May 7. 1986 ENTERTAINMENT Castlegar Arts Council Annual General Meeting Wed., May 21 — 7:30p.m. At the National Exhibition Centre EVERYONE WELCOME! Castlegar Junior Rebels SLOW-PITCH DANCE 5 Saturday, May !|7 / 9:00-1:00 a.m. at the Curling Club Music by VISION— Tickets $5 each at the Castlegor Sports Centre The Marlane Hotel —OPEN— on: aN TORONTO (CP) — In his movies, action star Chuck Norris is a man of few words but lots of motion. He can wipe out 50 or 60 bad guys per film without saying more than a eryptic, “Let's do it!” or, “Take, that, sucker.” Even his legions of fans must wonder if the guy can speak in full sentences. Don’t worry. In a real-life interview, Norris reveals not dnly that he's a right nice fellow who enjoys Reader's Digest,.but that he can even wax eloquent on such diverse topics as terrorism, heroisth and movie making. In Toronto to promote his 14th knock-'em-down flick, The Delta Force, Norris is a friendly good ole’ boy who wears cowboy boots and jeans and still carries more than a little of his Oklahoma accent. Oklahoma accent If you don't happen to be a fan of Norris's and are, at this point, still wondering who the heck he is, consider the following: @ His last movie, Code of Silence, sold more tickets in its opening week than any other movie in the country. ¢ His film Missing in Action was the most successful independently produced film of 1984, grossing $28 ion e He has just signed a $25-million contract with The Cannon Group that commits him to 14 pictures over the next seven years. In short, Norris, 45, is one of Hollywood's busiest stars, having taken over from such macho stalwarts as Burt Reynolds and Charles Bronson as a sure thing at the box office. ~ Norris kicks way to stardom So what if the former karate star began his film career opposite Bruce Lee in Return of the Dragon? So what if he calls himself an “action star” rather than an actor, and kickboxes; his movie opponents into submission? He knows the secret to making a movie the audience loves, and he's happy to share it. “It starts out with a problem and we try and figure out how to solve it and come out with a positive ending where the people can say, ‘Yeah,’ ” he says. “That's what movies are all about.” However, Mr. Tough Guy admits it used to sting when the critics described him as the first really terrible actor since Audie Murphy. “It hurt my feelings real bad. I'm just like anyone else — I'm sensitive, too, and it's hard to take criticism. “But I was trying to do an entertaining film and in my mind, if people enjoy the movie and there's money made, that's good.” The Delta Force is based on the hijack last summer of a planeload of American tourists by Middle East terrorists. Initially gripping, the film soon bogs down in endless action sequences in which Norris blows up cells of terrorists and performs death-defying feats aboard a motorcycle equipped with a range of nasty options. The movie, which also stars Lee Marvin, has moments that are unintentionally comic — at one point, with cameras slung about his neck, Norris disguises himself as a CBC-TV journalist to get into Lebanon. It was the real-life death of one of the hostages, a ce maw U.S. Marine brutally shot by the terrorists in full range of TV cameras, that inspired the film, Norris says. “When they killed that young soldier, I was so ticked off. I thought: Someone's got to do something to these guys. Of ¢ourse nothing was done .. . they got off seot-free. “I said: Let's do a movie on how it should have been done.” He admits his movies, of which he has creative control, are violent, but doesn’t worry about their effect on his large young audience because he thinks he portrays violence positively, not negatively. His character only reacts violently in defence of himself. “When the kids see me do that, they say; “He had no choice. What else could he do? Is he going to die or let someone die? ” The self-described “reserved, mild type of guy” is 4 strong opponent of drugs and alcohol and will not portray a character under the influence of either. \ He admits this limits the type of roles he can play, but also thinks his fans wouldn't accept a different Chuck Norris on screen anyway. “If I played a derelict, alcoholic drug user, it sheer wouldn't make a nickel at the box office,” he “Dewever 48 adding a bit of humor to his film persena\in his/next movie, an action- comedy called Kick and Kickback) that co-stars, Dudley Moore. Moore pl4ys Kickback. Norris plays the other one. ENTERTAINMENT SUNDAYS In the Pub — 11 a.m. - 12 midnight LIVE MUSIC WEEKDAYS — EXOTIC DANCERS L7)(8][9] APRIL FOOL'S DAY Guess whos going to be the life of the party? MON [TUE] | Evenings Daily! iSianaiia See BEST be? xo) Bulictin Board Crescent Valley Hall crescent Valley. May 10, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Refreshments. 