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TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1989—3 “After all we’ve been through together, he still doesn’t know my name” A thirty year acquaintenceship — but we never met Mordecai and I go back a long way together — although we’ve never met.Our acquaintanceship began almost thirty years ago when we were both struggling young novelists and he wrote a piece for Maclean’s entitled “How I Became An Unknown With My First Novel.” It was all about his experiences with the publication of The Acrobats’ and since I was well on the way to becoming even more un-kown with my first novel, ‘Pilgar-lic the Death’, I was interested in what he had to say.I was even more interested in how he managed to sell such a piece of youthful self-puffery to a national magazine.Then Mordecai went off to England to earn his bread and beer writing movie scripts while I returned to the States to work at the trade I was apprenticed in.Years later, we both settled in the Eastern Townships where I continued to struggle (although no longer young) while he sold out to fame and fortune.We were both involved in the creation of The Townships Sun (along with a fellow named Charles Bury) when he attended one of the founding meetings while I stayed away.Some time later, I had a telephone call from ‘Gentlemen’s Bernard Epps .^41 Quarterly’: “GQ here, old chap.We have an article by that Mordecai Richler fellow about the Fenians and he’s cited your ‘Tales of the Townships’ as a source.Can you tell us where we can get a copy?” SCRUPULOUS ACCURACY Some magazines take such pride in the scrupulous accuracy of all they publish that they maintain research departments to check and doublecheck every fact.I had the distinct satisfaction of telling them that Mordecai had already goofed — ‘Tales of the Townships’ has nothing about the Fenians in it but the sequel, ‘More Tales of the Townships’, has three chapters from a still unpublished book on them.We renewed acquaintance through an old drinking buddy of mine, and ex-CBC producer, who claimed to be an old drinking buddy of Mordecai’s at the Montreal Press Club He told me in strictest confidence that Mordecai was ‘uxorious’.I looked that up just as soon as I got home and was faintly disappointed to discover it meant he doted on his wife.Then, just a week before Christmas, I was listening on the car radio to a CBC interview with Mordecai and heard my name come up.At last he acknowledged publicly that he’d read at least one of my books.I’d read some of his, too — Cocksure, Son of a Smaller Hero, Buddy Kravitz, St Urbain’s Horseman — and frankly preferred Jacob Two-Two and the Hodded Fang.Nevertheless, when my sister asked what book I wanted for Christmas, I Smoggies — new cartoon villains By Ingrid Abramovitch MONTREAL (CP) — Pollution -POW! The greenhouse effect — SMASH! In the ecologically correct animated series Smoggies!, polluters are the new cartoon villains.Smoggies brings the message of the green revolution to today’s toddlers.The cartoon series stars the Sun-tots, a Smurf-like people who live in perfect harmony with nature on make-believe Coral Island.Their world is an ecological paradise — until the messy Smoggies arrive on their ship, the S.S.Stink-ypoo, and anchor offshore.“They dump garbage in the sea, their chimneys smoke, everything they do is terrible,” says Smoggies creator, Gerald Potterton, in an interview at Montreal’s Crayon Animation Studios.The Smoggies are led by Emma, a failed opera singer who mistakenly believes the Suntots have a “magic coral” which keeps them eternally youthful.Emma dreams up schemes to disturb the Suntots’ ecological bliss and gets her gadget-making husband, Captain Clarence, and the goofy ship stoker, Polluto, to execute her plans.“They are always trying to find out what the Suntots’ secret is,” Potterton explained.“Of course, their secret is just living in an ecologically correct manner.” Potterton, an eccentric Englishman, is a well-known fixture of the Canadian animation scene.He moved from London, England, to Montreal in the 1950s to work in the National Film Board’s animation studio.His eclectic career has included animating the Beatles Yellow Submarine and directing the $8-million animated feature film Heavy Metal.Potterton was approached five years ago by a French production company with the idea of a cartoon based on environmental issues.IDEA INTRIGUED Concern for the environment was not as widespread as it is today, but Potterton was intrigued by the idea.“I’ve always been interested in the environment,” said Potterton, sporting a red sweatshirt decorated with dancing reindeer.“When I first emigrated to Canada it was to get away from the pollution of London in the 1950s.The clean air of Canada beckoned with all these (National) Film Board films we used to see — the beautiful mountains and the rivers.” To create Smoggies, Potterton enlisted the help of the Washington-based Greenhouse Crisis Foundation to develop story lines with environmental messages.He also hired some 24 animators and numerous writers, including Mike Short, a former staff writer on SCTV and the brother of comedian Martin Short.The team produced episodes like Turtle Trauma, where the Smog- gies transform a beach where turtles lay their eggs each year into concrete.In another, toxic waste dumped off the side of the S.S.Stinkypoo turns a friendly fish into a killer shark.Smoggies and its French version, Touftoufs et Polluards, has become an international hit.The series has been sold to networks in France, Italy and Australia.In Great Britain, it is the top-rated new cartoon series on the BBC-2 network.The series has been on Canada’s Global network and in French on Radio-Canada since the fall.It is also playing on CFCF-TV in Montreal, an affiliate of the CTV network.Potterton has two years’ worth of Smoggies in the can — 52 episodes.Next, he plans to create another series based on his longtime hobby, model airplanes.“It’s called Plane Folks and it’s about a community of airbound people who fly around helping people in trouble,” he said.• (iararou is tlx* name tfrim hy the CSST to its mascot, Hm' little vt'lkiw hand whose job is lirv»iit work related accidetils and diseases Garavou says: named Solomon Gursky because I’d heard there was a great deal about the Eastern townships in it.A parcel promptly arrived.It looked very much like a book but it said ‘Do Not Open Until December 25th’ and I have always done what my sister told me.I could hardly wait for Christmas morning.It begins: “One morning — during the record cold spell of 1851 — a big menacing black bird, the likes of which had never been seen before, soared over the crude mill town of Magog.” Merry Christmas ! At last a novel about the Eastern Townships to stand beside Pilgarlic and Outlaw'.I flipped through and the name ‘Columbus Green’ caught my eye on page 178.Then, “Brother Ephraim, sole author of Evidence from the Scriptures of the Ssecond Coming of Chirst in the Eastern Townships about the year 1850.’’ A smoke alarm went off in the cluttered attic I use for a mind and I reached for a copy of More Tales of the Townships.There it was on page 30; Evidence from Scripture and History of the Second Coming of Christ about the year 1832.And; “The Revs.Josiah Litch and Columbus Green spread Miller’s message via camp meetings.” Mordecai wrote: “A journal popular in the Townships at the time, The Sherbrooke Gazette, also proprietor of SMITH’S PATENT EGG BEATER (will beat a pint of eggs in five seconds), noted, “From the failure of calculations of Brother Ephraim as to the ‘time of the end’, many of his followers apostatised, but a large number continued steadfast.’ I had written ; “From the failure of the calculations of Mr.Miller as to the time of the end’”, continued Forests and Clearings, “many of his followers apostatised, but a large number continued steadfast.” Somewhere, too, I’d written about the editor of the Sherbrooke Gazette, Mr.Joseph Soper Walton, being sole proprietor of Smith’s Patent Egg Beater but couldn’t find it right away.I skipped to the last page and there, among the acknowledgments, was; “I have leaned heavily on.Bernard Epp’s Tales of the Townships.” After almost thirty years, after all we’ve been through together, he still doesn't know my name! ‘Solomon Gursky’ has been on Mac-lean ’s best seller list since publication.It will be released in New York later this year, in London later still and will undoubtedly become a best seller in both Britain and the U S.A.It will spread through the Commonwealth — South africa, Austrailia, New Zealand, then all over the English-speaking world and go through innumerable translations.It will go into libraries and show up on school reading lists, one of my auntie’s might even see it and he spelled my name wrong! H.Gordon Green used to spell it like that, too.It made me so mad one day that I busted right out into poetry; I spells me name with an ess And without a apostrophe (Jake Epp can do what he likes — He’s not related to me,) I spells me name with a ess, A pair of pees and a ee.Singular, yes; but nevertheless I spells me name with a ess.And Mordecai got the title of my book wrong again, too! There’s no more about the Millinairians in Tales of the Townships than about the Fenians.He meant the sequel More Tales of the Townships (and there’ll be a third and final Still More Tales of the Townships if I can ever scrape up the money to publish it).But if anybody wants to see where my old friend Mordecai got much of his inspiration for his latest masterpiece.The Townships Sun is running a Juanuary sale on the remaining copies of More Tales — $5 at the Lenoxville office or $6 by mail Tell ’em Mordecai sent you.IFAMOUS PLAYERS Escaped convicts disguised as priests.It’ll take a miracle to get away with this one.We'rE'No-Angels APAftWMPinilAÏ The con is on.NO PASSES FOR THIS ENGAGEMENT Sot., Sun.and week days: 5:00 - 9:20 p.m.3050 bOci PORTL ANO 4*—TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1989 AH My Best Friends — another George Bums best-seller By Bob Thomas LOS ANGELES (AP) - Not many best-selling authors will make this claim: ‘T’ve written eight books and read two.” But then, not many authors are 93-year-old comedians such as George Burns.He’s in print again with All My Best Friends, a reminiscence of his show business pals.Burns readily admits that he “talks” the books to David Fisher, who does the writing.His own acquaintance with literature ended in the fourth grade."I went into show business when I was eight years old,” he explained.