The record, 28 février 1986, Supplément 1

To we 2—TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1986 Stamp dealer gives Americans benefits because of dollar We are all very much aware that the Canadian dollar is worth very little beside or compared to the U.S.dollar.It’s a topic that seems to be on a lot of people’s minds these days, especially financiers and those that like to get away from the cold weather during the winter months.However, to the average Canadian buying in Canada, a dollar is still a dollar.You don’t buy something worth fifty cents with a dollar bill and get ten cents change.No, you still get fifty cents in return.I suppose you’re asking yourselves what all this has to do with stamps.Weil, I receive a good number of catalogues from various stamp auction houses and dealers.There is one in particular that I received recently that when opened, revealed two prices, U.S.and Canadian.The U.S.price was in parenthesis, which by the way was the actual catalogue price.Then there was the asking bid which was 40 per cent more.This represented the Canadian price.Who was the catalogue from?A Canadian dealer.You may be sure that this dealer did not pay the U.S.price for the material listed in his catalogue.There is a ninety nine and nine tenths per cent chance that the material was purchased from Canadians at ten per cent of the catalogue price in Canadian dollars.Then they have the audacity to ask whether you are bidding in Cana- Stamp corner By Peter McCarthy dian or U.S.funds.The reason: If you bid $70 Canadian on a hundred dollar item, and an American bids $60 U.S.on the same item, the dealer knows he is going to make at least twenty five per cent more on the American bid because of the exchange.Therefore you know who will be awarded the bid.Certainly not you.Is it fair?Certainly not.If that’s the way the dealer wants it, fine, but let him deal with the Americans only.Don’t bother sending his catalogue to Canadians.When the gap in the dollar closes one day, and it will, let’s see if this dealer will advertise in the same manner.I continue to bid with this firm but, in Canadian dollars on the U.S.prices.I know I won’t get anything but I want the catalogue to keep coming in, just to see how long the situation will last.Another case involving a Canadian dealer goes like this.The dealer buys 90 per cent of his material Wines of the Abruzzo definitely worth a try Just to show what a little judicious shopping around can turn up let me tell you about Montepulciano d'Abruzzo.This interesting and up to now little-known wine is produced in the region of Abruzzo, half way down the Italian boot approximately parallel to Rome.It is important to remember that in this case Montepulciano is the name of the grape and not to confuse it with the Vin Nobile di Montepulciano of Tuscany where the ’Montepulciano’ is a place name.Having got all that clear, I should point out that there are differing styles of Montepulciano d’A-bruzzo.Depending on the traditions of the co-operative or the individual involved, it can vary from a strength of 12 per cent (the minimum required by Italian law) to 14 per cent.In all cases however, it is.even by Italian standards, a fairly substantial wine.With a rich, somewhat fruity taste and a deep, dark cherry colour, Montepulciano is a wine that can truly be called a ‘mouthful’.Probably best with the local stews of Abruzzo.I have myself enjoyed it with a variety of dishes including spicy meatloaf and that Canadian wintertime favorite, pot roast.At present there are, to the best of my knowledge, only two varieties available in local SAQ outlets.Wine Bits By TIMOTHY BELFORD The first, and most common, is the one produced by Thaulero which retails at $6.65 per bottle.However, if you trot out to the specialty section of the King West branch of the Société, you will find a 1982 Tus-colo version for $6.00.I have been unable to distinguish much of a difference in taste or quality between the two and since 1982 was a four on a scale of five as far as quality is concerned I cannot imagine any consumer not taking advantage of the 65-cent savings.Also of interest, if you really want to sample the wines of Abruzzo, is the Trebbiano d'Abruzzo the only other DOC wine of the region.This particularly light, dry, white wine is as refreshing on the one hand as Montelpulciano is hearty on the other.Both classified wines of the Abruzzo are definitely worth trying and in the case of the Montepulciano there is a bargain to be had as well.Cheers! at wholesale prices from Great Britain.That’s because the major part of his business is in British Stamps.He pays for his supplies in British pounds bought with Canadian dollars.The pound fluctuates between $1.70 and $1.95 Canadian.Now, you can buy stamps rather cheaply in Great Britain.I have purchased for the equivalent of $30 there for what I would have paid $50 here.So, if you are buying wholesale, the $30 then becomes $18 or $20 and maybe less.This dealer puts out a catalogue all in U.S.prices.Canadian buyers must add 40 per cent more.Prices are subject to change without no- tice.This last is because he sells material in accordance with what he pays for it.His claim for selling at U.S.prices is that the bulk of his customers are Americans.The only good thing is that even by adding 40 per cent to an item, in most cases it will still be below catalogue prices.I know we are obliged to buy from these people and, because we live in a democracy, a person may sell at whatever prices he feels are right.However, when I walk into a Canadian establishment with Canadian dollars in my hand, I expect to pay Canadian prices.I don’t expect to pay in U.S., British or any other foreign currency.I don’t think that’s asking too much.This may sound like I’m waving the flag somewhat.Well, you can bet your bottom CANADIAN dollar that I am.The stamps illustrated below will assure you of the fact.Phila-Sherbrooke has announced that the annual stamp exhibition will be held on April 27th at Hotel du Gouverneur.There will be a large exhibition and stamp booths.Exhibitors will be on hand to explain and assist you in having an enjoyable day.To the best of my knowledge admission is free.Your letters are always most welcome and may be sent to P.O.Box688, Richmond, Que., JOB2H0.Movie studio to open in Montreal By Ina Warren MONTREAL (CP) — An international-scale movie studio to be called Panavision Canada Studios is slated to open this summer on the site of the vacant Expo Theatre, built for the 1967 Montreal world’s fair.“This studio will not only bring in feature films it will also help commercial producers bring in better and bigger commercials,’’ says Mel Hoppenheim, who bought the theatre and the adjoining 1.2 hectares from the Quebec government for $611,260.Hoppenheim.the 48-year-old owner of Panavision Canada Ltd., a movie equipment rental company, was the only bidder for the property located on the Montreal waterfront.Hoppenheim said that last year there was $250 million in U.S.feature film production in Canada, but that Montreal didn’t get a piece of the action because it lacked sufficient studio facilities.