ENTERTAINMENT Series recounts A-bomb race

story as you can possibly imagine. The nuclear threat isso series on Yet with ail hn tala, the Race othe Bomb wil end

where it came from.” PLAYS TELLER

Yugosiavia's Miki Manojlovic, star of the 1985 Cannes Film Festival winner When Father Was Away on Business, stars as Edward Teller, the nuclear physicist who played a key role in the bomb's

More than half of the film's 21 feature roles have gone to Canadian actors, among them Lloyd Bochner, Leslie Nielsen, Barry Morse, Michael Ironside, Denis Bouchard and Maury Chakin.

The Race to the Bomb has two directors and is being

VANCOUVER (CP) — pean en ple manding a two-year ng concessions

Union president John cession that the negotiations Shields said in the bulletin ahead of us would be very that talks have reached « wrote, freeze and critical stage. The govern- weet ures Been fe tale ons ment refused to soften its employees, a B.C. Govern- % di Satur- ment Employees Union exclusions and job security. day after 16 straight days of newsletter says. The union is seeking wage bargaining.

The bulletin sent to union increases matching any rise members says the govern- in the cost of living over a “It was clear to our master ment is offering a three-year two-year period. The union committee when has said its have the "s seen their earning power re- duced by 15 per cent since 1979.

Local Nelson Artist February 7

in the Coder Room Homesteed Soup & Sendwich Shoppe

called “the feature movie combined with TV

Astral Bellevue Pathe of Montreal was the first Canadian producer to attempt to do a feature film combined with a TV mini-series.

That was in 1978 and the project was A Man Called Intrepid, an Anglo-Canadian espionage drama with a top-flight cast that included the late David Niven, Michael York and Barbara

A few years later, Astral decided to turn the romantic novel Maria Chapdelaine into a movie and TV mini-series starring Carol Laure, im a co-venture with France's television network TF-1.

RACE FOR BOMB

It was then that Astral and TF-1 decided to attempt a mini-series on the race to create the A-bomb — a subject a touch trickier than the comely Laure gathering blueberries in the Quebec wilderness.

After almost three years of preparation, filming began last December in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, on The Race to the Bomb, a six-hour, $6-million France-Canada co-production that will reveal details of the intrigue surrounding the development of the first atomic bomb.

The subject, which won't be turned into a feature film, is “definitely going to be more demadning of audiences than Princess Daisy (a glossy TV mini-series),” Canadian film producer Ronald Cohen said in a telephone interview from Zagreb.

“But in terms of public interest, it's about as central a

worked (artistically).”

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Deapltp two Givestcen tie lnsiieeies anil stun Seb Committee four countries, the 15-week shoot is right on schedule. SAVED MILLIONS Originally, the project was to have been shot in France but was moved to Yugoslavia for economic reasons. It's estimated that it would have cost $10 million in France, compared with $6 million in Yugoslavia. The movie is being made at Jadran Films, a leading Yugoslav studio that has handled production of such movies as Tom Selieck’s High Road to China and the recent TV

how the bomb works”, says Toronto writer Rob Forsyth, who worked on the script along with Canadian colleague Tony Sheer and French writer Jean-Francois Delassus.

“So it isn't about their private lives, or the difficulty they had with their wives or whatever . . . ~

Woven into the story are the Joe McCarthy red-scare trials and the case of nuclear spy Klaus Fuchs, as well as a pantheon of physicists who worked on the bomb.

Ontario pair to produce Canadian theatre reference

on Feb. 15 in the Kinnaird Hall.

According to a prepared release, the event is a “thank you” for the people in the community who contributed to making the Tools for Peace campaign such a success over

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Playwright feels guilty

WINNIPEG (CP) — Eng- lish-born actor-playwright Alan Williams pauses while hand-rolling a cigarette to admit he’s feeling a little guilty about hogging Winni- peg theatre stages this year.

“Tm a little self-conscious about grabbing the stages from local playwrights who have been slugging away for years,” said Williams, who quietly settled in the city last year.

“Tm worried they might say. ‘Bloody hell, who is this guy?”

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minute addition to the Tor- onto International Theatre

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“I probably wouldn't have started writing it if I hadn't been out of work,” said Wil- liams, 31, who decided to write the one-man play for culty finding work as an actor in London.

He moved to Canada in 1983, first settling in Toronto and then accepting the Uni- versity of Winnipeg post last

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As well, it will serve as an update on what is taking place in Nicaragua.

Chryse Gibson, one of two B.C. carpenters who worked as volunteers in Nicaragua at the carpenter's training sc- hool, will show her slides and talk about her work. Gibson has seen many of the Tools for Peace donations in use and will answer questions about the effects of the project in the country

Gibson, who has just re turned from Nicaragua, will be returning there this sp- ring for a two-year period as a CUSO cooperant. Her visit to the West Kootenay is sponsored by CUSO and the

working out of a specially fitted van and passing on her carpentry skills to villagers in many small centres thr- oughout the country. Her work will continue to be supported in part by the B.C. Carpenters’ Union which has agreed to provide her with tools and some funding.

The project is the first of several jointly developed through CUSO and a B.C. trade union together with a union counterpart in Nic aragua.

Torres to speak Sunday

The Pentecostal Taberna cle will be having special meetings with Ben Torres Feb. 9.

Torres, who will be min istering from the Word of God, was born in Puerto Rico and grew up in Brooklyn where he became a street gang member and drug ad dict, a news release from the Pentecostal Tabernacle says.

Though he wanted to kick the drug habit, he became convinced there was no help, no way he could free himself, the release says.

In 1966 after 11 years of addiction to heroin, Torres entered the Teen Challenge Centre in Brooklyn to seek help. Dave Wilkerson, foun der of Teen Challenge, pray ed with him asking Jesus to deliver him, the release adds.

Since Torres became a new creature in Christ, he has been sharing the transform ing love of Jesus with other people.

Torres has a teaching min istry on radio and TV. He lives with bis wife, Lila, and son, Jonathan, in Salem, Ore.

Torres will not be sharing his testimony at the meet ings, the release says.

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