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There is no extra charge for a second insertion while the third consecutive insertion is seventy-five percent and the fourth consecutive insertion is half-price. Minimum chorge is $3.50 (whether od is tor one, two or three times). Deadlines ore 5 p.m. Thursdays for Sunder poper ond 5 p.m. Mondays for Wednesday's Notices should be brought to the Costlegor News Ori97 Columbio Ave. Bulletin Board y= . @\ABRIEL'S Now Open ae: NEW FOURTH NETWORK Rivers takes on Carson LOS ANGELES (AP) Joan Rivers is taking on former boss Johnny Carson next fall in the opening as sault of Fox Broadcasting Co.'s new fourth network NBC immediately cancelled her heduled ap. Walsh, who added that Car. son learned of plans for the late-night competition from the news media. Carson “was shocked and surprised to “learn of it through a press release,” said pearances as his substitute. The caustic comedian, whose show Late Night Star ring Joan Rivers will make its debut in the fall, had been permanent substitute host for Carson's Tonight Show on NBC for the last three years. She was to be host two more weeks before her NBC contract expires July 19. But she will be replaced the week of June 2 by dian Gary Jim y. “It's an unusual way to do business, to say the least.” Barry Diller, chairman of Fox Inc., said Tuesday prime- time programming on the new service will start in March 1987. The new net work springs from the pur chase and consolidation by Rupert Murdoch of Twenti- eth Century-Fox Film Stu- dios and six former Metro Shandling ani the week of July 14 by another host who has yet to be selected, said Gene Walsh, vice-president of publicity for NBC's West Coast operations. “We wish her well,” said ARE THE ROADS SAFE? Now that Lissa has her driver's licence! media stations. Rivers appeared at a news conference Tuesday with Diller and other Fox exe cutives. “I want to thank NBC a thousand times,” Rivers said “I am grateful to NBC for the three years I had on The To- night Show, but they should thank me, too. My ratings were good. And they were better than the regular host.” Rivers said she talked by telephone to Grant Tinker, chairman of NBC, and to Brandon Tartikoff, president of NBC entertainment. “I called Johnny Carson twice, but he would not take my call,” she said Carson's last major talk Royal Canadian Legion ) Branch No. 170 CABARET Dancing 9.305 ried -1:30 a.m OPEN 6 DAYS A WEEK Proper Dress Saturday atter 9 p.m IN 12 NOON a L.A.K. Catering — Except Jyly and August Guests Must Playing Sot. BeSIGNEDIn KALEIDOSCOPE Thursday Binge JOAN RIVERS show competition came from the syndicated Thicke of the Night in 1983. The program, which starred singer-come- dian Alan Thicke of Kirkland, Lake, Ont. and wes pro- duced by former NBC presi- dent Fred Silverman, failed in the ratings and lasted less than a year. Another late-night oppon- ent will be David Brenner, whose new show. Nightlife will begin this September on more than 100 non-network stations. Brenner had been a frequent host of The Tonight Show until Rivers was named permanent host. Group slams cable rate hike OTTAWA (CP) — Millions of Canadian cable television subscribers could be subject Since Carson became host in 1962, he has overcome such late-night to annual rate inereases under new cable regulations proposed by | the federal de Joey Bishop, Dick Cavett, David Frost and ABC’s Wide World of Entertainment. Diller said Fox was _just i to line up the Canadian Consumers As. sociation says. In a brief prepared for hearings before the Canadian to compete with NBC, ABC and CBS. “Our stations cover 22 per cent of the country, and we're going to start. broad casting with that, even if no one else joins us,” he said. “As far as we're concerned, we're not, yaiting for affiliate stations GF advertisers.” The Fox KTTV in Los Angeéles, WNYW in New