The record, 22 mars 1991, Supplément 1

• John Pille retires after more than 30 rewarding years as a high school music teacher in Lennoxville TOWNSHIPS WEEK arts and entertainment magazine MARCH 22.1901 k lit ! w m 2—TOWNSHIPS WEEK-FRIDAY.MARCH 22, 1991 Truth or consequences of no concern Who’s Who By Tadeusz Let arte " The first thing we do.let's kill all the lawyers." Will Funny how so many Americans so willingly sacrificed their most fundamental freedoms in the name of freeing Kuwait.It wasn’t just the military cen sorship and iron control of the media.not just the embarrassment of more hard news coming from CBS and CNN reporters inside the enemy capital than from allied headquarters, but the enthusiasm with which any dissent was squelched at home.Anyone expressing opposition to the war was thunderously condemned for giving aid and comfort to the enemy.In Kutztown.Pennsylvania, the weekly Patriot called for peace and declared it wrong for the U.S.to interfere in the Persian Gulf.Subscriptions were cancelled, ad- vertisers withdrew and the owner made a “business decision" by firing the editor.William Randolph Hearst HI, owner of the San Francisco Chronicle.disciplined a columnist with three months suspension for praising an anti-war demonstration — even though the piece was never published.Closer to home, a columnist for The Financial Post applauded the courage of Iraqi soldiers, and the chairman of the board sent a letter to the editor expressing outrage that such an opinion was allowed to appear in his paper.It would be nice to believe that indicated freedom of speech was more secure on this side of the border.but it merely means the focus of our national stress is elsewhere, our censorship more deep-seated and insidious.?Premier Bob fired a cabinet minister last week for posing as a 'Sunshine Boy’ in the Toronto Sun after having proposed a law banning sexual stereotyping in beer ads.- ON LAKE WALLACE -Christian Youth Camp St.Hermenegilde, Qc.Good, clean fun and adventure in a Christian environment in the great outdoors Youth Weekends - May 17-20 & Aug.30-Sept.2 Ages 17 4 up.$65.00 Family Camp Weekend - June 14-16 Ages 12 4 up S40.00, Ages 4-11 $15.00 Jr.Camps - June 30-July 13 4 July 14-27 Co-ed ages 8-11, $275 Girls’ Camp • July 28-Aug.10; Ages 12-16 $295.00 incl, special Music and Drama program.Boys’ Camp - Aug.11-24; Ages 12-16 $295 incl.Bromont Water Slide and possible canoe, cycling or biking trip.Or phone Camp Director Allan “Jake" Jackson at 819-838-4630 EXPERIENCE.Chapel campfires, boating, swimming, hiking, music, camperait, friendship, canoeing, kayaking, archery, ball sports, drama, handicrans.For information write: Box 358, Ayer's Cliff Qc.JOB ICO Christian Camping international Member Canada Division Last week.Vincent Della Noce, MP from Laval, had to publicly apologize for criticizing soverei-gnists in an interview on The Journal: “It’s like the Indians,” he had said.“They don’t like our laws, they don't respect our constitution, but they want to have our money.” There was an immediate uproar and howls of outrage.Della Noce, who may only be clumsy and inept, had to issue a written apology that he hadn’t meant to insult Indians in general, only those in particular who defied the law at Oka.“I’m sorry the comment could give the impression that my opinion is very negative to the native population,” he said.“That's not the case.I can’t believe I said that.” That didn’t satisfy the soverei-gnists, of course, who were also quick to take umbrage.Jean La-pierre.MP from Shefford who really doesn’t like our laws or respect our constitution but still wants to have our money by clinging to the federal trough while working against federalism, harrumphed: “I think Mr.Della Noce has shown a flagrant lack of judgment towards the aboriginal peojile and francophones, particularly sove-reignists." Note the trick of using the particular to infer the generality, the hint that all francophones should be offended by a dig at soverei-gnists.just as all aboriginals were insulted by a shot at the arms-wielding Mohawks at Oka.Lapierre.of course, was not asked to apologize.?"You know." Jean Lapierre remarked last week, “some people have lived in a dream world for years; maybe it’s time they wake up.There's an English Canada and a French Quebec.This is the reality.” Are all those who insist on being identified with a group instead of as individuals prepared to take almighty offence?Is that remark insulting to the Acadians of New Brunswick.Franco-Manitobans, Anglo-Quebecers and bilinguals all over?Is that offensive to the Chinese or the Inuit or the Italians or the Cree who happily dream they live and work in their own languages