- NEW YORK (AP) _ ‘ABC's The

serial, a-Roman Dallas, complete
with ‘st, betrayal, fraud and
hypocrisy. But this toga party is no
cliffhanger. We know in. the end
stack = and-’ bury | Pompeii’s
depraved citizens,

‘ The miniseries will have a three-
hour episode Sunday night and two-
hour’ instalments Monday and

NBC's six-hour miniseries V: The
Final Battle, © |

on’ a novel by Edward Bulwer
Lytton, ‘and guidance from
executive producer David Gerber
(George Washingtori), Pompeli
sometimes succeeds at being more
serious than mere . first-century
trash,

But’ ‘it focuses on several in-
credible and shallow love

* and uninteresting . t keep
anybody's interest.’
for the Roman ‘Empire, the
year-79 A.D., is its playground,
.| There the nobllity lolls around by
_ day, goes to wild parties by night
and screams for the blood of fallen

warriors, and Christians during
weekends. -

Last Days of Pompeii is a spaghetti .

' {hat Mount Vesuvius will blow its .

. famous sword games. Lydon
Tuesday, competing directly with .

| "briefs, He’ Ba reluctant killer.
’ With a script by Carmen Culver.
(The Thorn Birds), based loosely’

relationships and is too convoluted |
_ religious cultist in Pompeil..
‘While Rome is the seat of power |

southern port of Pompeii, in, the

a itil iminovable object.
WORLD OF: DREAMS .

“What'a world of dreame is this |
Pompeii where each one strives to
be what is not," says the dwarf,
Philos;: “(George Claydon), Pom:

: Bell's reaident philosopher. .. Quintus.
One slave did buy.his freedom by BEST ROLE
becoming the _heavywelght. wee Beatty, as Diomed, ‘provides

the

champion of the gladiators’ in-

(Duncan " Regehr) is a massive
physical specimen, so he gets to
play most of the movie in his
. Bunker.
Yes, indeed, there is a bulging °
heart under Lydon’s pectorais.
He's in love with a blind -slave.
named Nydia (Linda Purl); who,
alas, is in love with the wealthy
Greek, Glaucus (Nicholas Clay),
who, alas, is in. love .with the.
beaitlful Tone (Olivia Hussey),
who, alas, has spurned him and is
toying with the idea of becoming a
high priestess to Arbaces (Franco
Nero), a:dastardly, power-huigry

All ‘of ‘this background is
necessary because the plot is often
tough to follow.

Arbaces’s platform: to gain.
power and. riches is based on
killing the outlawed Christians. His
view of. the people feeds his:
hypocrisy and corruption. “The

- eeremionies, rites.” :
He thinks Pompeii’s magistrate,
liberakminded Quintus,
(Anthony Quayle), 1s too soft, 6o he
enlists the social-climbing mer- -
chant, Diomed, hed run » aaa :

the miniseries’ only comic relief,
and he's clearly: the best thing -
about Pompeii. Diomed could be
one terrific sitcom character, sort
of a rich, blood-thirsty Archie |

Beatty, one of. America’ B “best
and most versatile actors, knows.
how to have fun with -him —
whether he’s woebegone because —
his daughter won't do hia political
bidding and .marry the ever- .
popular Glaucus; or he’s engaging ‘-
in. some public . one-upsmanship
With, Quintus. .

Besides Beatty, the ‘production’ 'S “
other class act is"Sir Laurence |
Olivier, His role ‘is a ‘mere con-
trivance, but he gets the most out
of it-with his multifaceted- ex-
pressions ‘and emotions, = -

Gerber, known for the urban
reality. he created in Police Story,
does convey a sense of life inside
the ancient city by shooting : on
location from the actual remains of

In- Pompeii, class, which Is
worshipped as.much as the gods, ls

people must be blinded for their
own good,” he says. “They don’t
want the truth. They want oracles,

Pompeli’s amphitheatre and at a
constructed cily at the Pinewood
Studios in ‘England.

Near- -see- through costumes.
‘in daring ballet premiere

TORONTO (CP) — Wolf-
whistles and lewd shrieks
of delight greeted the
National Ballet of

‘Canada’s world premiere

of Oiseaux Exotlques,
danced Wednesday night
by ballerinas in near-see-
through tops and men in
flesh-colored briefs.
Once the O'Keefe Centre
me audience settled down,
we after the opening Conga by

¢ the full company, they

© were treated to a daring,
fast-paced pot-pourri of 10
other numbers that
brought a standing
3 pvation.

