CASTLEGAR NEWS, March 8, 1981

Film- Saker never thinks small

OSSWORD..

By BOB THOMAS

HOLLYWOOD (AP) —
Not the kind of film-maker
who thinks small, Franklin
Schaffner has directed
movics with subjects ranging
from the Russian revolution
to the Second World War.
Now he's using both ancient
aud modern Egypt as a back-

drop,

Hila latest production is
Sphinx, with Lesloy-Anne
Down and Frank Langella
starring in the thriller writ-
ten by Robin Cook.

His credits are impressive:
Planet of the Apes, Patton,
an Academy Award winner,
Nicholas and Alexandra, Pap-
Mlon, Islands in the Stream,
The Boys from Brazil.

Filming Sphinx in the
Cairo Bazaar provided one of
his greatest challenges,

“It was incredibly diffi-

curiously, not dislogue but
more of what I would call
stage directions. They’
wanted the clothes to be
clean. They wanted to elim-
inate a child's eyes covered
with flies.

“Their main concern was to
avoid showing Egypt as a
plice of filth and poverty.
That was all right with me.
Tve seen a lot more filth and
poverty in other places that
Egypt. And I was there for
ambiance, not comment.”

While the international sit-
uation gave the company an-

xious moments — during “

‘production the Russians in- «

tervened in-Afghanistan and
the shah’ of Iran flew to
Egypt from Panama —
film-makers finished their
work without interruption
and moved to Budapest for
interiors.
Why Budapest?

"Because we could save
from three-quarters to a mil-
lion dollars over shooting in
England and Germany,”
Schaffner explained.

Schaffner said ho was at-
tracted to Sphinx because “it
was a good adventure-
romanco, it had a: woman

playing the lead, and it was -

something I had never done
before.”

His next movie is some-
thing new again: a comedy
with music. He is preparing
Yes, Giorgio, whic will mark
the film debut of opera star
Luciano Pavarotti.

Appealing to audiences

y Peter J. Boyer
Los. *ANGELES (AP) —
Network television doesn’t

: have to be low, just commer-

cial. Same thing?

Perhaps. Grant Tinker,
who makes television that is
seldom: low and often com-
merelal, disagrees.

“I've always said that the
{audience's} lowest common
is not so low, {t's

CASTLERSEEN-NEWS

’ attention span not so short,”

E NTERTAINMENT

To play at. Vallican Centre

Spirited and strong, dyna-
mic and haunting — the

a Saskatchowan- ‘based dance
band for a couple of years, it

cult,” he recalled. “Firat we music of Heather Bishop wasn't until 1977 that she

rehearsed the actors as
quickly as possible before a
crowd could gather. Then we

evokes many moods,
She moves with ease from
bitter-sweet blues songs to

committed herself to pro-
fessional music as a solo
performer. Her musical back-

sentinacameraoperatorand those portraying the spirit‘of ground is strong. She has

tmoment,
a:

ii

and we'd be picking people
out of the shot like lifting fish
out of water. By the time we
finished the scene, 1,500 peo-
ple would. be gathered
around, No retakes, no close-
ups. Everything bad to be
done in one shot.”

Sphinx was filmed in Cairo
and Luxor, employing such
rarely photagraphed locales
as the Cairo’ Museum and
tombs of the Valley of the
Kings. Obtaining permissions
from the Egyptian bureauc-
racy was “an enormously
complicated fandango,” said
Schaffner.

REQUESTED CHANGES

“They wanted to-see the
script, of course,” he said.
“They requested changes but

the prairies or the energy,

a lie daily life. Using me
voice, guitar and piano as her
tools, Bishop creates her
captivating music and shares
it with warmth and sincerity.

Bishop, who is a carpenter
and teacher of pre-trades for
women, as well as a member
of Manitoba's Women In
Trades Association, has
toured extensively: across
Canada playing concerts,
campuses and coffeehouses
from coast to coast.

Early in 1979 she released
her first album Grand-
mother’s Song, on the Moth-
er of Pearl label, which has
been very well received and
now has another to her credit
entitled Celebration.

Although Bishop played in

Lust, what affect
on child actors

iw YX
would? it

“If anyone waiked out, I
think they were shoetes by
the. fact~] gs is

harnt a'vhild actress to ie a
child with whom a middle-
aged man — let's call him
Humbert — falls in lust? Such
happens in Lolita, they say.

“I honestly don't think
they'd understand it,” says
Blanche Baker, 24, whose
mother, Carrol] Bakor, earn-
ed some attention in 1956 as
the retarded child-wife in
Baby Doll.

