Aé CASTLEGAR NEWS, January 4 4,1981 No top acy ae in- ‘80 By BOR THOMAS HOLLYWOOD (AP) — Sorry, no 10-best movie list this year. It's a hallowed ritual for those peculiar people who spend a large part of their working lives sitting in dar- kened theatres, But what can you do with a year like 1980? ie Heaven's Gate fi- asco seemed to epitomize the year. At least United Artists had the good sense to with- draw the $36-million mess from public view. Many ano- ther 1980° film cotild well have «returned to” drydock before embarkingon troubled seas, Raise the Titanic id- deed! Better to raise the competence of film-making. Most movie years bring a number of films that could not easily be improved. Only two come to mind in the 1980 crop: The Empire Strikes Back and Ordinary People. Onc was space fantasy. the other domestic drama;i-both were intelligently crafted, with a healthy respéct for the audience, Too many films seem designed merely ‘to satisfy: the egos of the stars: The Blues Brothers, One-Trick Pony, Tho-Jazz Singer. And the summer of 1980 Icft doubt that superstars are worth their multi-million-dol- lar contracts. Among the dis- appointments: Clint. East- wood in Bronco Billy; Burt Reynoldsin Rough Cut: Steve McQueen in The Hunter; John Travolta in Urban Cow- boy; Robert Redford in Bru- baker. Instead, the big summer hit was a raucous little co- medy about thé fear of flying, Airplane. . It was the year that even Woody Allen’ proved woo- den. Stardust Memories seemed to be & complaint against people who told him, “We liked you better when you were funny.'” Woody, we liked you better, ete. . The year ‘featured iim- ‘piseilve: satouinatess in flawed filfis: Jack Lemmon’: {n Tribute; Ellen Burstyn in’ Resurrection; Robert De Niro in Raging Bull; John Hurt in The Elephant Man; Gena Rowlands in Gloria. , * . Two of the year’: s best performances almost‘ went unnoticed because distribu. * fj tors concluded the films were not commercial: ‘The Stunt Man with Peter O'Toole, and The Great Santini with Ro- bert Duvall. Ovations from critics caused the companies © to distribute the films. after sal. Among the money-ma- : kers, Fame, The Blue Lagoon and Coal Miner’s Daughter fulfilled the needs of enter- om. tainment. But 1980 was alse ; the year of Can't Stop the. Music, The, Istand, Tom, Horn, Nine ’to, Five,» Th 3 Shining, Cheeck and Chon’s, Next Movie, The Formula * and The Gong Show Movie. Let us pray that 1981 ° will be bettér. casTLi@ic NEWS ENTERT By MARGOT SINCLAIR VANCOUVER (CP) — His singing style has been . compared with that of Frank Sinatra, Boz Scaggs, Van Morrison and Frankie Laine. His music is labelled rhythm and: blues, swing, bop, boogie and rock 'n’ roll. The comparison is aca- demic when it comes to the’ bottom line — popularity — and Doug Bennett and his band, Doug-and the Slugs, is tich in that department. The band's debut album Cognae and Balogna, which includes the hit single Too Bad, sold 50,000 copies across Canada in five weeks. . 2 Not bad for a 1977 basement-band-that playad a .. lot of club dates, developed a local following and then re- corded and promoted a bud- get single. in°1979 without record sompeny packing. Canadian record charts and’ RCA. Records signed the band to its “stable of musi- cians in August. Bennett, 29, takes him- self only half-seriously at times, explaining he doesn't see himself as ‘Sinatra, Scaggs'or Morrison. LIKE ASTAIRE “When I see myself on video I think I fook’like Fred Astaire or Robert ‘Redford, but of course. nobody else makes them comparisons, “I'm indifferent to it just because people need to compare-an act to somebody. that’s gone before them — just like Boz Scaggs and Rod _ Stewart were probably com- * .-pared.to Sam Cook or.somen.> body. That?s just a, natural ! in the, s ‘Ruta lot of diff- erent rhythms in it, it’s di- versified, :it's a million things, so I can't pin it down except to say it’s dance- music, it's fun music, it’s music that people can relax, to." The relaxation produced isn’t the soporific effort of . elevator music; it’s the hand- clapping, foot-stomping. “cheering, singing, carefree ball of a recent Slugs'concert in Vancouver. Bennett writes the band’s songs but the Slugs — John Burton, 29, and Rick ‘ Baker, 28, on guitars, Simon Kendall, 28. on keyboards, Steve Bosley; 26, on bass, and Wally..Watson,. 