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“The dances in today’s movies feature lots of nearly ‘nude, sexy bodies, male and female,” Kelly says, in an in-

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Parade magazine. “These films reek of raw sex and youthful energy.

“The John Travolta pic- tures sell sweaty masculine muscle, and he moves like a leopard. Today's audiences like to see sexy bodies. Fred Astaire, on the other hand, could dance with an overcoat on, and you'd still watch him.”

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NASHVILLE, TENN. (AP) — Fans still visit the grave of country music star Marty Robbins at the Wood- lawn Cemetery, where he was buried on a rainy, cold and windswpt day last De- cember.

They show off favorite pictures of him and they still vote awards for him.

Wife, or rip into a gunfighter ballad such as El Paso.

During an illustrious 80- year career, he wrote about 500 songs and had 18 No. 1 hits, including Devil Woman, A White Sport Coat (and a Pink Carnation), El Paso City, The Hanging Tree and Some Memories Just Won't Die.

A singer, and musician, Robbins died of heart failure at age 57 last Dec. 8 — two months after being inducted into the Coun- try Music Hall of Fame.

Robbins. could caress. a. tender song such as| My Woman, My Woman, My

He fe on the Grand Ole Opry — the 58- year-old live country music show — from 1958 until his death. He traditionally was the last performer to sing on Saturday. nights and became known for bantering with an ‘adoring® CUE) and run-

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Two weeks after he died, his voice was heard singing the title song in the Clint Eastwood movie, Honky Tonk Man. Si

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His son, Ronny, kept his father's band together and filled in for him at'1988 con- certs scheduled before: Rob- bins died.

Six months after Robbins died, country music fans honored him by voting Rob- bins three awards in'the an- nual contest ' sponsored':by the Music City’ News. Rea:

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music publication voted him top male vocalist and chose his Come Back to Me as the year’s No. 1 album and his Some Memories Just Won't Die as top single.

The highlight of Ronny Robbins’ show is a 80-minute , tribute to his father, in which - he sings many of Robbins’ biggest hits.

“When we get into the tri- bute section of the show, you can look into the crowd and

see people crying,” says Don Winters, who sang in Rob- bins’ band for 22 years,

“Marty had the greatest fans in the business and the most sincere fans: they'd. fight you over him.”

Off stage, Robbins liked to

kid around, but he’also had a fun.

serious side that was illum- inated in his compassion. LIKED POKER

Jack Pruett, 50, Robbins’ guitarist for 26 years, misses the poker. games Robbins was always initiating. They were usually draw poker, and ‘rarely five-card stud, which Robbins hated.

“He was a lot of fun; he al- ways kept something going,” says Pruett.

Winter says Robbins had few peers as a performer.

“He was in-a class, like

. Elvis. Presley. No one could

sing a variety of songs like he did and sing them as well. “And he wrote outstanding songs. He had no records on the charts for a while, but he outdrew those with No. 1 records. He built an audience like no one I've ever seen.”

Winters said Robbins loved what he did, “and that made him good. With a lot of entertainers, “it shows through that it’s work and not ‘fun. The audience res- ponded to Marty because they knew he was having

“He's missed by everyone; there will never be another like him.”

brilliance, in my opinion.”

“You couldn't produce films today with the kind of music, for instance, that was in An American in Paris. Asa result, a lot of lovely art forms have practically disap- peared. Look at Broadway today, and what do you see? Mostly revivals,” the 71-year- old dancer said.

Kelly said he gets more fan mail than ever these days, his work is being studied in col- leges and he is often asked to narrate dancedocumentaries. He credits That's Entertain- ment I, which included clips from his movies.

GINGER BAKER BACK ON TOUR

TORONTO (CP) — With almost three decades as pro- fessional musician under his belt, drummer Ginger Baker looked worn beyond his 44 years as he slumped in an equally worn easychair in the El Mocambo dressing room following a 11-hour set.

“I've been enjoyin’ it,” he said slowly of his current round of North American club dates, his first appear- ances on this side of the At- lantic in about 16 years.

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His set, with Italian mu- sicians Roberto Ciocci on guitar and vocals and Enzo Pietropaule on bass, showed Baker to be every bit as pro- ficient — if not more so — as he was in the days before his jadedness landed him in vir- tual obscurity among ‘rock observers.

“We're not into revivals, the sort of thing like The Animals,” Ward said, refer- ring to another British band which regrouped this sum- mer after a lengthy absence. “We're into Ginger Baker, what he's doing now.”

Ward, who took on man- agement of Baker in 1979 be- cause “I thought it was a pity somebody of his calibre should be wasting his time on the back of a horse” — Baker had given his previous four years exclusively to polo — confessed that even he did not know whether his client was serious about rejoining the hectic music scene full time.

Ward even sounded dis- dainful about Baker's seem- ing preoccupation with olive groves of the drummer's adopted home in Montbal- bano, Italy. This limited tour of eastern U.S. cities, with Toronto the only Canadian stop, was an attempt to ease Baker back into the concert scene — and to remind fans that Baker was still there.

But is he? Backstage, Baker scoffed at the quality of the French red wine he was sipping, recommending instead a couple of choice chiantis. He noted that Sep- tember and October were the months for the grape in his home area. November and December — the olives,

In he feigns indifference about the fame game. Those close to him — particularly manager Roy Ward and tour manager Phil Billing (Phil Harmonic to his friends) are more aggressive about talks of a comeback.

