Castlégar News December 31, 1986 ENTERTAINMENT Moore back at work NEW YORK (AP) — After her television series Mary fizzled last spring and her movie Just Between Friends flopped at the box office, Mary Tyler Moore decided the only thing to do was to go back to work. “My ego and self-confidence were in trouble,” Moore says. “I thought I'd better get back up on the horse pretty quickly.” The animal she chose to ride was a play called Sweet Sue, now beginning a Broadway run at the Music Box Theatre. It's a comedy by A.R. Gurney, a playwright who has made a career out of tracking the customs and peculiarities of that unique species known as the white Anglo-Saxon Protestant. The play was offered to Moore last summer by Nikos Psacharopoulos, the Greek guru of the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts. Williamstown turned out to be the first stop on the road to Broadway, a journey that Miss Moore initially didn't want to take. She changed her mind after appearing in Sweet Sue at the threatre festival for two weeks in July. — LICENCED DINING ROOM OPEN 4 P.M. DAILY WESTAR & COMINCO VOUCHERS ACCEPTED — AIR CONDITIONED — Reservations for Private Parties — 365-3294 south of Weigh Scales in Ootischenia January Special!! SALISBURY STEAK DINNER 2FOR! (Eat in Only . . . Bring a Friend!) 365-8155 Mondays 6 30 0. m 6:00 p.m eas Cokie sa: Costiegor Royal Canadian Legion | Branch No. 170 Saturday Dancing 9:30 p.m.-1:30. a.m. OPEN MON. - THUR. 11 A.M. -1 A.M. FRIDAY & SATURDAY 12 NOON-2 A.M. Proper Dress Saturday after 9 p.m NEW YEAR'S EVE — FRASER BELANGER SAT., JAN. 3 — KALEIDOSCOPE L.A. Catering “I fell in love with the play,” Moore says. “Pete (Gurney) blends comedy and drama better than any writer I've been associated with.” In Sweet Sue, Gurney tells the story of an older, upper middle-class woman — a designer of greeting cards — who has an affair with her son's college roommate. There's a twist. It's a two-character comedy with four actors. Each character is played by two people. “In the play, there are two complete versions of one woman and one young man,” Moore says. “I guess the best analogy is that they're like the voices you have in your head or the conversations you have with yourself at any given moment during the day.” In its travels from Williamstown to Broadway, Sweet Sue acquired a new co-star, Lynn Redgrave. John Linton and Barry Tubb play the college student. “Lynn and I have become fast friends in a very short time,” says Moore who until this play had never worked with the younger Redgrave sister. For much of her show business career — five years on The Dick Van Dyke Show and then seven years as the ever-cheerful Mary Richards on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Moore has been in front of a television camera. Both programs were filmed before live audiences but the experiences weren't the same as appearing on stage. The discipline of the threatre comes naturally to Moore. She's been a dancer since she was nine years old and performed at USO shows or at small clubs. TAKES SHOTS Discipline is now also a medical necessity. Since 1968, Moore has been a severe diabetic and takes two insulin shots daily. “I have to have a tremendous amount of control,” she says. “I have orange juice and raisins standing by. I will tend when I am working to allow my sugar to run a little higher than normal to avoid taking any chances with low blood sugar. “Low blood sugar is difficult to control. It can make you feel awful and affect the way you handle yourself.” Anothér of her projects is a new television series slated for CBS next fall, a program, she says, that will avoid the problems that plauged Mary. “There was a lack of communication between me and the producer-writers,” she says about her recent series. “Had I known that their view was to surround me with sniping, negative characters, I would have said, ‘No.’ “It was a matter of our not really being together on approach.” NEC displays contemporary drawings TV_ ASSEMBLY LINES By BILL ANDERSON Canadian Press Television has no pride — it will copy anything. So in 1986, with the Bill Cosby Show going through the roof, one family show after another rolled off the TV assembly lines None of the new series really caught on, however, and the star-studded homesteads of Ellen Burstyn, Elliot Gould and Lucille Ball were sept off the air before Christmas. ooner or later,” wrote U.S. media critic Todd Gitlin, “the mass audience, having gone along with the fad, grows weary, bored, resentful — in its odd way, discriminating. “It takes its revenge.” NO NEW HITS Try as they might, no network in Canada or the United States could come up with a smash hit, although Sherman Hemsley's atrocious Amen crept into the Top 10 for NBC and the crities did all they could for Crime Story, the boldest experiment of the fall season. Michael Mann watched his Crime Story, a violent, garish “22-hour movie,” struggle in the ratings at the same