only to find they are, in reality.English Canadians?Perhaps the vague generality in-fering the particular — and vice versa — is a trick taught in law school, because Lucien Bouchard, François Gérin and even Jean Lapierre excel at it.and all claim to habe been lawyers in civilian life; although, since Lapierre was barely 23 when elected to the public trough, it’s hard to see how he squeezed in a real job.Lucien Bouchard likes to pretend that "English" Canada’s opposition to the Meech Lake Accord “humiliated" all Quebecers — which must include you and me — while ignoring the fact that the representatives of 93 per cent of all “English" Canadians — which must include you and me — actually approved it.The much-loved François Gérin, ‘Lapierre was barely 23 when elected to the public trough.’ MP for Megantie-Complon-Stanstead and therefore La-pierre’s colleague at the other end of the Townships, once proclaimed : "Those who are in agreement with this Accord are not real Quebecers." That news came as a relief to most of the readers of this journal.?But it can’t be easy to be such a stereotypical insider that you speak for everyone: insult me and you insult all those of my profession.my friends, my family, inlaws and neighbors, my race, religion and all my nation.The flipside is that when any group is attacked, you are obliged to take it personally.Fortunately for free speech, most newspaper columnists are outsiders and comfortably beyond the pale.Most inkstained scribblers lost all their friends long ago and are generally disowned by their families, excluded from decent society and insist on being a majority of one so that when they are fired for expressing contrary views, they have nobody else to blame.Errors spoil Oxford book about music By Mark Bastien Canadian Press Finding mistakes in reference books is unnerving.When you spot one.you think the editor just wasn’t on the ball.After you discover two, three or four gaffes, you wonder what else the volume got wrong.But once you're into double digits, you question whether you can believe anything the book tells you.That’s the case with The Oxford Companion to Popular Music.a 752-page alphabetical guide which, among other things, tells its readers that: 1.Rap was a ’70s dance craze kept alive today by the advertising world.2.In 1985.John Lennon denounced as Muzak the work of Paul McCartney, his former songwriting partner.3.Michael Jackson was a professional rhythm n’ blues singer before he joined the Jackson Five.4.Folk-pop singer Joni Mitchell was born in McLeod.Alta.5.Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim's ground-breaking musicals have usually been panned by critics.6.Swinging singer Peggy Lee hasn't worked since the ’70s.7.Actress Anne Baxter played the role of Eve in the Broadway musical Applause, based on the 1950 showbiz film All About Eve.8.Linda Ronstadt has been pursued by many politicians.9.If There Was You is a song from the musical The Music Man.10.Madonna's chart-topping success ended in 1987.Unfortunately, none of those things is true, which will probably come as a surprise to the work's British author.Peter Gammond — especially since he has written or edited some 20 books on music.HEFTY PRICE Those and other errors, of which there are many, will probably also upset some Canadians who shell out $55 for the hefty volume when it arrives in stores across Canada in late March.What they should really be told is that: 1.Rap is pop music’s fastest-growing force, in recent years winning musical respectability — and millions of fans.2.Lennon was murdered in 1980 — so he could not have criticized McCartney five years later.3.Jackson was only six years old when he began singing with his brothers, making a previous r n’ b career impossible.4.Mitchell was born in Fort Macleod.Alta.5.Sondheim’s shows have for the most part been well-received by critics, although most haven’t been box-office blockbusters.6.Despite her many illnesses.See MUSIC BOOK, page 3 TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY.MARCH 22.1!K>1—:i Sherbrooke Historical Society to move to better digs By Steve Meurice SHERBROOKE — In some ways, it's the perfect set-up: cramped rooms, bookshelves too close Louise Hrunelle-Lavnie together, boxes overflowing with as yet unprocessed, but possibly precious, documents.What better environment in which to preserve our cluttered past, our disordered history?After all, isn't a historical society supposed to look like somebody’s attic?Apparently not.Thanks to a $300,000 grant from the provincial ministry of cultural affairs, the Sherbrooke Historical Society, now located in the quaintly overcrowded Domaine Howard on Portland Street, will be moving to new digs in September.Also contributing to the project is the city of Sherbrooke with a $100.000 grant, and the historical society itself, which raised $35,000 in a private fundraising drive.Louise Brunelle-Lavoie.the society’s director, says she’s looking forward to the move.And understandably so.Because of the lack of space, her second-floor office has become an extra storage room.She shares it with boxes of old books and a stack of yellowing newspapers.