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All tours include accom modation at Sheraton Hotels with meal coupon Expo pass; courteous and reliable driver, ex perienced escort CUSTOM GROUP PACKAGES AVAILABLE AiZED sorernte, DEWDNEY MS ON VA nominations? . protester performers to win as best actor and actress in the same , they were not the oldest performers ever *The late Melvyn Douglas captured that honor at 79 as supporting actor in Being There (1970) Welcome to the Oscar Trivia Game. QUESTIONS: performer has received the most 2. Who was the youngest performer to win an 3. Who is the only blind person to receive an Oscar? 4. What non-performer has received the most 5. What film won the most Oscars? . What performer won for playing the opposite . Which actor was posthumously awarded an Oscar? . Name the actors who have tied for awards 9. Which of the Barrymores never received a nomination — Ethel, John or Lionel? 10. Which actors have the all-time losing records? 11. What was the first movie in color to win as best picture? 12. For what two films were the entire casts nominated? 13. Who was the first black actor to win an Oscar? 14. Which two actors have won awards for playing the same role? 15. Of the four stars in Gone With the Wind, who wasn't nominated? 16. Name the winners who have refused their Oscars? RICHARD BURTON seven nominations ANSWERS: 1. Hepburn with 12. She has won four times, also a record. 2. Tatum O'Neal, 10, supporting actress in Paper Moon, 1973. 3. Stevie Wonder, best origina! song, I Just Called to Say I Love You for The Woman in Red, 1984. . - 4. Alfred Newman with 45 nominations for music scores. 5. Ben-Hur, 11 in 1969. 6, Linda Hunt, who played the mi in The Year of Living Dangerously, 1 7. Peter Finch, Network, 1976. 8. Frederic March, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Wallace Beery, The Champ, 1932; Hepburn, The Lion in Winter, and Barbra Streisand, Funny Girl, 1968. 9. John. Lionel won as best actor for A Free Soul in 1930, Ethel as supporting actress for None But the Lonely Heart in 1944. 10. Peter O'Toole, Richard Burton and Geraldine Page each have lost on seven nominations 5 photographer 3. _COMMUNITY NEWS EVICTED TENANTS WANTED NELSON (CP) — A local landlord has come up with a suggestion to get some Expo 86 dividends for Nelson and help solve a Vancouver problem. Gerald Iwanik wants the long-term residents being evicted from some downtown east side hotels in Vancouver to make room for higher-paying Expo visitors by moving to this West Kootenay city. More winners listed The following is a contin’ PIG2 A: Sele. Bach, Own< uation of the list of certificate BARBRA STREISAND 1968 winner 11. Gone With the Wind, 1939. 12. Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine, Sleuth, 1972; James Whitmore in Give ‘em Hell, Harry, 1975. 13. Hattie McDaniel, Gone“with the Wind, 1939. 14. Marlon Brando as the older Vito Corleone in The Godfather, 1972; Robert De Niro, Vito Corolene as a young man, The Godfather II, 1974. 15. Leslie Howard. F 16. Dudley Nichols, 1935; George C. Scott, 1971; 5 Marlon Brando, 1972. Nichols refused his Oscar for = writing The Informer on grounds that the Academy was being used by the studios to defeat organizing of unions. He later accepted the award. Scott for his leading role in Patton because he deplored the Oscars as a “meat parade.” And Brando for his lead in The Godfather as a protest against the treatment of American Indians in Hollywood films. Laughing Stock Hilarious Improvisation at Trail Junior High Auditorium on Tues., March 25 ear — Apa ) Out of town guests of members — $10 at door sy Trail Society for rertorming Arts —_—__ Baked Potato, Fresh Vegetable Garlic Bread School performs musical An interpretation of mu sical history is the focus of this year’s annual spring pro- duction Musical Visions, per- formed by the students of Winlaw elementary school. The Winlaw Community Band will complement this lighthearted musical revival Wednesday at the Winlaw school. (eppercorn Mon., March 24 through Thurs., March 27 “While Quantities Last” Steak & Lobster TERRA NOVA MOTOR INN This Week in DEXTER’S PUB MON. THRU SAT DEUCE’, mata: 1944 Columbig Ave. Thursday, March 27 8 p.m. TICKETS ARE $18.00 Maie & $10.00 Female RR Sy ae Viewers desert Oscar LOS ANGELES (AP) — As a television attraction, the Academy