CASTLEGAR NEWS, March 17,1982

Women in film

PETERBOROUGH, ONT.
(CP) — Hard economic times
are keeping women from
reaching their potential in
the Canadian film industry, a

k

Also’ participating in the
discussion were Nicole Bois-
vert of Montreal, Barbara
Kopple of New York, Sandy
Wilson of Vancouver: Nesya

group of women fil
said Friday.

“It's getting harder and
harder for women to work on
films because it is becoming
harder to get financial back-
ing,” Barbara: Martineau of
Toronto said during a panel
discussion at the. Canadian
Images Film Festival.

ind
moderator “Patricia Gruben.

Boisvert said Canadian
women are “extremely well
trained to work in film dir-
ecting because they are used
to managing budgets and
raising kids,” - but there
hasn't been much work for

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anyone since the beginning of: 1977 film about coal mining in

last year.

Fifty feature films were
produced in Canada in 1980,
with budgets totalling more
than $160 million, statistics
show. Three of those films
were directed by . women,
with total budgets of about
$1 million.

Only two — Martin Duck-
worth and Joyce Rock -—
were produced by women
only. Sophie Boissonette's
Une Histoire de Femmes (A

* Wives’ Tale) was co-produced

by two women and a. man,

About’ '25 feature films
were produced in Canada last.
year, with budgets totalling
about $60 million. Three films
were directed by women and
five were produced by wom:
en,

“Learn as much’ as you
possibly can,” advised Kop-
ple, director of Harlan Coun-
ty US. An an award-winning

the United ‘States.

+ “Many, people want. you
(women) to fail and the more
you know the less you can.
fail.”

To research and’ write the
script, Harlan County, Kop-
ple lived around coalfields for
three. years.

“Thardly had. enough mon: |

ey to pay my électricity bill,”

‘-she.said, describing-her trip

to Hollywood; to seek finan-
cial backing’ for’ her; film:

Shapiro~ said’. the “‘amall
number, of women ‘directors
and producers is “a matter of
economics. Women today
have little ” access. to ‘high
finance.”

But’ Bolsvert aaid sthere

doesn't “appear to’ be any |

discrimination’ against .wom-
en in the: business,»
“I-know many, men that are

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Gut feeling for new

By BOB THOMAS
HOLLYWOOD (AP) —
Eighteen months ago, Julie
Andrews kept hearing chuc-
kles' from the attic of her
Swiss chalet. “What's so fun-
ay she called to her ,hus-

age tell you later,” replied
from. his
writing room.

Film -audiences ‘can . now
share what’ was amusing Ed-
wards. It's the new MGM
release, Victor, Victoria,
starring Julie Andrews,
James Garner .and Robert

Preston, and the director-

writer says he believes the
film is his best.

‘That is an‘uncommon piece
of hyperbole from’ the man
who made Operation. Petti-

-coat,. Breakfast at Tiffany's,

Days of Wine and Roses, 10,
and ‘all those Pink Panthers.
‘ Andrews, whose film car-

~ eer in recent years. has been

mostly devoted to-her hus-

band’s movies, also is pleased 4

with: Victor, Victoria.”
RAISES QUESTIONS
“T like it not only because it
is very funny,” she says. “I
also think Blake raises a lot of
pertinent ‘questions concern-

‘ing our’ sexual attitudes:

What are you? How do you

Julie Androws

JULIE ANDREWS:

feel about yourself? What are
your preferences? How: does

+ it matter?”

> “Those things ‘are treated
in an: amusing but ‘also .a
thought-provoking ‘way in
the movie.”

The plot .runs like this:
Andrews is a starving opera

singer atranded in Paris dur-
ing the 1920s. She teams up
with a homosexual cabaret
performer who teachers ‘her
to pose as a man doing female
impersonations, The - ruse
works until she falls in love
with a man who is puzzled by
his own affection for the pre-

film

sumably male AaHalnen

. “My agent found the story
in a wonderful black-and-
white film made... in

Germany in 1989,” Andrews

relates.

