AIO - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, November 1, 2000

Expect Momma show
here in the new year

By KEITH FREEMAN
TERRACE AUDIENCES
should expect to see the
drag queen Momma on the
big screen here some time
in the New Year according
to one of the producers of
a pilot TV series.

Daniel Leipnik says
that once post-production
is over, he wants. to bring
up the finished pilot pro-
ject and share it with
people here.

“I'd really tike to show
it to people who were
Skeptical or afraid of
Momma,” he said;

Momma, a drag queen
was in Terrace in August
along with a Vancouver-
based film crew, Their aim
is ta pitch Momma’s stay
here to production compa-
nies, and possibly turn
Momma's Monients into a
comedy TV series.

Momma was in town
shortly after Terrace city
council rejected requests
by several groups to pro-
claim a Gay, Lesbian, Bi-
sexual and Transgendered

Open house

on fishery

A PUBLIC policy discus-
sion on freshwater sport-
fishing is caming to Ter-
race tomorrow at the pub-
lic library.

The series of open
houses is coordinated by a
joint government-private
sector steering committee,
set up by Fisheries Rene-
wal B.C.

The committee, led by
the B.C. Wildlife Federa-
tion, consists of Guide and
Outfitter associations
across the province as well
as tourism agencies and
several government mini-
Stries.

The session will be held
from 4 p.m. to $ p.m.

The Annual Genersl Meeting
for the Terrace Woter Polo
Association will be held in the
Aquatic Centre meeting room at
9:00 p.m. on Sunday, November
19* All members ond former play-
efs of anyone in the sport are
invited to attend to moke plans for
the 2000/2001 Season. A poal
‘E session will follow ot 9:00 pm.
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Pride Day in Terrace.
Leipnik pointed to the
popular primetime comedy
Will and Grace as proof
that shows with same gay
content are hits with audi-
ences,’
He said the show,
which has taken Seinfeld’s
time’ slot; attains an audi-

ence. of. 13 million in the

U.S; nightly.

“For ‘all. those skeptics
in Terrace, this is just to
point out that it is more
common than people
realize,” he said,

Right. now, the field
tapes are being watched
by Leipnik, co-producer
and former Terrace resi-
dent Jason Sutherland and
L.A. based director Gregg
Baxter. They’re being
screened for quality, and
by the end of November,
an hour-long director’s cut
will be completed.

Baxter won an academy
award in 1992 for his
sound work in Last of the
Mohicans.

Leipnik said that the
material they’ve gathered
most likely won’t ever be
aired on TV, and will be

used anly to woo produc-
lion company’s interest in
a fulure series. oo

“The pilot will basical-
ly give us direction as to
what the whole series is
about,” Leipnik said. “We
have to still write a whole
seasons worth af
episodes.”

-Leipnik added that de-
spite some people’s angry
reaction to Momma, the
community was very ac-
commodating to the crew.

“When I watch it, [
realize just how giving the
people of Terrace were, [in
Vancouver] we'd face a
whole bunch of red tape
and bureaucracy” he said.
“It’s this type of film
friendliness that will lure
people to Terrace.”

The attention that the
project has received from
the media is encouraging
he said.

“Tye never known a
project to get so much al-
tention when it’s only at
the pilot stage,” Leipnik
said.

Leipnik says he has yet
to approach anyone here
about screening the film,

LOS ANGELES drag queen Momma drew a lot of
interest in August when he came here complete
with a film crew in response to the controversy sur-
rounding the city’s refusing to declare a gay pride
day. A TY pilot of the visit could air here next year.

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