ee The unfinished Olympic stadium in Montreal . responsibility have put Canada on “the. threshold of a national disgrace.” . dubious contracts and buck-passing on financial Olympic site financing called national disgrace The central executive committee of the Communist Party of Canada has charged that the development of the Montreal Olympic site is riddled with widespread corrup- tion, and that Canada is on the threshold of a national disgrace unless all levels of government “work together to clean up the Games and make them a success.” In a statement released this week, the CP backed the call of the Montreal Citizens’ Movement for a - public inquiry into the handling of the development of the Games site. “From the beginning, the Olympics were conceived as being a bonanza for the developers and racketeer friends of the local of- ficials. Inflation alone cannot account for the rise in estimated expenditures from $250 million to $1.2 billion. The inquiry (into the Games development) should be an exhaustive one that would examine all aspects of the Olympic preparations in Montreal and root out all corruption.” The statement said that the governments of Quebec and Montreal, along with the Olympic Organizing Committee are all guilty ‘‘of violating the public interest and must bear equal responsibility for the mismanagement of the Olympic preparations.” The Montreal Olympics are expected to leave a deficit of over $750 million as a result of this mismanagement. The CP statement said that the Olympics ‘‘are not a matter for Quebec only”’ and that the federal Chile bans According to Variety, the show business newspaper, the film version of Fiddler on the Roof, adapted from the Sholom Aleichem story, was banned in Chile because the junta claimed it was ‘‘a pur- veyor of Marxist ideology.” Based on Aleichem’s .. famous work, Tevye’s Daughters, depicting the life of a poor Jewish , family in Czarist Russia, Fiddler: on the Roof has played to critical ‘Fiddler’ acclaim all over the world. It was nominated for several Academy Awards including best picture and best musical score. When the film arrived in Chile last year, it was passed by the censorship board but this ruling was subsequently thrown out by: the ruling fascist junta. Fiddler on the Roof joins a host of films banned by the junta. government was ultimately responsible for the Games’ deficit in allowing mismanagement and corruption at the provincial and municipal level. ‘‘They are a matter for all Canada, and the federal government’s refusal to cover the deficit is an abrogation of its duty to the country.” The statement noted that the federal government was adding to the growth of anti-French sen- timents -by bowing to the “pressures of Anglo-Canadian chauvinism in their refusal to cover the Games deficit.’”’ The federal government has con- sistently maintained that Quebec taxpayers alone are responsible for financing the Olympic Games. “Canada has an_ international responsibility to the future of the Olympic Games,” the Communist Party said. ‘‘Those attached to cold war ideas propose the abandonment of the Games on the basis that more and more the Games have become a showcase for the achievements _ of socialism.”’ “The Olympics are a_ living example of the peaceful cooperation and competition between countries and it is in- cumbent on all levels of govern- ment concerned to stop squab- bling, clean up the corruption and make the Montreal Games a suc cess.’ in Barry Lyndon BARRY LYNDON, Written for the screen, directed and produced by Stanley Kubrick, from the novel by William M. Thackeray. Photography by John Alcott. With Ryan O’Neal, Marissa Berenson, Leon Vitali and many others. At the Denman Place Theatre, Vancouver. } With the exception of critic Pauline Kael in The New Yorker, who was soberly and, I felt, correctly critical of this film, the great majority in the press hailed this $11 million, beautifully. con- trived conceit as one of the great masterpieces of all time.