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FRIENDS IN CONCERT _
Flathead High School Concert Choir, Kalispell Montana
and Kootenay Union of Youth Choir. Brilliant Cultural
Centre, Saturday, May 28, 7:30 p.m. Tickets available at
door. Proceeds will go towards Kootenay Youth Choirs
trip to United Nations. 42

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Crescent Valley, Highway 6, Fire Station Number 2173
May 28th, 9.a.m. to 4 p.m. and May 29th, 10. a.m. to 4 p.m.
Donations Welcome. 2/41

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p.m. Regular Bingo 7:00 p.m. Hard cards $1.00 each. Free
coffee. All proceeds to playground

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ENTERTAINMENT

illow's star
strapping hunk

By INA WARREN

Willow, George Lucas's $35-million bag of movie tricks,
has everything from dwarfs, trolls, fairies and armor-clad
warriors, to babies and a two-headed monster.

But what's a Hollywood mass-appeal flick without a
handsome, happy-go-lucky hunk? 4

Lucas's space age Star Wars series had its roguish
knight-errant, Han Solo (Harrison Ford), and sure enough,
the hokey Middle Ages epic Willow has its own rowdy
warrior-knight: Madmartigan, played by the suitably
strapping Val Kilmer.

Mad is big, with a glossy set gf oft-displayed pecs and
raven hair down to his hips. The way Lucas has him rigged
up, he looks like a cross between an Apache brave and a
samurai warrior.

In this sword-and-sorcery fantasy, Madmartigan is a
down-and-out Daikini (Big People) warrior slated to rot in a
human-sized bird-cage for thieving. But into his path
happens the good-hearted Willow Ufgood, a shy’ farmer
from the peaceable Nelwyn race of little people.

Willow has found a baby girl of the Daikini race and he's
trying to return her to her people, but the girl is a princess
who has been marked for death by the evil Queen Bavmorda.
Together, the caring Willow and the daring Madmartigan
overcome an onslaught of ugly trolls, death dogs and
thundering horses.

LITTLE THOUGHT

“The role didn't require a great deal of thought or
preparation,” admits the 28-year-old Kilmer in a telephone
interview from New York. “Eat, sleep and find a woman.

“The guy's not exactly complicated.”

Previous to his top-billed role in Willow, Kilmer played
a test pilot in Top Gun and a rock star in the comedy Top
Secret. In Willow, his performance has an easygoing comic
tone, a kind of klutzy charm that reminds one of the bar
owner (Ted Danson) in the TV series Cheers.

But the gumb-hunk shtik is all acting on Kilmer's part.
The youngest student ever accepted into New York's
Juilliard School (he was 17), Kilmer is a playwright and
published poet. He is currently making a documentary on
the nuclear arms issue with some footage shot in the Soviet
Union.

This summer will find the actor playing Hamlet at the
Colorado Shakespeare Festival. “My training is classical
theatre and that's my main interest,” he says, adding that
his role in Top Gun was “like a modelling. job.”

Kilmer says his classical theatre training helped his

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concentration in Willow, shot over six months in Britain and
New Zealand. That schedule made the acting experience
extremely fragmented, he notes, adding that “consistency is
paramount in a character like Madmartigan,”

MAKE BELIEVE

Kilmer didn't have any, difficulty reacting to all of
Willow's special effects by Lucas's company Industrial Light
and Magic. “It doesn’t matter if you're dealing, with dragons,
dinosaurs, trolls or real live actors. You still have to make
believe that the crew isn't yawning or eating doughnuts.”

A native Californian who now lives in New Mexico,
Kilmer says he did all his own stunt work in the movie,
including a harrowing episode where he is fighting, falling
off and climbing up again on a runaway horse-drawn wagon,

Another action scene required Kilmer and Warwick
Davis, the three-foot-four Englishman who plays Willow, to
“toboggan” on a shield down a steep, snow-covered
mountain in New Zealand.

The footage of the actors’ terrified faces was captured
by a Swiss cameraman skiing backwards down the hill in
front of them with a camera attached to his stomach, “I ski,
so it wasn't so bad,” says Kilmer. “But that’s real fear on

Warwick's face.”

Kalispell choir
here Saturday

Don Goddard, an eminent
choirmaster of the Pacific
Northwest, will bring the
Flathead high school concert
choir to the Brilliant Cultural
Centre on Saturday.

The Kalispell, Montana
Choristers have a rich musi-
cal repertoire ranging from
Negro spirituals to the class-
ics. The choir also features
male and female choruses as
well as the outstanding group
known as the Choralairés —
the senior students of the
musical program of the Kali-
spell school system which
features choirs starting in
grade school.

Goddard is a widely res.
pected choral director who is
in great demand in Montana
and Washington. He has ad.
judicated many music festi
vals in the U.S. and is
considered a leading author.
ity in choral music.

This group has been to
Castlegar twice previously
They participated in the
opening ceremonies of the
Brilliant Cultural Centre in
May 1977 at the USCC Union
of Youth Festival.

