A4 CASTLEGAR NEWS, February 22, 1981

They could be winners

HOLLYWQOD (AP) —
The Elephant Man and Rag-
ing Bull, a pair of downbeat
biographies filmed in black
and white, led the pack in
nominations for the 63rd an-
nual Academy Awards, ,

The Elephant Man, based
on the Victorlan-era travails
of the deformed John Mer-
rick, and Raging Bull, tracing
the life of boxer Jake La-
Motta, each collected eight
nominations Tuesday, includ-
ing best picture, actor and
director,

A more cheerful biog-
graphy, Coal Miner's Daugh-
ter, earned seven nomina-
tions from the Academy of
Motion Picture Arts and Sci-
ences, followed by Fame,
Ordinary People and Tess
with six apiece.

Coal Miner's Daughter, the
‘story of country music star
Loretta Lynn; Ordinary Peo-
ple, the story of a family torn
by tragedy; and Tess, based

on Thomas: Hardy's classic
Tess of the d'Urbervilles, will
vie with The Elephant Man
and Raging Bull for the best
picture Oscar.

John Hurt and Robert De
Niro, who portrayed Merrick
and LaMotta, respectively,
headed the list of best actor
nominees, Joining them were
Jack Lemmon as the ter-
minally ill publicist deter-
mined to laugh to the end in
‘Tribute, Robert Duvall as the
drill-sergeant father in The
Great Sdntini and Peter
O'Toole as the ruthless dir-
setae in The Stunt Man.

IRSTYN NAMED

ler Moore as the undemon-
strative: mother of a son
Killed in a boating accident in
Ordinary People; Gena. Row-
lands as the former moll who
shields a child from the Mafia
in Gloria; and Sissy Spacek,
whose portrayal of Lynn in
Coal Miner's Daughter also
earned her a Grammy nom-
ination.

A Canadian production,
History: of the World in
Three Minutes Flat, made by
Michael Mills Production
Ltd. of Montreal, won nom-
ination in the animated short
films category. The film had
received an award at the

Fes-

CASTLE NEWS -

_ ENTERTAINMENT _

Veteran with charm

The main ingredient that
brought such success to
George Burns's initial foray
inte pop music last year was
the boundless charm the vet-
eran entertainer was able to
present on vinyl.

Of course, the tunes on I
Wish I. Was Eighteen Again
were readily appealing, and
both | the production and

Boat actress
were Ellen Burstyn as a
woman who acquires mysti-

tival in Ottawa last year.
The ditecting nominations
one fs who

cal healing powers
a near-fatal accident in Res-
urrection; Goldie Hawn, who
trades silk and stiletto heels”
for army fatigues, as the
spoiled “Jewish princess” in
Private Benjamin; Mary Ty-

‘Strangles,’ come
with an image

By PAUL WOODS .
TORONTO (CP) — With a
name like the Stranglers, it
probably comes as no sur-
prise to Hugh Cornwell,
Jean-Jacques Burnel, Dave
Greenfield and Jet Black that
thoy have had their share of
hassles — legal and other-

wise.

The British rock band,
formed two years before
punk took over the U.K.
music scene, has gained a
reputation — some would say
well-deserved — for being
sexist, obnoxious and down-
right ugly.

Events leading to a Tor-
onto appearance did little to
dispel the image. Z

First Cornwell, guitarist
and lead singer,-was held up
at a Canadian border for five
hours, and it wasn’t because
he had informed customs
officials he was a Strangler.

A history of legal problems
— such as Cornwell's 60-day
sentence in Britain last year
for ossension of f marijuana, -

the French expatriate said.
“To accuse us of being sexist
on that ratio, I wouldn't
consider a fair charge.

“I'm not too sure what the
word sexist means. Does it
mean taking rights away
from women? In that case,
Ronald Reagan's sexist.

