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r Weekly Guide to Arts & Entertainment in the Eastern Townships INSIDE Beloved holiday songs see Page 5 INSIDE The Producers are here see Page 9 _______) THE RECORD, December 23 - December 29, 2005 Album launch a heartfelt tribute to late angel By Thomas Ledwell Record Correspondent After 18 months of work, the release of the first album by Town-ships-based alternative rock group Angels in Anarchy came under a cloud — both literally and figuratively.The album launch, which happened last Friday as a winter storm heaped snow on Sherbrooke, should have been a joyous celebration of the band’s successful completion of the album.Instead, it was homage to a band mate who died tragically.“It’s our way to pay tribute to Jonathan Gallant, our guitarist who died in a car accident last February,” said bassist Adam Rousseau of the album A Cold Mourning, his tone much softer than the band’s name would suggest.“This album is the realization of our dreams, and Jonathan’s dream.” “It was a very emotional event for all of us and also for the fans,” Rousseau said of the launch at the University of Sherbrooke’s student pub, the Kudsak.Rousseau said his hope for the album is that “the most people possible get it and know our story.” The story of the young band is laced with tragedy.Angels in Anarchy was formed two years ago by four young men with an interest in heavy alternative music and social issues.Rousseau joined guitarist Gallant, drummer David Vaillancourt and singer Michael Roberge.The group developed a heavy sound, comparable to Papa Roach or Linkin Park.“We talk about society and youth,” said Rousseau of the themes in the band’s music.“One of our songs — called Drowning Youth — it talks about the youth that is influenced by capitalist economy.There’s no social movement anymore.We want to make society think about these subjects.” Like many aspiring young musicians, Rousseau said the band had visions of taking their music to audiences beyond the Townships.“Our big project was to go and play in California on a big stage and bring our message around the world.The band was founded like this.It was an ambitious project.” The group was in the process of lay-ing down tracks for its first album when a car accident changed everything.Last February, the car several members of the band were in went off the road in Richmond in the wee hours of the morning.They hit a telephone phone.Of the four young men in the vehicle, Gallant, 19, and another friend and fan of the band, Antoine Lebel, 24, were killed.The band’s webmaster Sébastien Gagné was seriously injured.Rousseau was driving the car.He walked away from the accident.In the days that followed, 20-year-old Rousseau was charged with two counts of dangerous driving causing death and another count of dangerous driving causing serious injury.Rousseau said it haunts him — even ten months after the accident.“It’s something that’s really, really difficult to deal with each day, I can’t forget it," he said in a somber tone.“It’s also something that helped me to continue, to finish my project, and to want to pay tribute to Jonathan and show what he was able to do.This project is his project too.” Before the acci- dent, Gallant had the time to record the guitar tracks for the album.In the criminal court case, Rousseau pled guilty to two counts of dangerous driving.He will be back in court for sentencing early in the new year.In the meantime, Rousseau has buried himself in working on the album.“It’s comforting for me.It’s important for me to realize these things for them,” he said, noting the album is as much for Gagné and Lebel as it is for Gallant.“I had to present this album to our fans.I had to show what Jonathan was able to do.The court case is something that is in my mind too, but I can’t change anything.1 let the days pass.For the moment, I prefer to act.” Rousseau said he’s trying not to think about his next day in court and wants to spend a nice holiday with his family and his girlfriend.As he faces punishment for the deaths of two of his closest friends, Rousseau is trying to make amends in any way he can.“What I find important is what 1 can change now, if I can make things better for my friends.It’s not because bad things happen that you cannot do something good." ¦ jkM mm .wwvv.angelsmanarchyxom COURTESY ANGELS IN ANARCHY Local band Angels in Anarchy launched their debut album at the Kudsak bar at the University of Sherbrooke earlier this month.The band dedicated the album to their guitarist, Jonthan Gallant, who died in a car accident in February.Lindsay Lohan • V.C.Andrews • Fieiy Furnaces • Carrie Underwood iTHF.aà page 2 December 23 - December 29, 2005 RECORD TALK Pluck up some courage CANWEST NEWS • ", » 'A .: > .r > ¦ Take charge this year and make your own turkey.Find out just what Mom was doing in the kitchen every Christmas.and roast By Judy Schultz ** For the novice cook, here comes the scariest day of the year.Although I’ve never understood what it is about stuffing and roasting a turkey that overwhelms so many people, I admit that fear of turkey does exist.Help is at hand from the 25-year-old Butterball Turkey Talk-Line.First, a few surprising facts, from the tireless people at Butterball, a name well known in turkey circles.In a recent survey by Ipsos Reid, 51 per cent of Canadian men said they prefer light meat to dark meat.When asked their favourite part of the turkey, 51 per cent wanted breast meat.That left a hefty chunk of Canadian males who turn thumbs down on light meat and go for dark, with nearly one-quarter of men (21 per cent) opting for the thigh and another 16 per cent choosing the leg.It all sounds faintly X-rated, but we’re talking turkey here.Now the distressing bit (or not, depending on how you feel about cooking): Although nearly all men and women, a full 96 per cent from coast to coast to coast, prefer turkey as the Christmas meat of choice, when it comes to preparing the holiday bird, it’s still largely women’s work.According to the survey, 68 per cent of Canadian women cook the Christmas turkey, compared to just 17 per cent of men.Doubtless the remaining 15 per cent are out there in limbo, roasting a to-furkey, or a turducken or some such exotic.“No matter which way you slice it this holiday season, it’s time for Canadian men to tie up the aprons and get in the kitchen,” said a Butterball maven.“Only 22 per cent of Canadian calls during this past Thanksgiving came from men,” points out Mary Cling-man, director of the Butterball Turkey Talk-Line.“All of us at the Turkey Talk-Line are calling out to Canadian men this holiday season to step it up and help cook the turkey!” Nearly a third — a full 28 per cent of men — are turkey rookies.Translation: never attempted to cook a turkey.Mary adds this comforting note: “We’re here to help, so give us a call, if need be.” (1-800-BUTTERBALL).She also notes that 18 per cent of men say they are carvers only, and never attempt to do the actual roasting.In comparison, only one per cent of women are carvers only.THE EASY WAY OUT This year, the maketplace offers a number of options for the cook who wants anxiety-free turkey.Pre-stuffed frozen turkey roasts are the easy way out.Most of them go directly from freezer to oven with no defrosting, no washing, no pesky pin-feather plucking, no basting and no messy stuffing to contend with.The Butterball people offer several options: boneless turkey breast, with stuffing or without; turkey breast with bone, with stuffing or without; or boneless white and dark turkey.There’s also a fully prepared miracle turkey available in some supermarkets in which the breastbone and rib cage have been removed and the resulting boneless cavity stuffed with dressing.TOTAL TURKEY FACTS • Refrigerator thawing is the best way to thaw a turkey.