Castlégar News September 27, 1987 ENTERTAINMENT ALL TYPES OF COMMERCIAL PRINTING * Letterheads * Brochures * ot Gastlegar News, le Tickets MAPLE Swe LEAF TRAVEL GUAYMAS MEXICO 2 Weeks T10tz!2. Includes rd. trip Hights plus accomm. 352-5358 pa OR SONS... VIVIAN 646 Boker St., Nelec LICENCED DINING ROOM ~ OPEN 4 P.M. DAILY WESTAR & COMINCO VOUCHERS ACCEPTED —AIR ONES — Author Forsyth controls film TORONTO (CP) — Frederick Forsyth looks like a refined, aloof British businessman of perhaps one of the cool British secret service agents in his best-selling novels. But when he's seized by his work, the author writes feverishly, completing a novel in only a month or two, “When the stuff starts to flow, I get taken over by the story I'm trying to tell.” Forsyth says he was just as enthused about writing his most recent novel, The Fourth Protocol, in 1984 as he was when he wrote his first best-seller, Thé Day of the jackal, 18 years ago. Currently on tour to pr-mote the ‘film version of Protocol — he wrote the screenplay and ¢o-produced the movie — and looking a very distinguished 49, Forsyth said writing for film was completely different than writing a novel. “You have to write a script in conjunction with other le. You have to deal with the visions of the director (John Mackenzie) and the star (Michael Caine). “There were times when John said, ‘Freddy, it looks good on the page but it will not work on film,’ and I would always bow to his view because he's a film-maker.” INTO SECLUSION When he's writing his novels, Forsyth basically goes into hiding in his office, about a kilometre from his home in “villagey, semi-rustic” St. John's Wood in London. He says his wife, Carrie, would probably describe him an un. approachable until he hati typed the last line of the last chapter, and then he just snaps out of it. Forsyth-gets deeply involved in his research. When he wrote The Odessa File in 1972 he was so fascinated by the anecdotes he dug up about Nazi Germany that he was “loathe to leave them out,” so he put them all in. for Private 3294 Located one mi —— ichenia. Happy 50th creas CLARENCE & MARION ACKERMAN You are invited to a come ond go tea at the Legion Sat., 10 ‘from 2-4 p.m. Best Wishes This Week in DEXTER’S PUB WED. THRU SAT. Sept. 30-Oct. 3 Hart and Soul. GRISANDMAN 7 emo aimgan 1944 Columbie Ave. PERFORMANCE”ET Seoson Ticke's for Evening Pectormonces All Tickets te be Sold on October 1.2.3 et: dt; Sener Sted 834; Famay $128 FOR ANY of PREGA) But he's also practical and realistic about his work. When his private “committee” — his wife, parents, publisher, lawyer, agent and a couple of close friends — told him the story was too disjointed, he acquiesced and promptly cut out about 20,000 words. It was the same way with writing the screenplay for Protocol. “Sometimes I was the forerunner of changes to be made,” Forsyth said, lighting a cigarette during an interview in his hotel suite. WAS JOURNALIST “I'm not too fussed about my work being cut. That may date back to my 12 years in journalism where you file what you think is a masterpiece from Bangkok and it turns out to be 2% inches on the back page.” And although his work is close to his heart, “as long as it makes sense, I don't mind (it) being changed. Before his job as a freelance foreign correspondent and areporter for the BBC, Forsyth was a pilot in the Royal Air Force. When he does a voice check for the tape recorder at the beginning of an interview, he automatically rattles off his old air force personnel number. “Sometimes watching a fighter plane going over a blue, blue sky,” he said nostalgically, “I wish I was up there with it, or when there's a hot story breaking in Afghanistan or somewhere I wish I was a foreign correspondent again. But that tends not to last very long. “I enjoy the freedom of novel writing.” RETAINS CONTROL Although making the Protocol movies has taken up a solid 2% years of his life, Forsyth was able to go home every night to see his sons, Stuart, 9, and Shane, 8, after filming at the studios near London, except when the crew was on location in Finland for a week. September 27, 1987 FOCUSING ON ABILITIES . . . Norma Collier (right) and Clara Hancock show how theatre group at- mosphere brings handicapped and non. NEW THEATRE GROUP PLAYS WEDNESDAY The Light and Power Company, an innovative Castlegar theatre group whose members include handi- capped and non-handicapped people, will present an evening of entertainment Wednesday from 7 - 9 p.m. at Kinnaird Hall. The evening will feature Out of Darkness, a present- ation of songs, improvisations and a story about the right to make choices. There will also be participation in theatre games and refreshments. The Light and Power Company has been working with handicapped and non-handicapped people as it seeks to build an integrated, supportive community. The group is the result of a project called Theatre with the Disabled, whose goal is to provide personal development and growth opportunities, through participation in theatre arts, to all people, particularly to those who may not have had those opportunities. In an atmosphere where handicapped and non-handi- capped people can come