“About eight years ago, I found that Toronto and Vancouver were running away with our pictures,” noted Hoppenheim whose compa- ny has been in movie-equipment rentals for the last 23 years.The Toronto area has fully equipped shooting facilities in nearby Kleinberg, Ont., while Vancouver has Panorama studios.SPEND $7 MILLION Hoppenheim said up to $7 million will be spent clearing out and renovating the Expo Theatre, to turn it into a studio complex consisting of two sound stages, makeup rooms, and editing and screening facilities.Hoppenheim will own the studios outright, but admitted he is not averse to receiving government assistance.“If they want to give it to me.I’ll take it.” The Panavision studio project is the latest chapter in longstanding public and private efforts to create world-class production facilities in Montreal.Mayor Jean Drapeau has long been a booster of a project to create a Cite du Cinema in the Old Port area and asked Montreal producers to try to develop one.Since then, both federal and provincial governments have commissioned feasibility studies and hired consultants, but the project has remained in limbo.DRAPEAU INSPIRED “I think it was Mayor Dra-peau’s involvement six years ago that really spurred on the whole Cite du Cinema concept,” said Hoppenheim.“Drapeau was really the spark for me.” Hoppenheim said his studio will be open and ready for business in July.Last week, the Canadian entertainment giant, Astral Bellevue Pathe, announced it had hired an American consultant familiar with Hollywood studios to come up with a site for a Montreal film production centre.Stuart Cobbitt, president of Astral Film Enterprises, says the centre would be run by a private consortium, of which Astral would be a minority partner.Reached Wednesday in Los Angeles, where he is meeting with Holly wod studio officials, Cobbitt said Astral still intends to go ahead with its plans for a production centre.“If Mel (Hoppenheim) gets his studio up and running, we’ll still go ahead,” said Cobbitt.EXTRA SMARTS WITH THE COMMODORE 128 SYSTEM.Buy a Commodore 128 personal computer and 1571 disk drive before March 31, and you'll get Digital Solutions software worth over $200, FREE.Great packages, including Paperback Planner, Paperback Filer, and Paperback Writer, a top-rated word processor.All three, FREE with a higher intelligence, the Commodore 128.COMMODORE 128.A HIGHER INTEUJGENCL CARREFOUR 0E L ESTRIE 562-2212 VISA TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28.198&-3 Sculptures show artist’s fascination with human form By Laurel Sherrer SHERBROOKE — When you walk into Pierre Chouinard’s workshop on Alexandre Street in Sherbrooke, the first thing that will catch your eye is a life-size woman carved out of wood.L en vole du destin is one of three life-size sculptures Chouinard has done in his career as a sculptor.It took him eight months to complete.Like his other sculptures of varying sizes in wood, soapstone, alabaster and marble, it captures the human form in a life-like, active pose, with fluid lines true to nature and precise in detail.It is finished to high gloss that brings out the rich grain of the dark wood.“The human form in all its complexity has always fascinated me,” said Chouinard.He said he started out carving animals, and that occupied him for only six months, but the human body has continued to present new challenges to him for 14 years.He has studied anatomy and worked with models to make sure his work is true to life, but he wants more than this.He wants his sculptures to give almost an illusion of movement.SEEM MOBILE “Perhaps we expect them to continue in their action, but at a precise moment in this action they have become immobile in the wood or stone, but mobile in our perception.” Several of his sculptures will be on display starting next Monday in the gallery of the Caisse Populaire de Sherbrooke-Est.They will be accompanied by about 25 of his drawings, some of which stand alone, and others which were preliminary sketches done in preparation for a sculpture.“For the exhibition I’ve tried to create a marriage of drawing and sculpture, to show people the progression from drawing to sculpture,” he said.Chouinard had a fascination with carving and sculpting ever since he was a child.He started out with his father’s pocket knife, and eventually replaced this with sculptor’s chisels.He later took lessons in St-Jean Port-Joli, followed by a tour of Europe a couple of years ago to study great works of art.RFXORD/PERRY BEATON Chouinard’s Ecoute is at first glance a human ear, hut on careful inspection a female form can be discerned.He’s not sure exactly where his ideas come from, but he says a single idea can develop into many.“I work a lot w ith lines and what you can make out of them with your imagination,” he said.He demonstrates by covering part of a sketch and creating a totally different picture out of a small piece of exposed line.COMBINED FIGURES This technique led him to a series of works he’s been producing recently, in which two or more figures are combined into one.A marble sculpture completed over a period of three months is one example.It depicts a human ear, slightly over a foot high.It takes a second, closer look to realize that the helix, or upper part of the ear, is actually the shape of a female body.Chouinard titles this sculpture simply Ecoute or “Listen”.Another is a plaque showing two faces side by side, with a third face barely decipherable in the middle, formed with the same lines that make up the other two faces.The image of a crucifix emerges from the hairlines of the outer faces and the nose of the central face.Chouinard calls this one Prière or “Prayer”.SOMETHING NEW “I’m trying to achieve something new in sculpture,” he said.“I’ve never seen any other sculptor’s work where you see two things in one.” A resident of Sherbrooke for the past 10 years, Chouinard works in his studio creating pieces to sell or to fill orders and gives some lessons.He says, like most artists, he can't live purely from his trade in Sherbrooke.This summer he’s going to try the larger markets outside the region.“I’d like to stay in Sherbrooke to work, but to sell I’ll have to go outside,” he said.The creative, inspired aspect of work often has to take a back seat to producing things that will sell, said Chouinard.That’s why he takes orders for specific pieces, and keeps much of his work on a small format.But revenues from this allow him to continue to experiment with more challenging sizes and complex ideas.RECORD/PERRY BEATON :¦ ¦¦ ?.i*., , • Before starting a marble plaque he calls Prière, Chouinard made a sketch and studied the possibilities of the basic lines of the drawing.SPECIAL THE YEAR S TEN BEST” including Time Magazine Entertainment Tonight USA Today Sneak Previews Wall Street Journal 1 ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATIONS including BEST PICTURE (Drama) BEST DIRECTOR BEST ACTRESS (Drama) tueaday's afternoon $3 OO Wednesdays evening ©2.^^ ROBERT MERYL REDFORD STREEP A UNIVERSAL Picture e *•* tts u*»vims*> 1 CilMÉMA CAPITOL 565 0111 59 KING est Sherbrooke Starting times: Nightly 7:30 p.m.; also Sun.& Tues.1:30 p.m.1 4—TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1986 Hard to tell the science from the fiction in Bear novel Kaleidoscope By RICHARD LONEY THE FABULOUS THUM3eRBRDS .w Tli^EWUFF ¦ Blood Music by Greg Bear (AR-BOR-FITZHENRY & WHITE-SIDE): $22.95, 262 pp.In the light of some of the fantastic discoveries in science that keep being reeled off, it is hard for the casual reader to discern whether some of the elements in science-fiction books are indeed fictional, or perhaps the latest technology in exotic fields.Sci-fi writer1 Greg Bear, a veteran of seven previous novels in the genre, takes us to a valley in California that is the counterpart to Silicon Valley, home of the computer micro-chips.