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WINNIPEG (CP) —
Singer Michael Jackson
attracted ai sea of
screaming admirers to a
city park Sunday. That’s
not bad, considering he
wasn't even there,

The fans came to see a

Michael | Jackson
moonwalk contest, in
which performers

dressed up like the pop
star and imitated his
moonwalk dance
complicated footwork
light years away from an

astronaut's steps on the
moon,

Winner Jerry Boren,
24, who spent hours
studying Jackson's. in-
tricate four movements
on videotapes played in
slow motion, said the
dance is called a
moonwalk “because your
foot's very Light when you
move it.” ;

Borden, . who rented
Jackson videotapes and
practised up to three
hours a day. to learn the

moonwalk, said he had

“only three “hours” te

practise for ‘an audition
held three weeks . ago
when 175 hopefuls were
whittled down to 13

finallsts.
He found. it ‘quite
’ flattering’ to have

thousands of Jackson
fans screaming at his
meves, althoughhe ad-
mitted he hasn’t learned
how to do all ‘of the.
boyish-looking
mer'’s spins.
“He does a triple spin.
It’s tough. I always lose

pertor-
. Jean, Thriller, Beat It

’ said
uy

my: : “balance, "
Borden, who added:

, always have to remind
* myself that I'm not him,
‘that I’m someone elze. i

PERCH.IN TREES
Some fans’ perched in
trees’ or on each others’
shoulders to get a better
look at the sequined.
gloved, black-suited
performers who danced
to the rhythm of Billy

and ‘other’ smash ‘hit
records by one of North

Finney’s Pope most demanding

WASHINGTON (CP) — °

AVLBERT Finney has
trouble deciding which
role was easier — por-
traying Protestant leader
Martin Luther or Pope
John Paul.

Playing the head of the
Roman Catholle Church .
was far more demanding,
says Finney, who stars in
the television movie
about the Pope to be
shown on CBS and Global
on Easter Sunday. It was
a part he originally
turned down — and
almost couldn't complete
because of problems with
Communist authorities.

“I could understand
Luther's zeal because I
was young,” Finney saya
of his 19603 stage por-
trayal of the Protestant
reformist.

“But with the Pope, I
couldn't understand his
faith;.I don’t have it,” the
47-year-old British actor
readily admits.

REMAINS MYSTERY
Itremains a mystery to
him, he says, how Karol
Wojtyla, the Pole who
became Pope in 1978,
could live through the
brutal. Nazi Occupation
“and decide to become a
priest,” and still later
face an oppressive
Communist government
and “still retain his op-
timism in mankind.” ,
But ; Finney, who
describes’: himself as
having “no religious
persuasion; Lhaven't yet
found my way, ff you
like," says it was not the
primary reason he first
rejected the film.

Debut album a success’

Cherry Beach Express,
the first single from
Pukka Orchestra’s debut
album, isn't likely to
mamuor the Toronto band
vith the city’s boys in
due.

But that song, a
‘eemingly . autobiogra-
thical ditty containing
lone-tao-subile —_allega-
ions of police brutality
the band even fingers a
ipecific cop division),
mmediately sets the tone
f the LP - Pukka
Wehestra (Solid Gold
Yecords), .

The - songs are—
jenerally topical, in-
clligently structured, yet
hey are delivered with
‘uch strut and swagger
sordering on flippancy
hat the overall feel of the
ilbum takes on light-.
iearted appeal. Pukka |
‘pronounced puck-kah)
Irchestra haa fashioned
1 thoroughly engaging
aunch to the big time.
The material deals with

Tours big business

UNIVERSAL ‘CITY,
Calif. (AP) — About 70
years ago, Carl Laemmle
allowed visitors to view
his new movie lot for 25
cents a head, -

Movie buffs were even
allowed to stand behind a
glass wall In the com-
missary and watch
feeding tlme for the
actors,

Thanks to the news
media, everyone knows
how the Pope “acts, how
he sounds,” and Finney
thought taking the role
could bring him nothing
but criticism.

“With Martin Luther,
no one knew what he was
like; there is no video.
Maybe there were some
Protestants who had
problems with the play,
but they couldn’t criticize
my portrayal because we

don't know about him.” .

FRIEND ADVISED

But an old frlend helped
convince Finney to take
the role In the three-hour
film.

“T was on the phone to
John Gielgud and I told
him how worried I was;
that I'd never played
anybody we can still see.

“He told me: ‘Just pick
up on one or two things
that remind you of him;
don’t try to make a Xerox

any

Finney took the advice.
After watching hours of
film, he discovered the
Pope has a “slight stoop
with rounded shoulders. P
And he has a good sense
of timing when he speaks,
perhaps because of his
early training ag an
actor, says Finney.

