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By Ina Warren

MONTREAL (CP) — Chan-
el Solitaire sounds rather like
the name of a new perfume
created for loners.

Actually, it’s the title of a
forthcoming movie, the first
ever, about the late Gabrielle
(Coco) Chanel, legendary ar-
biter of modern fashion and
founder of a multi-million-
dollar perfume empire named
for her superstitious belief in
the number five.

Playing Chanel is pretty
petite French actress Maric-
France Pisier who happens to
be the same height as was the
tiny Coco. Well-known for her
roles in Truffaut's Love at
Twenty, Stolen Kisses and
Love on the Run, Pisier is
probably better remembered
by North Americans for her
comic role ‘as the bitchy
brunette wife in Cousin, Cou-

sine.

Chanel Solitaire’s internat-
ional cast also lists Karen
Black, Brigitte Fossey, Eng-
land's Timothy Dalton and

CASTLEGAR NEWS, October 21, 1981

Chanel Solitaire’

Rutger Hauer, the young
Dutch actor who appeared in
Sylvester Stallone’s Night-
hawks.

Although Chanel Solitaire
was made in France by some
of that country's top cinema
talent as a French-English co-
production, North American
aucionces will get to see it
first

FRANCE ‘TOO RISKY’

“It's too risky to open the
film in France,"’ says the
movie’s Canadian director,
George Kaczender. “You
never know how the French
will react to a film that is
made about a French person-
ality in English by an Amer-
ican.

Also, Chanel wasn’t @ dar-
ling in France. She wasn't a
patriot,

“She always preferred
England and hated French
politics and the French.

“On the other had,’’ inter-
posed the pipe-smoking di-
rector with an arch smile, ‘‘if
the movie is successful in

New York and Los Angeles,
the French can't say no,"

The movie's producer is
American independent Larry
Spangler, who was obliged to
wage a lengthy court battle
over copyright of the name
Chanel in the movie's title.
Spangler won; the Swiss con-
glomerate which owns the
House of Chanel lost.

Kaczender, best knows for
In Praise. of Older Women,
the highest-grossing Canad-
ian movie of 1978, is Hungar-
ian-born director with a long
list of Canadian screen cred-
its.

Now the 48-year-old direc-
tor is back in Montreal after
almost a year France making
Chanel Solitaire.

It's move lavish than any-
thing I've ever done and 1
think it's far better,

“1 worked with a subject
that easily lends itself to
dramatization and the setting
and the period is also visually
beautiful; the hats, the full
dresses — the style Chanel
demolished.’’

Chanel died in 1971 at the
age of 88 while working on
her new spring collection,
refining the look of the 20th-
century woman she had cre-
ated in 1918,

And for today’s moderns tt
might be interesting to note
just a few of the fashion
trands Chanel started: the
sweater look, pants, dinner

pyjamas, the trench coat (she
wore the first), the little black
dress, the blazer and irreg-
ular hemlines.

She also made it chic to
have a ‘suntan, wear bangs
and enormous shell-rimmed
eyeglasses and mix real jew-
els with fake.

The subject of Chanel stirs

so much interest in France, °

Kaczender says, that he was
able to get France's top
cinema talent to work on the
project.

The is by Julian

s has international cast

movie takes place in the first
three decades of the 20th
century and deals only with
Chanel’s early life.

It begins with her child-
hood in an orphanage — the
influence, say fashion histor-
ians, behind her high-fashion

“poor little girl’? look. It
traces her conquest of the
world of haute couture and, of
course, her famous roman-
ces.

; photography was Ricardo Or-

ahead that she was going to
do the role and did a tremen-
dous amount of research on
Chanel,"

The movie's over-all design
is by Jacques Saulnier, the
production designer of Mon
Oncle d’Amerique and cos-
tumes are by Rosine de La-
marre, who worked with the
legendary French director
Rene Clair. The director of

Tuos.-Sat.

Pizzas: Eat-In
who came to the

bout her work, Chanel was

More, an Englishman whose
screen credits include the
musical Irma La Douce.
DEPICTS EARLY LIFE
Shot in Paris and the chic
resort town of Deauville, the

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and unlucky in

love.
Although she had many
love affairs, the movie con-
centrates on her greatest
romance and the greatest
disappointment in her life.

The one man she might
have married, a suave, weal-

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Capel, was killed in a road
accident. Capel is played by
Dalton, whom moviegoers‘
may remember as Vanessa
Redgrave’s husband in Ag-
atha.

For Kaczender, Chanel Sol-
itaire is ‘‘A tragic romantic
love story interwoven with a
woman's career story.’”