• Allow one day of thawing for every four pounds.If you’re short on time, submerge the turkey in cold water.• Thawing the turkey at room temperature is not recommended; it can promote bacteria growth.• With a bone-in bird, allow 1.5 pounds of turkey per person.• Roast the bird at 325 F (160 C).• Use an instant-read meat ther- mometer to decide when the turkey is fully cooked.Be sure the thermometer doesn’t touch the bone.The deep thigh should reach 180 F (83 C), and if you stuff the bird, the centre of the stuffing should reach 160 F (72 C).• Remove stuffing immediately.Cover whole bird with foil and let it rest 10 minutes for the juices to set before carving.• For further information, or to speak to a dedicated turkey talker, the talk line (T800-BUTTERBALL) is now open.An automated assistant is available after hours.-Can West News Service Food, travel and culture make fascinating mix By Joanne Sasvari From the very beginning, Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid preferred to wander the untrodden path."We met in 1985 in Tibet,” Alford said recently in Calgary.' 'We were staying in the same hotel.” Duguid was a Toronto labour lawyer and Alford was cycling from Tibet to Nepal after several years of working his way through Asia by cooking in restaurants.But then, Alford says, “We met and fell in love and got married and we wanted to work together.” Twenty years later, they’re the famous co-authors of four award-winning books about the intersection of food, travel and culture.They’ve just released their fifth book, Mangoes and Curry Leaves: Culinary Travels Through the Great Subcontinent (Random House Canada, $70).Alford and Duguid spent the first few years after they met doing a lot of cycling, mostly in Asia.Among other highlights, they were the first people to cross the Himalayas by bike.“They were big trips.You had to come with a month’s supply of food,” Alford recalls.They decided to make some money from their travels and started selling freelance pieces to cycling magazines.Then they sold a story on Central Asian flatbreads to Bon Appétit and another story on Thai drinking foods to Food & Wine magazine.In 1995, they published their first book, Flatbreads Flavors, which won the James Beard Cookbook of the Year Award.They haven’t looked back since.They’ve written books about Southeast Asia (Hot Sour Salty Sweet), rice and the cultures that eat it (Seductions of Rice) and bread-making around the world (HomeBaking).Their newest book explores the diverse cuisines of Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.Like the others, it combines compelling photography with vivid storytelling and simple recipes.(Both Alford and Duguid write, take pictures and create recipes for the books.) For their next project, tentatively titled Beyond the Great Wall, they travel to China and sample the foods of the non-Chinese people in that great country.“China’s an infinitely interesting place, just like the subcontinent,” Alford says.All these books require lots of travel _ and it’s not the sort of all-inclusive, package-tour travel where you can just call up an agent and book the trip over the phone.Nor is it the sort of organized “fam” (for “familiarization trips”) most travel writers rely on.Every couple of years, he and Duguid take a big, several-months-long trip and bring their two sons, aged 15 and 18, with them.Other than that, they travel sepa See Couple, p.16 i TH E| Biography recounts most notable life RECORD December 23 - December 29, .2005-EAGE.3 Books ACE #> 0* 0^ t TKm ** 3 $£&***'¦ Alex PaU rson (far left) and fellow founders of Theatre Lac Brome celebrated the twentieth anniversary at a Gala last June.Paterson stirred the crowd to cheers with a rousing rendition of She was Poor but She was Honest.by Wendy Denman Record Correspondent Alex Paterson is an amiable, charming man who loves to tell stories.Residents in Lac Brome recognize him as one of the founders of Theatre Lac Brome, a closet thespian who when persuaded on stage can be extremely funny, a natural comedian.In Lennoxville, he’s well-known for his connections to Bishop’s University — a member of the University’s Corporation for two decades and then Chancellor front 1995 to 2005 he is the Paterson of Bishop’s Paterson Hall.In his recently published biography — My Life at the Bar and Beyond — it immediately becomes clear that Alex Paterson has not just done interesting things in his life, but has in fact participated in and influenced many of the major events that have shaped this province in the last forty years.Written in a friendly, armchair-style full of anecdotes and personal comment, Paterson brings the reader behind the scenes of such events as the bitter school dispute in 1976 when he served on the three-man Poirier Commission and the 1980 Referendum when he took a significant role on the No Steering Committee.He was a member of the Positive Action Committee giving strong input into the Language Legislation (Bill 101) debate and a chief negotiator during the Oka Crisis.Paterson chaired McGill’s Board of Governors from 1990 to 1995, becoming deeply involved in the establishment of the McGill University Health Centre and a vocal member of the steering committee for the McGill teaching hospitals.A litigation lawyer for fifty years, with a few forays in the criminal courts, Paterson was involved with some of the most controversial and unusual cases to come before the courts, including the alleged brainwashing experiments funded by the CIA at the Allan Memorial Institute.He names the names and develops the personalities of those he served and worked with.His writing imparts the feeling of being there, of lifting the cover of silence and getting the low down of what actually went on during the language debate or the Oka crisis, of how it felt to be kept up all night, or not, as a union rep ranted about terms or the long, but necessary, drive to inspect a disabled ship.Paterson worked beside many Quebec and Canadian notables, many of them friends, among them - Claude Cas-tonguay, Claude Ryan, Robert Bourassa, Jean Chretian, Tony Abbott, Greta Chambers, Charles Lynch, Charles Broffman, Reed Scowan.In his various University positions, he welcomed international figures the likes of Archbishop Desmond TuTu and Boris Yeltsin.Inducted into the Order of Canada in 1983 partly for his zeal for Canadian unity, Paterson quickly gained the reputation as a champion for the English-speaking minority in Quebec - but a champion who espoused cooperation and dialogue between the language groups.My Life and the Bar and Beyond is a very personal book.The kind of book a man might write for his grandchildren.Paterson devotes much time to family -the first two chapters being titled Ancestors and Growing up in Montreal and Murray Bay.Yet, this sense of family pervades the entire book, the touchstone in Paterson’s life as he attends to his many government and academic appointments and the practice of law.“Of all the chapters I think the one I enjoyed writing the most was the one when I served as President of the Board at the MacKay Centre in Montreal, “ Paterson told the Record in a recent interview.“The children there got very close to my heart.I would have been perfectly happy to write the entire book about those handicapped children and the courage they displayed.I like the parts about the kids the most.” In the same vein, Paterson was one of the delegates who attended the Shriners meeting in Baltimore last summer in the successful bid to keep the Shriners Hospital in Montreal.The chapters are interspersed with three sets of photos - the early years, highlights of his career and family photos of the present.Born in 1932, Alex Paterson still practices law and continues to be involved in one cause after another.