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The cast includes Voight, Erie Roberts, Rebecca De- Mornay, Wallace Shawn and Kenneth McMillan. The plot has Voight and Roberts mak- ing a daring escape from a northwest prison. They find themselves on a train hurt. ling out of control, with the authorities in pursuit. After locations in Montana and Alaska, Train LAND OF O72 . . . Dorothy and The Tin Woodman trom The Magical Land of Oz, a family stage show coming to the Castle Theatre June 20, sponsored by the Castlegar Rotary Clu! The 1% hour musical show is based on stories about the Land of Oz and features Dorothy, the Wizard, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion. DIRECTOR RICHARD DONNER is filming close shots of the railroad race in Hollywood's Pan Pacific Auditorium, of all places. That's the long-deserted art-deco palace that once housed auto shows and hoc- key matches. Now it's used by film companies while awaiting promised restora- tion. Voight, looking rugged with a Fu Manchu moustache and wind-burn makeup, climbed down from the en gine cab during a break in filming. His last film was Table for Eight, produced by his own company two years ago. “It did not do great bus iness,” the actor said, “though I'm not sure why. But it has performed well in video rentals and on pay television.” Table for Eight paralleled Voight’s own situation as a divorced father trying to maintain a relationship with his children. Voight has devoted much time to the children of his second marriage, Jamie, 11, and Angie, 9. At times, his acting career had to come second. Voight spent last year get ting his own life in order. “I don’t remember how long it was, but I decided to quit working for a while and do some hard work on my self,” he said. “I needed to get some things done in the psychological area, work through some areas of my life that needed help. HAPPY 50th HARRY June 7... June 7 from 7-9 p.m. Everyone 1s welcome ws The Art Council's Presentation Series is featuring Doolee McDonald of Trail. Her collection of paintings will be at the Homestead Soup ond Sandwich Shoppe during the month of June. Opening night is on June The Art Council's Annual General Meeting will be held ot the Castlegor Primary School at 7:30 p.m. Items for this bi-monthly feature should be telephoned to Lynda Carter of the Castlegar Arts Council at 365-3226. CASTLEGAR SAVINGS CREDIT UNION He won't be pigeonholed BURBANK, CALIF. (AP) — From the medieval Lady- hawks to the magical The Goonies to a wild Cyndi Lauper music video, Richard Donner proves he is a film- maker who refuses to be pig: eonholed. He's the man who directed the first Superman epic and the first version of The Omen. In demand as a maker of big adventures, he turned around and filmed the small. seale drama, Inside Moves. During the past two years, Donner was occupied with medieval fantasy about spell. bound lovers who became a hawk and a wolf by night, and a Steven Spielberg romp about seven young people in search of adventure. Then, just to show he can swing with the times, he cranked out his video for the carrot haired rocker Donner talkes about his wide-ranging projects in his office at the Burbank Studios a spacious room whose walls are jammed with mementoes from movies past. A New Yorker who graduated from off-Broadway acting and epi sodie TV directing (Wanted: Dead or Alive, Kojak), he is a beefy, gregarious man with a voice that can command huge movies sets. Ladyhawks has been re. leased to reviews that ranged from ecstatic to derogatory. Some i s i “This wasn't a swords-and- sorcery movie like Krull or Excalibur. I wanted the lov ers to live in a prettified world. The same with the music. I didn’t want a classi cal score; instead I asked Andrew Powell to write rock music with classical over- tones.” Ladyhawks was filmed in Italy for about $20 million with a cast headed by Mat thew Broderick, Rutger Hauer and Michelle Pfeiffer. Donner filmed Goonies in Oregon and Hollywood with unknown actors. “Steven (Spielberg) and I have known each other for years, mostly in passing,” said Donner. “I always used to tell him, ‘I really enjoyed your films when I was a kid.’ Donner is a few decades older than Speilberg. “Last September, Steve called me and said one of the ideas he had had for a long ime has been put into a script by Chris Columbus,” Donner said. “Would I read it? I read it that night and loved it. The movie seemed easy to do, and I said yes, not knowing what I was getting into.” The Goonies concerns sev en teen-agers in a northwest town who engage in an ad venture that takes them into a magical world. Donner's first problem was casting the the film was an antiseptic view of the Middle Ages. WANTS LOVE STORY “It is not a period piece,” Donner said. “I did research into the medieval period and found that it would be dis. tasteful: plagues, blights, no- body bathed. I wanted to tell a love story about people in a beautiful world. I purposely used warm colors to create the effect of a Caravaggio painting. Sponsored by seven youngsters. “The Ore gon locations were fairly easy,” he said. “The kids were wonderful; they infused me with their energy. But when we came back to the studio and started filming the underground portions, it be- came very tough. “At one point there were four different directors, in. cluding Steve himself, to get the sequence done in time for the summer release. The only saving grace was