‘ Castlagar News 0x1obe: 15. 1996 ENTERTAINMENT Interested in College of Art Credit Courses? The Emily Carr College of Art and Design and Selkirk College are offering CREDIT COURSES Along with Art History in Castlegar starting January, 1987 . An intormation session presented by Lawrence Lowe (from E.C.C.A.O.) will be held in Castlegar, in the Kinnaird Library Building from p.m. -4p.m.on October 18 FORMER GO-GO WOW SHOWING! WED (THU) [FRE (SAT)[SUN MON {18](19}(20} (TUE) Saw (21) TOM CRUISE KELLY McGILLI: We've gota HOWL ‘OPEN 6 DAYS A WK 12 NOON-2 A. Ly Carlisle on her own By TIM O'CONNOR Canadian Press TORONTO — To the cameras and the crowds, plump Belinda Carlisle looked so darn cute and bubbly, it almost seemed as if she lived on cotton candy and slept on pink balloons. But by 1985, Carlisle knew she was on the verge of becoming another pathetic rock ‘n' roll derelict. For seven years she had been the voice of the Go-Gos's, America's cheerleaders of pop music, and she had become an alcoholic and a drug addict. Carlisle's comeback is a wonder: she's free from drugs and drink, she’s 25 pounds lighter, and she’s not constrained by the image of the defunct Go-Go's. She's also delighted to have genuine hits with the hoppy single Mad About You and her first solo album, Belinda, made with Charlotte Caffey, a former Go-Go and a burn-out herself. “People wrote us off as the Go-Go's least likely to succeed,” said Carlisle, trading glances with Caffey as if to verify the fact. “A lot of people didn't think we'd even survive in life. let alone music. Charlotte and I were in pretty bad shape for such a long time. “People think of musicians as flaky or as drug addicts and when you show up two hours late for a meeting. they just write it off as ‘Oh well, she's.a musician.’ ” Caffey was so far gone that she was once thrown out of Ozzy Osbourne’s dressing room for being, um, too rowdy With a happy Californian pop sound, the Go-Go's were rock's most successful all-girl group to play their own instruments. Carlisle and Caffey's downward plunge is in stark contrast with the wholesome image of the band, whose Beauty and the Beat album was a No. | hit in 1981. Carlisle looks in fine shape this particular Monday morning at 10 a.m. — an ungodly hour for most pop stars — having gone for an early morning run with Caffey around their hotel in downtown Toronto. Instead of the requisite polka-dots and stripes she wore as a Go-Go, she’s in black from toes to nose. She sports a black lace dress, matching sweatshirt and glasses with thick — and rather bookish — frames, propping her feet up on a glass coffee table. Caffey, a spunky blonde in purple denim, leans over Carlisle's chair. The pair — Carlisle, serious and deliberate, and Caffey, smiling and spontaneous — recount how they duped themselves into believing that the life of a wired musician was hip. “We also ignored the problems,” said Caffey. “It seems all very romantic — the whole drug-addict mystique.” Carlisle says. “You think it’s a cool thing. It’s as if you're Brian Jones,” a notorious drug user while he was with the Rolling Stones. He drowned in 1969. After a dispiriting and sloppy Go-Go's performance in Brazil in 1984, Caffey realized that she had hit “definite bottom.” Back home in southern California, she drove herself to a drug rehabilitation clinic where she stayed for a month. “I had to because I was so out-there,” she exclaims, rolling her eyes. “When I got out, Belinda saw the change and we believed she could do it too. We formed a bond right there.” Carlisle said: “I just faced facts that 1 was screwing up.” She entered a rehabilitation clinic, joined Alcoholics Anonymous, started working out regularly, and through all that, lost weight. CLEANED UP The group was still officially together, but the Go-Go's had not progressed since the first album — the second and third albums failed to live up to Beauty and the Beat, both artistically and commercially “There were petty jealousies and lots of ego problems — including me,” Carlisle said. About four months after the concert in Brazil, she and Caffey left the group and it disbanded The duo began work on Carlisle's first album, searching for songs in publisher's catalogues to complement Caffey’s songs. Some of the album sounds like the old band, mainly because Caffey wrote for the Go-Go's. But Carlisle decided to experiment with sounds that wouldn't have fit the mould of the Go-Go's, making “it much easier” to produce exactly what she wanted. Carlisle says it’s a pleasure to have complete control over song selection and album release dates. She also enjoys not having to maintain a happy, bubbly facade. “We can do what we want when we want,” Carlisle says. “It's great to give an honest response instead of saying everything is just wonderful.” So how does she feel about her career now? “Wonderful.” COMMUNI Bulletin Board AUTUMN HARVEST — FALL FASHIONS Monday c ) 7.00 pm in the Activity Room Sponsored by Castiegar >, ee Tickets avorlable ot West s 3 82 HARDANGER EMBROIDERY Hardanger Embrordery Nord Lodge egister phone 365.5596 betore October 20 2 82 Castlega: ROBSON RIVER OTTERS CASH BINGO ot Costiege Sk: & Sp. Food Mart. Admission ot door $9 00 EB 6.00p.m Reg 7.00pm 2 82 CHAMPION BINGO HALL TOWNE SQUARE MALL GUARANTEED $1000 BLACKOUT Thursday, October 16 $100 Cash Door Prize for erved Names by Thursday Noon, October 16! LIMITED 400 SEATS EARLY BIRD 6:30 P.M. REGULAR 7:00 P.M. FOR RESERVATIONS CALL 364-0933 Between 