CASTLEGAR NEWS, March 8, 1981

Film- Saker never thinks small

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By BOB THOMAS

HOLLYWOOD (AP) — Not the kind of film-maker who thinks small, Franklin Schaffner has directed movics with subjects ranging from the Russian revolution to the Second World War. Now he's using both ancient aud modern Egypt as a back-

drop,

Hila latest production is Sphinx, with Lesloy-Anne Down and Frank Langella starring in the thriller writ- ten by Robin Cook.

His credits are impressive: Planet of the Apes, Patton, an Academy Award winner, Nicholas and Alexandra, Pap- Mlon, Islands in the Stream, The Boys from Brazil.

Filming Sphinx in the Cairo Bazaar provided one of his greatest challenges,

“It was incredibly diffi-

curiously, not dislogue but more of what I would call stage directions. They’ wanted the clothes to be clean. They wanted to elim- inate a child's eyes covered with flies.

“Their main concern was to avoid showing Egypt as a plice of filth and poverty. That was all right with me. Tve seen a lot more filth and poverty in other places that Egypt. And I was there for ambiance, not comment.”

While the international sit- uation gave the company an-

xious moments — during “

‘production the Russians in- «

tervened in-Afghanistan and the shah’ of Iran flew to Egypt from Panama — film-makers finished their work without interruption and moved to Budapest for interiors. Why Budapest?

"Because we could save from three-quarters to a mil- lion dollars over shooting in England and Germany,” Schaffner explained.

Schaffner said ho was at- tracted to Sphinx because “it was a good adventure- romanco, it had a: woman

playing the lead, and it was -

something I had never done before.”

His next movie is some- thing new again: a comedy with music. He is preparing Yes, Giorgio, whic will mark the film debut of opera star Luciano Pavarotti.

Appealing to audiences

y Peter J. Boyer Los. *ANGELES (AP) — Network television doesn’t

: have to be low, just commer-

cial. Same thing?

Perhaps. Grant Tinker, who makes television that is seldom: low and often com- merelal, disagrees.

“I've always said that the {audience's} lowest common is not so low, {t's

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’ attention span not so short,”

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To play at. Vallican Centre

Spirited and strong, dyna- mic and haunting — the

a Saskatchowan- ‘based dance band for a couple of years, it

cult,” he recalled. “Firat we music of Heather Bishop wasn't until 1977 that she

rehearsed the actors as quickly as possible before a crowd could gather. Then we

evokes many moods, She moves with ease from bitter-sweet blues songs to

committed herself to pro- fessional music as a solo performer. Her musical back-

sentinacameraoperatorand those portraying the spirit‘of ground is strong. She has

tmoment, a:

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and we'd be picking people out of the shot like lifting fish out of water. By the time we finished the scene, 1,500 peo- ple would. be gathered around, No retakes, no close- ups. Everything bad to be done in one shot.”

Sphinx was filmed in Cairo and Luxor, employing such rarely photagraphed locales as the Cairo’ Museum and tombs of the Valley of the Kings. Obtaining permissions from the Egyptian bureauc- racy was “an enormously complicated fandango,” said Schaffner.

REQUESTED CHANGES

“They wanted to-see the script, of course,” he said. “They requested changes but

the prairies or the energy,

a lie daily life. Using me voice, guitar and piano as her tools, Bishop creates her captivating music and shares it with warmth and sincerity.

Bishop, who is a carpenter and teacher of pre-trades for women, as well as a member of Manitoba's Women In Trades Association, has toured extensively: across Canada playing concerts, campuses and coffeehouses from coast to coast.

Early in 1979 she released her first album Grand- mother’s Song, on the Moth- er of Pearl label, which has been very well received and now has another to her credit entitled Celebration.

Although Bishop played in

Lust, what affect on child actors

iw YX would? it

“If anyone waiked out, I think they were shoetes by the. fact~] gs is

harnt a'vhild actress to ie a child with whom a middle- aged man — let's call him Humbert — falls in lust? Such happens in Lolita, they say.