the kids themselves. I never had kids of my own, and they became like my family.” Even so, Donner needed to get away from kids and shooting schedules, and he left for his house on Maui as soon as The Goonies finished. “On my first day there, a neighbor lady asked if I could take her to the village,” Donner recalled. “I did, and it seemed to me she was taking an uncommon time to finish her errands. When I got back home, I found 60 people on my doorstep! As a joke, Steven had sent all the kids, their parents, teachers and friends.” Cyndi Lauper visited The Goonies set and had so much fun she agreed to record a song, Goonies Are Good Enough. Donner then agreed to direct her in the music video. “It was a whole new world for me,” he admitted. “On the first day we did 66 setups (camera angles) compared to 15-16 for a feature film. I made two videos in three days, and it was one of the best exhaustions I've ever had.” Burnett tries her hand at writing NEW YORK (AP) At age 51, after a divorce and surgery to correct an over bite, Carol Burnett is trying to launch a career as a writer while turning over a new leaf in show business. Burnett, recently inducted as the youngest member in the Television Hall of Fame by the Academy of Arts and Sciences, is writing a memoir called One-Oh-Two, named after the Hollywood room where she lived as a child with her maternal grandpar. ents. She said she underwent oral surgery to correct the “buck-teeth and receding chin” that she said had given her a life-long ugly duckling complex, says the June issue of McCall's magazine. “It's made me feel better to have a chin, period,” she said. “T'm not afraid to show my profile on the sereen any more.” { ¢¥> Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 170 WHEEL OF FORTUNE 'REAL' TOP TV SHOW Quick: Name the most successful show on television. Dynasty? The Cosby Show? Dallas? Not even close. Together, those three top-rated network shows appear on perhaps 64 million television screens each week. That's not even in the same league as the top show, which each week appears 85 million times on home television sets. The really big show is Wheel of Fortune, (ch. 7, weeknights, 7 p.m.), with its affable host, Pat Sajak. Introduced in 1983 as a syndicated version of a game show that had been on NBC's daytime schedule since 1975, Wheel of Fortune has rolled over and crushed all competition. Because it is a syndicated show, sold on a city-by-city basis to independent and network-affiliated stations, Wheel of Fortune does not compete in the weekly Nielsen ratings race, which only applies to network prime-time shows. If it did, each of the five weekday broadcasts of Wheel of Fortune would probably place among the top 20 shows in the weekly ratings. This astonishing success has had a side effect: It has changed its syndicator, King World, from a mom-and-pop company into a hot stock. King World went public late last year at $10 a share; the price currently is running about $26 a share. Both versions of Wheel of Fortune are produced by Merv Griffin Productions; the daytime network version is done in association with NBC and 20th Century-Fox. What accounts for this breakaway performance by a revamped version of an old show, based on a carnival wheel and the old children's game of Hangman? “It's a classic game show,” said Stuart Hersch, King World's executive vice president and chief operating officer. “It gets the audience involved, it's a puzzle that people pay attention to, and there's also the element of chance. It takes skill and intelligence to play it.” “It's a universal theme,” said Carole Lieberman, an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at UCLA who practives in Malibu and Beverly Hills and often serves as an adviser to television shows. “The game show asks the same questions we always ask ourselves: ‘What do I get? What am Ientitled to? What can I get if I work harder? Am Im lucky? Games shows are a way of playing out and testing hypotheses.” But figuring out why Wheel of Fortune succeeds while most game shows fail is as difficult as determining which crazy costume will get a contestant on Let's Make a Deal. What makes a game show a success? “Those of us who have been in the business for a long time would say that it should have elements in it that allow the audience to participate,” said Jerry Chester, executive vice president of Goodson-Todman Produc. tions. “A good game show should be constructed dramatically, with tension and climax. The reason for big prizes is that they add tension, not greed. It's a cluster of different elements that lead to its success.” Chester, whose company has made game shows since the early days of television (What's My Line? and The Price is Right are two), said that the shows are very subtly crafted. But it is the game that makes or breaks a show, according to Chester. “A good emcee can definitely enhance a show, but a good emcee can't make a success of a show that isn’t good. Also, a good show can succeed with a weak emcee.” Another reason for the enduring appeal of game shows, said Chester, is that they share certain elements with sporting events. “Football doesn't change its format, yet it remains popular,” he said. “There is competition and an uncertain outcome. “The show certainly made the American dream come true for its distributor. King World was founded in 1964 by Charles King and his wife, Lucille, to distribute television programs. For