the lives of their favorite characters — Passe-Partout herself, her friends Passe-Carreau and Passe-Montagne, a score of puppets, and real-live children.It’s obviously an audience that is hard to shake off, since it always comes back — in ever increasing numbers — for more of the same.Until last fall, all the episodes had been re-runs of the original series produced by the Quebec Edu-cation Department between 1976 and 1979.Production of the original 125 shows stopped in 1979 and it took a whole year to convince the bureaucrats in Quebec City that they had a monster hit on their hands, Laurent Lachance, the program’s creator, recalled in an interview .It took another three years to line up production of the new 50 episodes announced late last fall, giving Passe-Partout a new lease on life.Passe-Partout started out by consciously trying to avoid being cast as just a French version of Sesame Street, to which it is often compared.The ori-ginal 85 proposed segments were tossed out in the early 1970s, “much to the distresss of my bosses,” because they closely resembled Sesame Street, says Lachance.TOUCH ON EMOTIONS Passe-Partout has two objectives — to develop particularly Québécois characters and to answer “the needs of the average four-year-old in his own language, to touch on real-life emotions,” said Lachance, who switched to children’s TV programming after an 11-year stint as a se- condary-school teacher.At the end of every segment, for instance, Passe-Partout (actress Marie Eykel) treats her young viewers to a brief monologue, relating ordinary but often frustrating experiences in an adult world — being pushed on a bus, misunderstood by parents, treated rudely by a drugstore clerk, or made fun of by friends.The rest of the pro-gram is split up between Passe-Partout interacting with her two friends (Jacques L’Heureux and Claire Pimpare, who along with Eykel are now super-stars with the pre-school set and can rarely show up in public without being surrounded by squealing fans), skits involving the family of puppets, and clips of real-live children in everyday situations.Although they are less visible stars in the Passe-Partout galaxy, the puppets are important.“We began by creating a family of puppets — grandparents, neighbors, babysitters — that children could identify with, no matter what their background,” says Lachance, a 52-year-old bachelor.“Our audience was oridinary children, as well as those who did not have (traditional) family .we aim at one-parent families that made up about 30 per cent of the population when we first started, and which today stand somewhere at about 40 to 45 per cent of the total.“Passe-Partout gives them the hope that one day, they too can create such (an extended) family,” says Lachance, noting that in the new series, "we are aiming more at such people .we already have one character, a girl named Melodic, who comes from a one-parent family.This time around, the audience will meet her (estranged) father.” Unlike Sesame Street, Passe-Partout is aimed at pre- schoolers and is unconcerned with teaching skills.“Whether a child learns something useful or not, is not important .they’ll learn in school,” says Lachance.“If the child feels good about himself, is happy to be four years old, then we have succeeded.” Just how good they feel may be measured by the fact that Passe-Partout has just reached a new high in po-pularity.“Radio-Canada (the CBC’s French service) told us we that last Nov.6, we hit an audience figure of 941,000, the highest ever, meaning we had many, many adults watching,” says Lachance.Kids get respect on new shows Three new Canadian childrens’ TV series — two on CBC and one on the pay-TV channel First Choice — begin this month.And although they are widely different, the three share a common bond: they treat kids with some respect.The best of them is Sons and Daughters, a collection of six films that have already won a slew of awards at international movie festivals.Completed for the bargain price of $700,000, the half-hour dramas are as slick as anything coming out of the “adult” drama departments in this country.The films are based on the works of well-known Canadian writers, including Alice Munro and Lucy Maud Montgomery.The final episode is a dramatization of Earle Birney’s epic poem David, about two friends who face a tragedy while mountain-climbing in the Rockies.First in the series, on Jan.5, is Boys and Girls, taken from a short story by Munro about a farm girl named Margaret growing up in the 1940s.Megan Follows, a talented young Toronto actress, stars as Margaret, a pre-teen who likes working outside, helping the men on the farm.Her unenlightened parents, however, decide it’s not a “proper” thing for a girl to do and force her to stay behind in the kitchen, learning “womanly chores.” KIDS ARE PEOPLE The remaining programs look at other trials of growing up — being different, family breakups, friendship.Like the other new series on CBC, The Edison Twins, young people are the protagonists, with adults relegated to to secondary roles.These youngsters come through as intelligent and independent individuals, who can solve their own problems without relying on their 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Montreal, 20 km south of Sherbrooke Information & Reservations Call Collect (819) 835-5464 P.0 Box 180, Compton, JOB 1L0 ^974 6—TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1984 Take a ride on Via.Eiy Timothy Belford As the slogan goes, “Getting there is half the fun!” — or at least it’s supposed to be.Obviously the wit who penned that phrase didn’t ride VIA Rail.Over the past two years Canada’s train service has come under increasingly hot criticism as cost-cutting measures have, to all intents and purposes, reduced available service to the Quebec City-Toronto-Windsor corridor.Thus, Canadians living off the 'mainline’ — including those in Sherbrooke — find themselves without passenger service and completely dependent upon regional and provincial bus lines.Another apparent feature of Canadian train travel, if indeed you can find a train, is what one recent Via victim graciously called “fluid scheduling”.What is meant by this quaint term is the propensity for our national rail monopoly to play fast and loose with its departure and arrival board, stranding passengers for uncomfortable hours in stations often resembling the wind-tunnel testing facilities at Ford motors.Undaunted by this adverse publicity and of necessity forced to visit Toronto, I decided nevertheless to put VIA to the acid test.The first thing to note is price.Depending on the day of the week, the time of day and the season of the year, a return ticket — who would go one way?