“I honestly don't think they'd understand it,” says Blanche Baker, 24, whose mother, Carrol] Bakor, earn- ed some attention in 1956 as the retarded child-wife in Baby Doll.

‘The question is academic now. After auditioning tykes for the stage version of Lolita, the producers decided the nymphet role might best be played by a grown-up who can play a sexy child well.

‘That party is Baker. On March 5, she and Donald Sutherland, he cast as Hum- bert, make their Broadway debuts .in Edward Albee's drama, which is based on the novel by Vladimir Nabokov.

- he show caused a bit of a stir in its Boston tryout run, what with technical “difficulties, walkouts by some patrons shocked at its con- tent.and the refusal of radio stations to air a Lolita ad using the. novel's famous opening lines: “Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.”

“DEFENDS PLAY

But Baker calls the play

“tasteful.”

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very sensuous,” beige mid, “It's very straightforward. But the language is so sen- suous it really is shocking.” Baker got into all this because she dropped out of Wellesley College in 1976, in her junior year saying she preferred acting to biology. She's sineé appeared at Yale in Ibsen's Wild Duck, in film — asa 12-year-old in The Seduction of Joe Tynan and a coed in French Postcards — and has an Emmy for her work in NBC's Holocaust. Growing up in a theatri- cal family, she met many famous people in theatre and film. But the one she remem- bers most, she says, was the late Harold Clurman, the director, producer and critic, “He had a real love for the theatre, for art and life in general. He advised me when Iwas in

many years of ‘training on piano and guitar and cur- rently is studying voice. Also, Bishop has taught piano and guitar for many years.

Heather Bishop will be playing the Vallican Whole

Community Centre at 7:30 p.m. on March 15 as part of a ‘Western tour that inclides Vancouver and Victoria:

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says Tinker, head. of Mary Tylor Moore Productions. “Maybe I'm just an optimist.”

That optimism was forged

, by such intelligent, broadly

appealing successes as The Mary Tylor. Moore Show, WKRP in Cincinnati and Lou Grant. It is being tested by the ‘surprisingly cool sudi- ence reception being encoun- tered by M-T-M's new cop show on NEG, Hill Street Blues,

Here's a. show’ that was launched by, critical raves seven months before it was broadcast, winning plsudits as the best of the new ‘TV series shown to the TV Press

at last summer's network press conventions. Hill Street-Blues possessed the qualities certain to win crit- ‘ies’ favor — realistic char- acters. of ‘some. depth and passion, and pty that had something to 53}

But Hill Street Blues had more, elements that sug- gested it would have no trouble finding a broad audi- ence. It contained certain soap opera qualities — con-

tinuing romantic: entagle- ments, for example — and a couple of characters uncom- plicated enough to satialy the broadest predelications. ©

, Hill Street Blues, being a cop show, had its share of squealing tires and blazing guns. It also had the support of:NBC, which promised to

“We all know that Satur- ‘day night is an unlikely night

| Regina and CFTK led the |

‘ Heather Bishop now on western tour. .

Small can be beautiful

EDMONTON (CP) — Small can be beautiful, says John Juliani, a maverick ac- tor and stage director who wants to see the Canadian film industry shun lavish co- production with Hollywood.

Juliani, an Edmonton res- ident and veteran of 20 years in Canadian theatre, is work- ing on his first feature film, patton 55, with a budget of

$800, Thee i he said,

what I wanted to do.”

*I did well in biology but was interested in drama, wondering if I should take theatre courses, He said: “No, absolutely not, never do that. People who study only theatre, theatres “theatre, have nothing to bring to it if they decide to become actors. When they finally. get up on stage they haven't lived.”

“He told me I should go to the zoo, go to the museum, take any course but theatre in college.

She. “took his advice: Later though, she studied with Uta Hagen, the famed acting teacher.

Baker, who is 5-foot-4 and barely weighs 100

pounds, lost weight to land Canadian films are making . leals first, films second.