time his other NBC creation — Miami Vice — went from last year’s hot tamale to this year's cold turkey In a new time slot opposite J.R. Ewing and cast, Miami's shimmering peacocks lost some of their strut while Dallas got away with murder by bringing Bobby Ewing back from the dead. Another soap opera unfolded off screen as Joan Rivers had a messy public parting with late-night king Johnny Carson. Rivers’s own show opened with a bang but fizzled fast, and Fox Broadcasting’s hopes to launch a “fourth network” suffered with it, Still, talk shows were all over the screen in 1986, when TV's recapture of the baby-boom audience seemed symbolized by the departure of Merv Griffin, the ascendance of David Letterman and the arrival of Max Headroom — the ultimate talking head whose stuttering, Coke-peddling face was created in the fusion of TV and computers. Audiences fickle While Max was babbling, Wheel of Fortune's Vanna White got rich just by turning letters on the game show's board. Everybody got the message — TV means money — and several cable channels baffled satellite dish owners with new signal-scrambling technologies. New choices and new technologies — especially the booming popularity of video cassette recorders — contributed to a year of political concern about American domination of Canadian TV. CBC, the pillar of Canadian broadcasting, was undermined by federal speriding restraints and the corporation's own accounting gaffes. CBC executives warned of dire cuts to Canadian programming in 87, but they were told to stop crying and get on with it by a new, take-charge approach at the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. GATHERED DUST The federal broadcast regulator began the year waiting — along with everyone else in the industry — for the report of a task force on broadcasting policy. But Marcel Masse was shuffled out as communications minister and Flora MacDonald shuffled in, and by the time the report came out in September it already seemed to be covered in dust. The government urged patience, saying it would rewrite the Broadcasting Act before the next election, but CRTC chairman Andre Bureau was already plunging ahead with proposals to move Canadian specialty services on to basic cable in 1987 and create a gaggle of new ones as well. Through it all, TV was increasingly seen as the key to national consciousness. But American author Paul Theroux, in his novel O-Zone, warned of a future society shaped more by pollution, violence and social inequality. For some people in such a world, television only fuels their fantasies of escaping in a rocket Day after day, Theroux wrote, the downtrodden sit before their TV screens “fervent and deluded, always glued to the launch channel a Old singers LOS ANGELES (AP) — Stand By Me. recorded in 1961 by Ben King and now a hit again, has re-introduced Stoller decided to change to the Top 10 two men who their style, they still wrote a helped guide the formative hit. Peggy Lee's cabaret years of rock 'n’ roll — song- style Is That All There Is? Rolling Stones, Barbra Strei- sand and Aretha Franklin. Even when Leiber and writers and new again of noise,” Leiber said of the Presley version. “And then it became No. 1 and sold seven million copies, and I couldn't believe it. “But I never thought it was great.” The music came from such teams as Leiber and Stoller, or Carole King and Gerry Goffin or Loving Feeling composers Cynthia Weill and Barry Mann. The result was an appeal PRESENTS LADLE . . . Pete Oglow presents Carl Knutson with a Doukhobor ladle as a token of his By JOHN CHARTERS Paul Oglow presented one of his famous Doukhobor ladles Saturday to Carl Knutson of Carls’ Drugs in recognition of Knutson’s 21-year stand against the sale of war toys. The ladle bears a new design — a dove and a globe — symbolizing world peace, and expresses both Knutson's Oglow gives Knutson ladle appreciation for not selling war toys. Oglow is a crusader for world peace. and Oglow’s low-key but single-minded support for peace. Ogiow, who has made and presented ladles to many heads of state and important visitors to Castlegar on behalf of the Kootenay Doukhobor Historical Society, hopes to extend the “peace ladle” presentations to a number of world figures in the peace movement — including Pope John Paul II — in recognition of their work COMMUNITY Bulletin Board MAKE 1987 THE YEAR YOU IMPROVE YOUR SPEAKING AND COMMUNICATIONS SKILLS! The Selkirk Toastmasters Club is offering an 8-week SPEECHCRAFT COURSE, which will involve 6 specific projects on different aspects of public speaking as well as weekly practice in impromptu speaking. The course will run weekly from Jan. 14 to March 4, 1987. Limit of 5 people. $35 fee includes all course manuals. Registration deadline: Jon. 6. 