— from Montreal to Toronto via VIA is $63.For an extra $22 you can even avoid the huddled masses and travel club car, complete with \ P*1- % free wine and a hot meal.Another possibility, and the one I chose, was to return by the night train and secure sleeping accomodations.For a roomette — which turns out to be little more than a well-planned closet — add $28 to the original $63.Lets see now.That’s $63 basic, $22 for first class going down and another $28 coming home for a grand total of $113.This compares favorably with the local Voyageur bus service which charges $71.40 for the return trip, doesn’t have first class and discourages sleeping.Voyageur does have a cut-rate fare however, if you don’t leave on a Friday and return within seven days.Cost, $55.45.If the thought of buses and trains puts you off and you survived the government cutbacks and kept your civil servant’s job, you might want to consider our other federal carrier — Air Canada.Travelling by plane on the same days you can expect to pay $226 return plus an additional airport tax of 8 per cent bringing the entire package to $244.10.Admittedly once again, this depends upon the day of the year, the length of your stay and several other factors understood only by the Canadian Transpot Commission.For simplicity’s sake however we will presume a Friday to Monday journey at this time of year.Arriving at the Montreal station I was horrified to see what appeared to be the entire population of one of the city’s suburbs I ?: " Don’t let this photo fool you .space on a train is at a premium.don’t pass Go, don’t collect $200 6903 The ’Light, rapid, comfortable’ (LRC) trains now on line with VIA RAIL are having a hard time with the ‘rapid’.lined up to board the 10:45 to Toronto.My shock and chagrin was only momentary however, as I realized that the extra $22 was already paying off.Skirting the ‘mob’ I headed for a prominant sign bearing a large VIA insignia and a an equally large number 1.At this point I was greeted by an exceptionally pleasant VIA attendent who wished me a nice day and a happy journey as he processed my ticket.Arriving at the First Class car — which I noted was well removed from the common folk — a smiling porter took my luggage and proceeded to show me to my seat while relieving me of my coat.So far so good.A third employee, I noticed, was busy handing out complimentary newspapers and dispensing coffee and tea in liberal quantities.As I settled back into my seat I couldn’t help wondering if modern travel could ever be more satisfying.Despite the crowd attempting to board, the train pulled out of the station exactly on time and headed west on its scheduled 5 hour and 5 minute run.Whoops! did I say 5 hour and 5 minutes?Actually, we pulled into Union Station precisely 6 hours and 20 minutes later.Even at that, I was ready to forgive and forget since the ride and the service had been exemplary.A minor complaint might have been lodged concerning the meal, which was slightly awash in hali- but juice, but a digestif and a pleasant nap left all that in what seemed like the dim past.jAs a matter of fact, on my way out of the station, I found myself looking forward to the return trip and the luxury of a sleeper.Three days later I returned.My first indication that something was wrong was the absence of anyone at the ticket counter where I was to check in.The smiling young man who had verified my return passage only days earher had told me that travellers with sleeping accomodation could check in at 10:30 p.m.— one hour prior to departure.It was now 10:45.Finally, a VIA representative arrived to announce that there would be a ‘slight’ delay due to a mechanical difficulty with the train.Wrapping my coat firmly about me, I settled into what I suddenly realized was a particularly uncomfortable fiberglass waiting-lounge chair.Time plodded on.At approximately 11:00 p.m., an assistant station master arrived and announced that boarding would commence in one half hour.When asked the nature of the delay, he recoiled as if slapped and replied, “I have no idea.” A second query launched at the station ticket office elicited the same stoney response.Apparently no one knew exactly what was wrong except the mechanics themselves and they weren’t telling.One hour and fifteen indeciphe- rable public address announcements later we were finally asked to proceed to our train.As I approached the door to the sleeper car, I became aware of a large cloud of steam issuing from somewhere beneath the train itself and completely obscuring the step up.Standing next to the door was a trainman impatiently waving a flashlight with which he was vainly attempting to light the way.Not wanting to miss my step I hesitated like a pitcher committing a balk.No pleasant “Watch your step”, no guiding hand, just a trainman who douldn’t or wouldn’t hide his exasperation.With a desperate plunge I launched myself forward and found myself on board and standing in a deserted hallway.Where was