e4 CastlegarNews October 6, 1990 a wt October 6, 1990 Castlegar News 9s D-sar-D> CELGAR, WESTAR & COMINCO MEAL VOUCHERS ACCEPTED 365-3294 of Ootischenia ENTERTAINMENT Simpsons’ honesty popular By STEPHEN NICOLLS cr Writer * ~~ PRIME RIB © SEAFOOD © STEAKS SALAD © SPECIALTIES CAESAR FULLY LICENSED COMINCO & CELGAR VOUCHERS WELCOME “a 352-5358 ow WELCOME 646 BAKER ST. NELSON — ACROSS FROM PHARMASAVE Rossland Light Opera Players OryS SDdly OCT. 11 — INTRO & SING THROUGH OCT. 15 — AUDITIONS OCT. 18 — FIRST CHORUS PRACTISE All at 7:30 p.m., 2054 Washington St., Rossland FOR INFORMATION CALL 362-5665 COMMUNITY TEACHING CLINIC Cancer Society annual Breast Self-Examination teaching clinic October 21 and 22 trom 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at hospital. Phone 365-2148 during office hours to make appointment. Learning this technique may save your life 480 CASTLEGAR AQUANAUTS BINGO Saturday, October 13 at Castlegar Arena Complex. 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Notices hould be brought to the Castlegar New at 197 Columbia Ave COMMUNITY Bulletin Board WEST’S TRAVEL 365-7782 1355 Bay Ave. Trail © 368-6660 DESERT OASIS TOUR #1 Jenvory 26-February 27, 1991 — 33 Dey Spend two weeks in Paim Springs me your own one-bedroom apartment suites Bring your golf clubs and join us on many side tours to Disneyland, Andreas Canyon. Yume and more! Tour includes one week Mexican Riviera Cruise! ! DBL /TW: $3,629.00 pp DESERT OASIS TOUR #2 February 3-March 7. 1991 — 3- Same as Tour No. | but includes a week in Phoenix instead of the Mexican Cruise DBL /TW: $2.795.00 pp RENO TOURS October 28 — 8 Day NDS November 10 — 8 Day — SANDS November 17 — 8 Day — RIVERBOAT CHRISTMAS IN VICTORIA December 23-27 — 5-Dey Christmas in the quaint city of Victoria with new friends and Santa. City lights tour and fabulous Christmas dinner with all the trimmings! There's lots more! OBL /TW: $619.00 pp SOUTHERN EXPERIENCE Jenvery 15-February 15, 1991 — 32 Dey Texas-New Orleans-Florida. Tour includes trips to Old Tucson. Son Antonio. Disney World: an AirBoat Ride through the Everglodes. and more! GRAND OLE NASHVILLE April 3-24, 1991 — 23 Day Watch for Cowboys. Cattle and Cactus os we head to the Country Music Capital Nashville! Highlights include Arches Notional Pork, Amarillo, Graceland in Memphis. Kentucky and more! DBL /TW: $1,889.00 pp SPRINGTIME ON THE ISLAND April 11-19, 1991 — 9 Day Vancouver Island Tour or cides Whole-Watching in Ucluelet, Sight Seeing in Victoria. a day on the Royal Hudson and lots more! PRICE TO BE ANNOUNCED SPOK ANE SHOW TOURS HELLO DOLLY! — November 6-8. DbI. ‘Tw: $194.00 pp PHANTOM OF THE OPERA — Jonuory 19-20 BBL TW ist 00 pp SOUND OF MUSIC — February 21.22 —_ DBL/TW: $154 00 py LES MISERABLES — Aprii 20-2) — DBL/TW: $164.00 pp Senior discounts 60 plus & retirees © Early bird discounts on specified tours * All prices are based on double occupancy ALL TOURS, NON-SMOKING ONBOARD COACH See your travel agent for details or CALL 1-800-332-0282 “Bart Simpson is my kind of guy,”” chirps a television-friendly eight-year- old. *‘He hates school. He’s like a read kid." An honest response to an honest show. The like-it Simpsons, with all their fi social shortcomings, may explain the phenomenal success of the Fox net- work's prime-time cartoon clan. “The Simpsons is a joke on traditional sitcoms because its charac- ters are so far removed from what's always been depicted as the norm,”’ Jack Nachbar, a professor of popular cutlure at Bowling Green State University, told Newsweek m: . “*But in actuality, they're closer to the real norm than anything we've ever seen."’ Executive producer James Brooks calls them “‘the normal American family in all its beauty and all its horror.”” Starting out as breakaway bits on The Tracey Uliman Show, The Sim- psons blossomed into a full half-hour series last winter and skyrocketed up the U.S. ratings chart. By mid-June it was the third most- watched show. Granted, at that point it was mainly up against reruns on the other networks. On the other hand, Fox programming only runs on 131 L'Association Francophone Kootenay Ouest vous invite a une soiree casino (avec Fausse Argent) Vendredi, 12 Octobre, au complex communautaire, p.m. Amener un dessert (pot luck). Bienvenue a tous. The “Association Francophone Kootenay Ouest’ invites you to “Fun” Casino Night in French Fri., Oct. 12 At the Community Complex, td m. Bring a dessert (Pot Luck). Welcome to All! stations in the United States, com- pared with 208 of top-rated NBC. Those lofty ratings took a nosedive from Sunday. Up against prime-time behemoth The Cosby Show, the car- toon series plummeted to as low as 54th place. Both shows were in reruns then. A truer test will come on Oct. 11 when the two are offering new episodes. But the Si . The partiarch is Homer, bellied chap with two hairs ctl from his domed scalp. Frequently gruffy, especially when dealing with Bart, Homer hasn't got a clue why life keeps kicking him in the pants. He’s a safety inspector at a nuclear plant, who sleeps on the job. A Homerism: ‘*Down at the