The show-stopper of this
+ ‘work by Greek-born:
‘*  gtantine =,
resident noe
was the solo Soaring,
danced with athletic leaps
. and gyrations by Owen
| Montague of Simcoe. Ont.

The best laugh of the
night was the hilarious
Mating Song in which
Amalia Schelhorn and
David Nixon broke the
tradition of silence in
‘pallet. and cackled. and
crowed a sort of ‘poultry
pasalon lingo, all the while
flapping their wings and
eyeing each other
laseiviously,

Karen Kain and young
Rex Harrington, who
joined the company last
spring from the National
Ballet S:hool, were a fine
pair in Waves in Love, and
Kain brought it all to a
conclusion as The Black
qpisew. ak wining ;

ieee Bee) "ah "or" ing

- young men.

Somewhat leas
satisfactory was the
company’s premiere of La

Gibson thrills
giggling: girls

TORONTO (CP) —
Australian actor Mel
Gibson pleaded guilty to an
impaired driving charge in
provincial - court _Wed-
nesday, but provided a
horde of giggling school

girls with an unforgettable ©

memory.

Judge George Carter
fined- Gibson $400 and
suspended his driver's
licence for three months.

Fans screamed “We love
you, Mel,” as the 2¢-year-
old actor smiled outside
the court. He signed a few
autographs and answered,
“I like you, too.”

“I got his autograph,”
shrieked Richelle Ramos
of suburban Scarborough.
“I can't remember my
name,” ,

Gibson, star of such
‘ films as The Year of Living
Dangerously, Mad Max,
Gallipoli and Mutiny on the

Bounty, refused to com-
ment on the charges.

Police say a car driven
by Gibson failed to stop at
a red light at a downtown
intersection a week ago
and struck =|” another
vehicle. There were no
‘injuries,

Breathalyzer tests
showed he had from 120 to
190 milligrams of alcohol

_in a 100-millilitre . blood
sample. The legal limit for
drivers is 8 milligrams.

In a statement read by
his lawyer, Gibson said he
wanted to “apologize to the
court and the Toronto

“community” and com-
plimented the police who
dealt with his case.

_ Gibson has been | in
Ontario since January to
film Mrs. Soffel with Diane

Keaton and is expected to -

leave the city this week,

Nudity nixed at
swingers’ meeting

AKRON, Ohio (AP) —
hotel cancelled the con-
‘tract Wednesday for a
swinger’s convention
sponsored by a sexually
explicit magazine shortly
after a judge ruled the
meeting was permissible
but banned nudity and
sexual activity in public
areas, said a hotel
spokesman.

“T think we are probably
going to be subject to
litigation, but we feel it's
the right decision and we
are prepared to suffer the

consequences,” said Tom .

Knoll, a lawyer for Motel

Management Inc., which —

manages the hotel.

The ruling by Judge
Evan Reed of Summit
County - Common Pleas
court left ‘the Cascade
Holiday Inn with the unfair
burden of monitoring
sexual activity at the
convention, Knoll said.
‘His. announcement,
made at a church where

Opponents of the con- -

rd

vention gathered to plan
protests, was greeted with
cheers and applause. Knoll
said the contract with
. Magcorp, publisher of Ohio
Connection magazine,
would be cancelled and
disayowed.

After learning of . the
convention last week,
county prosecutor Lynn
Slaby sought to block it and

tt “atter-death:

argued at’ a. hearing.

Wednesday that ‘the
’ yegistration fee was’ an
», dHmiasion — charge. . for
"'sekual performance ‘and
. thus constituted pandering
‘ obscenity under Ohio law.
“The
hotel had been reserved for
the convention. Testimony
revealed that about 200
couples had registered at a
fee of $235 to $245 a Couple,
Lawyers for Magcorp
left the courtroom im-
mediately after the ruling
without comment and
couldn't be reached im-
mediately after Knojl's
announcement.

erase ae

entire 292-room: .

bayadere Act II with guest,
star Evelyn Hart of the
Royal Winnipeg Ballet ina
role that made little use of
her superb dramatic
talents.
INJURY HITS AGAIN
Again injury struck the
company’s three-week
spring season with Frank
Augustyn sidelined by a

back ailment, bringing
first soloist. Gregory
Osborne in as ‘Hart's
partner.

. The real drama of the
piece is in Act I when the
heroine Nikiya is bitten by

a venomous snake, planted .

in a basket of flowers by a

rival, and dies. Act [Lis an
:, dream

sequence ti wf she is

““peunited with her lover

Solor and they vow never
-again to forsake each
other.
Hart won a bouquet of
rave notices from Toronte
critics last week when she

danced the. title role in ,

Giselle.