1987. Time and place. Wednesday nights, 7:30 - 9:30 p.m. Jan. 14 - March 4, 1987. Monte Carlo Inn Conterence Room, Castlegar. To register, or tor more information, call. Lovann McCurdy 364-1593, Bill Strongman 365-3548 Coming events of Castlegar and District non-profit organizations may be listed here. The first 10 words are $350 and additional words are 15€ each. Boldtaced wor ds (which must be used for headings) count as two words There 1s no extra charge tor a second insertion while the third consecutive insertion 1s seventy tive percent and the fourth consecutive insertion is half-price. Minimum charge 's $3.50 (whether od 1s for one, two or three fumes). Deadlines ore 5 pm Thursdays for Sunday s poper and 5 p.m Mondays for Wednesdays poper Notices should be brought to the Castlegar News at 197 Columbia Ave COMMUNITY Bulletin Board By CasNews Staff The West Kootenay Na tional Exhibition Centre will present Canadian Contem porary Drawings Jan. 2-31. The exhibition of contem porary drawings were selec ted from the permanent col. lection of the Mackenzie Art Gallery in Winnipeg. Some of the artwork to be displayed include an untitled work by Guido Molinari, Kenneth Lochhead’s “Vibra tions on the Plain” and Le. moine FitzGerald’s “Abstract on Grey Paper.” According to a prepared news release, the artwork in the exhibit “illustrates the asthetic range of this inde. pendent, major art form.” “Traditionally, painting and sculpture have been prominently displayed by art galleries while drawings, of. ten responsible for the suc cess of the ‘major’ works, were relegated to the status of studies and stayed in the artists’ studios to be for gotten, and even discarded,” the release said. “Just as changing the hues and values, or volumes and planes, alters our responses to painting or sculpture, so does varying the kind of line in a drawing,” states the re- lease. “The ease with which the draughtsman can do this results in the drawing being one of the most flexible of art forms, and one which most easily provides us with in sights into the creative pro Soma Red Taq Special SUNTREE 8 INN °27. Come and join us New Year's Day and enjoy your Italian favorites. New Years Eve — 5 p.m. to7 p.m. New Years’ Day — 4:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. (No Lunch New Years’ Day) COLANDER 1475 Cedar Ave., Trail Accepting reservations for large groups only. Phone 364-1816 JANUARY [4 |-(16 MATINEES senuary| 4 | [10)(11) Jerry Leiber Mike Stoller. “It's wonderful, thing,” said Stoller. great, 25 years after it came out, it’s like a whole new career for Ben.” Stand By Me is just one standout in the Leiber and Stoller songbook that in cludes such popular works as On Broadway, Jailhouse Rock, Yakety Yak, Love Poi tion No. 9, Charlie Brown, Save the Last Dance for Me, Kansas City and There Goes My Baby. They wrote for the hottest groups and singers of the day, including Elvis Presley, the Coasters, the Drifters and Peggy Lee Versions of their songs have been recorded by the Beatles, Joni Mitchell, the Songw NASHVILLE (AP) .— Award-winning songwriter Troy Seals says there's no formula for writing music like his gem for Ronnie Mil. sap, Lost in the Fifties To night (In the Still of the Night). Seals gave up construction work to write songs and has composed such hits as When We Make Love for Alabama, Seven Spanish Angels for a Willie Nelson-Ray Charles duet and Honky Tonk Angel by both Elvis Presley and Conway Twitty The 48-year-old former rocker is the American Soci ety of Composers, Authors and Publishers reigning songwriter of the year That award was primarily for Milsap's Lost in the Fif. ties Tonight (In the Still of this “It's flew in the face of everything popular in 1969, but still went to No. 11 Frank Sinatra recently re corded a Leiber and Stoller song written for him, The Girls I Never Kissed. WRITES HITS Leiber and Stoller met as teenagers in Los Angeles in 1950 when they were knock ing out regional hits for black artists on small labels. Their first big national break came in 1956 when Presley did a frantic version of Hound Dog. Leiber and Stoller originally wrote and produced the song in 1952 as a grinding, “told-you-so” blues number for Willie Mae (Big Mama) Thornton It was Presley who roc keted it to No. 1 “I thought it was just a lot The pair travel between Los Angeles and New York as they pursue their latest projects, a Broadway play about a Harlem tap dancer called Time Step, and a movie deal with 20th Cen tury-Fox about their for mative years. Stand By Me, from the movie of the same name, is an early 1960s tune that is en joying a revival along with You've Lost That Loving Feeling from Top Gun and Twist and Shout from Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Back to School. All three songs were writ ten by compogers experi menting with what's known today as “crossover,” com binging different types of music, usually defined by ethnicity ing rush of music, with Lei ber and Stoller combining rhythm and blues, Latin beats and strings for some of their most memorable work. The process spread rock around the world . Their success with Pres