‘ENTERTAINMENT Sy, A tlégar News January 13, 1988 sage 4 a June Wedding? We Sell Distinctive Invitations, Napkins ete Come See Us At Castlégar News 197 Columbia Ave. GREWMAN ACRES 365-3986 Day * 365-2570 Eve LEGION BRANCH 170 DANCE SATURDAY 9:30-1:30 p.m. THE FRASER BELLANGER BAND Guests must be signed in Proper dress after 9 p.m Open Monday to Thursday Ne a.m Friday & Saturday 12 noon -2a.m 365-7017 “inee,"hureder No. $607! istorante : aliano 30 Sunday: 11-2 p.m. (Bru 5-9 p.m. (Smorg, CLOSED Mon. & Tues, MON., DEC. 21 UNTIL AFTER THE NEW YEAR! From the Management and Staff of Chua Thanks for letting us serve By TIM O'CONNOR Canadian Press Bruce Springsteen begins a 22-day tour in late February that will likely include a Toronto concert, but no other Canadian dates. “The rumor is there is a Toronto date, but I doubt very much he'll play elsewhere in Canada,” said CBS Records spokesman Valerie Lapp in Toronto. Lapp said the New Jersey rocker will tour arenas across North America with the full E Street Band. Earfler reports said he would be playing solo or with just a few band members. Tour details will likely be announced within two weeks. His latest chart-topping album, Tunnel of Love, is a more stripped-down record than the arena-rocking anthems on his last LP, Born in the U.S.A. And you thought rock stars were the only ones who like to elevate the mundane to high art. A recent press release promoting an exhibition of ceramics by Montreal's Rebecca Rupp at The Craft Gallery of the Ontario Crafts Council in Toronto contains this quote from the potter “A coffee pot is not about a coffee pot. It is a form about gesture and scale. It is about volume, mass, skin, and the inter-relationship of these qualities. It is not the coffee pot that pours, but a form representing my values toward function that allows it to pour.” BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN . . Toronto date possible Early 70s blues rockers Savoy Brown, featuring guitarist Kim Simmonds, have just released an album called Make Me Sweat. Canadian boogiemeisters Down. child will release It's Been So Long on Jan. 19. pringsteen tour next month Dennis Quaid will play rock ‘n' roller Jerry Lee Lewis in the biographical fil film, to begin shooting this spring, is based on the book of the same name by Myra Lewis, Lewis's cousin who became his 13-year-old bride, a union that nearly destroyed his career... , Peter Gabriel will compose the soundtrack for a controversial new Martin Scorsese film, The Passion, a screen adaptation of The Last Temptation of Christ. Sting was to play Pontius Pilate but touring commit- ments forced him to bow out. David Bowie will play Pilate Pink Floyd's The Wall album, released in 1979, has sold more than one million copies in Canada, qualifying it for a diamond record. Whitney Houston's Whitney is over sales of 600,000, while John Mellencamp's The Lonesome Jubilee is over the 400,000 mark... . A couple of Maritimers have just gone platinum: Rita MacNeil’s Flying on Your Own and Haywire's Don't Just Stand There have both sold more than 100,000 units. And Toronto country-rock band Blue Rodeo has sold more than 50,000 copies of its single Try, making it a gold record . . In the we're not dead yet" file... People, the guys who took their brand of disco out of gay leather bars and sold more than 50 million LPs in the late 1970s, are booked to play a club in Toronto. The group's hits included Y.M.C.A. and Macho Man. Great Balls of Fire. The The Village JANUARY SPECIAL EAT IN ONLY ... BRING A FRIEND! 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Despite his credits, the Beverly Hills resident is down to earth On a recent visitgp his home town to teach a course on directing, Hiller graciously settled for a lunch of dry crackers so one of his students could stay behind for a talk. The rest of the class trotted off in search of sandwiches. ‘His most recent hit was Outrageous Fortune starring Shelly Long’ Hiller also attended a press screening of a half-hour documentary made about him by Edmonton producer Doug Hutton. The program, called Centre Stage: The Hollywood Legends, is the first of a proposed 13-part series which would focus on Canadians in the U.S. film industry Sitting beside his childhood friend and the film's narrator, actor Leslie