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See * End of the Line; APPEARING LIVE! At the Hi Arrow Motor Inn THURS., SEPT. 17 Doors 8:30 p.m. Also Appearing: The Missing Link JACKSON MAKES BAD SOUND GOOD By TIM O'CONNOR Canadian Press Michael Jackson is a lot like that guy in high school who was 80 good, he was sickening: he's smart, he's the best dancer around, a real looker and he seems to excel at everything, Well, the gifted one has excelled again with Bad (CBS). And that’s surprising, because if there was ever a time when he would be revealed as a mere mortal, it would be now. Consider the pressure: no one has ever had to follow up a record that sold 88.5 million copies worldwide — 1982's Thriller. Basically, Bad is good. No, Bad is excellent. Whether it’s as good as Thriller — an LP justifiably hailed as a classic — it's impossible to decide.after only a few listens. Jackson is so ahead of his time, it takes a while for everyone else to catch up. The first thing that stands out about Bad is the increased use of electronics — out of 10 songs, only one has bass guitar. Most songs have a rich bed of electronic drums and pulsing synthesizers. HAS WARM FEEL Despite the gizmos, the interplay of various sounds gives it a modern but warm feel. On the title track, jazzy Hammond organ dances atop burbling synthesizers and street-level wah-wah guitar. And the lyrics are much tougher. The LP’s first line is “Your butt is mine, gonna tell you right.” His writing is darker, more menacing and much more sensual. Smooth Criminal is about a bloody attack on a woman in her apartment. Dirty Diana portrays the desperation of a groupie: “I'll be the freak you can taunt.” In The Way You Make Me Feel, he lusts after the “pretty baby in high heels.” It proves Janet wasn't the only one to get the hormones in the Jackson family. With the exception of the sappy I Just Can't Stop Loving You, Bad is grittier right down to the album jacket with marble-faced Jackson in a black outfit with more chrome than a ‘59 Buick. The similarity to Thriller is the wide diversity of styles. There's something here for everyone, including blistering funk-rock (Bad), sensual R and B (Liberian Girl), booming disco (Smooth Criminal) and gleeful boy-girl pop (Just Good Friends, a duet with Stevie Wonder). VOCALS STAR Even serious music listeners who consider Jackson manufactured tripe will marvel at Speed Demon, a funky sizzler with a bass part that’s trickier than the hippest jazz fusion. It’s one of the few bits of instrumental flash — there are no hot players like guitarist Eddie Van Halen. Bad didn't need them. Jackson's vocals are the star. Not the sound itself really, but the delivery. He once again proves that no pop singer can touch him for pure musicality and the ability to portray everything from hate to love utterly convincingly. The 29-year-old has immaculate timing, intuitive rhythm and uncanny insight into melody. He doesn't just sing; he plays his voice like an instrument. To great effect, he uses nearly undetectable squeals, punctuating hoots and snatches of breath. ROARING GOOD FUN .. . Nelson fireman Bob Slade gives a shower to three adult lions Tuesday. The big cats are the stars of Klass Act, appearing this week ai Nelson's Chahko-Mika Mall. A six-meml ber travelling statt accompanies the Bengal tigers and African lions on appearances in shopping malls in Canada and the U.S CosNews Photo by Dionne Kootnikott Sponsored by Robson River Otters Sept. 19 NO ADVANCE TICKETS Tickets at the Door $9.00. Arena Complex Payout EARLY BIRDS 6 p.m. © REGULAR GAMES: 7 p.m. Upstairs in Trail’s Towne Square Lic.'s 58525, 60671, 57767, 58836, 58084, 62219 PLAY FOR A TRIP FOR 2 TO RENO PLUS $400 CASH EVERY'NIGHT! nze Pot 'O Gold, 58's or less. Wed., Sept. 16 Increase | No. per nl night for $800 if not won! $1 JACKPOT PAYOUTS §VERY FRIDAY. $1 EXPRESS PAYOUTS EVERY SUNDAY. 651-18th Street Tickets $9 Advance 365-7282 $10 at the Door AVAILABLE AT: Pete's TV, Costiegor Ubre Music, Treil GORY MOVIES Editor's Note — If it's gory, raunchy, tacky and cheap, the movie is likely to be a Troma production. There are no pretenses at this studio housed in a Hell's Kitchen tenement, the one that gave filmdom The Toxic Avenger and other exploitation masterpieces, the one where a pet rat named Joyface plays on the threadbare carpet. BY JERRY SCHWARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK — In one scene in the Troma film The Toxic Avenger, the hero — a hulking green fellow who is covered with boils and slime — makes fast work and fast food of three murderous cretins in a restaurant. One is baked in a pizza oven. Another has his head turned into a milkshake. The third screams as his fingers are french-fried. Excessive? Well, yes, but the Toxic Avenger is an excessive. guy. He leaves an alleyway littered with eyeballs and bone marrow, a scene that the town police chief calls, “The most gruesome thing I've ever seen.” Exeruciating gore, dumb horror, low-budget in. genuity — it's a textbook example of the Troma touch, the touch that has made the company a leading producer of exploitation films that revel in cheesiness. Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz, two wise guys who spin their escapist fare from a tenement adjoining a boarded-up fish store in New York's Hell's Kitchen are “film nuts.” Horror fare thrives Herz, boys. Troma also knows that multiplex theaters owners want low-priced movies that will do good business for a week or two until Rocky XV arrives. Troma specializes in pre-production work. Every 38 speaks slowly and Kaufman, 40 sounds precisely like Mel Brooks. INCLUDES TITLES Troma films have titles like Class of Nuke’ Em High, Demented Death Farm Massacre . . . Teenage T.V. Terrorist, Zombie Island Massacre, Sizzle Beach, USA and Fat Guy Goes Nutzoid. “We want to provide low-budget movies to what we perceive to be existing, set audiences,” The Troma braintrust knows that there are people who will go to a movie in which some poor soul is dissected by a maniacal sushi chef, or in which curvaceous females expose their breasts while humiliating teen-age sincerely, while The Movie, I was a Kaufman says. scene is on the cost of shooting. Most of Troma’s work is done on location. The Troma system means the company, which is privately held and releases few figures, nearly always makes money. The Toxic Avenger cost $1 million to make, far less than the average Hollywood feature. So far it has brought in $15 million. pe to cut down Hill climbs pop charts again HALIFAX (CP) — After a painful decline into obscurity, Dan Hill, the sultan of senti- mental pop, has regained the Midas touch in recording. In 1977, at the age of 22, Hill became a pop music star with his smash-hit ballad, Sometimes When We Touch. But the Toronto singer's reliance on slow-paced, lyri- cal tunes quickly fell out of favor. As his career faded, he took up novel writing and by 1984 he was touring the LEGION Maritimes with pianist John Sheard because he couldn't get a record contract. Now, a decade after his first big hit, Hill has opened a seven-city Canadian tour at a local rock club, the Misty Moon, after once again climb- ing the charts with another big ballad, Can't We Try, and a new album simply called, Dan Hill. On a mid-week night, the “Countrymen” Guests must be signed in Proper dress after 9 p.m Open Monday fe » Thursday Te. a.m. Friday & Senerday neon - 365- 7017 ABA Records & Tapes, Nelson AECEONNS cy w "aie Ce 0 Minimum *10 HO FRILLS BIRD DOG SPECIAL Friday, Sept. 18 Blackout sparse crowd at the Misty Moon listens intently to Hill sing about unrequited love and passion, accompanied by a tight five-piece band. Although he appears to be misplaced in this late-night rock den, Hill tells the crowd “I like this, this is human, this is not like an arena or stadium.” At 83, his long locks are clipped to short curls and, although he's got a rockier sound, his persona is that of the gentle man. The climax of the evening is an intense, fist-clenched version of Gan't We Try, with back-up singer Corrine Plomish. “When I got ready to NOW SHOWING! THUR) aco aC ‘isl7 108) eh RTIN _DARYL HANNAH record again, one camp said you should never do ballads and the other camp said you should only do ballads. I said ‘Nuts, I think I'll just do both.’ ” ‘There is heavy irony in the fact that Hill's rise in pop- ularity is based upon anothér soul-searching love song which he wrote after having a disagreement with his wife, Bev. “I stalked off and wrote Can't We Try in a period of a couple of hours on the piano,” he recounted. “She said it was a great song but too heavily weighted to the man’s side, so she wrote the second verse.” Sunday, Sept. 20 Plays all games on Twenty game prograi (MINIMUM PAYOUT 560 isms PLUS $1 OOO sisckor: Moonlight session to follow. Minimum Payout'100 10th Game Sponsored by Kiwanis Lic. #61656 Free tus Tremeportetion Pi we ecore rns Ph. 365-5007 or 365. 1060 Eidorado — ex-Konkin Irty Bird Buliding CLEANING UP .. . C Chamber of C ‘s new JobTrac crew are hard at work fixing up the Pass Creek ball park. Pictured above are: (from left) Kelly Terekoff, Rod Maynard, Duncan Robson, supervisor Paul Strelaeft, Frank Hendriks, chamber president Jim Young and chamber director Luella Andreashuk. — Costews Photo NEW CATEGORIES Robson Fall Fair grows By CasNews Staff The Robson Fall Fair gets underway this weekend with an expanded number of cate- gories. According to Dinah Lutze, president of the Robson Fall Fair Association and chair- man of this year's fair, the number of categories for possible entry has been ex. panded to 152 from last year's 89. She said the fair will in- clude the old divisions such as the garden division, the adult division, which includes everything from