LAVERNE LEWYCKY . . . guest speaker appearing on Mayor's Breakfast. CABLE WEST 10 ACCESS TELEVISION Thursday Night Schedule 5:30—Sign-on and program information. :35—Five-day weather re- port, 6:40—Castlegar Library storytime. 6:00—Mayers' Breakfast —~ Local mayors of the West Kootenay met in Rossland on April 4 for a breakfast and talk given by Laverne Lewycky, MP for is about "school read- iness.” The panel in- cludes: Pat Marko and Barbara Daoust, kindergarten _ teach- ers; Lynn Phillips, learning assistance teacher; Anne Green, speech therapist. 9:00—Up Up and Away — This is a feature on Mike Thompson the balloonist who will be present at this year’s Selkirk Lions Club Trade Fair. Steve Jankol: i d Dauphin 7:00—Mom, Dad and Me — The second of a two- part series of work- shops for parents of pre-school children. Tonight's discussion the program. 10:00—Castlegar City Coun- cil meeting of April 14, presented in its entirety. 11:00—Sign-off. Writer always. has the jokes By Jerry Buck LOS ‘ANGELES {AP} — Gig Henry is Bob Hope's private Dial-a-Joke. The gag writer, on va- cation with his wife in New York, was awakened by a knock on their door at 7 a.m. one Sunday morning. It was the motel owner telling him Hope was calling from Vi- enna; He:needed some quick, topical gags. Another time, ‘ope phoned. from London, The comedian had been at a party given by Lord Lew Grade, and had to tape a monologue in the: morning for a TV special. + “Bob is demanding, there's no doubt about it,” said Henry,.'an affable, balding, seemingly unflappable man who's been with Hope for 28 years, “He wants good mat- erial'and he wants it right away. Some days I'm fast and can give it to him on the phone. Some days I have to say I'll call you back. “I don't get as many late- night calls as I used to. I have emphasized to Hope that I go tobed at 10 p.m. I'm an arely morning person and he's a night person. I was on his New York staff 10 years be- fore coming out here. Then Td get-a lot of late calls because of the time differ- ence.” HOPE ALWAYS CALLS Another time, Hope called from’ Palm Beach, Fla, an hour before show tifne. He'd flown in with Lou Ferrigno, who is The Incredible Hulk, and he needed some. gags. ter LUCIE ARNAZ + _._ CATLIN ADAMS- ert ee tap SAMSON APHALLSEN, NOW SHOWIN FR 6 an? The sory ofornan who X¢ anno longer! ” the decom and traditions ofthis father... And ofthe love hefinds bar srenr nities A movie that will make you care, make you sing ‘and make you cheer, A AREELLOERPROOLCTON| fasbenenreuraestine? pee ROUOTICre wore AD. CREA Se first time I've flown from L.A. to Florida at an altitude of three feet. We had to land once for an emergency. He didn't fit into the washroom.” Henry is one of two per- manent comedy writers on Hope's staff. That means he has to be a phone call away to provide comedy material for Hope's frequent personal ap- _pearances around the world. ‘Although I.work on all his -apecials, the biggest part of our job is writing gags for his personal appearances,” he said. “He's somewhere sev- eral nights'a week.” HIRED The other permanent ‘ writer is Bob Mills, Other writers ere hired as needed for Hope's specials on NBC. Henry, 62, was born in Russia, His parents brought him to the U.S. at the age of five. He graduated from col- lege during the Depression. “I became a press agent,” he said. “Before that I took anything I could get. The.big shots were with civil service. They were getting $18 a week,” Part of his job was writing gags for the- columnists. He said that once on the same- day he wrote columns for Walter Winchell and Dorothy Kilgallen. That’s how he got started. He wrote a few gags for Hope, the comedian liked his work and hired him. Henry said he works alone at home on a typewriter. “Do I laugh? No, I srings a lot. “Hope's 's amazing. He reada dhe laughs out loud. a! “True tale’ falls short of truth © EDMONTON. TGP) - Death Hunt, a new movie that purports to tell the tale of Albert Johnson, “The Mad Trapper,” doesn’t. The film, previewed re- cently takes wild liberties with the atory of Johnson and the RCMP pursuit that tracked him down. The 48- day Arctic manhunt, one of the epic atories of the 1930s, resulted in the. deaths of Johnson and RCMP Con- stable Edgar Millen. The movie's treatment of: Millen, played by Lee Mar- vin, has outraged and em- " pittered the Mountic's fam- a (Community TV) * “Annie Millen Senz, sister of the dead constable, saw‘ the film and said she is dis- appointed. “1 just can't understand how they can be allowed to do that,” she said. “It distorts the family name and has no connection with the truth.” 