“In the new place we’ll have triple the space we have here,” Brunelle-Lavoie says.The “new place” is actually the old municipal library on Dufferin Street, which was also the first post office in Sherbrooke.The building will be restored over the summer and redesigned to meet the special needs of the historical society.The perils of travelling with me By Myrtle Gallup DANVILLE — The phone rings."Hello.'' my good friend says, “1 just won an all expense paid trip for two to Florida, but who will go with me?" Well what would you say if a friend confronted you with such a dilemma?Exactly.We leave the end of April, my friend fully aware of all my past travel misadventures.Everyone has problems travelling; lost luggage, missed connections, flight cancellations, to mention only a few.But every time?Every single time?By Myrtle Gallup even more of a stir.What to do?Chuck the meat?What about my well planned surprise?Don’t panic.I tell myself as the bus pulls up at the hotel.It's a cold March day.and when I get to my room I'll stick the bag outside on the window ledge and hope for an early change in the weather.Foiled again.The windows on the fourteenth floor are hermati-cally scaled.On my first trip to Newfoundland.our pilot announces that the St.John's airport is fogged in.and there will be a delay in Halifax.Hours later, we are told that a bus will take us into the city where we will be guests at the Holiday Inn at the airline’s expense, until the fog clears.“How long might that be?” I ask a fellow passenger w ho seems to be on familiar ground.“Eve lived in the area all my life; it could be a week.” she tells me — in today's four-letter-word vernacular.Great.I check my watch.As there was no public transportation from St.John's to Marystown.my destination, my daughter and son-in-law had agreed to a four-hour drive to pick me up at the airport.They should be arriving to meet me just about now.They will love this little surprise.Only then do I remember with horror the great surprise I am carrying for them in my tote bag.Good beef is not readily available in their part of Nefoundland, so before leaving home early that morning I had packed a bag chock full of choice cuts from our freezer.The T-bones and rib roasts had raised a few eyebrows at the Dorval X-ray machine, but crossing the hotel lobby with a trail of blood leaking from my bag might cause 7 am nol a relaxed flyer.’ One light bulb left.The staff graciously stores my bag in the hotel freezer.And miraculously, the fog lifts the next day, and we are off.At the St.John's airport, after a twenty-four hou r wa it.two very be-draggled people greet me.Weren't they told of the delay in Halifax?Now.I am not making this up.Despite the fact that the closest we were to any world conflict at the time was the Stanley Cup.airport officials, for “security reasons,” would not tell them where my flight was or even if my name was on the passenger list.Wait for further announcements, they were told.So they waited.?Fog in the Maritimes isn’t news, but fog in Calgary?Approaching journey’s end on another trip, the pilot announces that Calgary airport is fogbound, and we will go on to Edmonton and be bussed back to Calgary.I am not a relaxed flyer.When I board a plane I sit down, fasten my seat belt and stay as motionless as possible during the entire trip.Well I don’t actually sit.I sort of half sit and half stand, if you know what I mean, trying to make myself as weightless as possible.Others may walk about, but the responsibility for putting any excess strain on the plane's equilibrium will not be mine.Long hours of immobility is not good for the blood circulation, as you know, and on this flight I am wearing a new pair of high leather boots.At half price I had had no trouble convincing myself that they were a perfect fit — for a size four foot that is.Except I wear a size five.Not long out of Dorval, when my eyesight begins to blurr from the pain, I ease my feet out of the bargain boots.Nearing Calgary and before the pilot’s announcement.I struggle in vain, but there is just no way my size five feet — now swollen to a size six — will go into a size four boot.Accepting what cannot be changed, I’ll simply have to put on a good face and