obs as_ Castlegar News Jonory 3, 1990 ENTERTAINMENT In Our Lunch Menu Lite Bites & anpemcert With Croissants and Sandwiches RESTAURANT. WE ACCEPT CLLGAR WESTAR & COMINCO MEAL TICKETS HOURS: . 7 a.m,-Midnight Mon, -Sat. 8 0.m.+10 p.m. Su Featuring: Kalamari, Assorted Gourmet Potato Skins & Caesar Salad 651-18th Street Castlegar 365-6 D-sar-D pininc tounce Closed For the Holidays! Located | Mile South of Weigh Scale in Ootischenia — LICENCED DINING ROOM — 365-3294 Don't be stuck in the kitchen! Let Dixie Lee do the cooking, Dixie Lee can help! Phone ahead for super’ 365-5304 takeout COMMUNITY Bulletin Board SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOCIATION Business meeting, January 4 at2 p.m 2 104 CHRISTI. 730 p.m WOMEN'S CLUB Sandman tn: Jer, Mont. Reservatior Thursday, January 1 Speaker Paige Och: featuring Sonjas China 65.802 3104 BOTTLE DRIVE North Castlegar Scouting Annual Bottle Drive Janu 2 104 t Castlegar and District nc s may be listed 4s are 20¢ each. Bold taced words. There 1s no ex >. the first 10 words are $4 and addi onsecutive insertion 1s whether ad 1s for one. tw: 'g-also half.price. Minimum Deadlines are $ p.m Thursdays days paper and 5 p.m. Mondays for Wednesdays paper Notices should be brought to the Castlegar News at 197 Columbia Ave COMMUNITY Bulletin Board WOW SHOWING! NOTE SPECIAL SHOWTIMES FRI SAT (SUN 7:25 & 9:20 MICHAEL J. FOX CHRISTOPHER LLOYD Fat coarse fanguage 3 DAYS FRUS? [SAT (SUN Aykroyd tackles drama NEW YORK (AP) — Dan Aykroyd sits in a Manhattan hotel room puffing on a cigarette, the smoke obscuring his face. Even without the dark glasses he wears as Elwood of the Blues Brothers fame, Aykroyd remains mysterious. Part biker, part bookworm, he’s a private man gifted at imitating others — Richard. Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Julia Child — but without the distin- ctive mannerisms that would tempt anyone to mimic Dan Aykroyd That's why he’s always enjoyed surrounding himself with instantly recognizable stars such as Bit Murray in Ghostbusters and Eddie Murpliy in Trading Places. An assist is as good as a goal, Aykroyd reasons, using the ap- propriate sports mei iphor for a native Canadian. On or off camera, he likes staying behind the scenes. So he happily accepted the advice Of a fellow biker, who urged the actor to audition for the film Driving Miss Daisy, based on the play by. Alfred Uhry. Billed third behind veterans Morgan Freeman and Jessica Tandy, Aykroyd was able to overcome his jitters about playingadramaticrole. “*“When you're surrounded by sucha great-cast you're pretty well in- sulated,”’ said Aykroyd, 37, who por- trays Boolie, the patient but long- suffering son of Tandy’s eccentri¢ Southern Jewish matron, Daisy Wer- than THICK VOICE “*Freally like to lay on a thick voice, athick persona, a thick accent. It’s just the kind of character work I enjoy doing. I think it’s more interesting than going on screen and being one’s self, whichis an awful tot of screen Per formance today.” As a screenwriter himself (Ghost- bustérs, Dragnet), Aykroyd admired the dimensions Uhry gives to his character: Boolie’s drive for success and the material world; the desire to be accepted by high society. As an actor, he enjoyed adding another look to his cast of 1,000 faces. Talking about comics who have tried serious roles, such as Robin Williams and Steve Martin, Aykroyd said: ‘I think the only limitations are not in the people’s talents, but in the perceptions of the audience “If people are going to be dragged down at all, it’s by the smirkers in the audience who want them to do something wild." Aykroyd, born in Ottawa in 1952, always loved to do imitations as a child, copying the voices he heard on radio and television He was active in drama at the University of Ottawa, and in 1972 ONLY MATINEES 6:00ew. OPIN TPM SHOW 1D A DON BLUTH FILM All Dogs Go »oHeaven From the Director of AN AMERICAN TAIL and THE LAND BEFORE TIME ee = % ‘@ Ook Z BLUE TOP BURGER Weekly Special _ DELUXE BURGER 9 NEW HOURS 10 A.M.-8 P.M. 1521 Columbia Ave. 365-8388 CALL AHEAD. DRIVE THROUGH SERVICE joined Chicago's. Second City im- provisational troupe, meeting John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Gilda Radner and others who three years later for> med the original cast of television's Saturday Night Live. ‘ Along with Belushi, Aykroyd left the show in 1979 to pursue a film career. He says he still watches the new show and likesto feel he's part of itina “spiritual way.’’ A longtime science fiction fan, he D cares deeply about the spiritual world. While Murray concerned himself with ‘earthly matters’ in Ghostbusters, gleefully pursuing Sigourney Weaver, Aykroyd and Harold Ramis discussed demons and slime Jonvory 3, 1990 Casi FICTION (4) Daddy — Steel () Spy Line — Deighton () “According to Jake and Sewyauawn— NON-FICTION (-) Inventing the Future — 10 (4) Roseanne — Barr Here are the week's Top 10 hard-cover fiction and non-fiction books as compiled by Maclean's Bracketed figures indicate position the previous week. (1).. Sdiomon Gursky was Here — Richler (10) Foucault's Pendulum — Eco (3) Caribbean + Michener (2) The Dark Half — Kine 5 (5) ‘Clear and Present Di Clancy (-) ANatural Curiosity — Drabble (9) The Sorceress of Darshiva — Eddings 8 (6) Ottawa Inside Out — C (8) TheScience of Everyday Life — Ingram (1) Birds of a Feather — Fotheringham Here are the Top 10 videos, by sales and rentals, as Dryden leaps toNo.1 listed in this week's Billboard magazine. Copyright Ltd, Reprinted by per- 1990, mission. CBS the Kid — Mitchell CBS (10) Home Game— Dryden and MacGregor (3) Dance on the Earth — Laurence 3 (7) After the Applause — Howe and Howe () AWonderful Life— Gould , . 5 (3) InaCanadian Garden — Eaton, Wesion Suzuki ‘ameron 1 Batman — Warner 2 Bambi— 3 - Who Framed Roger Rabbit — Touchstone 4 ‘The Land Before Time — MCA The Wizard of Oz: — MGM-UA 6 New Kids on the Block: Hangin’ Tough Live, 7 New Kids on the Block: Hangin’ Tough — Lawrence of Arabia — RCA-Columbia 9 Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer — 10 Gone with the Wind — MGM-UA Batmah — Warner Ghostbusters Il —RCA-Columbia Scrooged — Paramount 9—MCA Say Anything — CBS-Fox Three Fugitives — Touchstone Working Who Framed Roger Rabbit — Touchstone Rain Man MGM-UA 10 Major League — Paramount SALES Disney Family RENTALS Girl - CBS-Fox Theatres reap $5B LOS ANGELES (AP) — North America’s movie theatres, reaped a record $5 billion-US-plus at the box: office in [989, powered by the punch of Batman and other action films. Despite a lackfuster Christmas holiday season, summertime movie goers spun the turnstiles at such a diz- zying pace that the box-office record of $4.45 billion from 1988 was smashed, figures released Tuesday in- dicated The official box-office total, to be announced today by the trade newspaper Daily Variety, was set by former films: 446 features made their debuts in 1989, down 13 per cent from the previous year Ip the studio-by-studio race, War- ner Bros. was No. | with an estimated 17.1 per cent share of all U.S. and Canadian tickets sold The studio’s Batman was the year’s biggest blockbuster. Its $251.2 million in ticket sales was fifth-highest in history. 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Ofer 02 Pete's TY, Castlegar Alpine Drugs, Ro: Summit Music, Creston and propelled by expensive and heavily marketed star vehicles such as Batman, and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, which made $196 million and Lethal Weapon 2, which collected $147 million, trade publications and privaie research firms said Honey, I Shrunk the Kids emerged as 1989's No. 4 film with receipts of $130 million. It_was followed by the 1988 holdover “Rain Man at $127 million. The rest of the year’s top 10 were Ghostbusters II, $112 million; Look Who's Talking, $109 million; Paren- thood, $95 million; Dead Poets Society, $94 million; and When Harry Met Sally .. ., $91 million Owing partly. to cold weather and that Christmas fell on a Monday, this year’s holiday season was off from a year ago. The scarce hits included Back to the Future Part II and National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation Of 1989"s top five, only Rain Man, released first, in 1988, was widely praised by reviewers. And “several critically acclaimed films, such as Do the Right Thing, The Fabulous Baker Skippe Boys and Heathers — did modest business. Among independent films, the top performers were sex, lies and videotape with $24 million and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown with more than $7 million. The year’s biggest flops include Casualties of War, Blaze, We're No Angels, Old Gringo, Fatman and Little Boy, Lock-Up, The Abyss, Young Einstein and just about every movie from the Orion