8enz, who now lives in Fort St. John,, 5.C., said she is concerned some will take the movie as fact. “If the kids nowadays see that, they'll think it’s his- tory.” Death Hunt, filmed in the Rockies near. Banff, Alta., stars Charles Bronson and Angie Dickinson along with Marvin, It follows the stan- dard Hollywood outline for action .movies — graphic violence, a long pursuit and beautiful scenery. But along’ the way, it abandons even the pretence of following his- tory. * CLAIMIT 18 TRUE The credits claim Death Hunt is “based on a true story,” but there is little except the names of Millen and Johnson to link..the screenplay with the. real events. _ Johnson was & real person, a Yukon trapper who ran afoul of the RCMP after another man's trapline was robbed. Two Mounties were sent to investigate and one was wounded, launching 4 manhunt for Johnson. He was brought to bay and shot to death 48 days later, but only after killing Millen’ in a gunfight. Two dead bodies, however, are not the stuff of which action epics are made, so the screenwriters, Michael Grais and Mark Victor, have strewn the snowy Jandseape with corpses. Bronson plays Johnson asa heroic individualist who wants to be left alone. Millen, is played as a hard- bitten, whisky-soaked pragmatist who enforces his own rules rather than the law laid down _by “those pencil-pushers in Edmonton.” CASTLE NEWS ENTER’ Rick Springfield Rock star joins By Yardena Arar HOLLYWOOD (AP) — People. do lots of things on daytime serials. They make . passionate love — to the ex- tent permitted on TV — have monster fights, drink heav- ily, get deathly ill and talk, talk, talk, One thing they usually don't do, ‘however, is sing. And that makes Rick Spring- field, who recently joined the cast of ABC's top-rated Gen- eral Hospital as surgeon Noah Drake, something of an bed —a singer on a soap °PSpringtield, a rock star in his native Australia who has worked hard to eliminate his accent, turned to acting only hen his‘ attempt to break * scene as a singer foundered shortly after it began. Both careers seem to be flourishing now. Shortly af- * ter.he landed the General Hospital role, his single — a mainstream rock ballod called Jessie's Girl — hit the record charts. But the one development had nothing to do with the other. “The woman that hired me — Gloria Monty, producer of General Hospital — she came ‘to me the other day and said, "You know, I didn’t know you were a singer,’ " Springfield said during. a recent inter- view. The 81-year-old also plays guitar and writes. All but one of the songs on his current album are his own. LEERY ABOUT IMAGE ’ Springfield is lerry about reliance on‘ visual images. When he arrived in the U.S. in 1972, he was an instant hit with teenagers — and almost just as instant a has-been. With the exception of one single, Speak to the Sky, on his first U.S.-album, “my songs weren't teen songs,” he explained. “I wasn't really aware of what oa teen magazine was, because we didn't have them in Australia, or I had never seen one. And I started to get all this press, and I thought: ‘Great, wonderful, this is fantastic.’ And then I started to realize that my music started to lack serious credi- bility outside because of the fact that I suddenly, was a teen idol.” On his second album, he tried to write pop songs for teen listeners as well as the - more Paul McCartney-esque ballads ‘he liked‘ to’ write — and ended. up’ pleasing’ no one. “You can only carry some- one a certain distance on publicity. The. teen’ maga- zines were saying, ‘We need a teen hit from you, give usa teen hit, and I wasn’t writing them.” So he split from his man- agers and tried to figure out what to do next. AINMENT soaps “I had to do something or Td just end up an old teen idol, So I got into acting, because I'd always wanted to, but mainly now I had a real lot of time on my hands." He studied acting for two years, and was for two years a Universal contract player, appearing in the Battlestar Galactica FV pilot, The Rock- ford Files and The Incredible Hulk. In 1975 he put out another album but his music career got put aside until he singed with RCA Records. He joined General Hospital just last month — and no, he won't be singing on the show. Springfield: said his two careers need not conflict — thing, ‘sface? mi maiiis his chiéf interéat. He, doesn't have to show up on’ the General Hospital set five days a week, and is more than willing to commute by plane should a concert tour prove feasible, “The scheduling might be hairy, but I spent too long. * doing nothing,” said Spring-' field, who. keeps up his stamina by running and maintains a meat-free diet. Royal Canadian Legion ] Branch No, 170 Guests Must Be SIGNED In LIVE ENTERTAINMENT ., April 16 & Sat, Ap Thures P rd iF me Aor 9:30 p.m, - 1:30 am. 3 Playing Thurs. & Mon. - Fri. & Sat. "IDAHO SPUD" Bingo: Every Thursday at 7 p.m. Early Bird 6:30 p.m. Regular 7:00 p.m. LA Sunday Bingo = eee _, In yet another departure from reality, one of Millen'’s constables is black.'