‘ i ‘ CASTLEGAR NEWS, January 9, 1983 Korean War ends for cast of 4077 MASH. LOS ANGELES (AF) — Hawkeye, B.J., Hot Lips, Klinger and all the other denizens of the 4077th MASH are packing their duffle bags and heading stateside. After 11 years Sherice; TAE AYE are coming shutting down the Korean runs after that. They're film- War. ing out of sequence, so the It means goodbye to one of last show filmed will not be the most honored and most ' the ‘last one telecast. popular television shows of “It's been a long time and all times. MASH was in the it's a bitterswebt ending,” Top 10 for nine out of the 11 says Burt Metcalfe, the tall, years it was on CBS. It’s on slim, bearded executive pro- the air in reruns morning, ducer. noon and night. It has won “In a way it's like life imi- the Peabody and Humanities tating art. The group of Awards, ‘numerous Golden. people in Korea went - Globes, Peoples Choige through an intense experi- awards and 12 Emmys. . ence. In the final episode the The final, scene for MASH _. war is ending, they're saying will probably be filmed this’ goodbye and going their sep- week. After that, the series arate ways. will shut down production at “In real life you have a 10th Century-Fox Studios. group of actors, writers and The last ‘original program, others saying goodbye. and a two-hour movie in which going their separate ways. So the Korean War ends and the final show has added they all go home, will be tele- meaning to the actor. It's cast on CBS on Monday, Feb.: going to mean goodbye for 28. The show goes into re-. the actor in real life as well.” VENUS FAMILY: RESTAURANT (Formorly Bob's Restaurant) NOW UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT Try our Pizza. You'll like it. tines. Loretta Swit, who is Maj. Margaret (Hot Lips) : Houll- han, and Alan Alda, who is Capt.: Benjamin ‘| Franklin (Hawkeye) ' Pierce, ‘are’ the only remaining members of the original cast. Swit says, “I'm, poing to miss those people terribly.. “Artistically, I'm going to “feel free. I took Margaret’ as far as I could. On'the other hand, I'm excited about’ the future of ‘my career. Every. one says MASH will be a hard act to follow. Byeryone agrees with that.” — The final two-hour episode takes place ‘during three weeks in July‘1958. It'starts just-before the end of the war. and. ends . with.. everyone going home. ‘More than that Metcalfe doesn't want to say, | Bawdy MacLean brothers {ALAN ALDA “ not usta wacky, Sect ir! Why did. millions take .MASH'to heart? Metcalfe says, “Te: was an incredibly lucky ‘and unique’. blend of chemistry in' terms of the actors'and the creative side: rs was an attitude of not’ WINNIPEG, (CP) — Mac- Lean and MacLean, the baw- dy brothers of .Canadian comedy, plan to produce an album and write a book abaut their five-year court battle ,against an obscenity charge. Legal hassles are nothing new for Winnipeg-based Gary and Blair MacLean af- ter 10 years of naughty sing-a-longs and rude rou- They were charged with staging an immoral perfor- Open every night until 11 p.m. mance in 1977 in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. Last month, the Supreme Court of Canada put the.case to rest by re- fusing to hear a Crown ap- New menus, full course meals, family dining _CHAHKO MIKA MALL, NELSON PHONE 354-4614 i peal of their acquittal. - LOS. ANGELES (AP) -alogue as Luke - Skywalker, Mark Hamill arrived at: the Shubert Theatre to prepare Sirs Canadian News and _ . . Sports Network °. - fB happily so: “After four Amadeus Mozart. He was exhausted,. ‘but months of doing absolutely nothing, I like being. busy,” he said. “And like doing two such different things. 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Blair needs to undergo heart surgery .after he de- veloped chest pains during a tour of Europe.” “They can’t cut out -your funny bone,” said Blair, who gives his age as 40 hoping to be 41. In the meantime, the bro- thers plan to put together an album of some of their best songs and write a book about their Ontario court case. | They also want to publish a collection of graffiti and ‘Hamill is busy ag —" part of his problem as a “After a day’ of recording di- ° working actor. The other part of his prob- Jem is that “producers seem to ‘think that Star Wars promises the extent of my - talent.” He has starred in two of the all-time _moneymakers, Star’ Wars.and The Empire Strikes Back, and has. com- might put ‘together ‘tapes they've recorded of fans tell: ° ing their own jokes, _ “After the. show in the _ dressing room there's always some jerk.or two or three jerks saying ‘Tve got