1&9P.M. $20 for $20 Bingo Package entitles you to play all games on the program. ar ee eG rm te feppercorn Oct. 13th thrd 19th THE COMPLETE DINNER New Star Trek series planned LOS ANGELES (AP) — Star Trek; which became a show business legend after its cancellation almost 20 years ago, will return to tele vision next September with a new cast in a first-run syn dicated series. Star Trek: The Next Gen eration will begin with a two- hour first episode. After that, there will be 24 one-hour epi. sodes, Paramount Television Group announced. The new show will adhere to creator Gene Rodden berry's “vision, credibility and approach,” said Deborah Rosen, a spokesman for Para mount. Roddenberry will be executive producer of the series. Full details have not been worked out, but it is antici pated the show will be set a century after the time of Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock and the Enterprise. The original Star Trek was set 200 years into the future. Star Trek made its debut on NBC on Sept. 8, 1966. Almost cancelled at the end of its second year because of low ratings, it remained for a third year, then ended in September 1969. But those original episodes are still broadcast and sta tions carrying the show have bombarded Paramount with requests for new episodes, Rosen said Star Trek has also been made into four big-budget motion pictures, with the fourth due out this Christ mas. Chase checks into Ford drug center RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (AP) — Comedian Chevy Chase has checked into the Betty Ford Center to break his addiction to drugs pre scribed for back pain in curred by his stunt falls, a publicist for the comedian said. JUSTINE’S RESTAURANT Chase, 43, éntered the clinie for drug and alcoho! addiction several days ago, said his publicist, Pat King sley. The painkillers were pre seribed to the comedian to relieve back pain, “the result dating backs to his days on Saturday Night Live,” said Kingsley Gilmour still playing albums By EATON HOWITT Canadian Press TORONTO — The romance with recorded sound started when the son of a music-loving railwayman In Alberta first heard the scratchy strains from a wind-by-hand Victrola. Clyde Gilmour and records have been going around — and around — and around together ever since. But things have changed since those early years in Medicine Hat, reflects Gilmour, 74. The gramaphone has been supplanted by an elaborate sound system. Even the device he uses to clean his dises is worth $1,200. And then there are the records — the floor-to-ceiling, wall-to-wall collection of a lifetime that fills his den. For 30 years this weekend, the genial writer and broadeaster has been sharing the prizes of his personal collection with CBC audiences. The anniversary makes Gilmour's Albums heard Saturday afternoons on the stereo FM network and Sunday on AM — The longest-running one-person show in CBC history. Overall, it becomes the third-longest-run- ning program still on the air, behind Metropolitan Opera and National Hockey League broadcasts. HAS HIS WAY And Gilmour's Albums will have another 30 years to go, if its host has his way. “Quit? Of course I don't intend to quit, I'd be desolated without it — I intend to keep on going.” The program certainly won't be forced off the air by lack of material. Gilmour's record collection has expanded to the point where its owner can only guesstimate its size. The collection is equally impressive for its range of taste. Gilmour likes all kinds of music, from Caruso (Enrico, legendary operatic tenor) to Calonna (Jerry, moustacioed, trombone-blowing sidekick of Bob Hope). The same cheerful mix is a hallmark of the program, which can typically offer almost-forgotten Broadway hits, exceptional classics and mainstream jazz in the space of a half-hour. ‘And while he's equipped with a laser-based compact disc player and all the modern technical paraphernalia, he insists he would never abandon any of the LPs that make up most of his colleetion: “That would be like abandoning a good, old book.” DRAWS FAN MAIL Gilmour's Albums draws fan mail from across the country and all over the world. “There's one letter I cherished — it was in a really sexy handwriting,” he recalls as an old Duke Ellington cut gently fills the room. “It turned out to be from a lady in her 80s who used to go to bed at 9 o'clock and then wake up at 11 to hear my show. She wrote me a second letter that said, ‘I certainly enjoyed you in bed last night.’ ” While records have been a major part of Gilmour's life, they have not been everything. Following overseas service with the navy during the Second World War, he spent most of his working life as a movie reviewer for newspapers across the country. including the- Vaneouver Sun and Province. Opera singer has small town start DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) Opera singer Simon Estes, who grew up in a small town in southeastern lowa, says his obscure background sel- change careers. dom surprises people he “It moved my heart,” meets abroad Estes said. “I loved this type “Luciano Pavarotti was of music. I didn't immediately born in Modena, which is a like it better than other little town in Italy that types. But it was so inter nobody knows about,” Estes esting to me, so beautiful and said during a visit for a 80 challenging.” formance by a school chorus. With the help of some opera recordings, the pro fessor persuaded Estes to concert to help set up $100, 000 US arts scholarship. “