together and interact as equals, some of the doors begin to open to allow people to express havdicepped It's part of a new theatre group c ohea io Light and Power Com- pany. themselves, gain self-confidence and trust, make friends and have fun. “As the group's work progressed, what we all discovered is how much we have in common, and that we have all been disabled in some way, says project teacher/- director Norma Kilpatrick. “Together we explored our feelings and were able to find positive images and con- structive alternatives, which focus on people's abilities rather than their disabilities.” The idea for Theatre with the Disabled was con- ceived and funding obtained by Dee Aberdeen. She was inspired by Able Fest, an event funded by International Year of Disabled Persons, which promoted awareness among disabled and abled people about the value of artistic expression in one’s life. According to the Able Fest Report and all who attended, what was discovered is that the real value lies not in the level of skill attained but rather “in the integrity of the effort which allows the mute soul to communicate.” Theatre with the Disabled, sponsored by Castlegar Citizen Advocacy, with funding from the Secretary of State, Castlegar United Way and Castlegar Arts Council, started last January. The weekly classes provided a variety of activities using sound and movement, imagaination, characteri- zatin, and improvisation. The group then collaboratively created a presentation called Out of Darkness. Regular weekly classes will begin on Oct. 14. Attendance at Wednesday's event and all classes is free and open to everyone. BRAZIL FILMS GO HOLLYWOOD RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) — Brazilian filmmakers, known for such political and romantic movies as Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands, Bye Bye Brazil and They Don't Use Black Tie, are abandoning the sunny, sen- They say they lose on ex- pensive feature films made in Brazil's Portuguese language and shown only to the rela tively few cinemagoers in Brazil, where half of the pop- ulation has never seen a film, according to government the operations director of the be understood abroad. In- agency. About 10 will be co- deed, directors of that so- productions with foreign pro- called “cinema novo,” or new ducers. _ cinema movement, scorned “We have to make films for foreign influences. foreign markets now,” Isola “We no longer live in a said. “Co-productions are the pastoral paradise. Making only solution. Films don't pay low-budget films for limited Spinner's Inlet switches coasts VANCOUVER (CP) — A new pilot show planned for B.C. has been moved to the East Coast and a Toronto producer blames people at CBC Vancouver, who he says “couldn't get their act to gether.” The show is called Spin- ner’s Inlet, and may become a series. It’s the creation of Vancouver Province news- paper reporter Don Hunter, who is disappointed the pro- ject has switched coasts. But Toronto producer Jim Swan says that when he came out this summer to scout locations and casting he ran into problems. He says CBC Vancouver told him COMIN production crews were al- ready committed to other shows like Danger Bay and The Beachcombers. Swan then offered the series to CBC Halifax, which jumped at the chance. As for CBC Vancouver, Swan says “I just hope I never have to deal with them again.” Hunter says his story is based on West Coast people and places, and moving the location to the Maritimes causes problems. “There's a different idiom and pace to life in the two places. It means wholesale changes to the scripts and the concept.” UN. TY Bulletin Board sual tropics and going Holly. wood. The trend is causing con troversy between those who say directors are selling out and handing over Brazil's cultural identity and those who say the added challenge of making a Brazilian film for a foreign audience will push the industry to new heights. Hector Babenco, director of the Brazilian-filmed but English-language Kiss of the Spider Woman, which won an Academy Award in 1985 for actor William Hurt, went di- rectly to making movies overseas after that critically acclaimed film. He recently took his film crew to Albany, N.Y., where he shot a $30- million US adaptation of William Kennedy's Iron weed, starring Jack Nichol- son and Mery] Streep. Top directors Miguel Faria Jr., Arnaldo Jabor and Nel- son Pereira dos Santos are finishing scripts for films spoken in English and made with foreign money. figures. HELP SELL FILMS Co-productions with another country and foreign actors help to sell a Brazilian film abroad, Faria said. However, last year, Bra- zilian movies — known for their metaphorical, political themes — won a record 17 international prizes. Susan Amaral's Star Hour took the Golden Bear award for best actress at the Berlin Film Festival, and Jabor's Love Me Forever or Never won best actress at the Cannes Film Festival. But directors say it's in. creasingly hard to make films pay off in this country with a $112-billion US foreign debt, sporadically rampant infla- tion and with little money to invest in movies. Last year, Embrafilme, the government film agency, re- ceived 