Nielsen, Hiller look embarrassed as Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau and Ali McGraw paid tribute to him as a director and “a nice guy.” “If Arthur were an American citizen, I'd vote for him as president,” deadpanned Matthau as Hiller burst into giggles. NOT IMPOSING At just a few inches over five feet, Hiller is not an imposing man. He is still trim at 64 and his thick hair just recently become more grey than black His gentle nature was apparent in his dealings with the students of Dramalab, a government-funded program run by Edmonton's National Screen Institute. It takes 61 adult students through a,two-year, three-stage program cul minating in the production of half-hour television programs. Hiller was teaching a seminar in directing. One exercise involved giving individual students a portion of script from one of his films — such as Outrageous Fortune — them stage it and having Get Your Message As Allen Schinkel of Winnipeg told actress Susan Sneath where to make her entrance and how to say her lines, Hiller sat quietly off to the side taking notes. Nearly an hour later he finally interrupted. “I think you've got the basics well-established here, but I think you need a little more physical:movement,” he said, moving in to demonstrate himself. “Now, don’t hesitate to argue with me.” “No, no,” said Schinkel, watched Hiller carefully. “I never thought of doing it that way. You're absolutely right.” “I'm always aware of not trying to intimidate the students,” Hiller said later in an interview. “I mean, I'm certainly not always right. In fact, sometimes I feel quite panicked in these situations. KIDS KNEW MORE “The-first time I ever did this sort of thing at the University of California‘in Los Angeles, I came home and my wife said, ‘How was it?’ I said, ‘Two of those kids know more than I do.’ And I meant it “I was a judge once in a national contest for the best student film. One of them was just exceptional. I looked at this film and I didn’t think, ‘Boy is he going to be good.’ I thought, ‘That young man could direct a feature film tomorrow.’ It was Bob Zemeckis, who later directed Back to the Future.” Hiller had no formal training. His parents — father owned a second-store, mother was a housewife — ran a small Yiddish theatre troupe in Edmonton. “When I was seven, eight years old I was helping to build sets and by 11 I was acting,” he recalled. Hiller joined the high school drama club and taught himself photography. After graduation he enlisted in the air force, flying combat missions over Europe during the Second World War. After the war he studied law and then psychology at the University of Toronto and Columbia. the University of British “I just didn't think of theatre as a life's work,” he said. “I thought that's what you do on, the weekends.” While working on his master’s degree in psychology, he realized he needed to do what he loved. 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Verigin 6:30 p.m. [Wed.] 10 a.m. [Fri.] 2 p.m. [Sun.] — 1987 Peace Portal Open The golf tournament held this summer at the Peace Portal Golf Course near White Judy at 365-3736 h at 365-: Rock, B.C. features Trail's COMMUNITY Bulletin Board EVENING SERVICE On Sunday, January 17 at 7:00 p.m. We invite you to once again see Jehovah of the Watchtower” at the Castlegar Evangelical Free Church, 914 Columbia Avenue. 24 CASTLEGAR DISTRICT WILDLIFE ASSOCIATION Wednesday, January 20, 7:30 p.m. Downstairs Marlane Hotel. Guest: Regional Biologist: Guy Woods Coming events of Castlegar and District non-protit organizations may be listed here. The first 10 words are $3.75 and additional words are 15¢ each. Boldtaced wor ds (which must be used for headings) count as two words for a second insertion while the ns Seventy-live percent and the consecutive insertion 1s half-price. Minimum charge 1s $3.75 (whether ad 1s tor one, two or three times). Deadlines are 5 p.m. Thursdays tor Sunday s poper and 5 p.m. Mondays tor Wednesday s paper Notices should be brought to the Castlegar News at 19/ Columbia Ave COMMUNITY Bulietin Board Sandy Kurceba who won this tournament. This program was produced by White Rock Shaw Cable. The program is hosted by Doug Stone and Wendyl Arnold. 