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in the motion picture business when the first movie to combine the considerable talents of Bette Davis and James Stewart is trumpeted by its director as “the first movie done in Hollywood with Hollywood stars for pay cable.”

Moreover, the Davis-Stewart star vehicle right of way, made for the Home Box Office pay telévision network in the United States, is the only U.S.‘movie among the 20 international films selected for official competition at the seventh Montreal World Film Festival

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‘Rather sad film.with a lot of chuckles along the way’

At its first festival screening director George Schaefer described Right of Way os “rather a sad filmi with a lot of chuckles along the way.”

Indeed, the movie — based on Richard Lees’ ‘play. of thd- same name — is about an elderly Santa Monica couple's suicide pact.

Davis, who recently celebrated her 75th birthday and 62nd year in movies, liked the play so much that she proposed it to Schaefer, who had directed her in the 10 for Mrs. Cimino...

~ Stewart quickly agreed to the-film and Right of. Way features the actors most intense acting and longest exposure to the camera in recent years.

MONDAY, TUESDAY 3 P|

HOLLYWOOD (AP) — Moviegoers spent a record $1.5 billion at U.S. and Can- adian box offices this sum- mer, with the biggest win- ner, The Return of the Jedi, earning about $260 million.

“The summer business is eight per cent better than last summer's $1.89 billion,

_ which itself was a record,” said A.D. Murphy, Daily Variety's financial expert who also teaches future film executives at the nicer, of South

release, and the one

BR) Punk rocker hits

TORONTO (CP) — Stephen Leckie, a 26-year-old rock singer, is amazed he is alive and sober after earning a reputation as a self-destructing hero.

: “It's a total miracle,” said the man whose stage name was Nazi Dog when he founded the group Viletones back in the punk days of 1977. Darkly drunk with a penchant for self-mutilation, Leckie frequently slashed his arm with broken beer bottles while performing and estab- lished a reputation as'a bad, barroom brawler — and the fans loved it.

“I thought I was going to die. There was nothing else for me to do,” he said of the day last January when he woke up in a Toronto apartment and knew that after six years of sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll and booze, he had touched bottom.

“I was this far from being in the missions and hostels,” Leckie said, his forefinger and thumb & centimetre apart. “I knew if I kept drinking I'd even lose that crummy apartment.”

Then he grinned. “But I got sober in that apartment.

DAD STEPS IN

What drove him to sobriety, to rid himself of a killing booze habit, was a face-to-face meeting with his father.

“Seeing the look on my dad's face, that was it. He was totally heartbroken. It was a look only a dad can have.”

His father, Toronto management consultant David Leckie, downplays his role in his son's recovery, but recalled the moment: ‘You're at the bottom; it’s up to you,’ he said.

“I'm just so happy that he's turned himself around. I always believed in this Buy. ' ‘There's an awful lot of good there and positive energy.”

For Stephen Leckie, the slide into alcoholism began

network he proposed it to, CBS, rejected the project on

grounds it could be accused of condoning suicide and‘

instructing viewers on how it could be done.

Perhaps when Right of Way is seen by TV viewers in the comfort of their own living rooms, as it was intended to be, it will be viewed as a better version of those pithy ethical debate dramas that television so loves.

But for those of us who had the mixed pleasure of seeing it on a large screen in a darkened theatre, the strongest impression of Right of Way is how wonderfully right sharp-tongued Bette and mellow Jimmy finally are together.

Movie fans can’t help but see this pay-cable production and regret that Davis and Stewart were never paired in their movie prime like Hepburn and Tracy.

‘One wishes it had a little more scope and toughness’

And since it is likely to be the only film that these two senior citizens of the motion picture industry will ever make together, one wishes it had more. scope, depth and toughness.

Still, the film does have a solid, if too slim, core in the performances of its stars — including Melinda Dillion as the daughter — and playwright Lees’ funny, stinging lines.

Jedi earns $260 million

“That represents a sub- stantial rise, even consider- ing the seven-per-cent in- crease in ticket prices,” he said Tuesday.

Behind Jedi, the runaway

- summer favorite, came sur-

prise hit Flashdance and Trading Places. WarGames was fourth and Octopussy fifth.

Here are the principal moneymakers of the sum-

1. Return of the Jedi,

$282.8 million; 2. Flashdance, $87.5 million; 3. Trading Places, $80.6 million; 4. War- Games, $68.2 million; 5. Octo- pussy, $62.9 million; 6. Su- perman III, $62.5 million; 7. Staying Alive, $58.3 million; 8. National Lampoon's Vac- ation, $49.4 million; 9. Blue Thunder, $43.6 million; 10. Jaws 8-D, $42.8 million; 11. Porky's II — The Next Day,

$88.9 million; 12. Risky Busi-"

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with — “drug abuse was optional,” he said — a grew steadily through his last year of high school, Grade 9.

In 1977, punk rock music was launched by the Sex Pistols, a crude British band led by the infamous Johnny Rotten, who spit on audiences and savaged adult sensi- bilities with his tasteless behavior.

“I just had to get my own group,” Leckie recalled with glee. “It was.a matter of ‘Parents hate rock 'n’ roll, so kids love it.’ ”,

Naming his band the Viletones because a magazine article had said rock 'n’ roll had “a vile tone,” Leckie took the stage name Nazi Dog.