‘The question is academic
now. After auditioning tykes
for the stage version of
Lolita, the producers decided
the nymphet role might best
be played by a grown-up who
can play a sexy child well.

‘That party is Baker. On
March 5, she and Donald
Sutherland, he cast as Hum-
bert, make their Broadway
debuts .in Edward Albee's
drama, which is based on the
novel by Vladimir Nabokov.

- he show caused a bit of
a stir in its Boston tryout
run, what with technical
“difficulties, walkouts by some
patrons shocked at its con-
tent.and the refusal of radio
stations to air a Lolita ad
using the. novel's famous
opening lines: “Lolita, light of
my life, fire of my loins.”

“DEFENDS PLAY

But Baker calls the play

“tasteful.”

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very sensuous,” beige mid,
“It's very straightforward.
But the language is so sen-
suous it really is shocking.”
Baker got into all this
because she dropped out of
Wellesley College in 1976, in
her junior year saying she
preferred acting to biology.
She's sineé appeared at
Yale in Ibsen's Wild Duck, in
film — asa 12-year-old in The
Seduction of Joe Tynan and a
coed in French Postcards —
and has an Emmy for her
work in NBC's Holocaust.
Growing up in a theatri-
cal family, she met many
famous people in theatre and
film. But the one she remem-
bers most, she says, was the
late Harold Clurman, the
director, producer and critic,
“He had a real love for
the theatre, for art and life in
general. He advised me when
Iwas in

many years of ‘training on
piano and guitar and cur-
rently is studying voice.
Also, Bishop has taught piano
and guitar for many years.

Heather Bishop will be
playing the Vallican Whole

Community Centre at 7:30
p.m. on March 15 as part of a
‘Western tour that inclides
Vancouver and Victoria:

Sponsoring the event is
IMAGES, Kootenay Wom-
en's Paper.

says Tinker, head. of Mary
Tylor Moore Productions.
“Maybe I'm just an optimist.”

That optimism was forged

, by such intelligent, broadly

appealing successes as The
Mary Tylor. Moore Show,
WKRP in Cincinnati and Lou
Grant. It is being tested by
the ‘surprisingly cool sudi-
ence reception being encoun-
tered by M-T-M's new cop
show on NEG, Hill Street
Blues,

Here's a. show’ that was
launched by, critical raves
seven months before it was
broadcast, winning plsudits
as the best of the new ‘TV
series shown to the TV Press

at last summer's network
press conventions. Hill
Street-Blues possessed the
qualities certain to win crit-
‘ies’ favor — realistic char-
acters. of ‘some. depth and
passion, and pty that had
something to 53}

But Hill Street Blues had
more, elements that sug-
gested it would have no
trouble finding a broad audi-
ence. It contained certain
soap opera qualities — con-

tinuing romantic: entagle-
ments, for example — and a
couple of characters uncom-
plicated enough to satialy the
broadest predelications. ©

, Hill Street Blues, being a
cop show, had its share of
squealing tires and blazing
guns. It also had the support
of:NBC, which promised to

“We all know that Satur-
‘day night is an unlikely night

| Regina and CFTK led the |

‘ Heather Bishop now on western tour. .

Small can be beautiful

EDMONTON (CP) —
Small can be beautiful, says
John Juliani, a maverick ac-
tor and stage director who
wants to see the Canadian
film industry shun lavish co-
production with Hollywood.

Juliani, an Edmonton res-
ident and veteran of 20 years
in Canadian theatre, is work-
ing on his first feature film,
patton 55, with a budget of

$800,
Thee i he said,

what I wanted to do.”

*I did well in biology but
was interested in drama,
wondering if I should take
theatre courses, He said:
“No, absolutely not, never do
that. People who study only
theatre, theatres “theatre,
have nothing to bring to it if
they decide to become actors.
When they finally. get up on
stage they haven't lived.”

“He told me I should go
to the zoo, go to the museum,
take any course but theatre
in college.

She. “took his advice:
Later though, she studied
with Uta Hagen, the famed
acting teacher.

Baker, who is 5-foot-4
and barely weighs 100

pounds, lost weight to land Canadian films are making
. leals first, films second.

She grinned when asked They say: ‘I got some carrots,

if it kills her to walk past a some celery, some lettuce,

the Lolita role.

pastry shop.

has helped enforce a passion
for the ‘inexpensive, even
though he and his -wife,.
Donna Wong-Juliana, had to
defer their salaries for
months of 14-hour days while
putting | together the film.