Awards has withered in the ratings in the last two years. Viewers seem to be growing disenchanted with Hollywood's most cherished spectacle, and Oscar officials grapple with how to jazz it up. Last year the Oscar show was too lean. In 1984 it was too long. This year the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will attempt to lure back the lost audience with big production numbers and bigger names. Last year four producers tried to solve the ratings problem by committee, including the use of warning lights to keep acceptance speeches short. This year, the warning lights are being reconsidered and there's only the producer. “There is a concern that it could stifle some great moments, like Sally Field's ‘You like me!’ acceptance speech last year,” said Academy spokesman Bob Werden. He said producer Stanley Donen hasn't yet made a final decision. In a 42-year career, Donen has produced or directed such song-and-dance movies as Singing in the Rain, The Pajama Game and Damn Yankees. Marty Pasetta returns for his 15th year as director The 58th annual Oscar presentations on March 24 will be broadcast live from the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion of the Los Angeles Music Centre beginning at 6 p.m. Castlegar time on CTV mm SHOW CRITICIZED In the last two years, the program has been criticized for having far too much, such as the three-hour, 47-minute show in 1984, or far too little, such as the spare 1985 show. The latter was only a few minutes over its scheduled three hours, but sparse in entertainment “You're dealing with an established format, and there's really nothing you can do to change it,” sid Jack Haley, who produced the 1984 show. “I think the only answer is if everyone just walks out and says who the (winners) are.” But that would destroy the entertainment value of the show, he said: “You're virtually in a no-win situation.” For all its miscues and overtime, the 1984 show still did better than last year's with 25.4 million households viewing, for a Nielsen rating of 30.3 and an audience share of 50. The 1985 show fell to 23.5 million households, with a rating of 27.7 and an audience share of 45. Compare those shows with 1983's 31.6 million households watching with a rating of 38.0 and a share of 59, and there seems to be a problem. A rating measures the percentage of the TV homes watching a show in the United States. The Oscars also are fighting the overall decrease in viewership suffered by network television and home videocassette recorders. Pasetta and Donen have decided to return to more OPEN SUNDAYS 9:30 a.m 2p.m ——. Restaurant ROIS ‘ production numbers, with three or four song-and-dance routines to be added to the usual performances for the five nominated songs of the year They also will address a recent tendency among celebrities not to show up for the awards. One segment of this year’s ceremony will feature an on-stage group introduction of 20 to 30 previous winners. “We are doing that specifically to make a point about the attendance,” Pasetta said in an interview “Another problem is that many of the nominees in recent years have been first-or-second timers, and don't have the recognition of more established stars,” Pasetta said. And the more established stars, unless nominated, have sometimes failed to show up. This year's star list so far includes hosts Alan Alda, Jane Fonda and Robin Williams. Presenters include actor Michael J. Fox of Burnaby, Barbra Streisand, Audrey Hepburn, Bob Hope, Sally Field, Whoopi Goldberg, Terry Garr, Norma Aleandro and Rebecca DeMornay What also makes a difference, Pasetta said, is who the nominated stars are. “Ultimately, if it's a good horse race, then it's a good year,” he said. WRONG DE: IONS The Academy sometimes has made wrong decisions The directors of the 1985 show had Anne Reinking sing Grammy winner Phil Collins's nominated song, Against All Odds, instead of the British pep star. Critics said Reinking murdered the tune. The producers had reasoned that they wanted someone associated with the movie industry to sing to. But the same logie didn’t apply to Ray Parker Jr., who was allowed to perform his Ghostbusters on the same show There's been a change in thinking. This year, Collins turned down an invitation to sing Separate Lives, one of the nominated songs from White Nights, which he did as a duet with