fe ore 2 | As CASTLEGAR ate 10, 1982 ee os + Journal ma By Trish Worron TORONTO (CP) — On Jan. 12 — the day after the CBC” National news switches to an earlier time slot and its cur- rent affairs partner, The Journal makes its debut — TV critics probably will write: “Is this what all the fuss was about?” At least that's the pre- diction of Mark Starowicz, The Journal's chain-smoking, 85-year-old executive produ- cer, who warns “anyone ex- peeting the second coming of Christ is going to be dis- appointed.” He says no one is even certain what will be on the first Journal program — that will be d by news “The Journal's format will vary every day, but Star- owixz says roughly 60 per cent of the time will be de- voted to interviews with the “newsmakers” of the day — anyone from the prime min- ister and union leaders to hockey players and. actors. Interviews will be handled by host Barbara Frum — a recruit, as is Starowicz, from CBC radio's As It Happens — and co-host Mary Lou Finlay, formerly of CTV's Live It Up. The two will permit their guests to be a continent away or at the scene of a forest fire or wherever the story is lo- cated, 10 CREWS ROAM WORLD ‘ ri events of the day. Beginning Monday, Jan. 11 at 10 p.m., Knowlton Nash will anchor a revamped Na- tional — with a new set, theme song and format — that will run for 22 minutes. It will be followed by The * Journal, a 34-minute current affairs program that has at- tracted some of the best journalists in the business. At 11/p.m. there will be a five-minute National Update of the top stories before the news on local stations. On weekends, The Journal will be absent and the news will appear at 11 p.m. Mi gen- erally from eight to, 12 minutes in length, but longer if necessary, will fill the re- mainder of the show. These films will be made by 10 KNOWLTON NASH, CBC's chief news correspondent, will continue: as_anchor-. man for The National. the chance of failure.” Says Starowicz: “We're going to. need time to get into our stride. We'll be a long- distance runner, not a sprint- er”, Ng : teams of Journal Teporters — Nash, noting that a lot of and crews, who in recent sophisticated new equipment weeks were scattered from: min; Cambodia (Peter Kent) and. .2,oming om lino, even 87s an Entertainment? =the kes debut Monday BARBARA FRUM, from the MARY. LOU. FINLA' ‘for: ‘CBC radio show, As it Hap-.'merly of CTV's. Live it Up, pens, will :host. the. new -will co-host The Journal. current affairs program. equipment installed. Journal :staffers used: the delay. to.:"educate™’ them- selves and build an‘ inventory of: storios, says Maclntyre. But morale suffered at times, he says, because “this bus- ineas takes quite a bit of ego self-gratification and’ you the Middle East (Ann Med- technical goofs at first be- y. ina) to the Beaufort Sea (Lin- til ha : den MacIntyre) and Wash- biga'ie bt eate a bt of ington (Susan Reisler.) ie Still, the 10 p.m. package Everyone connected with has atready received a good the hour-long package is de- goa) of advance not at first,” says Tony Burman, ‘The National's executive pro- ducer, “Our .unit was sensi- tive because we required facilities and we didn’t want to be neglected. I-doh't want to sound boy scoutish, but those things were'resolved a” while ago and things are working out.” i Nash agrees there was in- fighting but says now “there ‘Quest by Fire! takes. mie rd Le movie critics by storm” BylIna Warren - MONTREAL (CP) — “When you produce a movie, you're so close to it — you're * sleeping with it and eating it. 8o you ‘never know until it h dience.” eny, heads the Montreal pro- advertising for the movie ing bloodthirsty tribes- duction company al Cinema Corp. ICC grabbed the production in 1980 when Twentieth Century-Fox: lost interest in it. Fox now will be ing it, Denis Heroux, whose mov- icd’ include tHe critieally- acclaimed ‘Atlantic City. and Les Plouffe,” has just. re- turned from Paris where he saw the world premiere of the Canada-France co-pro- duction Quest’ For ., Fire, which took the French public and movie critics by storm. Early box-office results in- dicate that if the rest of the world embraces the movie with the passion of French movie-goers, Quest could be- come arother Raiders of the Los Ark.: : “It’s really a unique mov- ie,” Heroux said. An imagin- ative film on man, “What happened in France is that the audiences were absolutely stunned,” Heroux said, ‘They remained in their seats after it was over.” Quest, which opens’ in Montreal, Toronto, Los, An- geles and New York next month, will have a restricted rating in the U.S., meaning everyone under 18 must be accompanied by an adult. In Franch, however, it’s for everyone — with an advisory that it may not be suitable for children. “My big surprise is that we man and sabre-tooth lions. “It's too much violence, But women like the movie, they responded to its structure + and the love story. “And what is happening, what we found with Les Plouffe, is that people want to look back on the past. 80 I “think we are right on with the ideas and the sensibility of the moment.” - The movie opened Dec. 16 in 70 theatres across France and it is estimated that by the end of three weeks, up to 1.6 million people will have