7:05 p.m. [Wed.] 10:35 a.m. (Fri.] 2:35 p.m. [Sun.] — Venture Inland B.C. — This slide show features the beau. tiful Kootenays and high. lights the Trail-Rossland Beaver Valley area. 7:20 p.m. [Wed.] 10:50 a.m. (Fri.] 2:50 p.m. [Sun.] — Trail-home of Champions — This program produced for the Greater Trail Economic Committee shows the scenic Trail area and promotes the greater Trail area. 7:30 p.m. [Wed.] 11 a.m. {Fri.]) 3 p.m. [Sun.] A gathering,at the manger - The students of Woodland Suntree 8 Inn Park School in Castlegar present their annual Christ. mas Pageant. 8 p.m. [Wed.] 11:30 a.m. [Fri.] 3:30 p.m. [Sun.) — Christmas Concert — The Living Waters Faith Fellow- ship Church in Castlegar presents a modern Christmas play in which a boy by the name of Rick searches for the answers to life. 9 p.m. [Wed.] 12:30 p.m. (Fri.] 4:30 p.m. [Sun.] — For the hand of a child — This program produced by The War Amps of Canada shows the research that is being done to develop artificial arms for children. 9:30 p.m. [Wed.] 1 p.m. [Fri.] 5 p.m. [Sun.] — Castle- gar City Council — Gavel-to- Gavel-coverage of Tuesday, Jan. 12 meeting. oka 0 Ava Gardner in hospital SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — Actress Ava Gardner has been in hospital for nearly a week for treatment of a recurring respiratory problem, a hospital spokes- man said Tuesday. Gardner, 66, who lives in London, flew to Los Angeles last week and was admitted to St. John’s Hospital and Health Centre on Jan. 6, spokesman Armen Markar- ian said. She was admitted “for a general checkup and treat- ment of recurring respira. tory condition relating to a previous admission for pneu monia,” Markarian said. “According to her physi. cian, Dr. William Weber Smith, Miss Gardner is in good condition, is resting comfortably and should be discharged in about a week.” Gardner has lived abroad since her divorce from en. tertainer Frank Sinatra, her third husband, in 1957. She never married again. Gardner's reign as a Holly wood sex goddess was launched in the 1946 film, The Killers, co-starring Burt Lancaster. AVA GARDNER .. resting Other roles included the wild Spanish bodega dancer opposite Humphrey Bogart in The Barefoot Contessa, and the love-hungry hotel proprietor chasing Richard Burton in Tennessee Wil- liams’s Night of the Iguana, one of nearly 60 films she made. In recent years she made guest appearances in the CBS-TV series, Knots Land- ing. Gardner was in St. John’s Hospital for eight weeks in fall 1986 for treatment of viral pneumonia. Evening of music, entertainment set The Home and _ School Association of Brent Ken nedy elementary school will hold a “Command Perfor mance” evening of music and entertainment Jan. 30 at Mount Sentinel secondary school gym. The Asscciation is a group of volunteers with an interest in education. The group's primary goal is that of being a support net work for the teachers and children, spokesman Volga Wright said in a prepared re lease. “This is the almost anony mous group that takes on such tasks as organizing hot lunch programs, working at call back programs to make sure your child arrives at school safely, voicing con. cerns about curriculum con. tent, buses, washrooms, and construct playgrounds, work at track meets, try to provide an ample work force and treats for special events. They provide people who volunteer to assist teachers on field trips.” and Shopko $3 g90 Some of the performers Jan. 30 will include: e N:R.G.: A hot new rock band of talented’ musicians and composers: e The Krestova Youth Choir: Shares the traditional a cappella music of the Douk- hobor Community, through their hymns and folk songs; e John Dean: One of B.C.’s top pianis e The Scottish Country Dancers: Members of the Royal Scottish— Country Dance Society; e Ivan Velisek: Second de gree, black belt master of karate; © Sarah| Legebokoff: An accomplished country and western performer and song writer; e The Maxwell Dancers: Under the direction of Aud- rey Maxwell, they have been performing with various dancers for four years; e Wendy Keyes: dancer; e Anna and Gretta Barch and Jim Delnea: Instrumen- tal. Belly RESTAURANT We Specialize in JOIN US FOR © BREAKFAST *® LUNCH * DINNER ° WEFKEND SMORG Cable TV licensing argument heats up By KATHRYN YOUNG Press OTTAWA — The Consumers’ Association of Canada has asked the federal cabinet to clear the