enter the airport in my stocking feet.Deboarding is all done indoors anyway.Not in Edmonton it isn’t.Newly fallen snow covers the ground.Undaunted.I push my feet as far down as possible into the leg of the boot and waddle across the tarmac to the waiting bus.with the foot part from the ankle down flapping about like a seal crossing an ice floe.?In retrospect, some of my misadventures added to the fun of getting there —forme, thatis.Thoseawai-ting my arrival are not so amused.Take my last trip to Toronto, for instance.Near Kingston, the train struck a man walking along the tracks.The accident caused a two-hour delay, while my daughter stood in Union Station chewing on our tickets to Phantom of the Opera as curtain time drew near.And I’ve barely scratched the surface of such mishaps.Is my friend apprenhensive about travelling with me?Not for a minute.Whatever could possibly go wrong at Disney World or Alligator Alley or Flamingo Flats or.?Yes.whatever?Those needs include a larger display room for the society’s regular exhibitions, and special temperature and humidity-controlled storage space for the archives.Without this protection, old documents.photographs and newspapers deteriorate much more quickly.THREE FUNCTIONS The historical society has three main functions, Brunelle-Lavoie says.• The first is conserving and protecting the materials that make up the region's history.The society gets these materials from many sources, including the walls of buildings.When people renovate old homes, they sometimes find decades-old newspapers and documents that were used as insulation lining the walls.• The second function is research.Much of this is done on a contract basis for municipalities or institu- tions that want to know about a specific period in their history.The society has four full-time staffers, and often hires part-timers to work on specific research projects.• And of course the society has an educational purpose.It puts on three major exhibitions a year, which Brunelle-Lavoie says deal with themes rather than displaying historical objects.This summer's theme will be "Covered Bridges." Because of the Eastern Townships' anglo roots, there is plenty of English material to be found at the historical society.In fac* many Americans trying to trace their Loyalist heritage visit the society in search of clues.Brunelle-Lavoie says.With the impending move — and the increased space that comes with it — the historical society will be able to put some order in our jumbled past.Music Book: Continued from previous page Lee is still recording and writing.7.Baxter played the role of Margo Channing in Applause — succeeding Lauren Bacall — although she had played Eve in the movie.8.Ronstadt was the girlfriend of a single U S.politician, former California governor Jerry Brown.9.The Music Man contains a song called Till There Was You.10.Madonna's success continues unabated MAY BE OTHERS All of these mistakes were found during a random skim through the book, a hint that there are probably many others.While some of these gaffes might seem minor, they undermine the credibility of the book — which calls itself “the definitive one-volume guide to popular music.’’ Along with the many errors of commission, there are some conspicuous errors of omission.One of those is the exclusion of Canadian songbird Anne Murray — even though she’s as close to an internationally renowned, pop star as the country is likely to produce.Meanwhile, such unlikely choices as American country music oddity Slim Whitman and Australian dance diva KylieMinogue are discussed.Other internationally influential Canadian pop musicians who don’t get capsules of their careers include Gordon Lightfoot, the Guess Who and Rush.Among the Canadians who are included are bandleaders Percy Faith and Guy Lombardo, country singer Hank Snow, jazz pianist Oscar Peterson, composer Galt MacDermot and singer-songwriters Neil Young.Paul An-ka and Leonard Cohen.The book’s biggest downfall is the wildly uneven quality of the individual entries — which sometimes neglect important information.Barbra Streisand's entry is a telling example.How can you trust a book purporting to be an expert guide to popular music when it doesn’t mention a single album made by one of the most important singers of the pop era?“A 10! 