“I would be delighted to be considered a Townshipper.We spend at least half the year - through long weekends and long holidays at our house in Knowlton which we’ve owned for the last twenty years," Paterson commented.“We’re involved in the theatre, in St.Paul's Church which is a great comfort to us.It’s a good place, a good place for family,” says a man who has been on the inside of great historical events, yet enjoys nothing more than acting as goalie in a scratch up hockey game.My Life at the Bar and Beyond is published by McGill-Queen’s University Press and available at bookstores everywhere.Join us for New Year's Eve Dinner Captain Granky's superb seafood buffet ^ from4p.m.$1995 and come for New Year's Sunday Brunch I a.m.- 11 a.m.$1095 12 p.m.- 4 p.m.$1595 ^ 802-334-2340 47 Landing Drive Newport, Vt.J ' t' NX 1 ISftaS [TH E| page 4 December 23 - December 29, 2005 RECORD ür» Æ*ENVE8 Ijfcdq MaurtotÇhrafr&à j; ¦ "V WliUlVORU-ifriJia WltFy Gefaiev ÏÏuKÎJST'lï Dad loves the deep gospel sound of traditional hymns like Oh Holy Night and It Came Upon a Midnight Clear and nobody does it better.Over the years there have been numerous unsuccessful attempts to wean him away with Bing Crosbie, Elvis and more recently, Diana Krall.This year however is different.His favourite musician and youngest son Matthew who will not be home this Christmas to share his gift of music, sent a CD of Christmas favourites and guests to our home may well ask after a bit, “You still have that CD by Mahalia Jackson?” -Sharon McCully Carol of the Bells, 1916 While not a whole album in itself, Carol of the Bells remains my favourite carol, though it’s hard to give a reason why.Ukranian composer Mykola Leontovych, the original composer, wrote the song in 1916.It was adapted by Peter Wilhousky, who wrote the English lyrics in 1936.Perhaps it was hearing sung by a choir for the very first time.The song moves with at urgent pace, gathering energy as it goes along.The choir goes from soft to loud in a heart-beat, though the lyrics talk about throwing cares away.Maybe it is the odd contradiction the urgent tone of the music set against the lyrics that draws me to it.It could be that it sounds unlike any other Christmas carol I have heard.There is no mention of the birth of Jesus or Bethlehem.Instead we get a frenetic wave of bells.My favourite part of the carol has always been the climax when the choral reaches notes that only dogs can hear and the rushed enunciation of the word “merry” four times before they finally get to Christmas.Of course, this carol has been used to death in the last few years as movies, TV shows, and commercials play it endlessy on their “special” holiday show.I suggest finding a nice churce on Christmas Eve.Maybe its just be the baroque feeling the composition has.I can’t put my finger on it, but 1 know what I like.It only gets better when the choir is accompanied with actual bells.0- ( ^ lMtie.iv )' C » i swell./, O.-çen • the flist Sept is! Sell! -Patrick Lavcry i Tl I K* page 6 December 23 - December 29, 2005 RECORD Best Selling Singles 1.Alive, Melissa O’Neil (1) 2.Hung Up, Madonna (2) 3.Do They Know It’s Qiristmas, Band Aid (3) 4.Inside Your Heaven, C.Underwood (5) 5.Don’t Cha, Pussycat Dolls (4) 6.Get Right, Jennifer Lopez (11) 7.Inside Your Heaven, Bo Bice (6) , 8.Peace On Earth, Bowie/Crosby —Nielson Sound scan Best Selling Albums ^ 1.Curtain Call, Eminem (1) 2.Christmas Songs, Diana Krall (3) 3.Ancora, D Divo (2) 4.Confessions On A_„ Madonna (4) 5.Under the Lights, Rex Goudie (new) 6.Muchdance 2006, Various (7) 7.Amarantine, Enya (6) 8.Switch, INXS (5) —Nielson Soundscan NILS PETTER MOLVAER ER (Sula/Uni versai) Norway’s Nils Petter Molvaer doesn’t say what the the title of his new CD means, but considering the cover photo, it’s probably the next stop for the man seen leaping seven metres above a shoreline.The trumpeter-composer, who doubles up on keyboards and bass, displays his trademark lyricism on ER.Like the late American horn man Miles Davis, Molvaer does more with few notes than his colleagues do with many.On the opening number, his trumpet rings loud and spare over a bed of electronics and tabla-like percussion, and on ‘Softer’, Molvaer reaches for high notes but only barely; a lot of trumpeters try to blow you away with their upper-registers, but when Molvaer does it he creates a vulnerable voice.-C.N.ROBERT FRIPP Love Cannot Bear/Soundscapes: Live in the USA (DGM) Former prog-rock guitarist Robert Fripp has devoted much of his post-King Crimson career to electronics, making at least half a dozen recordings (including last year’s The Equatorial Stars, with Brian Eno) in this mode.In simple terms, Fripp plays his guitar through electronic processors and sound devices, using loops and delays so that a note or chord, altered in sound, can be repeated, or joined by other altered notes and chords.While some call this ambient sound, Fripp would probably object to the term, because he demands that peo- ple not treat it as background, but listen intently to every note.At his concerts, from which these eight tracks were drawn, he stations “four quarters main-tainers” whose job it is to make sure nothing — no noisy bar machines, no loud waiters, no booing patrons — interferes with the music.-C.N.CELSO MACHADO Capivara (Festival ) Before moving to Canada’s west coast, Machado grew up in northern Brazil, where he learned all the varied musical forms of his native country.He plays many of them on Capivara, a disc on which the multitalented Machado sings and plays all instruments except mandolin, allowing guest artist Estanislau Nogueira Gubiotti to take care of that end of things.Of course, the samba is the main form, and Machado performs it fast (the title track), slow (‘Poeira do Chao’) and several tempos between the two extremes.‘Jabuticaba’ is in the baiao form, taken at a brisk dance pace.He plays a finger-picking guitar style on ‘Ceu Nordestino’, which changes tempo and mood as it goes, adds African kora to his roster of instruments on another number, and closes out the disc playing the flute.-C.N.LINDSAY LOHAN A Little More Personal (Raw) (Casablanca/Universal) All the high-priced talent deeply creepy studio boss Tommy Mottola could find has been assembled for Lohan’s mechanically confessional second album.In case you haven’t had enough of the marginally talented teen drama queen’s messy life, her Daddy troubles are spelled out in verse and power chords on the title track and My Innocence.She cov- MS lives here.Multiple sclerosis never hits just one person.It affects the entire family.MS Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada 1-800-268’7582 www.mssociety.ca .«¦ «ai- Æ Æm Review ers Cheap Trick without giving I Want You to Want Me any of its bouncy humour.She sounds like she has PMS on Stevie Nicks’ already overwrought Edge of Seventeen.Did we mention the full-colour cheesecake shots?She may fill out a dress, but Lohan is still somewhat less than fully loaded.