“My school was show business.I wish 1 had a better education, but I know all about show business.I love what I do.Here I am, 93 years old, sitting in my office, they’re taking my picture, I'm being interviewed.It's nice to get up and have something to do at 93 .because I can’t make any money in bed.” Burns seems to have changed little in three decades.The raspy wisecracks come with fine-tuned timing between sips of tea and drags on the omnipresent cigar.ON HIS FRIENDS He was asked to reflect on the figures he talks about in All My Best Friends, most of them onetime residents of the fabled Comedians' Round Table at Hillcrest Country Club .— Eddie Cantor : “He was a very talented man.but he didn’t leave you with much.Cantor mostly had vitality.Once Cantor and (George) Jessel were playing the Palace.Cantor said something, and Jessel topped him.Cantor took off his shoe and hit Jessel over the head and got a big laugh.Jessel resented that.He went down to the footlights and took Cantor apart in front of the audience : He said something and 1 topped him.He couldn’t think of an answer so he hit me on the head with his shoe.I’m not working with a talent.I’m working with an idiot.’ When he got through.Cantor hit him again with his shoe and got the biggest laugh." Jimmy Durante: “A kind, nice, religious man, and everybody loved him.He was a great talent who took the English language apart.I didn't know him, but I used to watch Durante when he had a little band.He was funny then .I don’t think there was any ‘Mrs.Calabash.’ I think he made that up.He said it once and the audience ate it up “The audience is the answer to everything.If the audience laughs, it stays in.If the audience doesn’t laugh, not only does the joke not stay in, you don’t even stay in the theatre.” STILL MORE — Bob Hope: “He’s not a comedian, he’s an institution.I just worked with Bob Hope at Madison Square Garden.He’s a wonderful man, a nice man.Good comedian, very topical.Everything I say fits my age.1 don’t say anything that doesn't fit a 93-year-old man.Or a 93-year-old face.” — Milton Berle: “He’s one of the kids.But he’ll make it in show business.He was very lucky, and so By Mary Campbell NEW YORK (AP) — Others have dared, but there’s really only one Peter Pan, and her name is Mary Martin.Along with her role as nurse Nellie Forbush in South Pacific.Peter Pan is the 76-year-old entertainer’s favorite part.It’s in his selfdescription that she’d like to be remembered: Tm youth.I’m joy.I'm freedom.” Right now, though, she’s happy to be recognized by the Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts in its annual The Kennedy Centre Honors.A taped show of the early December festivities in Washington will be broadcast by CBS on Dec.29.Others to be honored are actress Claudette Colbert, entertainer Harry Belafonte, composer William Schuman and ballerina Alexandra Danilova.Martin found out she was to be honored from her old friend, Colbert.“I was on Martha’s Vineyard last summer and she called from Barbados and said, ‘Did you hear we’re going to be together’?” Although Martin counts her three years of making movies as the low part of her life, she made some close friends in the business, including Colbert.“She came to stay with me in England when 1 was doing South Pacific over there.She had just lost her husband." Martin recalled in an interview in the New York apartment of her son, actor Larry Hagman.“In the Paramount (studio) days, they made me up to look like her.In those days whoever was very famous, they made you look like her.One night we were at a party at Jack and Mary Benny’s house."1 was sitting with Claudette’s husband, a very famous doctor.We were talking at great length.He said he must go see a man.He came back and said: ‘I think we have to go home now.’ “I said : T’d like to go home with you.but you can’t go home with me.I'm not Claudette.’ "They made me look so much like her.he thought it was.I have was I.All the fellas I’m talking about had places to be bad.His mother took care of him in the early days.She was always in the theatre, and she knew when to laugh and when to applaud.” — Walter Matthau: “I did The Sunshine Boys with Walter Matthau.I was very lucky to get that movie; I won an Academy Award.When Walter didn’t like the way I read a line, he’d hit me.He slapped my face five or six times during the picture." — Al Jolson: ‘Til tell you how great he was.There was a Jewish guy, son of a cantor.He’d blacken up, get down on one knee and sing, I Got a Mammy in Alabammy, and the audience believed him.They believed Jolson had a mammy in Alabammy.” pictures.You can’t tell us apart." JOINS PARAMOUNT Martin went to Paramount Pictures after her star-making debut on Broadway in 1938, singing My Heart Belongs to Daddy in Leave It to Me.“I didn't like making movies at all,” she said.She and the president of Paramount “out-Southerned each other,” talking tough in honeyed accents over her declared intention of leaving — she saying she'd go back to Weatherford, Texas, and reopen her dance studio, he saying she couldn’t break her contract.The compromise was a leave of absence to star on Broadway in One Touch of Venus in 1943.She went on to portray Maria in The Sound of Music and to star in Peter Pan and South Pacific.Her last show.Legends!, in which she toured with Carol Chan- LOS ANGELES (AP) — Frank Sinatra’s lawyer has warned impersonator Nick Edenetti that his one-man show violates a Sinatra trademark.“The whole thing is bogus,” Edenetti said Wednesday, adding he will ignore the legal threat and continue his Las Palmas Theatre performances.“I’ve never heard of vocal qualities being trademarks.” Sinatra publicist Susan Reynolds wouldn’t comment on the lawsuit Thursday.But in a stunt to advertise Tuesday’s opening of Nick Edenetti Stars as Sinatra, the impersonator’s publicist distributed at the threatre a “cease and desist” letter from Sinatra lawyer Robert Finkelstein KANSAS CITY, Mo.(AP) —Having travelled to Africa and the Amazon jungle during a 14-month sabbatical, cartoonist Gary Larson should have even more loopy animals with which to draw his popular cartoon The Far Side.be the biggest talent in show business.Not the biggest entertainer.That was Jolson.But Sammy has the whole thing: He dances, he’s a mimic, he’s an actor, he’s everything.He’s Jewish, too.” Show business is supposed to be rife with jealousy and backbiting, yet George Burns never says anything bad about his fellow performers.How come?“I’ve got no temperament,” he shrugged.“What did I do?I walked out on the stage and said to Gracie, How’s your brother?’ and she talked for 40 years.I never got nervous.To get nervous you gotta have talent.Gracie got nervous, not me.” All My Best Friends, by George Burns with David Fisher.Published by Putnam's; 320 pages; INTRODUCING THE 1990 V0LV0S.CONSIDERING HOW LONG THEY COULD LAST, THEY’RE THE FIRST CARS TO SEE.liven in the year 2000, a 1990 Volvo eotikl have years ahead of itself.In fact there is a 25-ycar old Volvo that passed the million-mile mark two years ttgo and is still going Hut durability isn't the only area in which Volvo has made history.Over the years, Volvo has won 15 international awards for safety, includ ing several for the three point scat belt-a feature so int|xirtanl it became law.l or the 1990's, we've made another safety feature available on every Volvo-a driver’s-side S Supplemental Restraint System that helps cushion you on impact.With such exceptional safely anil durability, Volvos are built to last-except in the showman.Which is another reason why they're the first ears to see.VOLVO Raymond Auto Centre 4367 Bourque Blvd.Rock Forest, QC JIN IS4 Tel: (819) 564-1600 Entertainment Shorts ning in 1986, didn't make it to Broadway.“It’s one show 1 didn’t like,” she said.T did the show because Larry said to me, Mother, you’ve been off long enough.’ Now I think my children are going to decide to let me do what I want to.“I think it's very sweet of them.I have many ideas.I might do something after New Year’s.I'm superstitious; I won’t say what.” Martin last flew in Peter Pan’s aerial rig when she was 70, at a benefit in San Francisco.“I could do it this minute.” she said.Learning to fly came naturally — and very young.“I put my arms up and took off from our garage.I heard mother screaming from the kitchen, ‘What have you done now?' She saw me take off.I knew 1 could fly.There was a little problem there.I hit the ground first.“Peter Pan hadn’t come along.I broke my collarbone." The Universal Press Syndicate, which carries Larson's strip, kept busy during his absence, adding newspapers for a total of more than 900 that run the cartoon.Under his new schedule, Larson will produce five original panels a week, with reissues of old cartoons for the other two days.He said he had mixed feelings about being back at work ; the first new cartoons will be published Jan.1.“I currently feel fresh and recharged, and a reduced workload I’m sure will play a big role in maintaining that feeling,” Larson said "But.as I’m sure anyone who has had an opportunity to take a full year off will agree, that first Monday morning back to work is quite a sobering experience.” Larson — whose off-beat, bizarre humor features animated puns, animals that act like humans and vice versa — took a break starting in October 1988.Larson and his wife travelled extensively and spent four months in New York, where he studied jazz guitar.