The third item in the
mixed program: was the ~
. steely, sophisticatéd
Sphinx, danced — with
passion by Gisela |

Wilkowsky and David
Nixon, with Montague as
the jackal-headed god who
unsuccessfully warns the
lovers of the consequences
of their mutual desire.
Because of another in-
jury Witkowsky also was
pressed into duty dancing
in Oiseaux Exotiques. on
only four days’ notice.
Meanwhile, it was an-
nounced that Veronlea' :
_ Tennant, sidelined earlier ©
’ by @ tom ligament in her:

‘sibacky will not be able; “ABM.

hoped, .to dance apposite
guest star Rudolf Nureyev
in The Sleeping Beauty
next week.

Her two scheduled
performances will be
danced by Yoko Ichino and
Evelyn Hart, making her
debut in the role of Aurora.

~ , .

Entertainment
~ Shorts

to his work.

‘was at the hearing.

not appear.

Tribute to basie-

PITTSBURGH {AP) — Count Basie's music lived
on through his 16-piece band Wednesday: night,
which returned to the stage for the first time since ©
its master's death from cancer last week.

“Our sadness is delayed and we've got a sense
-that the show must go on,” said vocalist Dennis
Rowland; ‘We're a little melancholy. The loss is
monumental, but his music will go on.”

Cab Calloway was the last-minute headline
replacement in- a long-scheduled benefit. per-
formance for a Pittsburgh hospital before about

~ 2,200 patrons at Heinz Hall for the Performing Arts.

The show was once billed as a salute to Basie’s
goth birthday, which would have been Aug, 21.

But William (Count) Basie's death in Hollywood,

’ Fla,, last Thursday and a quickly printed insert to
the program turned the performance into a tribute

Cocker detained

VIENNA (AP) — Joe Cocker was detained as he
| Was about to leave Vienna and taken to court
Wednesday night on a concert organizer's com-
plaint that the British pop star accepted money for a
concert he did not perform.

His West German manager, Martin Biallas, also

Court officiais sald the court will determine
whether Cocker, 38, should face legal action, but
declined to give details of the proceedings.

A police spokesman said Blallas accepted about
$16,000 on Cocker’s behalf for a concert Monday but
the singer, who shared billing with Italian singer
Eduardo Banatto and an Austrian Tock group, did

Police said organizer Johann Hausner told them
Cucker could not perform because he was drunk,
which associates of Biallas denied.

Pepsi versus Coxe”

NEW YORK (AP) — Coca-Cola Co, has recruited
international singing star Julio Iglesias to appear in
its commercials and will sponsor his seven-month
world concert tour starting next month, the com-
pany announced Wednesday.

Neither the singer nor the company would
disclose terms of the agreement.

The deal with Iglesias, who has sold more than 100
milllon records, comes only three montha after soft.
drink rival Pepsico Inc. unveiled a series ‘of
television commercials made by pop singer Michael
Jackson. The first of the ads with Jackson repor-
tedly cost $1.million to produce in addition to the
singer's fee reported at $5.5 million,

_ Cambadia (AP) —

i gix-year-old
~~ daughter came to the’

+

PHNOM - PENH, -
In the

days of kings, concubines -

and French colonialists, a

farmer's.’

dancing pavillion’ within
the walls of the Royal
Palace and became a star.
- The French have since”

“Jong departed, and the
* monarchy of six decades

_ ago has been replaced by.

“the canons of Marx. But

Chea Samy keeps dance
alive,
She is now 67 and- has.

° survived wars,. political

upheavals and the Khmer
Rouge slaughter. She has
‘returned to the. same

pavillion to help preserve
what has been called the
Soul. of Cambodia, its
classical dance.

Her knees are failing and .
she must be helped down
the stairway from the
dancing hall by an
assistant. Still, Chea-Samy
comes almost daily to tutor
fledgling dancers.

“She is No. 1 in Cam-
bedia now; she is the last
of the old stars,” said'a
foreign, ministry
Spokesman. co

It is morning and in the
Royal Palace compound, a
traditional orchestra
aways into a tune and a
dozen young dancers

Host developed

: popular. show

| LOS ANGELES (AP)—
-Jack Barry, the host of

’- television's The Joker's

Wild and creator of some
of the most popular — and
: controversial game
Shows, died Wednesday of
a heart attack while
jogging in New York City,
~a spokesman said. He was
66.

