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stunning opera house.

In place of National Hockey League wars there will be a battle between Christian and Moslem armies as La Scala of Milan presents Verdi's I Lombardi.

A towering black curtain encloses 6,200 of the Coliseum's 16,000 seats in a fan-shaped seating area. In place of the ice surface, platforms hold more seats, an orchestra pit and a stage 40 metres wide by 20 metres deep.

“We have « traditional Italian theatre in a Canadian stadium,” said Sergio Escobar, assistant to the general administrator of La Scala.

La Scala’s appearance, part of the Expo 86 World Festival of the Arts, is its first in North America in a decade. There will be six performances of I Lombardi beginning today.

The La Scala production of I Lombardi, which depicts the lives and loves of an Italian clan and its

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involvement in the Crusades, was too big for any of Vancouver's regular theatres.

It has 20 soloists, a 116-member chorus, 10 dancers, 65 other stage performers and 118 musicians. The sets inelude colonnade arches weighing a tonne each, a model of Jerusalem and huge wooden horses.

In 11 days, a complicated set of rigging for raising and lowering scenery was built backstage, a 300-unit lighting system was installed, a special sound system was brought in and a maze of booths for make-up, wardrobe and dressing rooms and extra showers was installed. @ The overhead hockey scoreboard now carries lighting, speakers and screens that will project an English translation of the Italian lyrics — the first time La Seala has used subtitles.

Expo officials refuse to discuss the cost of staging the opera and converting the Coliseum, but one report said the conversion alone will cost at least $500,000 while the bill for staging I Lombardi will be about $1 million.

Ticket prices range from $19 to $75. A World Festival spokesman said 30,000 of the 39,000 seats for the six performances had been sold.

VICTOR BORGE

Always a performer

NEW YORK (AP( — Viec- finally settled down. “This is gal and St. Croix, or from

tor Borge can't help himself. Give him an audience of even two or three and he per forms.

Ask him to lean forward a little bit for a photograph, and Borge keeps coming forward until he's draped over the arm of his chair like a big stuffed puppy.

He graciously signs an autograph, then demands: “Six dollars, please.”

At 77, the great Dane has hardly slowed a step and has no yen to retire.

“Some people reach the point where they must try

anymore,” he said when he

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“We all do what we can, we all have limitations. Ap- parently, within my limita- tions, is enough to go on and on and on and on.”

Borge performs 100 or more nights a year, some- times as pianist and some- times as conductor, usually as a clown but often in dead earnest.

A kind of insecurity, it seems, keeps him from a leisurely retirement at his homes in Connecticut, Portu-

indulging his passion for Sailing’ full-time. NEED COURAGE

“When you are trying to defend a position, or create a position, in any field in your life, then every change, every move, has to be de- fended,” he said. “Every move can be the end of it, or an advance. You have to be courageous.”

It doesn't deter him if someone has seen his act before. Half of his audience must be younger than such famous routines as “phonetic

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punctuation,” in which he creates crazy sounds to indi- cate periods, commas and question marks. He was doing that in the 1940s, and is still milking laughter from it.

The trick is to amuse the musicians while still tickling the people who couldn't find middle C on a piano with a map and a musical blood- hound.

Reality works best. Borge says he once saw a pianist slide right off his bench while playing a Tschaikovsky con- certo, and he has recreated that disaster hundreds of times.

At this point in his career, Borge says he feels no com- pulsion to be on stage and finds the comedy is easy — almost too easy — to do.

“That is why I like to be with musicians,” he said. “I want to hear the musicians’

“That's my challenge. The world doesn't nged-“me asa onductor. I know~that. I need it.”

MUSICAL FAMILY

Born in Copenhagen on Jan. 3, 1909, Borge was the youngest of five boys. His father, Bernhard Rosen- baum, was a violinist for 33 years in the Royal Sym- phony, and expected his son to follow suit. Instead, the boy took a liking to his mother Frederika’s instru- ment, the piano.

He made his concert debut at 13, and kept that up until 1934. His friends, though, knew him as a parlor co- median, and in 1931 a new career opened when he sub- stituted for the star of an amateur show for which he had already written the music.

