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ISN'T IT TIME FOR A VIETNAM FILMFEST?

By INA WARREN Canadian

Press If it hasn't been held yet, it may now be time for a Festival of Vietnam Films.

There were a few significant—films—in—the late 70s

dealing with the Vietnam War — Coming Home, The Deerhunter and Apocalypse Now — but it was not a popular subject with Hollywood.

Now a new generation of movie-goers, many of them too young to recall the repellent TV images of that era, is eagerly embracing the American directors who are bringing the war back to the screen.

Alan Parker's Birdy, the poignant postwar story of two fractured Vietnam vets, won the Jury prize atthe 1985 Cannes Film Festival. But Hollywood didn’t know how to sell the movie and released it on video cassette,

Platoon provided the box-office punch. Director Oliver Stone's grim remembrance of Vietnam combat in the late ‘60s took 10 years to get off the ground. When it did, ‘it became a top-grossing movie and winner of the Oscar for best picture of 1986.

ANEW BATCH

A new spate of Vietnam movies is on the way. The most keenly awaited is Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, due in June, and insiders say “it will blow Platoon right out of the water.”

Another film just released, Hanoi Hilton by Canadian Liénel Chetwynd, takes a sympathetic view of American prisoners of war in Vietnam.

The biggest surprise for movie-goers with a memory, however, will be Francis Ford Coppola's Gardens of Stone, starring James Caan, Angelica Huston and James Earl Jones.

Eight years after Apocalypse Now, his cataclysmic anti-Vietnam War movie, Coppola has turned his attention to the elite soldiers and officers serving at home in that era. They are the old guard, the spit-and-polish soldiers who buried the dead at Arlington National Cemetery.

Based on a novel by Newsweek correspondent Nicholas Proffitt and filmed on location at Fort Myes, Va., the film is a loving portrait of the old guard and, by association, the U.S. military.

IN GOLDEN LIGHT

Coppola bathes his movie in a golden cathedral light, imbuing even the most mundane interiors with awesome significance. It’s the same kind of lighting Coppola used in The Godfather, the movie that portrayed a close-knit Mafia family as possessing a kind of old-world charm.

By TIM O'CONNOR ‘Canadian Press

cool jazz, the world has known Joe Jackson asa pop musician. Whatever he played usually hit you in the head, hips and feet,

ia new. Willpower (A and M) LP. is

a classically inclined instrumental album of five orem played by an orchestra and a few rock and jazz players.

‘Willpower is the farthest Jackson has wandered off the beaten path. Even Jackson fans, who welcomed his return to rock on last year's acclaimed Big World, may have trouble getting into this one. But given a chance, it is a rewarding and entertaining diversion.

For Jackson, who studied composition and orehestra- tion in Britain, it’s a trip back to the music he was writing before he went new wave with Look Sharp, his first aa in 1979.

Willpower bears no resemblance to the abominable records spewed out by Rick Wakeman and Deep Purple in the "70s that paired rockers with unlucky orchestras.

WRITES TO FIT

» Despite some meanderings into reggae, swing and primarily

Most rockers write rock tunes and add an — like an For,

wrote music expressly for an orchestra, and he peer a its broad spectrum of colors, tones and dynamics.

The is usually mysteri- ous and often jarring. In No Pasaran, the Sandinista slogan meaning “they shall not pass,” the peacefulness of what sounds like a jungle forest is shattered by piercing shots of brass, like gunfire. (Heart patients be forewarned.) The shots repeat, growing louder and more frequent until they climax.

Solitude simple, repetitious melody, gentle woodwinds iad Date to establish a tranquil mood of contentment. It's based on the Duke Ellington tune of the same name. Willpower starts with feisty punch, moves into the lilting territory of the Gershwins, while making some sidetrips into the avant-garde.

Nocturne is a beautiful solo piano piece in the Chopin vein, and the shortest item at about five minutes. At 16 minstes, Symphony i in One Movement is the Age re and

piece. Any ckson’s peaject should have turned up here, bat 4 it's a fully

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realized work that moves from a lonely French horn to full orchestra in triumphant bloom. If you love classical music, you'll enjoy — and respect — Willpower, If you have an inkling of interest in classical stuff, Willpower is accessible enough. If you are bored by classical stuff, hake it. 7 ROCK.

“Many reotey “American bands have struggled with their second and third albums because they've run out of ways to rework Byrds songs — or they've just run their creative course. Not The Del Fuegos.

‘Phe Boston foursome has refined its garage sound into something more artful and diverse by incorporating R and B and some nifty arrangements into Stand Up (Slash), its third album,

The band still has a lot of grit and growl, courtesy of singer Dan Zanes. But what they've lost in rambunctious- ness, they've gained in evocative songs. Like the Stones, they also know when to let up on the accelerator.

Although they come from the roots school noted for jangly guitars and songs about girls and cars, The Del Fuegos write sweaty rock that’s more convincing. Zanes's drunken slur is haunting on He Had a Lot to Drink Today, a bizarre look into the poisoned mind of an alcoholic.