Barry, a familiar face in
millions © of" American
_householdg as the longtime
“host of The Joker’s Wild,
.. produced such game shows

_as Concentration, Tic Tac
Dough and the scandal-
plagued Twenty-One.

He was pronounced dead
at noon EDT at Lennox Hill
Hospital in New York City,
said Gene Shefrin,
spokesman © for’ Barry
‘Enright Productions.

Born March 20, 1918, in
: Lindenhurst, N.Y., Barry
“began hia ‘broadcasting
career in the early 1940s as

~ staff announcer at WITM
radio In Trenton, N.J. He
Jater joined WOR radio In
New York, where he began
‘a 9-year partnership with
producer Dan Enright.

In 1946, Barry created
the radio version of
Juvenile Jury, which

. , became the first com-

4 mercially sponsored show
i NBC-TV’s East Coast
net sti Shefrin said.

said. was the longest-
running daytime game
show. in television history,
airing from 1958 to 1973.
_ Between 147 and 1959,
Barry and Enright also
created Junior Celebrities,
Hi-Lo. You're On Your

ierys.co-created Con:
“centration, which Shefrin ©

Own, Adventures ~ of
Michael Shayne, The Faith
Baldwin Theatre
Romance, It’s the Barrys,

‘Stars and Starters, Oh
Baby, Back That Fact, The
Joe, DiMaggio
Dough Re Mi and Way Out
Games.

During the TV game

show scandals of the late.

190s, Barry. and Enright
admitted their show,
Twenty-One, on which
Barry was host, provided
questions and answers to
contestants In advance,

Twenty-One went off the
air in October 1958 under a
cloud of investigations by
the New York district’
attorney’s office and a
congressional oversight
committee. All other game
shows of that era were
swept off the air by the
scandal, but.no one ever
was prosecuted because
there were no laws against
such conduct at the time.

Barry said in a 1971
interview the experience

- made him persona non
_ grata in the broadcasting

‘industry until the Federal
Communications Com-
mission allowed him to buy
‘a Redondo Beach, Calif.,
radio station in 1970.

Jn; “1996, “Bariy was hast.
‘on’ the “game show Thie
Generation Gap, and for
the last 12 years he had
been host on The Joker’s
Wild. Recent Barry and
Enright shows included
Bullseye, Hot Potato and
Nipsey Russell’s Juvenile
Jury.

of .

Show, ©

The Herald, Thursday, May 4, W984, Pose ? 7

depict a story with
movements of hands, hips
and eyes; elegant, sen-
_ puous body language born

some, 2,000 years ago in -
‘India and Java.

CheaSamy said there
are now 105 etudents in the
government-run school of
dance, the youngest 10

_ years old. Many, she said,

were selecled {rom or-
phanages that abound in
Cambodia following the
Khmer Rouge terror of
1975-79,

The Khmer Rouge, bent

- on destroying traditional

culture, decimated the
ranks of former students,
dancers and teachers.
Others fled. the country
after the Vietnamese in-
yasion of 1979, with some
escapees starting troupes
in the . United States,
France and elsewhere.
FEW REMAIN

’ Today, only 23 of the

‘ former teachers remain at

the dance school in Phnom
Penh.

Chea-Samy almost
didn't survive the Khmer
Rouge era. Like cthers in
Phnom Perh, she and her
aging husband were

fe Now. aging. and. frail, but ©
+ eurvOr keeps” dance alive

-herded into the court:
tryside, Thousands died in
the exodus and Chea Samy
recalls with dread another
forced trek her family had
to endure, walking almoat
without a break for six
days and nights to a new
farming site, she said in ati
interview.

“During the Khmer
Rouge time; I feared so
much that our culture
would die,"’ she said. ‘“‘So.
when I returned to Phnom
Penh, I was determined to:
do all I could to rev ve it.”

A revival has certainly:
taken place, although one:
strictly guided by the‘
state. Most of the dance!
students are members of.
the communist young!
pioneers. Teachers,

attend political educatior:
classes, and words thal,
accompany some classical:
‘dances have been altered!
to import revolutionary ;
messages,

But the government
didn't tamper with the

in-,
eluding Chea Samy, must:

music and the dance form.

itself, Chea Samy, who is &°
member of Parliament,.

said students work harder.

“ONE” NIGHT
ONLY
REM Lee

Theatre

All seats reserved.
Tickets $8.50 in advance

at Shefleld & Sons, Skeena Mail
_oratihe Theatre 310.00 at the door
No one under 6 years of age admitted.

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