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NASHVILLE, TENN. (AP)
Minnesota Fats, the pudgy pool
player immortalized in the movie The
Hustler, can fill up 4 conversation the
way he used to flood the
pocket

Just ask him:

There's nobody on earth who is
going to challenge me at pool. They
challenge me for my autograph. Or
they want:to hear'stories. I could talk
until the year'2000 and never repeat
myself.”

corner

Fats, pottrayed by Jackie Gleason
“movie starring Paul
Newman, can be found these days
sinking balls in an oak pool table. at a
palatial downtown hotel where the
boastful billiard wizard lives.

“| don't play that often but I have a
table up there on the mezzanine,” he
says while relaxing in the hotel
lobby 's my office.”

About the only subject he won't
discuss ,is his age.

“No One on this eafth knows how
old’ I am,” he says. But a 166
biography, The Bank Shot, lists his
date of birth as Jan. 19, 1913.

About any other topic,
him

"The movie didn't mean nothin’ to
me. I'm known clear around, the
earth. It meant something to Gleason
and them people, Gleason used to
rack balls for me,when he was a kid
in Brooklyn and in Long Island.”

BEATS CANUCK

“I won $100,000 once in Phoenix
against the Canadian champion. I had
it in my pocket and he came with an
armored truck.”

Fats, whose real name is Rudolf
Wanderone, has spent his life playing
pool. He was known earlier in his
pool days as New York Fats, but be-
came known as Minnesota Fats be
of Gleason's character in the

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cause
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“Paul Newman is not a very good
pool player. But he can make it look
good. Now Gleason can play. (
can hustle. He could play pool for a
living and make a living because he's
plenty smart.”

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By INA WARREN
‘The Canadian Press

“Round up all the usual suspects,” the French
police prefect orders at the end of Hollywood's greatest
B movie, Casablanca,

For the Canadian film industry in’ 1988, the rogues’
gallery had a’ decidedly familiar face.

In what seemed like a sequel, Telefilm Canada ran
out of money for the second year in a row, the federal
government continued to play Scrooge with film tax
shelters and, after much sound and fury, Ottawa backed
away from legislation to curb Hollywood's domination of
film distribution in Canada.

As ever, Ottawa's solution was to pour more money
in the trough. The trade paper Variety quoted one
industry wag: “The only thing left is to pay the
audience.”

An extra $200 million is being pumped into the film
industry over the next five years, with $85 million
earmarked for the slighted distribution industry

LABELLED UNFAIR

But the distribution fund has already received
criticism. Smaller. distributors complain that it
arbitrarily gives six. large Canadian companies
Alliance-Vivafilm, Malo Film, Cinepix, Norstar, Spec.
trafilm and Cinemaplus — the lion's share and an unfair
advantage when acquiring rights for domestic as well as
foreign films.

As 1988 ended, there were reports that the
tax-shelter financing of several major movies, including
the $20.3-million Speed Zone starring John Candy, was
in jec dy becuase they didn't conform to the new
federal tax rulings. Beginning in 1988, writeoffs for
movie investment were slashed to.30 per cent from 100
per cent.

JOHN CANDY
. film in jeopardy

With private investment all but dried up.
film-makers will be forced to turn even more to
government subsidies, posing difficulties for regional
film-makers. In 1988, less than 12 per cent of Telefilm’s
budget was spent outside the major production centres
of Montreal and Toronto.

Put bluntly, it was not a year in which the Canadian
film industry made great strides forward

BETHUNE RESUMES
If there was a visible symbol of this, it was
Bethune, the Canada-China-France co-production which
dangled in limbo for a year following its difficult China
shoot

Shored up by additional funds, its widely reported
internecine fights between star Donald Sutherland and
scriptwriter Ted Allan brought to heel, the $18.2-million
production finally. resumed in November.

Turning the corner on its troubled past, Bethune,
the epic story of the Canadian surgeon who became a
hero of the Chinese Revolution, may well find its place
at the Cannes Film Festival in May.

Canada’s presence at Cannes promises excitement.
Denys Arcand's much-anticipated Jesus de Montreal
should be there, along with Jacques Wilbrod-Benoit's
Comment faire l'amour avec un negre sans se fatiguer
(How to Make Love to a Negro Without Tiring),
starring France's hottest black actor, Isaach de
Bankole.