my room?Where was the porter?VIA had abandoned me.To carry on further with a detailed account of the next seven hours would a best be fruitless.Suffice it to say the conductor was rude, the walls paper thin and the treatment accorded me befitting a ten-year-old school child not a mature paying adult.The train did however arrive on time! It is unfortunate that tales such as this are all too common.Thousands of VIA employees are both considerate and professional and the service — when it works — is all too enjoyable.Canada needs and deserves a good train service but it will take more than a set of fancy brochures.Ann Mortifee-still a stranger to Canadian pop charts The lady can’t help it if she’s a heavy thinker.Having put the finishing touches on a children's musical about a year ago, Ann Mortifee indicated her next project might just be a collection of all-out commercial tunes.End result her newly released Born toLive < Jabula Records), an album that’s deep, dramatic, often hauntingly beautiful — everything but the promised commercial pop.Why (he change in the game plan?She gives a hearty burst of laughter and protests: “But that to me IS very commercial.” Which is probably why Mortifee, in the 20 years since she first warbled on stage at a Vancouver coffeehouse, has been eminently received in Canada's entertainment community but remains a virtual stranger to Top 40 radio.The South African-born, Vancouver-based singer puts the alchemist’s touch to everything she undertakes; critical praise for Mortifee’s talents has become commonplace.But her work — even when it aspires to the commercial milieu — carries with it a sense of Production — big, weighty, important.An example is the beautiful title tune, released as the first single from the album.Her cowriter on that one was French film composer Michel Legrand, whose most recent project was the score to the Streisand film Yentl.And other material from the album, particularly Merlin, The Companion and Phoenix, would seem more tuned to the theatre than to the record charts.But it wasn’t intended that way.“When we set out to do this album, we first examined all the songs in my repertoire and we looked for the ones that would be the most accessible,” she explains.“We went into the studio trying to be more open about shorter songs and a tighter sense of production.” Mortifee has taken this step only once before, with her 1975 release Baptism.Her other recorded material has been entirely conceptual: The Ecstasy of Rita Joe, which she was commissioned to write for the George Ryga stage play (later mounted as a ballet production); Journey to Kairos, a highly personal work encompassing Mortifee’s experiences in Africa, India, Greece and Lebanon; and Reflections on Crooked Walking, her children’s musical which has both been staged and broadcast by CBC radio as a Christmas special.Surprisingly, the affable entertainer seemed not a bit concerned when I suggested Born to Live had decided merit — but not of the commercial variety.She even admits that at one point during recording “I began to wonder, am I letting go too much, is this album losing anything.” But she seemed mildly amused and a touch surprised when 1 said the cut The Companion struck me as a bit too eccentric, making it the album’s hardest experience.“But that’s the song I get the most requests for; people are always asking if I have The Companion on an album,” she says, following up with an attempted explanation for such fascination.“I think a lot of people don’t know what it means but feel that it means something that they know, but they’re not sure what it is.” How’s that again?Again that delightful laughter.“I’m not sure I really know what it means either.“The Companion and the following Phoenix don’t fit anywhere at all musically.There is a side of me that is very experimental, where I have to wonder — where did that come from ?But I have to give it credence, otherwise I cut off part of my growth.” Her creative growth shows no signs of flagging.Mortifee, who recently concluded a benefit tour with Harry Belefonte in support of ailing Canadian symphony orchestras, says she is seriously considering putting together a classical program, a first for her.¦ TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY, JANUARY 6.1984-7 America the Dutiful can be evacuated just ask Teller If you seem to be hearing a lot of the Record’s Charlie ‘You can’t trust a carpet layer’ Bury and Mikey McDevitt on the CBC lately, don’t panic — the MacLaren Empire hasn’t expanded it’s just government efficiency once again.Having offered former E.T.Bureau Chief Bernard St.Laurent a real job in Québec City doing what he does best — muckraking — the CBC, better known as Radio Free Ottawa, set in motion the procedure to find a replacement for young Bernie.Having — in their usually competent way — reduced the short list of those applying for the job down to one (the person they wanted originally), the members of the review board then rejected their only candidate.Thus CBC’s commitment to regional coverage goes the way of the indigenous Townships Abenaki.Never mind, our loss is Charles, Mikey’s and the taxman’s gain.I’m really getting worried! First it was Rocket Ronnie talking about a ‘limited’ nuclear war, what ever that is, then it was a few of his trained seals in the agriculture department telling us that farmers would probably be able to feed the ‘survivors’ of the big blast.And now, the guy they call The Father of the H-Bomb, Edward Teller, says that the traffic flow out of major U.S.cities on holiday weekends indicates that America the Dutiful could be trained to evacuate the downtown core in the event of a war.Obviously Mr.Teller has been standing too close to his own experiments with radioactive elements and his noodle has gone soft.Anyone who has ever tried to beat the Boston