to tell you this doke,’ ™ explained Blair. Gary, 38, sald in an inter- view the’ brothers are “not going to change our’ act one little bit.” OBSCENITY HELPS Gary and Blair, 40, who- paid $45,000 in legal’ fees and other costs to beat the On- tario charge, ‘said four-letter words help put across their message. The Big Red One, with little” “success, “After that he went back to a acting class, polishirig his tal-' ent enough to ‘earn the title: role in ae Elephant. Man ‘on AE plajed it only 21 days at the end of the run,” the actor said. “It was like “being kicked out of an airplane ‘and trying to find the ripcord. I know the rest of the company was expecting a spoiled Hol- lywood brat, but I showed up “Amadeus is something § “MARK HAMILL +++ Plays Mozart pleted the last of the trilo Revenge of the Jedi, due in May. Producer George Lucas . -has given Hamill and his'cos-. tars profit percentages that should assure comfortable i retirements...’ He has also tried two other ‘films, Corvette Summer, and: on time and knew niy lines. It was a great experience.” Hamil -auditioned | for the New York company -of'\Am- adeus and did well enough to be put -on ‘standby, -in'‘case British ' ‘actor Pe! Firth © couldn't get a work permit, ‘ “Peter. was able to got a was disappointed, ’ but: still _the-audition had been ‘one o} “The: producers ‘yemember- ied. for the travelling *, xe “! company, and Hamill opened. ‘th eplay here, starting ae 80-week tour. Hamill... worked: . four; months on’ Revenge of the’ Jedi and he reports “there will be no more riddles, no: more’; tricks, ‘everything in ‘the’ other two explained. ”. COMMUNITY. Bulletin Board “mom to. rest . OTTAWA (CP) — Quietly pursing a drink at a down- ‘town hotel dining room sev- ‘eral hours after his mother's funeral this week, . Lorne Greene pondered the lack of publicity ‘his ‘mother had re- ceived in’ her life. “Especially when I was in Bonanza,’ reporters always _ asked questions about my fa- ther,” said the Cttawe: ‘born * actor,” bs “It, was partly T suppose “because ‘I played a father ~ ‘figure in the show, and partly becatise my father had died early’ and never seen’ the » show — ‘it: ‘made: for better doing a , conventional sitcom, copy.”. Not deing wacky. doctors at’, But reminiscing on a child- the. front. We. were ‘all ‘de- ‘hood.in Ottawa more than a. ‘termined from the outset we - half-century ‘in the past, wouldn't cater.to that. con- Greene, who looks two dec- cept, even if we went down in | ades. younger than his .68 flames. *. |: : d years,’ credited both Dora bs a and Daniel Greene with giv- ing him the love of drama ‘that.led him to a starry car- {oor as an announcer and ac- oe week's trip to, Ottawa Swearing can be couly same buried beside her husband at . “We're out to make ‘people Ottawa's Jewish ‘Community laugh and we want to be able Cemetery. to ude any or all of the tools’. The last few decades of her available to-us,” sasid Gary. life'had been spent, courtesy “It we were doing Shakes- Of her son, in California, Peare, we'd ‘use Shakes- Greene had just returned peare’s -words.: But . we're: t© Los -Angeles_.after | co- doing people, 80 we use peo., hosting the Tournament of ple’s words.” Roses Parade in Pasadena on’ Gary ‘said Gevadia audi- Jan. 1 when he recoived word ences must agree with their that’his mother waa sick. approach or the brothers . .WENTPEACEFULLY wouldn't haye'sold out almost | “By the time I arrived at all their performances in the the hospital.she was gone,” last decade. he. said. “But she © wont “We just come on stage ‘ peacefully.0ld age just final- and talk the way we would !y caught up with her.” ordinarily,” added Blair. Some of Greene's earliest MacLean and MacLean's Ottawa memories are of be- . reputation for on-stage rude- ing “literally dragged” by his Pe has led to- eotpactiod parents to local amateur pro- with the laté American comic ‘uctions in which is parents Lenny Bruce. often participated, and to Gary said ‘after tive years ” porformances by _ visiting of court battles their career erent .sinch a9. violinint Jas- was that they couldn’ t afford a babysitter.” : Dora Greene, however, had her son erroneously tag- ged as a musician. “She had me take violin lessons for five years until I was 18 before sho finally accepted in her heart that I would never be another Heifetz.” Instead, he came to depend on his distinctively sonorous voice, first as an amateur actor at Lisgar Collegiate in Ottawa and Queen's Univer- sity in: Kingston, Ont. ‘Later, as a CBC announcer broad- casting events in Europe during ‘the’ Second World War, he