“I may fall totally flat on
my face. with Latitude,” | he
said in an interview. 1

“Thave no illusions about it
and just hope I haven't fouled
it up so badly it won't have
earned me the right to a
second crack.

“If everything else fails, all
this proves is that I've tried
to put my money where my
mouth is — about what I
believe about Canadian
things.

“Most of the people in

what will, you give me?’ Ifyou

don’t have a screen play, you

. say, oh well, we'll just get

one written.

“The thing is... they don't
need to make a film, This
year films are in because
they are a tax shelter; next
year-maybe the big deal is in
turnips.”

-Taking on the establish-
ment is not new for Juliani,
40, ‘who has been fighting
such battles for years.
CHALLENGED

He once Robin

ship between an employee of
the Alberta culture depart-
ment and an eccentric, Polish

igrant farmer who drags
her to a cabin during a bliz-
zard. _

‘The script was written by
SharonsRiis of Lac La Biche,
Alta., in collaboration with
Juliani, who also. has the
rights to Riis's novel, The

“True Story of Ida Johnson.

But it could cost, far more
than: Latitude to shoot be-
cause of its complexity.

Phillips to a duel when the
Briton was appointed direc-

Td like to go
pi b something. ‘else really

tor at over a num:
ber of Canadian candidates.

A native of Montreal, Juli-
ani received his formal train-
ing at the National Theatre
Schoél and took jobs at

‘Stratford, at U.S. universi-

Weddings Dances
Clubs , {Cabarete

Phase Four

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442: tenaeee Grand Forks

BCTV among ‘award

winning stations

VICTORIA (CP) — more
than 40 awards for Canidian
television programming were
presented to ‘IV. stations
Tuesday night as the Can-Pro
81 Festival coneluded its
three-day meeting.

The annual festival honors

local program production.
- CITY’ Toronto won the
award for excellence for the
‘program Having a Baby.
CFTK, Terrace, B.C. won
the merit award for Respond:
Code: Three.

BCTV Vancouver, CKCK

winners with three awarda.
each in their respective mar-
kets.

Market A category for sta-
tions with an audience of
morethan 1,300,000, The
awards were for Marathon of

less than 200,000. The
awards were. for Skeena
Journal in the public affairs
series, Mark Twain, In Per-
son in the performing arts
specials cAtegory and Trap-

per Jack and the Lighthouse
Children in’ the children’s

More than 190 programs
were entered in this year's
competition.

BCTV won awards in the

OPEN

Spam. until Midnight
; Monday - rd
International Cuisine
in a Dutch setting

for if cop show," says Tinker.

“Wo tried it with Paris (on -

CBS last year), a classy show
that had James Earl Jones,
‘and it failed. It's yet to be

shown that a cop show can *

succeed on. Saturday night
and we're yet to get our
heads above water with this
one.”

‘Tinker refers to the Sat-
urday night audience's cur-
ious partiality to light enter-
tainment, 4 predilection that
once made’ CBS's Saturday
night:comedy lineup a powel
house and now favors ABC's
Love Boat and Fantasy Is-
land.

“But if we're right, that Is,
if this is really a good show,
then the audiences will find it
and they'll be back,” says
Tinker.

“But we're giving the
audience a little bit of a-hard

looking at.
“And, maybe inner city

problems represent a:threat:

to the audiences. I don't
know._Those elements ma:
be making our climb more of
an uphill one, but those are
the elements that I happen to
like about the show.”
Indeed, too many alter-

ations to the show could ruin _

its tentative balance, as
happened with another

M-T-M series, White Shad-

ow, which didn't endure

changes meant to broaden its -

appeal,

Tues. - Sat.

‘Potpourr! fay answer, In Wednesday’ 's poper. eae

day, beating a

native’ ot of] England who toted

“Hope in'it!
;olvementsectioneB,C;:Sum-
+ mer Games in the sports out-
doors section and Zig Zag in’ -

the children’s series,

CKCK won awards in the
Martket C category for sta-
tions with an audience of
200,000 500,000. The
awards were for Debate in
the instruction series, ‘This
Week ‘in the public affairs
series and Decade of Family
in the community invelve-
ment section.

CFTK took the honors in
thé Market D category for
stations with an audience of

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parents, Adam and ° Eve,
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with your car again and it has

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Yqu're furious! You've: al-

ready had to do without it for

acouple of days and you don’t

want to. be inconvenienced ©

again so soon. The . hefty
repair. bill’ still lies rather
heavily on your mind.”

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‘and still under war-:

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You probably have an advan-
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their help? Be courteous at
all times, advises the auto
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willing to help you.

It is extremely: important.
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on your cheque ts to the garage.
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