rushhour to Cape Cod knows that a planned evacuation of American cities would have to start now.Then again, taking his cue from the Titanic, Bonzo’s best friend will probably not bother telling the boys in the barrio that the ship of state is sinking — after all, ‘those people’ are all fond of day-glow colors anyway.I don’t know about you, but I’ve got my tickets for tomorrow’s 6—49 lottery! The thought of winning a possible five million big ones has my heart a flutter and my palms all sweaty.I even spent my entire week’s pay from MacLaren the Magnificent on tickets even though I’m not too sure what good two more chances will do.Seriously though, I want all my faithful readers to know that should I become incredibly wealthy overnight I won’t forget you.As a matter of fact, I’ll probably think of you often and all the thousands like you as I sip my Brandy Alexanders and watch the waves lap at the beach of a suitably remote tropic isle.To put it in the words of those immortal philosophers Bob and Doug Mackenzie, the world can “Take off, eh?” It seems our own not-to-nationwide passenger train service Via Rail would do well to do just that.Although company spokesmen have denied any connection between the recent rash of derailed or just plain late trains and the recent hiring of 100 former Air Canada DC-10 technicians as company repairmen, general opinion seems to be that Via Rail service of late rates right up there with my revered boss’s Kraft Dinner Supreme.The Record’s own token Toronto preppy, Robert Palmer recently returned to his roost for a little holiday under the transporting care of said rail service.Seems the driver of Who’s who By TADEUSZ LETARTE his 5:50 train to the land of the not-to-tiny perfect ex-mayor David Crombie (who unlike his federal PC hopeful namesake does speak German and Chinese and plans to run on that platform when his call comes along) confused the train with the all-night milkrun and Robert arrived in Toronto at 4 a.m.The train sat in the Gare Centrale for five hours before Via techies could affix an engine that worked.When the train finally pulled out of the station it seems most of the patrons including Robert promptly fell asleep, only to be violently shaken awake by one of the boys in blue and red.Resenting the intrusion, Robrt not-so-politely explained that the gentleman had a hell of a lot of nerve taking tickets in such a manner after forcing people to wait in a train with locked washrooms and an open bar car for five hours.Because of this disturbing incident rumor has it that CBC will be doing a documentary on the recent downhill slide passenger train service has embarked upon.Teddy Kennedy, the man who John Turner thinks of as a ‘role model’, was admitted to hospital this week where he is reportedly recovering from five different ailments.Kennedy, who holds the record for the longest period of time as a dark-horse presidential candidate, has a stomach ulcer, hepatitis, intestinal flu, anemia and dehydration.The whole thing was apparently caused by taking too many aspirins.Honest! Anyway, the senior senator from the Commonwealth of Massachusettes — an oceanfront property once owned by his father—is apparently recovering and will be back to work shortly.Three enterprising New Brunswickers — or is it New Brunswickians — were apprehended by officers of the RCMP and Canada Customs earlier this week in the process of carrying out a major ‘margarine’ scam.The trio was apparently attempting to slide across the border near Grand Falls and nearly gave the authorities the slip with 5,686 kilograms of oleo.They obviously greased the wrong palms however and the defenders of the nation’s sovereignty — spread as thin as they are along the undefended border — put the arm on the would-be smugglers.Word has it that attempts at buttering up the Crown prosecuter were to no avail.And you wonder why the country is going to hell in a hand cart.On Thursday, the editorial department of The Record received an obviously important missive from Travail Canada — such an appropriate name.The large brown envelope with the decorative green border was extremely impressive as I am sure the contents would have been if there had been any.That’s right, at least one secretary, probably an office manager and a press release writer had been involved in sending us an empty envelope.This unidentified man was found loitering near the North Hatley Curling Club recently.Anyone wishing to claim him is asked to contact Robert Barnett, Supreme Grand Poobah of Local 615 of the Masonic Lodge (Far Rite).This doesn’t even include the postal service! To add insult to injury, they even got the address wrong.Oh well, ours not to reason why as they say.Rumor has it that David Mackenzie, Director General of the Sherbrooke Hospital — sometime home of Gilles T'm still an MNA’ Grégoire — paid Daniel Bélanger to write a recently published letter to the editor attacking the hospital’s honor.In his note, Bélanger complained about eve rything from the nurses to an impromptu peep show he witnessed when the door to the room across the hall was inadvertently left open.To no one’s surprise — and obviously part of the devilishly clever Makenzie’s plan — everybody and their mother’s uncle wrote to The Record in defence of the hospital, its nursing staff, the administra tion and even — yech — the food.If that’s all it takes, our fearless leader, René the Short, should pay someone to send a scathing letter to The Devoir, The Gazette or another one of those regional papers located in Montreal.On second thought an attack on poor René would probably go unnoticed.No end in sight as Brooks keeps finding the new twist LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mel Brooks has a vision about what will happen when his movie career comes to an end.