-C.N.TOE FIERY FURNACES Rehearsing My Choir (Rough Trade) How could Friedberger siblings Matthew and Eleanor top the lunacy of 2004’s Blueberry Boat?Hey, pass Granny the mic! Perhaps not knowing what she was in for, Olga Sarantos signed on to narrate her life story, as written by grandson Matthew.Which is to say, a non-linear mind bomb that’s surely sincere, but remains inscrutable to anyone who can’t spare 27 hours a day.Rather than attempt to decode it, embrace its inspired strangeness.Like Blueberry Boat, Choir changes lanes like a cabbie off his Ritalin.Unlike Blueberry Boat, cracker-jack tunes are in short supply.The story’s the thing, with Sarantos’s meticulous enunciation and Eleanor’s cold-heat vocals layered over vaudevillian piano and dollar-store synths.You’ll adore it or despise it, but you won’t easily forget it.-C.N.RIC OCASEK Nexterday (Inverse/ Sanctuary) Heavy on hooks, but light on personality, the former Car chiefs latest solo effort sounds unsettlingly like a pale echo of his former band — a group that was stiff and unmemo-rable enough in the first place.(Quick.Is there one Cars disc you’d save in a fire?).Taking its cue from the back catalogue, this disc goes for the kind of catchy radio friendliness that might have paid dividends in the collective-insanity era that spawned ubiquitous synths and keyboards.In the here and now, though, with guitar standing in for blips and beeps, this is a stone-cold yawner.Sure, tracks like Bottom Dollar and I’m Thinking might have worked 20 years ago, but Ocasek’s brand of power pop has seen better days.-C.N.RATED WIDESCREEN EDIT .1 r NUIP R i?CO NNHUr DARK WATER! EN HITCHCOCK UUD NOT HAVE, >NE IT SETTER À A«rV/U AtlTMOlU Olf-TH t lUNG^I DVD of the Week By Katherine Monk Dark Water (out Dec.27): Jennifer Connelly stars in this creepy, but not quite creepy enough, horror film from director Walter Salles (Motorcycle Diaries, Central Station) based on a Japanese chiller.Very much in the same vein as The Ring, the story follows the journey of recently separated mom and daughter as they riiove into a new apartment on Roosevelt Island.Though Salles does a wonderful job setting the tone and draining as much colour as possible from every frame, the film never finds any emotional traction _ even with the talented Connelly in the lead.The situation is too familiar, and the reaction of the actors too limp, to prompt more than a shrug of dismay _ and a look of revulsion at all those dirty bathrooms.DVD features include deleted scenes, The Sound of Terror: The Subliminal Landscapes of Dark Water, Analyzing Dark Water Sequences, Beneath the Surface: The Making of Dark Water and An Extraordinary Ensemble featurette.—Can West News Service iTHE, RECORD December 23 - December 29, 2005 page 7 Fiction Bestsellers 1.The Sea, by John Banville 2.The Lighthouse, by P.D.James 3.The Historian, by Elizabeth Kostova 4.Breath of Snow and Ashes, by Diana Gabaldon 5.Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince, byJ.K.Rowling 6.The Eagle, by Jack Whyte 7.The Time in Between, by D.Bergen 8.Everything Worth Knowing, by L.Weisberger 9.Knife of Dreams, by Robert Jordan 10.A Map Of Glass, by Jane Urquhart — Bishop’s University Bookstore Non-fiction Bestsellers 1.The World is Flat, by T.Friedman 2.The Secret Mulroney Tapes, by Peter C.Newman 3.Shake Hands With the Devil, by Romeo Dallaire 4.Talk to the Hand, by Lynn Truss 5.My Life At The Bar., by Alex K.Paterson 6.Race Against Time, by Stephen Lewis 7.Chronicles: Vol.1, by Bob Dylan 8.A Short History of Progress, by R.Wright 9.The Tipping Point, by M.Gladwell 10.This Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion — Bishop’s University Bookstore Flowers in the Attic still appealing By Samantha Grice Since it was published 25 years ago, V.C.Andrews’ Flowers in the Attic has become a rite of passage for teenage girls.Today, there are more than 100 million V.C.Andrews books in print, and that first haunting title spawned 50 more novels.Though Andrews died in 1986, a ghostwriter was chosen by the author’s family to take up the cause of modern-day gothic tales about preternaturally gorgeous yet troubled children.Young girls are drawn into the V.C.Andrews vortex by the perfect, blond Dollanganger family.Gorgeous Momma and handsome Daddy (who, by the way, are cousins), eldest son Chris, a carbon copy of his father, Cathy with the dancer legs and long blond locks, and the young twins Cory and Carrie.But then Daddy is killed in a car accident, Momma has no money and as a last resort she moves home to her parents, who disowned her when she ran off with her cousin.She hides the children up in the attic to keep them a secret from her ailing father while waiting to inherit his fortune and free the kids.Three years and five months is how long they’re imprisoned and during this time Chris and Cathy feel their first stirrings of adult desires É and so on.The novel has been reissued to mark the anniversary, and we asked a few women to pick it up again and tell us if it remains as compelling a read as it was the first time around, • Samantha Grice: What strikes me as bizarre is the decision to re-release the book with a new cover that “today’s teens will relate to.” The old cover was suitably creepy with a picture of a gothic mansion and cutout revealing the sick, ghostly children hidden inside.But this new offering with the robust, blond teens dressed in pink and longingly looking into each others eyes is perplexing.• Melissa Pluch: Tire new cover is just so wrong.This is not a teen romance — it’s a creepy sad story about a bunch of anemic children and their wicked cap- tors.It’s like saying, these fair-haired teens are so beautiful, how could their love be wrong?• Samantha Grice: I don’t think the incest registered with me the first time.The 13-year-old me viewed their relationship as romantic.Honestly, I can’t say I’m troubled by it this time round, either.Andrews certainly had a knack for making brother-sister love sympathetic.• Melissa Pluch: I didn’t discuss the incest thing with my friends, either.I guess I was so boy crazy then, I just chose to ignore that detail.I read this book at least twice when I was 13, as did every one of my friends.I remember really identifying with the characters.It must have tapped into some early teen angst of some sort.I loved its loneliness, and the idea of children surviving qll by themselves without help from an adult.Perhaps that’s why upon rereading it I was disappointed to find that the writing is so bad.• Chelsea Hulme: Yes.It’s like a John Irving novel for tweens, but poorly written.And what was with the obsession See Andrews, P.16 A man with a chainsaw and a mission By Chris Cobb Allen (Skip) Roth is a man with a chainsaw, a mission and a new autobiography that tells a story so bizarre that it reads like an over-stretched piece of cheap crime fiction.Roth, self-supporting from age 13 when his wealthy adoptive father lost interest in him, met and fell afoul of many bad guys after choosing to escape the Miami rat race in the late 1970s by moving his family to sleepy Appalachian North Carolina.It’s a miracle that subsequent events haven't left the sound of banjos ringing in his ears for the rest of his life.Roth’s book Chainsaw’s Justice (Phénix and Phénix, $22.95) is an indictment of a justice system run by elected prosecutors and judges, a system he says breeds compromise and corruption, especially in smalltown America.Here’s part of the first paragraph: “Bang! The gavel came down.’Guilty,’ the jury decreed.The courtroom erupted into pandemonium, the unruly lynch mob crowding the venue started whooping and hollering like they were at a hoedown.All part of what seemed like a surreal dream, the 12 relatives and friends of Sam Williams were grinning foolishly from the jury box at the rowdy, cheering crowd that filled the courtroom as their unconscionable guilty verdict was read aloud by Judge Bastinda.The jury foreperson winked and smiled at the prosecutor, Jay Stoker, as she pulled at her skirt trying to show him a little