NFB TURNS 50

Cannes will be one of numerous world film festivals
to salute Canada’s venerable National Film Board,
which celebrates its 50th anniversary in 1989. The
board — which has won eight Oscars and 53 nominations
over the years — may also get its own special Oscar at
the Academy Awards.

Meanwhile, the head-hunters_are out looking for a
replacement for NFB chief Francois Macerola, who
resigned Dec. 1 to become director of a new $50-million
private studio facility in Montreal.

Despite the rising dollar, Canadian crews were
kept busy in ‘88 with international film and TV
production, largely American efforts lured by lower
costs.

However, British Columbia has begun exploring
the possibility of attracting Asian and European film
productions as a way of reducing its dependence on
American productions.

SOME FINE FILMS

Releases in '88 included Francis Mankiewicz's Les
Portes tournantes (The Revolving Doors), which won
acclaim from French critics at Cannes, only to bomb at
the French box office.

A popular success with Quebecers was Claude
Fournier's Les Tisserands du pouvoir (The Mills of
Power), a sprawling $7-million, two-movie historical
epic about a departure of 600,000 French-Canadians to
New England mill towns at the turn of the century.

Shown in competition at the Venice Film Festival,
A Corps perdu (Straight to the Heart), Lea Pool's
piercing portrait of a disintegrating menage a trois,
impressed Italian audiences unused to seeing a woman
director deal so profoundly with male sexuality.

But the bravura began at the Berlin festival in
February with Family Viewing, director Atom
Egoyan's unsettling black comedy, and Winter Tan, in
which Jackie Burroughs gives a knock-'em-dead perfor.
mance as a raunchy feminist flirting with sex and death
in macho Mexico.

Six months later, Canadian director David
Cronenberg was to give the world one of the darkest
sex comedies in cinema Kkistory, Dead Ringers, a
clammy tale of gynecology, twinship, and obsession.

Set clearly in Cronenberg’s Toronto home town,
Dead Ringers turned out to be one of 1988's critical and
box office successes and should bring Oscar nominations
for stars Jeremy Irons and Genevieve Bujold, not to
mention its masterly director.

long-expected economic
may have begun, Statistics Canada
figures suggest.

ured by the value of production by
industry, increased after inflation by
0.1. per cent in October ‘to $399.7
billion in 1981 dollars.

Slowdown may have begun

OTTAWA (CP) — The start of the

slowdown That's a

Gross domestic product, as meas- Resources Ltd.

corner,”

That's down from the 0.3-per-cent
increase posted in September and

the 0.6 per-cent rise in August.
ery slow month,”
George Vasic, economist with the
private economic research firm Data

“It confirms the general trend that
economic growth has turned the
he said. “Slower growth is
starting to emerge.”

Vasic, along with other analysts,
however, ‘expect there will be some
further rise in interest rates at least

until well into the new year.
said

next year, somewhat

“Mbst of that growth will be con
said.

which has been keeping

Data Resources is predicting the
economy will expand by 2.8 per cent
stronger
growth than the 2 to 2.5 per cent
forecast by many other economists: ~

centrated in the first quarter,” Vasic
Therefore, the Bank of Canada,

interest
rates high to ease inflationary pres-

By ROB CARRICK
The Canadian Pre

88

Lois and Greg decided to buy a few odds and
ends for their home last year. -

They got a stereo, a freezer stocked with food, a
table and 18 books and tapes from a mail-order
service. They also took’out a loan to buy a used car.

When it was all over, they'd racked up an
estimated $10,000 debt and paying it off ‘was
swallowing Greg's entire salary as an assistant
manager ata tire store.

“We were behind on a lot of payments, and the
phone and cable were cut off,” recalls Lois, 26, who
asked that her surname not be used. “The freezer
people, they actually sent court papers to us.”

People foundering in debt have two basic
options, credit experts say.

They can let things slide and risk legal action
that might result in a percentage of their salary
being sent to creditors each pay day. Or they can get
help from their bank or the credit-counselling
services sponsored by most provincial governments
and the United Way.

