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The overall tone is in» — you make a credit card deed easy, with only the oc- donation.” ecasional inkling that The Easy Pieces is a more pol- Commotions really want to lished effort than last year's of weigh scoles open up and cook. But held in Rattlesnakes, but the polish check by Cole, a modern pop isn't necessarily beneficial. CABARET DANCE BANDS Every Friday and Saturday at the MARLANE HOTEL Starting January 24 & 25 Dance Music from 10 p.m. - 2a.m. “THE COUNTRY /ROCK SOUND” OF THE “DANNY FREEWAY TRIO” crooner with a perpetual What Cole and The Commo ache in his voice, the backup tions really need is the edge, is left to provide a palatable not some producer to smooth but sadly restrained accom- it out. plishment.- AURAL LOBOTOMY? The album opens promis: rue or false? Excessive ingly with the cut Rich,-an yolume from your stereo upbeat, brassy, melodic offer- system can render you brain ing that’s almost matched dead later on by the songs Grace and Lost Weekend. But the electric current is heavily insulated by such ever-tuneful but terminally sedate fare as the moderate Cut Me Down, the slower Pretty Gone and the near comatose ballad James, with such homespun wisdom as “it's a crime to be alive and NEW YORK (REUTER) — A Russian-born comedian has RETURNS!!! Ladies enjoy the return of the Thursday, Jan. 30 2 Shows Nightly ALCON PAINTING & DECORATING rounTH AVENUE 49 26 a CASTLEGAR vin 2s! R NEWS cemese. scree CASTLEGA 0 Demwte 2007 Morr Good Stock of Li Both Accessories & ha Upstairs in Trail’s Towne Squere Phone 368-5302 — LL MALE STRIPPER Garfield Show Carol Maga Dianna Kootn ADVERTISING SALES OFFICE 365-5210 4 see it, Fil find it!” AR CHEVRON 365- be alone and be content to be.” In the long run, Cole proves to be a stronger song writer than singer. His lyrics, become a smashing success in the United States by making fun of Russians, the Com munist party and commun. ism. Yakov Smirnoff, 34, who moved to the United States in 1977, earns over $250,000 a year, plays the country's best comedy clubs, has appeared in three Hollywood films, and became well-known for beer commercial (“in Amer iea, you can always find a party,” he says in the ad. “In Russia, the party always finds you.”) What has enabled Smirnoff ze! SII Grou Roint| bores THE C.P. PUB OPEN 12 NOON - 2 A.M. Specials Mondoy thursday TUESDAY NIGHT — POOL TOURNAMENT Prises tor Top Three Ploces 1895 RESTAURANT — Ph. 368-8232 Open Monday - Saturday — 9 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. Featuring SALAD BAR (Inc. Soup & Dessert) $3.95 WE ALSO CATER TO BANQUETS & COCKTAIL PARTIES FOR GROUPS OF 15 TO 120. ‘The Alan Parsons Project doesn’t provide the answer — nor, for that matter, does it pose the question — but that may be as good an explan- ation as any for _the-crfptic lyric of the title tune Stereo- tomy (Arista). “Silent knives dissect me and I feel no pain . - Stereotomy ... Turn me to stone ... Make me a rock...” Not exactly cut-and-dried pop, but it’s all too typical of co-writers Parsons and Eric Woolfson when their collec- tive mind runs rampant. Frankly, the listener can burn out a few brain cells just by trying to interpret The Project too intently; far bet- er to forgo the lyric sheet ind submit yourself to the vonderfully rich musical apestry that these studio vizards are so adept at veaving. This latest release from Che Project — longtime col- to become so successful in the competitive world of standup comedy? He attributes his success to his unyielding drive, his belief in himself, and his humor. “I'm an outsider,” Smirnoff says. “I give Americans a different perspective on their lives in America as well as life in Russia.” He describes his comedy as “ethnic hu- mor.” American fascination with what life is really like in Russia holds another key to Smirnoffs increasing suc cess. At Caroline's, a popular New York comedy club, Smirnoff regales the audi ence with anecdotes of the grim life of Rassians. He calls Russian dentistry “self-service. They give you a hammer and sickle and you do it on your own.” Russian cars?“Most people drive a convertible called a bicycle.” Russian Christmas?