way for cable sub- seribers, not cable companies, to choose whether they pay for new specialty cable tel hi: i The association filed an appeal Tuesday, asking cabinet to set aside a decision by the federal broadcasting regulator to grant licences to nine specialty cable television channels, including the youth, all-news, all-weather and all-sports channels. make that choice, not the cable operators. Patricia Dumas, press secretary to Communications Minister Flora MacDonald, said she had not seen the appeal but was not surprised to hear about it. The association has complained about the cost of the new services since they were announced. The French-language package—of specialty channels would cost subscribers about $2 a month on top of regular bills; the English package would cost about $1.75. - The association appeal deals with the French family, all-music and all-sports channels, the TV 5 international David McKendry, the association rep: ive who signed the appeal, said people don't want to be forced to pay for the specialty cable services. The channels will appeal only to specialized audiences, MeKendry said in a letter to cabinet secretary Paul Tel “Millions of cable television subscribers will be required to pay for these very particular programs in spite of their interests and wishes,” said McKendry, director of regulated industries for the association. “Many subscribers disconnect their cable service to avoid the speciality services and related fees.” The Canadian Radi ision and Tel Commission announced Nov. 30 it would grant licences to operate several new specialty cable channels. The 3" iation is objecting to the nine channels which will operate on what is called an optional-to- basic system. That means cable operators can choose whether to put the channel on the basic cable system. If the operator decides to carry the service, cable subscribers in that area must pay for it. The association says individuals should be allowed to French-| channel, the bilingual all-weather channel and the English youth, all-news, MuchMusic and TSN (The Sports Network) channels. Dumas said cabinet will consider the appeal along with another one filed in December by Edmonton's Allarcom Ltd., which lost its bid to run an all-news cable channel. The licence was granted to CBC instead. Dr. Charles Allard, chairman of Allarcom, asked cabinet to exercise its right to set aside the CRTC decision and to order the commission to hold another hearing. ~ But the appeal has hit some legal snags and could possibly be held up for months. Everyone assumed the 60-day appeal clock started ticking from Nov. 30, giving cabinet until Jan. 29 to make a decision. But a quirk in the wording of the CRTC decision has led some legal experts at the CBC, CRTC and in the Commun. ications Department to believe cabinet must wait until Sept. 1 — when most of the channels are scheduled to hit the airwaves. U.S. utilities upset tive George Miller, a Cali- fornian who chairs a House of Representatives’ subcom- mittee which oversees the BPA. The letter, signed by Stan- ley Hulett, president of the California Public Utilities Commission, and Charles Imbrecht, chairman of the California Energy Commit tee, was also sent to U.S. Trade Representative Clay ton Yeutter. A BPA spokesman said the trade treaty is no place to try to resolve a long-standing dispute between California utilities and the BPA. FIRMS COMPLAIN California utilities have complained that the BPA, a federal power marketing agency based in Portland, WASHINGTON (AP) — Two top California energy officials say the proposed Canada-U.S. treaty does little to guarantee California access to inexpensive Can- adian electricity. They note that the Bonne- ville. Power Administration will still control .major trans: mission lines to the U.S. Southwest. “We ask that you take whatever steps may be nec- essary to ensure that the proposed free-trade agree- ment with Canada truly opens the electricity markets between the United States and Canada to meaningful competition,” the two Cali- fornia officials said in a letter to Democratic Representa- will lay the foundation for economic efficiency and equity in the long run.” The free-trade agreement formally recognizes the right of British Columbia Hydro to have access to the interties. But