I Can't Take This Place is the closest they come to a single, but Zanes’s ragged voice might be too rough for radio. The album is not for everyone, but it stands head and shoulders above the rest of the roots pack.

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HUMBOLDT, SASK. (CP) ~ “Western premiérs farmers in Eyrope and the United States are worth $11.6 remained optimistic Tuesday, about getting another billion and $5.9 billion respectivply.

billion-dollar federal farm aid program despite some less The answer to pricing wars is to tear down the in

hope for farm aid

question in Parliament.

“If we don't have an early ceeclimnal, farmers in

inereasing numbers likely are to have their land and

than encouraging words from Prime Minister Brian international subsidies, said Devine, who has a Multoney. ural economics from Ohio State University. While the four leaders were meeting in Humboldt, Timing is important, he added. “We want it as fast as about 60'kilometres east of Saskatoon, the prime minister possible.” enter rene ongpeation set arereley delldiyicy Premier Bill Vander Zalm of British Columbia told payment: inthe Commons, reporters the future’ of farming is at stake. te: byes gata abpypaiehebenly. ctor Aga melel “If we want ., . our Prairie farmers to continue to be ° wo'd- just

provoke another pricing war. better help them out at this time,” he said.

Host Grant Devine of Saskatchewan told reporters at. Alberta's Don Getty is not overly enthusiastic about the least $1.6 billion in aid is needed just to return farmers tothe subsidy proposal put forward by Devine. average income level they had between 1981 and 1984. “We don't want subsidies, but we're caught,” Getty A $3-billion payment for the 1987 crop year could put said. “While we're making progress at the international Canadian support near levels enjoyed in the United States, Jevel, our (agriculture) industry is hurting. If we want them said Devine, who is also minister of agriculture. (farmers) there at the end, then we'll have to help through “He (Mulroney) didn’t rule out that there would be a this period.” deficiency payment,” Devine said. Premier Howard Pawley of the

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by the banks,” Pawley said. In one of four communiques iss Tuesday, the western premiers called on Ottawa to make an early for “an i d and

payment.” The four also suggested Canada and other countries direct surplus grain stocks to poorer nations most severely

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They called for an evaluation of the national milk marketing system and a review of existing provincial programs to cope with the growing debt crisis in agriculture. Alberta and British Columbia want to conduet a pilot project of paying the so-called Crow rate transportation benefit to producers rather than railways. No further details were made available on the idea. The four agreed that the Canada-U.S8. trade negotia-

A position paper released by Devine estimated that prime minister did not know about the western premiers’ subsidies now in place for barley, canola, corn and wheat communique on agriculture when he responded to the

tions rep a good opportunity for both countries. They also reaffirmed their belief that a Canadian priority should be security of future energy supply.

Government to blame for postal strike

OTTAWA (CP) — The Conservative government,

But his words failed to im- press Harvie Andre, the

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A few cursory listens to 77's (Island) and you might toss it off as another tired roots band. But once Mike Roe's pearly lyrics and the group's nuances sink in, you'll keep this one around for a while. Francisco band's second

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not unions or management, will be to blame if the coun- try is plunged into its first national postal strike in six years, says Liberal Leader

minister responsible for Can- ada Post. Andre, i to a

and a‘strike by mid-June is inevitable unless Canada

Liberal motion condemning Tory postal policies, argued

Post mod its demand Andre said the agency must get rid of “restrictive

astoundingly diverse, ranging from the perky pop of What Was in That Letter? to the acoustic folk of I Could Laugh to the horror-surf-guitar stomper Pearls Before Swine.

Roe's deadpan delivery and sly lyrics display the influence of Lou Reed. In I Could Laugh, Roe sings: “And she don't like my clothes. They're wearin’ thin — on her nerves.”

The 77's have a guitar-based edge reminiscent of Reed's work, and they borrow from Duane Eddy and Joy Division.

Force still with us

John Turner.

Turner accused the - gov- ernment Tuesday in the Commons of putting postal unions and managers on a collision course by demand- ing postal deficits be wiped out by next March.

“Let us remember the ex- perience in the United States — it took 14 years to attain that objective,” Turner said.

“If there is a strike, the responsibility will rest clear- ly on this government be- cause... and

that deficits cannot be dump- ed on future generations and said Canada Post is justified in the hard line it is taking in contract talks with postal unions. FREEZES PAY

In the case of letter car- riers — the first union near- ing # legal strike position — Canada Post wants to freeze pay for existing employees, lower starting rates for new workers, make layoffs at will, use more cheap-wage, non- union 's and cancel

any price was the motto.

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The title, Gardens of Stone, refers to Arlington's tombstones and the movie reverently records the military rituals of death to drum rolls, orchestrated in stirring crescendos by Carmine Coppola, Francis's father.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Star Wars has thrilled the world’s movie audiences for a

He at first considered Jap- anese star Toshiro Mifune for the sage Ben Kenobi. Alex

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In Florid soap-opera style, it begins and ends with a funeral — the tragedy and glory of young lives quenched by death.

Indeed, the film's tenet seems to be that while Vietnam was a military mistake, U.S. military men were a fine, caring buneh of guys.