“Enzyme Valley”, the home of MABs — Medically Applicable Biochips — is the natural habitat of Blood Music’s protagonist Vergil Ulam, a researcher with Genetron Labs for three years who has been doing some extracurricular experiments.As Ulam’s boss says just before firing him for his illicit dabblings: “You’re designing new complements of DNA for several NIH-regulated micro-organisms.And you’re working on mammalian cells.We don’t do work here on mammalian cells.We aren’t equipped for the Biohazards — not in the main labs.But I suppose you could demonstate to me the safety and innocuous nature of your research.You’re not creating a new plague to sell to Third World revolutionaries, are you?” These become ironic words, because when Vergil Ulam decides the only way he can smuggle his controlled experiments with cells out of the lab is by injecting them into his bloodstream, it is indeed a new plague that develops throughout North America.Bear’s book traces the story of Vergil Ulam’s attempts to deal with the horrible changes that begin to ravage his body, then incorporate his recent love interest into the insidious plot, finally breaking out in an amazingly inventive sci-fi horror that has the entire state of California in its grip.Blood Music manages to keep the reader on his toes wondering how much of the business about cells passing primal information on from one generation to the other is real and how much is Greg Bear’s poetic licence.While the book does not have the universal appeal of The Andromeda Strain or those books by Robert A.Heinlein (The Cat Who Walks Through Walls), Blood Music is an addition to the science fiction genre that will be eagerly gobbled up by the legions of readers who choose to see our own world more clearly by looking off to the stars and other galaxies.The Fabulous Thunderbirds TUFF ENUFF (CBS ASSOCIATED) Bringing in a respected musician of the stature of Dave Edmunds to oversee the production of The Fabulous Thunderbirds’ latest album must have seemed like a sure way to ensure that this retro-rock outfit would hit paydirt.Edmunds, not without a great deal of experience in the rockabilly genre as a member of the incomparable Rockpile (in association with Nick Lowe), makes an impact on the Birds, but the problem with the album is in its choice of material.Weak songs from writer Kim Wilson fail to ignite anything worth playing very often here, and it’s a shame that Edmunds couldn’t have contributed a tune or two to these guys to punch up this listless collection.Another problem on TUFF ENUFF is the the Fab ‘Birds can’t decide whether they want to sound rockabillyish or like a Motown/ Stax spinoff R&B ensemble.Using an Isaac Hayes/ David Porter song like “Wrap It Up” only points up the fact that this band sounds much more authentic doing old style, simple ditties like “Tell Me”.Hearing bands like The Fabulous Thunderbirds or the fragmented Stray Cats only makes a true aficionado of rockabilly dig out the Rockpile sides to hear how this music can sound when infused with the best modern musicianship.PRETTY IN PINK MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK (A&M) The demographics of moviegoers being what they are today, as the under-20 years of age group seems to control Hollywood production budgets, certain film moguls such as John Hughes (THE BREAKFAST CLUB, MR.MOM, SIXTEEN CANDLES) have made the astute observation that picture soundtracks contribute as much to getting teens into theatres as the dramatic piece at hand.Hence the use of bands such as Simple Minds singing “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” turning the tune into a Number One single spawned by THE BREAKFAST CLUB leads to other new music notables leaping into the cinematic fray.For instance, Suzanne Vega, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, The Smiths, INKS, and The Psychedelic Furs all have contributed new music to the latest teen epic, PRETTY IN PINK.Jesse Johnson, Belouis Some and Danny Hutton Hitters may not be chart material usually, but with songs such as Johnson’s “Get To Know Ya” being heard in theatres alloverNorth America, at the very least these movie outings will create a groundswell of demand for acts that may not be Video or FM staples.The title track, warbled by the Psychedelic Furs, or “Shell Shock”, by New Order are demonstrable indications of what kind of music the flicks have graduated to, after their flirting with mood pieces such as Mike Oldfield’s “Tubular Bells” in THE EXORCIST or successful themes such as that of CHARIOTS OF FIRE.John Hughes, in his wearing of the multiple hats of screenwriter/director/producer for his cinema exploits has made the meat of his work the fabric of contemporary American life — in Hollywood terms, then, his discovery of new wave music is about five years ahead of the observations that the Oscar-chasing directors trying to be hip usually make.PRETTY IN PINK may be an indifferent film venture, but at least the music will be in touch with the times thanks to A&M’s Music Supervisor David Anderle and his collaboration with the film’s producer and writer John Hughes.VIDEO SCREENINGS LOST IN AMERICA (WARNER BROTHERS) Comic Albert Brooks directs himself in this witty film about a married couple of American yuppies who set out to do for the eighties what “Easy Rider" did for the sixties.Brooks and his wife, played by Julie Hagerty, decide to escape the rat-race of los Angeles, nurturing their considerable nest-egg of savings and the results of liquidating their entire assets, buy a mobile home and trek off into the great American heartland.Boulder Dam and suburban Arizona prove too much for their pair, but the comedy of this satire derives from Brooks’s classic scenes of confrontation that bring on their marital crises — Brooks’s character talking back to his dullard advertising boss who has just transferred him to New York City ; and a second hilarious scene is the one in which he tries to convince the ma- nager of the Desert Inn gambling spa in Las Vegas that it would be good PR if only he would return the entire sum of the nest-egg that his wife has just gambled away.Offbeat characterizations, Brooks’s wry eye for eccentric comedy situations, and some underplayed film chemistry between the lead characters, combine to make this off-beat comic gem one of the sleeper movies of 1985.MASK (UNIVERSAL-MCA) The transformation of the true story of druggie biker Rusty Dennis and her tragically disfigured son Rocky to the screen makes for a moving , poignant film that shows that Cher has fulfilled the promise of COME BACK TO THE FIVE AND DIME, JIMMY DEAN and SILKWOOD, for which the actress was nominated for an Oscar.As stunning as Cher’s performance is in this emotionally-charged flick, it is the story of Rusty Dennis’s son Rocky (diagnosed at age 2‘/2 as suffering from an extremely rare disease called cranio-diaphyseal dysplasia, resulting in Top 10 books Here are the week’s Top 10 fiction and non-fiction books as compiled by Maclean’s magazine.Bracketed figures indicate position the previous week.FICTION 1 (1) The Mammoth Hunters — Auel 2 (2) Texas — Michener 3 (3) Lie Down with Lions — Follett 4 (4) The Handmaid's Tale — Atwood 5 (5) What’s Bred in the Bone — Davies 6 (6) Contact — Sagan 7 (7) Secrets — Steel 8 (9) Cyclops — Cussler 9 (8) London Match — Deighton 10 (10) The Fourth Deadly Sin — Sanders abnormal calcium deposits disfiguring his skull, nose and eye-sockets) whose deep love of life in the face of social pressures adds the human element to this excellent film.Rocky’s love for the ‘55 Dodgers, rock n’ roll, and the raucous bikers that create the maelstrom of zani-nesss that Rusty and her son live in, gives this movie a texture that is constantly shifting.In addition to Cher’s powerful playing in MASK, Sam Elliott as the drifter-biker Gar is a steady supporting role.But Eric Stoltz (FAST TIM ES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH) as the fifteen-year-old Rocky, dealing with his Mom’s drug-snorting, hostile high-schoolers, or falling in love with a blind camper played by Laura Dern, is the triumph of MASK — this is one of those minor, modestly successful first-run movies that luckily get a second life in video, and one that really should be seen.