‘ Castlegar News August 10, 1988 ENTERTAINMENT SUMMER HOURS Monday to Saturday, 5:30 a.m. - 8 p.m. 365-8155 1004 Coleenbia Ave. Castlega GREWMAN ACRES | Castlegar, B.C. (Formerly D-Bar-D Riding Stables.) — UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT — STABLES OPEN 9 A.M. DAILY * ALL NEW STOCK * A HORSE FOR EVERY TYPE OF RIDER * GUIDE AVAILABLE * SCENIC TRAILS * RIDING LESSONS * BOARDING FACILITIES * HORSEDRAWN HA YRIDES (By Appointment) LOCATION: | mile south of weigh scale in Ootischenia next to D-| ‘D Dining Lounge. Follow the Signs. Lawson, Ahlstrom exhibit The recent work of Nelson cerami- cist David Lawson will be featured at the West Kootenay National Exhi- — So during the month of Augu Aiesired locally for his distinctive Lawson's of New Cleese movie hailed as huge hit By INA WARREN Canadian Press The venerable Vincent Canby of the New York Times can’t stand it, and NBC’s Gene Shalit calls it the Stall movie of the the ancient Jap raku has been less well known. Lawson's classical non-functional raku vesseks portray a harmonious balance between his fine craftsman- ship and the spontaneity inherent in the raku process. Lawson’s work has been previously exhibited at ‘‘Endeavour 87,"" Van- couver Art Gallery, the Cartwright Gallery and Robson Square, Van- couver and the Culpepper Callery, Calgary. Also on exhibit during August will be a Ih of VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL Grace Presbyterian Church Mon., Aug. 15 to Fri., Aug. 19 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. AGES 5& UP... ALL WELCOME! COMMUNITY Bulletin Board SUMMER FESTIVAL Kaslo On the Lake Summer Festival of the Arts, August 13-30. The Langham Cultural Centre, Kaslo, B.C. All welcome, come and enjoy vents of Castlegar and | ict non-profit organizations may be listed irst 10 words are $3.75 and additional words are 20¢ each. Bold: faced words (which must be used for headings) count as two words. There is no extra charge tor a second insertion while the third consecutive insert seventy-five percent and the fourth consecutive insertion is half-pri Minimum charge is $3.75 (whether ad is for one, two or three times) Deadlines are 5 p.m. Thursdays for Sundays paper and 5 p.m. Mondays for Wednesdays paper. Notices should be brought to the Castlegar News at 197 Columbia Ave. COMMUNITY Bulletin Board — Weekend Dinner Special — POACHED RED SNAPPER ] With Shrimp Sauce. Choice of Salad, Potato or Rice & Vegetable . . . — Friday and Saturday, August 12 and 13 — R RESERVATIONS 352-5358 646 Baker Street, Nelson 195 Balfour artist Margaret Ahlstrom, Drawing for as long as she can , Ahi: was by watercolor after making the West Kootenay her home in 1978. She Strives to reflect the peacefulness and spirituality inspired by the land- scape to the West Kootenay through her paintings Both exhibitions run until Aug. 31. Our Action Ad Number is 365-2212 LEGION BR. 170 DANCE SAT. 9x: JUKE BOX Guests must be signed in. Proper dress after 9 p.m Open \endny to Thursday +le.m. Friday Seturday, 12 neon -2a.m. 365-7017 rr icscon” Unitarian WEST KOOTENAY SP) FELLOWSHIP / Second Sunday Monthly Student Union Building Nelson Sun., Aug. 14 Il a.m. ‘And What Would It Profit a Church, if She Should Criticize the World and Lose Her Own Soul? Sermon by the Late Rev. Mark DeWolfe, Delivered by Ann MacNab Pot Luck Lunch FURTHER INFORMATION 368-3206 or 354-3854 year. But the rest of America is taking the bait for A Fish Called Wanda, the black British comedy cooked up by the redoubtable John Cleese. American actors Jamie Lee Curtis and Kevin Kline and former Monty Pythoners Michael Palin and Cleese spin through this London heist caper offering trenchant zingers about the antipathy between the English and the Americans. People Magazine, the pulse-taker of the masses, calls it ‘‘a hilariously unhinged farce," while Newsday describes it as ‘‘the zaniest, sexiest adult movie entertainment of the summer.”” What's this? The nation that prud- ishly shortened the title of the British film: Sammie and Rosie Get Laid espousing ‘‘sexy adult entertain- ment. And since when have the Americans, unlike Canadians, had the h for such ghoulish JAMIE LEE CURTIS ... plays Wanda Reached in Chicago, another whs- tle-stop on a whopping six-week publicity tour, a weary but cordial Cleese says he doubts the success can be attributed to some sudden shift in the American consciousness. **But I'll tell you as a Canadian, because my stuff has always been better digested in Canada,"’ says Cleese in a conspiratorial whisper, ‘‘I think we've actually done