August 13, 1986 ENTERTAINMENT BUSINESS DAVID'S THRIFT SHOP Summer eewunas Soto we storts Tuesday, August 12. Hours Wam. - 1 p.m. ‘and buy @ bag for $2.00. Sale runs until August 22. 4/64 VACA! Groce Presbyterion ieee ie 22,9 am. - 12 noon. Ages 2 - 14. 365-3182 or 2/65 Toming events of Castlegar and District non-profit orgonizotions may be listed here. The first 10 words are $3.50 and additional words are 15¢ each wor MTV started video revolution NEW YORK (AP) — On Aug. 1, 1981, Music Tele- vision.(MTV) was born with Video Killed the Radio Star, a clip by an obscure British band called the Buggies. Two weeks ago, the 24-hour music station on cable TV aired the Top 100 videos of its five-year reign. The No. 1 clip was Born in the USA by Bruce Springsteen. MTV celebrates its birthday this month as an ion turned institution, its made in double ds (which must be used for headings) count as two words There is no extra charge tor a second insertion while the third consecutive insertion is seventy-five percent and the fourth consecutive insertion is half-price. Minimum charge is $3.50 (whether ad is for one, two or three times). Deadlines ore 5 p.m. Thursdays = Sunday's poper and 5 p.m. Mondays for W paper Notices should be brought 10 the Castlegar News at 197 Columbio Ave. COMMI| Bulictin Board time, leaving critics confounded and changing the way America listens to, and looks at, music. “We knew we would be successful. We didn't anticipate that we'd be as successful as we were, as fast as we were,” said Tom Freston, senior vice-president and general manager of MTV. Now, everyone who's anyone makes videos. The clips helped turn such newcombers as Madonna and Cyndi Lauper into national sensations. Michael Jackson hoped to win an Academy Award nomination with his 15-minute, $1 million Thriller effort. , when Van Halen and Journey decided not to make clips this year to help sell their new LPs, the question arose: Was MTV losing its allure? Definitely not, said MTV, pointing to viewership in 28 million homes and ad revenues projected to increase $100 million this year. “We get more videos now than we ever got,” Feston said. MTV's success has helped similar video showcases, including Friday Night Videos on NBC and Hot Tracks on ABC. And the phenomenon spread to Canada, where MuchMusic became the most successful pay cable channel and CBC introduced a weekly video program called Good Rockin’ Tonite. Freston is quick to dispute the charge that MTV has become tied to Top 40 radio. “In the early days, there weren't a lot of superstars and major artists who had videos,” he said. “We played a lot of unknown people; we-played what we got. As the form became known to be effective, everybody started making them. “Believe it or not, people want to see Madonna, and they want to see John Cougar Mellencamp and see the big stars. But you probably can’t find two dozen commercial stations in the country that have a playlist larger than ours. We're playing 90 records a week, 45 of which are unknown.” However, questions recently arose over who was watching MTV. GETS A SHOCK The A.C. Nielsen Co., which provides ratings for the three major networks, gave MTV some shocking in December: Veiwership was down from its high of 1.2 in 1983 to a .6 share, which meant only .6 per cent of the homes that could watch were watching MTV. MTV hotly dispeted the figures and vurned to another rating AGB T which uses an electronic device or “people meter” to record viewing data. Nielsen problems aside, the channel is facing other woes: How to stay fresh when videos are so common place. To diversify, MTV has shown episodes of The Mon- kees, the 1960s TV comedy about a rock group, and The Young Ones, a contemporary rock comedy from Britain. The channel has also shuffled its video jockeys for the first time. British-born Julie Brown has just signed on, while J.J. Jackson and Nina Blackwood have left. ‘And this year’s MTV awards on Sept. 5 will be broadeast live from both New York and Los Angeles. Winners will not run to the stage and give acceptance speeches. Instead, they'll be handed the awards at their seats. The channel also has more outrageous contests than ever, including one in which a viewer will be given his or her own town for a day to enjoy with 500 friends. “We're constantly trying to reinvent things and be strange ... and committed to doing things people can't find anywhere else on television,” said Freston. Cable 10 TV INVITATION Robson River Otter Swim Club invites you to their Open House! Mon., Aug. 18 4p.m.