York, WFLD in Chicago, WTTG in Wash- ington, KDAF in Dallas and KRIV in Houston. Rivers's new talk show -will begin at 11 p.m. EDT, ate will give it a half-hour jump on the Tonight Show, the late-night ratings leader. Mr. Ed theme said satanic IRONTON, OHIO AP) — Church members singing Oh, How I Love Jesus burned record albums, cassettes, and other rock and country music paraphernalia after attend ing a seminar in which an evangelist said the Mr. Ed television theme conveys a satanic message to unwary listeners. Jim Brown, an evangelist at Psalms 150 in South Point, said the Mr. Ed theme extols Satan when the record is played backwards. A Horse is a Horse, con tains the backward messages LICENCED DINING ROOM OPEN 4 P.M. DAILY WESTAR & COMINCO VOUCHERS ACCEPTED 7 Days a Week and we havea New Luncheon Menu - Fri. Luncheon 11:30 a.m. Dinner 5 - 4:30 - 9:30 p.m. 365-6028 Mon. - Sat. Sundays 10 p.m. 1:30 p.m. Reservations tor Private Parties — 365-3294 Locoted | mile south of Weigh Scales in Ootischemo. KIWANIS AUCTION This Saturday (May 10) — 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. Old Kootenay Builders Building (Next to Downtown Super Volu) Viewing 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. “the source is Satan” and “someone sung this song for Satan,” Brown said during the seminar at the First Chureh of the Nazarene in Ironton stations are” di i and Tele communications Commission, the association noted that the new rules will allow cable operators to automatically increase their rates by up to 80 per cent of the annual inflation rate. The association, which has been campaigning against the changes, backed up its complaints with 4,000 letters from its members to the CRTC asking that the new regulations be withdrawn. David McKendry, the asso- ciation’s executive director, said cable companies have a record of demanding exces. sive profits, and they will be able to get more than 80 per cent of the annual inflation rate if they are upgrading their equipment and sys. tems. Since cable television is a monopoly and generally can. not be substituted with com. peting systems, the CRTC has an obligation to maintain a public hearing process for rate increases, McKendry’s brief says. But cable operators don't see the changes as a way of boosting profits. Michael Harmon sexiest LOS ANGELES (AP) Actor Mark Harmon, as the sexiest man People may United States, ‘on taking his new title very seriously. “Who votes on something like that?” asked Harmon, this year's choice for People’s annual honor. “I mean, come on! I think it’s all pretty silly. “It was a Thursday and my sister Kelly called and said, ‘Are you aware you're on the cover of People? “ the 34-year-old actor recalled. “I said, ‘No.’ She said, “Well, you are and this is what the heading says.’ I started laughing hysterical ly.” Hind-Smith, president of the Canadian Cable Television Association, said the auto- matic rate inerease will only amount to roughly 30 cents per subscriber per month. ‘GOOD DEAL’ “Consumers will get a very good deal under the new, streamlined process,” Hind Smith told the CRTC panel. And he had some harsh words for the consumers association's tactics in the campaign to have the CRTC rescind its new cable rules. The CAC’s mailing cam paign, he said, was “designed deliberately to alarm” and had “distorted the facts so that it is unlikely consumers — and particularly senior citizens — could understand clearly what the CRTC has proposed.” He cited a letter sent by one CAC menfber in which it was clear the writer did not understand that the rates will be permitted to rise by 80 per cent of the consumer price index, and not by 80 per cent of the current cable rate. Even cable operators are not happy with the new CRTC regulations. Pierre Hebert, the cable associa tion's national chairman, said changes to rules governing programming and carriage of AM radio signals will restrict choice for vi@wers. In the cable association brief, Hebert is quoted as saying changes to the regu lations will make it manda tory to carry local AM radio stations, to the detriment of other services carried by ca ble. NE ON THE ARCTIC AT LIBRARY By JUDY WEARMOUTH Librarian lience of the sheen on the. coats’ of musk oxen, the tiny flower blooms in a field of snow, the almost sublime quality of the sun's light. It’s also the story of the people