something quite clever and crafty here. “We've made something that’s Pythonesque touches as the squashed dogs and steamrolled hu- mans in Wanda? Poetry just for computers RED DEAR, Alta. (CP) — Red Deer College Press is bringing poetry into the computer age. The poems, written especially for computers by Toronto poet B.P. Nichol, can’t be realized on the printed page. The lines blink on and off the screen, change colors and move around. Each poem will eventually come with its own soundstrack to complete a cinematic effect. Nichol brought the idea to Red Deer. He and Serge Clapa, a third- year computer student, are fine- tuning the poems and developing software for writers who want to try the new form. Dennis Johnson, managing editor of the college’s publishing division, hopes Red Deer College Press will totally to the American market without putting in a lot of car chases."’ Cleese, who speaks like a self- effacing Englishman (very much like the shy barrister Archie Leach he plays in Wanda) makes the clever- ness sound accidental. Not so. This movie was carefully concocted for American tastes. For instance, when it was t and Cleese toured the Hollywood studios with Cleese merely telling the story to the studio brass. The pitch was: ‘We have our stars, our director (the 78-year-old Charles Crichton), our script and our modest budget ($7.25 million US), take it or leave it.’ Crichton directed the 1951 caper classic The Lavender Hill Mob. “John is such a good salesman,’’ says Shamberg admiringly, “‘MGM called us on my car phone and of- fered to make a deal without seeing a script.’’ TOO POMPOUS In November 1986 the actors had a read-through. ‘‘Almost everybody's character worked except mine, which I'd written far too stuffy and pom- pous. “The consensus was that all I had to do was make the character more naturalistic, in a sense put more of myself in it. One of the movie's delights is the touching romance which blossoms between the calculating jewel thief Wanda (Curtis) and Leach (Cleese). “‘Jamie very much took me by the hand through the romantic scenes,’’ said Cleese. ‘‘She said, ‘I know about these and the key is not to rehearse them too much.’ It was very scary for me because I'm a compulsive over- rehearser."’ In fact, Cleese found the romantic scenes far more difficult to play them the nude scenes: IN THE BUFF to American audiences in December, Cleese discovered that a couple of shots with blood, such as the squash- ed pekinese scene, were total turn- offs. ‘So we. reshot them, without tom- ato ketchup. I think an English audience would have laughed, but I think that an American audience is little more, well, vulnerable.’ GOOD SALESMAN As the film’s American producer Michael Shamberg (The Big Chill) points out: ‘‘Of all the Pythons, John (Cleese) is the most pragmatic busi- nessman. He has a very successful company (Video Arts) that does exe- cutive training films, he’s a. very good salesman, and once he made the conscious decision to do an American film, he just made sure all the ingredients were there.”’ Before shooting began, Shamberg “IT made with a Double Bass in '74 with Connie (his first wife) in which we both ran around in the buff quite a lot,’’ Cleese said. “‘After the first three or four times of taking my knickers down, I found it was terribly easy. It’s just the first time that feels like going through the sound barrier.’’ When the subject turns to Curtis and her comic tour de force, Cleese puffs up with almost paternal pride. “‘Is't she wonderful? She never pushes anything . . . And it’s most heartening because she has so much talent and it has never been encour- aged." One senses that Cleese intends to encourage it with a sequel to A Fish Called Wanda. “I've enjoyed working with this small group so much that I might just play very gently with developing a plot for the next one.’’ release ‘‘digital * of Can- ada’s first computer poems by early 1990. NOW SHOWING! Benin MATINEES enue 6:00 a OBERT be NIRO ae P AUNIMERSAL 0 Tit NOTE SPECIAL SHOWTIMES (FRI) (SAT) [SUN] 7:40 9:45 (MON [TUE] (WED) [THU} Daily at 7:00, 9:20 p.m. THE BEST MOVIE OF THE SUMMER! “SHEER ROLLER-COASTER THRILLS! Dovid Ansen, NEWSWEEK D-sar-D DINING LOUNGE OPEN 4 P.M. DAILY — AIR CONDITIONED — WESTAR & COMINCO VOUCHERS ACCEPTED RESERVATIONS FOR PRIVATE PARTIES — 365-3294 Located | mile south of weigh scale in Ootischenia — UCENCED DINING ROOM — 5 p.m. B.C. Lotteries BREAKOPEN | Promotional Night Tues. Aug. 16 LOTTERY REP WILL BE HERE WITH GIVEAWAY PRIZES & TICKETS Come Early, Don't Be Disappointed! 