- Come and view demonstrations and workout. Talk to swimmers, coaches and parents about the benefitsjof summer swimmin Refreshments will be served. For more information, Phone Sandy Donohu 365-7084 or Kathy Verigin, 365-3747. CABLE 10TV take place at the ‘Thursday, Aug. 14 Canada Games Pool in 5:30—Sign-On and Program New Westminster information. Aug. 21, 22, 23, and 5:32—1986 West Kootenay 24. The finals of Aug. Regional Swim 9 and 10, as well as Championships the aggregate awards this was the qualifing are presented. Com. meet for the provin mentary is by Judy cial championships to Hunt, Coralea Schue pfer and Ed Chernoff. 11:00—Sign-Off. Our Action Ad Phone Number is 365-2212 TASTE SENSATIONS FOR AUGUST CELEBRATIONS Breakfast & Lunch Specials — $2.99 Russian Feast — $9.95 ROSE'S RESTAURANT 500 ft. in on S. Slotan Jet 5 p.m. Monte Carlo Restaurant GRAND OPENING Fri., Aug. 15 6a.m.-9 p.m. Under the new management of Doreen & Joleen \a 3\\ Try our new menu with ~ many of the same old favorites and also anew children’s menu. Come and let us serve you. la, Vis FRIDAY ONLY SPECIALS * Early Bird Coffee Drinker FREE CUP — 6 a.m. - 7:30 a.m. * Noon Specials Homemade Borscht & Bread . Corn on the Cob (Locally Grown) $zso * Dinner Special Spaghetti with yo ee * Plus Hourly Specials Different Specials Every Hour Free Dessert for Children (With Meol) Flowers for First 25 Ladies *« FREE DRAWS x« — New Children’s Menu — ONTE CARLO Restaurant 1935 Columbia Ave., Castlegar * 365-2177 Open 364 Days a Year 6 a.m. - 9 p.m. WITH NEW SCHEDULING Magnum to get break LOS ANGELES (CP) — Tom Selleck, star of Mag- num, P.I., is relaxed, friendly, frank and approach- able — and why not? He has everything the world can offer. Fabulous good looks, fame, wealth and life in Hawaii. Once an unknown actor who floated around Los Angeles taking work in cig- arette ads, Selleck now is entering his seventh year as Thomas Sullivan Magnum, the easy-going private in- vestigator working out of a palatial estate in Hawaii. Selleck himself lives on the island, which provides a seductive background for the show and also isolates Selleck But after two years op- posite the Cosby Show, Mag- num, P.I. has languished in the ratings and needs a boost — which is why CBS recently flew Selleck to the mainland to meet the press for an hour at a Los Angeles hotel. GROSS MILLIONS Tall, tan and fit-looking in casual shirt, white slacks and soft shoes, Selleck sat down, placed a sockless ankle on his thigh and talked about Mag- Carmela's 531-2nd Street, Trail, B.C. (Above Tony's inn. Look right towards Rosslend ot the toot of Smetter Hil! you'll tee our signs) “I know where my next meal is coming from,” Selleck joked. But he admits he doesn't know how long Mag- num will go on. Selleck’s contract with CBS expires at the end of this coming season, and though Selleck says his enthusiasm for the show is as strong as ever, the show is threatened by its flat ratings. CBS says Magnum finished 46th last season out of 82 regular series on U.S. net- works, but it says its re- searchers have found Selleck is still the second most recognized star on TV after Bill Cosby. TIME SLOT SHIFT To give a break, CBS will move the show this fall to Wednesday nights from Thursday. It will still run opposite a Top-10 show, Dynasty, but summer ratings suggest Magnum has staying power. After CBS placed the show on Tuesday nights in summertime, it showed an immediate improvement and climbed to 14th place by mid- July. For Selleck, as with many Spaghetti House and Calabria Pizza Enjoy the true Italian Spaghetti Dinner All the Spaghetti You Can Eat — $6.95 Private dining rooms at no extra charge. 368-9399 TOM SELLECK . $2 million per episode actors, the ratings game is a wearying fact of TV life. But with fame and fortune se- eure, Selleck can afford to vent his displeasure. “What's dangerous to me (about ratings) is that the public has bought it,” Selleck says. “I get people on the street quoting ratings to me and that’s never what it was for — it was a guide to advertisers. “You're never going to get creative or innovative pro- grams that way. You get what fits into somebody's computer.” Selleck says he'd like the press to write more reviews “good or bad” — on the quality of his shows, not breathless hype on the ratings race. To that end, Selleck Hootenay Cattle Co. STEAK HOUSE (Now Under New Managemnt) JOIN US FOR OUR... GRAND OPENING Tuesday, Aug. 19 Watch for our Grand Opening Specials 3 Schofield Hwy., Trail FOR RESERVATIONS PHONE Across from Ray Lyn Motel 364-0922 LICENCED DINING ROOM OPEN 4 P.M. DAILY WESTAR & COMINCO VOUCHERS ACCEPTED — AIR CONDITIONED — Reservations for Private Parties — 365-3294 Located | mile south of Weigh Scoles in Ootischenio. 