more leg.Stoker was grinning from ear-to-ear at me, for he had convicted me without one shred of evidence, just as he predicted he would.” Sam Williams, the man whose relatives packed the jury box, was a serial pedophile who Roth shot to death in self-defence.Williams had molested Roth’s young son and, in a drunken state, came to kill Roth, who was planning to expose his crimes against children to the community.Williams died in the duel.Roth describes entering court on the first day: “We made our way past the jury pool and to the defendant’s table.The middle section looked like an overflow of the prosecutor’s supporters.There, in that infamous peanut gallery, was every drunk, every drug addict, seemingly every criminal who lived in Crosby Township.The individuals assembled there seemed to fit the hillbilly stereotype perfectly.I expected to hear Duelling Banjos in the background.To my chagrin, this was the jury pool.” As a Jew and an outsider in a sleepy, apparently idyllic, mountain retreat, Roth saw the community rally around See Chainsaw, P.16 y^vAvmv.VtV.vww.vvAVAVA' BLACK CAT BOOKS • Now carrying a selection of new books -Quality used books - Special orders, new & used - Open 7 days a week - 168-E Queen Street Lennoxvillc, QC Tel.819-346-1786 Email: blackcat@netrevolution.com sRCH La*_ Books Livres LAC An accredited independent bookstore with a comprehensive selection of titles in English your community bookstore in the heart of the village oj KNOWLTON Filofax® Dealer Gift Certificates Available 264 ch.Knowlton (Mill Pond Plaza) Phone/Fax: (450) 242-2242 MON-SAT 10-5 SDN 11-5 OPEN 7 DAYS/ODVERT TODS LES JOURS S / » ** rf r 0 f 9 » t r * r * 4 • f »’ ’ ’ ' • * t * • 4 ’ * ’ - »*/» page 8 December 23 - December 29.2005 i THE* 2= Hollywood memories Golden for author of Geisha ÏCORD ALK f 1 ' ‘ ¦*¦*-*¦ B t SONY PICTURES Geisha author Arthur Golden is very pleased with the movie version of his popular novel.Though the main actors are of Chinese descent, he said the .characters look like the ones he had in mind during the decade-long process of researching and writing the book.The movie opens today.novel By Marc Horton Think of a sake-flavoured Pretty Woman with the alleyways and teahouses of Kyoto’s geisha district replacing the grit and bars along Hollywood Boulevard.Think of a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, complete with a mostly happy ever after ending, where the women are dressed to the nines in silk kimonos and where the villain would be comfortable in a mean-girl role in Cinderella.Think As the World Turns, full of double-crosses, melodramatic surprises and awkward sex, with the distinct possibility that someone just might get an eye poked out by a viciously wielded chopstick.There you have it then: Arthur Golden’s bestselling 1997 novel Memoirs of a Geisha (Vintage Canada, 433 pp., $21), which has now been turned into a remarkably faithful and sumptuous movie under the direction of Rob (Chicago) Marshall.Those familiar with the book — it previously sold four million copies worldwide and is poised to do well with a movie tie-in rerelease — will likely be impressed with the exotic elements of the novel that have been brought to the screen.Little is missing, including the disturbing custom of auctioning off the virginity of a teenage apprentice geisha, in this case Sayuri, the book’s resolute and determined hero who is played in the film by the radiant, if somewhat cool, Chinese actress Ziyi Zhang.But screenwriters Robin Swicord and Doug Wright clearly understand the value of including details of geisha life: the sparking of flint for good luck at the retreating back of a geisha as she heads off into the night for work, the uncomfortable pillows on which geisha sleep so as not to disturb their elaborate hairdos, the all-important ceremonies that surround every action from pouring tea to the posturing of sumo wrestlers.For his part.Golden likes the movie.Loves it.in fact, he says in an interview from Toronto.‘T’ve seen a rough cut, and the completed version twice since then.1 am really impressed,” he says.' It’s a very beautiful and affecting movie.It’s absolutely stunning." He understands, however, that a film is much different from a book, and he accepts those distinctions.“People often say that the book is so much better than the movie, but the thing is that the book is longer and more detailed and the experience with it is going to be that much richer.That is just the way it is.“But what makes this film work is that the screenwriters really have distilled the spine out of the story very well.” Golden and his family twice visited the set in northern California, and found they were ' ' so extravagant.We were absolutely fascinated, and the workshop where the kimonos were made for the film was amazing.” He’s not a star-struck kind of guy, he says, but admits that there is something magical about watching a movie being made.“There is something astonishing about it.And when you watch a movie, you give yourself over to the experience, you live it.” For the most part, he says, the characters look like the ones he had in mind during the decade-long process of researching and writing the book.“I had only a broad sense of what these characters looked like, and I really didn’t have a clear idea at all in my mind what Sayuri actually looked like.So when I saw the cast I thought ' that will work,’ but it wasn’t ' that’s exactly it.’ I didn’t have that reaction." Fortunately, he didn’t have a that’s-ex-actly-wrong reaction either.“That could have happened easily.For example, Whoopi Goldberg playing Sayuri would be something that was wrong.” A novelist whose book is being turned into a film should take an arm’s length approach, he advises.“The best thing you can do is keep yourself at a respectful distance,” he says, "You can’t control what goes on in Hollywood.” He wasn’t asked to write the screenplay, and nor would he have wanted to.“When you’ve done the book, you’ve done it and you don’t want to go back to it.” There is, of course, the legend that writers are treated abysmally in Hollywood.It’s true.Golden admits, although that wasn’t his experience.“They always treated me well, but much of the credit has to go to the producers and the director, Rob Marshall, who is a very, very collaborative guy.We talked a lot, and he sent me every version of the screenplay and was interested in hearing what I had to say.” He admits writers often feel protective of their work and are opposed to the way their story is presented in film.