News tunes, 1985 OPEN THIS SUNDAY in Ud. HOMESTEAD SOUP SANDWICH SHOP 1102 - 3rd St. Castlegar 365-8312 SHOW TI ma 1008 9.000 New book on early film star NEW YORK (AP) — At the height of the Depression, John Gilbert was paid $250,000 every time he made a movie. His life was the basis for A Star Is Born, he was Hollywood's second-most popular leading man in the 1920s after Rudolph Valentino and Greta Garbo promised to marry him three times, but always got cold feet at the last minute. However, what most people remember about John Gilbert — if they remember him at all — is the story that the dashing matinee idol had a high, squeaky voice and audiences laughed him off the screen once they heard him. That story was a myth, according to Gilbert's daughter, Leatrice Gilbert Fountain. In a new book, she concludes the myth was created by Gilbert's own studio, Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer, under orders from the late Louis B. Mayer who skirmished constantly with his star. Fountain wondered for much of her life what was so wrong with her father’s voice, which she described as a normal, light baritone. She had heard it growing up, although her mother, silent film star Leatrice Joy, divorced Gilbert shortly before Fountain's birth. FORGOTTEN QUICKLY “He was THE American movie star,” Fountain said in an interview. “But after his death, people pretended he'd never been there... Was he just such a difficult, expendable person that the studio acted in self-interest and got rid of him? Or was it something else?” She writes about her father in Dark Star: The Untold Story of the Meteoric Rise and Fall of the Legendary John Gilbert (St. Martin's Press, $14.95). During years of interviews with people who knew and loved him, she discovered how an actor adored by millions was driven from his craft, only to die of a heart attack at age 36. Her conclusion was that Mayer was behind it. Gilbert made 97 movies, 11 of them talkies, between 1915-34. Many were huge successes, including The Big Parade, The Merry Widow and He Who Gets Slapped. His first full-length talkie was His Glorious Night in 1929 which was full of passionate words of love but also of doubl and istioatad The film got mixed reviews. Critics who commented on Gilbert's voice called it pleasing and well-trained. 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They worsened after he signed a three-year contract requiring him to make two pictures a year, for which he'd be paid $250,000 each. Stuck with such a costly pact, Mayer sought a way out — by driving Gilbert to quit, Fountain said. The pair skirmished over Gilbert's colorful personal life — he was married and divorced four times and lived with Miss Garbo even though she wouldn't marry him. 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Bradford, one of three of local tex. after 40 years. “I couldn't tile artisans tured this month at the National believe the news, and I cried Exhibition Centre, is shown weaving a rag rug. a lot against the blue sky. I seriously d suicide, but when I went home, my e * mother and my father and FONTGINeG IM tee coe en ing of killing themselves. So ) the idea left me.” Gothicsoap (fc: family in Gifu near Tokyo, Shinoda went on to major in BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF. (AP) — Joan Fontaine, drama at Waseda University. standing at the top of the stairs in stately old Greystone After graduation in 1963, he mansion, was thinking that she had done this before as she was one of five chosen from watched the portrait unveiled. 3,000 applicants for assistant Fontaine, with Michael York and Paul Shenar, who play director at Shockiku studio. her sons, and a room full of actors in formal dress were Since 1960, he has made two filming a scene for a TV movie Dark Mansions, a pilot for a dozen films. With Nagisa Gothic soap opera on ABC. No air date has been scheduled. Oshino, Shinoda has become They were supposed to be unveiling a portrait of her one of the most famous of late husband, founder of a Seattle shipbuilding empire. But Japan's New Wave directors. the portraint was of York's late wife, who bares an amazing However, Shinoda never resemblance to his current wife, played by Linda Purl. forgot U-J Day. “Of course, it's a straight steal from Daphne Du Maurier “For the past 40 years I and Rebecca,” said Fontaine, who starred in Alfred have been thinking of the day Hitchcock's Academy Award-winning film version in 1940. as a tragedy,” said Shinoda Fontaine stars as Margaret Drake, the matriarch of the through an interpreter dur- shipbuilding family, which, as in all soap operas, encounters ing an interview. “Then I rough sailing. In addition, the program has undertones of the read a novel by Yu Aku about supernatural. his own experiences at the The crew from Aaron Spelling Productions was filming end of the war. I was recently at Greystone mansion in Beverly Hills, which is shocked. He was six years soon to become a city park. It was built by the Doheny oil younger than I was, and to family and at one time was occupied by the American Film him the meeting with the Institute. The enormous stone house rests on a hilltop and is surrounded