“If you have to use a word,
use misanthrope rather than
misogynist.” *

"ATTITUDE DISDAINFUL

Indeed, from the opening
line of the Stranglers’ debut
album (Someday, I'm gonna
smack your face”) to recent

nt,
. numbers such as Tank (“I can

drive my wwety own tank, I
can maim”),’the group has
exhibited a disdain toward all
mankind, not just women.

A major factor in this is the
band members’ views of their
own role and the role of
Europe in - world politics.
Since Black and White, their
third album, militarism has
been a predominant theme in
the group's lyrics.

- Such tunes as Death and |”

a vand. the, ie; Night'and Blood, Sweden “an
earllSe PRES ST “tHiee bhid= : Quiet on‘ the'Eastern’. Front)’,

members in France‘ for al-
legedly inciting a riot at one
of their concerts — was res-
ponsible for,the delay, which
nearly caused cancellation of
the group's first Canadian
performance in three years.

TOUGH REPUTATION

Just before that concert,
representatives of A and M
Records, which distributes
the .newly-rel Savage!
ers IV album, nervously
shunted journalists in and
out of the band's hotel rooms,
as if fearful that the Strang-
lers would live up to their
reputation for beating up re-
porters.

Fortunately, Burnel — a
karate expert — preferred
talking to trouncing on this
particular night,

In their early days, the
Stranglers were accused of
being misogynists and sex-
ists, due largely to the lyrics
of such songs as Bring On the ©
Nubiles. Burnel, while con-
ceding that some of the
group's lyrics were hardly
feminist anthems, labelled
the charges unfair.

“We've written about 80 or
90 songs, and about three or
four songs about women,”

and The Wizard of Aus
(Nuclear Device) underscore
this interest, which devel-
oped in Burnel when he was
court-martialled for not an-
swering a French military
draft notice.

Burnel released a solo a
bum,. Euroman Cometh,
which he advocated creation
of a United States of Europe,
a.. confederation...of,, 3}

as much power on he world
stage as the United States
and the Soviet Union.
“We've had two world
wars in Europe,” he said. “I
don’t fancy a third one.
“Europe seems to be the
prize, the focal point. There
are tensions you're not aware
of in North America because
you're farther removed.”
The Stranglers have done
little to please critics since
their early days as a group
that “couldn't play our instru-
ments very well or sustain an
idea for more than a minute
or two,” two years before
that approach became. fa-
shionable in Britain.
When punk exploded -in
Britain in 1977, the Strang-
lers were criticized for" using

faces problems if he tries to
attend the March 30 awards
ceremonies.

Roman Polanski, nomin-
ated for Tess, fled the U.S.
after pleading guilty three
years ago to statutory rape
charges, and District Attor-
ney John Van de Kamp said if
the 47-year-old widower of

Sharon Tate turns up at
Oscar festivities he could be
arrested,

Another best director nom-
inee is more familiar‘to the

public as an actor. Robert
Redford made his , feature
Seesting debut in Ordinary

eople.

Pore other directors nom-
inated were David Lynch for
The Elephant Man; Martin
Scorsese for Raging Bull; and

, Richard Rush for The Stunt _
Man.

-not strong, but his

backing were
high calibre.

But it was the boldness of
Burns's undortaking — at age
88 — of a now, basically
youth-oriented medium that

.made Dighteen a sure-fire

winner. His presentation was

But riding on any previous
accomplishment doesn't sit
well, especially in Burns's
field. Ace country producer
Jerry Kennedy took as much
care putting together In
Nashville as he did with
Eighteen, and while the re-
sulting product is pleasant it
falls far short of outstanding.

Loveable George himself is
to blame. If his opening shot
at recording can be lauded
for its charm, subsequent eéf-
forts must have more. More
plainly, if he wants to be re-
garded as a recording artist,
he needs something more
than tired vocals carried by

éful lus!

recognition of this, with the
almost. tongue-in-cheek de-
livery, carried the product,

in its b ing the

‘That something more could
have been Burns's incredibly
aed wit, which he uses

i on*In Nash-

biggest country music sur-
prise of the year.