600 film scripts but only had the, money to finance 22. This year, the number will be about the same, according to Ivan Isola, for if they are shown only in Brazil.” Beyond the immediate problem of financing, Bra- zilian directors must compete for movie audiences with American superproductions, which cost an average $16 million. ’A top Brazilian pro- duction costs only $500,000. Despite difficulties selling Brazilian films at home, Car- los Diegues, director of Bye Bye Brazil and Quilombo, called the sudden move to make English-language films dangerous. “A film is a success be- cause it reveals an original side of a country,” he said. “If you forget this and try for a Hollywood remake you lose your audience. We can’t base a whole industry on Ameri- can money and actors.” Through the 1970s, Bra- zilian directors such as Glau- ber Rocha, Diegues, Faria, dos Santos, Jabor and others made obscure but avant- garde pictures that were for the most part too regional to doesn't make sense any more,” Faria said. But he added, “that doesn't mean any film I make won't be specifically Brazilian.” Jabor, whose films I Love You and All Nudity Shall Be Punished have been distri- buted worldwide, said co-pro- ductions and the use of for- eign actors would not com- promise Brazilian cinema. “For an industry near col- lapse, it’s a way out,” he said. “Directors must always work within strict limitations or die of hunger. The trick will be how to make a Brazilian film and participate in world markets.” TYPE SETTING Give your newsletters, meeting bulletins, etc.. o professional appearance Comere-ready type for your Phototopier. CASTLEGAR NEWS 365-7266 INFLATION EATS AWAY PAY CHEQUES OTTAWA (CP) — Inflation has steadily eaten away at the weekly paycheques of Canadian workers, leaving them worse off than they were at the start of the decade. ‘They have lost ground to inflation in each of the last two years. And, with the exception of two years, the purchasing punch of their weekly paycheques have been weakening since 1960, says a Statistics Canada report. More recent agency figures on inflation and average weekly,.earnings suggest workers will fall even farther behind this year. “Although average weekly earnings of paid workers grew between 1983 and 1986, the increases did not keep up with inflation,” the report states. The loss in earnings “sticks out like a sore thumb,” said agency analyst Fred Wong, referring to graphs depicting how inflation has eaten up the wage gains of workers since 1980. é What the statistics show is that in inflation-adjusted 1981 dollars, the average weekly paycheque of a worker in Canada had shrunk to $325.48 in 1986 from $331.94 in 1979. UNDERSTATE IMPACT But even those statistics understate the impact inflation has had on earnings of workers because they ignore the reduction in inflation protection that until 1986 was built into the tax system. In his 1985 budget, Finance Minister Michael Wilson announced that in future the tax system would only be indexed to annual rates of inflation above’ three per cent. In other words, workers would be paying increased taxes on wage gains which only reflected increases in inflation. Cominco fined $3,200 VANCOUVER (CP) used as Toad len bbe ares vie Lornex Mining Corp. and 4 lubricant ¢ontained about onto the indshie! Cominco Ltd. were each fined 140 parts per million, or half another truck. ay regulations in an In- oil spill involving under the Transportation of Should that continue throug. the final three quarters of Dangerous Goods Regula- purchasing tions dealt with an oil spill power of the, Everhee GHG Sine. 11 at’ the Highland Valley Copper mine site near Logan Lake, Highland Valley Copper is operated as a registered partnership of Lornex and +» EARNINGS VARY The report, A Review of Employment and Earnings Data, 1988-1986, also notes average weekly earnings vary widely from industry to industry. “In some industries, for example, much of the employ- Ooeioeh ot ie ment consists of part-time, low-wage jobs. shovsllarng pepe teeny “In others, however, because of the nature and location bs ae Paieed — of the jobs, both pay rates and hours worked are well above ¢lectrical transformer to the national average.” Vancouver for overhaul when Mining industry workers have consistently earned the ‘ts ve can sted 365-7145 MOTHER NATURES pany highest wages over the last three years, earning anaverage ©Dtaining @‘small amount o! ‘Downtown Costloger $711.05 per week last year, while workers in the trade pelyehientyeted biphenyls’ iets 365-2985 oo arine industry, earning on average $317.50 per week last year, (PCBs) etre 2os-2155 PROT have had the lowest. Court: rip; told'8.000 litreg 365-3666 pu fae A breakdown by industry shows that after-inflation 365-3311 weekly earnings” were down last year from 1986 in all industries except finance, insurance and real estate and trade. By region, earnings in the Northwest Territories were the highest at $581.65 per week last year and lowest in Prince Edward Island-at $348.30, "eho vor eae Se Prke ologe s t orey a CASTLEGAR Pu 365-2175, 365-7252 Estate winery opens 365-3255 365-7782 Alberta mill planned TORONTO (CP) — A Vancouver