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Deadlines + and 5 p.m. Mondays tor Wednesdays Notices should be brought to the Castlegar News at 197 Columbia Ave COMMUNITY Bulletin Board with diverse i of By CLAUDETTESANDECKI Staff Writer The man in’the publicity photo is deliberately posed, eyes hidden by dark glasses, clothes black and severe A rock star, sullen and worldly But the voice on the other end of the telephone -line is warm, open, genuine the voice of a young Canadian who was nervous recording his first album and who can be fresh and unaffected even while on his 25th media interview intwodays Colin James's voice isn’t all that spoils the image so carefully created by a photographer He says he loves to watch old Bing Crosby movies “because they're so awful,’’ he likesto play tenhis so he can pretend to be Dean Martin and he wan tsto meet Sammy Davis Jr Nor does his music fit the top-40 mould. His debut album, Colin James, released last year, runs the gamut from hard-driving rock to smoky blues and haunting soul. And how would James handle super-stardom? I'd probably drive off a cliff,” he deadpans before breaking. into laughter James is making it in the world of rock — his CASBY (Canadian Artists Selected by You) and Juno awards and his fecord five-day sell-out of the Commodore in Vancouver last year at test to that — but he’s not taking the drum machine and synthesizer route favored by teen-idol rockers Mention Tiffany and James has trouble finding enough words to properly describe how much he detests her music His influences include people and sounds Tiffany probably hasn't heard of, such as bluesmen Jackie Wilson, Otis Rush and Magic Sam, as well as the '6Us folk music his parents listened to and his older brother's collection of Jimi Hendrix music Wise LOS ANGELES (AP) has become the hottest show in prime Wiseguy time It’s also the hippest guest shot on TV. The current storyline, about the recording industry, guest stars rock stars Glenn Frey and Deborah Harry, cult. actor Tim Curry (The Rocky Horror Picture Show) and Don John On May Ist Desmond Johnson turns titty something GOTCHA DES! Round 2 to Fort McMurray WE ARE A FULL SERVICE TRAVEL AGENCY SENIOR’S DISCOUNT CROSS CANADA TOUR September | to October 1/'89 See the beautiful parade of colours all across Canada SENIORS 8-DAY TOUR VANCOUVER-VICTORIA May 29 to June 5/'89 All transportation and accommodations $465 ea. /dbli occp. Grand Ole Opry “NASHVILLE TOUR" September 15 to October 2/'89 FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL HENNE TRAVEL 1410 Bay Ave., Troit 368-5595 WEST'S TRAVEL 1217-3rd St 365-7782 DOSE OF THE BLUES . bluesmen such as Jac! . Canadian musician Colin James lists Wilson and Otis Rush among his influences, helping set him apart from other top-40 rockers. And James isn’t trying to cash in on the current trend of “message” rock a la U2, although he says he’s written a song called How in God's Name, about the atrocities committed in the name of God He says he doesn't like songs that ‘hit you"’ with a message “Iv’s hard to write those kinds of songs without sounding preachy,"” he says. “*IU’sa tine line.” James also dislikes “*mushy"’ love uy hot son’s former girlfriend Patti D’Ar banville An-earlier—storyline lured Jerry Lewis into a rare television role. Tony winner Ron Silver (Speed-the-Plow) played Lewis’ son The atterition is welcome — for now but the pitfalls of being anointed as hot is not lost on the show's producer-writers, Steve Kronish and David Burke When you get too cool, you can get cold,’’ said Kronish, sitting in Burke's office in the Stephen Cannell Produc tions building in Hollywood, a long songs and he says he tries to put something more than sad lyrics in the love songs he writes, such as the yet unreleased Dark Clouds Come Rolling In ‘I's a sad song, but it'll also puta shiver in you and make your hair stand up.” He’s still nervous about his writing, he says, Which may be why his favorite song on the album is a Morgan Davis tune called Why'd You Lie. But he way from Vancouver, where Wiseguy is filmed Kronish said he and Burke plan to avoid big-name stars in the future and return to the obscure, offbeat casting that impressed the industry and TV critics alike when the show premiered jast season on CBS The first storyline rejuvenated Ray Sharkey’s career. Then, unknowns Kevin Spacey and Joan Severance made a splash as an incestuous brother-sister crime wave in a second storyline Another of last season's guest stars was °60s Andy Warhol film Shrimp SEE *vellable Monday to Saturda} PH. 365- 815s ies April Special Value of He 90 for only $8.95! 