“Blake wrote the script
quickly after finishing 8.0.B.
It took him three to six
months, whereas S.0.B. was
written over a period of 10
“years.

“{ don’t comment too much
while he's working. After he
has finished, he will let .me
read a script, and then we
will discuss it. As a wife, I
pretty much have a gut in--
stinet about what is pleasing:
him. And I knew he was very
pleased about Victor, Vic-

''“The choreographer, Patty
Stone, set up the numbers as
“if I were a guy,” Andrews

says, “I don’t do very much in
‘the way of movement. The
chorus guys around me do
the moving. In the scenes
where I play Victor, I was
trying to think as a man
thinks, behave as a man be-
haves. For instance, I noticed
that when men sit down, they
don’t cross their legs im-
mediately, as women do. Men
are not as fussy with their
hands.

- Actress stabbed near her home

LOS ANGELES (AP) —
Actress Theresa . Saldana,
critically injured in a stab-
bing attack outside her West
Hollywood apartment, - may
have been stalked for days by
a “fan” who kept track of her
whereabouts in a diary, auth-
orities said.

A-truck driver on a. de-
livery run stopped the attack

on. Saldana on Monday. by ..

taking away her assailant’'s
kitchen knife and pinning him
to the ground by standing on
his neck until authorities on
rived, officials ‘said.’

After 4% hours of surgery
to repair: multiple knife
wounds, including -a pune-

tured left lung, the 27- year:

old brunette was listed in
critical condition in the in-
tensive-care unit at Cedars-
Sinai Hospital, spokesman
Larry Baum said Monday
night. -.

Sone vital signs are good
but some are still bad; she
appears to be recovered
somewhat but she's still in
intensive care,” Baum said of
the actress, who appeared in
the film Raging. Bull, por-
traying Lenore LaMoita, the

sister-in: law of ‘boxer ‘Jake
LaMotta,

“Arthur Richard Jackson,
48, was booked ‘for investi-
gation ‘of attempted murder,
said Deputy Terry Gingerich.
He said Jackson had a British
passport and was believed to
have ‘come to Los Angeles
from’New York two weeks

ago. . ies ‘
:The motive for the attack
on Saldana: was not known,

said Detective Fred Kalas,
but he said Jackson:had with

him a diary-like journal con-
taining réferences ‘to Sal-*

ina.

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“From information in these
notes that he'had, it appears
that he doesn't: know. her
personally, but he refers to
her,” Kalas said.

The assailant might have
been stalking Saldana for a
week after getting her ad-
‘dress by telling her family in
‘Brooklyn, N.Y., that “he
would offer her a part'in a
movie, said investigators and
Michael Brundin, the actress’
agent.

“He was a fan,"
ssid of Jackson.

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Truck driver Jeff Fenn, 26,
said he was making his de-
liveries when he heard
screaming Monday morning.

“I heard a woman scream,
‘Help me, help me! He's
trying to kill me!’ Fenn told
reporters later, still wearing,
his. blood-sp: d delivery

“I. stood on his neck, I
didn’t want him moving.”

Brundin said the actress’
husband, Fred Feliciano, also
heard her screams and raced
out to see. Fenn wrestling
with the attacker. °

In addition to Raging Bull,
's film credits include

uniform,
“I put him in a headlock
and grabbed his right arm,
bent it straight back and took
the knife out of his hand,”
Fenn said. “I don’t think he
even saw me. He was def-
initely, into, this, 1 think ,
was trying to kill her. ~

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Hand, Nunzio, and filmmaker
Brian dePalma's Home Mov-
ies.

She also appeared in such
TV series as Nurse, 240 Rob-
ert, Kojak, All My Children

he;and,.a ,made-for-TV movie,

Sophia.

Fans cast votes
for film veterans

HOLLYWOOD (AP) —
Movie-goers picked the two
aging .stars of On Golden
Pond — Henry Fonda and
Katharine. Hepburn — as
best actor and best actress in
the 1981 American: Movie
Awards.
>And they cast their votes

! for’ Jane Fonda as. best sup-

porting actress for her role in
the film.