NAME WAS SHOCKER

“I wasn’t a Nazi or anything,” he said. “But it sounded about the worst thing you could call yourself. It hurt people to say it.” y

The downward plunge had begun.

“The concerts were quite heavy, quite destructive. We should ‘ve been arrested. We were committing slow suicide on stage. It was all real blood and one band member (the late Jack Tassae) was a junkie, so that gave us rock 'n' rol} respectability.”

While caught up in punk music, Leckie could not see what he -was:doing to himself with a daily diet of Black Label beer and: Jack-Daniels, a sour mash bourbon.

“When you're in a group and. drinking all the time, it’s just a ‘day-to-day existence ... we got money, free drinks, girls, everything we wanted.” The gifts included drugs, even heroin.

* “I did junk but I didn’t like it. I didn't want to look like a wasted junkie, so I look like a wasted alcoholic.”

He said of his past self-mutilation: “There is no way to justify that insanity. I don’t think about it that much.”

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No Tyson.

Teunion

By DAVE MULHOLLAND Canadian Press

Sylvia’ Tyson says that every now and then she and former husband and singing partner Ian Tyson are asked to do a reunion concert.

“We talk it over and say ‘no,” she said. “There's no point.”

But now that Ian has fore- gone ropin" and ridin’ on his Alberta ranch long enough to release a new album — his first in five years — maybe an Jan and Sylvia tour would be just the thing.

“We don't categorically say no, but-it would have to be right for both of us,” Sylvia says, “And usually one of us has other priorities.”

The 42-year-old entertain- er expresses concern about losing the individ it

concert

ceptionally fine artist, ‘not. only communicates the physi- cal lifesty]é of working cow- boys, but takes the listener inside their emotional and‘ psychological life as’ well.

Tyson's rendering of ‘the thoughtfully crafted ~ lyrics = enables us to empathize ‘with | the plight of the cowboy who | has to leave The Old Double Diamond because it’s on the auction block.

We can see Windy Bill losing the battle with the old black steer and, in Montana Walts, we: can understand the woman waiting for her : cowboy to come’ home.

In Whoopee Ti Yi Yo, we: - hear that the plight of little “doggies” is to boil and fry in Idaho, and we can feel the desperation | of the cowboy who's his life's sa-

took her so long to establish.

“It was difficult to estab- lish myself,” she says, re- ferring to going out on her own eight years ago. “People

+ knew what Ian did, but they

had no idea what I did. I'm not keen to give up that in- dividuality.”

Through records and con- siderable television work, Sylvia Tyson now is one of the best-known performers in Canada. It seems unlikely that an Ian and Sylvia re- union tour would overshadow her.. Undoubtedly they'd pack concert halls wherever they appeared.

About a year ago Sylvia was to have released an al- bum of her hits, but other projects got in the way. Now she says she has ‘enough material written for a new album, which she'll probably record.

Meanwhile, fans can see her current television show, Country in My Soul, which will be aired on the full CBC network for nine weeks.

Ola Corrals sand See,

boys. created for western movies and urban cowboys created for fad movies, and then there are real cowboys -who make their living on a ranch. This album is about real cowboys.

Ian Tyson, being an ex-

vings on Gallo de Cielo, a fighting rooster.

In the title song, Old:Cor- rals and Sagebrush, Tyson captures the contradiction of wanting to be alone, while longing for the company of a woman, ;

The Old ‘Alberta Moon shines on the cowboys in town at a Friday night honky-tonk, and the same moon shines on two cowboys riding herd in Night Rider's Lament, a song that explains why a man is willing to. sac- rifice conventional comfort for a life of a cowboy.

As with any album that stands above the usual medi- ocrity, Old Corrals and Sage- brush has an aura. This is partly: due to Tyson's imag- inative production, such as the subtle use of prairie winds and coyotes howling, but mostly it’s due to the sincerity of the music.

All the musicians are first- rate, but mention should be made of Dave Wil- kie’s mandolin playing. Not only, is he technically pro- py ficients but Wilkie expresses .ithe.nuance.of each song.i

Ian Tyson was raised on a- farm in British Columbia and spent several years living in Toronto, but today he's def- initely an Alberta cowboy. And as this excellent album demonstrates, he's also one of country music’s finest ar- tists.

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Fe awarded a total of 17 medals and'twWo aggregate trophies at the Hightaiid

Games held in Nelson over the weeken: Tricia Miller, Lana Bush and Andrea Missing from photo are Jill Baker and Wendy P

Students win trophies”

Castlegar students won several awards at the 4ist Highland Games held in Nelson over the weekend.

A total of 17 medals and two aggregate trophies were awarded to six stu- dents of the Debra Tomp- kins School of Dance.

1 © Individual results were

as follows: Baby class under seven

lallists are: standing from-left, ald: Seated is Kaela Tompkins.

years — Kaela Tompkins: three silver medals and one bronze medal. Inter- mediate under 18 — Pat- ricia Miller: one gold, three silver and one bronze; con- fined to Kootenay Aggre- gate Trophy..

Advanced Intermediate under 18—Lana Bish: one silver and one bronze. Open under 14 — Andrea

Oswald: one gold and one’ bronze; confined to Koot- enay Aggregate Trophy. Jill Baker: one bronze and one silver. Wendy Proud- foot: two bronze.

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“T've wanted to fly since I was five years old,” said Travolta, who has had a pilot's licence for years. “It’s an escape from the pressures of acting.”

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