Fearing eviction because her rent was in
arrears, Lois visited Coping In Tough Times, a free
Toronto counselling service that teaches people how
to pay off their debts by budgeting their income.

“We never really budgeted our money all that
well,” Lois says. “We never kept a file on anything,
so the bills were scramlbed all around the house.”

At another. agency, the Credit Counselling
Service of Metro Toronto, clients are helped to
devise a budget by listing their living expenses, then
subtracting that amount from their take-home pay.

At Coping In Tough Times, Lois was taught to
make a list of her debts and draft a schedule for
repayment that will ensure she and Greg pay all
their debts off in three years.

She then made arrangements with her creditors
to pay them back bit by bit.

Gerhelp for
debts, experts say

“As long asa person is making a sincere effort to
pay, most creditors are willing to do this,” says Janet
Matthews, one of the 54 volunteer staffers at Tough
Times.”

MOST WILL AGREE

Admitting your debt problems to your banker
and creditors — and professing your desire to work
out a payback plan — may be the single most
important move in resolving your situation, the
experts say.

Tom Delaney, a personal finance consultant,
advises people with debt troubles to assemble all
their bills and pay a visit to their bank's loan
manager.

“Level with him,” Delaney says. “Then ask to
negotiate a loan to consolidate all your debts and
obligations.

“You'd also have to virtually surrender your
credit cards — in effect, cut them up right in his
office.”

As any credit expert will point out, all credit
cards carry an interest rate that is several points
higher than a consumer loan at a bank or trust
company.

For example, the Bank of Montreal's Mastercard
carries a rate of 18.95 per cent. Department store
cards can run as high as 24 per cent.

LOAN RATE LOWER

Consolidating a gaggle of credit-card debts into
one $3,000 consumer loan. at the Bank of Montreal
would carry an interest rate around 15 per cent, said
spokesman Lou Kwasnycia.

Coming clean with your bank also applies to any
outstanding loans you have, says Gordon Pape, a
Toronto-based writer and on personal
finance.

“If you've got a loan you can’t make a payment
on, the classic advice is to go talk to your bank
manager,” Pape says. “It shows you're acting in good
faith and have every intention of paying the loan.”

Weekly stocks

VANCOUVER (CP) — Prices were
up in active trading Friday on the
Vancouver Stock Exchange. Volume
at close was 17,110,512 shares.

Of the issues traded, 309 advanced,

average of 30

close at 3,389.99 for a gain of 23.99
points over the week.

In New York,
industrials,

the Dow Jones 48Y:” he said.

“The market was up, but with the
exception of gold it was another quiet

sures, will not likely allow rates to

ease until after the first quarter of

the year when it's certain the

economy has cooled off, he explained.
MOVES UP?

Interest’ rates could move up by
more than a quarter of a point early
in 1989, Vasic said, adding that once
economic growth has slowed, rates
could drop up to 1.5 percentage
points.

Interest rates are at a pear
three-year high. The Bank of CAnada
rate Thursday rose marginally to
11.19 per cent from 11.17 per cent a
week ago.

The marginal increase in the trend.
setting rate was not expected to have
any immediate impact on other
interest rates, though many econom.
ists say rates will likely move up
early in 1989.

Rocca d'Angela, economist with
the investment firm Burns Fry Ltd.,
cautioned against reading too much
into the one month's economic
growth figures from Statistics Can
ada, but added that “it does seem
there's a slowdown.”

The figures show the slowdown in
October was in the goods-producing
sector where output fell by 0.2 per
cent. The value of services provided,
meanwhile, increased by 0.3 per cent.

Among services, only wholesale
trade declined while most of the
strength came from retajl trade, up
0.8 per cent, and community, per-
sonal and businesses services, which
rose by 0.6 per cent.

On the goods-producing side, man-
ufacturing output declined by 0.3
cent, with much of the weak:
coming from electrical product manu-
facturers while there was a cut in oil
and gas exploration and develop-
ment.

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174 declined and 558 were unchanged
for a VSE index of 792.72, up 9.56
from Thursday's close.

Stock prices rose in quiet trading
in Toronto on Friday but dropped in
new York as the year came to a close
on both exchanges.

The Toronto Stock Exchange's 300
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points over the two previous days,
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