as__Castlegar News — 0) 28,19 ENTERTAINMENT SHOWTIMES 12:30 eee Bring this ‘Adin and eiverree e autographed pos JANE JONES REVIEW LIVE TIGER SHOW Plus $250,000 Light Show “Live Sax on stage, plus much more! 10:30 May 31 to June 3 352)2715 Lord Nelson Hotel 616 Vernon Street, Nelson, B.C. Out-Of-This-World Satellite TV Savings UPGRADE WIT ro 24000 VIDEOS! PH Receiver! Descrambler Fora Limited Time Built-in Receiver/Descrambler Wireless Remote Cand Kuband Compatible Father's screen exploits | tough act to follow for son CAVE CREEK, Ariz. (AP) — John Clark Gable, son of the’ star Hollywood called King, has decided to follow in the profession of a father he never knew, The 28-year-old Gable is co-starring with James Brolin and Richard Roun. diree in the Western, Bad Jim, produced by Menahem Golan’s new 21st Century Film Corp. The movie has been shooting in the désert plains and arroyos northwest of Phoenix, and so far young Gable has drawn high marks from: his co-stars and director, Clyde Ware “I think he's got a lot of his father in him," Ware said. ly acted before, he’s t before. He's a race driver. Imagine carrying the load.\of being the King’s son. I think he carries it very well.”” The resemblance is hard to fathom. John Clark's face is long and thin, compared to his father!s square-jawed look, and his hair is light brown, while Gable's was dark, Their height is the same, but the son is slender and wiry The greatest similarity is in the Voices. Both with no-nonsense authority One before shooting began, Gable sat down b eforea frontier saloon amid a clutter of ramshackle sets called Cow Town and submitted to a rare: inter “He's never rei never wanted to a crackle recent afternoon movie view “Submitted” is an apt word, since Gable does not easily reveal himself That is natural after a childhood in which his mother, Kay Spreckels Gable, strove mightily to keep him out of public view “1am a private person,” he admit ted, crediting ‘‘a little help trom my wife.’ She is Tracy Yarro, and they have a daughter, Kayley, 3, and a son, Clark James, seven months, But how is he going to cope with the publicity spotlight that’s generated as a movie actor? “Real simple,” he said, "just as if I'm a rolling billboard out there in the’ desert. 1'll play:it the same way. It’s the same as in racing: It’s all advertising and product.’’ He is sponsored by B.F, Goodrich and American Racing Wheels in his racing career. John Clark Gable was born in 1960, three months after his father died of a heart attack at the conclusion of The Misfits. The boy spent his first 13 years on the nine-hectare Gable ranch in the middle of Encino. PRIVATE EDUCATION Kay Gable protected her son from the press and other intruders, sending him to private schools — Buckley in West Los Angeles and Brooks Prep in handled interviews, and she wanted to protect me,"’ Gable recalled. ‘She was afraid of possible kidnapping: She always told me that my father told her, *Oneactor in the family is enough.’ Gable spent a year at Aiglon College in Villars, Switzerland, then graduated from Santa Monica City College in 1983, His fields of study included ‘‘art, ceramics, a lot of science, art history."’ Nothing related to the entertainment business. During his college years, Gable became engrossed in motor~cross racing, much to his mother’s distress (she died in 1983). Twice he has had serious accidents in-races-and after four years of motor cross he switched to class-A trucks. television interviews about. his racing and suggested John Clark could make it.as an actor. He studied for two years in acting school John Clark would like to do more acting — ‘especially action and adven. ture films; I’m not very much into romance or any of that.”” John Clark first became aware of his famed father at'& home screening of Gone With the Wind. “Iwas two years old, and | couldn't sit through. the whole movie at that point in my life,"” he recalled. On another occasion, he threw a glass of punch at the screen when he saw his father kissing another woman Ireally didn’t know my father,’’ he Andover, Mass. “She didn’t like the way people Two years ago friends saw him in remarked. ‘1 used to love to hear my mother tell stories about him.”” SUNFEST SPECIAL 10 Oz. 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How to have more sex. How to have less sex. How to enjoy your marriage. How to play goll until you're 80 There's a sort of inental sloth, a kind 01 a laziness on the part of a number of readers. They ‘re expecting us to tell them how to live. And a novel, to me, a good novel, has never told us how to live. It describes how we live .... E would say to readers, and to reviewets, that il they want answers, they should cad books about gol and sex and diet On his own work 1 write the kind of book I like to read. 1 am not in terested in writing the kind of book that could of fend no one. The kind of wr in my view, the kind of writing that no one could love ig that can offend no one, is also, I'm not interested in those 125-page novels with large pe and wide margins that very carefully and patiently describe a non-event or a series Of noON-events, ora momentthatalmost happened between not very in teresting people That has very little to do, fortunately, with my lite 1 have not experienced the personal sort of tragedy and trauma that my novels are largely about On the themes of his novels: They are stories about victims. about people who are victims of injustice or victims of They are stories the climate of violence that is both absolute and com mon in either the times or the society | am describing There will always be random and unexplained acts of vidlence. They haunt us and disturb us as deeply. as those things whichrappear ineyitable A kind of vengeance to the innocents is also an ob servation that all of my books have always made. 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