Joining the Flathead Choir
will be the Kootenay Youth
Choir under the direction of
Paul G. Samsonoff. This
choral group is currently
preparing to sing at the
United Nations during the
Third Special Session on Dis-
armament and Development.

LEGION

BRANCH 170

In this group are com-
munity representatives of
Grand Forks, Nelson, Slocan
Valley and Castlegar — most-
ly senior secondary and coll-
ege students of this area.
They will represent the local
United Nations Association
branch at the International
Peace Conference to be held
in New York.

The two choirs will present
several musical pieces joint-
ly.

Bateman
prints
fakes

ST, CATHARINES, ONT.
(CP) — Some art lovers who
think they're buying prints
by wildlife artist Robert
Bateman are actually getting
cheap cutouts from calendars
and books slipped into
frames, art dealers say.

“Some: people spend hun-
dreds of dollars buying 15 or
20 of these things, thinking
they have this fabulous Bate-
man collection,” said Vivian
Moggridge, a St. Catharines
art dealer. “I had one woman
burst into tears when she
found out what they really.
were.”

Bateman’s lawyer, Michael
Levione, said he will launch a
lawsuit soon to stop the most
flagrant sellers of the so-
called “bargain Batemans”

FILMMAKING
HOT SPOT

CARACAS (AP) — Pssst! Looking for unspoiled
scenery, cheap extras and good local technicans for filming
on location?

It's still a word-of-mouth proposition, but some of the
world’s leading film-makers are discovering Venezuela's
steamy jungles, vast savannahs and palm-studded beaches
for shooting their exotic location spots.

The South American country is being promoted as a
cheaper and more accessible alternative to Brazil and a
non-politicized substitute for South Africa.

British producer Derek Granger brought Sir Alec Guin-
ness and James Wilby, star of A Room With a View, to the
jungles near Canaima, 640 kilometres southeast of Caracas,
in late January to film a portion of A Handful of Dust, based
on the novel by Evelyn Waugh.

The French director Alain Siritzky came last November
to check out scenery in Canaima and Caracas for the sixth
movie in the Emmanuelle series, now being shot for him by a
local film group.

SHOT DYNASTY

Last October, two episodes of the TV series Dynasty
were filmed in Venezuela. They involve a jungle rescue.

And Venezuela recently beat out Jamaica to provide
various beach sites for'a series of Pepsi-Cola commercials.

“For directors who are interested in the kinds of scenes

, Shot in Brazil or Mexico or Argentina, we are unbeatable,”

said George Korda, a Hungarian-born Venezuelan whose
company, Korda Films, is undertaking the Emmanuelle
project. “We're the cheapest, the freshest and we have good
technicians.”

Film-makers attribute the growing interest in Vene-
zuela in part to the never-ending quest by directors for
something unique and untouched — something that, ideally,
no other director has uséd before.

Venezuela's attitude forward foreign film-makers has
also changed, they say, along with the value of its currency.
Successive devaluations of the bolivar since 1983 have made
it possible for directors to put up actors and crewmen in
three- or four-star hotels for $26 Cdn a night.

HIRE EXTRAS

Extras can be hired for $17 Cdn a day — an excellent
wage in a nation where the urban minimum wage is about
$85 Cdn a month.

Foreign directors say they have found local production
companies fully competent for back-up work. Many Vene-
zuelans in film were trained abroad -under government
scholarships.

And Venezuela's jungles are also more. accessible,
because they are smaller than Brazil's vast Amazon basin
and closer to population centres.

“Our location manager said it would be easier (to film
here) than work in the heart of Brazil,” Granger said in an
interview.

“We had only 10 days of film. We needed good
immediate facilities, good hotels and easy means of trans-

rt.”

And the government, which has been interested in
promoting tourism ever since oil prices fell, is content to see
the movie people come, local promoters say.

Venezuelan promoters have been stressing the fact that
the government is stable and there's no racial problems in
Venezuela.

Except for the animals, some Venezuelan landscapes
are dead ringers-for the South African savannah.

This new selling point could take on added weight as
more studios, including the 120 Americans banded together
in the industry pressure group Film-makers United Against
Apartheid, seek to avoid possible commercial backlashes
from filming in South Africa.

Fibre artist's
work at NEC

The West Kootenay Na- the painstaking Aubusson
tional Exhibition Centre will tradition.

REPRESSION
AND POVERTY
IN GUATEMALA

By RON NORMAN
Editor

A Castlegar couple recently returned from Guate-
mala says the Central American country is suffering from
poverty and ldcked in the iron grip of a repressive police
state.

Bud and Ann Godderis spent a week in Guatemala
last month with a team of observers for the Christian
Task Force of Central America, a B.C.-based ecumenical
organization. The Godderises were joined’on the trip —
which also included a week in Guatemalan refugee camps
in southern Mexico — by former Castlegar resident Tim
Richards, now living in Victoria, Irene McIlwaine of
Nelson and Ken English*of Revelstoke.

The Godderises say that despite the election of a
civilian government in 1986, Guatemala is still a police
state — only run by the police and not the military.

Ann explained that when the civilian government
assumed power several countries funnelled money to the
Guatemalan police in an attempt to “humanize” the
police.