“I’ll go right into a TV series, Doctor Mel.I’ll have an assistant and a dog and I’ll cure people’s ills with laughter,” he says.“After seven years of Doctor Me, I’ll work up an act and play Las Vegas.also Resorts International in Atlantic City.” When that all ends, he says he’ll end up in a shoe store in Manhattan — “the kind that leave the lights on at night and have nice slick floors.I’ll have a black harmonica player and I’ll do a tap dance and sing, ’Remember me?I used to be Mel Brooks.’” But the end is not in sight — not as long as Brooks keeps finding film genres to have fun with.So far he’s done the western Blazing Saddles, the horror picture Young Frankenstein, a Hitchcock thriller in High Anxiety, a silent movie called Silent Movie, and his version of the epic History of the World, Part I.The latest Brooks assault on the motion picture past is To Be or Not To Be, first filmed in 1942 by Ernst Lu-bitsch, with Jack Benny and Carole Lombard as a Polish theatrical couple who outwit the Nazis and escape from occupied Poland.It was Lombard’s last film.STARS WITH WIFE Brooks and his wife, Anne Bancroft, star in the 1983 version.He produced the film but, for the first time, did not direct.As associate of Brooks, Alan Johnson, made his debut as director.“I thought it would have been senseless for me to write on something that had been done so beautifully by Lubitsch and company,” Brooks said in his longtime third-floor corner office at 20th Century-Fox.“I chose not to direct because of my chores as leading man.” Brooks describes Bronski, the lead character, as “the symbol of what actors are: laughing, scratching, vain, egotistical.” Besides Bronski, he plays Hamlet, a German spy and Hitler in the movie.During the filming, Brooks said he sometimes had to quell his urge to tell Johnson, “Are you crazy?You can’t put the camera there!” But he stifled his directorial instincts and remained actor-producer.He is proud that his films have fostered first-time directors, such as David Lynch who did The Ele-phant Man, Graham Clifford who directed Frances and Richard Benjamin who did My Favorite Year.To Be or Not to Be marks the first time Brooks has starred with Bancroft, though she appeared briefly in Silent Movie.FALLS IN LOVE “I swear to God, I fell in love with my wife once more,” he said.“1 had never been close to her work before, and I realized for the first time the intensity with which she works.She was the steel support to the picture ; she gave it a dramatic integrity that makes the comedy work.“Our theories of acting are entirely different.Her approach to a scene is always totally honest: She wants to know what the character is feeling at that point in time.“My approach is: The audience must be entertained, no matter what.She says it will be entertained if eve- rything is honest.We managed to reach a compromise.” To Be or Not To Be is the most dramatic and least chaotic of the Brooks films, but he has no plans to turn serious.His next project will be another “genre spoof.” “I know now that I have the confidence and some of the techni-que to attempt a straighter role,” he said.“But I’ll continue to peddle my goods in a cheap comedy way.“The greatest thrill and reward in my life is the laughs.” cA Jteatthy Jteart iso give.heart fund 8—TOWNSHIPS WKEK—FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1984 WHAT’S ON Music Mi key has a Music Substitute this week because he’s off — as it were — covering the trial of the year in the St-Francis legal district, HraiM bs.#mn, ref: elsewhere in this issue (try page 3, front section i.But here goes anyway, eh ?Might as well be Silent Night out there by the way things look here in the Eastern Townships this week as far as the sung word goes! Most spots are ‘featuring’ a cut-down entertainment schedule — if any — through this latest low budget January.First the good news: In Lennoxville the only action on the public scene is at the FL Hideaway, between the railway tracks and the monastery, in the shadow of the cement plant halfway down (or is it up?) the road to Sherbrooke.Calvin (why should 1 buy that damned imported stuff anyway — all they do is drink it?) Picken is spotlighting a new band in the area: Crown and Anchor.Although this name usually brings a connotation of beer and fish-and-chips in a British pub atmosphere, Cal's giant (at least 1 'h inch high) display advertisement says they play “country rock" and if it’s in the newspapers, it must be true, right?Friday and Saturday, no cover charge.In Waterville, Oran’ Benne brings us the country sounds of the Midnight Men, Friday and Saturday.A popular band with a good following.Good country music, fair-sized shots at the big bar and a nice bunch of people, at the Manoir Waterville.Great dancefloor too, for the exercise freaks such as myself (I'm Music Substitute, remember).At Station 88 in downtown South Stukely (near the post office, that is), John Bird is featuring the country band Cedar Creek, but Saturdays only, for the month of January.Over to Inner Brome County, the Foster Hilton .uh.Hotel, that is, Conrad, the headline act is Norman Lloyd and his band.A real western — as opposed to country — group, I’m told.Look out.Gene Autry! Now the bad news, music-wise: There’s no band at Len-noxville’s Georgian Hotel this weekend, at least as far as barmaid Joyce can find out.Of course, owner Costa What’s-his-name has been away for a few days so there may be some surprise news when he gets back.There’s no band at Waterville’s Motel Bretagne this weekend — or any weekend for the next couple of months, for that matter.The Bretagne’s usual star act the Carousel Night Riders have decided to take a couple of months off from the nightclub scene.Figuring that they would be too hard an act to follow, owner Gordon Macdonald has decided to take a couple of months on the quiet side himself.No bands here, no bands there, no bands hardly anywhere (pardon my grammer, chief)! Oh yeah.Finally, down at the Del Monty in Rock Island, there may or may not be a band.Mikey’s notes can’t be found and Music Substitute has just spent damned near half an hour looking through the $%?