Raiders of the Lost Ark
took the award for best film
of the year.

The awards, organized by
the National Association of
Theatre Owners and pre-
sented Monday at the Holly-
wood Palace, were based on
audience polls taken at 2,000
theatres in the United
States.

John Gielgud, who plays
the acerbic ‘servant in Ar-
thur, was named best sup-
porting actor.

Raiders, the biggest
money-maker of 1981, col-
lected ‘awards for best pe-
ture, best director — Steven
Spielberg — and. best script
— by Kasdan.

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Capt. Sutherland

“It_was a Tiptte. after the, turn of the century, had, just
ariad pNplion and was looking for work: Near where the
wT heard the pipes ‘and’ stopped an old
fntiaeat and said:
‘What's going on?’

‘A lttle celebration,’ he said, with, a strong Scottish

cent, ‘What part of the country, are you from?’
"Nova Scotia, I: said.

‘Canada is a wonderful country to live in,' he said,’ ‘Do you
know what happenod to me when Bot oe the
Halifax?’

‘No,’ I said, ‘I don't.’,

t ‘Lwas thirsty after the long trip in the steerage, sol went
intoa bar and asked for a drink of scotch; The bartehder put
a glass and a bottle of scotch in front of’me and said, ‘Help
yourself.’ I knew right away it was a.wonderful cauntry.’"

I still don't know whether or not he was pulling my leg —
with Captain Sutherland you can’t be sure, Whether it was
because I was wearing my. Scottish .tam-o-shanter: or
whether, a few minutes. eaelier, we had. been talking about
the home of the
clan Sutherland on the ‘ait coast-of Scotland — or. it

simply that Scots at, home or.,abroad:love a’ joke on’

pt (Osbortie . Sutherland,
veteran ‘Arrow Lakes skipper and :92-years. young, his
charming wife Marion Nicholson Sutherland, ‘my photo-
grapher Bruce and I were doing just fine, ' thank you, on bur
first interview.

Captain Sutherland, another strong link with this, area's j

‘pioneer history, was born at Cape Joan, Pictou County, Yr.
Nova: Scotia, in’ 1890, of Scottish farming: stock. His
grandfather,’a shipbuilder,. had ‘taken up a 200-acre land:
grant and his father had taken over the farming of it. ’

Young Osborne wasn't too enthusiastic about life on the:

land. “Too many stumps to ‘pull.”-Sq, .at!18,. he and ‘three.
friends took the harvest'excursion train eastward (14

until right after the ‘Saturday, payday: Them when ithe...
Captain came down to the ship‘on Sunday morning, he found,

the crew sitting in the bow of the'ship with no Slim and no
breakfast in sight. Slim was fired and Mrs, Sutherland, who
acted as emergency’ ahip's cook, ‘took over.’’’

When wang} came back after. his tyoyear, absence, the

nt.
per mile to Winnipeg,:1-cent per mile to Fort McLeod and

14-cents per mile to Nelson). They all went to Nelson — two
stayed and two returned — at l-cent per mile. .
In ‘Nelson:he bought, a’ thin blanket from one Parker

Williams and :went to work for the Paulson Lumber.

Company. “Plenty. of food.— but pretty hard to eat: —.for.
$2.75 a day and a dollar off for board.” A job at the Winlaw

Lumber Company; followed, then the Lambert’ Lumber .- ‘

Company at Taghum and a floating logging camp at Nakusp.

He finally arrived at'Sandon — three bars (open 24 hours'a

day), three hotels anda row of brothels up on the hill.
‘Work was hard to get and there were.75 men waiting on

each shift for a man either to get killed or fired. “The only:

way you could get.a job.”