“Santa Claus brings people things they need like toilet paper, bread and meat.” Russian television? “Two channels, the first one shows propaganda and the second one says turn back to channel one.” His comedic view of Rus sians, he says, may be partly exaggerated but conveys Last Chance Art and Stamp Collectors to order . . . Canada's first “DUCK STAMP” Print Designed by Conado's foremost artist Robert Bateman YOU MUST PLACE YOUR ORDER BY JANUARY 30. ke A TASTE OF ART ikoft 1129-3rd Street, A Warm Offer ra Cold Time bk truth. Many Russians “are very grim,” Smirnoff says. “There is no color in the country. They're a hard-working people who at age 40 look 60.” BEGINS AT 15 Born in Odessa, Smirnoff began his comedy career at age 15, working in the equivalent of vaudeville. No ruckus on record aborators Parsons and Woolfson’ and a stable of quest singers — is parti- vularly impressive at its best noments, a tad bloated at others. The extended insfromen- tals Urbania and Where's the Walrus are pretentious, and when the latter segues into the song Light of the World, complete with a singer at- tempting a John (I Am the Russian comic cracks up capitalists He performed a 15-minute standup act “between the dancer and singer” of a vari- ety show. He compares his Russian comedy to Henny Youngman's “Take my wife, please,” routines, mostly one- liners. Working as a comic on Russian cruise ships enabled him to see the good life that foreigners were living. He applied for emigration pa- pers, and because he is Jewish, waited two years for the visa to be granted. In the United States, he enrolled in bartending school because he thought that bar. tenders were comparable to comedians. They comforted people, conversed with them, and made them laugh. At school he heard about a bar tending job at Grossinger's Hotel. Off he went to the Catskills. As a bartender, he learned the English language. Often he would try jokes out on customers. Many laughed at Smirnoff's offbeat views of American and Russian life. Lou Goldstein, head of day time activities at Grossin ger’s, invited Smirnoff to perform his act. He calls his ensuing suc cess “a long, hard road.” He moved to Florida and made a name for himself playing comedy clubs. Returning to New York, he performed at the leading clubs — The Im. prov, Catch a Rising Star, the Comic 8 In Los Angeles, he says, “major breaks start ed to happen” for him. 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Rhoda has been laid to rest. id knew her as Rhoda isecracking svelte and confident, was married and then lost Mr. Right. “It's amazing how little Rhoda is coming up,” Say5 Harper, who is filming a new show for NBC called Valerie. “[ guess enough time has elapsed.” Her new show, in which she plays the wife of an airline pilot and the mother of three sons, is ex; make its debut on NBC in March. “We did seven shows and came back after the holidays: for four more,” she says. “The problem with finding a place’ in the schedule is that NBC has an embarrassment ofj riches. There aren't many openings and their policy off keeping shows on to find an audience is paying off.” Harper filmed the first seven shows at the MTM-CBS; Studios on Stage 14, the same stage where she did Rhoda. For the next four she had to go to the MGM-UA Studios to; find space. FINDS IT WONDERFUL “It was wonderful to come back,” she says. “But I found it was wonderful not to cling to the past. “But, wait a minute, that’s not the way to go,” she says. “That was a great experience. Thad eight wonderful years of it. I know how a stage runs. But this was a different way of working than what I was used to. In the Mary days and on Rhoda I never saw the network people or the studio people. Now, I'm dealing} with them.” Harper wants to put the past behind her, yet finds it diffieult. “Those days at MTM were a magic time,” she says. “That place, that time, those people. But this is just asi good. When I stopped worrying about how to top yourself it gets better.” Jason Bateman, the fast-talking slicker from It's Your: Move and Silver Spoons, plays her teenage son David on: Valerie. Danny Ponee and Jeremy Licht are her twin sons, Willie and Mark. Josh Taylor plays her airline pilot husband, but you'll seldom see him. Valerie Hogan is a suburban Chicago housewife who; also works as the manager of a local auction house. There: appears to be no lingering trace of Rhoda in her new; character. “I like the character,” she says. “I like her; commitment to her kids without losing herself. She hasn't immersed herself in the kids to the extent that she disappears. “I think Valerie Hogan is trying to get in a last few: licks on those boys before she turns them loose on the’ world. “She loves her husband. She has a lot of joy, asi posed to Rhoda. She's more secure and sure of herself. She's willing to take more responsibility.” FACES CHANGE The show, like Rhoda before it, bas undergone: changes. After the pilot, for instance, the character of her sister-in-law was turned into a neighbor. She was also’ given the outside job in the auction house. Harper says she feels like she's doing a series of pilots. “A lot of what the show ends up doing depends on how the audience reacts to it.” Tony Cacciotti, Harper's longtime companion, is a co-executive producer of the series. Cacciotti is a physical fitness trainer who helped Harper lose weight and get into shape. Harper says she weighed 155 during her days on The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Then she slimmed down to 130 and now she's at 125. Prizzi‘s Honor takes four awards BEVERLEY HILLS, Calif. John Huston won best direc MP supp By Rostenen West Sy Sve Stone Bete eae commitment to the protection of the unborn. I respect views and I share those views in many ways. Like him, realize the vital importance of this issue for all Canadians. immigrat are those in my constituency who hav protest and they are saying flatly, no more immigration or more sharply reduced below the numbers that we have announced. ‘They say that without knowing that Canada, in 1965, was the youngest nation in the world in terms of our population and age. Now, in 1986, we are the oldest in terms of the average age for a population. We are sustaining a net loss in our population. For whatever reasons young Canadian couples are either not having any children or are having one or two children. Diminishing population is not in its own right a valid reason to change current law in the Criminal Code pertaining to abortion, but I am still moved to ask why so many foetuses are destroyed, and where it would be difficult to demonstrate a valid and serious health risk to the mother in each case. ‘Too frequently we find the risk itself is minimal and that those who use this route use it as a form of birth control. The sadness is that there are in Canada today many childless couples who yearn for that great gift, that great fulfilment of life, a child of their own or a child by adoption. that as a society we have not had changed little since 1! was an indictable offence for which one to imprisonment for life-to procure the miscarriage of any woman. In 1969 the Criminal Code was amended to provide an procuring an abortion. It was not approved by a and health of the mother. That provision in 1969 we hoped would help to resolve some of the problems associated with this entire issue, an nd in so many ways, but differing standards from province to province, from city to city. 1 would like to reflect on the attitude of a given Winninglottery numbers Bulictin Board (AP) — Pirzzi's Honor, a movie about love and mis deeds in the Mafia, has cap tured four top honors and the lush Out of Africa won three awards. Whoopi Goldberg, the standup comic, won best dramatic actress at the 43rd annual Golden Globe Awards on Friday night for her role as the heroine of The Color Purple. The surprise win drew shouts and applause from the 1,100 guests at the Beverly Hilton dinner and television show. The NBC television series The Golden Girls and Miami Vice each won two awards. Prizzi's Honor won the best motion picture-comedy or musical category, while tor for the movie. Jack Nicholson won best actor in a musical or comedy movie for his role as the lovestruck Mafia soldier in the film. Kathleen Turner won best actress in the same category for her portrayal of Nicholson's deadly wife and partner in crime Out of Africa won three awards for best dramatic film, Klaus Maria Brandauver for best supporting dramatic actor and John Barry for best original score. Meg Tilly won best sup porting actress in a movie role for her portrayal of a disturbed young nun