Borge made Hitler a butt of his jokes, and he was fortunate to be in Sweden when the Nazis invaded Denmark in 1940. Soon after, he and his wife left for Amereaters, and memorized some of his routines phone- tically. Rudy Valee gave hime a shot at radio, and he quickly became a regular on Bing Crosby's Kraft Music Hall.

REMAKE OF

David Cronenberg’s message to film audiences for more than a decade has been: “I want you to watch the unwatch able.”

‘The 43-year-old Canadian director's latest film, The Fly, was recently opened across North America and is expected to surpass the $30 million grossed by his last blockbuster, The Dead Zone.

But why do millions line up to watch the “unwatchable?”

‘That is what one wants to ask the maker of hits like Scanners and Videodrome, the man who for a decade has been known as the Baron of Blood, or the Prince of Horror.

“You watch it in a theatre because you don’t want to have to watch it in the streets, or in your house, or on your bathroom mirror,” Cronenberg says.

The Fly, an $11-million US production starring Jeff (The Big Chill) Goldblum, is a remake of a 1958 horror film of the same name starring Vincent Price and Al (David) Hedison.

SWITCHES HEADS

It's the story of a scientist who accidently switches heads with a housefly in a botched experiment involving teleportation ( ing down and i les).

In Cronenberg’s version, the sci-fic tale takes in a love story between scientist Seth Brundle and a magazine journalist played by Geena Davis.

Cronenberg saw the original Fly as a teenager in Toronto.

“I saw it at the Eglinton Theatre and I remember the theatre owners offered $100 to anyone who could prove that what happens in the film could not actually happen.

“The instant I got out of the theatre, I wanted someone to explain that it couldn't possibly happen. My particular approach was that if the fly and the man did a head switch, why was the fly’s head big and the man’s head small?

“What was the rationale? Where did the extra atoms and molecules come from to make the fly head bigger? I found an usher to rant and rave to, and of course he said, ‘Get lost, kid,’ and I didn’t get my $100.”

Not only that, the film just didn’t make sense.

HOKEY CHARACTER

“Vincent Price's character was very hokey. It was: supposed to take place in Montreal but. everybody spoke with a Maurice Chevalier French accent and walked around in weird clothes — smoking jackets and dressing gowns.”

Years later, when approached with a script for a remake by writer Charles Pogue, Cronenberg was skeptical. ~

What did attract him was the slow transformation of the scientist into a fly rather than an instant head switch.

Cronenberg describes The Fly as a “com| romance: “It is a romance that begins to die because one of the characters is dying, is changing, is diseased. Some people have seen this as an AIDS movie or a cancer movie. I think that's going a bit far.”

It's also a special-effects film chronicling in agonizing detail every physical change undergone by Goldblum.

So far, he's over d by the critical resp “Tve just looked at the three Toronto papers and they're ali raves. I never, ever had three good reviews in Toronto.”

Does that mean he's achieved respectability?

“It’s kind of paradoxical. You want to be respected but you don't want to be so part of the establishment that you ‘can now just doze off and go to sleep for the rest of your life.”

Dallas being shot from new location

scenes will be shot at the Interfirst Plaza because of the Interfirst II building that housed the offices of Ewing Oil co. will be undergoing un- sightly renovations, officials said.

Bramalea Ltd., owners of the InterFirst Plaza, has been wooing Lorimar-Tele- pictures, the production company, for more than a year while the Interfirst Plaza still was under con- struction, said Bramalea spokesman Doug Salter.

However, Dallas publicist Joyce Wilson said that Lori- mar hasn't made a per.

DALLAS (AP) — When manent commitment to Larry Hagman wheels and either location. deals as the unscrupulous J.R. Ewing this fall on Dallas, it will be from new offices.

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JOHNSTONE Archibald Russell Johnstone, 67, of Trail died Aug. 15 af Trail Regional Hospital atter o long illness. He was involved with various ministries the First Presbyterian Church in Troil and was a of the Christian Men's Committee of Trail since 1950. A memorial service was held Aug. 19 of First

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