‘A big Irishman by the name of Cunningham was running :
one: ofthe hotels. I-didn’t get taken on at the mine, so I<”

booked a room in Cunningham's hotel. At breakfast time I
went downstairs 'to the bar. There was no bartender,; but
Cunningham came over and said ‘What will 38 be ‘havin’
laddie?’ . «

“Now it was the custom in those days, if one was booked
into a hotel. one, was entitled to’a, morning drink. —.a
morning’s morning — #0 — asked for a rye, the usual in those
days. ‘No you won't laddie'—~ ye'll have a man's drink.’ So he
took out a bottle of scotch — a rare treat — and poured two
drinks. So I got’a scotch but“no ‘work’

He then went to Roseberry and gota job in a y small mine,
but “after 17 shifts underground — wet, cold, knee-deep in

und ‘stream and with’ the’ powder smoke and
rock dust so thick that it was impossible to see anything at
the working face and with the August sun shining outside —
the entire shift quit.”

For the next couple of years, he “worked at everything
-and in every place and any place,” including a brief job on
the towboat “Dorothy Symons.” Its owner, Andy Symons,
ran a small sawmill across: from Nakusp. After this, he

worked during the winter cutting logs up the lake for.

William Waldie and on the “Elcoe” that spring, with Captain
McGauley.  ~

World War I was starting and times were hard, so he went
back to Nova Scotia to join up, but without success. He then
came back to the Arrow Lakes and got a job working for the
Revelstoke Lumber Company, which had sent. for him.
About this time he sat for and obtained his captain's papers.

He then. went to work for the White Pine: Lumber

Company operated by Sid Leary (“It was once O'Leary, but ne

he dropped ‘the ‘O' when he became an M.P."),
Leary brought, a 60-foot-ton boat called the “Crescent”

across the line, put a boiler out of the “Blonde” into her and ©

re-registered her as the “Vantoria.”

“She was a handy boat to work from, solow that you could
atep off a boom stick directly onto her deck.”

In 1931 Captain Sutherland went to work for William
Waldie and Sons on the tug Eleoe and stayed with the
company for 30 years. — to become a legend-on the lake.

“Waldies' had a hard struggle in those Depression days,
but they made it stick and were well on the road to recovery
when they sold:the company and put the Elede out of
business,” he said.:.-

There were actually two Elcoes. “Elcoe I" was built where
the sewage pond is now and was illuminated-with coal-oil
lanterns. “When the engine room‘doors were closed you
couldn't see the water or steam gauges,” he said, “and if the
weather got heavy, the. waves broke the chimney off.”

The first, problem was solved by cutting a hole in the wall

* ‘and putting in a coal-oil lamp to shine on the gauges (the

Captain still has that. lantern); the second problem was
solved with the building. of the “Eleoe II".

“She had the best headlight I've, ever seen,” said the
Captain. “I could se6 a piling or a man at two miles‘on a dark
night.”

It was obvious that Captain Sutherland loved his old ship:
length 80 feet, beam 16 feet-14 inches, draught 8 feet, 20
nominal horsepower and on her run from Revelstoke to

“Robson she must have covered close to a million miles.

His first crew, Captain Sutherland. recalls, included
Trevor Evans, “Curly” Arthur Worley, Joe Adshead and
Jack McKinnon. There was alsoa Chinese cook, Wong Doo.
“He worked for a long time for the company and was'a good
cook and a lot of fun and worked both on the boat and in the
camps along the lake.

“There are many stories told about him. On one occasion,
for example, thecrew found him taking a bath in the pan in
which’ he prepared the’ bread. There was a tremendous

“uproar and Wong narrowly. escaped being’ thrown overboard’

into the lake. aes
It was also the time of Depression and there were a great
many transients moving through. William Waldie, a kindly
man, would let them sleep the night over the boilers, then’.
give thema good meal next day. One day, Wong Doo invited
the Sutherlands, to: stay : for: dinner. Nobody, stay fee
dinner,”:he said, “only eight bums.”
Wong had a’ wife and daughter in China, as well asa
law, whom he detested, -since he d him of

gambling away the money he.sent home. On one occasion

‘Wong got, leave to go to China to visit his family. When he
was packing he showed the Captain,a 45-automatiec pistol
”

“that he’had bought “to shoot that s.0.b. son- -in-la’

Wong was away for two years, during which time, said the

skipper, “I hired and fired a powerful bunch of cooks.” One of :

these was'a fellow called Sundown’ Slim. He did’a fine job

|... .knows the Arrow Lakes.