4-8 p. AGCEPT WESTAR, CELGAR & COMINCO MEAL TICKETS 2for 1 Platter m. Eat in onl Bring a Friend. Qe 1004 Columbia Ave., Castlegar —LICENCED DINING ROOM— D. BAR-D DINING LOUNGE OPEN 4 P.M. 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Classes will be music quickly adds he also likes Voodoo Thing, a song he wrote and the first single off the album James, 23, who was born and raised in Saskatchewan, says he loves Canada but doesn’t like the nationalistic at titude of many Canadian artists “Music has no borders,"’ he says, “sand if it does, it’s purely by chance,”” James dropped out of school in Grade 10 and says he’s been on the road since he was 13, playing firstwith “old hippies’? and then with a punk band at 16, acting in theatre troups, playing for change in subways, teaching guitar on Indian reservations and turning on to blues. Out of the swirl of sounds he was immersed in came the blues/rock/soul sound that is now his own Then in 1984, he got what a press release describes as.a ‘fluke gig" as a last-minute fill-in opening act for Stevie Ray Vaughan. Vaughan was impressed enough with the young singer to keep in touch and a year later Vaughan asked James to join him on a U.S. tour Based in Vancouver for the last five years, James is currently living in a hBtel because he’s ‘between houses” and he and his band of four have just returned from France. They're now touring Canada After that there's a possible tour of Europe with Vaughan and new songs to be written fora second album James has just writien a song called Take The L. Out Of Love which is as silly as the title sounds. Is it going to be on the new album? “God, I hope not,” he says with a laugh And does he have anything else planned? I'mgonna have fun, man Colin James will perform May 7 at the Castlegar Complex. Doors open at 6 p.m, Tickets are $17, available at the usual outlets, in prime time veteran Joe Dallesandro. Wiseguy is something of a distant cousin of Miami Vice. Burke co-wrote the pilot of Crime Story for Miami Vice executive producer Michael Mann. While still overseeing Wiseguy, Burke and Kronish found themselves with another series at_ midseason, NBC’s Unsub, about a crack federal forensic unit Paul Monas, an attorney friend of Burke, had come up with the idea a couple of years ago. Burke mentioned it to Cannell, but other projects ensued and Burke forgot about it. Ata lunch last fall With NBC Entertainment president Brandon Tartikoff, Cannell offhandedly pitched Unsub. The show was on the air three months later Unsub was a modestly successful midseason replacement. Wiseguy, meanwhile, fas begun to catch on CBS, picking up on the cult status of the show, has launched an: aggressive ad campaign Burke and Kronish are hoping, though, that the show is not a mega hit “Maybe the fact that it isn't does give us a certain amount of freedom to do thing’ that a hit show might not be able to do,” said Kronish “L think the people who like Wiseguy like it because we've done things that are relatively unexpected, and | think we deal with the sort of gray areas of these characters’ lives that @ lot of episodic TV doesn’t deal with. I think that we haven't been a hit in terms of big numbers was a.benetit in terms of being left alone to do what we want,” said Burke found this year, particularly following the Very Lewis-Ron Silver storyline), we suddenly were being watched a lot more closely by everybody, the network, people out there who watch the show in general, and the question of, can we do that? became one that started getting asked, and it was never asked before." ROSE'S RESTAURANT IS NOW OPEN saszapag sol To Serve You 7 Days a Wi MONDAY MORNING SPeCIAL -Pancakes $1.99 Mon. Night Singles Dinner $6.95 (Open fo Everyone) JOIN US EVERY MONDAY NIGHT FOR OUR INTERNATIONAL DINNERS 500" in on the Slocon Valley Junction Fully Licenced *