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And Selleck — who in the past has made movies like Lassiter and Runaway during the off-season from Magnum — says he has cur. tailed his film work this summer to allow more time for the series. “Our audience is extremely loyal and we're trying hard to be accurate in terms of the show's history,” Selleck said. “We can't do something and then contradict it two weeks 3 Selleck says the show's writers are highly conscious of what they call “C.N.“ — the cumulative narrative that now runs through more than 120 episodes of Magnum. “Each episode plays on to itself,” Selleck says, “but anybody who has seen the other shows will be that much better off. “We use that idea all the time. Somebody will put something in the script and we say, “Nope, can't do that. C.N.” Selleck says there won't be any changes in Magnum this season “just for the sake of change.” But like Selleck himself, “Magnum is starting to turn 40, and a lot of funny things happen when you turn 40.” Aliens still tops HOLLYWOOD (AP) — Aliens clung to top place for the fourth weekend in a row in a box office race dominated by summer favorites and a newcomer, One Crazy Sum mer. The space sequel, which brings back Sigourney Wea ver and relatives of the crea. ture she defeated in Alien, earned $5.8 million US dur. ing the weekend. Tiny? Cheese Burger bottom of the hitt,1004 Columbia 265-8155 OOOOH BBB's TUZ FLAUNTS HIS HIGH PROFILE By SHAWN McCARTHY Canadian Press TORONTO — Paul Tuz is a man with a mission — and he doesn’t mind flaunting his own controversial image to accomplish it. As head of the Better Business Burtau's national council, Tuz sees himself as a watchdog, guarding the ethies of Canadian business. “The basic premise of the BBB is the self-regulation of the business community,” says Tuz, the high-profile president of the bureau's Toronto branch. His office is adorned with framed degrees, awards and portraits of himself with premiers and prime ministers. “The purpose is to strengthen consumer confidence in the marketplace by keeping the marketplace as ethical as possible.” To perform that role, the 17 bureau offices across the country take complaints from disgruntled consumers, investigate suspect businesses and arbitrate disputes between and 8. CRITICIZE BBB But critics say the Better Business Bureau is loathe to bite the hands that feed it — hands that belong to the members who pay its bills. Consumer activist Phil Edmonston, head of the 22,000-member Automobile Protection Agency, says the BBB “has a muted bark and no teeth.” Edmonston complains the bureau makes little effort to keep track of members’ malfeasance — relying almost exclusively on complaints to its offices instead of monitoring the courts and the enforcement of FICATES . di at the Cast Ch ber of C recewed cert icates for oy cha training courses. Receiving their contticates were (trom left): Sheryl Lee, Mitch Pi under the Challenge ‘8 pr Techniques Course and the Supe Also was Anne Ball (missing from photo), part- -time staff member. and Lori Hgrrison. The three empl: ogron completed the Basic Travel Covnceling ministrator Ann Stasila was instructor of the courses. Chomber ‘oe CALLS IT ‘FAIR’ provincial and federal consumer- protection agencies. But Tuz, puffing on a cigarette and sipping ice water during an interview in his Toronto office, rejects the con- tention that the BBB is somehow in conflict of interest. The former engineer and holder of a doctorate in business administration points out that professionals such as engineers, doctors and lawyers also discipline themselves. HAS NO MANDATE He admits, however, the bureau does not have the mandate or the budget to monitor all court cases. Instead, from subway and bus ads which feature his beaming face, Tuz urges consumers to phone the Toronto bureau. (When they do, they're told complaints must be made in writing.) Among the unhappy users of the bureau is Wojciech Zaleski, who last year phoned the Toronto office and asked about Gold Seal Engine Rebuilders, a company that has since been charged with fraud. Zaleski, who 