— Sammy Davis, Jr.: “He may $23.50.Mary Martin only real Peter Pan TOWNSHIPS WEEK-FKIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1989-5 Bernard Morisset and Lucie Marceau: Interior designers whose top priority is making friends By Sharon McCully KNOWLTON — The sign outside Bernard Morisset’s Knowlton shop says Interior Designer, but inside, his business is getting to know people.Whether designing an office or decorating a home, the success of his work is contingent upon the relationship he builds with his clientele.According to the interior designer, establishing a rapport with clients in the bedroom community of Brome Lake is facilitated by the slower pace and more relaxed atmosphere which prevails in the Victorian community.“Many of our customers have an ultra-modern decor in their city homes but they come here and fall in love with the mystique of traditional Knowlton," Morisset says.“Also,the homes here are usually larger, older homes with more space.” Initially most of the clients who came to Morisset’s Brome Lake shop were Montrealers who knew of the designers work, but increasingly, local residents have been taking advantage of his expertise.ONE ROOM AT A TIME “Many of our customers will do one room at a time,” explained partner Lucie Marceau.“We keep a file on each customer with a design of their house, the colors in each room, and swatches of fabric so that we can complete the house as a unit.” “We give people what they want,” added Morisset, “and to do that we have to get to know them a little.” “If someone gave me the key to their house and said I’m going to Europe for 6 months, do my house, I’d say no, because it’s the interpersonal relationship with people that determines the design,” Morisset said in an interview at the modest Knowlton shop he operates with Marceau.CLINETS NEEDS AND INTERESTS “Before I begin any job, the first thing I do is determine what the clients needs and interests are.If the house is to be used as a showpiece for entertaining, it demands a different design than a house where the focal point is children,” he says.“Similarly, offices that are designed to solicit clients must reflect the dynamism of the firm, and convey the impression of a company in expansion,” continued Morisset.“A doctors office on the other hand should provide a more subdued, relaxed environment.” The 65 year old designer speaks from a background of more than 40 years in the business.PROOF IS IN THE PUDDING Proof of his accomplishments can be found in projects such as the Governor General’s residence in Quebec City, the Royal Trust and Molson offices.He also redesigned the offices of the prestigious Montreal law firm Ogilvy-Renault of which former Prime Minister Trudeau is a partner.“A lot of companies make the mistake of placing one of their employees — usually the office manager— in charge of re-designing the office when it comes time to move or expand,” says Morisset.“This is usually a mistake because office managers tend to think primarily about office management and the number of employees they have to situate.” “For asthetic as well as economic reasons.it’s important to have a professional look below those surface issues,” explains Morisset.“Morale in the office can be affected if the design, lighting, and color scheme are not correct,” he pointed out.“A good office design should reflect the dynamism of the firm and be flexible enough to allow for expansion as the firm grows,” the designer says.“I always tell my clients when I’m preparing an office design -‘I’m not designing it for you, I’m designing it for your clientele.’” MEDAL WINNER Morisset is not a new kid on the block when it comes to interior design.Trained at College Jean de Brebeuf and Ecoles du Meubles de Montreal in the ’40’s, the artist and designer won the Lieutenant Governor’s medal for his studies in interior decoration.Before opening his shop in Knowlton two years ago, Morisset carved a niche for himself in the business as president of Viau Morisset, his own Ville St.Laurent designing and furniture import business which operated with a staff of seven designers.In 1971, he began a 13 year partnership with the well known designer Madeleine Arbour adding numerous residential and commercial properties to his long list of designs.The multi dimensional talents of the designer allow him to go beyond simply recommending colors and designs.As an accomplished painter and furniture designer, Morisset adds the finishing touches to his design with such extras as the made-to-measure commode for the bedroom, a cabinet to display your collection of Egyptian sculptures, a staircase, or a painting to hang over the fireplace.His work has been featured regularly in Quebec’s leading decorator magazine, Decormag, most recently in the November issue.Partners Morisset and Marceau give meaning to the adage, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.While most people will walk into an unfinished basement and see beams, naked pipes, and exposed wires, Morisset and Marceau see a challenge.“Each case is an opportunity to create a living product,” Morisset said.In one instance, Morisset turned a section of a dirt floor basement into a colorful indoor garden, flanked by a sauna and a ceramic tiled entry to a lushly carpeted sitting room.FAUX PAS The experienced decorator says the most common decorating faux pas people make is buying furniture that is too large for the room.“The sense of scale is hard to discern if you aren’t trained,” he said.“People tend to think all the furniture in the room has to be from the same set.” “Matching” is a term made up by people who make 5-piece sets,” the designer says, adding that any beautiful piece of furniture is compatible with another.“You can hang a Picasso anywhere and it is no less appealing.” “There is no conflict between something beautiful constructed 100 years ago and something of today,” he says.“Most people are generally aware of colors, but have more difficulty selecting the correct lighting, he added.Arranging furniture to allow for circulation of the room is also an important element of design, according to the experts.“Keep it simple", is their advice.They also suggest you avoid the tendency to clutter a room with all your precious possessions.Morisset and Marceau operate a business that is accessible to people of all means.“One woman came in because she and her husband were renovating an older home by themselves and they wanted some professional advice,” Marceau said.After visiting the home, a complete plan for the house was drawn up and the couple left the shop with a design they were happy with.The cost: $250.An investment of $50 — the cost of a consultation visit — could end up saving amateur decorators hundreds.The designers have only one big favor to ask prospective customers: If you’re re-decorating and your plans call for the purchase of new furniture, please see them before you buy.“Of course we would never tell people what to buy, and I have great respect for what they already own,” Morisset said.“But often clients will buy a complete set of furniture and then come to see us.” About all the decorators can suggest at that point is adding a piece onto the house.The interior decorator’s shop is located at 231 Knowlton Road, Knowlton, call 243-0071.“We give people what they want and to do that we have to gel to know them a little,” Marceau says 6-TOWNSHIPS WEEK-FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1989 Quebec country music stars turn By Ingrid Abramovitch MONTREAL (CP) - The dishwasher at St-Hubert Smoked Meat, in Montreal’s east end, let out a long whoop.“Yiiiii-haaaaa!” he squealed, galloping across the restaurant to peer out the front window.Minutes earlier, folks in white Stetsons, string ties and sequinned gowns had filled the diner’s leatherette booths.Then the gussied-up crowd paid their tabs and moseyed across the street to the old Zenith Theatre, where Quebec's country music industry was gathering for its third annual gala awards ceremony.The awards are better known as the Willies, not for their fright value or Willie Nelson but for Willie Lamothe, the cowboy from St-Hyacinthe, Que., who once performed in French at Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry.It’s a long way from Nashville and it sure ain’t the Wild West.But in many smoked-filled bars across Quebec, it’s Hank Williams’s Your Cheatin’ Heart that moves ’em to tears.That is, in its translated version, Ton coeur blesse."We don't have wide prairies and many horses,” said Alain Bénard, a writer for Nashville Quebec magazine.“But the music is finding its place in Quebec more and more.’’ Little known outside the province, Quebec's country music scene — often referred to as “le western’’ —features more than 300 artists, most of them francophone.Their ranks include Regis Gagne, an Esso oil trucker who sings about his love life and his job in bars along his truck route; and Patrick Normand, a Kenny Ro-gers-style singer with a weekly country video show on television.In 1989 alone, Quebec’s country artists produced 70 new albums, mostly on home-made cassettes sold at flea markets or on Montreal-based Bonanza Records.And at the annual Festival of St-Tite, the tiny town north of Trois-Rivières puts up false western building fronts along the main street and stages a jamboree and rodeo.Time was, many fans of Quebec country kept their musical tastes in the closet.Cowboys from La-Tuque, Mont-Joli housewives with bouffant hairdos and hearts of gold .for some this was the ultimate in "quetaine” — the slang expression in Quebec for anything seriously tacky, Bénard says.“In the past, there was just a guitar or two, and country singers had this reputation of singing from their noses,” says Roger Charle-bois, a country music radio personality who was the host for the Willies.Country artists in Quebec have also had the often unfair reputation of ripping off American hits and presenting them — in French — as their own.“It's an insult to country music in Quebec,” says Roger Corbeau, president of the 1,600-member Quebec Academy of Country.