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New episodes starting in January include Barry Bost- wick as a novelist whose fake suicide ends unusually, Peter Sandra liet who finds a deadly white powder and Lisa Blount as a wholesome pop star who tries to update her image. ‘The Hitchhiker made its debut as the first dramatic series for Home Box Office in October 1983, two years be- fore the commercial net- works revived anthologies with NBC's Amazing Stories and Alfred Hitchcock Pre- éents and CBS’ The Twilight Zone. » ride Vadim (Barbarella), Paul Verhoeven (Solidi: of Orange), Philip Noyce (Heat- wave), Mike Hodges (Flash Gordon) and Cari Schenkel (Out of Order), plus music video director Brian Grant. WANTS DRAMA “Td always wanted to do _ dramatic shows, Chesler “said. “So I went to (HBO) and vision cannot. And we have greater leeway in visual con- tent, language and violence.” “I remembered that The Twilight Zone had been a very successful show and at that time had never been re- ments. You could make it darker than it ever was.” Chesler said because the CHARGES AHEAD WITH NEW ALBUM WINNIPEG (CP) — Canadian singer-songwriter Ian Thomas says he has left his paranoia behind him for the moment as he charges ahead with fresh energy and a brand new album. “It seems those days of paranoia about where the songs are coming from are over for me,” said Thomas. A year ago, the now-relaxed, jovial Thomas was grappling in solitude with world issues and trying to make every song a personal statement. But during a recent interview over lunch, the newly upbeat entertainer seemed more content to entertain photographers, waitresses and assorted patrons with nonstop shtick. “I've just gotten a real surge of energy, I don't know why, but I'm already well into writing the next album. I just plan to milk it as long as I can.” Known for his single Painted Ladies, which became a hit across North America in 1973, Thomas has just released the album Add Water and figures it might be time again to do some live concerts. “I know it's time to tour because every time I find myself in front of any more than two or three people | start doing shtick, so I've gotta get out there and get it out of my system,” he said. One of Add Water's strongest songs is Video Club, a subtle attack on the passiveness of rock videos. “There are some very effective videos, but for the most part they seem to have the same hooks to keep you watching,” he said, “The problem is that everybody's watehing and nobody's talking. It's « pretty sad concept when you look at it that way.” ‘Thomas is convinced the video bubble is song. “I just can't see record companies sustaining those kinds of expenses. As it stands now, an artist doesn't have a chance if his record doesn't have a video. I think that will change. The importance of video will wane.” BEMOANS FM A long-time observer of pop radio (Thomas produced National Rock Works, a two-hour CBC radio show in the early ‘70s) he points out his fears about the sameness of FM radio in North America. “FM is really becoming AM these days, and it's kind of a shame, because more and more we're hearing the same thing everywhere in North America. “Whatever happened to regional music? I agree with free enterprise and I don’t believe in government controlling radio, but without Canadian content laws 'm afraid program directors are just going to look at tip sheets like Billboard and copy what happens to be hot in L.A.” Add Water is his first record to be released in the United States in five years — the single Harmony is getting MTV airplay. ‘Thomas said the secure feeling of knowing he owns his own 24-track home studio and can make as many albums as he likes helps his writing. “When you get into that syndrome of constantly worrying about how your record is doing on the charts it ends up having a negative affect on your creativity.” ‘BUSINESS _aadorvery §, 1908 _ Ae audience tunes to HBO for AMAAKES MOVIE DEBUT Winfrey finds success to offer theatrical feature values. “What we could do here was in effect make a series of miniature films,” he said. “People watch HBO because they want to be surprised and they don’t want familiar- ity. 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The talk show host was in the middle of a live program on how. to cope with de- pression during the holidays, and she brooded that the program wasn't going well because: the guest experts weren't..providing sufficient solutions. “We've got to offer some answers to these people,” Winfrey lamented to her production staff during 2 commercial break-on The Oprah Winfrey Show. The subject in the studio at WLS-TV may have been de- pressing but Oprah Winfrey i ii . She week in The Color Purple, and received critical acclaim for her portrayal of the strong-willed Sofia in the film adapted from Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Next year, her daily tele vised talk show will be na. tionally syndicated by King World. About 80 stations have already signed up, and the syndicate hopes she will have the same impact across the country as she’s had in Chicago, where her program tops Phil Donahue’s by a 2-1 margin in the ratings. Winfrey is supportive of her guests as they pour out their tales of holiday depres- sion. However, after the show, she sings as she walks down the hall. Depression is not something she has to deal with in her own life. “You can't let people like that bring you down,” said the 31-year-old Winfrey, who describes herself as “prob- ably the most popular person in Chicago.” Winfrey is not even down about her weight, which she acknowledges is 40 pounds more than it should be, and jokes about it on her shows, She once told viewers she became so crazed from diet- ing that she took the only two foods she could find in the house, a package of frozen hot dog buns and a bottle of maple syrup, and ate the whole concoction. The tale was typical of the banter of The Oprah Winfrey Show, which provides the usual talk show mixture of celebrities and assorted ex