0 unsuccessfully sued the bureau, says the pany ded with an “: rating, even ‘hough it had had its licence revoked by the Metropolitan Toronto Licencing Commission because of consumer complaints. Tuz insists the Better Business Bureau does not “recommend” any company — merely reports its information — and that Zaleski was told there was one outstanding complaint. He adds Zaleski “is one of the people who brought to our attention the sort of business they were. That individual helped others.” REPORTER CHECKS Responding to a recent call from a reporter to the bureau, an employee said he had no information on Gold Seal because it was “not a member,” but added that there would be a file “if there were a sufficient number of compiaints.” Comments Tuz: “People take away their perceptions from what we tell them.” The Vienna-born, former Canadian army colonel is now into his second term as head of the national council. He landed in hot water last fall when he announced the Better Business Bureau would publish a rating list for Canadian charities, despite complaints from the non-pro- fit organizations that the bureau was ill-equipped to do so. Tuz says bureau offices across the country receive about 13,000 calls a year from people wanting information on chiarities and so they are simply providing a needed service. HITS OXFAM Among those the bureau listed as unsatisfactory — with no reason given — was Oxfam Canada, despite Tuz's Reagan defends deal to subsidize wheat SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Reu ter) — President Ronald Reagan defended Tuesday his decision to subsidize U.S. wheat sales to the Soviet Union as a way of boosting sagging American farm ex- ports, calling it fair to American farmers and trading partners. The politically touchy pro- posal has sparked criticism within the Reagan adminis- tration and among U.S. allies. Canada and Australia, major grain exporters, strongly protested the subsidy de- cision. “For some this is difficult to understand — after all the Soviets are our adversaries,” n said in remarks at the Illinois State Fair. “The truth is, I didn't make this decision for them. I made it for the American farmer and all Americans, because if that grain isn't sold to the Soviets most of it will be stockpiled, costing the tax payers and depressing grain prices here at home.” State Secretary George Shultz has publicly de- nounced the subsidy idea as “ridiculous” and Australian Prime Minister Robert Hawke called the plan as- tonishing in view of Reagan's commitment to free and fair trade. Prime Minister Brian Mulroney sent a letter to Reagan protesting the sub- sidy decision. The decision, enabling Moscow to purchase some four million tonnes of Ameri- can grain at competitive cost, is expected to drive down the world price to the detriment of such large wheat-ex porting countries as Canada, Australia and Argentina. Reagan said‘ the wheat would be sold at the same price Moscow would pay to buy it from one of the United States’ foreign competitors. Other U.S. officials, de fending Reagan's proposal, say the subsidies apply only to the amount of wheat the Soviet Union already has agreed to buy under a long-term grain agreement. Some domestic critics have charged that Reagan's de- cision to subsidize wheat sales in Moscow is eature super Special @ this week only spec all ¢ this week only Sepervate ice cream motivated, designed to win support in farm states as the campaign for the November U.S. congressional election gathers steam. However, Hawke and other foreign leaders say the plan not only would offer little benefit to the American farmer but also would under- mine U.S. standing in the eyes of its allies as well as adversaries. “Apart from the devasta. ting economic impact on efficient wheat exporters. . . it would have serious foreign policy implications, damaging U.S. credibility in its op position to aiding and sub- sidizing the Soviet Union,” Hawke wrote in the Wash- ington Post this week. claim that he “personally supports Oxfam.” Suncor plans cuts Phone first FOR McMURRAY, Alta (CP) — Suncor Inc. Resource Group is shelving further heavy oil project plans and will announce staff cuts by the end of the summer, says a company spokesman. As part of the company's Resources Group restructur. ing, it has stopped work on the $1-billion Burnt Lake project while Suncor and its partners negotiate the pro ject’s future. 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