studios: She-Devil, Valmont, Great Balls of Fire, Erik the Viking and Heart of Dixie. A companion survey conducted by Orbit Video magazine of the decade's biggest box-office stars revealed a mildly surprising name as the era’s most popular -actor: Harrison Ford. Ford's movies, said the magazine's January survey, made $1 .064 billion. Dan Aykroyd, owing much to the two Ghostbusters movies, was second with $871 million. Eddie Murphy was third with $828 million. The top actress was Kim Basinger in 1Sth place overall with combined sales of $432 million. r loses battle with cancer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Alan Hale, who played the jovial skip- per who led a zany band of castaways on television’s Gilligan’s Island, has died after being admitted to hospital forcancer. Hale died Tuesday at St. Vincent’s Hospital, where-he had been a patient for about a month after being diagnosed with the disease a year ago, said Bonnie Churchill, for his family: The family said Hale was 68, but reference works listed his age as 71 A Los Angeles native, Hale ap- peared in 65 movies, but became a fix- ture on daytime television thanks to a spokesman 5:30 p.m Sunday Brunch 10:30 am. - 1:00 p.m. Reservations 825-4466 the syndication of Gilligan's Island. The show ran in Prime time from 1964 to 1967 Hale played a charter boat skipper whose craft, the Minnow, was lost at sea and wrecked on an uncharted South Pacific island. The show followed the misadventures of the Passengers. . The success of Gilligan's ‘Island reruns led to Hale’s appearance in a 1978 reunion of the Gilligan’s Island cast members. The two-part special, which aired on NBC, had the islanders finally rescued, only to be shipwrecked again while onareunion cruise. > Two more sequel specials aired in 1979 and 1981 Hale came from a show business family. His father was a matinee idol in silent films and his mother was an ac- tress. The younger Hale bore a strong resemblance to his father, who was of- ten a sidekick to Errol Flynn after the advent of talking films Hale is survived by his wife of 25 years, Naomi; their four children and his sister, Karen Hale Wookey. The actor was to be cremated and his ashes scattered at sea by the Neptune Society on Saturday Coming Soon... See the Castlegar News of Wed., Jan. 17 Retailers brace for tough decade as economy slows TORONTO (CP) — Coming soon to a mall near you — Store Wars Part IL: Slaughter at the Shops. With consumers starting toabandon That spending boom has left con- sumers with heavy debts, few pressing needs and little inclination to shop. Add that to a generally sluggish low i growth, phasis on service is alsowreflection of demographics, there are more older customers and fewer younger ones. By the year 2000, people over 60 will their role as Canadian retailers are bracing for a decade of scrambling: after the business that remains. For most of the 1980s, shopkeepers enjoyed a Tairly easy time of it, managing to post annual real growth of four to six per cent after in- flation. Between 1983 and 1988, in fact, the still-high interest rates and another dash of taxation with the proposed goods and services tax, and the result is little or no real growth in retail trade in the coming years, much like the 1970s experience. Service, abandoned in the 1980s, is back in vogue, complete with sales staff ii increase in c on all goods and services far outpaced the rise in the disposable income of Canadians, according to Statistics Canada. Disposable income advanced 44 per cent to $397.8 billion in 1988, but total consumer spending jumped by $122.5 billion, or 53 per cent, to $354billion. Roughly half of all consumer spen- ding is done in stores and makes up retail trade. “If you can forget about the early 1980s, it’s been.an uncommonly good decade for retailers,"’ says John Win- ter B.C. HYDRO Revenues Inc VANCOUVER (CP) — B.C. Hydro has reported an $11-million operating loss for the first six months of ‘the current fiscal year despite a 1.6-per- cent increase’ in domestic revenues, which totalled $765 million. The Crown corporation cited a strong provirfcial economy as the main reason for increased domestic revenue Doman shuffles assets - VANCOUVER (CP) — A corh porate restructuring announced by Doman Industries Ltd. Tuesday will increase its share of the com- bined earnings of Western Forest Products Ltd. and Western Pulp Limited Partnership to 100 per cent from 56 percent The assets and operations of Western Forest Products \have been consolidated in the pulp par- tnership, said company president Herb Doman. All of the outstanding units of the partnership have been sold to Doman Forest Products Ltd. (a Doman Industries subsidiary) in exchange for preferred shares. There will be no management or personnet changes, he said of the Duncan, B.C.