&£&?%$ phone book, only to find the Del keeping its number a big dark secret.It’s not under Del or Monty, not under Hotel, Motel, Auberge, Manoir or any of the above preceded by le, la or I’.So to hell with it.Have a nice weekend.Movies At the Capitol this week Rusty James can’t live up to his brother’s reputation.His brother can t live it down.Well who’d want to anyway.That’s the plot of Rumble Fish, showing at 9:10 during the week with an additional show at 3:10 Sunday.Universal Pictures’ Smokey and the Bandits tops off the bill with showings at 7:30 weeknights with an additional one at 1:30 Sunday.Haven’t seen either one so I can’t tell you much but if you like Francis Ford Coppola’s productions (Poisson de rumble) or Jackie Gleason, either one or both might be worth a sitting.Admission is $4.50, $3.50 for students.Can’t get through to the Carrefour Cinema and it’s not advertising this week for it must mean they’ve held Terms of Endearment over again and for good reason — it is nothing less than superb entertainment.Debra Winger has been highly praised for her performance and veteran entertainer Shirley Maclaine, the critics say, reaches her career peak in the film.Jack Nicholson, plays the part of the perfect third to Winger and Maclaine as the astronaut next door who has fallen from grace, as well as just about everything else.It’s a terrific film for the whole family but be advised — pick up a box of kleenex on the way.The whole theatre starts a-snifflin' about half-an-hour from the end.Oops, sorry.Showtimes during the week are 6:35 and 9, weekends at 1, 3:30, 6:45 and 9:10.Either Cowansville’s Princess Cinema has improved its recording or the folks in Hollywood have started to give their flicks easy-to-pronounce names Either way, Night-shift, starring Henry Tm not The Fon*’ Winkler and funnyman Michael Keaton, is playing at 7:15.Winkler and Keaton (who was also Mr.Mom) work well as a pair with By MICHAEL McDEVITT Winkler as the conscientious worker and Keaton as the laid-back boss’ boy with a Walkman surgically implanted in his head.Although morbid at times (it takes place in a morgue), there are some scenes which show Keaton at his best.In the Princess’ second film at 8:45, Sean Connery is back as James Bond in Never Say Never Again.Although I haven’t seen this one.I’ve been following what is being called the ‘Bond Wars’ between Connery and Roger Moore.Personally I can’t stand Moore as 007 — he's simply far too upper-class for a role that although requires savior-faire, demands a rougher image than he’s capable of.Anyway, no matter which Bond you like the series has featured superb gimmicks, stunts and special effects so this one should do the same.General admission is $4.50.If you’re thinking of heading down to Newport for a little post-Christmas bargain-hunting, the film this week is All the Right Moves, starring Tom Cruise.I wasn’t too impressed with the clip that’s been shown on the tube recently but I’ll reserve judgement on the film until if and when I see it.It’s showing Friday at 7 and 8:40, Saturday at 7 and Sunday through Thursday at 7:30.Radio Tonight at 10:15 on Nightfall, Saul Rubinek stars in Assassin Game, a futuristic drama about a murder pact among university students by John G.Fisher.Tomorrow on The Entertainers.CBC Stereo looks at one of the most enduring partnerships in showbusiness Tom Kneebone and Dinah Christie who have spent years putting together cabaret acts here in Canada and the United States.During this progream the couple is interviewed and heard performing the music of Cole Porter, Stephen Sondheim and Noel Coward At 1:30 on both CBC Stereo and CBC Radio The Metropo- Janet-Laine Green, who starred in Festival Lennoxville’s hit musical, 18 Wheels, will be featured in CBC's Chautauqua Girl on Sunday at 8 p.m.litan opera presents Beethoven’s celebration of human freedom Fidelio.An heroic wife disguises herself as a man to rescue her imprisoned husband from the dictatorial whims of the prison’s governor.Jon Vickers and Eva Mar-ton star with help from Roberta Peters among others.At 7:05 on CBC Radio’s The Ocean Limited the second part of a concert by Ray Charles and his band recorded in Halifax is presented.Charles is one of the living legends of modern music and his emotional styling has inspired an entire generation of jazz and blues fans.Charles has explored every facet of modern music from disco to soul to country and western, and has left his own indelible mark on each.Also at 7:05, on CBC Stereo Saturday Stereo Theatre presents The Ice Forest by prominant Canadian playwright Steve Petch.This play is a period piece about a young woman engaged as a private secretary by an elderly English widow in a small town in northern India about ten years after the subcontinent's independence.The woman becomes drawn into the mystery and secrets of the household, and her employment becomes much more than she had bargained for.At 8:05 on Six Days on the Road on CBC Radio The Country Gentlemen perform their own brand of traditional blue-grass music.This outfit is one of the most successful and influential bluegrass bands and they have been entertaiu-ning North America with this rousing music for 27 years.On Sunday at 3 on CBC Stereo Live From Roy Thomson Hall presents an afternoon of hilarious musical entertainment by the British female impersonating team of Hinge and Bracket.These two nuts recreate the spirit of British vaudeville with wild and unpredictable musical renditions in the traditional music hall style.They’re simply daft.At 4:05 on CBC Radio The Odyssey of Homer continues