(VIDEOS IN STOCK AT MAXIVIDEO IN THE KING SHOPPING CENTRE, AND CARREFOUR DUNANT).NON-FICTION 1 (1) Company of Adventurers — Newman 2 (2) Straight from the Heart — Chretien 3 (5) Bus 9 to Paradise — Buscaglia 4 (3) Fit for Life — Diamond and Diamond 5 (4) lacocca — lacocca 6 (9) Callanetics — Pinckney and Batson 7 (6) Dancing in the Light — Ma-c Laine 8 (7) Yeager — Yeager and Janos 9 (8) Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe — Summers 10 (10) Elvis and Me — Presley ill: TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY.FEBRUARY 28.198&- Snippets of history preserved in treasured photos By Philip Authier ASCOT TOWNSHIP — When Dorothy Moran was a small child, she joined her family and friends at the Rock Forest Catholic church to pose for a picture.Today, though the years have passed and many of the people there that day are now gone, the split second image that was recorded remains.The photo which was taken that day is especially dear to Dorothy, who has lived for years on a farm a stone’s throw from the site.She called The Record in last week to have a look at ' the that photo, plus others she has gingerly held onto over the years.For Dorothy, the photo was especially worth keeping.Not only does she appear in it, dressed in a dress with a wide lace collar, so does her aunt and father (the man with the pipe on the far right of the photo.“I was just a little girl, nine or 10 years old,” she said.“I can still still see my aunt.She had a gingham dress and I had a dress with a big wide lace collar.” FOCUS ON STATUE Dorothy had another photo to show off as well.It is the same church only this time the crowd is looking the other way.Their attention is focussed on a big statue at the back of the grounds which is being consecrated by reli-k gious officials.Together photos give us a £= glimpse of many eve-1 ryday things — every- g! day if you lived about gj 70 years ago that is.The most striking element in the first is the sea of faces flowing down from the steps of the church.The people — tots in the front — are standing very close together.Only a few of them are smiling.The grim nature of the scene is reinforced by the severe nature of the clothing many of them are wearing.A wide range of hats and men’s collar styles is apparent.The only thing breaking the pattern are the two men leaning against their bikes on the right side, perhaps late arrivals.Different forms of period transportation are apparent in the second photo.On one side of the street we can see a horse a buggy.On the other, the wonder of the age, the horseless carriage.More of both are scattered around the little church (since replaced).ARMS OUTSTRETCHED With a religious banner flapping in the wind, the congregation stands under two tall trees watching the ceremony unwind.The religious figure stands on its pedes-tel, its arms outstretched over the whole assembly.The two photos are but snippets in time but they mean a great deal for people who either know the scene or enjoy the pursuit of history.“I’ve shown them and people are just flabbergasted,” Dorothy said.Many people have seen the photographs as well, she says.Sometimes friends drop by her Lotobi-nere Road farm for a glimpse of the past.But as Dorothy said, more people can have a look at them if the are published in the paper.And so they are.A photo showing a consecration ceremony everyday life that have changed over the for a statue at the Rock Forest Catholic generations, church also recalls some of the aspects of m A group photo taken outside the Catholic church is especially dear to Dorothy, because she, her father and her aunt all appear in it. 6—TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28.1986 Duvalier overthrow linked to Montreal taxi troubles?We get letters.A gentleman from Verdun — yes they read me in Verdun — wrote in recently to proffer his ideas concerning the overthrow of Jean-Claude ‘Baby Doe’ Duvalier.According to Michel Legrand-Blancmerveille, Secretary and Chief Ordinance Officer of the Ton-tons Macouttes Nord — no kidding that’s the way it was signed — the Quebec government was involved in the overthrow of Baby Doc in collusion with the Marxist Front de Liberation de Taxi (FLT).Apparently the government and the FLT, who are involved in a licence buyback schemes designed to reduce the number of taxis in Montreal, channeled funds to various insurgent groups in the knowledge that hundreds of Haitians would return home once Duvalier was overthrown.Thus, not only would Haiti dump the Doc, but Montreal’s taxi problem would be solved.The letter ends with a P.S., “Remember the prophetic words of that great Quebec artist Corey Hart who said it for us all so succinctly: T wear my sunglasses at night’”.For you trivia nuts out there I pass on this gem which comes to us from the Toronto Stock Exchange At the end of each trading day Who’s who By TADEUSZ LETARTE there are over 17.5 thousand pieces of paper on the floor of the exchange most of them trade tickets (order forms to buy or sell stocks) that traders throw away once the transaction is complete.That comes out to 4.5 million pieces a year or about 78 tons of garbage! Now don’t you find that interesting?I wonder if the public relations department of the exchange counted the press release in its calculations?By the way, to all the socialconscious feminists out there: I just received a missive from the Ligues des Femmes du Québec calling on all of you to take part in a “girlcot” against South African products.Not that I want to be pedantic, but first of all it should be “girlcott” with two tees and secondly why can’t we all take part?oO\7v'' A “Stay at & Sw Maine’s Finest Seaport City at a 35% discount!” • Heated indoor pool/sauna • 120 tastefully decorated rooms • Room and Tax only Advance Reservations Only! Call now! 1-207-774-5861 Howard Johnson Lodge * Offer expires May 30, 1986 “Exit 8” 155 Riverside Street Portland, Maine 04103 Shouldn’t it really be a “boycott” as well?And what about a “kiddie-cott” or a “senior citizenscott"?Actually, I am just a little bit fed up with this childish insistance on supposedly de-sexing the language.I think George Carlin probably said it best when he pointed out the logical conclusion to the whole rigamorole.Winnipeg would become the capital of Personatoba, and you could find Broadway on Personhattan Island, where