<4 as__CastlegarNews —Jonorys. 1985 ee, > ' ENTERTAINMENT Happy Birthday Laverne are back! HILLTOP CAFE tS UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT. Join us tor breaktast, lunch and dinner. GOOD HOME COOKING Open 7 o.m..- 9 p.m. Daily Located 2 miles West of Castlegar on Poulsen see From the Family NEW YORK (AP) — Jazz Pianist Sun Ra has spent years searching for stardom, but not the kind found in Hollywood or the Big Apple. What the elder statesman of “intergalactic jazz” wants is his proper place in space. ‘Native of Saturn — the planet that is — and a GOING TO SPOKANE? THE TRADE Win >$ MOTEL| makes this special offer ci Cu y Pp at Par at both locations NORTH DOWNTOWN N. 3033 Division W. 907 Third Ave. 509-838-2091 to Magic City, where he says he first en. tered Earth, Sun Ra isn't just far out, he's outer limits. A sample of chorus lines from his favorite tyres: “Why go to the Moon, try Neptune; “No news is good news on planet Earth.” Ra recently flew from Egypt to New York for a few weeks of performances with his 15-member Omniverse Monte Carlo Motor Inn FAMILY RESTAURANT NIGHTLY SPECIAL PRIME RIB — $9.95 Open Daily til 9 p.m. Royal Canadian Legion ) Branch No. 170 CABARET Dancing 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m. OPEN AT 12 NOON SIX DAYS A WEEK. Proper Dress Fri. & Sat. after 9 p.m. Fri. & Sat. Guests Must Playing . Be SIGNED In “KALIEDESCOPE Jet Set Arkestra at Sweet Basil's, a Greenwich Village jazz bistro. Asa finale to his New York visit, Ra gathered 100 jazz musicians for an all-night jam at the Lenox Chalet, a former wedding hall in the East Village. No simple Earthling, Sun Ra doesn’t do anything on a simple scale, so his big-band orchestra for one night need- ed a new name. He decided on Cosmo Symphonie Omni- verse Arkestra. Though Ra hasn't made an album in years, the concert was packed, and his followers were quickly put \intg-erbit. Costumes were outrageous — Egyptian space helmets, turbans, capes, gowns, glit- ter and bells. When one six player did a Sun Ra — wants his:place in outer space solo, he was usually followed by another five or six. They all blew into the same micro- phone at the same time at the same pitch. Dueling saxo- phones in la Ra. DOES TWISTS There were five drum- mers, and six percussionists on bongos and congas. The band’s _regujar_—_trombone player did @eestyle twists and twirls with four female dancers. Three violinists did an obligatory battle of the bows. Ra, ne Herman (Sonny) Blount of Birmingham, Ala., was born in 1915. Ra, how- ever, claims to be “about 5,000 years old.” He play in Fletcher Henderson's band during the mid-1940s and for many years was an active experi- mentalist in Chieago music circles. He moved to New York in the 1960s and in re- cent years has spent much of his time in Europe, where he is something of a folk hero. In the ‘60s and ‘70s he made such LPs as Saturn, Magic City, Savoy and It's After the End of the World. Ra doesn’t just play music — he creates, he travels, he flies. It's the same when he talks. “I get my authority from the ruler of the planet. I'm here to make it a better place,” said Ra in an inter- view before the Lenox Chalet concert. “Some call him God, but I don't. I call him “The Nameless One.” Cable 10 TV Thursday and Sunday Bi Sunday Early Bird —6 — L A) ra c c Will hold its monthly meeting Thursday, January 3 at 7:30 p.m. at Selkirk College. 2/104 ct_ non-profit Coming events of Castlegar ond ed 81 10 words ore may be Ii Calendar continuing at the Notional Exhibition Centre in Castlegar is “Japan's Modern Prints”. Artistic impressions by leading Japanese printmakers. Open Daily 9:30 to 4:30, weekends 10:30 to 4:30. Jan. 11... The paintings of Alf Crossley of Poss Creek will be featured and on sale in the Presentation Series sponsored by the Castlegar Arts Council at the m. and will be showing the month of January Jan. 2 Monthly meeting of the Castlegar Arts Coun cil, 7:30, Kinnaird Library. Jen. 26 . . . From New York's Carnegie Recital (Hall to the @.£. Playhouse), Carol Mcloughlin, harpist extroor dinaire will be’ performing at 8:00 p.m. at the Fireside Place banquet room. This is sponsored by the Castlegar Arts Councif: Jen. 29 ..«Pertormance 84 series prgsents Jon Kimura Parker ‘ouver-born pianist at &00 p.m. ot Trail Jumar High ) A Public Speaking weekend workshop will be in Costlegar Feb. 15 to 17. sponsored by the Castlegor Arts Council registration tor-this course, designed.to make public speakers out of anyone. Phone Lindo diter 6:00 p.m. ot 365-5011 Items for this bi-monthly feature should be telephoned to Lynda Carter of the Castlegar Arts Council at 365-3226 NOTICE: | will be taking Dorothy Millar-Tait's place during the next few months. «=: Castlegar Savings Credit Union CABLE 10TV Thursday, Jan.3 6:00—Sign-on and program information. 6:03—Ebengger and Friends — Is the title for Woodland Park school’s 23rd Annual Christmas concert. Travel Agency — Is the theme for this year’s Christmas con- cert. Viewers will travel through music and song to see how Christmas is cele- brated in Germany, Hawaii, Holland and Russia. 7:45—Fruitvale Elenientary Christmas Concert — This year’s annual Christmas extrava- ganza features class- es from kindergarten to Grade 6 with per- formances of skits; songs and musical in. struments. 