seen the film. got the women out,” said Heroux, holding aloft’ French Quest was shot mainly in Scotland, Kenya and Ontario, and has neither conventional - nor well-k jong blocks The Journal | faced were hostility from various CBC. s — ‘includ: termined to downplay the 41) of it good. Network plan- hoopla because, as reporter ners estimate that The Na- Macintyre says, “the greater tional's ratings — which av- the expectations, the greater raged 1.25-million viewers nightly last year — will drop 10 to 15 per cent in the first Flying Fathers from ice to TV OTTAWA (CP) — The exhibition games a year and’ Flying Fathers may soon be- charges $1,500 an appearance come as popular on television to cover travel expenses. as they are on the ice. There is’ also a split of the After playing hockey for gate receipts. Since its in- charity for 19 years, the On- ception, the organization has tario-based team of priests raised about $1 million for _ has become a hit in the U.S. charity. print media. And at least Shea says the games bring - three. television producers the priests closer to the peo- want to use the concept and ple and provide a vehicle for tho name as the basis for a raising money otherwise un- light.situation series... -.-awailable to any of them; -- i¢Rev. Terry Shea, captain People are surprised at the= “the team who oversees concept of priests playing three churches with 150 par- hockey, he says. “And a ishioners in nearby Lanark bonus is that we get to min- County, says Francis ‘Ford ister on the road: because Coppola is one of the three people still bring us their i d. He . won't name the other two. Although they, tend to Coppola spurted to fame clown around on the ice, the with his motion picture The games are serious. Godfather. LOSE FEW GAMES The team members — Of the 600 matches they drawn mainly from Ontario have played throughout Can- parishes but also from as far ada, the U.S. and Europe, ‘distant as Detroit and the they have. lost only about.a Atlantic provinces: — are dozen. And they'll take on cutups on the ice but are ser- anyone if the price is right. ious about their vocation and Indications of their ap- their objectives. proach to the. game come MUSTFOLLOWBULES from the design on their Shea says The Flying Fa- black and gold game swea- thers will insist on certain thers — a smiling priest with . ground rules before any con- his eyes raised to a + tract for use of the name will mering halo overhead — be signed. their motto Playing ‘ “We're not the syrupy kind Praying. Sa of guys you'see in The Bells © Game programs list the of St. Mary's,” he says. “But team coach as I am — & we don't want to show a euphemysm for God — and priest shooting up with drugs his home address as Heaven. either.” Above. And they are likely to . © The.team plays about 80 put a huge Teddy Bear in 3 EB goal to distract the oppo; sition“And insist that oppos; e ied! ~other-unexpected tricks to ‘ tickle the fans and throw off year. (CTV's evening news remains at 11 p.m.) The ealrier time for the National has been in the planning stages for years and was delayed originally be- cause the network needed to update its ancient facilities. It was finally set to go last September — a much more ing The National:-—° which were concerned’-that the show was getting prefer- ential treatment and money they could use. And finally, CBC affili the 26 of the is a good ing spirit” and. says ultimately “the competition is damn good for all of us.” ‘The network is committed to the new package for sev- eral resons, says Herrndorf. Firstly, figures show. that at 10 p.m. there are 7.5 million c ac tors. Part of Quest was shot last spring in the marshlands near Wiarton, Ont., using a largely Canadian cast and crew. GRABBED RIGHTS “Nobody knew how the 48 CBC stations not owned and operated by the network —at first balked at the idea of giving up an hour of prime aboard, ‘after what CBC vice-president Peter Herrn- dorf calls a long process of e to new shows because that is when audiences tend to set. their viewing patterns for the year. But a summer-long strike by CBC fi inti and ‘he says lings inside the network TV, a figute that plummets to 4.2 million an hour later. “If The National is our most important program, ‘it doesn’t make sense to show it at a time that isn’t con- venient toa great bulk of the audience,” he-says. ‘Also, the CBC,-as a pub- licly-funded network needs to be seen as a distinct al- have generally been stilled. “Anytime there is a major change, people worry,” says . ally sin didn’t leave enough time for crews to be trained. and new John Paul McCartney, who took much ot the blame for break- ing up the Beatles 11 years | ago, says that charge is false, and, of all the “Fab Four,” he wanted most to keep the group. going. “I certainly wasn’t respon- sible for splitting up the Béa- as some people suggest,” the ‘89-year-old singer-song- writer said in an interview in arecent edition of The Times of London. “In fact, I was the last one to come to that view. . Td wanted us to tour, to bring.us closer together ‘Rats Breed Under: ideal conditions, a pair of rats produce a family of 15,000 in one year. . Vote Came Late ‘Women were given the right to‘vote in Switzerland in 1971. 