“I have nothing against the Americans, but we have our own product.” The earliest known country singer in Quebec was La Bolduc, a harmonica-playing Montrealer (her real name was Mary Travers) who toured the province’s saloons in the 1920s and ’30s and wrote songs on local subjects like the Dionne quintuplets.She died in 1941 at the age of 46.“She died young.La Bolduc,” Benard said.“But her songs became classics.The younger generation still performs them.” Another early legend was Soldat Lebrun, a Second World War soldier who entertained his homesick comrades with songs about the out for Willie awards army life.But it was the Nashville-influenced singers of the 1940s and ’50s — Tex Lecor, Ti-Blanc Richard, Lamothe and others — who are considered the pioneers of Quebec’s country music scene.At the time, record companies were looking for francophone versions of American country artists like Hank Snow and Wolf Carter.REMADE HIMSELF “I was into Latin music at the time, big bands like Xavier Cougat’s orchestra,” recalled Roger Miron, 60.“But when I approached RCA Victor, they said they were looking for people who could sing country music.” Miron remade himself into the Yodelling Troubador — or as he’s known is French "Troubadour tyrolien” — and went on to have a string of hits, mostly novelty tunes with a western twang and a yodelling finale.The Willies’ namesake, Lamothe, was the most successful of the group.His singles Alio! Alio! Petit Michel, and Je chante a cheval (I sing on horseback) sold 200,000 copies each and he had his own television show for seven years in the 1970s.Tragically, Lamothe collapsed on stage one night in the late 1970s of a stroke and has been ill ever since.Another francophone country singer, Lucille Starr, popularized one of the most successful songs ever in Quebec : Quand le soleil dit bonjour aux montagnes (When the Sun Says Good Morning to the Mountains), often called Quebec’s Home on the Range.RURAL FANS But country music’s recent trendy cachet in other parts of the world has yet to catch on with a mass audience in Quebec.“So far it hasn’t happened here,” Corbeau said.“There’s not one radio station in Montreal that plays (Quebec’s) country music.” While their following is still largely rural, francophone country performers hope K.D.Lang-like success may lie just beyond the cornfield.If not, there’s always Nashville."When I meet people from Nashville, they say: ‘Roger, what are you doing in Quebec?Come to Nashville!”’ Miron said."Today I realize that an artist who cuts it in the U.S.gets big money."Maybe next year I’ll make my move.Maybe, like Presley says, it’s a matter of time.” Around the World in Eighty Days - the documentary - on Jan.7 By Jay Sharbutt NEW YORK (AP) — Near yule-tide last year, Michael Palin was returning to his London home and family.He recalls the joyous cries of his children, to wit: ‘“Got any presents?’ 1 said, ‘I’ve been travelling light.’” He sighs.“The shopping.That was far, far worse than travelling around the world in 80 days.” Which is what the merry-faced member of Monty Python’s Flying Circus had been doing for the BBC.He emulated the famed globe-trot of Jules Verne’s fictional Phileas Fogg, travelling only by land and sea.He went by train, cargo ship, dhow, ferry, taxi, camel, even a passing sheik’s new red Mercedes.No jumbo jets, though.He didn’t mind: “I find air travel highly overrated, usually late, and a sheeplike form of transport.” Starting Jan.7, Around the World in 80 Days, a seven-part documentary series about his expedition, will be shown Sundays on cable’s Arts and Entertainment Network, which bought it from the BBC.Since his Python days, Palin has been in various movies, some, like Time Bandits and A Fish Called Wanda, with Python pals.He also has been writing, including a tome for tykes, Small Harry and the Toothache Pills.He made a BBC series on train travel in 1980.But his round-the- world voyage, filmed with a crew of five, was, as a Python would say, something completely different.What to wear was only the start.“There’s no shop like ‘Circumnavigators, Inc.,”’ he notes.“But the idea is to take as little as possible." For him, this meant six shirts, three pairs of trousers, and a small bag containing tapes and a diary book.World travellers have been known to unwillingly visit the wretched nations of Dysentary, Hepatitis, and Mysterious Ailment.So Palin got an armful of shots, having queried a glober-trotter who advised: “Just take every thing.” WENT EAST He set off from London in the fall last year, proceeding eastward via the Orient Express, then varied forms of transport, among them an elderly dhow whose engine failed at midnight in the Persian Gulf: “It sort of fizzled out, and the captain sort of scratched his head and saic, ‘Oh, the rubber band broke.”' Palin, who at one point suffered food poisoning and several times found himself behind schedule, also faced much suspicion by gimlet-eyed border guards in the Middle East.At such times, he says, it’s often best just to say, “I’m on a journey, going somewhere else.” One guard asked Palin why he was in Dubai if going to Tokyo.He was told: “Oh.well, that’s a long story, don't want to bore you.” The gate was raised.Off went Palin and Co., proceeding to Bombay, where he got a shave from a blind barber, thence to Singapore and the Mysterious Orient.That included a hydrofoil trip up China’s Pearl River and dinner at a small cafe that served only the meat of poisonous snakes : “They bring the snake to you in a little box, set it down on the floor, and execute it then and there.” A fast, modern cargo ship brought him across the Pacific to Long Beach, Calif., and the forever-docked Queen Mary, where he spent a night.Am Irak carried him—save for a hot-air balloon ride in the Rockies — to New York.He got home by ship.The worst part of the whole voyage?Palin smiles.“Well, getting back to London was the worst part of the journey, getting back just before Christmas.There was a lot of real mean spirit about the place.I don’t know if I was tired or something.“But people were Christmas shopping and pushing each other, there were ads everywhere and bands playing and electric bells ringing.“It seemed just utter madness after what I’d been through, which was quite a long sea journey, something calm and quite reflective.It was as if my country didn't match up after a world of hospitality.” The Uprising, a story of Arab sorrow, strife By Issam Hamza MAALOULA, Syria (Reuter) — An Egyptian director using live bullets and real rocks has recreated on film the agony and emotions of the two-year Palestinian uprising in the Israeli-occupied territories.The three-hour epic called al-Intifada — The Uprising — took 16 months to film.It depicts the struggle by recording the life of a Palestinian family in the occupied territories.“I wanted to turn my camera into a stone that will hit Israel from outside the occupied territories,” producer and director Ahmed al-Khateeb said in an interview.“I wanted to show the world facts on Israel’s repressive actions against Arabs.” The film is the first long Arab narrative about the Palestinian problem in the 40-year history of the Arab-Israeli conflict.The cream of the Arab film world from Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Lebanon, Kuwait and Syria cancelled all commitments to contribute to the film, which was conceived to rally world support for the Palestinian cause.An army of 10,000 extras, including Palestine Liberation Organization guerrillas, helped Khatib recreate the chaos of the intifada DUB IN ENGLISH Khateeb says the Arab-language film, which will be dubbed into En-glish, French, Dutch and Japanese, tries to give an honest portrayal of what is happening in the territories.It will have its premiere in New York in February.“We chose New York because it is the stronghold of Zionism,” Khateeb said in reference to the city’s large Jewish population.Like the uprising itself, the making of the film was not without tragedy.One part-time Syrian actor was killed when an armored vehicle overturned in a battle scene.Sixteen people were injured in the accident and seven other performers were hurt at other times during the filming.One of those hurt was the female lead, Majeda al-Khateeb, the director’s sister, who suffered a strained back and was treated in hospital after she was dragged from her bed by actors portraying Israeli soldiers.SONS OF DEAD Khateeb said, “We did not import the stone-throwing children.“Those who threw stones in the film were the sons of martyred Palestinians,” a reference to the children of Arabs killed in successive wars with the Jewish state.Experts from the Syrian army and Palestinian guerrilla groups helped Khateeb stage clashes with live ammunition, the fighters using their first-hand knowledge to make the scenes more realistic.The director picked the ancient Syrian town of Maaloula for the film because of its mountains and physical resemblance to the Palestinian villages in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1989-7 A new children’s book this week with great pictures and an excellent story too The Neon Bible — another powerful novel by Toole KENNEDY TOOLE KENNEDY ^ Mjva.rï ï he or A COWEDERACY OÏ DUNCES ¦H The Neon Bible by John Kennedy Toole (GROVE PRESS): $15.95, 162 pp.When John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy Of Dunces won the Pullitzer Prize, awarded posthumously, in 1981, there was a great deal of controversy about the book and its author.Toole, who had submitted the manuscript to several publishers in 1963, had eventually despaired of ever seeing the comic novel in print.He pursued a Ph.D., taught at a New Orleans college, and finally dropped out of sight in the fall of 1968, suffering from paranoia and depression.A few short months later, in March of 1969, Toole committed suicide, gassing himself with carbon monoxide fumes fed into his car, near the Gulf town of Biloxi, Mississippi.He left his mother Thelma Ducoing Toole a suicide note, the contents of which have never been divulged, and the battered