8:45—The Mikado — A re- peat of this classic Gil bert and Sullivan play performed by the Rossland Light Opera. 11:15—Sign-off. Housewife an aut hor WINNIPEG (CP) — Ten years ago, Jill MacLean was a restless housewife who couldn't find a job. Today she is a best-selling author of Harlequin romances and thrilled with the freedom that her work allows. MacLean, 43, has written the world's best-selling pub- lisher of romances, started in a small Winnipeg print shop in 1949 and is celebrating its 36th anniversary in Winni- peg this year. MacLean, who works a six-hour day, said her secret to Success is a good story line 23 of the boy-meets-girl love stories and is working on an- other. “If I want to take a week off, I don’t have to ask any- body,” she said in an inter- view. “And if I want to work to midnight I can.” Harlequin Books, one of and realistic conflict. But she is also quick to point out that her stories may not appeal to everyone. “I'm not a Margaret At- wood. I'm fairly realistic about my talents and capab- ilities.” ST RESTAU FOR RESERVATIONS Pe foyorites ond give us a ring f= $ DE'S RANCH HOUSE Eoch day we offer something new and delicious to try. = ‘Come enjoy fine dining at reasonable prices. Every item =0n our menu con be packed to take home. Choose your $795 RANT = PHONE 365-2722 >= TUESDAY SAVE 10% ON PIZZA! THURSDAY MEXICAN NIGHT Enjoy on exciting fost 595 1e of Old Mexico! Simmons LOS ANGELES (AP) — When producer Matty Simmons first sought a director for National Lampoon's European Vacation, he rejected the name of Amy Heckerling. “I'm not a S@kist,” claimed the boss of the National Lampoon empire“It's just that ‘so much of our humor is male-oriented, and I didn't think a woman would be the right choice as director. But then Amy's agent persuaded mie to see Fast Times at Ridgemont High. I hired her.” The other day Amy Heckerling was directing the final scenes of European Vacation, depicting how Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo and children win a Continental tour on a quiz show called Pig in a Poke. John Astin played the master of ceremonies in a devastating takeoff of Richard Dawson of Family Feud. Amy Heckerling seemed miscast as director of the ‘$17-million comedy, also filmed locations in London, Paris, Rome and the Italian Alps. . She is slender to the point of being slight, and she seemed lost amid the clus of technicians around the camera. But when she commanded “Action!” or “€ut!” there was no doubt who was in charge. During a lunch break Heckerling nibbled at a salad and talked about her film career. “I don't think Matty is sexist,” she said. “After all, he has hired Martha Coolidge and Penny Marshall to direct his films. I think he just needed to see what I could do. Fast Times showed him, even though it was not a comedy.” Heckerling was in a kind of good news-bad news situation. She was completing European Vactation $1 million no sexist under budget, despite the complicated locations and rainy weather. Her second film, Johnny Dangerously, = being released by 20th Century-Fox amid dismal early views. ™ “The Michael Keaton-Joe Piscopo gangster spoof bic filmed in the summer of 1983, underwent retakes an i hing theatres. : “ee added cme scenes with Michael,” Heckerling explained. “He was always the star, but the film was made before his success with Mr. Mom. After the picture was finished, they wanted more of Keaton.” Amy Heckerling has been in love with movies for most of her 31 years. It started in Queens, N.Y., where she watched movies on television and adapted them 40 neighborhood plays. Her bent toward comedy began then: “I watched a lot of the Three Stooges and the Marx Brothers, also Saturday Night Live, Laugh-In and Burns and Allen. At Manhattan's Art and Design High School she studied art and photography but realized she really wanted to become film director, not an easy ambition in the 1970s. She made as New York University, and in 1975 won a fellowship &s director at theyAmerican Film Institute. 2 “I made a short film that started everything for me, she said. “I got an agent and was offered development deals. My entire world changed.” , Last July, Amy married Neal Israel, writer of Potice Academy and director of Bachelor Party. You might expect their home life to be filled with laughs. “Not really,” she said. “Neal is the class-clown type, but I'm rather quiet.” Cross Rib Roast 56*5/kg Boneless Beef (= CHOOSING VOICE DUBS Casting for The River LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mark Rydell had just returned from Italy, France, Germany and Spain, where he had been casting The-River. How's that again? The River, starring Sissy Spacek and Mel Gibson, has already opened across the land. “I was casting the voices for the dubbed versions in Europe,” the film maker explained. “Those countries require dubbed versions of films as well as subtitled, and I go over there to cast the voices for every picture I make. I think it's terribly important. “If the voices aré perfectly right in the foreign versions, a great deal of commercial value can be added. The Rose is still playing in Patis after five years, and I think the voices are largely