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TORONTO (CP) — Tanned, exuberant and confi-
dent, Jennifer Dale extolls the,yirtues of the part she has
tonight in CBC-TV's Love and Larceny.

“It is,” she says of Betsy Bigley, the +890s rag-to
riches-to-rags con-woman, “the best part ever written for.
an actress in Canada.”

The prospect of a breakthrough looms large for the
well-studied, hard-toiling Dale. The light-hearted, highly
glamorized TV portrayal of a cunning, deceitful woman is
being earmarked as a highlight of the _homebred
television season. =

Everything about the TV film reeks of success, from
Rob Iscove (Chautauqua Girl) as director to Douglas
Bowie (Empire Inc.) as writer. CBC is predicting a large
audience of 2.4 million for the three-hour movie.

But there's strong U.S. competition tonight — Don
Johnson of Miami Vice is in a two-part film, The Long Hot
Summer, with Cybill Shepherd of

“Oh,” Dale says, some color leaving her face on
Jearning about the competition.

The Long Hot Summer makes it a long uphill
struggle for the Canadian yarn to meet its audience
objective and give Dale recognition for her first-rate
piece of work.

CANADIAN WRITER...
Award-winning Joy
Kogawa reads from her
book Obasan, at Selkirk
College on Wednesday.
's reading was part
‘of the Canadian Writers’
series at the college.

Costews Photo by Doug Horvey

FOOLS BANKERS
Love and Larceny takes Bigley from her rough-hewn
farm days in Woodstock, Ont., where she first tries to live
out her dreams of fortune, through her 1.

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October 6, 1985

SIMPSONS
TRYING TO |
HANGE IMAG

Editor's note: O. an-upscale depai
store, Simpsons has fallen on hard times in the last few
years. The following story, the second of three, describes
the efforts of Simpsons’ new president and advertising
team to recapture the market, lgst to specialty’ shops.
By ROBERT McLEOD

TORONTO (CP) — The hammering of construction
workers at Simpsons Ltd.’s flagship headquarters in
downtown Toronto is evidence that the department store
retailer is trying to march to the beat of a different
drummer — a well-heeled, well¥ressed one that is more
likely to want perfume ‘and !fashion than washing
machines.

Much of the store is being redesigned as depart-
ments with the potential to make more money are

SPECIAL REPOR

expanded while others shrink, and modern boutiq
within the store will try to erase the stodgy reputation
that the chain acquired in recent years. Most of Simpsons’
other stores in Canada have also-been-earmarked~for
some sort of face-lift-in due course.

In addition, the company is spending millions of
dollars on an advertising campaign to change its image
and has hired Safger, Cravit and Freedman, a retail
marketing specialist, to mount the advertising assault on
the Canadian consumer.

The old Sees Simpsons 1 Has Itis being replaced by

bilk of bankers in a New York art scam in which she

posed as Andrew Carnegie’s illegitimate daughter.

“I think Betsy was one of the original material girls,”
Dale says. “The more I read about her, the more I
wondered about how she got away with everything. It
really says something about bankers of the time.”

‘Appealingly filmed, but a tad long, Love and Larceny
is Dale's showpiece. As the highly fictionalized Bigley she
is in practically every scene. It's just the type of film that
can be a career stepping stone — to the United States
perhaps.

Dale, whose husband Robert Lantos is one of the
country's most nationalistic filmmakers, objects to the
comnion belief that Canadians must be successful abroad
to be so at home.

“That may in fact be true, but we're here to disprove
it,” says Dale, who has just finished a feature film for
1986, Separate Vacations.

HALIFAX (CP) — Rich
Little has few opportunities
to do impersonations of Can-
adians these days, but for
him John Diefenbaker is still
the all-time great.

The Canadian-born perfor-
mer now lives and works in
the United States where, he
says, it’s hard to keep up
with Canadian news. He
manages; though, to pick up
CBC with his satellite dish.

“It's always been a shame
how ignorant Americans are
about Canada. I've always
felt Canada needed a good
PR man in the U.S.

But that hasn't stopped
Little, who was in Halifax
this week to perform at a
fund-raiser for medical re-
search, from trying Cana-
dians from time to time.

“(Prime Minister Brian)
Mulroney you could work on

Film gets cautious release

By BOB THOMAS
-LOS ANGELES (AP) —

industry. filmmaker Jeremy Some reviewers agree
Kagan was told by a burly with the director's assess-
Flying back from Toronto's Chamberlain aide: “You ment of The Journey of Nat-
Festival of Festivals with made me cry.” ty Gann. It is a Depression-
Jane Fonda, Wilt Chamber- | To. Kagan, whose The era saga of a young girl who
lain and‘others in the movie Journey of Natty Gann was travels across the western

screened by the Toronto film U.S. to be reunited with her

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festival, the ‘comment was father, encountering adven-

"reassuring: This is the criti
cal period for his new film, creature she befriends who is
FERS T EE when reviewer and audience part-wolf.
j gM reaction will provide a life- The movie was written by
UEUERU AR or-death sentence. Jeanne Rosenberg, who co-
“The Disney people are -wrote-‘The Black Stallion.

young adults; younger ¢hil-
dren,” Kagan said. “All three
were responsive to the film.
As a result of the screenings,
we took out a couple of the
“S-words,” even though re:
search showed that it was the
first. swear word children

‘criti-tures-with the protection of a~learn-ambit-is-the-most-pop-~

ular swear word women use.