CHARACTER FLAWED

Shades of Mildred Pierce,
he was asked, and all those
rag-to-riches, tear-jerking
Joan Crawford vehicles of the
1940's.

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flaws — ional flaws that
prevent characterizaticn,”’
Kaczender replied. ‘Chanel
was tough-minded when she
had to be but she was also
very sentimental.”

The director noted that
actress Pisier is considered
cool and intellectual by the
French. She happens to have
graduate degrees in law and
political science.

“In this film she demon-
strated a much wider emo-
tional range. Everyone on the
set was surprised at how
brilliant she was.

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The regular monthly meet-
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on Sept. 28 at the Senior
Citizen's Centre, with 12
members attending.

Regular routine business

was followed, after which a’

discussion took place regard-
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bake sale and white elephant
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on Nov. 7 from 2 to 4 p.m.
Admission will be 75 cents
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elected to different positions
for the tea and door prizes
will be drawn and posters
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The date for the first
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1982.

President Ivan Ratcliff and
his wife attended a provincial
executive meeting held at
Vernon on Sept. 27, and gave
areport to the local club. The
president won second place
in the senior division of the
fiddle contest at Vernon, and
Tony Smandych won fourth
place in the limited division.

The meeting adjourned,
and lunch was enjoyed with a
good jam session.

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To foster better
understanding

A two-day education con-
‘ference focussing on ways to
foster better understanding
of cultural and ethnic groups
will be held in Castlegar this
Thursday and Friday.

The public is welcome to
attend the opening ceremon-
des at the Brilliant Cultural
‘Centre on Thursday evening
at 7:30 p.m. which will fea-
ture a keynote Address by

enays, to attend workshops.

The conference will con-
clude with a banquet on Fri-
day evening — a smorgas-
bord which will include samp-
lings of foods from many dif-
ferent countries. .

The keynote address for
the evening will be delivered.
by Nick Ardanaz, the direc-
tor of Modern Language Ser-
vices for the ministry of edlu-

h thon
the topic of multiculturalism.
The USCC Women's Asso-
ciation will serve refresh-
ments. K

Friday, will be a chance for
teachers in Castlegar and
neighboring areas from the
Okanagan to the East Koot-

cation. ig his address
will be an evening of ethnic
entertainment, including vo-
cal, instrumental, and dancé
groups.

Please telephone the
School Board Office in Castle-
gar (365-7731) for further in-
formation.

Money is no

object to some

“EDMONTON (CP) —

loney is no object for some
residents in this Alberta city
when it comes'to buying fur-
niture, says designer David
McElheran.

Customers in McElheran's
store, David's Interiors, re-
cently paid $23,000 for a
7.2-metre curved sofa and
$13,000 for a clock to spruce
up their living room. The
items were from the United
States and subject to import
duty, foreign exchange and

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just the affluent who buy”
expensive accessories for the
home. “Some may take a few
years to build up a collec-
tion.”

McElheran added more
money than ever is being
spent to decorate homes and
apartments. ~
AMOUNTS STAGGERING

“We are often staggered

by the amounts,” said Mc-
Elheran, a native of Grande

- Prairie who got interested in

profit

Contrary to what Sam
Bondar recently had to say
about city residents, Mc-
Elheran and fellow furniture
vendors Ron Baltzan and Ian
Brown say Edmontonians’
sophistication knows no
bounds.

Bondar, a furniture store
owner in Calgary, said he had
to close his Edmonton store
because residents weren't

20 years ago when
he was in high school.
David's Interiors handles a
variety of items — from silk
floral arrangements to grand-
father clocks — for famous as
well as obscure elients.
McElheran said the design
trade — he is careful to dis-
tinguish it from decorating —
is changing direction. It no
longer is the sole province of
the established.
as high as

d in fine

+. "Edmontonians are to
hicks," Baltzan said in an
interview. Although not all
can afford the best, he said,
the public at large is not
looking for cheap junk.

paeie of Abington's in
Wes d t Mall,

$100,000 have been spent in
Edmonton, he said.

He said David's Interiors
recently participated in fur-
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aL He pointed out it is

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teachers Sandi Cram, Eliza-,

beth Fleet and Daun Bate
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grades, the role of librarian
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Tooms, where programs for
the year were outlined. Dis-
cussion and coffee followed.

from an in-
creases awareness of the war
threat and the need for posi-
tive concerted action in the

- field of global disarmament

and peace, the USCC, during
its last annual convention
held in April, has appointed a
separate nine-member com-
mittee (The USCC Council
for World Disarmament and
Peace) to work in this cap-
acity, promoting various
peace-related programs in
the Kootenay-Boundary dis-
tricts with joint Ee ned

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Week (Oct. 23-80). By such

joint participation it is hopes

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