plant, I'm doing a job. And when I die, hasn't been restricted to TV ratings. They have crossed into pop culture. Simpsons T-shirts and sundry paraphernalia have been popping up everywhere. The animated family has even turned up on the cover of such major magazines as Newsweek and Rolling Stone. Controversy has erupted over the influence of Bart's rebellious nature, with some U.S. schools banning T- shirts that spout such Bartisms as “Under-achiever and proud of it, man’ and “I’m Bart Simpson, who the hell are you?’” Like Cosby, The Simpsons is an- chored in the family. But unlike the sugar-coated, white-collar Huxtables, the Simpsons are a raucous blue- collar bunch who also love each other but rarely express it eloquently or outwardly. else will be doing this job. And when he dies, somebody else will do it. I dunno. Makes you feel great to be a part of something like that.’’ His wife is Marge, a slender woman whose most distinguishing feature is a towering beehive of blue hair. In her scratchy voice, Marge wields some wicked malapropisms and dispenses life tips like a ’50s TV mom. Her advice to daughter Lisa: ‘*Just smile. Then you'll fit in and you'll be invited to parties and the boys will like you and happiness will follow.”” Eight-year-old Lisa is probably the brig! test of the crew "m= not precocious,’ she’s quoted in an ‘interview’ with Rolling Stone. ‘‘Precocious is the work that adults chauvinistically use to diminish the fact that you're reasonably intelligent."” Bart, 10, is the jagged-headed brat whose mischievousness knows no bounds."" When he’s not acting up in school (‘1 will not instigate revolution,”* he’s forced to write on the blackboard, as well as ‘‘They are laughing at me, not with me”’), he’s making prank calls to a local bar. The last member of the clan is Maggie, an infant who innocently and incessantly sucks a pacifier. Looking back over the first season, co-producer Sam Simon says: ‘‘I think one of the reasons for the suc- cess if that people have tended to like just about everything in the show. “There were some very sophisticated references. At the same time, there were vulgar noise jokes, and movie parodies and dream sequences."’ (Creator Matt Groening says that on one level the show ‘‘reveals something about the way families relate to each other."* But, he says, “‘We also do ex- tremely wild sight-gags like Bart get- ting his (teary) eyes blow-dried by the blow drier.”” And then there’s the honesty of it all. “We care about the Simpsons’ humanity,”’ says Brooks. ““We never think of the show as a cartoon.”" Book chronicles opening and closing of Doors By BILL ANDERSON CP Music Writer Of all the mythic figures in rock, hbours én agente ond nets , a0 inary av. 40th wedding anniversary OPEN HOUSE Harry and Nancy Knight Sunday Oct. 7, 1-4:00 pm. at their home (3499 Broadwater, Robson) no gifts please igties cman COMING SOON LOONEY DAYS! WE ACCEPT WESTAR, CELGAR & COMINCO MEAL TICKETS rs undays & Holidays 1004 Columbia * Ph. 365-8155 Castlegar Aquanauts License No. 763214 BINGO Saturday, Oct. 13 Arena C $FOOO seckoor. tHe Koorenays! $500 sccipor. $500 concnse. 60% PAYOUT EARLY BIRDS 60% PAYOUT SPECIALTY GAMES Early Bird 6 p.m., Regular Bingo 7 p.m. BREWSKIES Presents... Tues., Oct. 9 Showtime: 9 p.m. Jim Morrison of the Doors may loom largest. He is idolized as rock’s supreme martyr, and his image has been mer- chandised as a symbol of rebellion, sexuality and doomed romantic youth. A new book, however, tells a dif- ferent story — and it’s one worth listening to. Riders on the Storm, by former Doors drummer John Densmore (Doubleday, $24.95), is the first book to be written by one of the three sur- viving members of the legendary L.A. band. And while Densmore is no great shakes as a writer, he manages in a quiet, almost painfully self-effacing way to accomplish his task of bringing Morrison down to human dimension. Morrison was a brilliant artist, Densmore wants everyone to know, but he was also a tortured soul and a self-destructive drunk. And once he started to fall apart, there was nothing redeeming about it Densmore, now 44, begins his story in 1975 in Paris, where he and the two other members of the Doors — guitarist Robby Krieger and keyboardist Ray Manzarek — are visiting Morrison’s grave for the first time. The gravesite has become a graffiti- Escape, to fantasy rooms AT COEUR D'ALENE, IDAHO Only 3 hours away to Bennett Boy on Coeur d Alene Lo! ind Private Spe Rms. Regular Rms. 