“My feeling is that this is a book that is going be made into the best possible movie that it can be, and that’s going to mean that some things are going to be changed." —Can West news Service ===== -™r- RECORD December 23 - December 29, 2005 page 9 - TALK The Producers a literal translation of Broadway musical to screen By Jay Stone Movie Review Mel Brooks’ 1968 comedy The Producers has returned to the screen, having taken a long detour and picked up a lot of modernistic baggage along the way.The original film told the story of a crooked Broadway producer who realized he could make more money from a flop than a hit show, and went out to create one.That movie became a Broadway hit in its own right, with songs that turned the theatrical parody into a self-referential musical.That new version, which has been turned back into a movie, is filled with the winks and nods that have become the genre du jour of Broadway — Spamalot is the latest of the yes-we-know-it’s-a-show shows — thus making it a movie of a musical of a movie that, in its second and third incarnations, was also a musical and a movie at least partly about being a musical and a movie, respectively.That puts a lot of self-awareness up there on screen, most of it conveyed by Nathan Lane, who takes the old Zero Mos-tel role of Max Bialystock, the unreconstructed charlatan who finagles little old ladies out of their investment money—finagle being a euphemism in this context — and puts on such disasters as Funny Boy, a musical version of Hamlet.Like he does with many of his stage and screen projects, Lane arrives with quotation marks already in place: He’s both in the show and commenting on being in it.That makes him perfect for The Producers, which in its new version is filled with characters portraying “characters:" the gay director Roger De Bris (Gary Beach), whose show-stopping tune Keep It Gay underlines the common theory about Broadway musicals in general, or his assistant Carmen Ghia (Roger Bart), whose speech is so sibilant that the movie stops while he finishes a word that ends in an “s." In this company, Will Ferrell, as play- UNIVERSAl STUDIOS Vc V?The Producers, based on the Broadway musical that was based on a movie, loosens up in the second half, turning in a vintage Mel Brooks movie wright Franz Liebkind, is almost lost: Farrell also frequently appears dressed in quotes to let us know that he also knows it’s all just pretend, but his outrageous character - a neo-Nazi who has written a play about Hitler and who keeps pigeons that give Nazi salutes with their wings — is overwhelmed by the hammier ironies of the Mel Brooks-Thomas Meehan screenplay and Ferrell just can’t find the sense of menace he needs.The Producers reunites Lane with Matthew Broderick from the original Broadway cast.Broderick is Leopold Bloom, mild-mannered accountant who comes up with the scheme to create a flop on purpose and then dives into it as a way to salvage his boring life.It’s a role originally created by Gene Wilder, whose brand of barely controlled hysteria tended to wear thin after a while, and Broderick’s artificial staginess gives the first half hour of The Producers the tone of something that was created to fail on purpose.Director Susan Stroman allows her actors to emote as if they were reaching to the last row of the balcony, and we’re almost drowned in a tsunami of hamminess.Many Broadway musicals become ossified on screen, and for a while The Producers looks like ossified frivolity, an odd combination.But things loosen up in the second half and it turns into a vintage Mel Brooks movie, full of disconnections and silliness.The fun starts with the appearance of De Bris, and we soon are immersed in a production that is an unabashed tribute to musicals.Stroman, who also directed the stage version, gives The Producers the feel of Broadway: many numbers designed are as if they were in a proscenium, and the few that are opened up into the streets of New York City aren’t as successful.The film is set in an unnamed past — it seems to be the 1950s — to distance it from reality.Back at the plot, Bialystock and Bloom go through a large stack of scripts until they find the worst one ever, a musical about the Third Reich called Springtime for Hitler.After a visit to Liebkind to acquire the script (and put Ferrell in his place), they hire the dreadful director, and then a sexy leading lady, a Swedish bombshell named Ulla (Uma Thurman, who is all legs and who sings and dances surprisingly well, although she seems vaguely out of place: not enough irony in her diet.) That sets the scene for the big finale, the Springtime For Hitler musical, which was so shocking in 1968 and now seems vaguely campy.Indeed, you feel that it too could be a hit with just a little more self-awareness.In this tribute to musicals, making the show-within-a-show a show of its own may be the next step in the process.We can’t wait to invest.—Can West News Service cine entertainment Galaxy Sherbrooke &al^xv 4204.boul.Bertrand-Fabi SH0WT1MES EFFECTIVE D€C.23R0 TO D€C.29TH MAURICE RICHARD (6) Fri, Mon-Thu: 13:00, 15:30, 19:00, 21:35 Sat: 13:00, 15:30, 19:00 Sun: 15:30, 19:00,21:35 LES BOYS IV (G) Fri, Mon-Thu: 12:05, 12:45, 14:35, 15:30, 18:30, 19:00, 21:30, MOVIE INFO 821-9999 GALAX VC INEMA9 COM 21:50 Sat: 12:05, 12:45, 14:35, 15:30, 18:30, 19:00 Sun: 15:30, 15:50, 1830, 19:00,21:30,21:50 LA FAMILLE STONE (G) NO PASSES ACCEPTED Fri: 12:50, 15:25, 1855,2140 Sat: 12:50, 15:25, 1855 Sun-Thu: 1855,2140 HARRY POTTER €T LA COUPE DE FEU (G ?Not r«e-ommcndtd for young chIMron) FN: 12:00, 12:45, 15:20, 1600, 1825,2000,2140 sat: 12:00, 1245, 15:20, 16:00, 18:25 Sun: 15:20 Mon-Thu: 1200, 15:20 KING KONG (OV) (I3t) NO PASSED ACCEPTED Fri, Mon-Thu: 12:35, 16:15, 20:l5Sat: 12:35, I6:l55un: 16:15,2015 LES CHRONIQUES DE NARNIA (G) Fri: 1200.12:25, 15:15, 1545, 1830, 1845.21:30, 2145 Sat: 1200, 12:25, 15:15, 1545, 1830, 1845 Sun: 15:15, 1830, 21:30, Mon-Thu: 1200, 15:15, 1830,21:30 MOINS CHER LA DOUZAINE 2 (G) NO PASSES ACCEPTED Fri, Mon-Thu: 12:25, 14:25, 16:25, 1850,21:35 Sat: 12:25, 14:25, 16:25, 1850 Sun: 1540, 18:50.21:35 LES FOLIES DE DICK ET JANE (G) Fri, Mon-Thu: 12:30, 1430, 16:25, 1905, 2145 Sat: 12:30, 14:30, 16:25, 1905 Sun: 15:50, 1905,2145 KING KONG (FV) (13*) NO PASSES ACCEPTED Fri, Mon-Thu: 1205, 1545, 1945 Sat: 1205.1545 Sua 1545, 1945 LA RUMEUR COURT (G) Sun: 15:35, 1845.21.40 Mon-Thu: 12:20, I4:2S, 16:30, 1845,2140 FUN WITH DICK AND JANE (G) Sun: 15=55, 1855, 2145 Mon-Thu: 12:30, 1430, 1630.1855,2145 WOLF CREEK (FV) (18* Vlolanc*) Sun: 15:55, 1850, 2150 Mon-Thu: 12:15.1425, 16:30, 1850,21 50 DIGITAl SOUND PAGE 10 TALK OF THE Townships DECEMBER 23 - ÜECEMÇER 29, 2005 WEEKDAYS MORNING Station Guide 6AM | 6:30 7AM 7:30 8AM 8:30 9AM | 9:30 10 AM 10:30 11AM | 11:30 IVMiVI B News (CC) News (CC) The Early Show The Tony Danza Show The Ellen DeGeneres Show The Price Is Right A (CC) tVTJrA B (5:30) News Today Live With Regis and Kelly Martha PHTTi Q CBC News: Morning (CC) George Shrinks Arthur Clifford’s-Days Dragon Tales Poko The Save-Urns! 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Le Défilé du Père Noël Sous les iaguettes Par-dessus le marché Le TVA midi I (SC) Via TVA Infopublicité Shopping TVA Dinotopia (Partie 6 de 6) Infopublicité 4’,’L'iiVl B Good Morning America (CC) Lilo 4 Stitch “Topper” The Buzz on Maggie (El) The Proud Family (CC) That’s So Raven (CC) Suite Life of Zack 4 Cody Phil of the Future (CC) The Littlest Christmas Tree NBA Inside Stuff Christmas With the Stars Santa’s Favorite Home Videos and Pranks Wild 4 Wacky rrem a 101 Dalmatiens Flatmania (SC) Kim Possible (SC) Lizzie McGuire La Famille Pirate (SC) Les Trois fils du Père Noël (:15) Cornell et Bernie Robbie et la légende du Le Téléiournal/M Découverte Le cours du Nil.[(Partie 1 de 2) (SCI Cinéma “Un Noël à ia course” (1998.Comédie) Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Jessica Biel, Adam Lavorqna.(SC) “Les Visiteurs” hotti m Whose Design Room to Grow (CC) All Xtreme (CC) All Xtreme (CC :) Biker TV.CA (CC) Full Contact Fishing Foster Parents Plan Caitlin’s Way “True Grits’' Mastery Ink I NFL Football New York Giants at Washington Redskins.From FedEx Field in Landover.Md.