manuscript of Dunces, which eventually found its way in 1976 into the hands of novellist Walker Percy, who had been teaching a creative writing course at Loyola University.Percy’s immediate reaction to the book was to declare it a masterpiece, and in the preface to the novel that won the belated Pulitzer, he described how the opening of the book had impressed him with its style and wonderfully comic characterizations.Following the sad success of A Confederacy of Dunces, the book’s champion, Thelma Toole, came upon another manuscript which had been written by John when he was sixteen years old.The Neon Bible, caught up in legal wrangling following the awards won by A Confedracy of Dunces, was finally freed for pubh-cation, thirty-five years after it was written and twenty years after its author’s suicide at the age of thirty-one.REMARKABLE The book is not only remarkable for the maturity that it reveals in its teenage author, but also because of the insight into the southern, rural mindscape that is the usual territory of writers such as Faulkner.O’Connor, and Ca- Kaleidoscope Dw Dir»LI A on I /MIEX/ By RICHARD LONEY pote.Toole’s story, inspired by a visit to a school friend’s home in rural Mississippi, is as touching and carefully crafted in its own way, as his broader scope with A Confederacy Of Dunces is boisterous and picaresque.The Neon Bible is narrated by David, who begins his life story as he is aboard a train speeding across the southern landscape as night is falling.With no further background to his current status in life, David reminisces about his childhood, beginning with the first Christmas he can remember at the age of three, living with his father and mother in what we might regard as rural poverty.Toole uses David as his naive narrator, bringing out details about the hypocrisy and evil of the long line of preachers and revival meeting frauds who were obvious antecedents to our more sophisticated but equally despicable curse of television evangelists and charlatans.David’s family has no real connection with the preachers and their flock in the little southern town until his Aunt Mae comes to live with her sister and her family in the spring of his fourth year.Mae, bedecked in gaudy, gauzy gowns, with her bleach-blonde hair, exaggerated stage mannerisms, with a wink for every man in town, soon earns the wrath of the town’s preacher and most of the womenfolk.With David narrating from a bemused, naive viewpoint, Toole’s narrative takes on a dimension that is not usually associated with authors in their midteens.David’s family disintegrates when his father suffers the predictable economic hardships associated with the pre-war years in the southern states, and the boy’s depiction of the family strife is made more affecting by Toole’s underes-tated, simple description.Soon the father, viewed contemptuously by Aunt Mae, and with trepidation by his son David, is called into service in the American armed forces, posted in Italy.The family struggles along until word arrives that David’s father has been killed in action, leaving the two women and the young school-aged boy to fend for themselves.Mae takes on a singing job with a travelling orchestra, while David’s mother fades into what will become a form of Alzheimer’s, or premature dimentia, reduced to a mooning, pitiable creature who spends most of her time wandering through the aborted garden her husband had planted.While these family travails proceed, David provides us with some examples of southern religious hypocrisy when he describes the revival meeting put on by Bobby Lee Taylor, an ignorant, Bible- thumping clod who is able to stir the local townspeople into higher degrees of piety and bigotry.Toole’s depiction of the southern town and its strie k code of conduct and rigid ethnics is partially defused, coming as it does from the viewpoint of David’s youthful observations, but it is nonetheless a perfect portrait of the perils of fundamentalism and its excesses.FOUND THE LINK The link between the town preacher and David’s own family is established when the boy notices that the elderly citizens of the town are bundled off by the benevolent preacher into homes, while the church gobbles up the portable property and any assets.When it comes time for David to confront the preacher over the fate of his own failing mother, after Aunt Mae has abandoned them to try her hand at a Nashville singing venue.The Neon Bible rushes to a surprising climax.Taking this simple, yet powerful novel into consideration as an apprentice work to the longer, more magically comic Confederacy, it is very clear that the world of American southern literature lost what could have become one of its most distinctive voices when John Kennedy Toole chose oblivion over failure.*ï Of SOYA CHILDREN S BOOKS The Troll Of Sora by Leslie Elizabeth Watts (OXFORD): $14.95, illustrated by the author.This children’s book manages to get both halves of the creative process to fit together wonderfully well.Often the books with the beautiful pictures have rather empty texts, or else the ones with the best stories have pencil-line drawings that anyone could have done.Leslie Watts tells an interesting story about a young woman named Fragolina, whose wish to be average brings about a strange encounter with a wizened little troll from the neighboring town of Sora.Fragolina, like most of her an- cestors, chooses to partake of the troll’s magic, when she asks him for a magic potion that will make her become beautiful creature, rather than the overweight, sad figure she was becoming.The troll, as tradition dictates, granted her the request, giving her a potion that makes her beautiful, but warning her that he demands her hand in marriage.Fragolina, obsessed with her newfound beauty, falls desperately in love with a handsome count, who obviously loves her for her appearance — morals are liberally inserted in Watts’s book — but she learns her lesson the hard way.These characters created by Watts are boldly drawn, with the troll looking suitably hideous, the count as smarmy as can be, and the faithless Fragolina changing her appearance from average to ugly to beautiful on demand.The text is written at a level that appeals to kids aged from about six to ten, it appears, and the book provided at least one successful and animated bedtime story.RECORD REVIEWS Tony Banks Bankstatement (ATLANTIC-WEA) Britain’s art-rock veteran band Genesis continues to throw off spin-offs that make their impact on pop rock—Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins and Mike Rutherford are not to be outdone by keyboardist Tony Banks.Banks hooks up with vocalists Alistair Gordon and Jayney Kli-mek for Bankstatement, on a record that might be confused with an Alan Parsons Project, due to the synthesizer effects and vocal anonymity presented by Gordon and Klimek.With Banks on hand, there’s no shortage of large, ponde- rous arrangements that bring songs or melodies that are not at first very arresting into epic configurations that lend the album a grandiosity that is surprising.Such a song is ‘T’U Be Waiting”, which layers on the keyboard synths with sweeping, ocean-wave crescendos onto a song that is basi cally simple.Add drum-machine delay effects and Geoff Dugmore on conventional skins, and the Spector wall of sound is complete.Jayney Klimek handles lead vocals on three tracks, including “Queen Of Darkness”, on which she makes the most of a low-register female growl, which clashes a bit with her Stevie Nicks looks.On “A House Needs A Roof”, Klimek sounds a bit like Kate Bush, but with a far more animated, resonate vocal adding punch to Banks’s bass synth licks.Banks himself steps up to the microphone on “Big Man”, to try his hand at the chore that he usually left to Collins or Gabriel in his old band.Luckily the track has a compelling, toe-tapping beat driven by the keyboard gadgetry he handles effectively, with Banks’s vocals not having to draw too much attention.Finally, the Parsons Project connection becomes established clearly by the inclusion of an instrumental piece — “Thursday The Twelfth” — which closes the album with a punchy, symphonic air that sounds a bit like George Harrison’s haunting “Blue Jay Way”.If Tony Banks is as enterprising as his other former Genesis mates, look for a smash video culled from this album and a move into pop prominence on a scale somewhat lower than that enjoyed by Collins and Gabriel.BANKSTATEMENT TONY BANKS (Genesis! BHNK5 8—TOWNSHIPS WEEK-FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1989 WHAT’S ON Notes By Claudia Villemaire Don’t forget about Youth and Music Canada’s auditions, which are scheduled in Montreal for Feb.12 and 13, and Quebec City on Feb.21.Candidates must have already won an important scholarship or a first prize and possess a fairly good experience on the stage.Registration deadline is Jan.29 — fee is $10.For info or forms contact Chantal Boulanger, National Secretariat, Jeunesses Musicales du Canada, 305 est, Mont-Royal ave., Montreal, QC, H2T 1P8.So, another year has slipped away.Many thanks go out to all who keep trying to get their announcements in on time.Many Sorrys’ go to anyone I confounded when I let the gremlins take over this machine.Finally, wishes for a year that is the crème de la crème’ to all the wonderful artists,, musically and otherwise who are coming into their own in these Eastern Townships hills.But, especially good wishes to the thousands of folks who support their cultural heritage here.We re all part of the cultural team hereabouts.Here’s to a booming 1990, one and all! ON CBC THIS WEEK CBC's Radio Noon will have a new host and a new producer in the new year.Louise Penny will be the show’s new host starting on Jan.15.She will be replacing Jim Coward who will be leaving the show to concentrate on music programming.Jane McElhone comes to Radio Noon from Moncton, New Brunswick where she was producer of CBC Radio’s Information Morning from Feb.1987.CBC Sports presents the World Junior Hockey Championships from Finland.Game dates and times are Sunday, Dec.31 at 8 a.m.