Burns rides on the success
of I Wish I Was Eighteen
Again with his, second re-
lease, In Nashville, (Mercury,
SRM-1-6001). Indeed, as he-
playfully notes in one tune,
he is “hot” today, as much in
demand as ke has ever been
throughout a career that has
moved from vaudeville
through radio, . films, . tele-"
vision, literature, films again:
and now country- PoP. record-
ing. .

aa, Instead, he chooses to
wrap his vocal pipes’ around

ton tune willie, Won't You

. Bing:a Song with Me.

Sutton, who*on Eighteen
gave Burns the fine fun tune
A Real Good Cigar, now has
George begging . Willie Nel-
son to team up with him the
way he did with Waylon,
Leon and others.

However, a single can't -

carry an album: The listener
may well find himself think-
ing midway through In Nash-

‘ville, “I wish it was Eight-

een again,”

four-day testi val

“Joronro (CP)"— The
fourth annual Canadian

- Images film festival — the

largest. such’ gathering de-
voted to Canadian cinema —

will be held March 12 to 15.in

Paterborough, Ont.

A total of 980 films in
16mm and 35mm will be
screened during the four-day

festival, including 1980 Genie,

best picture

por grat

ence, experimental filmmak-
er Michael Snow, -indepen-
dent cinematrographor
Harry Rasky and more than
40 Canadian filmmakers.

Other highlights. of the
festival include a salute to

_ Australian cinema, oxtensive

workshops and seminars, 4
panel on the influence of
media onthe film industry, a

Hounds of Notre Dame and
Les Bon Debarras and Genie
nominees The .Lucky Star
and L’Affaire Coffin,

, Confirmed guests for the
event include authors W.O.
Mitchell and Margaret Laur-

wira@ulkec: now
showing locally

_- By JACK MATHEWS
‘It wil he one of 1980's most

some
material such as Sonny
Throckmorton’s Here's To

the Man in the Moon — stuff”
. that might best be described

as old-fogey pop.

Burns takés himself too
seriously here, and for a man
known and loved for. his
comedy, that’s. deadly.

‘The one real exception on
In Nashville is the. delight-
fully personalized Glenn Sut-

oiling point being

reached in dispute

by JERRY BUCK
LOS ANGELES (AP) — It’s
doubtful that trouble-prone
Chrissy Snow of Three's
Company could get herself
into as big a jam as actress
Suzanne Somers in -her dis-
pute with the series’ produc.
ers and ABC television.
The actress, now, in’ h

blonde. She also’ has: asked
for a percentage of the series’
eventual syndication income,
which she said could reach

million.

“It's absurd that Chrissy’s
got to take on the network,”
Somers, wife of Canadian
television personality AL

Hamel, said in a rare inter-
view.

a) ‘Which in theory Gofilt ath kia? athe. dispute, wehih las

seen Somers’ once-starring
role pared to a walk-on, has

reached the boiling point, and.

SUZANNE SOMERS... + -disputing

the actress said she plans to -°

file suit against NRW Prod-
uctions and ABC “for, res-
“ traint of trade” in nat allow-
ing her to work on the series.

Network analyst Herb Ja-

cobs forecast in. a recent.

speech that ABC, sometimes
in third place and sometimes
runner-up in, the” weekly
network ratings, is in danger

of losing its Tuesday night.

stronghold unless it solves
the Three's Company Brob-
lem..
- ADDS ACTRESS
- NRW said it has had to
all-but-write. Somers out of
the show: to protect itself
because her absences earlier
this ‘season caused serious
in

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seen as a throwback to the
overblown progressive rock
that gave way to the new
wave of guitar-oriented, to-
the-point rockers.

The continuous legal prob--

lems since then have sus-
tained the group's depraved
image but the critical back-
lash may finally be abating,
Burne! said. Early British re-
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book about his stay in aki
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ig shows
to the network. A new
actress, Jenilee Harrison,

was added to the cast in the

role of Cindy Snow, Chrissy’s
“country cousin.”