knitting and sewing to arts and crafts, and a baking division. But this year Lutze said a new chil- dren's division is being offer- ed which should allow the e family to enter. Children can expect such categories ‘as vegetable people, playdough people, models, drawing contests and baking, to name a few. Lutze said people are ex- pected to bring their entries to Robson Hall Friday even- ing between 4 and 7 p.m. All entries will be judged that evening by 12 local judges who are well known as specialists in their fields. On Saturday, the hall doors will open to the public from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. “People can come in, see what there is, see what the Doukhobor talks set By The Canadian Press After a nine month lull, meetings between govern- ment ministries, Doukhobor factions and CP Rail resumed Tuesday to try to put a permanent end to years of burnings, bombings and nude parades which once plagued the Kootenays. The Kootenay Committee on Intergroup Relations is a government-appointed body which has met on and off for five years. Participants have credited the meetings with reducing the incidents of arson and bombings by bring- ing the Doukhobors’ concerns out in the open. This three-day session in Castlegar will deal with the igsue of communal land S ownership, a principle Douk- hobors hold dear but which has brought them into con- flict with the government in the past. Doukhobors who arrived in Canada with a communal style of life could not re- concile their rejection of materialism with govern- ment insistance on individual land title. A kind of war has been dragging on between mem- bers of the fanatical Sons of Freedom Doukhobor sect and the government and mod- erate Doukhobors for dec- ades, marked by arson, bombings of trains, ineluding one which killed a Doukhobor leader, nude parades to em- phasize the unimportance of material things, mass arrests in the 1960s and hunger strikes. Although the freq of better communication be- tween Doukhobor groups and government. Since their arrival in Can- ada in 1899, the Doukhobors have had a turbulent history. Their religious faith caused them to reject Canadian law on citizenship and land ownership, and also created divisions within their own community. Past of the com- competition is like,” said Lutze. Allitems will be on display inside the hall and people are invited to display additional wares at a farmer's market outside. Lutze said peoplé are al- lowed to set up at the farmer's market’for free in order to sell their wares, but she stressed only homemade goods will be allowed to be displayed. “Just drive up, set up the table, set up the wares and best of luck,” she said. Businesses from Castlegar and the surrounding *area have donated prizes for cate- gory winners. Lutze said she is unable to estimate how many people are expected to enter but she said last year some 60 people entered in over 300 cate- gories. Each entry costs $1. JobTrac funds local projects benefit from the program are the Doukhobor Village, the West Kootenay National Ex- hibition Centre and several’ ients in the province. employment opportunities iy for income assistance recip- Visit the Scenic Slocan Valley! incidents has diminished with the shrinking of the Free- domite sect to only a few hundred from its peak of 2,500, they haven't ended completely. Orthodox Doukhobor leader John Verigin said achieving that goal will be “as great a step forward as ion of mittee have focused on issues such as the loss of Doukhobor land, disputes over who was responsible for ordering acts of arson and i and OFFICIAL OPENING” ‘Saturday, September 19 — 2:00 p.m. © RIBBON CUTTING CEREMONY ¢ PLAQUE & DONOR SCROLL UNVEILING Chairman, Debra Chmara Castlegar and District PUBLIC LIBRARY aie DIGNATARIES: Representing the Province of B.C., Howard Dirks, M.L.A. for Nelson-Creston. M.L.A. Chris D'Arcy, Mayor Audrey Moore, Alderman Terry Rogers and Library Board the removal of children for Doukhobor homes in the 1950s because their parents would not send them to Can- adian schools. the rej by Doukhobors in Czarist Russia. Asked when he be- lieves it will happen, Verigin replied, “if not in our gen- eration, then in the suc- ceeding generation.” Greg Cran, senior program manager for ethno-cultural affairs in the B.C. Ministry of the Attorney General, agreed the situation has stabilized over the last five years, largely because of BEAVER VALLEY FIDDLERS FRI., SEPT. 18 & SAT., SEPT. WESTAR & COMINCO VOUCHERS ACCEPTED. orm Reservations for Private Parties — 368-32 3294 Located one mile south of Weigh Scales in Ootischenio. 19 N 4 PBA. DAILY sizes are limited , Introducing The Castlegar School of Ballet JUDY ROUSSEAU Registration is now being accepted for ballet classes, children ages 3 to 11 and Jazz Dance classes for students + oget 11 to 18. 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