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a breathtaking aerial shot of whales frolicking in an estuary: and dozens of other views from the sky that capture the scale and grandeur of this wild region.On the other hand, there are also grim images of what has happened to the landscape since the first phase of the James Bay project was completed, and what has happened to the native people.The most devastating shot may be a simple view of Cree hanging around their new shopping mall, idly passing time and playing checkers near the overflowing w aste bins.To see anyone in such a setting is disheartening: when it's these once self-sustaining people, it’s pathetic.In the end.it’s these kinds of striking images that make this Nature of Things special so memorable.It's the best kind of television — powerful pictures — and anybody who wants to be informed on the issue ot James Bay should see them.r ’ '• * i Making the case without rhetoric.‘A Cree man fishing on magnificent rapids.’ TOWNSHIPS W E E K—F RI DA Y, MARCH 22.ISlill—r> John Pille.'Meat and potatoes is as good a description of my teaching style as any I've heard.' RECORD/GRANT SIM HON Legendary Galt music teacher hangs up his baton By Avril Benoit LENNOXVILLE — John Pille had been building up his stockpile of instruments at Galt when he finally acquired a bassoon for the school band.But before anybody even had a chance to rip open the box and tootle around with it.the spanking new bassoon was gone.Pille had kidnapped it.For the next six months.Pille plowed through exercises in a method book in a determined effort to learn to play the bassoon — not like a real artist, mind you.Just well enough to be able to teach it.And six months later, that’s what he did.‘The kids ask me.Well sir, do you play them all?’ and I say 'Well no.I’m somewhat proficient and I can tell you the technique, but that’s about it." a good-humored Pille said in a recent interview in his classroom.Pille retires this spring after 34 years as a music teacher.Thirty-one of those years were spent at Lennoxville High School and.subsequently.at Galt Regional High School.Although he's only 53 years old.Pille said it was time for him to pursue some of his pet projects — like his golf swing — after so many years in such a hazardous occupation."When all the students get in the band room here, it does tend to get a little noisy." he said.‘That’s why my voice might boom a little louder those of a lot of other teachers you might meet.” OLD FASHIONED “I play the tough guy,’’ Pille continued earnestly.“But no more so than a lot of old-fashioned teachers do.” All the honking of horns and smashing of cymbals makes class discipline all the more important.The first set of rules that Pille drills into his new students is: No hats, no gum.and no food of any sort.Once that is settled, the group can get on with the tortuous debate about who will get to play which instrument.The first instrument Pille ever played in his school band was the trombone.Nobody's much interested in that instrument anymore, he said.“There was a time, in the 1970s, when all the students wanted to play the flute." he said.“Nowadays, everybody wants to play the saxophone, but I have to convince them to learn something else because I can’t make a decent school band out of a row of 20 sax players.” The problem is that teenagers don’t see much point in learning instruments like the tuba or the French horn.Some might volunteer for the percussion section, but they often have misconceptions about it: all they really want to do is smash away at the drum kit, instead of learning the fine art of the triangle.It’s a hard sell.A DYING SPECIES “Generally speaking, band music is very limited in its usefulness," he said, noting that community bands are a dying species, and that few people go out of their way to hear oom-pah-pah anymore.“The only way to accomodate a large group of students in one musical effort is in a concert band, so even though we might do a light rock song now and then, it’ll always sound a little strange because of all the different instruments.” There are other aspects to music class that are more important than the listenability of the music being taught, according to Pille.Students must discipline themselves, practise at home, sit still and refrain from goofing off.In music class, they learn a valuable lesson about teamwork."Music is not like math class where if a student hasn't done his homework, the teacher can let everybody else move on to the next exercise while he gives individual attention to that one student's problem.” Pille said.“In music, if one kid isn’t keeping up because he hasn't done his homework, then it affects everybody else in a terrible way.” MEAT N POTATOES “Meat and potatoes is as good as a description of my teaching style as any I've heard.” he said.Some of Pille’s past students include Royal Orr.Louise Caron and the Branswell boys.Rick Branswell followed in Pille’s footsteps and became a music teacher and band leader in a high school.