Somers said her co-stars,
John “Ritter and Joyce
DeWitt, won't speak to her,
that she is kept isolated and
made to perform on a stage
away from the rest of the
cast, Producer Mickey Ross
denied that.

Ritter and DeWitt, citing
pending legal action, declined
comment.

Producers Ross and Bernie
West were interviewed at

the offices of NRW Prod-
uctions,. which they co
founded: with the late Don
Nicholl, They also produce
The Jeffersons for CBS, and
formerly produced All in the
Family.

Most of the communication
about Somers’. salary has
been between NRW .and
Hamel.

DEMANDS MORE

The producer said that last
July, Hamel made 8 “serious”
demand for a salary’ ‘of
$150,000 a week and 10 per
cent of the profit. Somers and
Hamel said the‘demand was
not.serious and was made
only in a “fit of pique and
frustration” becatise the pro-

ducers would not negotiate. .

Ross and West. said they
have been generous with.
Somers. She began the show ©
in March, 1977, at 2 salary of
$2,500 a week. “Under. her
original contract for this

“be ve pal something like $6,500

a week,” said Ross. “She has
been given raises up to
$30,000 a. week.”

Miss Somera, meanwhile,
has a contract option for one
more year on Three's Com-
pany. She said her option has
not been picked,.up yet but
she has heard that it will be
and that she will be required

* to appear one minute a week

next season. ~

“Well, to me that’s: the
worst they can do to me,” she
. gaid. “That's, preventing me
from working. «That's: not
only not allowing me to work
on this series, it’s. not allow-

ing me to do my. own series at

that
Windwalker, arguably the
most American movie ever
made, is technically foreign.

If it-hadn't been for some

face-saving last-minute ‘ac--

quiescence by the committee:
that decides Academy Award
eligibility, this epic Indian

adventure, set in the 18th |

Century. West, would be
competing for Oscars with
subtitled films about French
gay couples, Italian labor ©
unrest and medieval Japan-
ese warriors. -

The Oscar talk is fot real,
too. In addition-to being an
original, Windwalker is. a
legitimate contender in sev-
eral categories.

It is a stirring family saga,
an opic Indian adventure
that, without the presence of
any fork-tongued white man,
has as much action and
dramatic tension as some of

the best films of John Ford or .

John Wayne.
Without either attonieing
or sentimentalizing the sub-

ject, Windwalker provides a

clearer understanding of the
Indian's relationship with his
environment — the awe, the
fear and the love_of nature
“that framed his life-style

than either the most sym-

pathetic Western, or the
most . heavy-handed social
documentary.

The story, based ona novel
by Blaine Yorgason, overlaps
three generations of a Chey-
enne family’ and its: violent
confrontations with their his-
torical enemy, the Crows. It-
is. told, partly’in flashback,

_ from the viewpoint of an old

man (Trevor Howard) who
has spent most of his adult
life trying to find a son kid-
napped as a child by Crows.

‘There is enough good, old-
fashioned . Western action,

graphically and authentically -

portrayed, to keep the most
restless viewers in their
seats. Most of it occurs when
the old man's family leaves

him for dead in the midst of 0
_ brutal winter and runs into a
band of Crow warriors intent
on killing them.

But the old man has not
died, and after stuggling
free from his elevated grave,
then ‘surviving attacks by
both a pack of wolves ‘and a
giant grizzly, he. catches up
with his family to guide them
against their attackers.

Windwaker will be play-
ing at’ the Castle Theatre
today, Monday ‘and Tuesday.

Restaurant
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featuring glant antique
cabinets, turn-of-the
century English and
ltallan stalned glass,
and much more.
inner,

salutes to directors’ Francis
Mankiewicz and Jacques Le-
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tress Micheline Lanctot, and
the world premiere: of. South,
Pacific 1942.

A National Film Board

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film, seminars on  experi-
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