+ “But it doesn’t look like
& performance. He's a
very natural person; you
don’t have the feeling
that he descends in an
elevator from an ivory
tower to, walk among us
, mere mortals,”
HELPED SWAY

Persistency on the part
of the film’s executive
producer, Albert

weighty matters — the
jangers of over-zealous

ambition, aberrant
exual behavior, nuclear
aftermath, crimes . of

jassion and painfully
. Ncommunicative _rel-
ationships — but there's
nary a single instance on
the 1l-cut package where
the band ‘approaches a
preachy or overbearing
presentation.

On the contrary, singer
Graeme Williamson
shows instances of an
offbeat wit, as in the
melodic Rubber Gir], a
pacan to those inflatable,
life-sized “love dolls.”
His delivery is strictly
romance ballad, yet the
effect is intentionally
blown apart by such lines
as: “At the first sign of
aggravation I'll have the
power of immediate
deflation,”

Similarly, The .
Deserter, a touching
piece of poetry con-
cerning a military

Today, the Universal
Studio Tow is hig
business, with: three
million tourists annually

bedazzled by the wondera .

of the movie world.
The studio celebrated

20 years of tours earlier.

this month with a ltlle
whoopdedoo attended by
two mayors: the
ubiquitous Tom Bradley

Rick James
found unconcious

_ BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP)

— Rock singer Rick
James was reported in
falr conditlon in hospital
today after a friend found
- him unconscious in his
suburban home Sunday
night.

Police in East Aurora,
where James lives, said a
friend found the rock
ainger unconselous in bed
shortly before midnight.
A rescue squad took

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James to the Erie County
Medical Centre in Buf-
falo,

Police said they have
ho other information on,
the incident,

Marion Marionowski, a
spokesman ior the
hospital, said James is
“resting comfortably in .
falr condition.”

She sald she doean't

what caused
James's condition...

. system

or

Cooperman, also helped
sway him, says Finney.
Cooperman. had

steadfastly maintained .

that Finney was the only
actor he wanted and
refused to take no for an
answer. In the film,
Finney: plays the Pope
after the age of 27; a
young British novice
named Michae] Cromp-

‘ton plays Wojtyla as a

youth.
Still, the film nearly did
not pet made. -
who

Cooper
decided political
problems would .be in-
surmountable in Poland,
went ‘instead to
Yugoslavia, where the
Communist government
gave him permission to.
use the anclent town of
Zagreb‘ as the film's
stand-in for Krakow.

But three days before
final shooting was to
start, the Yugoslavs
expelled ‘Cooperman's
crew and confiscated the
film they had already
taken.

The Yugoslavian
government, has not
explained why it did that,
Cooperman said at a
news conference he at-
tended with Finney after
a recent media preview
of the film.

HAS SUSPICIONS

“But I have my
suspicions; it's an- anti-
Communist - film,”
Cooperman said.

The film concentrates
not only on Wojtyla's role
as ait activist against the
Nazi occupation. of
Poland during the Second
World War, but also on

execution, is presented in

‘a straight-faced Monty

Python vein.

But the album is not
overtly geared to humor;
cuts like Your Secret Is
Safe With Me, Might As
Well Be on Mars, Miss
Right and A Wonderful
Time to be Young are all
“straight” numbers with
good commercial -
potential,

Given a bit of exposure,
Pukka Orchestra has
what it takes to make a
definite impact on a
world scale.

—

The Canadian
Recording Industry
Association has modified
its monthly certifications
to —_ include
multiple. - platinum
awards for albums that
have sold to levels’ of
600,000 through 900,000
units.

Previously,. the next
award level for an album

of Los Angeles and the
beauteous Rebecca
Holden of Universal City.
Holden, from TV's Knight
Rider; has only an
honorary title, since
Universal City is merely
169 hectares of unin-
corporated territory
surromded by Los
eles.

Although the Universal
tours actually date back
to Laemmile’s little visits,
the tours went out when
sound movies came. in
because they were too
nolsy

But in 1963, Universal,
like al) studios, WAS
jooking for ways to stay
in business. The parent
company, MCA, took a
timid step at reviving
Laemmle's tours, The
first employees were a
ticket seller, two guides
and two tram drivers.

Today, there are 1,500
employees and shows
galore, including a new
one next month: the A-
Team Live Action Show.

apt ae

Po rene RM Spi at on

‘loaned Finney

" source,

his later struggles with

the Conimunist leaders in

his homeland — first as a -

young priest and then a5
a bishop and cardinal.

(The movie ends in 1978

with his election as

- Pope.)