Marilyn Martin. It will be performed instead by writer Stephen Bishop. Lionel Richie will sing his Say You, Say Me, from the same film. Tata Vega, who sang Miss Celie’s Blues on the sound track of The Color Purple, will reprise her performance for the Oscar show, while Gregg Burge will repeat his dynamic rendition of Surprise Surprise from A Chorus Line. Huey Lewis and the News will perform their The Power of Love from Back to the Future. Spielberg a hit There are “lots of facilities here” suited to the kind of people who live in Vancouver's east side, Iwanik said. Those people are “old-timers” — people who earn a modest income but tend to stay in one Ipcation years at a time, he said. “They've been all over,” Iwanik said. “They've seen the world and they just want to settle in somewhere.” About 200 people have been evicted in Vancouver's downtown east side as some hotels spruce up for the more lucrative Expo trade. Most are being assisted in finding new accommodation in the area. Iwanik said he would give anyone relocating from the downtown east side a month's free rent to help them make the move, or would rent a bus and go to Vancouver to get them. He said there are vacancies at about a dozen apartment buildings here with rents ranging from $100 to $200 a month. ON ROTARY EXCHANGE Student says goodbye By JOHN CHARTERS Parting is such sweet sor- row. Kimiko (Kim) Mitobe, the Castlegar Rotary Club's popular Japanese exchange student, gave a slide pro- gram at the Ladies’ Night dinner Tuesday and bade a tearful farewell to some of the many friends she has made during the past year in Dressed in traditional Jap- anese costume, Mitobe spoke of her family, of her school (a Catholic private school for girls), of her home city of Tokyo, and of her religion (new in Japan) for which her father is a minister. She then spoke of her year in Castle- gar. “I have not, been home sick,” she said, “I love it here and I had so many homes, and all the members of the Rotary Club were my par. ents and my family. How KIM MITOBE ... bids farewell could I be sad? My heart was so full of love and happiness, there was no room for sad- ness.” Mitobe was introduced by her present Rotary “father,” NDP association re-elects By CasNews Staff Castlegar’s Ron Schmidt was re-elected president of the Rossiand-Trail NDP As. sociation at the party's an- nual general meeting March 1 in Trail. Also on the executive are Miles Dean of Trail, vice- president; Rich Georgetti of Trail, treasurer; Mike Eso of Rossland, 1g secre- tary; Shawn Philp of Fruit vale, membership secretary; and Bob Warning of Fruit- vale, organizer. Directors are: Andrea Hall, Tony Guglielmi and Joe Irving of Castlegar; Sandy Hagen and Doug Singer of Beaver Valley; Mike Spatari, Mary-Jane Thiessen, Lily The Company Schmidt Popoff, Roger Ridge and Jim Blakeway of Trail; and Al Underwood and Bill Cook of Rossland. Members at large are: Fruitvale, and lan Aulin and Sandy Colquhoun of Mont- rose. More than 100 people at- tended the meeting with 90 members eligible to vote. Guest speakers were MLA Chris D'Arcy (Rossland- Trail) and MLA Lyle Mac- William (Okanagan-North). TRANSPORTATION OF DANGEROUS Goons 1 Day Course Thurs., April 17 Dennis Blatchford of WADESBORO, N.C. (AP) — Maybe people didn't ap preciate movie director Ste ven Spielberg in Hollywood, but people in Wadesboro loved his work in The Color Purple. Spielberg won the Felix for best director at the first annual Anson County Aca- demy Awards on Thursday. In fact, all the awards went to The Color Purple, based on Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize winning novel. UNITY Bulletin Board CASTLEGAR EVA! FREE CHURCH Easter Celebration 7 o'clock Sunday, March 23. Everyone welcome 24 Coming events of Castlegar and District non-profit organizations may be listed here. The first 10 words ore $3.50 and edditional words are 15¢ each ds (which must be used for headings) count as two words Boldtaced wor Anson County, where much of the movie was film ed, didn't want Spielberg to feel he wasn't appreciated. He was not a nominee for best director in this year’s Academy Awards in Holly- wood, although the film has 11 other nominations. Spielberg and none of the major stars were in the standing-room only crowd of more than 250 at Twin Valley Country Club, but that didn't dim the audience's enthu. pro