Ethel Merperson would be starring in a new hit written by Personfred Person.Phone books would be full of Goldpersons, Silverpersons and Sto-nepersons.And think of how nice it would have been if Watergate had caused the downfall of Erlichper-son and Haldeperson.Many of you probably aren’t aware that both local MP Jean-James Charest and Minister of Manpower and Immigration Flora Dora Macdonald were in town last week.The dynamic duo were guests of man-about-town Robert ‘Did I make a mistake with Mulro-ney’ Barnett.Charest spoke to Barnett’s Canadian economics class at Bishop’s giving the eager kiddies a rundown >r> .y free-trade poli- cies.Since he spoke ‘off the record’ — in other words ‘honestly’ — I can’t divulge the context of his remarks until the National Archives lifts the embargo on my tape in 1999.1 can say that Macdonald bested Barnett at the lunchtime ‘Salmon story’ contest — she has ac- tually caught one — and that Charest didn't eat all his vegetables.Carling O’Keefe the brewers of O’Keefe Ale, Black Label, Carl-sburg and Dow (Dirty Old Water) have just announced that they will now be the sole agent for Foster’s Lager.Foster’s, the number one selling beer in Australia — where real men don’t even know what quiche is — will be imported and marketed across the country along with Carling’s other products.The key word here is imported’ which hopefully means it will be the real thing.Up until now, Canadian breweries have introduced a large number of foreign beers but in each case they seem to be brewed to Canadian standards, what ever they are.Thus Lowenbrau now tastes a lot like Molson Export, Miller is no longer “brewed in the U.S.A.” and the only thing familiar about the Budweiser we buy is the draft horses in the commercials.FRIDAY AND SATURDAY DURING THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY Le Monde TOP HIT" & "RETRO" MUSIC TEQUILLA CHAMPAGNE GIFTS (MEN & WOMEN) mon MACocro.259 Main St.W.MAGOG - 843-3363 B MAGOG - 843-3363 yv TOWNSHIPS WEEK-FRIDAY.FEBRUARY 28.1986-7 6Random act of violence’ inspired Marshall novel By Laurel Sherrer LENNOXVILLE — Years of residence in Ontario haven’t made author Joyce Marshall any less a Quebec writer.“I’ve written far more about Quebec than I’ve ever written about Toronto or Ontario and I still think of Quebec as being home — and if anyone suggests I was born and grew up in Ontario I get very angry.My roots are here,” she told an audience of about 120 on the Bishop’s University campus Tuesday.Born in 1913 in Montreal, Marshall has ancestors in the Quebec City region and Norway as well as the Eastern Townships.Her first novel.Presently Tomorrow, is set in an English enclave in southwestern Quebec.Her short stories, many of which were collected in A Private Place (1975), deal with her childhood as an English Quebec among other matters.Marshall is also noted for her translation of three of Gabrielle Roy’s novels.Her translation of Enchanted Summer in 1976 won her a Canada Council Translation Prize.FINISHING NOVEL She was in Lennoxville to do a reading from a the short story So Many Have Died, which has now become the first chapter of a novel that she’s just finishing off, with the help of a Works in Progress grant from the Ontario Arts Council.So Many Have Died was inspired by the news reports of the murder of an elderly woman in her apartment in Toronto.Marshall said she was intrigued by this “random act of violence” and proceeded to invent the details surrounding the event.She emphasized that she used her imagination rather than doing research.“I took absolute pains not to find out anything about it; not to find out the facts,” she said, “because I was going to make it up.” Her protagonist is an energetic, outspoken retired doctor who is just past her 91st birthday.The tragedy occurs when a young man comes to clean her window screens, and she provokes him to violence by innocently inquiring into his melancholy state, and guessing that it’s due to a broken romance.“It’s what I thought that kind of murderer would be like,” said Marshall.“He’s come to her house and he’s right on the edge and she happens to provoke him.” The rest of the novel, she said, deals with the young man and the people who discover the deed, as well as the protagonist’s past.STARTED MEMOIRS "I feel very badly about her having died in the first chapter, but she had started her memoirs, so she’s not totally gone.” The fact that she's a strong personality makes her a major focus of the book despite her death.Marshall’s talk at Bishop’s was also an opportunity for students and professors to ask questions about her writing and translation.One of the questions that arose was why many of her stories deal with the divisions between the English and French in Quebec.“As a young child I was quite literally terrified by the sound of people around talking and not appearing to be saying anything,” she said.“I still have very strong memories of a sort of fear and it overcomes me whenever I visit a country where I don’t know any of the language.” “I don’t make a grand tragedy of it, but I thought it was an interesting thing to write about.” She also pointed out that the differences between French and English children were much more evident when she was a child; the little French girls with their black pinafores and stockings, for example.STILL FRIENDS Asked what working with Gabrielle Roy was like, Marshall said, “I’m glad to say that after translating three of her books and some tremendous fights we were still good friends.” Roy often thought she knew more English grammar than Marshall, and this led to disagreements.“She was very gay, very lively, and although most of her life she was in poor health, if she was in a room of ten people, and if she knew them, she had more energy than the ten of them combined." “She was basically a shy woman and could only be really herself if she knew people,” Marshall continued.“She seemed to be actually frightened of interviews.” Marshall’s inspiration to be a writer, she said, came when she was a very young child and her grandfather was reading Peter Rabbit to her.“From then on I was just waiting to be able to spell a few words,” she said.“I guess I’m one of the few writers that was inspired by Peter Rabbit.” “Be sure and mention that I’m a great enthusiast for the Eastern Townships,” she added in an interview after her talk.