SATURDA 9330. 1:30 p.m. BANO: Monday Nights 7:00 p.m, — 365-2216 Castlegar Pastime Club Guests must be signed in Proper dress after 9 p.m. Easy Access no _RESTAURANT FRIDAY NITE BINGO Trail Athletic Assocation Licence No, 59147 CHAIR PATIO SET TO BE WON FOUR SUNDAY NITE GIANT nines Trail Track Lic. No. 58046 GIANT BINGO Ph. 365-5007 or 365-6646 1060 Eldorado — ex.-Konkin irty Bird Buliding Upstairs in Trail’s Towne Square ISN'T IT TIME FOR A VIETNAM FILMFEST? By INA WARREN Canadian Press If it hasn't been held yet, it may now be time for a Festival of Vietnam Films. There were a few significant—films—in—the late 70s dealing with the Vietnam War — Coming Home, The Deerhunter and Apocalypse Now — but it was not a popular subject with Hollywood. Now a new generation of movie-goers, many of them too young to recall the repellent TV images of that era, is eagerly embracing the American directors who are bringing the war back to the screen. Alan Parker's Birdy, the poignant postwar story of two fractured Vietnam vets, won the Jury prize atthe 1985 Cannes Film Festival. But Hollywood didn’t know how to sell the movie and released it on video cassette, Platoon provided the box-office punch. Director Oliver Stone's grim remembrance of Vietnam combat in the late ‘60s took 10 years to get off the ground. When it did, ‘it became a top-grossing movie and winner of the Oscar for best picture of 1986. ANEW BATCH A new spate of Vietnam movies is on the way. The most keenly awaited is Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, due in June, and insiders say “it will blow Platoon right out of the water.” Another film just released, Hanoi Hilton by Canadian Liénel Chetwynd, takes a sympathetic view of American prisoners of war in Vietnam. The biggest surprise for movie-goers with a memory, however, will be Francis Ford Coppola's Gardens of Stone, starring James Caan, Angelica Huston and James Earl Jones. Eight years after Apocalypse Now, his cataclysmic anti-Vietnam War movie, Coppola has turned his attention to the elite soldiers and officers serving at home in that era. They are the old guard, the spit-and-polish soldiers who buried the dead at Arlington National Cemetery. Based on a novel by Newsweek correspondent Nicholas Proffitt and filmed on location at Fort Myes, Va., the film is a loving portrait of the old guard and, by association, the U.S. military. IN GOLDEN LIGHT Coppola bathes his movie in a golden cathedral light, imbuing even the most mundane interiors with awesome significance. It’s the same kind of lighting Coppola used in The Godfather, the movie that portrayed a close-knit Mafia family as possessing a kind of old-world charm. By TIM O'CONNOR ‘Canadian Press cool jazz, the world has known Joe Jackson asa pop musician. Whatever he played usually hit you in the head, hips and feet, ia new. Willpower (A and M) LP. is a classically inclined instrumental album of five orem played by an orchestra and a few rock and jazz players. ‘Willpower is the farthest Jackson has wandered off the beaten path. Even Jackson fans, who welcomed his return to rock on last year's acclaimed Big World, may have trouble getting into this one. But given a chance, it is a rewarding and entertaining diversion. For Jackson, who studied composition and orehestra- tion in Britain, it’s a trip back to the music he was writing before he went new wave with Look Sharp, his first aa in 1979. Willpower bears no resemblance to the abominable records spewed out by Rick Wakeman and Deep Purple in the "70s that paired rockers with unlucky orchestras. WRITES TO FIT » Despite some meanderings into reggae, swing and primarily Most rockers write rock tunes and add an — like an For, wrote music expressly for an orchestra, and he peer a its broad spectrum of colors, tones and dynamics. The is usually mysteri- ous and often jarring. In No Pasaran, the Sandinista slogan meaning “they shall not pass,” the peacefulness of what sounds like a jungle forest is shattered by piercing shots of brass, like gunfire. (Heart patients be forewarned.) The shots repeat, growing louder and more frequent until they climax. Solitude simple, repetitious melody, gentle woodwinds iad Date to establish a tranquil mood of contentment. It's based on the Duke Ellington tune of the same name. Willpower starts with feisty punch, moves into the lilting territory of the Gershwins, while making some sidetrips into the avant-garde. Nocturne is a beautiful solo piano piece in the Chopin vein, and the shortest item at about five minutes. At 16 minstes, Symphony i in One Movement is the Age re and piece. Any ckson’s peaject should have turned up here, bat 4 it's a fully i" the hase path realized work that moves from a lonely French horn to full orchestra in triumphant bloom. If you love classical music, you'll enjoy — and respect — Willpower, If you have an inkling of interest in classical stuff, Willpower is accessible enough. If you are bored by classical stuff, hake it. 7 ROCK. “Many reotey “American bands have struggled with their second and third albums because they've run out of ways to rework Byrds songs — or they've just run their creative course. Not The Del Fuegos. ‘Phe Boston foursome has refined its garage sound into something more artful and diverse by incorporating R and B and some nifty arrangements into Stand Up (Slash), its third album, The band still has a lot of grit and growl, courtesy of singer Dan Zanes. But what they've lost in rambunctious- ness, they've gained in evocative songs. Like the Stones, they also know when to let up on the accelerator. Although they come from the roots school noted for jangly guitars and songs about girls and cars, The Del Fuegos write sweaty rock that’s more convincing. Zanes's drunken slur is haunting on He Had a Lot to Drink Today, a bizarre look into the poisoned mind of an alcoholic. I Can't Take This Place is the closest they come to a single, but Zanes’s ragged voice might be too