“The ones that fall to the ground, they don't make such good oil,” Baker noted. “You've got to go after them, and that’s a lot of hard work.”

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In club door prize draws, Verna Guymer won a sub-

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Members and guests rounded off an enjoyable evening with games of charades and carol singing.

Regular Kootenay Art club meetings will resume Jan. 11 at 7 p.m. at the Senior Citizens’ Centre. Everyone is welcome.

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VANCOUVER (CP) — vid Henry, Hwang was found a winning ingredient: in com- bining his experiences as the son of Chinese ‘immigrants

with his unique, writing style.:

Hwang, 26, was 21 when he. wrote FOB (Fresh Off the Boat), his first play, in ‘1978.

“I was living ina dorm at Stanford,” Hwang said when he was here for the Canadian Premiere: of FOB by Gross: roads Theatre.

“In the spring all the dorms put on plays or usually musicals. I decided to write a Play, cast it in-house and dir- ect it myself. It had just an audience. of Foie ‘and stuff.”

He submitted the script to

the . O'Neill National Play-.

wrights Conference. in 1979, and it was one’ of ‘a dozen Picked from’ 1,300 entries.

Joseph Papp produced it in 1980 at the New York Shakespeare Festival, where it won the 1981 Obie Award for best play ofthe season.

Hwang has received rave reviews in the New Yorker for the five plays he has written,

Most are on the subject of Chinese in America, except for the musical Five ‘Guys Named Moe, which he is working on now.

His last play, Sound and

Book full of exotic living

By ROD CURRIE

TORONTO (CP) — One may approach Robert Lacey's glorious new book, A with the ofa peasant suddenly invited to belly up to a Vast baronial feast in ye olde ancestral manor.

But half way through there's that over-fed feeling.

Lacey, whose earlier books included Majesty, the biography. of the Queen; Princess, the story: of Princess

Diana; and The Kingdom, about Saudi Arabian royalty; now. '4

has moved down a notch to mere aristocrats.

his: friend

Beauty — two love stories set in Japan — opened in Nov- ember, a few days away from her Dur- ang’s Baby: With the Bath-

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FOB -is about the tragic hierarchy Chinese-Ameri- cans construct for them- selves from the example of bigotry learned from the whites. The later the arrival off:the boat, the more “Chi- nege” the person is, first- and second-generation Chinese- Americans believe.

The play is sad and scath- ingly funny at the same time, and is wise and cool-headed about history's injustices.

“In a way, FOB is still my favorite play because it was closest to home.”

It came’ ‘from stories he had « heard from his parents and from ‘his ; Chinese-American studies.’”"* ~

“Do Isee myself as. an ‘Asian-American’ writer?\No I see myself.as.a-writer-first, then an Asian-American wri-. ter. feel now! what'l waht to

subjects ‘and T hope I can bring’ to’ each..a unique Ber. spective from having Brey up astride two cultures.

“The three plays I wrote first nto, end up con- stituting’’a. trilogy on the Chinese experience | in'Amer-

eoThe Dance and the Rail. road is about the first Chi- nese immigrant laborers. FOB gives a sort of transition period: How an ethnic group

starts to' assimilate and ‘the’.

‘perils of that assimilation. “Family. Devotions. has: to-.

feap society. It's about a rich Chinese-American family who live in’Bel Air and what happens y when they're visited by: 8 long-lost relative from

the Esp Republic of Chi-”

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5 But with his deft handling, his adroit use of ‘little Eome

of eccentricity, his feel for historical research; ‘hé produced a gorgeous and colorful smorgasbord of delights. However, it is so laden with oddities, glimpses of exotic living and of wealth and it may prove too rich to be devoured in one sitting.

Enhanced by dozens of magnificent color photos by Ric Gemmell — portraits, glittering interiors, mysterious land- ‘scapes — the book focuses on six of the great aristocratic families of Europe.

WAS TV SERIES

It was done in collaboration wth a BBC-TV series of the same name but while the TV series presented a sort of “aristocrat of the week,” Lacey mingles the six throughout the book.

There is the handsome Gerald Grosvenor, sixth Duke of Westminster, who at 31 is the richest man in Britain; Germany's Prince of Thurn and Taxis, whose family is still a little embarrassed that it made its money originally as postmen; and Spain's Victoria Eugenia who has more titles than any living person but whose friends call her Mimi.

Mimi owns 90 to 100 castles — she's not quite sure. But her most treasured possessions are trophies sho won at bridge, her consumin; ion.

She gets up aeesdat tigen most mornings and floats through the greater part of the day in an amiable, but somewhat distant haze,” Lacey writes. “But wher she sits down at her green baize table for bridge, her eyes become very sharp indeed.”

OWNS BEST LAND

Westminster, who owns much of the best land in London including that under Canada’s Macdonald House and the U.S. Embassy in Grosvenor Square, rarely, gives interviews.

“But he'd just taken a course in TV and was Coke cut, his teeth,” Lacey said in an interview.

Aristocrats, by Robert Lacey. Published by McClelland and Stewart; 248 pages; $29.95.

Names in the news

A guy has to be more than easy on the eyes to make it as one of the 10 most watchable men in the world.

Take Peter Jennings, for example.

The Canadian-born ABC anchorman made the list, winning a vote from an ad- mirer who said: “Love his speaking voice and the way he says ‘out’ and ‘about.’ ”

No need to ask how Rich- ard Gere made the list, com- piled by 1,000 to 2,000 man watchers for Man Watchers Inc.

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