most of its corporate life, it lived in a small office on Morris Avenue in Summit, N.J Virtually all of King World's inventory and revenue was concentrated in a single property: The Little Rascals. The company owned, and continues to own, 101 episodes of the series, whose age can be judged by the fact that some are never shown because they were silent pictures. The-Little Rascals proved to be a durable property, bringing in money year after year. By 1982, King World was in the hands of the five King children, of whom four were actively engaged in running the company. In 1983, the new generation of Kings, particularly Roger and Michael (company chairman and president, respectively) began to make things happen. They hired Hersch, now 34, a lawyer who had handled legal work for the King family and company for several years. And they agreed to distribute Wheel of Fortune for Merv Griffin Productions. GIANT CASH BINGO Castlegar Aquanput Swim Club is having an ALL PAPER CASH BINGO Saturday. June | at Castlegar Community Complex. Two $1,000 jackpots and over $6,000 in cash prizes. Early Bird 6 p.m, regular bingo 7 p.m. Advance tickets, $10, available at Wool Wagon. Macleods, Central Food and Kel Print, 440 WOMEN'S AGLOW Meeting will be held June 5, 10:30 a.m. at the Fireside Mary Von Arsdale from Spokane will be the guest speaker and singer. All women welcome. Babysitting will be provided 243 FAMILY NIGHT OUT Featuring spaghetti dinner ot the Robson Hall, Friday May 31 from 4 to 7 p.m. Bean jar, cake rattle. door prizes Everyone welcome. Adults $5 per plate, children 12 and under $3. Sponsored by Robson Recreation 341 ANNUAL MEETING Castlegar and District Home Support Services Association, at the Legion Hall. M. June 10. 7-30 p.m. Reports and elections. Public invited. Refreshments 5.42 Dancing 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m OPEN AT 12 NOON SIX DAYS A WEEK. Proper Dress Fri. & Sat. after 9 p.m. Guests Must Be SIGNED In Playing Fri. & Set. “KALEIDOSCOPE” THURSDAY BINGO L.A. CATERING & HALL RENTAL Columnbio Ave LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ted Danson leaped from a second-storey window to the cab of a pickup truck, fell on the hood, clambered into the truck bed, then fell to the pavement as the truck sped away. Except that it wasn't Ted Danson. A stuntman double performed the trick while Danson stood by and agon- ized with every bump. The scene was being staged at a hilltop mansion for a new movie, A Fine Mess, and no way was director Blake Ed- wards going to risk his star. Danson, the affable bar- keeper of NBC-TV's Cheers, is using his off-season to capitalize on his television fame. He and Howie Mandel of St. Elsewhere are starring as an updated Laurel and Hardy in A Fine Mess, inspired by the piano- delivery classic, The Toy Scott Viva Paper Towels Assorted. Case Roll a D 99 Facial Tissue Box of 200 . 9g Bat Assorted. Case of 12 Purex hroom Tissue $988 Box. With only a kend between, Danson then joins Mary Tyler Moore, Sam Waterston and Christine Lahti in Something in Com- mon. “I'm like a hungry kid in a candy store,” said the ath- letic 37-year-old Danson d ing a break in the shoot. “I hope it hasn't come too late. Sometimes I wonder if I'm on the downward arc. I feel like a pair of jeans that have finally achieved the right kind of texture — except that holes are beginning to appear in the knees.” He was serious. His con- cern wasn't simply because of the flood of actors in their teens and 20s who have risen to prominence in youth- oriented movies. His feelings of mortality were heightened by the death last February of Nick Colasanto, the endear- ingly dense Coach of Cheers, who suffered a fatal attack after retuning from hospital treatment for a heart ail ment. “Nicky's death was not a surp! , but it was still a shock,” said Danson. “He was the first person close to me that I have lost — and when you spend eight hours a day rehearsing with someone, you do become close. I still can't believe he's gone. “I fell in love with acting while I was in college, but I was kind of a slow starter,” Danson said. “I was 28 before I really committed myself to making it a profession.” Cable 10 TV CABLE 10TV Thursday, May 30 6:00—Sign-on and program information. 6:02—Beaver Valley Days Variety Show — This event took place Thursday, May 23. As a prelude to Beaver Valley's annual cele bration 8:00—Dr. David Suzuki — speaking on the topic Toward the Year 2000 the Challenge for Ed- ucation. This program was taped in Pentic ton during the 1984 annual principal's con- vention. 9:15—The Trail Chamber of Commerce — Ralph Disabato and Victor Sparati, two Shaw Ca- ble volunteers, ask a number of questions concerning the loca- tion of the chamber office during a “Man in the Mall” interview session 9:30—Violence in the Fam ily — A continuing ed. ucation. sponsored seminar with psychol- ogist Dale Trimble. 10:30—Sign-off. Frying Chicken Drumsticks Previously Frozen. 52" /kg .. tb. 99° Snow Star Ice Cream Assorted Flavours litre Pail White Rose. California Grown. No. 1 Grade. 55° kg . 399 B.C. Granulated Sugar 10% qos Kraft Parkay Margarine 52° Fresh! Grade A or Utility. $216 6 2; SVE Whole Frying Chicken _ 98° Homog Style. New Crop Potatoes 451° For more savings see Flyer in last Sunday's paper. Prices effective through Saturday, June 1 in your friendly, courteous Castlegar Safeway Store. 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