- 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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