by gardens, fountains, terraces and dense woods. Inside were elaborate drapes, marble stairs and arches. The exterior of the Drake home was filmed at a cliffside mansion in Mendocino overlooking the Pacific. The dramatic role is the first in several years for Fontaine, 67, who won an Oscar in 1941 for Suspicion. She played a Hollywood socialite in the TV movie The Usersin 1978, has appeared on The Love Boat and did a guest role on Cannon. She also was a guest on the soap opera Ryan's Hope for a week. Her last film was The Devil's Own in the late 1960s. For the past 25 years she has lived in New York, where she was the host of a cable program, The Joan Fontaine Interview Show. She also appeared in about 30 plays at dinner theatres. She moved back to California, taking up residence in Pebble Beach, after Loretta Young bowed out of the Dark Mansions role earlier this year because of “creative differences.” Happy 14th Birthday HEIDI e Americans was like going to paradise. “Eating Hershey's choc. olate, having chewing gum, seeing Jeeps — this was a new and exciting experience to young people. To my age and older, the defeat was a tragedy. To those who were younger, it was an adven ture. But then, isn't all life somewhere between tragedy and adventure?” Shinoda’s rethinking of the immediate post-war exper. ience resulted in the film MacArthur's Children, based on the Aku book. Released in Japan last June, it attracted LOVE MOM, DOUG, SHAWNA, CHAE AND Ai from it olf Hide oway in a cozy. upholstered booth thond relax! [ACCEPT COMMINCO & WESTAR MEAL | Phone collect 382. 5358 LUNCH I A display of textile works by local artisans now is on The display, Fabrications — Wall/Floor, is at the NEC Open Monday pied, Saturday 10 a.m. SALAD BAR (Monday through Seturdey) — e 8 OPEN FOR BREAKFAST AT 9 A.M voosdey 8% N SPECIAL — $3.50 di DISPLAY AT NEC NOW They use traditional craft tools, techniques and mater- ials, yet strive to make fresh interpretations using the tex tile medium Works on display will in clude: wall paintings on fab ric,. wall felts, handmade paper and tea pieces, and woven rugs. The centre is open seven days a week 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. weendays and 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. weekends. Shinoda new wave director an amazing three million viewers, the director said. RUN Though it was Japan's entry as foreign-language film in the Academy Awards, it wasn’t among the five nominees, and is only begin ning a U.S. release. The story takes place on a remote island, where the youngsters react with won der and delight, adults with forboding, to the advent of the Americans. A meaningful scene ‘comes when a fifth grade boy burns paintings and posters of the glorious Japanese army and fleet “That came out of my own life,” Shinoda said. “I burned all of the war mementoes I had collected. I also have a vivid memory of being dusted with DDT, and that is in the film also the crossing out of passages in the history books. But in my school, so much had to be erased that the teacher sim ply threw out the books.” Glenn Miller's classic swing number, In the Mood, was the first American music that the teen-age Shinoda heard, and it made a pro. found impression on him. The record is part of the Mac Arthur's Children score. Shinoda saw no American movies during his youth However, he remembers his father talking about Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd His first postwar films were a Sonja Henie musical and 100 Men and a Girl with Deanna Durbin and Leopold Stok owski. He also was pro foundly influenced by the films of William Wyler, part icularly The Best Years of Our Lives. MacArthur's Children has prompted many Japanese to re-examine their feelings and experiences following the war's end “Here is the most shocking thing that we learned from the Americans,” Shinoda said. “Until the end of the war, we were taught how to die. MacArthur brought his own plan for politics, educ ation, philosophy. The Amer. ieans taught us how to live That is a very radical “ag ANNUAL MEETING Castlegar and District Home Support Services Association, at the Legion Hall. Monday, June 10, 7:30 p.m. Reports and elections. Public invited. 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The government has been wrestling with ways of lim- iting the pirate operators, but without much success. Court cases were launched, but Masse ordered a stay of prosecutions in December and appointed a committee to study the problem. The licensed cable com- panies complain that pirate operations are not subject to Canadian content rules or any other regulation of the mainstream broadcasting system. And since they are operating in the underground economy, they are not paying federal taxes. Hind-Smith argued before the Commons committee on communications and culture that licensed operators “are actually damaged because they hold a federal licence” and that to allow the pirate operations to continue would cause the licensed system “to deteriorate through negli gence. The association urged the committee to help speed the approval process of Bill C-20. 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