4 ¥ 2) | Bark early man from the bark of a ce money is tight at the CBC. “Sure we had our problems to private broad- casters who will be offering mainly American entertain- ment shows in that time per- iod and to pay-TV services which could be in-operation later thid year?! "= > still likes him. of the Beatle music, also said he and Lennon didn’t dislike one another — as many sug- gested. But he did acknow- ledge that Lennon's public criticism of him’ in the early 1970s shocked and hurt him but also inspired him: to prove he could be a sucesss in his own right with the group Wings. i - Lennon, who was shot to death outside his apartment in New York on Dee. 8, 1980, actually liked him. “From a purely selfish point of view, if.I could get PAUL McCARTNEY their opponents. Shea says none of the priests would have time to take part in a television ser- ies should it come about. Their parts would be por trayed by actors. In anticipation of such a series, a charitable founda- tion has been established to oversee distribution of what- ever money it might provide., WOODEN SHOE RESTAURANT — Setting. Mon. - Sat. 5 p.m. to Mid. Sunday 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. Closed Tuesdays Below the Nelson Bridge ‘on Nelson Avenue Winnipeg’s CONTEMPORARY DANCERS _ Sat., Jan. 30, 7:30 p.m. Selkirk College Gym Children & Seniors $4.00 ATDOOR Adults $8.00 Children& John Lennon back, I'd ask him to undo this legacy he's left me. “Td ask him: to tell every- one what he told (his wife) Yoko (Ono) in the privacy of -his own room. Yoko and I talk on the phone a lot nowadays, since his death, and what she says tells me something very important: Jobn_ still. liked me, after all.” ..- x _.COMMUNITY : Bulletin Board Rourke 365-7671. = tes, would react,” said “Heroux, who along with Los Angeles-based John Kem- Statistics course offered A course in statistics will be offered by Selkirk College beginning Jan. 16. ‘The. six-week course will cover a wide range of topics including descriptive mea- sure, probebjlity,,,. discrete, and continuous descriptions, , hypothesis training, regres- sion and correlation. -“The course will benefit those students in CA, CGA -and RIA programs who have “been waiting for this course _ to complete their profes- said Jack partment at Selkirk College. Instructing the course will be Dr. John Breckenridge. Breckenridge said the course will focus on ion of Las Vegas. Interested? Group departure March 14 from Vancouver - PHONE FOR INFORMATION . 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For fu fl la Will hold their first meeting of the month on Thurs., Jan. 14.a17:20 p.m. in the Masonic Hall, oh ete irs er LATO THEKINNAIRD urged to attend. GUIDES, BROWNIES & PATHFINDERS : >: a , Meeting to be held on Wed., Jon. Kinnaird Elementary Schoo! Library. All mothers are . 13 at 7:00 p.m, at the 7 ROBSON PARENT GROUP Maeting for Beavers and Cubs will be held Tues., Jon. 12 ot780 p.m, at Resker Hall, All parents are encouraged to attend. Ist - 2nd KINNAIRD BEAVERS, CUBS, SCOUTS GROUPS Meeting will be held‘on Tues., Jan. 12 at 7:30 p.m., Kine naird Elementary Schoo!. Banquet planning committee el e ‘WEST KOOTENAY HI Your local Health Unit offers heari lars, A specia! clinic JEALTH DISTRICT Ing and vision screening is being held on Mon., for pre- i Jan 18 for children that turned four in 3981 and have not yat been tested. For an appointment phone 365-7748. NORDIC SKI TOURING CLUB Is conducting Free Ski lessons‘in Cross Country Skiing ot Nancy Greene Loke on Jon. 3, 10 and 17 at 11 o.m. Meet . au the parking fot. For further information phone 365- : WEST KOOTENAY HEALTHUNIT Over 60's clinic will be held at the Health Unit in Castlegar ‘on Jan. 25, Anyon @ over 60 who is interested in ving their blood pressure, hearing and vision checked, should- WINNIPEG CONTEMPORARY DANCERS: Will be at the Selkirk Gym at 7:30 p.m. on Sat., Jan. 30, Sponsored by the Costlegar Arts Council. aah Coming events of Casilegor ‘ond District non-profit organizations are listed here through the courtesy of BC Timber’s Celgar Pulp and Celgar Lumber Divisions, Pleosw submit notices directly to the Castlegar News by 5 p.m. Thursdays, The $39.00 ~ Mystery Aws extraordinary mystery is about to unfold at the Sheraton- Spokane . . . The Weekend Package Deal. The Weekend is when the drama occurs. The Package includes a spacious room for two, two drinks in the. Inner Circle Club and 20% off dinner in the elegant 1881 Dining Room. The Deal is a surprisingly low $39.00 per night per couple. This is obviously a questionable business decision on the part of the Sheraton. However, if the Sheraton is unsuspecting enough to offer such a remarkable deal, you should just accept the enigma as another unsolved mystery. The Sheraton-Spokane Hotel. A great place to spend the weekend without spending too much. 1h North 322 Spokane Falls Court, Spokane, Washington 99201 Advance reservations required (509) 455-9600. Good weekends and holidays. . Canadian currency at par on package price only. CCROSSWORD. + - answer in Wed.'s paper t Containing Veasel: ‘scnoes mh + L-Payarogated » > a ern's gait * thao o gece jemining + with stripes 6 Feotlons +04 Capes 1 Bitegnted e * « cer Sipe S