ley, the Drifters, the Coast ers and King with first At lantic Records and then United Artists in the late ‘50s and ‘60s led to formation of their own Red Bird label in 1964. They wrote or produced hits for such as Leader of the Pack and Chapel of Love for various girl groups. The hits just kept coming, but Leiber and Stoller both arrived at the same conclu sion by 1966 They weren't anymore. having fun riter uses no formula the Night), which Seals co wrote with Mike Reid, a for. mer defensive lineman for the Cincinnati Bengals. The song earned a my Award for Milsap “I don't write much by my self,” said Seals, who poured concrete to make a living from 1956-70. “[ff have an idea or my co-writer will,” he said. “We say, ‘This hasn't been said too many times.’ We turn on the keyboards and the drum machine and go from there. “There's no formula, or at least I've never found one.” DEVELOPS IDEA The idea for Lost in the Fifties Tonight (In the Still of the Night) originated at Seals’ home when he and his wife would play 1950s music on their stereo. ram. FREE DELIVERY 7 DAYS A WEEK STARTS AT 4:30 wre ; AL ABRIEL'S S P.M. 365-6028 “We'd spend an hour or two or three hours listening to them, dancing and acting silly,” he recalled. “So I got this song in my head. “I thought about being ‘lost in the 50s tonight.’ I said, “This would be a good title.’ ” He sound out Reid, whom he respected as an outstand ing melody writer “It was a matter of sitting down, rattling off ideas and doing a melody.” Seals said “The song was popular be- cause we got hold of some heartstrings. “We got so many calls from friends because the song brought back memories. It caused more reaction than any song I've been a part of.” Among his others: Pieces of My Life by Presley and also by Joe Cocker; Country Girls by John Schneider; Drinkin’ and Dreamin’ by Waylon Jennings; Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes by George Jones; Don't Take It Away by Twitty; You Almost Slipped My Mind by Charley Pride; and Feelin’s, a duet by Twitty and Loretta Lynn Honkey Tonk Angel and Pieces of My Life were two of the last songs put out by Presley Seals was born near Rich mond, Ky., and grew up in Cincinnati. He was a blues guitarist and had a rock ‘n’ roll band in the ‘50s and ‘60s, supplementing his income by doing construction work He and his band performed with some of the greatest acts of the ‘50s: Lloyd Price, Jackie Wilson, Bo Didley, Fats Domino, The Drifters, Clyde McPhatter, Chubby Checker. MOVES SOUTH He moved to Nashville in 1969 and was a recording artist for a short time in the early "70s. Then, as a $100 a-week beginning songwri ter, he discovered composing was his niche. How did he get good? “It's not good,” he said modestly about his work “It's a lot of hard work. I've had good co-writers and both of us have worked hard.” His method of writing: “You outline the idea, find a good chorus or the total idea and go line by line “It takes two or three days or two or three weeks. You go through a lot of changes, although some songs just come together and it doesn't take as much work.” Seals’ wife, Jo Ann Camp bell, was an early rock 'n’ roll performer who entertained at many of the concerts promoted by rock pioneer Alan Freed. These memories helped foster the idea for Seals’ Lost in the Fifties Tonight (In the Still of the Night) “We'd pull out some oldies and listen to them,” he re calls. CONSUMERS WARNED New year brings scams FREDERICTON (CP) A word of caution to con beware the Ides of March and, more particular ly, the gloom of February That's when Canadians are most vulnerable to commer cial scams and the glib sales pitches of hucksters, Jeanie Revell of the federal Consumer and Corporate Af fairs Department It's during the snowbound months that Canadian con weakened by the cold and long periods indoors. likely to buy a sumers: says sumers, are most glamor package that's al style and no substance She says 1986 began with a flood of calls about a dia mond-ring offer received in the mail. All a lucky house holder had to do was send $2.95 to tional ring People who fell for the deal complained that the was worse than a box ring Revell closed the year with hundreds of inquiries about an offer that couldn't help but receive “a prize” of a diamond sensa prize popcorn melt the hearts of chilled Maritimers a Chicago- based vacation broker was offering a trip for two to Hawaii for only $31 return People in many Canadian cities happily gave out credit card numbers to purchase the airline coupons. When they received the coupons, the $31 airfare was included in hotel fees ranging from $900 to $1,800 U.S. a week “Because of our climate and our economic problems here in Atlantic Canada, we're very vulnerable to this Most resolutions aimed at health, institute says SOUTHFIELD, MICH (AP) — Staying away from cigarettes, your own or some one else's, are two of 10 resolutions for a healthy New Year recommended by the American