(Live) A (CC) That 70s Show(CC) rrera ta Magician's House (CC) Magician's House (CC) Mentors “The Raven” Mentors A (CC) Eagle Commui “Candle of Ho nications pe” (CC) Daily Planet A (CC) Valerie Pringle Has Left the I Building “Hong Kong" Movie “The Magician’s House U” (2000) Steven Webb.Three children try to save the home of a kind wizard.Movie “The Magician's House II” (2000 (CCHDVS) kym-i m Good Morning America (CC) Lilo 4 Stitch “Topper" The Buzz on Maggie (El) The Proud Family (CC) That's So Raven (CC) Suite Life of Zack 4 Cody Phil of the Future (CC) Kim Possible (CC) Power Ranqers Paid Program Paid Programl Paid Programl Paid Program! Paid Program iPaid Program! t’.'UH'i 60 Magical DoReMi (CC) Magical DoReMi (CC) Bratz “Pet Show"(CC) Winx Club A (ED (CC) Winx Club A (El) (CC) Mutant Turtles Sonic X “H2Whoa” G.l.Joe Sigma 6 A NFL Pregame (Live) A (CC) NFL Under the Helmet Movie "White Christmas” (1954, Musical) Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye.Four entertainers try to Save an innkeeper from ruin.6D Infopublicité Box-office (SC) Aventures en Nord Automania R PM (SC) Infopublicité Infopublicité Infopublicité Les Bolés (SC) Cinéma “Noèl au Connecticut” (1992) Dyan Cannon.Un I héros célébré Noil avec une animatrice de télévision.Cinéma “Un enfant pour Noèl" (1990) Cicely Tyson.! 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A Family Kitchen Lidia's Italian Table America's Test Kitchen Antiques Roadshow "Wild Things” n (CC) un (7:00) The Secret Life of Geisna (CC) Ask This Old House(CC) Ask This Old House (CC) Inside This Old House Inside This Old House Movie "Karroll's Christmas” I Holiday spirits visit the wron [2004) Tom Everett Scott, g man on Christmas Eve.Ultimate Small Town Christmas A panel crowns one hometown from among 20 favorites.(CC) Random t “Steven" A jobless man struggles.(CC) Barra MacNeils' Celtic Christmas A (CC) The Swinging Nutcracker A (ÇÇ) • Movie “Haihl” 1998, Drama) Sabu Saab, Kawadi Makbu, Noorullah.n (:45) Movie "Plnocchio" (200; en puppet veams to become at n*i r» : i & .• j I0.45) Movie “Charlotte's Web 2: Wilbur’s Great Adventure” (2003) A (CC) 015) Movie “The Lord of the Rings” (1978) A I1F7VM q nvwuu oen a real boy.A ( ram.m wwo* CC) PT7T71 CNN House Call Saturday CNN Saturday Open House (CC) CNN Saturday Morning CNN Saturday Morning CNN Live Saturday (CC) In the Money (CC) CNN Live Saturday (CC) CNN Presents (CC) Ultimate New Year's Eve (CC) .Super Ships “Top Ten” (CC) Inside Noah's Ark “Tales of the Desert" (CC) Mayday "Bomb on Board” (ÇÇ) Ultimate New Year's Eve 1ÇÇ) How It's Made (CC) powlt’s I Made (CC) Mayday “Fire on Board" (CC) The Amazing Race 7 A (Part 2 of 2) (CC) Paid Program A Paid Program A Paid Program A Paid Program A Movie “Dances With Wohrea’ befriends the Lakota.a (CCI I (1990, Western) Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greens.A Union officer Movie "Maverick” (1994) Mel Gibson.A connivina card* sharp heads for a high-stakes poker game, n (CD) ITTÏÏ3 Surreal Gourmet A Opening Soon (CC) Buy Me A (ÇÇ) Holmes on Homes A Real Renos A(CC) Room Service a neat A (CC) Renovate My Wardrobe A The Mom Show A (CC) Extra A (CC) 90 Days in Hollywood Room Service a Nanny 911 "Cubbiaon Family” A (CC) (6:00) Matin express (SC) Le Journal RDI (SC) La Revue insolite 2002 La Journal RDI (SC) Les 109 Le Téléjournal/M Sortir Le Journal RDI (SC) Vivre ici Le Journal RDI (SC) 30 millions d'amis Grande reportages L'Industrie sucrière.(SC) HTTÎITI Paid Program A Paid Program A Paid Program A Paid Program Ia Paid Program A Paid Program A The Bill A (C( 5 Bad Girts “The Victim" Zandra heads lor the clinic.Water Rats A young woman overdoses.A Murder in Suburbia A Murphy's Law “Disorganised Crime” A rra Paid Program 6 Second Abs Property Ladder A woman needs her friend's help.Property Ladder “Family DIY Dysfunction” (CC) Property Ladder Spanish bungalow.(CC) Property Ladder "Wrong Turn Remodel” (CC) Property Ladder “Prodigal Pasadena Partners" (CC) Trading Spaces New living rooms.(CC) Trading Spaces "Mississippi: Wlnsmere nrm Paid Program A Paid Program A V.I.P.“Val on the Run" A (ÇÇ1 V.I.P.“ThunderVal" A (CC) V.I.P.“K-Vel" a (CC) V.I.P.“Mudslide Val” A (CC) V.I.P.“Raging Val" A (CC) V.I.P.It looks as if Kay is a hired killer.A (CC) V.I.P.“Big Top Val" A (CC) rem SportsCentre CC) SportsCentre (CC) Canadian Sportfishing Motoring 2006 NFL Countdown (Live) 12005 National Spelling Bee From Washington, D.C.2005 World Series of Poker From Las Vegas (Taped) Daily Mass Arise West Indians United (In English In Hindi) Voice of Hinduism Gurbani jWatno Dur Visions of Punjab: Phuljhari Dil Dil Pakistan Visions of Pakistan Quiet Mind (CC) The Message PAGE 12 TALK OF THE Townships DECEMBER 23 - DECEMBER 29, 2005 SATURDAY AFTERNOON/EVENING DECEMBER 24, 2005 Station Guide 4PM 4:30 5PM | 5:30 | 6PM 6:30 7PM 7:30 8PM | 8:30 9PM | 9:30 10PM | 10:30 11 PM 11:30 | 12AM I'.'/TTI O NFL Football Indianapolis Colts at Seattle Seahawks.From Qwest Field in Seattle.(Live) (CC) News (CC) The King of Queens n N CIS “Red Cell" A (CC) NUMB3RS “Dirty Bomb” A (CC) 48 Hours Mystery A (CC) News (CC) (:35) No Room in the Inn A(CC) i'.’ilrl Q Golf ADT Skills Challenge.From Trump International Golf Club in Palm Beach, Fla.(Taped n (CC) News NBC Nightly News(CC) Stargate SG-1 The Goa’uld capture SG-1.n Movie “It’s a Wonderful Life" (1946, Fantasy) James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore.An angel saves a distraught bus nessman from suicide.(OVS) News Christmas Eve at St.Peter's Basilica a (CC) FTT7T1 Q Snowboardi DS World Cup Bobsledding Men's and Women's (Taped) (CC) Saturday Report The Small One (CC) Movie “It's a Wonderful Life” (1946, Fantasy) James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, An angel saves a distraught businessman from suicide.(CC) Movie “Scrooge" (1951) Alastair Sim.Dickens' London miser meets Christmas ghosts.(CC) “A Christmas r?rm a Cinema “Done chiens à Noèl”J2005, Com.drama- tique John Billinqslev, Bonita Friederiey.Le TVA 18 heures Cinéma “Un copain pour Noël” 2004.Com, Sentimentale} Kelli Williams, Patrick Mukfoon.(SC) Cinéma “Père Noel Y a Montane family.ITTT4 Zoo Diaries A(CC) Zoo Diaries A (CC) Going to the Dogs(CC) Going to the Dogs(CC) Campus Vets mi Campus Vets Ml A Dog's Lite aML A Dog’s Life A (CC) Life’s Little Miracles “Kiya's Kidney Transplant" A The Surgeons Med Students Im) Holmes on Homes A Real Renos A (CC) Wn Weird Homes In 1:14) (6:00) Matin express (SC) Le Journal RDI (SC) Entrée des artistes Le Journal RDI (SC) 30 millions d'amis Le Téléiournal/M jVivre ici Grands report Jackson" [SC] ages “Michael I Le Journal RDI (SC) Marc Gagnon Grands reportages L'industrie sucrière.(SC) Emn Paid Program A Paid Program A Paid Program In Paid Program In Paid Program a i Paid Program A The Bill A (CC) Bad Girls Helen voices her suspicions.A Water Rats Ferry accident In Ali G in Da USAiii (CC) Little Britain n (CC) Dead Like Me “Nighthawks” A (CC) I7TÜ Paid Program Paid Program Clean Sweep Tackling living room clutter.(CC) Clean Sweep Awards: The Best of the Messed (CC) Lottery Homes (CC) One Day of Proposals Tuckervllle Ml Tuckervllle l(CC) J Tuckerville M) Tuckerville Ml ITuckerville l(CC) ITuckerville | (CC) fTTTT Paid Program A Paid Program A V.I.P.“Valma and Louise” A Ml V.I.P.“Stop or Val’s Mom Will ShooF A (CC) V.I.P.“Val Goes to Town” A ML V.I.P."Mao Better Blues” A Ml V.I.P.“Why 2 Kay” n (CC) V.I.P.“Dangerous Beauty" n (CC) V.I.P.“Analyze Val" A (CC) SportsCentre: Year in Review SportsCentre: Year In Review ESPN Sports Reporters 2006 World Junior Hockey I Championship Preview Triathlon Subaru Ironmman World Championship.j2005 National Spelling Bee From Washington, D.C.2005 World Series of Poker From Las Vegas.(Taped) St.Peter’s Lutheran Worship Services [» | Joel Osteen l(CC) .Believer's Voice Amazing IFacts Reflections Ion Islam Hour ot Power (CC) Joyce Meyer Living Truth Faith to Live Bv Fr.Vandanakker Christian Sci.The 700 Club (CC) TALK OF THE Townships DECEMBER 23 - DECEMBER 29, 2005 PAGE 13 Station Guide 4PM 4:30 5PM 5:30 6PM 6:30 7PM 7:30 8PM 8:30 9PM 9:30 10PM | 10:30 11PM 11:30 12AM NCAA Fall Highlight Show (CC) Supercross Preview Show (CC) The Year in Sports 60 Minutes a (CC) Cold Case “Revolution" A (CC) News (CC) Everybody- Raymond The King of Queens a i'.'MVl B Movie Ftndln j John Christmas (2003, Drama] Valerie Bertinelli, Peter Falk, David Cubrtt A (CC) nan q Golf ADT Skills Challenge From Trump International Golf Club in Palm Beach, Fla.