with the second of eight parts in which a nervous Telema-chus goes in search of news of his father from two of the heroes of the Trojan campaign, the aged Nestor, counselor of the Greek army and Menelaus, husband of the beautiful Helen whose escape with Paris started the who kerfuffle.Barry Morse stars as Odysseus.At 8:05 on Celebration on CBC Stereo, Two Orthodox Voices features the music of Igor Stravinsky and the poetry of Boris Pasternak.The Soviet Union is officially a godless state and yet even to this day its most powerful voices tend to belong to men whose devotion to the traditions of the Russian Orthodox liturgy defies official policy.Such is the case of these two great artists who defied trends and pressures to create in the spirit of their forefathers.At 9:05 on CBC Radio’s Ideas George Orwell: A Radio Biography enters the second of five parts with a look at the young writer seeking experience in the working class districts of Paris and London.His social commitment grows with his talent and his first book Down and Out in Paris and London is published, he also meets, courts and marries his first wife.At 10.15, Sunday Side Up takes a look at the wonderful world of sports and jockdom through the eyes of several comedians.On Monday morning at 6 o’clock if you can believe it, CBC Stereo and Stereo Morning look at Art and the Holocaust.Broadcaster, politician and labor arbitrator Stephen Lewis hosts a week-long examination of the Holocaust and the attempts of artists to capture the horror, brutality and sheer incredibility of the Holocaust and to cast some light on its effect on the Jewish psyche.Many prominent artists — writers, musicians, sculptors, etc — discuss the Holocaust and their work.OOn Ideas this week: Monday, Outof Work part 2; Tuesday, Leon Trotsky: His Ideas Refuse loDiepart2; Wednesday, Simone Weil: The Afflicted Genius of France, part 2; and Thursday, Vox part 2, The Spoken Performance.Television There’s some interesting stuff in store for viewers this week — nothing that’ll make you cancel your dinner date with Nastassja Kinski mind you — but some good stuff nevertheless.On Vermont ETV tomorrow evening at 9, James Mason stars in the 1951 drama The Desert Fox, a sympathetic portrayal of one of Nazi Germany's best field commanders, Field Marshall Erwin Rommel.Rommel was only defeated in North Africa by British General Montgomery’s ability to outnumber and outsupply the daring German and Rommel enjoyed the sincere admiration of those who fought against him.Hitler gave Rommel the opportunity to commit suicide rather than face charges connected with his involvement in the plot on the Fuhrer’s life in 1944.At 11:37 on Channel 6, Anthony Andrews stars in a 1982 remake of The Scarlett Pimpernel, the story of an apparently foppish British nobleman who in reality undertakes daring rescues of French aristocrats from the clutches of the French Revolution.This should be worth watching just for the chance to gawk at co-star Jane Seymour for an hour or two.Sunday is a busy day on the tube, particularly for opera TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY, JANUARY 6.1984-9 WHAT’S ON fans as Vermont ETV presents Die Walkierie Acts 1 to 3.This is, of course part of the epic mythic tale composed by Richard Wagner about the adventures of Norse gods and heroes.The event begins at 2 and finishes an exhausting four and one half hours later.Opera fans who are reasonable about the whole thing may prefer to tune into CBC’s Montreal Opera Company production of II Travatore Verdi's romantic tale of a young troubador who is really a prince who falls in love with the Queen’s lady-in-waiting and is foiled by an evil count and you get the picture.Once again folks, two operas —no fat guyi Are you slipping Luciano?.At 7:30 on Radio-Québec the traditions of Acadia are studied through a visit with t Antoinine Maillet, ‘the voice of Acadia’.Maillet has introduced the wonderful world of the Acadian French and their oral tradition to millions of Canadians through her books and plays, and this portrait gives us a look at both the author and her world.At 8.CBC presents Chautauqua Girl, a romantic look at the Canadian rural life of the early part of the century when travelling Chautauqua shows were often the only link between small isolated communities and the big bad world outside.Janet-Laine Green stars as Sally Driscoll, whose enthusiasm brings the first Chgautauqua to Fair-ville, Alberta (ten miles out of Sewerpipe), On Monday, Radio-Québec offers a rare treat for dance enthusiasts at 8.30 with an hour-long special on Pilobolus the dance company that is perhaps the most daring, inova-tive and outrageous modern dance troupes.Pilobolus uses acrobatics and imagination to provide a truly remarkable visual experience.You won’t believe these guys.At 9, on Vermont ETV , Mozart’s classic musical fairy tale The Magic Flute examines the meaning of life in a stunning performance taped at the Salzburg Festival.James Levine hosts and conducts this spectacular special.At midnight.CBC kicks off an Olivia De Havilland festival with A Midsummer Night's Dream a surprisingly successful Hollywood version of Shakespeare’s delightful comedy-fantasy.James Cagney and Dick Powell co-star.On Tuesday at 8, The Fifth Estate on CBC examines life in the Falkland Islands 18 months after the bitter British-Argentine war.On Vermont ETV at 8, NOVA looks into Alcoholism : Life Under the Influence.The program attempts to gain a scientific insight into the medical, psychological and social effects of this widespread — and increasing — phenomenon.At 9, Vermont ETV presents The Philippines : To Sing Our Own Song a look at life in the island archipelago from the point of view of ardent nationalist Jose Diokno an opponent of the American-supported Marcos regime.On Wednesday at 8, A National