of the ice, of the Inuit, caught between the traditions of centuries and the influence of modern technological society, and of the explorers who dreamed of the Arctic and were obsessed by it. Barry Lopez has given us the chance to dream with this magical book. * JUDY WEA ee Donald Graham was a professional historian long fascinated by the romance of lighthouses who became a lighthouse keeper on the B.C. coast and combined his two loves by writing Keepers of the Light, a history of British Columbia's lighthouses and their keepers. He has sifted through a century's accumulation of files, diaries and reminiscences to weave them into this remarkable story of heroism, heartbreak, insanity, scandal, and even occasionally, love and happiness. Read about the windborne cow of Triangle Island and the false account of a Japanese submarine firing shells at the Estevan Point lighthouse, and of the exploits of handsome Captain James Gaudin, extremely popular with the belles of the time, who singlehandedly built the Marine and Fisheries Department into one of Victoria's proudest institutions. . . Last year, CBC’s Morningside listeners were treated to a mini-drama serial based on Susannah Moodie’s letters to family, friends dnd other writers. If you'd like to follow up on that, Susannah Moodie, Letters of « Lifetime is an edited compilation of these letters which describe her Suffolk girlhood, her early experiences as a writer in London, her emigration to Canada, and tell in vivid detail about her five decades of Canadian life. Her personal letters display her lively personality and show her great courage in the face of tragedy, poor health and the tribulations of old age. Her literary correspondence demonstrates her perceptive critical ability and her continued interest in cultural matters whilst in the throes of pioneer landsettling and depressing solitude. . 8 @ The Anthology Anthology is a selection of the best stories, poems and interviews aired by Anthology the CBC radio. program, which has delighted | listeners countrywide for 36 years. Edited by its executive producer, Robert Weaver, who nurtured the best and most innovative of Canadian writing for all of those years, this volume showcases a who's who of Canadian literature, including stories by Alice Munroe, Matt Cohen, Audrey Thomas, W.P. Kinsella, to name only a few. © «-« A recent discovery in the British’ Library in London revealed 40,000 items of Canadiana dating from 1895-1924, placed there for safe keeping and then forgotten. Canada, the Missing Years, by Patricia Pierce, reproduces 200 of the 4,000 photographs which document Canada's emergence as a nation, showing young Canada as it really was, at work, at play and at war. . . People planning to visit Vancouver this summer may appreciate two new guide books, one being a regular visitor's Guide te Vancouver and Victoria, by Norman Andrews. He gives an itinerary for 10 days of sightseeing and interesting eating. The other, More Vancouver Secrets by Anne Petrie, shows the insider's Vancouver, revealing secrets about unusual and out of the way shops, restaurants and entertainments. POSES RESTAURANT higtns Rosert’s Restaurant Have a scenic Mother's Day Bat Robert's... 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NATIONAL EXHIBITION CENTRE May | to 31 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Weekdays 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Weekends Evening Reception Thurs., May 15. 8 to 10 Simplicity — with strength @ dittused quolity of rich watercolor washes set agoms! sharp controsting growth forms The Selkirk College library has compiled a supplement of videotapes contained in the media collection. “This supplementary list ing adds another 175 titles to the 228 circulating video tapes listed in our 1982 cata logue.” said Deb Thomas, media specialist Thomas hastened to add that most of the titles listed in the catalogue and the new supplement are on three-quarter-inch format tape, making them suitable for institutional use where three-quarter-inch equip ment is often available. In addition to the video tapes maintained in the li- brary’s media collection, bor- rowers have access to ano ther 390 titles on a variety of topies from the Knowledge Network and West Kootenay Enterprise Development Centre collections. 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