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festival and the outbreak of
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Banff, Alta., Aug. 15-21; the
World Film Festival of
Montreal, Aug. 19-29 and the
Festival of Festivals in
Toronto, Sept. 9-18.
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whose mandate includes co-
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in Canada. -

"We have a policy which”
we try to impose on
Canadian festivats that they’
not overlap,” he’said:'

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this year in that Banff had~
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International Animation
Festival, which since its
beginnings in 1076 has been
held every two years, —-__

Like all festival directora,,
O'Brien” fiercely.
protective: ‘at ‘her ‘celluloid

baby and
Bell beirig bounced about.
ee were told: this ‘year
‘thatif'we ran the same time

September for practical — ag Montreal we wouldn’t get..

reasons. At the same time ©
we had foreed Ottawa two
years ago to back’ up in

: August because it conflicted
‘with the Montreal festival.

“So Ottawa had backed

© up. By the time we opened.
-. up the contest;..Banft had
already” announced its
dates, so had Ottawa. Banff:
“has promised us ‘that: in -

future there will be no
existing |
Canadian festivals, and
they have two years fo find -

. & new time slot as Ottawa.’

takes place every two’.

years. n.

No wonder the man sighs.
Carrie Hunter,
soft-spoken
director of the three-year. -
‘Television -
Festival, says they switched
fo August this year because
September proved to be an

which — Is -in
production for the new

season,
Next year she hopes to .
“move the festival, eld on.

the verdant campus of the
Banff Centre for: the Per-

- forming Arts, to late May or
. early June, —

Red-haired Kelly O'Brien
ig ‘the energetic young

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“the

month for -

our money from the federal
“government, and . since

‘there was absolutely. no.

question of the Montreal
festival moving, we" had to
move back two weeks.
“The move almost killed
us because of the proximity
to the World Festival of
Animated Films in ‘Zagreb,
Yugoslavia, ‘in’ June: sir
“One of the most serious.
problems caused by the |

bump-up:-is that- film-*

makers who previously
‘could have. used. one print
for both festivals now have
to send one to both Ottawa
and Zagreb. °

“On ‘top of that, ” says.
Kelly, sounding miffed, “we -
‘Had “announced the . new
dates a year agd’ to the
federal government and
’ then Banff announced theirs
‘about six months later right

do?

~ “Then Banff called us and
asked - if we would change
our dates. There was just
sort of a stunned silence on

director of the. Ottawa

and doesn’ t appreciate.

want

on topof us. So what can you

this. end: and we’ ofthe |
Ottawa animation festival
all buret-out: laughing."

But - Canadian

television - festivals with an.
international Roope ~~ are.

more or less forced tata the. .

August-September period,

por, SBYE.LAleDVEE. iy ae i

“The Eyropean . festival,
cycle pretty much’ ‘takes. —

place from February . on,

with the Berlin festival until.

late July, and there is even:
Venice in late August. Then, ©
Canadian festivals have to
think: of the: American

” festival cycle which starts
in September ‘with New —

York, Chicago, © San
Francisco and Los Angeles.

- If. Canadian ‘festivals.
io benefit. from
premieres on this side of the
ocean they have..to take
place around August, s0 I -
understand the congestion.””-

. the -world . tap,
feat congestion Is even
more pronounced, ‘Just a
few years ago,  globe-

_ trotting” festival - groupies

had to cool their eyeballs for
a couple of days between,

say, ‘the Fairytale Film —
Festival in Odense, Den-
mark, and the. Hawaii

International Film Festival.

That’s now
remedied, There are more
than 409 films. festivals’ a
year and there isn’t a day
when one isn't unspooling
celluloid.

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Gossip Column

Q. Wasn't

death going. to make

Bing’
Crosby at the time of his

- another one of those:

“Road to .
with- Bob ‘Hope and
Dorothy: Lamour? Did
the movie, die with him? -

> movies “

“Ae. Maybe ° not, Bing .
.and Bob were just about --

‘set to. reunite in "Road
. to Hollywood’’,

five years. .ago, -

still; alive,:

just-~
- before. Crosby’s ‘death. .
The. -
. project, Says:- Hope,-:is-
‘although-
who'd take Bing’s part is.
a big question mark at.’
‘the moment: Hope plans:

to mount the vehicle as a°.

two-hour FY special :to-
be: aired “next year,

, Meanwhile, the 79-year-

* old Hope: p play.
. the late ether Walter:

|’. Winchell: on. .the big -
“ sereen. ‘As for Lamour, ©
"my guess: chet betalked

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more trek) down that
venerable show biz road.

Q. Danny Kaye has |

received a large share of |

attention . through «his

_loye of gourmet Chinese
" cooking, .

-plus.- the.
professional: kitchen’ ‘he. -

“has in his. own home. Is —
. this: culinary”. expertise

for teal,

iublicity?.-

superb: Chinese chef, As *
you're. undoubtedly:
aware, he often: likes -to:
disappear .: into \-.a
restaurant’s «kitchen.
when dining «"aut,

cooking. up. an,-Oriental ~.
' storm.’. He's. - “extremely:

‘film !
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