7 p.m. Cable 10 TV SHAW CABLE 10 TV Aug. 10, 12 and 14 5:30 p.m. (Wed) 9 a.m. (Fri) 1 p.m. Sun) — Volces of Dawn — Norma Kilpatrick and Dee Aberdeen directed this cast of disabled and typical actors in a moving per- formance highlighting scenes from everyday lives of the disabled. 6:30 p.m. (Wed) 10 a.m. (Fri) 2 p-m. (Sun) — Oldtime Fiddlers — This is a repeat of the coverage of the 14th annual contest held in Castle- gar. 8:30 p.m. (Wed) 12 p.m. (Fri) 4 p-m. (Sum) — Channel Update — This program examines the new channels that will be on Shaw Cable in September. Included are clips from YTV, the Family Channel and the Weather Channel. 8:45 p.m. (Wed) 12:15 p.m. (Fri) 4:15 p.m. (Sun) — B.C. Games for the Disabled — Coverage of the opening, ceremonies for the 1988 Championships for the Physically Disabled held in Trail in July. lhe perfect meal for va in lhe sun! PICNIC KIP’S PRESENTS Ris APPEARING LIVE AUGUST 12 AND 13 DOORS OPEN AT 8:00 P.M. August 10, 1988 Castlégar News ar Suicide Race controversial OMAK, WASH, (AP) — It’s a nondescript bluff that suddenly drops almost vertically into the Okanogan River, Casey Nissen says charging down Suicide Hill on his horse is a thrill like no other. Bob Hillman looks at the 78-metre-high hill with its 37- metre drop and says it is ‘an ac- cident waiting to happen."’ Nissen, of nearby Nespelem, is one of 20 young men who've entered in next weekend’s Omak Stampede rodeo and Suicide Race. It is daring riders like Nissen — willing to cha)l- enge the hill’s 49-per-cent grade — who have kept the race alive for 52 consecutive years. The untimed race is over in about a ‘minute. Riders start 15 to 20 metres from the break of the hill, charge down the incline at breakneck speed, swim the Okanogan River for about SS metres, come up an em- bankment and race to theTinish line inside the stampede arena. Hillman is director of field services for the Animal Protection Institute in Sacramento, Calif., and it is activists like him who say there shouldn't be a S3rd race. “Our objection has always been that the race is an exploitation of ani- mals for no real purpose other than to have real large draw and crowd- pleaser to bring people to just another rodeo,” said Hillman. Race director (Cactus) Jack Miller thinks the protests of animal rights activists are misdirected. “Every year, according to the Humane Society’s own figures, more than 2,000 horses are injured ser- jously enough on race tracks that they have to be destroyed,’’ he “*In S2 years, we've lost five horses." HORSES CHECKED Linda Lewis, office for Riders have been injured, she said, but most have not been serious. The only fatality occurred in the 1930s, when a rider drowned while prac- ticing crossing the river, “I've been running in it for almost 15 years now and in other races, and this tops all of them,” said Nissen, 29. ‘The excitement, the adrenalin flow you can get running off the hill is just unreal compared to other sporting events. “Also, the money you can get from it is inviting.’’ The $2,700 purse isn’t all that at- tracts the riders, nearly all of whom are from the nearby Colville Indian reserve. The race organizers, Miller said, are * a native A Omak Stampede Inc., said the horses are checked by a veterinarian prior to the race. The hill is groomed, and fresh sand is dumped to soften the course, she said, and this year, sharp rocks and other objects have been removed from the river bed. tradition.”’ tas The Suicide Race, which highlights a evolved from endurance runs that were staged on area Indian reserves. The founders of the Omak Stam- pede convinced Indian leaders in 1936 to start holding their races in Omak as part of the local rodeo, Miller said the founders also saw the event as a way to raise money for a children’s park on 40 hectares of land that they had purchased in east Omak. Today, the park is home to an Olympic-size swimming pool, two soccer fields, four baseball fields and @ veterans’ memorial. Miller said Lottery numbers The winning numbers in the Paci- fic Express draw Saturday night were: 619792, 161758 and 491695. The free play number was 6. The Pick numbers were: 10, 11, 15, 29, 44, 53, 54 and 56. The Lotto B.C. winning numbers were: 5,17, 22, 32, and 33. The bonus number was 26. winning numbers list, the latter shall apply. The winning numbers drawn Mon- day in.The Pick lottery were 12, 19, 21, 22, 39, 48, 53 and 56. In the event of a discrepancy be- tween these numbers and the official that couldn't have without the donations from the rodeo. 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