“We also removed a shot of

the Supposedly dead dog in
fight

disturbed young  chil-

fora long time,” he said in an
interview. “First, you've got
to figure out how long they're
going to be around. I never
got Joe Clark down, but he
was only in for 20 minutes.”
PERFECT SUBJECT

As for Diefenbaker, Little
says his multitude of man-
nerisms made him a perfect
subject for mimicry. But that
sometimes drew the ire of
some of his audience who re-
sented him impersonating a
man with Parkinson's dis-
ease.

“You pick people who
stand out, something you can
exaggerate, little quirks,

Dief still Little’s best

little imperfections. If often

embarrasses people because™

those are the things they're
trying to cover up.

“Sometimes you have to be
cruel.”

While it's from imperson-
ating Canadian politicians
that he gained much of his
initial fame, Little has spent
a_lot.of time the past few
years perfecting U.S. presi-
dents.

Gerald Ford remains the
hardest to-do, he says, and
while Ronald Reagan may
have been a challenge at the
beginning, it got easier be-
cause “he's like a cartoon.”

Cook exhibit

Centre in Castlegar.

The exhibit, Discovery
1778, from. the_ Vancouver
c ial __and Maritime

Kagan, a bearded, outgoing. leased Natty Gann in one-
film enthusiast of 39. “But third of the United States on
everyone recognizes this is a_ Sept. 27, hoping that the re-
“tough” sell The challenge-is:~action~in-the—Midwest~and

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Natty Gann has had its
own tortuous journey to the

screen: Producer Mike-Lobet!

first developed the property
for Warner Bros which-de

museums, opened this week

at the NEC and will be on

display until Oct. 30.
—The—exhibit

features_the

opens at NEC

the Northwest Passage, stop-
ping in the Hawaiian Islands,
at Nootka Sound on the west
coast of Vancouver Island,
Prince. William Sound, and
the Alleutian Islands.

The exhibit is basically two

dimensional and includes en-
gravings of the work done by
John.Webber. (artist on the

posters featuring some of the store's ree shown
against the backdrop of several cities.

The Simpsons chain lost more than $52 million last
year and was a major factor in the $107.4-million loss of
its parent, Hudson's Bay Co.

Nevertheless, Hudson's Bay vice-president George
Kosich, one member of the new management team, says
Simpsons will be in the black by the end of the year.

“We expect . . . a $40-million decrease in our total

this year” at Si he told the pany’s
annual meeting. Much of this is the result of cutting more.
‘than 2,200 people from the payroll, but the company is
taking other actions to tempt the consumer back into its
stores.

“We are changing the emphasis of our business more
to fashion and other soft goods because they are more
profitable,” says Simpsons president Al Brent. “Even-
tually, we'd like 70 per cent of sales to be soft goods, up
from the present 57 per cent.”

Translated, that means Simpsons will be a better
place to buy clothes and perfume than screwdrivers or
appliances.

“One of the things we have to do is cover the entire

spectrum in clothing from budget: price line right up to
The Room.” which distributes expensive women's wear,
he said. “There is no reason why with our buying power
we can't be very competitive in price — and we intend to

In addition, the emphasis of the store has been
changed from sprawling departments to more intimate
boutiques.

sons is the most visible victim of the problems

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difficulty of trying to be all things to all people while the
successful independents and specialty chains pick off
their most lucrative business.

Bought in 1979 by Hudson's Bay, it lost its reputation
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However, last year Simpsons began caning its
workforce, and in January Hudson's Bay announced a
shuffle at the top with Donald McGiverin resigning as

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Hann is one of Canada’s
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television and radio person:
ality.

The concert is sponsored
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TORONTO (CP) — The
Toronto Stock - Exchange
marked five straight weeks
of losses Friday — the first
time such a thing has hap-
pened since September 1981.

The TSE 300 composite in-
dex was off 11.65 to 2,646.32
with declines outpacing ad-
vances. 342 to 279 while 337
were unchanged. Volume
was moderate at 10.9 million
shares. (_

Friday's loss means_ the
TSE lost 4.65 over the week
with metals, transportation

and paper.and forest stocks
taking the hardest bashing.

In New York, the Dow
Jones industrial average was
off 4.37 to 1,328.74. However
the Dow finished the week
with a 7.95 gain.

Many analysts now believe
the bull market of rising
prices and investor euphoria
that began in August 1982 is
finally over. Leon Tuey, a
technical analyst at Dominion
Securities Pitfield Ltd., has
told clients to expect bear
market trading until this
spring.

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