“I would be glad to come more often, but I haven’t been here now for three or four years.” ïÆjgl fpSp MBur RliCORD/PKRRY B LA TON Joyce Marshall was in Lennoxville this week to readfrom a short story that has become the first chapter of a novel to appear soon.Soundtrack for musical Beatrice launched Wednesday =Y "Ép' v RH ORn i’LRRY BLATON Choreographer Massimo Agostinelli, composer Y van Bélanger, author and lyricist Bryant Neal, composer Alain Bélanger and stage désigné' Denys Caron gathered Wednesday to launch the soundtrack of the musical play Beatrice.SHERBROOKE — A musical play involving a wide variety of local talent is planned for the Centennial Theatre in Lennoxville in May, and to help prime the area’s audience for the event, the soundtrack album was launched this week in Sherbrooke.Recorded in Montreal at Studio Works in December and January, the long-playing album Beatrice involves local musicians Jean and Bertrand Gosselin, Marie-Josée Lepage, Martin Richard, Nathalie Gaudreau and Roy Robi (originally of The Platters).Other musicians involved, from Montreal and Quebec, are Mitch Knowles.Bob Walsh from Mahogany Rush, Pierre Lavoie from Offenbach, Doug Short from Hollywood and Vine and Fabio Agostinelli.Some of those involved are professionals and others are amateur musicians who show a lot of promise.The lyrics of the album were mostly composed by Bryant Neal, of BN Productions, while the music was composed by Alain and Yvan Bélanger, two young composers from the Sherbrooke area.The album, and the play, tell a love story between a working man and Beatrice, a student.It expresses the sudden love between them, the conflict arising because of their two different worlds and their expectations for each other and finally the break-up.The musical will feature more than 15 musicians on stage and six professional dancers who have worked under the direction of choreographer Massimo Agostinelli.He is best know for his La Saga du Golfe, a dance and musical show released for the celebration of Jacques Cartier’s landing in Quebec 450 years ago.Denys Caron, who has worked for many years in theatre in the Sherbrooke area, is the designerof the stage and technical director for the play.The show comes to the Centennial May 9 and 10.Be a RED CROSS Blood Donor 8—TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1986 WHAT’S ON Music Tickets went on sale Monday for a concert by The Royal Canadian Artillery Band in Sherbrooke March 19, so you might like to get yours soon.This St.Hubert-based band has developed quite a reputation across Canada and internationally since its formation in 1968, presenting a varied repertoire that includes everything from classical music to movie themes to traditional Quebec music.The concert is at 8 p.m.March 19 (a Wednesday) in the Salle Maurice O’Bready on the University of Sherbrooke campus, and all the profits will go to Centraide Estrie.Tickets, at $10 for adults and $5 for those under 18, are available at the University’s Cultural Centre.The box office number is (819)821-7744, if you’d like more information.Quebec musician Claude Dubois will be performing at the Salle Maurice O'Bready at the University of Sherbrooke next Wednesday, March 5.Dubois has recorded 16 albums, his most recent Face à la musique, recorded last year.He calls his show Un chanteur chante and it’s meant to spotlight Dubois’ talents not only as a musician but as a dancer and comedian as well.Tickets are now on sale at the box office at the U de S Cultural Centre and all Ticketron outlets.Violinist Lucie Robert and pianist Jeffrey Cohen will be the artists featured at the next Sons et Brioches concert which takes place this Sunday at 11 a.m.in the Salle Maurice O’Bready.Robert has been studying music since the age of five, and is now pursuing her masters degree at Indiana University.She can be heard frequently on CBC Radio.Cohen has received several prestigious prizes and has also been heard on the CBC, as well as on National Public Radio in the U.S.And you can even have coffee, juice and doughnuts if you show up early enough before the concert.The Vermont Symphony Orchestra will present a concert tomorrow at 8 p.m.at the Flynn Theatre in Burlington.This will include a Vivaldi Bassoon Concerto, Prokofiev’s Classical Symphony and Carl Orff’s masterpiece, Carmina Bura-na.Tickets range from $5.50 to $10.50 and you can reserve by calling (802)864-5741, 863-5966, or 656-3085.I did Mike Goodsell, the Imperial Motel and fans of both a great misdeed last week by getting a few things muddled in this column — mainly the location of the motel.It’s in Stans-tead, not Magog, and I sure hope no one went out combing the streets of Magog to find it.In case you don’t know yet, Mike presents a one-man musical show, singing recent po- ?Quebec musician Claude Dubois will be performing at the Salle Maurice O'Bready at the University of Sherbrooke next Wednesday, March 5.See Music column.By Laurel Sherrer \ ’i pular and country tunes backed up by electronically reproduced music that can really fool you into thinking he’s got a whole band with him.He’ll be playing at the Imperial Friday and Saturday nights starting at 10 and Sunday from 7 p.m.to midnight right through to the end of March.The Del Monty in Rock Island, where rock and roll is the norm, has a Toronto band by the name of The Cast in this weekend, playing tonight and tomorrow from 11 to 3 a.m.Paroxysme, a Top 40 rock and commercial group featuring Louis Roy plays this Saturday night from 9 p.m.to 3 a.m.at the polyvalent on 8th avenue in Windsor.Rod Bray and the Countrymen play tomorrow from 9 p.m.to 1:30 a.m.at the Bish Pub at Bishop’s University for the Huntingville end-of-carnival bash.Apparently this has been quite a party in past years, with up to 600 people attending.If you don’t know the band (and you ought to, since they’ve been around almost 18 years), they play what Rod describes as “swing-country” or “up country", mixing in some old rock tunes and rhythm and blues, depending on the demand.Ted and Mick Hall, a.k.a.The Hall Brothers are at the F.L.Hideaway in Lennoxville for their last weekend, playing tonight and Saturday night.The Stephen Barry Blues Band takes over from them next weekend.The Golden Lion Pub, also in Lennoxville, features Bob Drew this Monday night starting around 9.His name might ring a bell from his involvement with a few local bands in the past and he’ll be "gettin’ down with some smooth country sounds”, according to Kevin Groves at the Lion.Next week Jeff Coates will back.Last I heard from Station 88 in South Stukely, The Bac-kroad Band was playing country western music there for the rest of the month — now I assume that includes this weekend, but I couldn’t reach them to verify.Maybe you could try them yourself at (514)297-2488.The Burning Log Bistro near Mansonville has turned out to be unexpectedly popular, says owner Jim Lawrence, so reservations might be a good idea if you want to hear Dave Mooney play soft rock music and old favorites from the 50s and 60s on electric guitar tomorrow night.“It’ll be a real nostalgia trip for anyone over 30,” Jim says.Just call (514)292-3750.While you’re at it, reserve for next week, when The F’arTowns, (Jim Lawrence and friends) will play “coun-tryfolkgrass” like you’ve never heard it before.Moonshine puts in its last weekend at the Maples in Stans-tead this weekend.They play country western music and you can hear them tonight and tomorrow after 9:30.The Backroad Band takes over from them for the month of March.The Shady Crest in Ayer’s Cliff features the country rock sounds of Station 4 again this weekend, tonight and Saturday night from 9:30 to 2:30 and Sunday from 3:30 to 9:30.Whiteliner provides the country rock sounds at Hee Haw Country in Magog again this weekend, playing tonight and tomorrow night starting at 9:30.They’ll be replaced next week by Country Fever with Steven Aulis.For those who haven’t been there yet, Hee Haw is sort of tucked away at 470 Main West in Magog: you have to look carefully for it.Exhibitions/Events Next week a whole new exhibit takes over the gallery of the Caisse Populaire de Sherbrooke-Est and I highly recommend seeing this one.The new collection showing there is the work of Sherbrooke sculptor Pierre Chouinard Starting Monday during banking hours, you can stop by and linger over his remarkable portrayals of the human figure in wood, marble, alabaster and soapstone, and many