businessman and a group of North American newspaper publishers are on the verge of completing a $360-million deal to build Alberta's first newsprint mill, the Toronto Globe and Mail says. The investor group, led by Vancouver lawyer Ronald Stern, plans to construct the paper mill near Whitecourt, 150 kilometres northwest of Edmonton, the newspaper said in today’s editions. Alberta, which has spent much of this year in hot pursuit of forestry industry investment, hopes to announced the project in about a month, said Fred McDougall, the province's deputy minister of forestry lands and wildlife. Stern, one of the founding partners of Pacific West Equities Ltd., which publishes magazines in Vancouver, said the news could come even sooner. “Hopefully, we will be in a position in a week or 10 days to properly announced something.” The group includes or is closely linked to eight or nine major buyers: some are newspaper publishers, the rest, are other kinds of “end users,” Stern said. He refused to identify the participants — although a number of sources told the newspaper Southam Inc. was one of them. TAKE EQUITY Stern said four or five members of the group will take equity in the project, while four more will provide the group with firm commitments to buy paper. The Whitecourt mill is expected to produce 220,000 metric tonnes of newsprint a ear. ? Industry sources following Alberta's efforts to lure pulp and paper producers to the province's abundantly wooded northwest said the success of such a project will depend on having publishers involved from the start. Wood and energy costs will be low, but will be offset by the high cost of transportation from land-bound Alberta to major markets. “This project looks feasible because most of the tonnage has already been itted or at least i one source said. lishes 16 daily pers and a financial weekly newspaper in Canada. It owns three newspapers in Alberta, where the company buys about 60 per cent of the newsprint used in the province, newsprint salesmen said. province, newsprint salesmen said. Pacific West Equities, originally called Pacific West Publications Ltd., is owned by Stern and his founding partners Harvey Southam, a member of Southam's board of directors since June, and George Mleczko. Stern, who practises law in Vancouver, said Pacific West and his partners are not directly involved with the Whitecourt project. The consortium has been working on the deal for about seven months. .DISCUSS FINANCING After hiring Vancouver consultant Nystrom Lee Kobayashi and Associates Inc. to do a feasibility study, it began talking to the Alberta government about financing for the project. 465 Columbo Ave. 365-7813 WOODWORKING oo wooowoRk 222-\02nd, Costiegor 5. lupphoim, Raspberry KELOWNA, B.C. (CP) — A native of this Okanagan city who made his fortune in oil, gas and mining has re- 365-3717 turned to take over a fledgl: woot ing winery. 365-5190 Cosi Along the way, it help in the form of advice from Ross Fitzpatrick, president John Santeny. a Teme Alberts cabinet minister under then and chief executive officer of NELSON premier Peter Lougheed and now employed by, the same the Vancouver-based Viceroy Vancouver law firm as Stern. Resource Corp., officially Stern refused to reveal how much equity the partners opened the Cedar Creek Es- are putting into the project, saying it will depend on the tate Winery this week. outcome of the discussions with the Alberta government. Fitzpatrick, whose family Alberta has indicated it will help forest industry has long been associated with investors finance their projects, but won't hand over grants agriculture in the region, or interest-free loans. bought the operation formerly known as the Un- iacke Estate Winery — last “T've been looking for a Stock report ane ee long time,” he said in an interview. “I came close to tear Resources was off .17 at buying several places.” $1.65. Once renovations, and ex- International” Phoenix’ A pansion are completed, Fitz- led warrants trading, un- patrick said he expects to changed at .11 on 318,000 have invested about $1.2 shares and Alaska Apollo D million in the seven-year-old slipped .01 at .16 on 89,500. winery. VANCOUVER (CP) — Prices were mixed in active irading Friday on the Van- couver Sock Exchange. Vol- ume at the close was 21,750,986 shares. Of the issues traded, 402 advanced, 362 declined and 546 remained unchanged for a total VSE index of 1900.29, up 5.36 from Thursday's close of 1894.93, and down 16.12 from last Friday's close of 1916.41. GSR Goldsearch Resources was the most active trader among equities, unchanged at $2.00 on. 520,250 shares, Softkey Software gained .30 at $1.85 on 178,000, Baywest Capital slipped .05 at .78 on 174,600 and Northwest Shroom remained at .27 on 134,250. International Phoe- nix Energy gained .02 at .92 and Forum Resources rose 02 at .40. Leading development equities trading was Con- solidated Sea Gold, down .04 at .560 on 906,400 shares, Platinum Communication Systems remained at .77 on 847,000, T.I. Travel Inter- national advanced .06 at .57 on 342,000 and Kam Creed Mines was down .24 at $2.20 on 330,750. 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