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Morrison was strongly LOCAL NEWS Pythian chief to visit Margaret Irons, grand chief of the Pythian Sisters of British Columbia, will make an official visit to Kootenay Temple No. 37 of the Pythian Sisters when the temple convenes its regular meeting Oct. 11 at 7:30 p.m. in the Masonic Hall. Temple most excellent chief Joy Saunders will preside at the meeting at which ritualistic grand honors will be extended to Irons in ition of more than 1,500 subordinate temples throughout Canada and the United States with 46 grand temples organized from its more than 96,000 euishing principles of the Pythian Sisters are love, equality, fidelity and purity. Their work covers @ broad field. It is not confined to the betterment of local temples nor the field of Pythiani the her official capacity in the 102-year- old organization. The Order of Pythian Sisters has Program focuses on Africa John Graham, OXFAM project of- ficer for southern Africa, will speak on Apartheid and Southern Africa in Nelson on Oct. 11 at 7:30 p.m. at the Capitol Theatre. Graham’ visit is part of a program called Africa Focus, sponsored by the United Nations Association in Canada, Kootenay region branch, and by the Kootenay Centre for a Sustainable Future. “The future is unfolding in southern Afri Graham said recently. ‘Democracy is still going to be a struggle, but there’s hope for the first time in many years.”’ Oct. 11 has been designated by the United Nations as a day of solidarity Political prisoners. Graham, who has met Nelson Mandela, has visited South Africa on three occasions, most recently in March 1990. The Africa Focus program is direc- ted -to Canadian voluntary organizations, municipal leaders, businesses, service clubs, church groups, labor organizations, education, and health care and social workers. It has three aims: © To inform Canadians about the continuing economic crisis faced by Africa; *© To support long-term initiatives inspired or led by Africans; and © To encourage a dialogue between non-governmental organizations and the Canadian government on the issues of unjust economic structures impeding African solutions to the by Romantic poetry, and the three musicians provided a remarkable con- text for his lyric-poems and his ‘‘brass and leather’’ voice. Densmore brought a love of jazz drumming; Krieger was a devotee of folk and flamenco guitar; and Manzarek was a classical prodigy who grew up in Chicago and had played in a blues band. One early review said the Doors sounded like ‘‘people trying desperately to reach through the choking haze of drugs and artificial masks."" The description turned out to be prophetic. Densmore says the musicians in the band had a deep creative empathy for each other, and the process of making their music was democratic and euphoric. But as the band grew in popularity, the dark side of Morrison began to grow out of control and nobody did anything about it. Over six years or recording and playing, they tolerated his excesses — urinating on Densmore’s bed; trashing Manzarek’s apartment, Passing out before a concert — but finally Morrison's decay could no longer be ignored. The last concert came in New Orleans in 1970, where the once- dynamic singer interrupted the show and rambled on incoherently for 10 minutes. “*It was pathetic,"” Densmore says, “‘an artist on the skids. “Jim wasn’t even drunk, but his energy was fading. | knew the band’s public life was over. | saw a sad old blues singer wha'd once been great but could’ nt get it up any more. “Rock ‘n’ roll’s Dorian Gray was only 27."" of the Other speakers at the Capitol will include representatives of the city of Mutare, Zimbabwe, who are working on a special exchange program with the city of Nelson. This exchange, part of an Africa 2000 program set up by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) to enable Canadian municipalities to work with African communities, has been called ‘‘a kind of grass roots in- ternational program.”” Gregory Kozak, a drummer who lives in Winlaw, will give an introduc- tion to African drumming and play a national premiere of Kalegala e Bem- be, David Tracy transcription of an A marimba per African art and artifacts belonging to Nelson resident Marylee Banyard, who was born in Zambia, will be on display in the lobby of the theatre. Kozak, who has studied traditional African dance and drumming with Abraham Adzenyah of the Ghana Dance Ensemble, will join other local i Oct. 12 for a icoholi dance from 8:30 p.m. to midnight at Maryhall at the Canadian Inter- national College in Nelson. At the dance, which will be attended by many CIC students from Japan, Kozak will teach an African clapping game and the dance of Lamba. The Oct. 11 program at the Capitol is by donations. Advance tickets for the dance Oct. 12 are $7 each and will be available from Trail, Nelson and Castlegar bookstores, student council representatives at local high schools and at Selkirk College in Castlegar. Weekly Special BACON CHEESE DELUXE $975 NEW HOURS 10 A.M.-8 P.M. Stay Tuned For... CRAZEE 152) Columbie Ave. 365-8388 Says in a news release. In addition to extending a helping hand to a member in distress, they are always ready to assist in any civic en- terprise or help any social organization. Any person wishing in- formation about the Pythian Sisters is to contact secretary Rose Soberlak in Castlegar. Currently on official and social visits to the various temples throughout the province, Irons will discuss plans and endeavors of the grand temple together with the ef- ficiency in operations of the subor- dinate temples in their various programs. 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