Institute of Pre ventative Medicine. Quitting smoking has long been one of the institute's annual resolutions. The rec ommendation to avoid smoke from other's cigarettes is says Don Powell, direc tor of the institute which helps companies and about 300 hospitals U.S..wide de velop health-related training programs. Powell listed the other eight healthy resolutions, in no order of importance, as new Having a sense of pur pose in life Eating less fat and chol esterol TYPE SETTING Give your newsletters meeting bulletins eto profession! oppeorance Comera ready type for your photecoprer CASTLEGAR NEWS 365-7266 Controlling high blood pressure Drinking only moderate amounts of alcohol Maintaining ideal body weight — Wearing a car seat belt Developing a network of supportive friends and rela tives And, learning to relax Having a sense of purpose extends life, and developing a network of supportive friends, family membets and co-workers will help maintain health, the institute said "Give yourself some goals and things to work on.” Powell said “It can be as simple as caring for a pet, tending a garden or collecting stamps.” type of hting,” Revell said “Most people around here just can't afford to go to Hawaii — 1 W know if I'll ever get there in my lifetime and when somebody comes along with something like $31 tickets to the south, we sit up and listen.” Revell said that companies that thrive on mail order schemes know Atlantic Can adians are more susceptible to their overtures at certain times of year, and they time their sales pitches according ly She said that during the long, dark day sof winter people have more time to read and consider the offers “and more time to dream.” RENT THIS SPACE 365-5210 RUBBER STAMPS Made to Order CASTLEGAR NEWS 197 Columbia Ave. Phone 365-7266 Come in to Madeleine's for our semi-annual CLEARANCE SALE Madeleines fashions Castleaird Plazo Phone 365-2663 Aquino inspires WASHINGTON (REUT. ER) — An _ international group named Philippine President Corazon Aquino Tuesday as one of the 10 most inspiring people of 1986 and sent her an invitation to @ party to usher in the year 2000. The Millennium Society, a non-profit educational organ. ization formed in 1979 and with members in 32 coun- tries, disclosed the following list, in no particular order, of the 10 most inspiring people in 1986: © Aquino, who led a pop- ular uprising that deposed Ferdinand Mareos, for “peaceful winds of change.” e@ Robert Gale, the U.S. doctor who travelled to the Soviet Union to treat radi ation victims of the Cherno- byl nuclear disaster, for “serving the family of man.” e Terry Waite, the Church of England's envoy seeking the release of hostages in Lebanon, for “reason in an uncertain world.” e Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and humanitarian, January's space shuttle ex- plosion, for “the spirit that lives in all of us.” e Pianist Viadimir Horo witz for “international har- mony.” e Entertainer Bill Cosby for “the family in all of us.” e The Statue of Liberty for “holding the torch (of free- dom) high.” @ The crew of the Voyager — Richard Rutan and Jeana Yeager — who flew around the world non-stop “for show- ing us new horizons.” The list of those honored actually contains 11 names as there are two people aboard the Voyager. . Edward McNally, atNew York lawyer who is Millen- nium's chairman, said that invitations have been sent to all living title recipients to attend The World Millen nium Charity Ball on New Year's Eve 1999. Foster to fly to Moscow TORONTO (CP) — Vie toria producer David Foster flies to Moscow on Friday to record a song with the Red Army Choir to be used as the official song of Rendez-Vous 87, an international festival to be held in Quebec from Feb. 8-15. The festival will revolve around two hockey games between the Soviet Union's national hockey team and a group of NHL Allstars on Feb. 11 and 13. The games take the place of the annual NHL Allstar game. Designed to showcase the best of Canadian, Soviet and U.S. culture and sport, the festival will also feature fashion shows, dinners, vari ety shows, and a rock concert that includes the Soviet band Autograph. for duet An international gala fea. turing the Red Army Choir and two stars of the Bolshoi Ballet, Nina Surkina and Yuri Vladimirov, will be broadcast nationally by CBC-TV on Feb. 10 at 8 p.m. EST. Foster will be in Moscow until next Tuesday to help reocrd the song with the 200-member choir. He wrote the music and Canadian television star Alan Thicke wrote the words, said Rendez-Vous spokesman Helene Latouche from Que. bee City Foster won a 1986 Juno Award as top producer for his work on the film sound track for St. Elmo's Fire. He has also produced Chicago, Barbra Streisand, and Tears Are Not Enough, the Can adian all-star song 12th Night Burn OF CHRISTMAS TREES Tuesday, January 6,‘1987 RODEO GROUNDS — RECREATION COMPLEX 6 P.M. SHARP! 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