She grinned when asked They say: ‘I got some carrots,

if it kills her to walk past a some celery, some lettuce,

the Lolita role.

pastry shop.

has helped enforce a passion for the ‘inexpensive, even though he and his -wife,. Donna Wong-Juliana, had to defer their salaries for months of 14-hour days while putting | together the film.

“I may fall totally flat on my face. with Latitude,” | he said in an interview. 1

“Thave no illusions about it and just hope I haven't fouled it up so badly it won't have earned me the right to a second crack.

“If everything else fails, all this proves is that I've tried to put my money where my mouth is — about what I believe about Canadian things.

“Most of the people in

what will, you give me?’ Ifyou

don’t have a screen play, you

. say, oh well, we'll just get

one written.

“The thing is... they don't need to make a film, This year films are in because they are a tax shelter; next year-maybe the big deal is in turnips.”

-Taking on the establish- ment is not new for Juliani, 40, ‘who has been fighting such battles for years. CHALLENGED

He once Robin

ship between an employee of the Alberta culture depart- ment and an eccentric, Polish

igrant farmer who drags her to a cabin during a bliz- zard. _

‘The script was written by SharonsRiis of Lac La Biche, Alta., in collaboration with Juliani, who also. has the rights to Riis's novel, The

“True Story of Ida Johnson.

But it could cost, far more than: Latitude to shoot be- cause of its complexity.

Phillips to a duel when the Briton was appointed direc-

Td like to go pi b something. ‘else really

tor at over a num: ber of Canadian candidates.

A native of Montreal, Juli- ani received his formal train- ing at the National Theatre Schoél and took jobs at

‘Stratford, at U.S. universi-

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BCTV among ‘award

winning stations

VICTORIA (CP) — more than 40 awards for Canidian television programming were presented to ‘IV. stations Tuesday night as the Can-Pro 81 Festival coneluded its three-day meeting.

The annual festival honors

local program production. - CITY’ Toronto won the award for excellence for the ‘program Having a Baby. CFTK, Terrace, B.C. won the merit award for Respond: Code: Three.

BCTV Vancouver, CKCK

winners with three awarda. each in their respective mar- kets.

Market A category for sta- tions with an audience of morethan 1,300,000, The awards were for Marathon of

less than 200,000. The awards were. for Skeena Journal in the public affairs series, Mark Twain, In Per- son in the performing arts specials cAtegory and Trap-

per Jack and the Lighthouse Children in’ the children’s

More than 190 programs were entered in this year's competition.

BCTV won awards in the

OPEN

Spam. until Midnight ; Monday - rd International Cuisine in a Dutch setting

for if cop show," says Tinker.

“Wo tried it with Paris (on -

CBS last year), a classy show that had James Earl Jones, ‘and it failed. It's yet to be

shown that a cop show can *

succeed on. Saturday night and we're yet to get our heads above water with this one.”

‘Tinker refers to the Sat- urday night audience's cur- ious partiality to light enter- tainment, 4 predilection that once made’ CBS's Saturday night:comedy lineup a powel house and now favors ABC's Love Boat and Fantasy Is- land.

“But if we're right, that Is, if this is really a good show, then the audiences will find it and they'll be back,” says Tinker.

“But we're giving the audience a little bit of a-hard

looking at. “And, maybe inner city

problems represent a:threat:

to the audiences. I don't know._Those elements ma: be making our climb more of an uphill one, but those are the elements that I happen to like about the show.” Indeed, too many alter-

ations to the show could ruin _

its tentative balance, as happened with another

M-T-M series, White Shad-

ow, which didn't endure

changes meant to broaden its -

appeal,

Tues. - Sat.

‘Potpourr! fay answer, In Wednesday’ 's poper. eae

day, beating a

native’ ot of] England who toted

“Hope in'it! ;olvementsectioneB,C;:Sum- + mer Games in the sports out- doors section and Zig Zag in’ -

the children’s series,

CKCK won awards in the Martket C category for sta- tions with an audience of 200,000 500,000. The awards were for Debate in the instruction series, ‘This Week ‘in the public affairs series and Decade of Family in the community invelve- ment section.

CFTK took the honors in thé Market D category for stations with an audience of

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