— Canada vs Finland— Monday, Jan.1, at noon —Canada vsU.S.S.R —and Thursday, Jan.4 at9 a.m.— Canada vs Czechoslovakia.On Saturday, Dec.30, watch as Saturday Report remem- bers the news that shaped and shocked the nation in 1989.Knowlton Nash anchors this one-hour special edition of Saturday Report.With the help of CBC national reporters and specialists, Nash looks back at the biggest stories from across Canada.At 6.CTV HIGHLIGHTS It’s Rose Bowl parade and game time again.Monday, Jan.1 is the day for the traditional parade of exquisite flower floats and the football game of games.The parade starts at 11 and the game gets underway at 4:30.Wednesday the NHL Soviet Hockey Series pits Montreal vs Soviet Wings.CTV’s coverage of the CTV-Molson Super Series '89 will be hosted by Dan Matheson, with Ron Reusch providing play-by-play and Dave Maloney, former New York Ranger as the color commentator and analyst At 8 ETV HIGHLIGHTS Carmina Burana with Seiji Ozawa conducting the Berlin Philharmonic and Kathleen Battle features the orchestra’s annual New Year’s Eve concert Sunday at 10.Wolf Trap Salutes Victor Borge: An 80th Birthday Celebration begins Monday at 9:30.The show features Borge himself along with the Canadian Brass, baritone Robert Merrill, Billy Crystal, Lena Horne, Buddy Hackett and others.Wednesday at 9, the Los Angeles Music Centre’s 25th Anniversary Celebration presents a star-studded evening of performance and celebration.Thursday — Crime of Passion: Mystery in Kenya examines the circumstances surrounding the unsolved 1941 murder of Lord Erroll, first in line to the throne of Scotland after the Royal Family.At 10.Saturday at 4:30 take a peek at a new series that captures the flavor and traditions of Italian cooking and adapts them The Rood to Avonlea, a new one-hour thirteen part series from the producers of Anne of Green Gables.Starts Sunday, Jan.7 at 7.m m*'.to the North American table.Host Mary Ann Esposito cooks up quick fresh sauces on the first episode.Exhibitions At Caisse Populaire Ste-Jeanne D’Arc, a watercolor exhibition by Joyce Schweitzer-Cochrane.Cochrane presents a collection entitled 4th mouvement-allegro, (visual excerpts from a Symphonie en Estrie, Opus No.89).The exhibition continues until Jan.5.There’s still that eye-opener exhibition by the Sherbrooke Historical Society.This one links our elected MNAs and Members of Parliament with the signs of the zodiac and lets the viewer decide which signs fit each personality.The exhibition, entitled Êtes-vous Député(e) Non, je suis Bélier continues until February.Beaulne Museum is closed for the holidays from Dec.22 until Jan.5.But if there’s a special request, they will open by appointment.Call 849-4940.Arts Sutton continues an exhibition of its members’ work titled Small Paintings and Small Things.This is the gallery’s Christmas exhibition continuing until Dec.31.Starting Jan.6 at Arts Sutton is an exhibition titled 25 Artists' Prints, on until Jan.28.The gallery is open Thursday to Sunday from 1 to 5.for info call Lise Ducharme at (514) 538-2563.Opening next Friday at Galerie Horace — Graham Can-tieni and Lorraine Dagenais.Both are respected professionals in their particular field of endeavor, and have worldwide reputations as artists as well as outstanding university professors.Jean-Pierre Deniss, artist from Ayer’s Cliff has an exhibition of his work at Equipax Gallery in Newport, Vt.until Jan.27.The gallery is located at 30 Coventry St.Centre Léon Marcotte continues with their show called Un Connaisseur à Découvrir: Une exposition à Voir en Jouant.This is a grouping of 37 works representing diverse eras and various cultures arranged in such a way that viewing them becomes a game.L’Espace gallery, in collaboration with 16 artists from the region, sends the public an invitation to visit this special Christmas showing.Admission is free.At the same gallery there’s also an exhibition by Robert Chicoine until Jan.7.The Caisse Populaire Desjardin in Sherbrooke is hosting an exhibition entitled Crèches de f’Oratoire featuring different types and styles of the Nativity scene from across the country.Black-and-white photographs are the special talent of André Le Coz currently on display at the University of Sherbrooke.Musée des Beaux Arts in Sherbrooke shows Naifs.ces peintres du Québec et de l’Acadie?.Until Feb.4.The Memphremagog Library presents a collection of works by several local artists during December.Visitors can see oil paintings, watercolors, enamel on copper, charcoal drawings and much more.The address is 61 Merry St., Magog.For info call 843-1330.Events An opportunity to talk about the wound of incest and childhood abuse, how to create your own safe space in your life now — with — Rosemary Sullivan and Valerie McAdam is scheduled at the C.L.S.C.La Pommeraie, 112 South St., Cowansville.The event opens with the film To a Safer Place.This is a community initiative of Pigeon Hill Bruideen/ Peacemaking Centre and C.L.S.C.La Pommeraie.Wednesday, Jan.10 at 7:30.The National Ballet School is now accepting audition applications for entrance to the 1990-91 school year.EnroU-ment in this world-famous institution is by audition only.The school offers professional ballet training and enriched academic education for students from across Canada.Post- TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 198&-9 WHAT’S ON remember.Admission is $5.Russel and his Bushwhackers, (that must be hoedown music ! ), will give folks a reason to go on partying next week when they tune up on Jan.6.Dancing begins at 9 or so and they are putting on a pot-luck lunch too.Movies The boxing’ ain’t over! At the Carrefour de l’Estrie — where shoppers are still frantically looking for a quiet spot to sit and rest, (I was there yesterday — Phew ! ), they will bring on the laughs again with We’re No Angels, starring Robert de Niro and Sean Penn.The curtain rises at 9:20 Friday — 5 and 9:20 Saturday, Sunday and weekdays.Sunday there will be no 9:20 showing.In Cowansville at Cinéma Princesse, held over for another week — Back to the Future: Part II with Michael J.Fox, beginning each evening at 7:15 and 9:15.Tuesdays and Wednesdays are special nights with admission price down to $3.75.South of the border at MerriU’s Showplace this week’s features are: Look Who’s Talking, one of the greatest comedies ever, showing Friday and Saturday at 7:20 and 9:20— Monday to Thursday at 7:20 and 9:20 and Sunday evening at 7:20.Back to the Future: Part II, is another Michael J.Fox hit with a powerful narrative drive and infectious geniality.Curtain times are Friday and Saturday, Monday through Thursday at 7 and 9:10.Sunday evening only — 7 with matinées Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday at 1:30.The third feature this week is National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, a very funny film, great for after-shopping relaxation.Showtimes are Friday, Saturday, Monday through Thursday at 7:10 and 9:15.Sunday evening at 7:10 only and matinées Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday at 1:50.The new one — The Wizard—this weekend at 1:40.This is a story of a cross-country adventure to the world’s greatest video championship that turns into more than a mere game.Rated for all.Country Plus fans take note! The boys are back and the music is all warmed up for a rousing time at Le Marquis in Richmond this Saturday.Dancing and such takes place in Salle Le Grand Due — downstairs — beginning around 9:30 and continuing as long as they allow.There will not be any dances at the Army, Navy & Air Force Veterans Association (The Hut) Dec.30 or Jan.6.However, Bourbon and Lace with Debbie Drummond are bringing their best music out to The Hut Jan.13,20 and 27.Good Ole Boys come back to Motel Bretagne this weekend — Friday and Saturday.The Dion Country Band will be at the Motel Bretagne for the New Year’s Eve bash — which includes a cold buffet and lots of geegaws ! At the Maples in Stanstead country, Big Foot continue their successful run until month’s end.Bronco Billy’s, the new IN spot for country music in Magog, continues their weekend-long parties with Lyndon Sheldon.Coming up in January, Country Fever with all kinds of surprises and fun planned for Bronco Billy fans.In the meantime, Country Fever has things right at a boiling point fun-wise out at Hotel d’En Haut in Cookshire.The grand finale of their stay there is the New Year’s Eve party that’s been a month in the plannin'.Call early for reservations.Michael Goodsell is still winning hearts at Bar Salon Chateauguay until month’s end.For info, call 565-9743.The Richmond branch of the Canadian Legion have a bang-up New Year’s Eve Party planned, featuring the music of Gaétan Chevanelle.Tickets are $10 per person and include all the noisemakers and poofoos you need to bring in 1990 with — along with a delish lunch.Rod Bray and the Countrymen will be doing the honors for the Salle RSVP New Year’s Eve party, the $12.50 per-person cost includes a hot and cold buffet as well as all the trappings for just such a bash.Tickets are on sale at Accomodation Lachance in Sawyerville.Ezzy will be supplying the toe-tapping music for the Magog Army & Navy New Year’s Dance.They are also putting on the feedbag around midnight and cost of the ¦feÉMl - ÆÊÊmtï- 'JÊÊÊKÊÊÊÊÊÊÊIÊÊÊÊBMÊÊtBËnfc.