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Coiderbank Thai Ballet a hit VANCOUVER (CP) — With slow, subtle gestures and spectacularly regal cos tumes, the Royal Thai Ballet mesmerized a sold-out aud ience Friday night at Expo 86. A piphat orchestra of wooden drums, BY CELEBRITY HUNTERS By BOB THOMAS Associated Press HOLLYWOOD — Among the amazing number of comedy artists who emerged from Chicago in the 1970s, none is more versatile than Harold Ramis, a man who looks and sounds like your friendly neighborhood y oboe and bell-cymbals opened the performance with an exotic version of O Canada before dancers took the stage to present folk dances, a martial arts demonstration and a full-length classical piece called a khon, or masked, drama. Thai ballet is unlike the North American and Euro- pean variety — there are no flying leaps through the air or muscular young men lift ing willowy partners above their heads. Instead, classical Thai dance is elegantly compact: a matter of refined hand move. ments, tilted heads and small, precise steps. Short, often stocky male dancers thump hypnotically around the sparse stage while the women move fluidly, their toes curled up- ward and their fingers ar ched backward in distinctive Thai style. The most opulent aspect of a Thai ballet is the costumes: multi-layered creations covered in sequins and spark ling jewels, topped by pa goda-like headdresses. Although works like the khon drama have altered little over the centuries, there has been as least one major change in the 1,000 year-old dance form, said artistic director Seree Wangnaitham. Interviewed through an interpreter, Seree explained that until 150 years ago ballet was performed exclusively for Thai kings. “The folk dances came from the way of life of the common people while the classical dance developed in the royal courts of our fore fathers,” he said. esdoy Wednesday id Or better still, phone the CasNews at 365-7266. Tt Please contact me with details Nome (Please Print i... With his quiet manner and scholarly glasses, Ramis is regularly ignored by celebrity hunters. Not by movie studios, however. He has been involved in various capacities with some of the biggest comedy hits of recent times. He was the whimsical partner of Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray in Ghostbusters. He has co-written National Lampoon's Animal House, Meatballs, Stripes, Ghost busters and Rodney Dangerfield’s current winner, Back to School. He also directed and co-wrote Caddyshack and National Lampoon's Vacation. Now comes Club Paradise, which Ramis wrote with Brian Doyle-Murray and also directed. The Warner Bros. release stars Robin Williams as a Chicago fireman who invests in a ruined Caribbean resort. Also involved in the Ramis often ignored Club Paradise. “I finished the picture last July, and it was delayed for release this summer. Meanwhile, three other comedies about island resorts came out: The Last Resort, Water and Hot Resort. My heart stopped each time one of them was released. Fortunately for us, all of them failed.” Ramis’ golden touch may well do the trick for Robin Williams, whose movie roles have never matched the brilliance of his impromptu comedy performances (example: his emeceeing of this year’s Oscar cast). Fitting Williams’ quicksilver wit into the script required planning: “I made a deal with Robin — after I got one take the way the script was written, he could then improvise. That's not easy to do, because it surprises the other actors, who don't know what their cues are. But when it works, it can be inspiring.” Harold Ramis thinks of himself as a writer and director and admits that acting seems “more like a whole range of acting offers,” he said with a wry smile. “Usually the pitch is something like: ‘We have a ‘go’ project, but the script just needs a little rewrite. comedies are Peter O'Toole, Rick Moranis, Twiggy, Eugene Levy and the late Adolph Caesar. HE WORRIES Like most comedians, Ramis is a worrier, and he found reason for concern as he awaited the release of Could you do it? And could you get Bill Murray or Chevy Chase and a director?” “If I had the nerve for it I might go out and look for jobs like real actors. But I don't have the temperament to be an actor. I can't stand the rejection.” Production highly acclaimed GLYNDEBOURNE, Eng. land (Reuter) — In the gen eral splendor of an English country house, the exuberant vitality of Catfish Row has been recreated in a triump- hant production of Porgy and Bess. This first British pro- duction of the American opera has been greeted with universal acclaim by the critics, while elegantly dressed audiences have stomped their feet, cheered and risen in spontaneous standing ovations. Jamaican bass Willard White's Porgy has been hailed as “a performance of an extraordinary heroic sta ture” while Yorker Cynthia Hayman as Bess was lauded as “luscious, inspira tional, utterly compelling.” Glyndebourne, the only New opera house in the world to — MAPLE LEAF