Geographic Special visits Dr.Jane Goodall in Tanzania where she lives her studious life Among the Wild Chimpanzees.She’s a very smart, but very weird lady.She'd like the ‘G’.At 9:30 Radio-Québec presents Le Mystère Picasso a 1956 documentary film which follows the famous painter at his work.This film was recognized as being quite creative itself, and won many awards for its imaginative use of color, abstract images and composition.At midnight on Channel 12, Diana Ross, Richard Pryor and Billy Dee Williams star in The Lady Sings the Blues a biography of the tortured blues legend Billy Holiday.This is followed by The Wayne Thomas Show which has the distinction of being the worst piece of garbage on Canadian T.V.On Thursday at Son CBC, the wonderful new series Sons and Daughters presents Real World, the story of an exceptionally bright student whose superiority over his clas- Jack Nicholson who played Eugene O’Neil in Reds (above) Endearment now playing at the Carrefour.smates and peers makes him an outcast who cannot cope adequately with the real world, and so prefers to hide.His conflict is paralleled by that of his mother who must now face the challenge of going out into the ‘real world’ to look for work.At 9, CBC begins its broadcast of Duplessisthe four-part biography of the man who put his stamp on the history of Quebec, and who was the province’s premier and symbol forever 18 years.Jean Lapointe stars in the series broadcast in the original French with English subtitles.is a slightly degenerate former astronaut in Terms of On the wings of tomorrow.rides a hope that our rich wildlife and waterfowl heritage will be a legacy for the future.We’ve been turning that hope into reality for almost 50 years.We’re Ducks Unhmited—privately funded, non-profit and dedicated to preserving waterfowl habitat in Canada.Our quest involves thousands of people across the country.Join us ! Give the “wings of tomorrow” your active support-today.Ducks Unlimited Canada 10—TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1984 A This week's TV Listings hr this week's television programs as supplied by Compu/og Corp.While we make every effort to ensure their accuracy, they are subject to change without notice.i STATIONS LISTED O CBFT - Montreal (Radio Canada) ® WCAX - Burlington, Yt.(UBS) 0 WPTZ - Plattsburgh.N Y, (NBC) O CBMT Montreal (UBU) O CULT - Sherbrooke (TVA) O U MTM - Poland Spring, Me.( ABU) 0 UKSII - Sherbrooke ( Radio Canada) © CFTM - Montreal (TVA) IQ UFUF - Montreal (UTV) Œ WVNY - Burlington (ABC) 09 Radio-Québec ® Vermont ETV - Burlington Saturda (spQrts prQbë) ‘Pro Bowlers Tour’ still excites viewers WHAT DOES HE KNOW?— Abbie HoMman, former Yippie leader, was quoted recently as saying today's college student is “as exciting as watching bowling on TV," We don't know how exciting college students are, but bowling on network TV is big time and has been popular and exciting tor almost as long as TV has been around.This, despite the many silly syndicated bowling shows as "Bowling for Dollars.” ABC especially likes its “Professional Bowlers Tour," which has just started its 23rd consecutive year on the network, ranking with such long-lasting shows as "The Ed Sullivan Show," "The Red Skelton Show” and "Meet the Press.” Next to “ABC's Wide World ot Sports," the "Professional Bowlers Tour" is the network's longest-running sports series.In the last two years the show was nominated for an Emmy for the Outstanding Live Sports Series.It's really a goldmine for such big-time bowlers as Marshall Holman, Tom Milton, Joe Berdardi, Mike Durbin and Steve Cook, last season's big winners.This year's prize money will total more than $2 million for the third consecutive year, with an average weekly payoff of $150,000.Chris Schenkel æê* met mss#’, There is even a spinoff of “Professional Bowlers Tour " It's called "Professional Bowlers Spring Tour." It's for people who haven't had enough of the regular 16 weeks of bowling and want to watch five additional PBA tournaments in May and June Both shows will continue to be hosted by Chris Schenkel, a four-time Sportscatser of the Year, who has been with the show since it started in 1961.The expert commentator will once again be Nelson Burton Jr., an active PBA Hall of Fame bowling star The tour covers such widespread tournaments as this weekend's Rolaids Open in Anaheim, Calif., next month’s Miller High Life Classic in Miami, and the Firestone Tournament of Champions in Akron, Ohio, in April.Sports SATURDAY (NBC) HULA BOWL The nation's top college senior all stars play in this annual event, which will be telecast live from Aloha Stadium in Honolulu.(ABC)SPORTSBEAT (ABC) PRO BOWLER'S TOUR (ABC) WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS SUNDAY (CBS) NFL CHAMPIONSHIP MORNING 0:00 O NEW YOU (B UNIVERSITY OF THE AIR 0:30 (B CIRCLE SQUARE 7:00 Q WONDER WOMAN 0 CARTOONS O HEALTH FIELD (B CISCO KID 0B GREAT SPACE COASTER 7:16 0 MIRE ET MUSIQUE 7 30 O O CALIMERO / GRISU, LE PETIT DRAGON O CHLDREN S THEATRE "The Selfish Giant" A special child teaches a gruff, lonely ogre how to love.© 100 HUNTLEY STREET Œ GREAT SPACE COASTER 8:00 O O NILS HOLGERS-SON O THE BISKITTS O the flintstone FUNNIES O © SCOOBY DOO / MENUDO ffi PREVIN AND THE PITTSBURGH "Rachmaninoff" Pianist Horacio Gutierrez joins Andre Previn and the Pittsburgh Symphony for a performance of Rachmaninoffs Third Piano Concerto from Heinz Hall.8:30 Q O PASSE-PARTOUT O SATURDAY SUPER- Mov)* Ratings Outstanding.?Excellent.Very Good.*?* Good.Not Bad.?Fair.WVt Poor.* CADE 0 THE SHIRT TALES O © THE MON-CHHCHIS / LITTLE RASCALS / RICHIE RICH © STORYTtME 9:00 Q Q REMI 0 SMURFS g O ID L ANIMATHEQUE © LET S GO Q) TO BE ANNOUNCED 9:15 O GOOD MORNING 9:30 0 O CANDY O DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS Q SESAME STREET O (B PAC MAN / RUBIK CUBE / MENUDO © SWISS FAMILY ROB-iN