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By IAN WARREN he could be in China in four “they were shooting China

Canadian Press

So whom did Italian di-
rector Bernardo Bertolucci
phone in Toronto after haul
ing in Oscar gold for the Last
Emperor on Academy
Awards night?

Stills photographer Robert
McEwan, the only North
American crew member on
Bertoluccis Oscar-winning
epic movie, was sound asleep
when he got the call last
Tuesday at 3:30 a.m.

“Bernie just wanted to
thank me before he left
North America,” says Me
Ewan, who's currently the
set photographer on Sing, a
Tri-Star movie-musical being
made in Toronto.

How did the 37-year-old
McEwan get the coveted job
of stills photographer on The
Last Emperor, the first
western feature film shot in
China since the Communist
Revolution?

McEwan says he was
working on a movie in a
studio near Toronto in the
fall of 1986 when he got a call
from Hollywood asking him if

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days. Then he was put on
hold.

It was 12:30 a.m. and a
weary McEwan presumed it
was a crew member playing a
joke. He hung up.

Hollywood called back and
the deal — McEwan was
basically hired to shoot the
glossy press kit for Columbia
Pictures — was negotiated
over the phone.

It happened so fast that
McEwan wasn't even sure
who the director was. He re-
calls coming back on the
movie set mumbling some-
thing about China and “Ber-
tolini or Berlucci.”

FALLS TO FLOOR

“The grip, who is Italian,
almost fell to the floor. “You
mean Bertolucci! He's the
guru of directors.”

It seems when Columbia
came in on the Hemdale pro-
duction about the life of
Emperor Pu Yi, they wanted
a photographer who could do
Hollywood-style tight shots
of the actors.

The movie — which took
nine Oscars, including best
picture — stars American
actor John Lone, China's
Joan Chen and Peter
O'Toole.

There were already about
30. European photographers
on the set, but McEwan says

while Columbia wanted to
push the actors.”

A former actor, McEwan
started as a stills photo
grapher on the 1980 Toronto
movie The Kidnapping of the
President.

He has no_ professional
training in photography and

intains it's “all a matter of
knowing when to press the
button.”

“Maybe because I was an
actor, I cam empathize with
them. We have a kind of
silent rapport.”

The Toronto-born McEwan
had been recommended to
Columbia by influential Los
Angeles publicist Andra
Jaffe, who liked his work on
the comedy Burnin’ Love.

McEwan’s departure was a
hectic affair.

It began in Toronto, where
U.S. customs officials de-
layed him so long that he
missed his flight to San
Francisco. His metal film
cases with almost 1,000 rolls
of film, however, went on
without him.

His film cases got lost two
more times en route. Then
McEwan was arrested in
Shanghai because he didn’t
have a visa. When he finally
got to Beijing, the movie had
moved elsewhere.

The Last Emperor was the

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NEW YORK (CP) —
Comedy clubs in New York
City have become as com
mon as jokes about lost
airline luggage, but not
nearly as tiresome.

Among the clubs offer.
ing a mix of established
names and newcomers is
Stand-Up New York, a
room that typically fea
tures four comedians per
show, each doing 20 to 30
minutes of material.

Dangerfield’s has a sim-
ilar setup while Caroline's
at the Seaport usually has
an opening act and a head
liner.

The Improvisation and
Catch a Rising Star are
among clubs more likely to
feature comedians newer
at the game.

What's lost in star ap.
peal at such places is
sometimes made up in
creativity, or sheer vol
ume.

On a recent Saturday
night at Stand-Up ‘New
York, four comedians kept
the audience in stitches
almost from beginning to
end. But comedy is a
gamble — the papers don't
review it as they do plays,

Everybody's F.

big time
By MARY CAMPBELL
Associated Press

NEW YORK — Rick Astley is attracting more attention
with his first album than he probably expected to have in a

lifetime.

Its been 20 years since England sent America anything
like Astley — when Joe Cocker arrived sounding a lot like

Ray Charles.

Astley’s RCA album, Whenever You Need Somebody,
and the first rhythm and blues sounding single from it,
Never Gonna Give You Up, have shot up the best-selling
charts in Europe and then followed the same pattern in the

United States where the LP

went gold,

Never Gonna Give You Up reached No. 1 on Canadian

charts.

Besides getting a superhit with a first record, Astley

excites interest because he’s a surprise.
super-soulful, deeply resonating, mature-sounding

e is
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he's a 21-year-old English lad with a diffident air, chestnut

hair and freckles.

“There's so much that gets crammed in,” Astley said

during an interview. “
basically, any more.