“I must admit, though, that one of the highlights of my years as a teacher was being able to teach my son Geoffrey for four years,” Pille said.Geoffrey, now 25.was in the percussion section.“Don’t worry.When there were reprimands to give, he got them like everybody else — no more and no less." Pille's final appearance as director of the school band will be May 2 for the annual band concert.His young musicians will perform some of his all-time favorite works by Henri Mancini.Mozart, and Simon and Garfunkel.as well as a few marches and German dances."1 will be conducting during the concert so I'll have to concentrate.” he said.“But probably if I’m going to be hit with any sort of emotion about retiring, that’s when it'll happen." 6—TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY.MARCH 22.1991 Country Bands March 22-28 mu ttashyi//?(819)839-3669 f BAR Q Aline Lacombe Daniel Rousseau Propriétaires 22 rua dépôt Danville QC ' JOfl 1(10 Featuring NASH BAND Month of March h7 Top 10 MARCH 22nd By MARCEL RANCOUR!, FM 99,7 Country NEW IN SHERBROOKE // Super ‘Country Jo or LE CASTEL // 128 Wellington South Tel: 820-2463 Open from 3p.m.to 3 a.m.WEDNESDAYlo SUNDAY Bands Every Night / Happy Starring: / Hour SHADOW with Jerry Thomas / 1 2 3 4 5 6 *° 7 8 9 10 P" Don» amateur nights M'ss Every Wednesday with RAOUL RICHARD 1.I'd Love You All Over Again 2.Loving Blind 3.I Couldn't See You Leavin' 4.Two of a Kind, Working On A Full House 5.Heroes And Friends 6.I'm That Kind Of Girl 7.Don't Tell Me What To Do 8.Walk On Faith 9.Men 10.Is It Raining At Your House Alan Jackson Clint Black Conway Twitty Garth Brooks Randy Travis Patty Loveless Pam Tillis Mike Reid Forester Sisters Vern Gosdin American Country Orchestra on weekends BACK ON COUNTRY with "Gello Month of March MECHANICAL 91 Place du Commerce Magog 868-1184 MANOIR WATERVILLE (1991) Open: 1 days per week — 10 to 3 a.m."Every hour is Happy Hour" 50 Compton East, Waterville 837-2811 1— L Boutique Western Rolland Wl Australian Hats and Koolah Coots Western Bools and Indian Moccasins "COME AND SEE OUR NEW STOCK" 564-1948 168 Queen Street, Lennoxville (in front of Provigo) ; G FM COUNT»y * ST-GEORGES DE BEAUCE lllllllllllllllll 'I laiMtüü tai ooo cco-é 4756 boul.Bourque, Tel: 823-6531 Rock Forest, Qc.'_sv—- TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY.MARCH 22.1991—7 Art museum in Sherbrooke seeks money to renovate By Dan Hawaleshka SHERBROOKE - Too hot for you?Too cold?Well too bad.because this fine-arts museum has crude temperature control at best.And that's only the beginning of its problems.Want to deliver something?It'll have to be carried through the front door — if it fits.Trying to keep the humidity down?Forget it.Want to see the museum’s collection increase in size?Forget that too.There's no room.What kind of museum is this anyway.you ask?The answer from curator Michel Forest is: a museum in the middle of a much-needed fundraising campaign.“Don’t be surprised if in the next little while somebody calls you up to talk to you about the museum,'’ laughs Forest, the spirited head of the Musée des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke who describes himself not so much as a curator as he does a go-for.In the next six months Forest and a team of volunteers will try to raise $2.2 million to upgrade and expand the museum's Palais Street location.Three quarters of that money will come from federal.provincial and municipal sources.The city of Sherbrooke has already agreed to kick in $220.000.About $550.000 will be raised by Forest and his team, on a "person to person" basis, as he puts it.CULTURAL PRICE Not having a building up to the high standards required for a museum has meant the Musée has had to pay what could be called a cultural price.For example, travelling exhibits often pass the Eastern Townships right by."We can't guarantee them the norms they require." says Forest, adding that the museum also suffers when art collectors who want to make a donation choose better He Said, She Said steers clear of clichés NEW YORK (API — Film director Marisa Silver remembers very clearly the moment she told Ken Kwapis that she loved him.She also recalls his response."It came out .uh.uh.uh.” she said.Dan Hanson, the male character in their new movie.He Said.She Said, is a little more articulate, but no more forthcoming.As played by Kevin Bacon in the film about a couple and their different visions of their relationship.Dan pauses nervously and says."I have very warm feelings for you, too.” Silver and Kwapis are the co-directors of He Said.She Said, a movie that sounds high-concept and gimmicky.It tells both sides of a love affair between two newspaper reporters.Kwapis.33.directed the first half of the film, which gives the man’s