U.S. Northwest utilities will still have first priority in sending surplus power to the Southwest. Under the treaty, Hydro will be lumped other non-regional util that rank lower on the prior- ity list for access to the in- terties. The trade treaty, which still requires congressional and parliamentary approval, also calls on the BPA and B.C. Hydro to continue ef- forts to frame a co-ordinated energy policy. Ore., has blocked Canadian power slaes by giving top priority to transmission of its own power and that of U.S. Pacific Northwest utilities. The BPA controls the transmission lines, known as interties, from the Pacific Northwest to California. “If the BPA continues its present approach to intertie access, resource inefficien cies and _ inequities will plague all parties on the West Coast,” Hulett and Im brecht said in their letter to Miller. “Your insistence that the trade agreement truly open access to Canada _ unen. cumbered by the (BPA's) intertie access policy is a crucial step to prevent this undesirable outcome, and B.C. Soviets shaft Canada OTTAWA (CP) — A Soviet freighter was hired to ship specialized components for Canada’s new navy frigates from Britain to the frigate construction site at Saint John, N.B., government cials say. Containers for the com- ponents were open when the freighter arrived in the 1986 incident, prompting an in: vestigation by the Supply and Service Department's security branch, a Canadian Forces official said Tuesday. But the investigation con- cluded that security was not compromised since the parts — silencer couplings for pro- peller shafts — were not classified, a Supply and Ser vices spokesman and the armed forces official said Tuesday. However, the general con tractor for the frigate pro- gram was warned not to use East Bloc shippers in the future. “We let it be known that we weren't happy,” Commo- dore Michael Saker-said in an interview Tuesday. “When it occurred it got people excited for obvious reasons,” he said. “But our assessment of the situation was that security was not compromised.” Saker acknowledged it's an embarrassment that a Soviet vessel was hired to ship parts for the Canadian frigates, which theoretigally could one day be battling the Soviet Navy. The couplings are used to muffle the sound of propeller shafts to deter detection and identification by enemy sub- marines. NO HARM DONE Saker and Ann Schroder, the Supply and Services De- partment spokesman, said investigators concluded no harm was done. Schroder said the couplings were dam. aged in the voyage across the Atlantic. “It’s just really hunks of metal,” Saker said. “If you opened it up and looked at it a hundred different ways it wouldn't tell you anything.” But Newfoundland Liberal MP Brian Tobin said he be lieves security was com- promised and accused the federal officials of trying to play down the incident. “The issue is that a part for a Canadian frigate was ship- ped by a Soviet freighter, Tobin said Tuesday. “It shows there is something terribly wrong with the sec- urity management on this project.” Saker said initially that “we assumed they (the con- tainers) were opened” but suggested in a second inter: view that the containers may have been broken by rough weather during the ocean crossing. Saint John Shipbuilding, the contractor that won the multi-billion-dollar contract to build a total of 12 new frigates, hired Kop-Flex Canada Ltd. of Montreal to supply the propeller coup- lings. Kop-Flex gave the ship- ping contract to a Soviet freighter because it offered the cheapest rates, said Pat Campbell, a Kop-Flex official. “You get the lowest bid der,” he said, refusing com ment on the security aspects of the shipment The couplings, manu factured by Holset Engineer. ing Ltd. of Huddersfield, England, can “almost be bought off the shelf,” Sch roder said. 4 a $ THERE WILL BE A GENERAL MEETING OF THE CASTLEGAR CO-OP HELD Monday, Jan. 18 at 7:00 p.m. ). All Members In the Board Room. Welcome. ona iS I save up to 80 Panasonic Cordless Telephone Fill Up at Castlegar Co-op . . . The More You Buy, the More You Save! Save 25¢ off the Regular Price of a Panasonic Cordless Telephone for Every Litre of Gas You Purchase, Up to a Maximum of 320 litres. You can Save up to $80! Reg. 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