responsible.” Rydell had returned in time for the holiday opening here of The River, which drew a mixed response from reviewers and inevitable comparison to the other farmland #agas of 1984, Close to the Heart and Country. The national releases will start Jan. 11. “I like The River as much as any film I've made; I'm proud of it,” declared Rydell, whose last effort was the renowned On Golden Pond. In 1983 he was preparing a film based on the play Nuts when Universal Pictures asked him to undertake The River first. The project had been prepared by Edward Lewis (Spartacus, Lonely Are the Brave), whom Rydell respected as “one of the few producers with a conscience.” The casting of Sissy Spacek as the farm wife and mother was easy, Rydell said: “She is the consummate American rural young woman, with strength and fiber atid a luminous quality.” Mel Gibson pursued the role of her persevering husband, but Rydell was dubious. “Mel came to my house and argued for the part,” Rydell recalled. “But what do you do with a thick Australian accent in the American midwest? Mel is 28, and though he was born Russia through LONDON (AP( — Actor Peter \Ustinov wants the world to see the Soviet Union as he sees it. So he will start at London's Berkeley Hotel. Born in London to a Rus. sian mother and a German father, the rotund star of in this country, he has lived in Australia from the age of 11 He sounds like a cockney. “He wouldn't give us. ‘Let me work on the accent,” he pleaded. ‘Don't cast the part until you hear me.’ I don't know why he was so eager for the role. Except maybe he saw a lot of Tom Garvey in his father, who took his family to Australia so his sons wouldn't have to fight in the Vietnam War. “A few months later Mel called from London. He was planning to stop in California on his way to Tahiti for The County. His Tennessee accent was perfect. His persistence, even obstinancy, made him ideal for the role.” The human actors were easy. DIRECTS BULL Rydell also had to direct a deer and a bull, as well as a raging river. The deer figures in a key scene, wandering into a steel mill where Gibson works as a strikebreaker to help support his family. Seven deer were needed to accomplish the scene. The mést gripping scene of The River comes when Spacek is trapped and bleeding under a tractor. She incites a bull to batter the tractor and thus dislodge her. “That was really tough, because there-is no such thing ‘as a trained bull,” said Rydell. “We had two animals, one of them a ‘killer bull’ that had killed a rodeo cowboy and then turned over the ambulance that came for him.” ( The Garvey farm was created on swamp~tand near Kingsport, Tenn., the filled-in land planted with a corn crop that grew to harvest during filming. The flood was supplied by the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Army Corps gf Engtheers. Water released from dams Taised the river level two metres to provide a frighteningly realistic deluge. Rydell completed The River ahead of schedule and under the $13 million budget Ustinov’s eyes in that system,” he contin. ued. “They know which shops they can get certain things at or can't according to the season, and Though his book stresses what he terms “the history of the growth of prejudice” from the West toward Rus Bone Removed. Beef Blade Roast $39 /kg Bone-In. i——_— Grade A Beef Blade Chuck Roast ¢ Ib. Bone-in. Beet Cross Rib Roast Tomato Soup Town House Medium Eggs Lucerne i Scotch Buy Orange Juice wz... 2/098 SD BBS] a FD eat Pi > A Ibu D i t B.C. | St ga a: "5 9¢|.. $198... 39°*| 10.36% Mushrooms Stems & Pieces. ) 284 mi (10 0 os.) Tin -. 00s 0c0e0e Scotch Buy California Grown Avocadoes 39°5.. 45... B.C. Gem 225 filming a six-hour series in Moscow later this month based on his book, My Russia. The author, playwright and two-time Academy Award winner will start work on the $2-million Peter Ustinov’s Russia on. Jan. 26. The Canadian-financed production will air around the world in 1986 incliding the Soviet Union. It is the first time a Western-pro- duced TV. program about that Communist country will Topkapi and Spartacus said he was “conceived in Lenin. grad” and still has numerous Russian relatives. With an insider's knowledge of the country, he wants his book and his TV series to correct what he perceives as West ern misconceptions of the Soviet Union. “Quite frankly .. . the media mainly concentrates on the differences between us, which allow one to be struck when one is in Russia by the similarities,” Ustinov everything's guided by that “As, in fact, our life is too, because we don’t talk about politics all the time.” Ustinov, who made a TV special called Ustinov's Len ingrad several years ago, has obtained permission to film throughout the Soviet Union, and hopes to use Russian ac- tors to dramatize historical events. “Russia is full of strange, sia, the actor said his show will not ignore the Soviet Union's less attractive as. pects. “I don't want to be deliber ately provocative, and at the same time I don't want to fight shy of things that ac. tually happened,” he said “I mean, Trotsky did exist; he's not going to be cut out of this because he's cut out of certain photographs,” Usti. nov said. 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