dra- The Homestead gallery and gift shop outside Lennoxville will begin an exhibition of wildlife prints this Monday which will continue for two weeks.Proceeds from the sale of Robert Bateman’s Giant Panda prints will go to the World Wildlife Fund to help save this endangered species.wings he did as a preliminary step to sculptures, or as artistic works in themselves.Some of his more recent work involves the integration of two or more figures or images into a single sculpture to instill a significance beyond what the traditional single-faceted sculpture would.Chouinard’s work will be on display at the Caisse, located at King and Bowen in Sherbrooke, until March 28, and note that it’s open until 5:45 Wednesday and until 8 p.m.Thursday, instead of closing the usual 3 p.m.For more about this artist, turn to page 3.Until 5 today you can drop in at the Galerie Horace in Sherbrooke to see exhibitions by Michel Gaboury and Arnaud Gosselin, both of which end today.Gaboury uses materials like cardboard, chicken-wire, umbrellas and other objects to create three-dimensional displays that examine the art of the photographer — namely, framing and making something lasting out of a reality that is actually shapeless and ever-changing (symbolized by clouds).Gosselin’s exhibition is a little harder to put into words.His large, irregularly-shaped canvases use the techniques of collage and painting, and, according to art historian Micheline Caouette, “witness to his hesitations, anguish, frustrations, voids to fill, as well as the immense pleasure of creating”.Coming up in a week’s time at the Horace Gallery, is the annual RACE [Regroupement des Artistes des Cantons de l’Est) exhibition.I’ll have more on that for you next week.The Homestead gallery and gift shop outside Lennoxville (heading Huntingville way), will begin an exhibition of wildlife prints this Monday which will continue for two weeks.This will feature limited edition prints by Canada’s best wildlife artists: Robert Bateman, Christine Marshall, Ron Parker, John Seerey-Lester, Douglas Manning, Glen Loates, Marc Barrie and Frank de Mattéis.There’ll be some autographed limited editions of Robert Bateman’s The World of Robert Bateman as well.The Homestead is open 11 a.m.to7:30p.m.Monday to Wednesday, 11 a.m.to9 p.m.Thursday and Friday, and 9 to 5 Saturday.Oils and pastels by West Brome artist Richard Nevin are still on display in the foyer of the provincial government building at 77 Main St.in Granby.Nevin’s works focus mainly on forests, lakes and rivers of the region, as well as some of the old houses.The building, which houses the courthouse, Communications Québec and other government offices is open weekdays from 8 a.m.to 5 p.m.and Nevin’s display continues until March 7.The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is presenting three separate exhibitions of Canadian art until March 23.Contemplative Scenes: The Landscapes of Ozias Leduc brings together virtually all of the artist’s landscapes.Building a “Beaux-Arts” Museum: Montreal 1912 focuses or “Beaux-Arts” architecture in Montreal, including the mu scum’s own 1912 building.Canadian Jungle: The Latei Work of Arthur Lismer highlights works from the second half of the career of this Group of Seven artist.The Montreal Museum of Fine Art is located at 1379 Sherbrooke St.West.Art enthusiasts can get quite an eyeful with a visit to the Cultural Centre of the University of Sherbrooke.All in the same building you can find two art exhibitions and a display of photography.The spacious central hall of the centre features work by two young Sherbrooke artists, Sylvie Couture and Yvon Proulx.Couture's Sélection personelle uses the techniques of photography and photocopying to examine some universal themes such as cultural differentiation, sexual identity, social roles and the family.Proulx’s Création—Re-création presents objects which are meant to prompt the viewer to construct narratives around them. TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY.FEBRUARY 28, 1986—9 WHAT’S ON The Art Gallery attached to this hall hosts a travelling exhibition of winning entries in last year’s Tout fart du monde 1985 contest.This contest was created by the Ministry of Cultural Communities and Immigration to promote interest in art from Quebec’s various cultural communities.Only 23 of the 56 works selected are featured at the University of Sherbrooke exhibition, but it provides a look at work from a wide range of cultural backgrounds nonetheless.Finally, until March 30, Traces, an exhibition of photography by Montrealer Stéphan Kovacs graces the foyer of the Salle Maurice O’Bready.I also have one item of the Events type to mention.The Lennoxville-Ascot Historical and Museum Society is orga nizing a benefit turkey dinner March 8 (a week from Saturday), in its continuing efforts to raise money for its Speid project.If you haven’t been following this, it’s a project to purchase a historic property known as “Uplands” in Len-noxville, with the hopes of developing a museum and cultural centre for the town.Their goal is $150,000, and so far they’ve raised over $40,000.The turkey dinner will be at the Lennox ville United Church Hall, with three sittings : at 4:30, 5:30 and 6:30 p.m.Their press release promises “a turkey-dinner with all the trimmings, and home-made pies” and it will cost $6 for adults, $3 for children under 12.Reserve now by calling (819)562-6123.The annual Shriner's Circus opened yesterday and continues until Sunday at the Montreal Forum.Tickets range from $4.50 to $9.50 and the proceeds, as usual, go to the Shriner’s Hospital for Crippled Children.For more information call (514)281-1671.Movies Have I got movies for you this week! Seems like it’s either feast or famine around here, and this week Sherbrooke has all the luck.At the Cinéma Capitol it’s Out of Africa with Meryl Streep and Robert Bedford.Now this film has earned 11 Academy Award nominations including Best Picture (Drama), Best Director and Best Actress (Drama) — and what's more, my recommendation.Based on the novel by Isak Dinesen, Out of Africa is the story of a strong, independent Danish woman who sets out, with minimal help from her philandering husband, to make a success of a coffee plantation in the hills of Kenya.The real story, however, is the unravelling of her romance with an Oxford-educated hunter who storms in and out of her life, refusing to make any plans or commitments.I had strange feeling as I watched the film that I had heard the story before, but it was marvelously done and I was quite enthralled, despite its longer than average running time.It’s showing nightly at 7:30 and at 1:30 Sunday and Tuesday as well at the Capitol.And then there’s The Color Purple playing at the Cinémas Carrefour.Based on Alice Walker’s novel and directed by Steven Spielberg, this movie looks at the way black women have been treated by black men and at the bonds between women who have been oppressed.Whoopi Goldberg has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of the main character.Celie.Celie is abused by her father as a teenager, then lives a life of misery with an unfaithful and abusive husband, deprived of contact with the one person she loves, her sister Nettie.Sounds miserable so far, doesn’t it?It’s one of those films that really makes you seethe at the injustice in the world — and that means it’s well done.I won’t give away the