in the film Agnes of God, about the murder of a newborn child in a convent A Grand Ball celebrating Expo 86 in British Columbia Fireside Place Castlegar Saturday, February 15 Cocktails six o'clock p.m. Buffet Dinner seven o'clock p.m. Entertainment. Fun Auction. Prizes Dancing to Amber, commencing at nine o'clock p.m. $22.50 per person. Tickets Available from Fir Castlegar Chamber of Commerce, on 's Fashions. The six winning numbers in Wednesday's Lotto 649 draw were two, 19, 26, 27, 44 and 47. The bonus number was eight. ‘There was no wiriner of the jackpot pool of $1,454,210.40. The second-prize pool, awarded to those matching five regular numbers and the bonus number had four win ners of $137,342.10. The third-prize pool awarded to those matching five regular numbers, had 185 winners of $2,270.80. The fourth-prize pool, awarded to those matching four regular numbers, had 12,171 winners of $66.30. In addition, there were 235,328 prizes of $10 awarded to those matching three reg: ular numbers. There was 4 247,688 prizes $4,129,683.70. total of worth WIZARD'S PALACE “Fun for the Whole Family!" MONDAY THRU SATURDAY 9a.m. to4p.m 6 to 10:30 p.m SUNDAY 10 a.m. to 5 p.m 1005 - 2nd Street Winning numbers drawn Wednesday evening in Brit- ish Columbia's Pacific Ex press lottery: For $100,000: 155208 For $50,000: 380827 For $10,000: 159442 There were no winning numbers drawn in the Lotto West lottery Wednesday night. The jackpot of $150,000 was carried over. The eight numbers drawn MONTE CARLO RESTAURANT orts amendment community as opposed to the attitude of another community those trained in their resp of philosophy and theology are unable to arrive at any concensus, the judiciary at this point in the of man’s knowledge, is not in a position to speculate as to the answer.” I can imagine to what depths this learned judge must have gone in his own conscience to provide that very brief involve q which are in nature. The court is not the proper place, in my view, to resolve this ramifications of preenting access to & abortion when a woman's health is at risk. I must ask what of when a in the same province or in some different pr where standards may vary, where i may be an vary, where a variety of conditions may vary. On the one hand you find that the statistics ics for abortion are very low, and on the other hand, in another community. very high. It is perhaps difficult to put your finger on what causes that variation of perception of fact and of viewpoint. ‘The abortion amendments have not had the effect of placating any of the individuals or groups who have an abiding interst in the matter of abortion and whose views range from one extreme in which all abortions are considered to be murder to the opposite extreme in which convictions that the subject inspires. One's philosophy, one’s experience, one’s exposure to the raw edges of existence, one's religious training, one’s attitudes towards life and family and the moral sta: is influence and to color one’s the law should be. Some have resorted to the courts to clarify the law, i since the advent of the Charter. In at least two cases, Borowski and Morgentaler, the courts in Saskatehe- wan and Ontario have upheld the abortion provisions of the Criminal Code. In the Borowski case, the plaintiff alleged that a foetus was a person and therefore the term “everyone” in Section 7 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms provided protection for the unborn. In short, the court was asked to determine whether or not the foetus was, from the time of conception, or shortly thereafter, a legal person for all purposes. Of course, this was one of the issues as well before the United States Supreme Court in the case of Roe v. Wade. I must say that Mr. Justice Blackmun has a great sense of perception and feel for the case. I personally find that I have never had the opportunity to meet him in person but I have great difficulty relating to Morgentaler when I see him on television. I have great difficulty relating to that man. In Roe v. Wade, Mr. Justice Blackmun noted: “We need not resolve the difficult question of when life begins. When were 15, 24, 27, 37, 43, 44, 49 and 50. The bonus number was 8. Gesimess Wath AL KEN F. 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