point of view of what happened.Silver.30, directed the woman's version.which takes up the second half.To make matters even cuter.Silver and Kwapis are real-life lovers.They plan to marry next month.They got the idea for the film when they were asked by a friend to recount how they met and realized their memories of the same incident were vastly different.NEW GROUND But He Said.She Said steers free of clichés and is original and thought-provoking It also covers new ground.The movie avoids the recent, media-driven view that women are desperate spinsters out to snare reluctant men.Though it points out that women are better able to express feelings.Silver and Kwapis have created a couple who are both scared of intimacy and commitment but manifest it in different ways."1 think men and women show their fear differently,” said Silver, a Harvard University graduate who wrote and directed the 1988 film.Vital Signs.“Sometimes subconsciously the woman may be the one saying.I love you' in order to scare the man and push him away.It works both ways." she said.In the movie.Lorie Bryer.played by Elizabeth Perkins, appears more willing to tell her boyfriend that she loves him and urge marriage.He appears to be the hesitant one Yet one scene that Kwapis calls "key" to the movie punctures that illusion.In that scene.Dan wakes up in the middle of the night Believing Lori to be asleep and unable to hear him.he confesses, "I love you.I’m crazy about you.don't ever leave me." But she's not really asleep.Later the viewers realize she heard every word — and was terrified "1 think men might leave the movie a little surprised, they'll be seeing a different side of things." said Kwapis.TELL STORY Kwapis and Silver admit they borrowed some from their real-life relationship for the movie but stress that it is not autobiographical.The two were both seasoned directors when they met at a party five years ago.Kwapis also directed 1988 s Vibes with Cyndi Lauper and Jeff Goldblum.• He Said.ShcSaidis now playing at Merrill’s Showplace in Newport.VT.equipped locations.But that will soon change.Part of the improvements include expanding the current 9600 square feet of floor space by 6000 square feet, which will make room for more local art.“At this point, if you want to see great landscapes of the Eastern Townships you have to go to Quebec.Montreal or Ottawa," he says.Bishop's University, the University of Sherbrooke and Séminaire de Sherbrooke all have good collections which reflect their history, but.“Outside of that there has been no concerted effort to conserve, do-cument and promote Eastern Townships art." Forest says.IN THE PLANS Also in the plans are improvements to the climatic control of the building, necessary to preserve delicate works of art.A loading dock will be built, and offices will be added.Storage and exhibition space will go up, and there will be a new reception area.The list goes on.In short, the work to be done will answer the museum "s needs for the next 15 years.Forest says.The museum got its start in 1982.In 1988.“We rented apartments on Wellington Street,” Forest says, almost in disbelief.But that was short lived after the University of Sherbrooke came to the rescue when it agreed to rent the museum it’s current home for one dollar a year.Located next to Sherbrooke town hall, the building had been used by the university’s faculty of law.Before that, it was a Bell Canada office building.Forest likes the latest location because it is highly visibile and central.If all goes well the renovations and expansion should be done in Musée des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke.A campaign to raise $2.2 million for renovations.two years.“In the best scenario I would like to see an opening in late spring or summer ’93.” Forest says.FEDERAL GRANT Recently the Musée got a boost from the federal department of Communications.Sherbrooke MP Jean Charest spoke up for the museum.says Forest.The resulting grant for $23.000 will go to cover the costs of the fund raising.“We’re very pleased,” Forest beams."Jean Charest is a big supporter of the museum.” With all this talk of improvements.Forest says, the Musée has been getting more attention.Take, for example, the recent donation of a 1911 protrait by Mare-Aurelle de Foy Suzor-Coté (1869 -1937).Pictured in the life-size painting is Sherbrooke MNA Pantaléon Pelletier.Forest considers this a real catch for both the museum and the community.He says he hopes the trend continues.“Eventually, from this point on.we hope that art will be offered to us.” A smiling Forest says it has already started.