* W€St€rn Week begins on ETV’s Front Row Feature — A/y Darling Clementine.Saturday, Jan.6 at 9 beginning with the classic 1946 film___________________________ Graham Cantieni brings his works on paper to Galerie Horace.See EXHIBITIONS.secondary (dance only) and Teacher Training Programs are also available.For info call toll-free 1-800-387-0785 or write The Registrar, The National Ballet School, 105 Maitland St., Toronto, Ontario, M4Y 1E4.Music whole evening is $10 per person.Country Rock by Orchestre Benjamin will be at Le Marquis in Richmond for a New Year’s Eve party.They’ll pick up where Country Plus leaves off and keep the party going into 1990.These newcomers to the country-music scene in Richmond have a genuine barn-stormin’ party planned with whistles, and all the necessary stuff to bring in the New Year along with some delicious stuff and such to fill the gap before you head out into the cold.Admission is $10 per person and reservations are not necessary though they are advisable.Call Christine at 826-3765.Another bash in Richmond is put on by the Richmond Quebec Farmers Association.This one, at the Community Centre, features music by Country Express.These folks always put on a dandy feed, including turkey, ham, salads and home-made goodies you can’t resist.RQFA directors have tickets or call Marion Coddington.Mont Scotch Hill, that romantic hideaway between Richmond and Danville, is also planning a good time New Year’s Eve.Music is by Rocky River Band, there’s a buffet a midnight and fun things to bring in the New Year.A special addition to the service this year is a shuttle bus, running between Richmond and Danville and almost anywhere in between and all around.There will be a small fee charged, maybe $2, owner Janice Rogers tells me.The key this year is to come on down, have fun and they’ll try to see you home safely — making this quite an extraordinary shindig from start to flourishing finish.Call Janice or Jacques at 839-26E8 for info or reservations.The Lennoxville Pub is not planning a party on Dec .31 but they’ll do all that Friday and Saturday night.Bob Lasenba is down from his Ottawa home and he’ll warm folks up for New Year’s Eve both nights.Who knows, they just might have some food specials too.Our very own Midnight Express will play for a New Year’s Eve ‘do’ way up in Lachute at the Lachute Hotel.As a matter of fact, they start the party early on Friday night, play Saturday night too and wind things up royally Sunday evening, Dec.31.The Moonlighters are featured music-makers at Club Azure in Magog Dec.31.This is a great band — from Newport, Vt.— beginning their foot-stompin’ tunes at 9:30.There’s a buffet too and children under 8 years old are admitted for $12 each.Admission for the grown-ups is $15.At the Golden Lion Pub in Lennoxville, they’ll have a very special reunion when Highstreet gets together once again and makes the music that guarantees a New Year’s Eve to 10-TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1989 Travel flecanl Kids whimsical travel guides hide loads of information By Felicity Munn The Canadian Press Mickey is a dignified dog, a German shepherd who loves history, music, sports and travel.Cica is a French tabby cat who loves swimming, speaks French with “enthousiasme” and is fascinated by the world around her.Puppo was born in northern Manitoba and moved to Toronto when he was a three-month-old puppy.He’s a stamp collector and classical music aficionado.Taggy is a rather lazy beagle from Britain who had no desire to learn much about anything until he met Mickey, Puppo and Cica.Together, they are the main characters in a delightful Canadian series of children’s travel books called The Adventures of Mickey, Taggy, Puppo and Cica, written by Toronto author Kati Rekai.FACT AND FICTION A seamless blend of fiction and fact, the books chronicle the anim- als’ adventures in Canadian and European cities.The facts are all there: the history, culture and architecture of each city, along with mini-tours of neighborhoods, museums, monuments, arenas, parks, subways and so on.But they are so sweetly cloaked in the humorous, whimsical tone of the stories that most young readers would barely be aware they’re absorbing lots of information too.Hungarian-born Rekai, who has lived in Canada for 40 of her 67 years, has been somewhat of a pioneer in the area of travel guides for children.She wrote the first book in the series for her first grandchild back in 1974.It was called The Adventures of Mickey, Taggy, Puppo and Cica and How They Discover Toronto.ANIMALS REAL “Doing Toronto first had a certain logic because the animals are real animals and they live in Toronto,” Rekai says with a laugh.The cat and two of the dogs are her pets and the beagle belongs to the series’ illustrator, Elise Kane.“By coincidence, they also represent the Canadian population — Mickey is the immigrant, Taggy is the English beagle, Puppo was born on an Indian reserve and Cica is a French cat with a Hungarian name.” Since that first book, Rekai has written nine others about the foursome’s frolics in such places as Ottawa, Montreal and the Thousand Islands in the St.Lawrence River.The series also includes books on the Netherlands, Switzerland, France, Vienna and, in homage to her native land, Budapest.Published by Canadian Stage and Arts Publications Ltd., the books sell for $8.95 apiece.The guides to the Canadian cities, plus France, are also available in French.Family travel is growing, but the guidebook industry seems to have been slow to catch on.Rekai’s books, of course, are something more than mere travel guides, but until recently they were about all that was available for kids on the move.Two American publishers are now putting out guidebooks especially for children.The Kidding Around series introduced this year is intended for children age eight and up.The other series, titled The Kid’s Guide, would be more suitable for younger children.Each of the books in the Kidding Around series is divided into short, manageable chapters on everything from the history of a city to the sights and restaurants that would most appeal to youngsters.They’re also sprinkled with gentle questions designed to make young readers think — such as “Guess how old the Egyptian mummy is” in a museum in San Franciso, or, in the section on Greenwich in the London book, “Do you know the longitude where you live?” So far, the ridding Around series covers San Francisco, Washing- ton, D C., Atlanta, New York City, Los Angeles and London.Guides to Hawaii and Boston are due in the spring, and Seattle, Paris and Philadelphia should be out next fall.Published by John Muir Publications and distributed in Canada by Raincoast Books, the Kidding Around books are $12.95 each.THINGS TO DO The books in the Kid’s Guide series have large printing, numerous games, puzzles and fill-in-the-blank “travel diaries,” making them both travel guides and activity books that can keep restless youngsters busy for hours.There are now four books in the series: A Kid’s Guide to Florida, to New York City, to Southern California and to Washington, D C.Published by Gulliver Travels, a division of Harcourt Brace Jovano-vich, they sell for $8.95 in Canada.Each of the three series has a different slant and tone.They make pleasurable reading for grownups too.and all three are in a slender paperback format that’s convenient to tote around.Scottish city gambles on culture and tourism and wins By Doug Hamilton GLASGOW, Scotland (CP)—Ten years ago, the good-natured residents of rough and tumble Glasgow on the brooding, khaki waters of the River Clyde would have chuckled at comparing their city with Florence or Paris.Visitors used to shun the once strongly Calvinist, soot-covered metropolis that was battered by recession in the 1960s and ’70s.“The definition of a tourist (at that time) was someone who was lost,” says Eddie Friel, the chief executive of the Greater Glasgow tourist board.No one laughs any more.Last year, the city’s huge international garden festival attracted more than four million visitors.Many people now come to see Glasgow’s numerous museums, attend the opera, watch a play or just shop in the tony boutiques.The city centre, once an economic basket-case, has been transformed into an urban showpiece where modern architecture blends with a rich heritage of Georgian and Victorian buildings.CULTURE CITY The European Community has even proclaimed Glasgow the European City of Culture for 1990, an honor bestowed in recent years on Paris, Amsterdam, Florence and Athens.An ambitious year-long program costing 40 million pounds (about $76 million Cdn) will begin at midnight Dec.31.It will consist of concerts, plays, art shows, poetry readings and sporting events.For many Glaswegians, their community has stared economic death in the face and beaten the odds.Scotland’s biggest industrial centre declined steadily after the Second World War.The city reached the point where it was seen as little more than a squalid provincial backwater hobbled by poverty, crime and urban decay.In the postwar years, the giant shipyards which used to line the Clyde and gave Glasgow its image to the world, slowly succumbed to competition from more efficient builders in Rotterdam, Bremen and Hamburg and to cheaper labor in South Korea.An estimated 170,000 jobs vanished in Glasgow-area shipyards, engineering, metal and other manufacturing industries.Between 1931 and 1984, the city’s population declined by about 300,000.Some went to other cities in Britain, but most emigrated to Canada, Australia and other Commonwealth countries in search of work and a better life.The city was in crisis and community leaders decided to gamble.NEW HOUSING They bulldozed slums, built 75,000 new houses and rehabilitated countless others.The municipal government of Glasgow is now considered Europe’s biggest landlord, owning about 60 per cent of the housing in the city.Local politicians and businessmen decided to make a break with the city’s industrial past and revive the economy through tourism.They made Glasgow Scotland’s leading city of culture, building a museum to accommodate the Burrell Art Collection, a new convention centre and a hall for the Scottish National Orchestra.They also began an energetic program of restoring the city’s architectural heritage.Under Michael Kelly, the lord provost, or mayor, from 1980 to ’84, the city undertook an aggressive self-promotion campaign called Glasgow’s Miles Better.The hero of the program was Mr.Happy, a small, fat, disk-like figure that popped up on the backs of buses, on billboards and railway stations all over Scotland, other parts of Britain and Europe.