was known as the ‘Voice of Doom. Still later he spent ldyears. - as Ben Cartwright who kept his. unruly sons Hoss, Little’ Joe.and Adam in line very . week on Bonanza, NOT ALWAYS IN SADDLE “One thing! didn’t learn on. the streets of Ottawa,” he: says, “was how to. ride.a horse. You remember how all four of us would ride up to; the camera at the ‘start of. every. show? Well, -there - were a lot of times when that horse would take off whether, T was all the way in the sad- die or not.” Since"1973 when Bonanza was cancelled, Greene has been in several shows but hasn't found one that caught on. His latest, however, is one close to his heart. The job as host on the new - nature show New Wilderness seems ideal for an animal -lover who holds executive positions on both the Amer- ican ‘Wild. Horse Protection Association and the Wildlife: Fédération. The show, he says, is “pretty positive” in tone, focusing on the survival of endangered ‘species, Greene ‘seems most happy about still: having a cause. - “With my mother’s passing Ive. been looking: atall..the, Heifetz,. ©. >9things that have happened in compares with Bruce's strug gle to continue his ipoverent ;. atyle of comedy. fe didn’t’ seek’ this .out other recourse but to defend: ourselves, otherwise it. was prison for us.” MacLean ‘and MacLean haven't performed in .Man- itoba since 1979 when they were arrested in Winnipeg on an indecent performance charge, later dropped by the Crown. : jewison _preters “HOLixwood (AP), ” bout. space hips. “interested in “sometimes creates diffieu- ties,” The Canadiaa, born: direc: "tor said he was turned Seen: by. four: studios: before the «= fel next” film; Soldier's’: ‘Play, ebout : the : first «black army “They, were selfeducated my life.-And you know what: people withia real passion for!’ e’arts. But the real reason: ~ the:-ironic thing is — that: > there's acl so much more I’ ‘we were left with’ no ie took me pene T think, could do.” sued Gibb aa fron rock. to the bible © NEW YORK (AP) — When Peps singer ‘Andy Gibb was ited to play Joseph in Jo- ooh ‘and the Amazing Tech- nicolor, Dreaiicoat, he knew neither the: Old Testament story about Joseph and his coat’ of many colors nor the Broadway show. Told it’ was the-firat col- laboration by. composer An- ‘drew Lloyd Webber and lyr- icist Tim Rice and where the’ story came from, Gibb dida't think it'was for him. “MIt: sounded. kind ‘of bib-: “ical,” Gibb says. “I didn't know/if Iwanted: to be in something like that. It, was a thing.” HOLLYWOOD (AP) = Malcolm McDowell plays the | title role in Arth ‘Cannon? ‘Oh, she’s an Amer- ; 2s “ican tourist: who drops in on ‘Best. Friends,. which stars Camelot. Cannon ‘is visiting Burt Reynolds“ and.“ Goldie Stonehenge, England, when Hawn. It's ab: sereen-' she drops into a’ writers who decide to marry (ime warp and ends up in the. , Gibb, 24, is best known asa solo singer, whose ‘three singing older brothers are the Bee Gees, short for ‘Brothers Gibb. ‘Andy Gibb has. been mov- ing into theatre. He played Frederic in The Pirates .of. - Penzance in Los Angeles ahd, ‘Toronto and acted in a movie made for cable TV and shown in early December —. Some. thing’s Afoot. iter the J joseph | offer last. summer, he saw the show on a trip. to New York from his newly: purchased ‘ranch . in Malibu, Calif, and changed his:tune immediately. K “I: wanted to be in it," he says.:“I just knew I wanted to todo it, no doubt about, that. "Droid: are tricky | Knights of the Round Rable.. Thoss Druids are tricky, eple three-hour re-cre-. -ation ‘of the romantic Arthu- rian legend (with one Amer. ican tourist) is now’ being ‘filmed in England and on‘lo.° cation in Yugoslavia for CBS. ° Clive : Donner ‘is directing ° from a scrip by J. David: LONDON (CP) — Terry Fox,'the young. c cancer. victim :'; from’ Port Coquitlam, B.C., who inspired: millions with his: ; pier to run across Canada in 2980, has made it into the: '1988' édition’ with, a haviee; ce. int of. money in a charity, wi ‘INVESTIGATE CLAIMS The record book says that Gray ‘and two worfien frq \ustralia and-the U.S. claim to be able to do this “with both hands and feet Snilieneomle The: claims are: being inv aceful settlement: of ‘arguments in pubs. ae “Anna Hanen Swan of Nova Beale who rose toa height ch | Hneband | Oct: | 21,- 1980; ‘He ‘had ‘a fuli put" or. gratdparents . ad. great-grandparents as well as four sretkerotrerandber “dslving ‘somewhat hazardous unless. drivers are con: stantly,on 1! a ‘ ‘The fastest. broadcaster is still'considered to. have: been Gerry. 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