“Before.I wasn’t getting any phone calls.Now I am." ‘Before I wasn 7 getting any phone calls.Mow I am, ' say s the curator of the Musée des beaux-arts de Sher- brooke, Michel Forest.Planned renovations will lead to a bigger and better art collection. K—TOWNSHIPS WEKK—FRIDAY.MARCH 22.1991 TRAVEL Canadian hotels pamper guests in luxury suites By Felicity Munn CP Travel Writer MONTREAL — In the living room, the windows sweep frorr' floor to cathedral ceiling, offering a panorama of Mount Royal and downtown Montreal.Upstairs in the suite, one end of the huge bathroom is occupied by a sunken marble bathtub next to a wall-to-wall window with the same spectacular view.The half-dozen plants on the ledge beside the tub are the size of small trees.At the opposite end of the bathroom, tastefully opaque glass closes off the toilet and shower area."A lot of rock stars have stayed here.’’ says Claudette Dumas-Bergen.“To us.rock stars are like royalty these days.They get what they want.” Dumas-Bergen is spokeswoman for Le Quatre saisons, part of the Four Seasons hotel chain, and this is Le Montagne suite, the best in the hotel.Personalities from Michael Jackson to Luciano Pavarotti have stayed in it.With one bedroom, the split-level suite on the 30th floor goes for $1.040 a night.Book it with a second connecting bedroom and it's $1.280 a night.That’s not bad as rates go for the best suites at luxury hotels in Canada.BANFF SPECTACULAR The general range is $1,200 to $2.000 a night — although it costs $3.000 a night for the entire three-storey presidential suite at the Banff Springs Hotel, complete with eight bedrooms, a library, a private elevator and a 360-degree view of the mountains.Who stays in these fancy suites?Especially in a recession, who can afford to?Entertainers, top corporate executives.government dignitaries, royalty or guests whose wealth alone makes them VIPs to the hotel.Occasionally the less-than-wealthy book them — for honeymoon nights, anniversaries or other special occasions.But the suites are used most often by corporations, either as ac- commodation for their own top management or visiting executives or for receptions.And not everybody pays full rate.Depending on the circumstances, the cost is often negotiable."It depends on all sorts of things — who it is.how often they come to the hotel, how many other rooms they're booking." says Nathalie Boudreau, spokeswoman for the Ritz-Carlton.down the street from Le Quatre saisons."It’s case by case." USUALLY SAUNA Generally, the deluxe suites have a large living room, a dining room seating six or eight, at least one bedroom and several bathrooms, one or all ol which feature a Jacuzzi and sauna.Some suites have kitchenettes, separate study den areas and large patios or balconies.Guests are treated to such perks as fresh flowers daily and particularly attentive service — but they still have to pay for the drinks from room service.The Ritz's royal suite —$1,400 a night with one bedroom, $2,100 with the second bedroom — is where Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton got married the first time around.Prime Minister Brian Mulroney stays there when he's in Montreal.Boudreau says he and his entourage take over almost the entire floor — at.she adds, a vastly reduced rate.When Sophia Loren was there, she made her own pasta from scratch in the suite's kitchenete after the hotel chef provided the ingredients.SKIER'S DELIGHT Ann Checkley.spokeswoman for Canadian Pacific Hotels, remembers clearly her first visit to the deluxe suite at the Chateau Whistler in Whistler.B.C.soon after she began working for the hotel chain."I had been skiing in Vail and staying where I could afford, which was on the floor of a friend’s apartment.I arrived at Chateau Whistler wearing a pair of jeans and cowboy boots."They gave me this bellman to take me up this private elevator to the suite.And the bellman." she recalls with a laugh, "asked to see my key before he would take me up ' The suite, she says, "is incredibly magnificent.It's got two storeys.four Jacuzzis, curtains that are operated electronically from your bed." 10-DAY STAY At Le Château Champlain hotel in Montreal, everyone from Rod Stew'art to Prince Philip has stayed in the royal suite.But the guest who sticks out in assistant manager Sue Valente’s mind was the guy a couple of years ago who stayed 10 days in the suite."He was a doctor from Illinois, just on vacation here.It cost $1.000 a night then.But still.Ten days.” The 34th-floor suite now costs $1.200 a night.It has two bedrooms, a dining room, a long, airy living room with a grand piano that doesn't even fill one corner and a study lined with old books."Guests keep phoning down to the manager to ask if they can buy some of the books." Valente says."He always says no."