The central character, Sgt. Clell Hazard (Caan), safe: ‘I care about the United States Army. That's my family, and I don’t like to see it in trouble.”

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decade, and all evidence in dicates the Force is still with us.

Over the past ¥@ years, the original film and its sequels, The Empire Strikes Back and The Return of the Jedi, have generated $4 bil. lion US in theatre tickets, cassette sales and screenings on free and pay TV. Another $2.6 billion came from sales of games, toys, books, clothing, candy bars, bedsheets, wall paper, posters and other kinds of merchandise.

Replicas of the robot char acters, C-3PO and R2-D2, appear in the Smithsonian Institution. Earlier this year a Star Tours ride based on Star Wars opened at Disney land, and it immediately be. came one of the park's most popular attractions.

Star Wars first appeared in the theatres May 25,.1977, and a gala weekend conven tion marking the anniversary was scheduled in Los An geles featuring Chewbacca, C-3P0, R2D2 and even George Lucas.

Lucas, 43, was the youthful filmmaker who electrified the film world in 1977 with his space adventure, which be. came the biggest moneymak er up to that time. Now almost as reclusive as the late billionaire industrialist

tasy, Willow.

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More than 13,000 Star Wars devotees were expec- ted to crowd the convention. On the agenda were screen- ings of the trilogy, exhibits of props from the films, actual space-station hardware from

rejected by United Artists and Universal, but Alan Ladd Jr. at 20th Century Fox agreed to sponsor it.

“I was trying to get fairy tales, myths and religion down to a distilled state, studying the true form to see how and way it worked,”

Williams (Lando Cairissian),

Guinness was in Hollywood to film Murder by Death, and Lucas sent him the script. The British actor was in- trigued, even though space adventure was far from his normal kind of role. Christopher Walken, Nick Nolte and William Katt were in the running for Han Solo.

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“We have our own Lucas- film Fan Club, and there are other informal clubs as well,” says company spokesman Sidney Ganis. “We have been issuing a bi-monthly news: letter, and we'll soon convert to a full-color quarterly. The three films are all in cas. settes now, and they're al ways playing on television and cable.”

The best history of Star Wars is contained in Dale Pollock's 1983 book, Sky- walking: The Life and Films ships in Trail this of George Lueas. Pollock August, writes that after finishing 6:40—Brown Bag Forum — American graffiti, Lucas Ken Wiesner Trail spent 21 years — the worst city manager pre. years of his life — writing sents the topic — You

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Japanese Canadians seek UN compensation

OTTAWA (CP) — Cana dian veterans imprisoned by the Japanese during the Sec. ond World War will file a $13. million claim for compen. sation at the United Nations today.

The claim, by the War Amputations of Canada on behalf of the Hong Kong Veterans’ Association, cites torture, starvation, and slave labor in Japanese prisoner of war camps.

After the war, the Japan- ese governnient paid each Canadian $1 for each day spent in camps. But Canada has never accepted that as full compensation. The men were, liberated in August 1945, after 44 months in cap tivity. The claim seeks about $10,000 per person for the 768 survivors and 200 wid. ows, for a total of about $13.3 million.

“It works out to about $10 a day for each day in a camp,” Clifford Chadderton, War Amps executive director, said Tuesday.

“We knew it isn't much considering the brutality these men suffered, but we felt it would be minimum recognition for what they went through.”

The claim is backed by a 250-page report prepared by Dr. Gustave Gingras, former director of the Montreal Re- habilitation Institute.

The report says all of the nearly 2,000 Canadians cap- tured at Hong Kong were subjected to forced labor in mines, shipyards, steel- works, and other areas. The average work day was 10 to 12 hours, with a maximum two days off a month.

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ration of rice was never more

than three cups, and maggots and rat droppings were com- mon in food.

Survivors describe brutal treatment at the hands of their guards, who often stole their Red Cross packages.

One survivor, retired brig- adier William Stewart, wrote last year of a Canadian who was beaten and tethered to a post near a camp entrance passed by work parties each day.

He was there for 10 days — poorly dressed in sub-zero weather — until some of the

flesh of his toes had fallen.

away from frostbite and the bones showed through. “Eventually he could not stand up,” Stewart wrote. “He collapsed unconscious and was brought into the hospital room. But he was hypothermic, toxic from his increasing gangrene and be. yond recovery. He died.”

Postal poll taken

OTTAWA (CP) — Almost three of four Canadians favor the use of temporary work- ers to move the mail in the event of a national postal strike, indicates a poll com- missioned by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business.

Conducted by the Gallup organization between April 29 and May 2, the finding is based on interviews with 1,032 respondents and is purported to be accurate within a range of plus or minus four per cent.

The poll found that 73 per cent of respondents approved use of temporary workers while 24 per cent ‘disap- proved and three per cent were undecided.

Federation president John Bulloch said today a majority of respondents, even among union households, favored the use of temporary work- ers to keep mail moving.

Canada Post is negotiating new contracts with its em- ployees and the post unions say a strike by mid-June is inevitable unless the agency withdraws demands for sweeping contract conces- sions.

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