a San age Rs ane TERRACE-KITEMAT -, Two-week musical event . An exciting and am- ~-yitione ean week~ program has been organized for northwest B.C. by the Northwest Regional Arts Council. This is a first-time artists In residence project which will benefit students of music, schools and audiences in Terrace, Prince Rupert and Kitimat, bringing the expertise of in- Brenda By JOE EDWARDS NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -— Memo from Brenda Lee: whe’ not an cep tuner. k ‘want every now I'm just 34 and not 55,” she sald in a recent interview. “lve got vim and vigor left Known as Miss Dynanute when she was a teenager, Miss Lee has resumed her recording career after a three-year hiatus, And she’s cultivating a new image to combat suggestions wnat she's old enough to be grandmother. Some people may think she's older than she is because she’s been singing — professionally for so long. Beginning with Jambalaya in 1936 at age 11, she's had Volleyball Th «4 SAND Hwy. 16 W." fernatonally known Northwest. “)rofesgional m unidiata fo" “The five musicians of our area. With the support of school boards, art organizations and the provincial government, the regional arts council has artanged for the York Winds, Canada’s foremost wind quintet, to teach, perform in schools and to appear in evening concerts in the Pacific the York Winds en- semble, each of them a future virtueso, combine to perform one of the top woodwind quintets of the world. They have per- formed in such countries, as keeland, Vest sect, many] ngland and Spain and have delighted mass audiences through the BBC and CEC television petworks. They plan . several more tours in Europe in the near A York Winds concert conveys the joy and lively wit of the artists with the fine technical ability of serious musicians, Yehann Boehm, music reviewer from the Jerusalem Post (1978) Lee makes comeback million sellers like I'm Sorry, Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree, Sweet Nothin's, All Alone AmI, Ags Usual, Too Many Rivers and Coming on Strong. “A lot of peoplehave heard about me from their parents, 80 they think I'm ancient,” Miss Lee said, ‘I'm just one year older than Linda Ronstadt,” “T've redone my hair and T’'m blowlng It dry,”’ she said, “And I’m dressing different — more natural, "But I'm not changing the way I sing. It will be the Brenda Lee sound, an up- dated sound, progressive country, I guess, I can't change ‘the way 1 sing: I've got to be myself," She quit recording for FRIDA y hill Forracd” | 435-005 6 three years to analyse ‘ar career. “T've been ina little reces- sion, like the country,” she chuckled, "I just wanted to take a respite and analyse things. I decided to go back In thé studio and sing the way I alng and let everybody play around me and do what I want to do and not what everybody else does, “Earller, I was not being honest. I wasn't doing any atyle at all. I didn'tknow who or what I was. I want to be in the ballgame again.” K KXEARARARARARARERRERMRARE RES “Thien “Twin Theatres Lid, 4720 LAKELSE AVE. Her proudest moments were receiving her first gold record, for I'm Sorry, and performing professional! for the firat time in the mid- 19308 in Augusta, Ga. “ve learned dizcipline and things like staging, lighting and sound. The moat important thing I’ve learned is lo be honest with the public and keep your perspective. you do that, you'll reach the goal you set out to be, ; "I don’t know if I'll ever say, ‘I quit.’ You're always in it to some extent," PHONE 638-8111 OCTOBER 7-13 Meatballs OCTOBER 14-16 KIARA NKR ERA EK KEKE, OCTOBER 17-20 © SHOWING AT 8 P.M. Murder by Decree Heaven Can Walt and Foul Play ; x x PO OK OCTOBER 13 A Boy Named Charlie Brown RHAKKKNKAAAKAKEK OCTOBER 7-13 The Concorde OCTOBER 14-16 Bloodtine OCTOBER 17-20 A Force of One rt ¢.8.$.9.%.%.6.¢.¢.$.t 6.2.2 S.4.508 ¥* 1 & | p.m. SOOO oo dooce: ttk toch kik amp aD kekkhhhkhkkh kb kth kkkkkkkek describes the group as. “five young men, every one an expert in his in- strument, (who) have in six years of playing together achieved a perfect blend of per- sonalities. What is even more important, they have maintained an in- fectious enthusiasm for making music a lively and exhilarating ex- perience to the audien- ce. The ensemble’s evening performances will be: In Terrace, Saturday, Oct. 27, Kitimat, Oct. 28, and in Prince Rupert, Thur- sday, Oct. 25. For further = in- formation please contact Rhoda Witherly at 62+ 9043 in Prince Rupert or Stefan Cieslik at 695-2101 in Terrace. The Herald, Friday, October 12, 1979, Page French-language mag for the film fanatic By INA WARREN MONTREAL (CP) — In Quebec they're known aa “lea mordus de cinema.’ They're that fanatic breed of movie-goer who will yenlure out on the coldest winter night to catch an obscure forelgn film, then spend hours discussing It with fellow fanatics, Such are the contributors . to24 Images, a new French- language film quarterly from Montreal. The title refers to the 24 frames of film necessary to make one second of a movie. It's coming to the market at.a time when movie fever ja high in Quebec, par- ticularly Montreal, and there’s a dearth of homegrown film magazines in either language. The highly-regarded Montreal based film magazine Take Onedied thissummer after a “13-year career. Designed by 24year-cid masters student Richard Leclere and published by Lea Editions Le Preambule, the magazine has a stunning, high-quality, book-like format and is one of the few film magazines to take advantage af movie stills for , its visual impact. Editorially it covers the Quebec, Canadian and in- ternational flim ecene with a. blend of articles and reviews and little commercial ad- Vertising, . The first three lssues of the quarterly have contained interviews with gamin-faced French actress Miou-Miou, an illustrated filmography of the movies of director Jean Renoir, an article on the movies of John Wayne and caverage of the Cannes and Montreal film festivals, The incandescent face of Greta Garbo will grace the next issue due in mid-November. “We're not closed in on ourselves,’’ says editor Maurlee Elia, speaking of the magazine's broad scope. "We don’t want to confine ourselves strictly to the Quebec cinema. ‘The reason Quebec films aren't working” is because they're being made just for us. “And the French-speaking ' film-goer here is very strange, We are people who love filme that are un- commercial and out of the ordinary and we love to talk about them. But we also have our private pleasure Musical made against odds By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD (AP) -— Larry Gordon and Joel Silver had this dream: they wanted to make a movie that would be like the great musicals of the 19408, Imposslble, they were told, Except for a freak like Grease, musicals were losers In the ‘marketplace, Recent history has been littered with failures: At Long Last Love, Lost Horl- zon, New York, New York, and The Wiz. Sill, pardon and Silver perele ted. And now Xanadu pheing filmed in and around Los Angeles with a cast headed by Olivia Newton- John, Gene Kelly and Michael Beck, The score is by Jeff Lynne of the rock superstars Electric Light Orchestra and by Jeff ‘Farrar, composer of hits for Ms. Newton-John. The other day the Xanadu company was working in the Beverly Hills heartland at Fiorucci’s, a onetime movie house converted into a boutique. It was a dance number in which Gene Kelly danced among the clothes racks with the girle who might have ste right out of Singin’ in the Rain. The lead dancer looked haun- tingly lke Cyd Chariase. Which is sity Kelly chose Producer Larry Gordon watched the scene with obvious delight. “Can you imagine what a thrill it is to be working with Gene Kelly?!" sald Gordon. “And to see him dance after he warned us — after we had already signed him — that he would not touch a toe. Gradually he agreed to do a little dancing, then more. “Not that he’s easy, When we met with him, he said, RESTAURANT —FULL FACILITIES— ~ CHINESE & GANADIAN FOOD— Mon. to Fri, —AIR CONDITIONED-- LOUNGE- —BUSINESS LUNCHES— Tlam - 2 pm FRI. & SAT. 1 SUN.-THURS. 11 a.m.-12 p.m. ] im. - 2 an. 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It got off the ground when several {llm fanatica crossed paths at last year's World Film Festival In Montreal, The contributors § are students, teachers and screenwriters paid modestly for their usually well-re- searched articles, “Moet of the writers tell us, ‘I don't want money, Just publish me, just publish my name,” says Ella. Eilla’s public lave affair with the movies began at the age of 17 when he began writing about the movies for Le Soir, a daily newspaper in Beirut, “Tt was thrilling work and I was paid about §5 a week for it,’ he recalled, VENETIAN DINING LOUNGE Gpen 6:20 a.m.to 11:30pm, 7001. 7) DINE IN OUA EXQUISITE ‘ FOR ASSENVATIONS 624-2621 or 624:3359 Tal we. 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