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10, ENTERTAINMENT, THE HERALD, Wed. Dec. 22, 1976

; Nehemiah Perso

has starred on Broadway.

Nehemiah Persoff and
Jackie Burroughs star in
Kaleshnikoff: on Here to
Stay, Sunday, December 26
at 9 p.m. on CBC-TV.
After spending 40 years
working as a section hand
for the railroad in the small
British Columbia central
interior town of Fort Clyde,
Kaleshnikoff is suddenly
thrown out of work when the

’ railroad decides to close

down its station.
Kaleshnikoff decides to take
on the world of high finance
and, through fierce deter-
mination, becomes a

' millionaire.

Kaleshnikoff was written
by Paul St. Pierre and shot
in. British

Producer is Philip Keatley.
A native of Jerusalem,
Israel, Nehemiah . Persoff

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and international stages
throughout his career. He
was recently nominated as
Best Actor (1975) for his

rformance in The Dybbuk
y the Los Angeles Critics’
Circle. He has previously
received a special award
from the Circle for his tour-
de-force one-man - show
Aleichem Sholem-Sholem
Aleichem. His major New
York theatre credits include
Only in America, Tiger. at

the Gates, Camino Real,

Richard III. His film credits
include Red Sky at Morning,
Some Like It Hot, The
Greatest Story Ever Told,
Al Capone. Persoff was

featured as Gromyko in the

highly-acclaimed television
special, The Missiles of
October. He was seen last

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Jackie Burroughs is quite
simply one. of Canada’s
finest film dctresses. She
won her first Etrog in 1969
for her performance in the
CBC-TV drama, Dulcima.
Her second Etrog came in .
1973 for her performance in
the CBC-TV drama, Vicky.
She received an ACTRA
Award for the same per-
formance, She has appeared
at the Stratford Festival in
A Comedy. of Errors, Two

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JEAN SHEPHERD'S
NOSTALGIC COMEDY
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ON “VISIONS”

A comedy by Jean
Shepherd about a young
man's passage through an

, American Tribal rite — the

Junior Prom — is~ this
week's presentation on

Visions Monday, December-
27 at 9:30.p.m. on Public TV
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Also appearing in
Kaleshnikoff. are Robert
Clothier, Powys Thomas
and Michael Ball.

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Hickey’s Night of Golden

Memories and Other
Disasters.” The well-known
humorist, novelist, radio
erformer
narrates the film, which
tells the story by means of
flashback. ~

Set in the Midwest during
the 1940’s, the play revolves
‘around a family in. a steel
town — a father (James
Broderick) who has two
loves, the family car and

bowling; a mother (Barbara.
Bolton) who yearns for the

local movie theater's give-

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brother (Adam Goodman)
who collects box tops and
the play's hero, Ralph
(David Elliott). .
Ralph dreams of taking
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glamorous gitl in his high
school class, the unat- |
tainable Daphne Bigelow

- (Tobi Pilavin), to the Junior

Prom, but finally settles on .
Wanda Hickey (Roberta
Wallach) — ‘the only girl |
‘who I knew for a fact liked: .
me.”’ . +

- The play’s.title is derived
from a_ steel-mill super-
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a face in the open hearth is
in for. luck, either good or
bad, The phantom, . says

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and. directed by

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-edited by Richard Bartlett.

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