“But, in fact, what has happened is the police have
just simply become another’ armed, trained, well-organ-
ized and well-supplied people who are also repressing the

says Anh.

“In fact, thi
Guatey

to us is the poverty.”

typical.”

ment.

people. So now in Guatemala you see policemen in nice
blue uniforms instead of the army. But when you ask the
Guatemalans if anything has ¢!
just the color of the uniform.”

The Godderises say the army is still a presence in
Guatemala, but has shifted its focus to the rural areas.

“There's still a lot of army action in the rural areas,”

inged, they say no, it's

But the army activities have taken a strange twist
with the fight against drug trafficking. In the last year or
so the army has been spraying chemicals, ostensibly, to
battle the marijuana and cocaine crops.
at an extremely low level in
. It’s just not a problem there. But what's
hap} ig is a lot of the civilian population has become
sick, crops have been destroyed, animals|are dying. And
the spraying just happens to be in areas where there are
communities that are still resisting the military.”

Bud says he was shocked by the dire poverty.
Guatemalans had hoped the change to a civilian
government would lead to improved conditions.

“Nothing has really happened,” Bud said. “The
poverty is worse. One of the things that was very evident

He described having supper one evening where a
basket of bread was left over and sitting on the table. A
young boy-approached the table and asked for the bread.

“This kid was obviously starving . . . That's quite

Bud said they visited refugees in a church sanctuary
and an 80-year-old cloistered nun, both of whom said
nothing has really changed under the civilian govern-

REFUGEE CAMP...
Scenes froma
Guatemalan refugee
camp in southern
Mexico; trop) some of
the more than 4,000
youngsters in the camp;
(bottom) carpenters at
work making toilets for
the camp.

Photos by Bud Godderis

In fact, Ann said the violence is continuing and
growing worse.

“The numbers of people that are disappearing ... are
going up again. There are over 100 a month that are
documented and that doesn't count the numerous people
in the outlying areas who disappear.”

One of the questions the Godderises were asked to
address while in Guatemala was whether bilateral aid —
government-to-government aid — would really benefit
the’ people.

“We came away feeling that right now there really is
no way that it possible,” said Ann. She said they spoke
with human rights groups in Mexico, refugees in
Guatemala, church people and others.

The Godderises visited refugee camps in southern
Mexico before travelling to Guatemala. It was Bud's
second visit to the camps. He toured them two years ago

and then returned to Castlegar where he established a
group to market the refugee ‘crafts produced in the
camps.

Bud said he noticed tremendous improvements in the
refugees’ situation this time, noting that they are much
more organized as communities.

“There was evidence of a lot more animals . . . pigs
and chickens and horses. That wasn’t there before.” As
well, the refugees have planted crops and gardens.

Bud says when he visited the camps two years ago,
the refugees were totally dependent on the United
Nations High Commission on Refugees and the Catholic
church for help. Now, they are 50 per cent self-sufficient.

That's thanks in'large part to the various crafts the
refugees are producing and selling.

There are some 500,000 Guatemalan refugees in
Mexico, about 150,000 to 200,000 in camps. The camp Bud
visited had more than 4,000 children.

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A Joyous Time of Reunion, Reminiscing and Thanksgiving

which reproduce popular
scenes of cardinals, blue jays
and other animals.

The framed cutouts sell for
$50 to $100 apiece at shop-
ping malls, flea markets and
some galleries.

Authentic Bateman prints
are signed in pencil, num-
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present the fibreworks of
Fruitvale artist Ursula Le
Foley from May 27-July 3.

Le Foley became intrigued
by textiles in her home town
of Basel, Switzerland. Eur-
opean schooling exposed her
to the Aubusson technique of
tapestry and the Bauhaus
tradition of design.

Working as a textile de.
signer in Canada led to her
exploration of the effects of
texture upon color and the
use of textiles as expressions
of design.

Her tool tapestries are the
product of a long search for
an alternative technique to

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Calendar

until May 29... A look at the young artists of the region
at the High School Juried Art Exhibition at the

Le’ Foley's tapestries en-
compass a wide range of sub-
ject, shifting between the
realistic Canadian landscape
and the more abstract, in-
trospective imagery of Eur-
opeans such as Miro.

Also on display will be an
exhibit called “Time for Tea,”
teatime textiles by the Sel-
kirk Spinners and Weavers
Guild.

An opening reception will
be held June 30.

The centre's hours of oper-
ation are Tuesday - Friday:
10:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., Sat-
urday and Sunday: 12 - 4:30

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Zone first aid
trials Saturday

Nelson will play host to the
West Kootenay Zone First
Aid Competition on Satur-
day.

Competition begins at 8:30
a.m. at Lakeside Park and
continues throughout the day
as each team is brought in-
dividually to a simulated
industrial accident scene.
The competing teams must
demonstrate their skills in
diagnosis and emergency
first aid treatment.

For 42 years this regional
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final, to be held in Prince
George on June 11.

WCB Chairman Jim Niel-
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means of testing and expand-
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attendants.”

The WCB has sponsored
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