29, on. E drums. -— make them sound | ment business, ~ . Bennett, says his brand’ of music defies simple clas- sification, Tues. - Sat. 5 to10 p.m. ‘Sundays 5to9 p.m. _ -Closed ‘ Mondays © SENIOR TENS The first business meating of cliizans 4 Four clatlen of Castle ice remind New Year for the Senior eg will be held pn Thurs., that onnual dues are due ja Fs a tobe palo on ‘this day, and the secretary has asked that each member attaches his/her name ond address to the remittance, This will save her much time, and expedite the enrollment procedure gre . 2p.m.as usual, and rafreshmenis will be serv PYTHIAN SISTERS Kootenay Tample No. 37 Pythian Sisters will hold their fir- 81 mating of the month on Thurs, Jon. 8 at 7:90 pam. in the Masonic Hall, jatly, The meeting starts at KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS Twin Rivars Knighls of Pythias No. 70 will hold their first meeting of 1981 in the Masonic Hall Jan, 5, starting ot 7 p.m. MINUS ONE " A grouP, for divorced and widowed Persons, and single pararits, Next meeting Is don. 7, 7:30 15 - 1st Street, For more information call 365-5994 or 368- 2557. THEATRE UNLIMITED Auditions for Theatre Unilmited’s “A Tomb With A View" will be held Jan, 8 at 7 p.m, in the auditarium and room 26 at Trail Junior High. : : WOMEN'S AGLOW The next monthly luncheon meeting of tha Women's glow | Fellowship will be held on Jan. 7, commencing at 10: rrow Arms, with Delores DeRosa of Trallas ‘guest speaker. All ladies are cordially I Invited. For, further information paar 265-2263 o1 I. Coming events of Castlegac and District non-profit organizations are fisted here through the courtesy t Conadion Ceflulose’s Gelgar Pulp ond Celgor Lumbar Divisions, Please submit notices ‘directly to the Caxtlagar News by 5 p.m. Thursdays. "> A Public Service of Calgar P Division and Celgar Lumber. Canadian Cellulose:- = ° TYRICS FROM LIFE Bennett says his lyrics * come from events in his life. “It comes from what- ever happens, whatever in- fluences me, how other peo- ple. influence me. ° Every songwriter goes through a . thing of jotting down ideas in --alrports and on matchbook. covers. “It’s just a mattet of where an idea strikes you. It’s not a forced thing. So you have to sort of wait until your baby has dumped ‘you for a six-foot football player and hope that you can sutvive out of that.incident. ‘ . Winning Express . tickets ._ WINNIPEG (CP) — Five tickets worth $100,000 each and five worth $10,000 each were picked in the Western Express lottery draw Wed-* nesday night. The $100,000 tickets are - 1146636, 2088891, 1672890, 3271887 and 2157340. . The $10,000 -tickets. are 2219880, 8710182, 8880799, 2770790 ‘and 8010778. There are prizes of $1,000 for tickets with the last six digits of ‘the top” . draws, $100 for the last five “ digits and $26 for the haat four. bynes Jaf . to represent B.C. At the B.C. Sections figure skating championships, Lynda John- stone, the Cas- “ recently-held years. This is the firs st, ‘time _ that a ‘girl from the Koote- nays has. made:,it ‘to- the ,tlegar Figure Skating Club, placed third in the ladies’ novice event. The Bronze Medal per- a en ——— GROCETERIA & | LAUNDROMAT We Aro Open has given Lynda: the oppoftunity to represent * B.C. at the Western Divi- sional Competition in Red - Deer in mid-. January, Lynda is a grade 11 honor roll student at Carson Graham S.S. in North Van- couver. She has been skating " under’ the direction of Edy Rada at the North Shore Winter Club for almost two help finance: her. skating oy Vancouver, Lynda lives with.“ things would get Tatats But they didn't — espe- cially in Canada. In ‘fact, the Canadian: Recording Indus- ty Association’ had, grim . which "to close : 1980: ‘country’s pop. music budfadss; which had been enjoylnyysteady growth f * even whiie| the: less than“promising business st (it. not financial. ptobler threw the rock, world into a - state of shock. later in the y é deaths of two of contempo- at: ‘rary music’s oldtimers — Led Zeppelin’s John Bonham .° in September, ‘and former : Beatle John Lennon three months later, | : Bonham, 33, Zeppelin's asphyx. ene tetra e piracy ‘eilce, charged with giving ‘full-time concentra- tion to poltcing any commer- cial illegal activity in the ins “dustry, the'antl-piracy office Ras won” four convictions against firms or individuals manufadtdring and selling bootleg record- ings and, Robertson said, there are another 12 cases y to go before the courts. Home taping, of radio broadcasts or borrowed re- . cords, technically an illegal . pastime, is virtually impos- sible to prosccute, Robertson conceded. Yet it takes a substantial bite out of artists’ royalties and industry reve- nue. One solution is to! ‘recoup iost montes through a special tax on’ blank tapes and re- cording equipment, a plan now in‘ effect in West Ger: many, Finances generated . through the tax are disper- sed to the industry through the recording association. Such a move might be the answer for Canada, Rob- _, ertson'sald, adding that the iated in his own vomit after § a massive drinking | bout last- ing 12 hours, His ‘death was the last of ‘numerous. mis- fortunes to plague the British: group this incident'was the capper. Zeppelin announced ‘early in December.it was disbanding. | Lennon’s death at the hands of a gunnian outside the New York apartment in which ‘the ‘‘songwriter, his wife Yoko Ono and their young son lived, came only, three weeks after Lennon’ ended a five-year recording hiatus.by releasing the al- bum Double Fantasy. ©: “REUNION HOPES DASHED The world grieved, pri- marily because of the brutal vend to a,peace-loving musi- , cal genius, but also because hopes that the Beatles would + someday reunite “were for- ever dashed. Meanwhile. in Canada, the record’ industry “could read flie writing on the wall: While thé demise of the business as a whole may not be imminent, ‘at year’s end , the situation was far from healthy. Brian Robertson, presi- of: the“rectrding “dsio-~ ciation, noted in 1989 that! Canada‘ had ‘been “expetien- -cing a 20-per-cent growth for years and, in fact, finished that year with a respectable . 25-per-cent increase in busi- . ness.' He. acknowledg the time that because record companies in Canada t were controfled by Belea- _ in recent years, but . hopes to meet jovernment officials on the matter. .. SINGERS TRY ACTING , Several members of: -'Coiada’s music elite gradu- _ ated to films during 1980, yet * by: year end only one of the features had reached the , silver scrcen — with disas- trous results. Atkansas-born Ronnie Hawkins, long a fixture: in this country’s music ind! try, made his acting debut ‘Stace its establighment; » twhen about In Toronto. riats brought rock music unwanted pub- icity during the summer. Fifty-eight person were pe on various ¢l sete t 400 fans of {Hamilton-based Teenage (Head went on a rampage Aftgr being denied admission “to. sold-out concert at On- tario Place in June. One week earlier a crowd leaving arock concert damaged three Toronto subway cars and a transit station. Damage was estimated at 520,000. * ALICE A NO-SHOW And in August, at least 30 persons were arrested on charges which included as- saulting police and creating & disturbance after headliner Alice Cooper failed to show for his concert at the Cana-;, + dian National Exhibition. The year's most ambi-), tious musical event, thes: Heatwave Festival, was a” critical success but @ coms, mercial flop. Billed as the: biggest new wave music,, ferrval, the mega-concert atv Mosport Park, just east. of + Toronto, lost between $900,- 000 and $1 ‘million for its promoters when projected attendance figures fell short by the tens of thousands, On the positive side in * Canadian music: —Inmid-November, To: ronto folksinger Dan Hill took two of four major prizes at the Yamaha World Inter- national Song Féstival in Tokyo. Hill was one. of 24 finalists in the annual com- petition, which isopen to _ both professionals: find non- He * Michael Cimino's -Heaven's. Gate, an almost fourthour movie“ that. cost about ‘$40 million. Cimino withdrew the work as soon as the last real had unspooled during its Canadian premiere in Toronto. The reviews, “both here and in the U.S. were brutal. Whether, Hawkins sur- vives the editor's knife re- mains to be seen when Hi ven's Gate is re-released — tentatively in February — minus 78 minutes of film. Also making film debuts were Burton Cummings in Melaiie, Joni Mitchell (as a black mate pimp) in Love and Gordon Lightfoot in “Harry guered _pa-- rents, ‘ “naturally problems are going to be felt even: tually in the branches.’ One year later, Ro! son admits that tie Canadian industry wasn't prepared for the extent to which tho: problems were felt. “We .; thought would be a levelling off,’ ie & said in an “but we ed for outstanding! perfor- - mance and for outstanding song, the yet-unrecorded How Do I Break Though | to You. —Anne Murray, acoun- try music sweetheart _in America for the. last few years, became a June addi- tion to Hollywood’s famous Walkway of the Stars. In November, Murray’s single Could 1 Have This Dance topped the country charts of the three major U.S.: trade publications — Cashbox and Record World - — all in the same week. As well, her Greatest Hits pack- | age gained platinum status Billboard, © CHINESE FooD When In Nelson * enjoy 2 different Chinese Smorgasbords! 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