rough for radio. The album is not for everyone, but it stands head and shoulders above the rest of the roots pack. ' moy7.1907 CastlégarNews _w Rea Me ot | ‘Premiers HUMBOLDT, SASK. (CP) ~ “Western premiérs farmers in Eyrope and the United States are worth $11.6 remained optimistic Tuesday, about getting another billion and $5.9 billion respectivply. billion-dollar federal farm aid program despite some less The answer to pricing wars is to tear down the in hope for farm aid question in Parliament. “If we don't have an early ceeclimnal, farmers in inereasing numbers likely are to have their land and than encouraging words from Prime Minister Brian international subsidies, said Devine, who has a Multoney. ural economics from Ohio State University. While the four leaders were meeting in Humboldt, Timing is important, he added. “We want it as fast as about 60'kilometres east of Saskatoon, the prime minister possible.” enter rene ongpeation set arereley delldiyicy Premier Bill Vander Zalm of British Columbia told payment: inthe Commons, reporters the future’ of farming is at stake. te: byes gata abpypaiehebenly. ctor Aga melel “If we want ., . our Prairie farmers to continue to be ° wo'd- just provoke another pricing war. better help them out at this time,” he said. Host Grant Devine of Saskatchewan told reporters at. Alberta's Don Getty is not overly enthusiastic about the least $1.6 billion in aid is needed just to return farmers tothe subsidy proposal put forward by Devine. average income level they had between 1981 and 1984. “We don't want subsidies, but we're caught,” Getty A $3-billion payment for the 1987 crop year could put said. “While we're making progress at the international Canadian support near levels enjoyed in the United States, Jevel, our (agriculture) industry is hurting. If we want them said Devine, who is also minister of agriculture. (farmers) there at the end, then we'll have to help through “He (Mulroney) didn’t rule out that there would be a this period.” deficiency payment,” Devine said. Premier Howard Pawley of the in. by the banks,” Pawley said. In one of four communiques iss Tuesday, the western premiers called on Ottawa to make an early for “an i d and payment.” The four also suggested Canada and other countries direct surplus grain stocks to poorer nations most severely need. Sunfest 87 ay Rainbows & Roses ~ Jasafuns 431M 4M They called for an evaluation of the national milk marketing system and a review of existing provincial programs to cope with the growing debt crisis in agriculture. Alberta and British Columbia want to conduet a pilot project of paying the so-called Crow rate transportation benefit to producers rather than railways. No further details were made available on the idea. The four agreed that the Canada-U.S8. trade negotia- A position paper released by Devine estimated that prime minister did not know about the western premiers’ subsidies now in place for barley, canola, corn and wheat communique on agriculture when he responded to the tions rep a good opportunity for both countries. They also reaffirmed their belief that a Canadian priority should be security of future energy supply. Government to blame for postal strike OTTAWA (CP) — The Conservative government, But his words failed to im- press Harvie Andre, the Sunfest 87 Lo available for only $2.% this week at participating merchants! The carriers say contract rollbacks are unacceptable A few cursory listens to 77's (Island) and you might toss it off as another tired roots band. But once Mike Roe's pearly lyrics and the group's nuances sink in, you'll keep this one around for a while. Francisco band's second The San album is not unions or management, will be to blame if the coun- try is plunged into its first national postal strike in six years, says Liberal Leader minister responsible for Can- ada Post. Andre, i to a and a‘strike by mid-June is inevitable unless Canada Liberal motion condemning Tory postal policies, argued Post mod its demand Andre said the agency must get rid of “restrictive astoundingly diverse, ranging from the perky pop of What Was in That Letter? to the acoustic folk of I Could Laugh to the horror-surf-guitar stomper Pearls Before Swine. Roe's deadpan delivery and sly lyrics display the influence of Lou Reed. In I Could Laugh, Roe sings: “And she don't like my clothes. They're wearin’ thin — on her nerves.” The 77's have a guitar-based edge reminiscent of Reed's work, and they borrow from Duane Eddy and Joy Division. Force still with us John Turner. Turner accused the - gov- ernment Tuesday in the Commons of putting postal unions and managers on a collision course by demand- ing postal deficits be wiped out by next March. “Let us remember the ex- perience in the United States — it took 14 years to attain that objective,” Turner said. “If there is a strike, the responsibility will rest clear- ly on this government be- cause... and that deficits cannot be dump- ed on future generations and said Canada Post is justified in the hard line it is taking in contract talks with postal unions. FREEZES PAY In the case of letter car- riers — the first union near- ing # legal strike position — Canada Post wants to freeze pay for existing employees, lower starting rates for new workers, make layoffs at will, use more cheap-wage, non- union 's and cancel any price was the motto. HAPPY 20th labor are finding it extremely difficult, if not impossible, to work out their differences.” MOM & DAD delivery when route volumes Love Kelly, Kim & Kent fall below ified levels. operating practices” agreed to by Liberal administrations in the 1970s when peace at —ARTS= Month of June . . . The W.K. National Exhibition Centre is pleased to present Doris Alberts paintings during the month of June. Month of June... the Pertormonce Series is presenti: the Robson Grade 4 works of art. Opening night will ee on June 5 at 7:00 p.m. until 9 p.m. at the Homestead Soup ‘and Sandwich Shoppe. |