“Glasgow has become Britain’s first post-industrial city,” Friel of the tourist board told a London newspaper earlier this year.PRINCELY PRAISE A typical example of the new Glasgow is Princes Square, a three-storey shopping complex on Buchanan Street in the city centre.It accommodates trendy shops with burnished wood, cast-iron balconies and Victorian skylights that appeal to Glasgow’s growing young middle class.The project has drawn effusive praise from Prince Charles, who has criticized much of Britain's new architecture as gaudy and tasteless.So far, Glasgow’s new reliance on service industries appears to be paying dividends.A recent study conducted by a London-based think-tank showed the visual and performing arts have contributed more than $375 million a year to Glasgow’s economy, creating about 14,000 jobs.But critics like Michael Keating, who published a 200-page study of Glasgow’s housing and economic policies in 1988, are skeptical.They say much of the new prosperity is confined to the middle class in the city centre.The legions of working- class families who were relocated in massive “housing estates” on the periphery of the city in the mid-1950s have not benefited.Keating has called Glasgow a “dual city” of rich and poor.CALLED SOWETOS’ Glaswegians refer to the housing projects — Castlemilk, Pollok, Drumchapel and Easterhouse — as Sowetos, after South Africa’s black township outside Johannesburg.Easterhouse, which is only a short train ride from the glittering shops and yuppie winebars of central Glasgow, is a public housing complex known for drug and alcohol addiction, crime and juvenile delinquency.Unemployment there is 30 per cent, more than double the city-wide average of 13.5 per cent.“A whole generation in Easterhouse, Pollok, Drumchapel and Castlemilk is growing up with little prospect of employment or social advancement,” says Keating in his book, The City that Refused to Die.Other parts of the city have similar social problems.The Scottish media have published lurid stories of how poor people have been forced to go to loan sharks to get enough money to live on and how single mothers must resort to shoplifting and other crimes to support their children.Still, despite the crime and deprivation, most Glaswegians maintain a cheerful optimism.“After what we’ve been through, it’s a miracle we’ve survived,” says a patron in Lauder’s pub on Sauchiehall Street, the city’s most reknowned thoroughfare.“But nae wurries,” he says in a beery growl.“Glesga’ will be here for ever.” PHILANTHROPIST.If more of us were one, more of us would know what it meant The giving begins with you. TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29.1989-11 Bright new star shining in England’s literary sky By Marcus Eliason LONDON (AP) — Kazuo Ishiguro set his first novel in England, but changed his mind and moved much of its action to Nagasaki.His second novel, a critic wrote, should be read by anyone wanting to understand the Japanese.With his third novel, The Remains of the Day, the Japanese-born author has turned his eye on his adopted country with an imaginative tour de force built around that most British of institutions, the butler.Like Jeeves, that other famous butler of fiction, Ishiguro’s Mr.Stevens of Darlington Hall is a proud perfectionist.But this is no P.J.Wodehouse farce.Rather, The Remains of the Day is a somber, disturbing tale that has harvested ecstatic reviews plus this year’s Booker Prize, Britain’s most prestigious literary award.Ishiguro’s achievement is all the greater for the fact that he writes of a Japan he has not seen since he was five and of an England that died a generation before him.SUBTLE PROSE At 35, this Nagasaki-born scion of samurai lineage is a thoroughly modern Englishman, right down to the soft south London accent.He writes in English, and says his Japanese is too poor for conversation with other Japanese.But his prose has the subtlety and understatement one associates with a Japanese watercolor.He can vaguely remember adults mentioning genshibakudan, the atomic bomb, but only now is he making his first visit back to Japan.His father, an oceanographer, took the family to England in 1954 and settled in Guildford, a comfortably middle-class town southwest of London.At school, Ishiguro recalls, “I learned to use my conspicuousness to make myself very popular.They didn’t know whether I should be hero-worshipped or stigmatized.” He ended up “kind of mascotized.” He backpacked through Europe and North America and did odd jobs, including a season as a field- hand on royal grouse hunts.He wanted to be a rock musician, but ended up at novelist Malcolm Bradbury’s creative writing department at the University of East Anglia.CALLED ‘MASTER’ He published some short stories, then a novel, A Pale View of Hills.In 1986 came his dazzling second novel, An Artist of the Floating World, set in 1950s Japan.“We are seeing here the emergence of one of the masters of contemporary English writing,” wrote Paul Barker in The Financial Times.“And if you want to start to understand the Japanese, begin here.” The novel told of a respected painter coming to terms with his less-than-glorious Second World War years as a propaganda artist for Japanese militarists.Ishiguro’s latest, The Remains of the Day, is also about old men’s regrets — in this case the butler's recognition that Lord Darlington, the gentleman he served with utter devotion, was a well-meaning but wholly misguided sympathizer with Nazi Germany and a pawn in the hands of Hitler’s ambassador to Britain, Joachim von Ribben-trop.The story begins in 1956.Darlington Hall has passed with Stevens, its butler, to an American owner, Mr.Farraday, who kindly lends Stevens his car and sends him off on a motoring holiday through western England.As he drives, Stevens reflects on his life as a butler in the 1930s, and gradually his shell of professional reserve peels away to reveal truth after shattering truth.DUTY BLINDED Here is a man so dutiful that he kept serving drinks even though aware his father was dying upstairs; who was deeply loved by the housekeeper but never realized it, and anyway, believed marriage among servants disrupted household duties; who without demur fired two Jewish maids because his lordship thought it was a good idea; who was deluded enough to FOR BETTER FARMING, PLEASE GIVE TO CARE CANADA CAKE CARE Canada 1312 Bank.Ottawa K1S believe he was contributing to world peace by serving the correct wines to the British and German guests who would gather at Darlington Hall to plot the appeasement of Hitler.Stevens’s shame is not that he was pro- or anti-Nazi, but that he never had an opinion either way, so blinded was he by duty.“You see, I trusted,” he tells a stranger when he finally faces up to the truth.“I trusted in his lordship’s wisdom.All those years I served him, I trusted I was doing something worthwhile.” Thus Ishiguro neatly reverses the cliche of ‘ ‘what the butler saw” by building a novel around what the butler didn’t see, and poses a crucial question for democracies everywhere: How are ordinary citizens to make up their own minds, when “a group of people can shoutfor a longtime, ‘Weknow what we’re doing, just trust us,’ and most of us in this country are in a helpless position.We just don’t know enough to argue back.” BUTLER PERFECT Another achievement of The Remains of the Day is that in telling his story entirely in Stevens’s voice, Ishiguro displays a nearflawless ear for butler language and manner.Stevens is fussy, but- toned-up, comical, even exasperating.Japanese and English societies share rigid structures that invite comparison, but Ishiguro resists the temptation.He can see much that is “strange, bizarre and exotic” in England, but recognizes he must seem equally strange to the Japanese, who.he suspects, are “slightly baffled, fascinated and probably slightly threatened" by him because “multiculturalism is something they’re not used to.” But “culturally, people are increasingly becoming a mixture of things,” he says.“I’m an obvious example of that.” # ., # TOP 40 of 1989 SO0 SHERBROOKE 1- LIKE A PRAYER Madonna 2- LISTEN TO YOUR HEART Roxette 3- ROCK ON Michael Damien 4- COLD HEARTED Paula Abdul 5- EXPRESS YOURSELF Madonna 6- STRAIGHT UP Paula Abdul 7- TOY SOLDIERS Martika 8- GOOD THING Fine Young Cannibals 9- BUFFAL0W STANCE Neneh Cherry 10- CHERISH Madonna 11- MISS YOU MUCH Janet Jackson 12- WE DIDN’T START THE FIRE Billy Joel 13- FOREVER YOUR GIRL Paula Abdul 14- LOST IN YOUR EYES Debbie Gibson 15- RANGIN' TOUGH New Kids On The Block 16- I’LL BE THERE FOR YOU Bon Jovi 17- 1 WANNA HAVE SOME FUN Samantha Fox 18- GILR I’M GONNA MISS YOU Milli Vanilli 19- IF YOU DON’T KNOW ME BY NOW Simply Red 20- SHE WANTS TO DANCE WITH ME Rick Astley 21- TWO HEARTS Phil Collins 22- WHEN 1 SEE YOU SMILE Bad English 23- ARMAGEDD0NIT Deft Leppard 24- COVER GIRL New Kids On The Block 25- PUT A LITTLE LOVE IN YOUR HEART Annie Lennox/AI Green 26- BORN TO BE MY BABY Bon Jovi 27- BAT DANCE Prince 28- SOWING THE SEEDS OF LOVE Tears For Fears 29- HELENE Roch Voisine 30- POP SINGER John C.Mellencamp 31- THE LOOK Roxette 32- BLACK VELVET Alannah Myles 33- BLAME IT ON THE RAIN Milli Vanilli 34- ELECTRIC YOUTH Debbie Gibson 35- 1 ONLY WANNA BE WITH YOU Samantha Fox 36- SHE DRIVES ME CRAZY Fine Young Cannibals 37- ROCKLANDWONDERLAND Kim Mitchell 38- RIGHT HERE WAITING Richard Marx 39- GIVING AWAY A MIRACLE Luba 40- LOVE SHACK B-52's 12—TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1989 This week's TV Listings for this week's television programs as supplied by I jMiliBiMwiHMSiiflt While we make every effort to ensure their L accuracy, they are subject to change without notice.^ STATIONS LISTED Channel Station o CBFT o WCAX o WPTZ o CBMT o CHLT o WMTW a CKSH (D CFTM (May 21-June 20) Unusual schemes seem destined to invade your life, and they stand an excellent chance of being successful.CANCER_______________________________________ HIS0 (June 21-July 22) The resources of close acquaintances have enormous appeal right now.Learn to handle the unexpected LEO___________________________________________