-based company Doman Industries is now the 10th largest forest products com- pany in Canada, with three tree farm licences, seven sawmills, two pulp mills and annual sales of over $700 million, said Doman. paid by commission, home delivery and easy returns. “*Shopping is no longer pleasui able, nor is it a leisure activity,’’ said Leonard: Kubas, president of Kubas Consultants of Toronto. ‘‘Much of our marketing activities had been based on shopping as a pleasurable ac- tivity.”” In the 1990s, successful shopkeepers will be more target oriented — looking for less traffic, but more certain that what’s there has a purchase in mind, Kubas says. To alarge extent, the increasing em, and said the operating loss usually comes in the first six months of the fiscal year, since spending is higher in the summer while sales are lower due to warmer weather. For the six months ending Sept. 30, 1989, the number of residential customers increased by 23,642, \or 2.2 per cent, which was the highest in- crease since 1984. There were 3,485 new customers in the small commetcial sector and 942 additions in the large commercial sector. The $11-million operating loss com pared to a $33-million operating loss forthe same period in 1988. Net income also impfoved primarity because of a $41-million gain from the. sale of Hydro’s downtown head office. This year’s first-half net income was $30 million, compared t6 4 net loss of 17.7 per cent of Canada’s population, said a spokesman for the accounting firm of Ernst and Yung. The baby boomers, meanwhile, solidly middle-aged, will continue to represent 40 per cent of all consumer spending. ‘hile an aging population means a greafer demand for service, there will be fewer young people around to work as storeclerks. The mass middle market shrank in the 1980s, a trend experts see con- tinuing in the next decade as the in- dustry becomes more polarized bet- ween discounters and upscale specialty stores. Department stores, for, instance, reached the height of their power in 1979-80, Kubas says, and have been- steadily, losing ground to specialty stores since. In the coming years, analysts say, the specialty stores will increasingly gather in so-called power centres — rease $29 million for the same, period in 1988. Export sales revenues was” also down, primarily due to low water in Hydro reservoirs. Gross revenue was $61 million, which was about $5 million tess than in the first-half of 1988. Operating expenses were $41 million higher than in the previous year, while finance charges wera $57 million less than in the previous first half. The corporation’s outstanding debt has been reduced during the six-month period by $132 ‘million to $6.642 billion. sort of mini-malls featuring a Real Canadian Superstore, a Brick Warehouse, a Toys ‘‘R'’ Us, a Canadian Tire store and the like. Elsewhere, appliance, furniture and floor covering stores will be grouped into home improvement centres, while discount malls spring up at the low end of the spectrum. Traditional specialty chains and the malls they populate will be scrambling to repositiqn themselves, shedding un- profitable outlets along the way., **Clearly, a lot of the chains have to be rationalized and the remaining (stores) haye to be renovated,"’ says Helen Murphy, retailing analyst at Richardson Greenshields of Canada Ltd. While the 1990s will be challenging, they’ ll also bring opportunities. “*There are still a lot of people in the 35 to 40 (age) group who will be ex- cellent consumers for a few more years,’’ Winter By the end of the decade they'll be carrying a much smaller load of mor- tgage and child-rearing expenses. FERR ANNUAL 12th NIGHT XMAS TREE BURN Saturday, January 6 Community Complex ¢ 6:00 p.m. Tree Pickup — January 6 — Starting 9:00 a.m. Coffee/Hot Chocolate Available PUBLIC ENCOURAGED TO JOIN IN ON THE FUN AND TO BRING THEIR TREE TO AQD TO THE PILE. SPONSORED BY THE KOOTENAY. 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