ending, but I must say it’s not all ugliness — in fact, it has a strong message of hope.You can see this every evening at 6:30 and 9:15, and Sunday there are showings at 12:45 and 3:30 as well.La Maison du Cinéma at 63 King W.in Sherbrooke, is stepping up its English-language offerings, starting this Friday and Saturday with Joshua Then And Now, a Canadian film based on the novel by Mordechai Richler.I don’t know what it’s about, but it’s been nominated for more Genie Awards than any other film this year (12 of them, including Best Motion Picture).It shows both days at 2:55 and 9:15 p.m.The same days, at 3 and 9:30 p.m., you can watch a western by Lawrence Kosdan, Silverado.And from March 4 to 6 it’s Target at 12:30 and 7 p.m.and After Hours at 2:45 and 9:15.White Nights is back in the area, playing at 8:55 nightly at the Cinema Princess in Cowansville.This features Mikhail Baryshnikov as a ballet dancer who has defected from Russia to the U.S.and Gregory Hines as a tap dancer.The two of them are detained in the U.S.S.R.when they’re plane is forced to land there.The earlier show at the Princess is the comedy Volunteers with John Candy and Tom Hanks at 7 p.m.The Merrill’s Showplace Cinemas in Newport has a new batch this week, but no one was able to tell me much about them.Delta Force, starring Chuck Norris and Lee Marvin, plays nightly at 6:50 and 9:15 and Saturday and Sunday at 1:55.FIX also plays nightly at 7:10 and 9:20, and Hollywood Vice Squad nightly at 7:20 and 9:25 with weekend matinees at 2:05.Finally, a weekend matinee for the kids, Saturday and Sunday at 1:45, is Walt Disney’s 101 Dalmations.Television I’ll start off with something for the popular music enthusiasts this week.Tonight on Good Rockin' Tonite, on CBC, Stu Jeffries will present another view of the Grammy Awards with Backstage At The Grammy's.Good Rockin’ airs every Friday at 11:30 p.m.If you’re a real movie buff, you can spend the whole afternoon and evening Saturday in front of the tube taking in four classic movies on Vermont ETV.The first, at 2 p.m., is the 1938 romantic comedy Holiday.This stars Cary Grant as a non-conformist who confronts his fiancée’s stuffy New York City society family and finds a kindred spirit in his future sister-in-law.Katharine Hepburn co-stars.Following this, at 4 p.m., Cary Grant teams up with Ingrid Bergman in Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece, Notorious.Grant plays a spy who talks a beautiful woman into marrying the head of a neo-Nazi ring in South America.Then at 6:05 p.m.(still on Vermont ETV) Woody Allen and Diane Keaton co-star in Allen’s 1972 comedy Play It Again, Sam.Allen plays a film buff whose obsession with Humphrey Bogart drives his wife away and causes some awkwardness with his new romantic interest.Finally, at 8 p.m., Peter O'Toole takes the leading role in the 1962 Academy Award winner, Lawrence of Arabia.In his film debut, O’Toole plays the British officer T.E-.Lawrence, whose exploits in Palestine around World War I became legendary.Omar Sharif and Alec Guinness also star.The Montreal branch of the Canadian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (CSPCA) has sent out a notice telling members, and anyone else interested, to tune in to CTV Sunday at 6:30 p.m.for a “hard-hitting” edition of the As It Is program.This week it features a documentary dealing with the sale of stray animals from private pounds in Quebec to laboratories in Montreal and the U.S.which have banned pound seizure.Also on Sunday, CBC Television starts a three-part series by the same production team that brought us the popular War series, hosted by war historian and political analyst Gwynne Dyer.The Defence of Canada examines Canada's efforts at a defence strategy.Part One, A Long Way From Home, Sunday at 9 p.m., tells of the pressure on Canada, from Britain and the U.S., to get involved militarily.Dyer apparently feels that Canada’s willingness to fight wars has resulted in expenditures and losses way out of proportion for the minor power that Canada is.The second and third parts air March 9 and March 16 at the same time.Actor Peter Ustinov takes us on a trip through Russia as he sees it on Peter Ustinov's Russia, a six-part series starting Sunday on CTV.Instead of the parades on May Day, the labor camps and the spies that fill our news reports of Russia, Ustinov will show us the people of the Soviet Union, doing things that will be very familiar to North Americans : strolling in the park, having dinner with their families, celebrating summer with a carnival in Siberia.Airing Sunday at 10 p.m., the first episode of this highly personal glimpse of the U.S.S.R., A Giant’s Childhood, looks at the early history of Russia — from the very beginning through to the reign of Ivan the Terrible.I know a lot of you have been following Anne of Green Gables on Vermont ETV, so don’t miss part 3 Monday at 8, when Anne and Diana attend the annual Christmas ball together and Anne secretly tries to win Gilbert’s affections.In case you didn’t already know, there’s an English-language community affairs program that airs on Cable 11 in Sherbrooke, Tuesday at 9 p.m , Wednesday at 11 p.m., Thursday at 7 p.m.and Friday at 8 p.m.It’s called Townships Magazine, and this week there’ll be a representative from the Ministry of Consumer and Corporate Affairs as guest, talking about what to look for in the meat you buy from the supermarket, and how to get your money’s worth.On the same show, veterinarian Carole Cochrane will talk about cleaning your pet’s teeth.And finally, Champlain College student animator, Richard Konicki, will talk about mini courses offered at Champlain.If you miss it Tuesday, don’t worry — it’s the same show that airs Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.The authors of the fiction thriller Headhunter will be interviewed on CBC’s Gzowski& Co.Tuesday at 7 p.m.These are three Vancouver lawyers who decided to put their experience with the criminally insane to use in a novel, and it ended up catapulting them into the world of international best-selling authors.Some people apparently find the novel too grotesque, and these might be interested in hearing the answer to Gzowski’s question, “It’s bad enough that people do these sort of things, but what kind of people would want to write about them?” The legendary folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary celebrate their 25th anniversary in a special Tuesday at 9 p.m.on Vermont ETV.They’ll be singing some of their favorite tunes (and mine) including Slowin’ in the Wind, Leaving on a Jet Plane, If I Had a Hammer, Puff the Magic Dragon and Where Have All the Flowers Gone?Montreal's gift to stage and screen, Christopher Plummer, is featured on the Wednesday edition of McGowan’s World at 7:30 p.m.Plummer is interviewed at the Ritz Carleton in Montreal and on location for his recent role in Spearfield's Daughter.On the same episode, André-Philippe Gagnon will talk about his appearance on the To night Show and what’s happened since./ i Saturday at 8 p.m.on Vermont ETV, Peter O’Toole takes the leading role in the 1962 Academy Award winner, Lawrence of Arabia, playing the British officer T.E-.Ixiwrence, whose exploits in Palestine around World War I became legendary.Omar Sharif and Alec Guinness also star. 10—TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY, 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