‘The - project was
delayed for a month while
Cooperman raced around
Europe looking for a new
location, . eventually
settling on Graz, Austria.
Then, for a while, it

* looked as though Finney

would have to leave the
project because he was
committed to making The
Dreaser (the film for
which he reesived an
Oscar nomination; he lost
to Robert. Duvall). ‘

Cooperman, however,
says he fared hetter with
Catholic church officials.
From _ the ‘in
1978, he worked through
the Archdiocese of New
York in researching the
project.

He believes that the
archdiocese helped pave
the way for co-operation
at the Vatican, which
allowed the film to be
shot at St. Peter's Square
and inside the Vatican
Gardens and buildings.

The Vatican even
some
clerical attire to use in
the film, Cooperman
says.

Even though this is an
American-financed
movie, the supporting

actors are mainly-British

because Cooperman sald

he wanted all the accents

to match Finney’s for the
sake of unity. - .

that had achieved
quintuple-platinum _st-
atus (500,000 copies) was
diamond status for one
million sales.

The restructuring took
effect with the
association's March
certifications and marks
its first. eight-times-
platinum award — for
Culture Club's Colour By
Numbers.

The modifications also
establish a double
diamond level, a berth
obviously “prepared for
Michael Jackson's
Thriller.

Top 10

Here are the week’s
Top 10 pop albums and
singles as compiled. by
the national music trade
The Record,
Bracketed figures in-
dicate position last week.
ALBUMS
1(2) 1984 — Van Halen.
2(1) Colour By Numbers
— Culture Club
3(3) Thriller — Michael
Jackson

. 44) Touch — Eurythmics

5(7) Footloose — Sound-
track

6(6) Sporta — Huey Lewis:

and The News

7(5) Learning to Crawl - ~
Pretenders

8(8) She's So Unasual
Cyndi Lauper

8(12) Rebel Yell —— Billy
Tdol ; ;
10(0) Seven and ithe

Ragged Tiger — Duran |
Duran

SINGLES ‘
1(1) Girls- Just Want to
Have Fun Cyndi

Somebody's Wat:
ching Me — Rockwell
3(3) 99 Red Balloons —
Nena

4(4) Jump — Van Halen

$6) Footloose ~ Kenny
6(7) Eat it — Weird Al ’

Yankovic
7(8) Agalast All Odds —
Phil Collin

A(11) Miss Me Blind —
Culture Club

8(16) Hold Me Now —
Thompson Twins

10(6) 1 Want a New Drug
— Huey Lewis and The
News ;

cae

‘America's top stice. :

“Never, I'v¢ never had -

a response like thig in my
life to any’ promotion I've

ever seen or dotte,’”. dald.

organizer ‘Brenda
Sigurdson.
“It's really ‘incredible

that Michael Jackson is" -

this popular.” -

As . worrled-looking
police and security
personnel ’ watched,
excited fans jostled each
other to get a better view,
with those in ~ front
pressed against a flimsy
fence surrounding the
stage area. The sunny
and ‘warm weather,
combined with the
recorded music,
tributed to the upbeat
mood.

The contest was to have
been held in a, shopping
mall two weeks ago, but
was posiponed when an
unexpectedly large
crowd up of to 98,000
showed up and caused
security problems.

' Sunday's crowd, which

con- *

— sseourity ‘staff: estimated:
fat up: to. 15,000, was

- generally :-kept under.
. control by 10 security

guarda and about'a dozen’
uniformed police, ;

There:.was a small”

tipple: of panic near the
Blage area at.one paint
when 19-year-old Mildred
Macapagal screamed for
“help . ag ‘blood poured
down her face.
Macapagal, who had
-been hit near the eye with
& can that had been
thrown at her, was
rushed to an ambulance
- where shé was treated for

a minor cut toher face. :

RESEMBLES SINGER

Borden, the oldest of
_the. finalists, wore glit-
tery socks, a black sult, a
sequined glove and full
makeup. He said he
decided to enter because
his friends.told him he
bears a striking
resemblance to the
famous singer,

“I decided, if I look like
him 80. much then I

Let us repair your old boat top or make you a new

should ol hig contedt,”
said Borden, who. is
originally from Toronto
and works in Winnipeg
for the Hcensing branch

- of the federal : Depart-

ment of Communications.
Borden, who is also a

part-time model, ‘won a.

trip for two to see his hero
-perform in concert when
Jackson goes on his next
North American tour.
Organizera . were un-
certain just when’ that
tour will take place,. but
Borden's victory will take
him to the nearest stop on
the Jackson sweep.

The only female
competitor, was Sherry
Martin, i5, who entered
the . contest because
Jackson is her all-time
favorite hero and she
‘wanted a chance to see

“He's sweet,” said
Martin, ;
slicked-back hair and a
dark sult. “He's nota
"forward guy. Just a cute
little innocent guy, you

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