. It was the first time alr- craft had been used in such an operation. In the real hunt for John- son, who became known to Movie had to tbe cut Montreal producer. Denis q Heroux wanted to make the movie Les Plouffe a Canadian version of Gone with the Wind — but it ran longer than the three-hour Amer- ican classic at its glittering Quebec City premiere this week, Les Plouffes, which cont $6 million to make, ran four hours and 17 minutes. Over- night it was chopped, by 20 minutes for its’' Montreal premiere and then by nearly another 20 minutes for its opeiing in 25 theatres across Quebec. “We got standing ovations in Quebec City and Mon- treal,” Heroux says. “Nobody said it was boring or, difficult to understand, as was Heav- en's Gate. They just said it was a bit too long. 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Grazioni - (Oliver Reed). : x _ of Islam, and he menaged to: assemble: the © $17. :million « ‘Muslims. ia Washington, a ‘puppet show combined with a special Saturday, story, and film show at the Castlegar Public Library. * “They can be ‘seen. in the $85-million Lion of the Des- ert, which should be released s0on. * LOVED , FILMS ° : ‘Moustapha Akkad has split his 48 years exactly in two — half in the Arab world, half in America, Born and educated in: Syria, he developed an early love affair with, Amer- ican films,’ He came to’ Les Angeles to. study: film. and “later. branched into ‘making’ documentaries and, TV’ mov- ies, His longtime ambition was +f, to film the story of the birth budget from Arab and other sources. CASTLEGAR NEWS, puis. 2 “after undergoing two ip ce of heart teste a ihe ‘National Exhibition Centre stlegar Communi yar Exhibit and | hibI by loco! a Poblo’s D: stlegar at 30 pr The lay is written by Blake Ferker ond petomea tig fa on ; West Kootenay Drama Featval to! ‘ot Hs 12 ter a High* en enon rama Curtain'time | monthly.“ teatur hoild ter- alt af the Castléga “The result was The Mes-. % sage, which” wanted publicity when black D.C., staged a’ slege: to: pre- vent showing of the film. The beli “A lot of people in t! west and s watch ‘The Dukes of Hazzard, Tom Wo- pat says, “and they see it as a- fantasy. of their. own lives.» “They've got the ca? with the mag wheels and 440 en- gine, but they may~live in a tarpaper shack. It's wot ‘un- common for the car to. be- worth more than the house. These people see our show as’ the epitome of their life- style.” The question .was, Wopat, who co-stars with John Schneider, think the CBS series was insulting to the south? Obviously. not. Nor, judging from its lofty’ status in the ratings, do a lot of other. people.” Wopat: says: “I think the ones talking about it being as insult to the south want more sophistication. They want their area to’ have'a repu- tation like New York or Los thing? I've’ never. gotten a letter saying the show: is an insult to the south. And I've ver gotten a letter -criti- "FLIES THROUGH AIR ; ‘Wopat and Schneider, who uke a ha Crown'Point 1885, aturing glant antique cabinets, turn-of-the : ‘cantury.English and -- Italian stained glass, * ind much more. c did ” show’ moved to’ Hollywood, ¢ . where ‘suburban Agoura doubles for Georgia.) Wopat says, “I do worry that . somebody's ig to drive like that, I have a con- science about that. We try to rationalize the speeding and ‘stunts. We have a reason for © it — we're being chased or - harassed.” In almost every episode of |: The Dukés of Hazzard, Luke and Bo,’ aleng . with: Cousin -: Daisy, played by Catherine * Bach, run afoul of Boss Hogg and Sheriff Roscoe Coltrane. Through guile. and’ fancy. driving, the Dukes, always”: “triumph. It's a clear-cut case. of good : -vs, evil, as it was with Robin Hood ‘and his Merry ‘Men against the Sheriff of Not- tingham. . “Our stuff is fantasy,” says Wopat. “The more fun ‘you. tter it works. taatic situation. It's a fantasy. when you just a car 150 fest,. roll over, and nobody’ gets - hurt. Still, we don’t want to stretch belief tos much. Like = : the Keystone Kops.sawing a, car in half.”)-- ;Wopat believes that being in The Dukes of Hazzard has outside work to 2 ::“Phe° reputation «of the show hasn't hurt me, but it is a. concern,” he .says. ‘“Th “things ‘I've looked: for the - show to do for me have hap- rant: to. do something else, I ‘would like a little: more.op-, - portunity to be creative. 'm recording an album and, I'm looking into TV. movies and go a little crazy in a series,” he says.:“It's' viot fulfilling their need tocreate, I can see ot hurt him in getting other. ;- why people jump: series projects, except that the tough’ filming ‘schedule keeps. minim : ‘pened. It's given me financial -. security..1 can ‘now.pick and |” choose. | It's. given .me_rec- ogulzabilty: That's ‘going to. thing be w down the bites “Tm really looking ee i ‘to the opportunity. to: go fe the events in’ Washington. The Message has been pla: ‘attracted .’-un-" elae Mon., April 20 . -elailecer? 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