'rivate life is one thing I don’t get,

“Today we're a little rushed and that seems to be the

norm these days. I don't see
mean to moan about it.

my family any more. I don't

“I knew I was letting myself in for this. I realize little
things in life become suddenly important and you miss

them.”

STARTS EARLY

Astley was born in Newton-le-Willows, Loonie,

England — not far from Liverpool. Like many performers,

he started as a teenager.
“I took up drums around

15,” he said. “I actually liked

drums. With friends, a guitarist and bass player, we got a
band together. One has gone to college now, studying

computets. One is married.
“It was a fun thing.”

At 17, Astley was asked by a band named FBI to be its

drummer.

“It was in the same little town,” he said. “Anybody who
can play an instrument; everybody seems to know about
them. It was an all-guitar band. Nobody could afford key.

boards.

“I started to write most of the material about six

ing,” he said,

The band's managers —

“so I progressed on to be the

one of whom still manages

Astley — invited Peter Waterman, who owns production
and publishing companies, to a performance.

“The band was still very young; I was one of the oldest
and I was 19,” Astley said. “He offered me a solo deal which I
ended up taking.”

Later, Astley played guitar on one track of the album,
No More Looking for Love.

PLAYS DEMOS

“We did that at 2 or 3 in the morning,” he said. “Nobody
was around. The guy producing said, ‘You do it.’ I always
play on my own demos. I said, ‘Fine. I can get by on this.”

“I'm not stupid enough not to know there are better
musicians than me.

“We've recorded Ain't Too Proud to Bet by the
Temptations. I sang it live in a few clubs in London. Every-
body seems to think it’s the strongest thing I've done and
that’s my direction.

“It's like rhythm, and me singing. It seems to show my
vocal ability to its best. I did it slower than the Temptations
did it. My voice suits slow; I think you can express yourself a
little more.

“We were going to put it on the first album but didn’t
want to put all the eggs in one basket,” he said, “and a lot of
people lately have released old Motown songs.

“T've got all these thoughts buzzing around in my head.
You've got only 10 songs to bring to people.”

The album includes five songs by Mike Stock, Matt
Aitken and Waterman, four by Astley and When I Fall in
Love, the Nat (King) Cole hit.

“I'm only 21,” Astley said. “As years go on, I'm hopefull
I'll get into writing all of an album and producing more of it
It's still early days for me.”

Mr. Dressup tours

By The Canadian Press

Ernie Coombs is no rock
star but his touring schedule
reads like one.

CBC show dominates its
10:30 time slot, with about
500,000 preschoolers watch

In 1987, the man better
known as Mr. Dressup spent
177 days on the road and ex.
pects this year will be no
different.

Coombs, 60, has been a
fixture on Canadian morning
television for 21 years. His

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tinue to rise.

When he isn’t taping new
programs, he's travelling
from gig to gig in a motor
home with puppet friends
Casey and Finnegan slumped
in back.

But, as on his show,
Coombs is never in a hurry.

“(We don't) feel children
have to have everything cut
up into little pieces and fired
at them like guns,” says pup
peteer Judith Lawrence.

Coombs admits that per.
forming gets harder with
age, but says he still loves
kids.

“I find preschoolers just
the same as I did 25 years
ago,” he says. “Their needs
and wants are very basic,”

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Turner attends

mother's funeral

VANCOUVER (CP) —
Federal Liberal John Turner
stood in the entrance of a
Vancouver church Wednes-
day to personally thank
mourners for attending his
mother’s funeral.

Friends of Phyllis Turner
Ross filled St. Peter and Paul
Catholic Church for the fun-
eral mass.

Among those welcomed by
Turner were friends from his
mother’s school days in Ross-
land, friends from her years
as a student and later chan-
cellor at the University of
B.C., and her time as Cana.
da’s senior woman civil ser-
vant.

Ross, wife of former B.C.
Ltd-Gov. Frank Ross, died in

her sleep Monday on Salt-
spring Island. She was 85 and
had been suffering from Alz.
heimer's disease.

She is survived by Turner,
daughter Brenda Norris \of
Montreal and eight grand-
children.

Two of her grandchildren
read passages from the Bible
during the hour-long service.

Former senator Paul Nic-
hold said that in 1945, Ross
was made a Companion of the
British Empire and 22 years
later became an Officer of the
Order of Canada.

She “had a star quality
that included good looks,”
Nichol said, and also had “in-
telligence, brains and the
knack of knowing how to
work hard.”