-It is something less. - Stanley Kubrick, who made such an outstanding gift to us with Dr. Strangelove, only to follow it with 2001 and Clockwork Orange, now. presents us with what undoubtedly was a dedicated effort to break: from the current monotony of fists, pistols and sex. Not that it doesn’t have its share, but it’s a relief to find it presented in a literate form with wit and good taste. But for reasons best known to himself he sought to gamble on a three-and-a-half-hour, deliberately undramatized narrative, in which the principal actors presumably were forcibly restrained from acting. This rather strange device ‘was seemingly employed to prevent us from ever getting close to the characters — either in sympathy or antipathy. Yet the film somehow holds together, despite long, static close-ups. It must be the often witty narrative which bridges the time lapses and informs the audience of events to follow and the most beautiful, . breathtaking scenery and magnificently opulent interiors seen in film in many a year. The story seems only an excuse for camera and composition. It seeks to tell us of the adventures and misadventures of a young Irishman (woodenly played by Ryan O’Neal) who duels and leaves for dead an English officer who sought to marry his love. With his mother’s blessings and her last 20 guineas he flees on his horse for Dublin, but on the way is robbed and, to survive, is forced into the King’s army. Off he goes to Ger- many to fight in the Seven Years War. But the sight of death all - around him makes it clear the glories of war are not for him. He escapes and his advantageous Traising 2-0 after the first period, the Soviets had to come from behind once more to edge Czechoslovakia out for the gold medal in a tense Olympic hockey final in Innsbruck last Saturday. After the second period left the score tied at 2-2, Eduardo Novak scored for the Czechs PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FEBRUARY 20, 1976—Page 10 midway through the third period but took a cross-checking penalty enabling the Soviets to tie it up at 3-3. Valeri Kharlamov (centre row, left, beside coach) put in the winning goal. Earlier, the Federal Republic of Germany defeated the favored U.S. team 4-1 to take the bronze medal. —Tass photo . raised families.” bell ies heed bone gas o misadventures compound to bri him, through a crooked gambli partner, enough money to dre elegantly and win the hand of beautiful rich women whos husband promptly dies and mak it all possible. 1 Back to England. with Milad! , where they are married, and , wins the hatred of her 10-year-0l | 1 { gh ond eee e edd son. His own child, a: boy soon bot! is the love of his life. But he! unfaithful to his wife and ca her misery. She, played witho trace of expression by Mari Berenson, is given no opportunill | to demonstrate whether or not S)} ; is an actress. ! Years pass, aided by shots of # | beautiful countryside and a ‘ narrator, and Barry’s greed lead to his downfall. He ends his life! disgrace and disaster. The writer- producer-directd seemed determined to keep film from being either an 4 venture story or a. costum melodrama, and therein lies problem. Basically it is both, 4! the audience is_ depriv Thackeray’s novel — if I remember that far back — caustic, ironic and cynical obs? vation of upper-class corrupt and opportunism. A trace of remains. Kubrick and his cameraman 4 deservedly praised for the vist beauty and spectacle. Yet 0 cannot but be critical of decision to deprive the audience?” any knowledge of the feelings of characters, except as described b the narrator. His wit is a sav! grace. 3 As I said, it’s all very, vé& pretty. But at $3.50 a semi-S0” seat, you’ve really got to Id prettiness. —LESTER cou People’s worl Maki returns not MacKay Hamish MacKay, has yet to the right.to return to the Unil! States although another m# William Maki, whose case reach! the Supreme Court at the sa! time as MacKay’s and whose fal — deportation — was the sal will be going back to Oregon fr) Finland. — Both were deported in 1960, NO to Finland and MacKay to Cana@ as a result of their membership? the 1930s in the Workers Allianc® America which, along with sco! of other organizations ™% determined by the U.S. authori to be “a Communist front.” 4 Oregon senator Mark Hatfle has been working on the casey some years and had introduc® bill which would have allowed pt men to return to the country whe they had ‘paid taxes, worked: © 1 The bill became caught up inf tape, however, and the sena y committee concentrated on W ning Maki’s right to return. ™% achieved, Hatfield intends to f™ on MacKay’s case. Fi Contacted at his home in BI naby, MacKay expressed. 9% concern that Maki had B® : allowed to return on the basis © he accepted anti- Communlaia want the right to return regare of my political affiliations,’ \ stated. i Although he is unlikely to his Burnaby home, MacKay W4 the right to return to visit rela in the U.S. which include mother and several grandchu® and great grandchildren.