JOHN CHARTERS’

‘Reflections &

_Recollections

Captain and Mrs, Osborne Sutherland

In 1931 Captain Sutherland went to. work for
‘William:-Waldie and Sons on the tug Elco and stayed’
with the company for 30 Yiors, — to become a

legend on the lake

Se
Captain noticed that he. was walking with a limp. After a
decent period of reticence, he finally asked the cook about,

the limp. It turned out that Wong, not being familiar with

the of an pistol, had shot

himself in the leg. “He never ai say if he had got the s.o.b.

son-in-law,” added the Captain, a little regretfully. i
What was towboating like in those days?

“When I started With Captain MeGauley on the Elcoe we.

worked the daylight hours — theoretically. In practice, when
the skipper got tired, I took the wheel as long as I could:
keep the ship in the middle of the lake.” .

It was a hard job, for besides the logs cut by the camps,
the mill also had a log contract with the farmers along the

Jake front, as well. They would bring them down to the”

beach, then the ‘crew had to roll them into the water with
cant hooks (peeves).

Weather could be pretty rough at times, too,” he said, “I ;

can remember one time when we got halfway down the lake
with a great raft of logs and we ran into a real blow. There
was nothing for it but to drop the tongs and ride it out. It
‘took three days and when we finally got straightened out
and looked for the tow,’ it was away back at Needles.”
! When the William Waldie and Sons mill was finally sold to
Celgar, the Elcoe was laid up but Captain Sutherland stayed
onin an advisory capacity and as skipper on the survey ship,
the “Alice-Lynn.”
On his retirement at 70 years of age, “a great shock,” he
received a letter of commendation from T.N. Beaupre,

president of Celgar, for his “knowledge of Arrow. Lakes.
which has been so helpful in the overall Project of developing .

a new. industry in the West Kootenays.”

A little later Captain Sutherland was given a special, but
‘merited honor. After a lengthy building and fitting, a new
and powerful sea-going-type tug to replace’ the Elcoe: was

on the lake. A was held among all the
company’ employees 'to‘give the new ship a name. The
competition was won by Mrs. George Marken, Mrs. Bob
Rivers and Mrs. Jack Zebert.

Therefore, on July 21, 1971, a cereniony was held.in the
presence of Captain and Mrs. Sutherland, Captain Jack
‘Leonard, project engineer, and other dignitaries and with
Rev. Clint Howard officiating, in which’ the new ship. was
christened the “Captain G.O.. Sutherland.”

And how does the Captain feel about the whole situation
now? There is no doubt that he is aware that the christening
of the ship with his name indicated the respect and affection
with which hé and Mrs. Sutherland are held in. this
community. On the other hand, there can be no mistaking his

concern for: the' changes mphasis in the sedate
“Speed: {s what ‘they're after these days,” he. says,

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is more imp than and the:
pressure to make - more profit overrides the: skipper’s
experience.” * >;
‘He isn't fond of diesels either — “little comfort and a lot of
stink” — though he does admit that they are much more

efficient than his Elcoe II. The new tug.with more powerful oe

engines, a crew of two men and operating 24 hours a day'has
put 18 smaller boats out.of business... \ °
In the meantime, the Sutherlands continue to live in the

- warm easy house in Robson by the lake. The captain and his

crew built it in 1932, then Mrs. Sutherland and the five
children; Nettie, Claud’ (Bill), Kathleen, Gordon and
Carol-Ann moved in from Nakusp and all-but the oldest
attended the school here. Only Bud followed his father on
the boats and would have taken over from him as captain
had not death intervened.

There is also a ship's steering wheel at the Sutherland’s

-house. It came from ‘the ‘Captain's first command, the

“Irene,” but for many years he formed a part of the rail of his
front. porch. I-suspect that there is‘nostalgia and much
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