perts but also includes a strong dose of life as viewed and experienced by Winfrey. “I don't fake it on my show, it’s a spontaneous ex. perience;” she said COME TO OUR CABARET! Sat., Jan. 11 — 8p.m. Castlegar, Recreation Complex RESERVED TICKETS ONLY! Phone 365-3226 or 365-3834 or get tickets at either library, either drug store oF any arts council member ~~ Winfrey grew up with her grandmother on a Mississippi farm and shuffled back and forth between her parents, who were separated. She got her first job as a television reporter in Nash- ville in 1973. Her friends told her that she was merely a token black and a token woman at the station. “I was a token,” she said. “But I was one happy token.” After a six-year stint in Baltimore, including a talk ‘show there, Winfrey came to Chicago in 1984. Her success has bought her a four-bedroom condominium in downtown Chicago,- com- plete with a wine cellar. However, the talk show host and new movie actress prob- ably won't be spending much time there. house for 10 minutes and I say: ‘What do people do when they are at home?” Her part in The Color Purple gave Winfrey a grace- ful way out of a bet she made with.comie Joan Rivers on the Tonight Show that she could lose 15 pounds before returning to the show. LOST WEIGHT “I was at a health farm and I had already lost 17 pounds when I got a call from the movié pedple,” Winfrey said. “They said, ‘we don't care what you've lost, you'd better get it back,’ so I rushed back to Chicago and got a pizza.” In_the movie, Sofia has caustic exchanges with other characters, which contrasts Winfrey's own style of deal- ‘ing-with people and trouble some situations. “My whole approach in school was to talk my way out of confrontations — any thing to avoid a fight. I have a fear of being disliked — even by people I dop't like,” she said. PAUL REICHMANN Power ‘just a myth’ By WARREN CARAGA’ TORONTO (CP) — It's a circular boardroom, richly panelled in dark woods, on the 32nd floor of the city's building. ‘The big man in the chair owns the building, and many other things as well. If there's a power structure in “Not at all. That's just a myth,” he said in a two-hour interview with The Canadian Press at the headquarters of Olympia and York Developments in First Canadian Place in the heart of Toronto's financial district. “There is no single individual in this country or the United States that has too great an influence on the economy, although the popular press may tend to direct in that direction.” Paul Reichmann and brothers Albert and Ralph are like Horatio Alger with a small head start. Their father FEATURE REPO had a small bank in Morocco. When the family moved to Canada in the 1950s, they bought a tile company. Thirty years later, they still own the tile company. In an enumeration of their possessions, it ranks far down the list behind Olympia and York Developments, one of the country’s major developers of office space; Gulf Canada, one of the country’s largest oil companies; and Abitibi-Price, the world’s largest newsprint producer. CONTROLS Antjal Holdings in Trilon Financial,~which owns Royal Trust and London Life; Trizee and Cadillac Fairview, two big real estate firms; Hiram Walker Resources; and MacMillan Bloedel. Some would suggest it's richly symbolic that the Reichmanns own the building that houses the Toronto Stock Exchange. Reichmann admits his holdings are large but adds that “everything has to be seen in the proper perspective. There are many, say American, organizations in Canada with total assets that control more than we do.” Olympia and York is a private company and little is known about its size except that it is very big. A few years ago, one report put the family’s net worth at about $5.5 billion. The assets they control are reputed to be in the $20-billion range. Those are just guesses because the family doesn’t like to talk about such things. “If someone says ‘what is your net worth or your FERRARO'S family’s net worth or your private company’s net worth? basically. ‘The first attempt by Reichmann to take over Gulf Canada this summer collapsed and observers are still trying to figure out why. Reichmann is not much help. After all, he says: “There are some trade secrets.” Whatever the reason, Paul Reichmann broke off the talks with Chevron Corp. in the United States and, in doing so, left a $25-million, non-refundable deposit on the table. “The larger the transaction, the more attention one has to give to detail,” he says. “For that reason, we refused to sign a contract. “We said we were willing to put money on the line and pay for an option but we will not sign because it is easier to lose even a large amount in an option that risk a mistake in a transaction of this magnitude.” Putting a deal together, he says, is like fitting pieces of a puzzle and, when the pieces didn’t fit, the deal faltered. “Any businessman who makes decisions under pressure will make more mistakes than right ones,” he says. “That's one of the first lessons an executive has to learn: “So we lost our deposit. Who cares? I'll make the deal when I'm ready to make it.” It wasn't as if Gulf would not be there the next day and Reichmann knew it. Gulf had been for sale for a few years and Olympia and York had been interested before. There wasn'ta lineup to spend $3 billion on the company. “There wasn’t a risk of losing the deal. The question was only what was the best way to handle it.” A few weeks later, the pieces fit and controlling interest in Gulf Canada passed to Olympia and York. As one listens to him speak in his accented, soft voice, one is left with the impression that if he's shy, he's shy like a tiger. The Reichmanns have built a reputation beyond their savvy as busi a for iding the limelight. Trevor Eyton, president of fi ed Bras- can Limited, which is involved with the family in such ventures as Trilon and Trizec, once said “their achieve- ments are mightily public even as they continue to shun publicity. 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