CANADIANS

Pollution feared

KINGSTON, Ont. (CP) —
Nine of every 10 Canadians
believe their health has de-
teriorated because of en-
vironmental pollution and 93
per cent fear they are being
poisoned by toxins that have
not yet been identified, a
recent public opinion poll
suggests.

The poll, released to the
joint annual meeting of the
Ontario chapter of the Air
Pollution Control Association
and the Pollution Control
Association of Ontario, also
says more than 75 per cent of
Canadians would be willing
to pay higher taxes to curb
pollution.

The results indicate the
public's concerns about the
environment are no longer
simply related to a desire for
“pretty trees,” but to their
own personal health, said
Michael Adams, president of
Environics Research Group
Ltd., which conducted the
poll last fall for a group of
private and government
clients.

“This is the kind of issue
that can really bite in a
political sense,” Adams said.
“People are not complacent
about the environment any
more. The environment is a
health issue.”

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July 19 - Aug. 6

This summer, 40 students from Aoyama
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three weeks in Castlegar. Selkirk College
requires families in Castlegar to provide room
and board and share the enjoyment of
developing cross-cultural friendships.

If sharing this cross-cultural experience interests
you, contact Philomena Archambault at Selkirk
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June 3, 1988.

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CASTLEGAR HOSPICE SOCIETY
Annual
General Meeting
Monday, April 25 — 7:30 p.m.
Castlegar Health Unit
VIDEO PRESENTATIONS:

Hospice of Yuma, Arizona, featuring
the late Bob Maddocks

SunFest to host
annual chili cookoff

Castlegar food connois-
seurs take note, this year's
Sunfest celebration will also
be playing host to the First
Annua! Kootenay Country
Chili Cookoff.

Although it is a first for the
West Kootenay, the cookoff
is an international annual
event and has been officially
sanctioned by the Interna-
tional Chili Society.

KBS Radio, the Sandman
Inn and Foster's Lager are

sponsoring what promises to
be the gourmet extravaganza
of the year.

The event will include
contests for best showman-
ship, hot pepper eating, hoot
and holler, and men’s and
ladies’ “BS” tossing. There
will also be two special con-
tests, in keeping with Sun-
fest’s “Salute to Australia”
theme: best hat and best
booth (relating, of course, to
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POSTPONEMENT OF
PUBLIC HEARING

IN THE MATTER OF the Utilities Commission Act,
S.B.C. 1980, c. 60, as amended

and

IN THE MATTER OF an Application by West
Kootenay Power and Light Company, Limited for an
Energy Project Certificate

BEFORE:

Chairman of
Commissioner:

April 15, 1988

J.D.V. Newlands, Deputy Chairman and

the Division; A.C. Michelson,
amd F.C. Leighton, Commissioner

ORDER

WHEREAS West Kootenay Power and Light Company, Limited
(“WKPL") has applied to the Commission for an Order adjourning

the public hearing (‘the hearing”) set to commence on Tuesday,
April 26, 1988, at the Park Lake Motor Inn, 1675 Abbot Street.
Kelowna, British Columbia until May 31, 1988 at a time and
location to be fixed by the Commission; and

WHEREAS WKPL has received an offer (‘the offer") from the
British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority (B.C. Hydro”) dated
March 24, 1988 to supply WKPL with 130 MW of firm capacity
Power upon terms set forth therein; and

WHEREAS WKPL also requires additional time to address environ-
mental issues and to finalize the potential sites for the location of
the gas turbines; and

WHEREAS the Commission deems it in the public interest that
WKPL be allowed further opportunity to consider the matters
aforesaid.

NOW THEREFORE the Commission hereby orders as follows:

1. The public hearing set to commence April 26, 1988 at the Park
Lake Motor Inn, 1675 Abbot Street, Kelowna, B.C. be and the
same is hereby adjourned until Tuesday, May 31, 1988 at a
time and location to be fixed by the Commission

WKPL is to publish not later than April 22, 1988, a copy of this.
Order, in one issue each of the Vancouver Province, the Van-
Couver Sun, the Kelowna Courier and other local news publi-
cations as may properly provide adequate notice to the popu-
lation in the service area of the company.

WKPL is to or obtain

service on local radio stations, as
may properly inform the public concerning the adjournment
in and around the communities served.

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The time and location of the hearing in Kelowna is to be sub-
ject to further Order of the Commission.

DATED at the City of Vancouver, in the Province of British Cor
umbia, this 15th day of April, 1988.

By Order

J.D.V. NEWLANDS,

Deputy Chairman and Chairman of the Division

British Columbia Utilities Commission

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