(Taped A (CC) News (CC) NBC Nightly News (CC) Dateline NBC n (CC) The West Wing “The Ticket" n (CC) Law & Order: Criminal Crossing Jordan Intent “Diamond Dogs” A “Locards Exchange” (CC) News Sports Machine Cms- Cathedra! Movie “Samantha: An American Girt Hoik Drama) AnnaSoohia Robb, Mia Farrow.(C iav”(20M, Huron Christmas Carole (ÇÇ) Holiday Festival on Ice m Movie “A Beachcombers' C Dave Thomas, Jackson Dai unday Night The Queen's Christmas Message (CC) | mm a hfjsijfrH ^2004, Comedy) CBC News.S Bap a Cinéma "Maman, je suis seul contre tous Comédie) Mike tfeinberg, French Stewart ’ 2002, • (SC) Le TVA 18 heures Cinéma “Jad Fantastique) jtebonhomme ckHTiehje” ^1998, Cinéma “Un Un prince sfr Jrince à New York” (1988) Eddie Murphy, Arsenlo Halt.cain va en Amérique pour chercher une épouse.Le TVA réseau (SC) Marie-Michèle Desrosiers chante Noël t'.'J.’ATVi Q 3:00) NBA Basketball Los Angeles Lakers at Miami Heat.(Live) (CC) Lighter Side ofSports News (CC) ABC Wld News America’s Funniest Home Videos A (CC) Extreme Makeover: Home Edition A (CC) Dps «rate Housewives A rtrt Grey's Anatomy A News (CC) Smallville “Lineage' A (CCI GSEH 0 (2:30) Cinéma “L’Attrape parents" (1998) Devenir un homme en Sibérie (SC) Le Téléjournal Découverte (SC) La Petite vie (SÇ) Aimons-nous (SC) Décembre revient avec Le Québec Issime (SC) Téléjournal Pleins Feux “Au pays de Fanfreluche" (SC) Cinéma “Tout le monde dit I love you” W:1 > A communiquer Le Journal RDI 1SÇ] La Part des choses Grands reportage cinéma indien.[SI s La mecque du Ç) Le Téléjournal/Le Point (SC) Le 60ème de la libération (Partie 1 de 3) Le Téléjournal/Le Point (SC) Le Journal RDI (SC) htttovi Doc “Love or Money” a (CC) Lexx: The Dark Zone Stories A (Part 6 of 8) Cold Squad “Horton Killed A Wu” A (CC) (DVS) Naked Josh a (ÇÇ) Trailer Park Boys a (CC) |(:01) Weeds n I ce (:45) CSI: Crime Scene Investigation “Blood Drops" a (:45) CSI: Miami “I Deadline” n (CC) fm Martha Bette Midler.(CC) The New Detectives (CC) The New Detectives (CC) Psychic Witness An Oklahoma man disappears.(CC) Mostly True Stories The New Detectives (CC) Psychic Witness (CC) rm V.I.P."Midnight in Ronnie Beeman" the Garden of A(CC) V.I.P.Val's evil twin sets out to hijack a chemical weapon.(CC) V.I.P.The team must protect a comic from death threats.(CC) V.I.P.“Beats Working at a Hot Dog Stand” a (CC) V.I.P.“What to Do With Vallery When You’re Dead" a (CC) V.I.P.“Diamonds Are a Val's Best Friend” a CC) V.I.P.“Deconstructina nm SportsCentre (Live) (CC) Hockey Pregame Junior Hockey 2006IIHF World Championship - Canada vs.Switzerland.From Vancouver.(Live) (CC) Jr.Hockey Postgame SportsCentre (Live) (CC) NHL Hockey Nashville Predators at Vancouver Canucks.From General Motors Place In Vancouver, B.C.(Live) ranra T V r*1 Being Ian a Martin Mystery Justice League Unlimited (CC) I Zixx: Level Two g R , I SpongeBob SquarePants n \ Sabrina, the Teenaqe Witch I Yvon of the Yukon a (CC) I 15/Love “Fixed Doubles” (CC) (^Family n (:35) Bob and Margaret (CC) :05 Inuyasha a CC (:35) Witch Fresh Prince ol Hunter Robin a Bel-Air TALK OF THE Townships DECEMBER 23 - DECEMBER 29, 2005 PAGE 15 Station Guide 6PM 6:30 7PM 7:30 8PM 8:30 9PM 9:30 10PM 10:30 11PM 11:30 | 12 AM IVH.VA B News (CC) CBS Evening News n (CO Entertainment Tonight a Criminal Minds A kidnapper captures the wrong twin.A (CC) CSI: Crime Scene Investigation “Shooting Stars" (CC) (DVS) Without a Trace “Malone v.Malone” A (CC) News (CC) (:35) Late Show With David Letterman A (CC) B News NBC Nightly News (CC) Jeopardy! (CC) Wheel of Fortune m Joey Alex tells Joey how she feels about him.a (CC) Will & Grace A m Will & Grace A ICC) (9:59) ER "Alone in a Crowd" A soccer mom sutlers a stroke, n News (:35) The Tonight Show With Jay Leno A (CC) tH-iiui a CBC News: Canada Now CBC News: Canada Now 72 Hours: True Crime (CC) Coronation Street (CC) 2005 Governor General's Performing Arts Awards (CC) CBC News: The National (CC) National Update (CC) Krasiai inTany s pbum.Bus a Le TVA 18 heures (SC) Le Cercle (SC) Sports extrêmes les plus dan- gereux Cinéma “Jeux extrêmes" (2002, Action) Devon Sawa, Brldgette Wllson- Sampras, Rupert Graves.Le TVA 22 heures (SC) Le Cercle (SC) Cinéma “Batman et Robin" (1997, A Schwarzenegger.George Clooney.ventures) Arnold ITIhi’.'J B News (CC) ABC World News Tonight Wheel of Fortune (ÇÇ) Jeopardy! 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Being Ian “Ian’s Louse-ey Dav" Martin Mystery Ghost Trackers A (CC) | A (CC) Dark Oracle “Trapped" A SpongeBob SquarePants A Sabrina, the Teenage Witch Yvon of the Yukon A (CC) Fresh Prince of Bel-Air My^Family n :35) Bob and Margaret (CC) :05 Inuyasha A CC :35) Ghost in he Shell (CC) Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Underwood proves why she’s the idol Music American Idol winner Carrie Underwood has released her debut album, which is as expected, is a country collection with a strong feel of pop.From day one of that talent search, it was obvious Underwood was a country singer in her soul, but she had to perform many musical genres, proving that she could perform any given style.So the pop feel in Some Hearts is, according to me, a salute to all the fans (not necessarily country fans) who supported her throughout the process.Nevertheless, one listen will prove that America picked the right idol when it voted for her.Underwood displays great technical chops while you feel that she still has to work on her personal style and song selection.Some Hearts definitely takes its cues from releases by contemporary artists such as Martina McBride (Carrie’s hero) and Faith Hill.Sure, the album offers some fiddle and steel work, but the overall vibe is pop.Some Hearts is not a masterpiece, but still offers great work from Underwood and it holds 1,000 promises for the future.The album opens with ‘Wasted’, written by one of the top songwriters in Nashville,.Hillary .Lindsey, It is a very strong country number about try- ing to get rid of a bad habit.‘Don’t Forget To Remember Me’ is a beautiful country ballad about a mother/daughter relationship based on unconditional love.It is melodic and the strings are beautifully arranged.The song offers a strong lyrical content and would make a great single for country radio as well as mainstream radio because it has a crossover feel.The title track is a straight pop song and the only county feel comes with Underwood’s vocals.Composed by Diane Warren, the song is a solid pop rock number.It’s about learning that “some hearts get lucky sometimes.” ‘Jesus Take The Wheel’, penned by Lindsey, is the current single off the album.It’s a song about a woman asking for help after an unfortunate incident.It is a very touching number on which Underwood shines vocally.Each track has a lot of emotion tied to it and that comes through in the vocals.Dosing the right emotion for each song seems to be one of the artist’s strengths.‘The Night Bçfort (Life Goes On)’ is about the end of a summer love.It is heart warming.A lot of teenagers will relate to the song.The musical arrangements are particular but it is also a solid song.‘Lessons Learned’ is another song penned by Warren.This is a very interesting pop number which offers a very catchy chorus.Again Underwood’s vocals shine incredibly on this number but somehow the song does not stand out very well on the album.Then comes ‘Before He Cheats’, which is, according to me, the best possible second single for the new recording artist.She throws all her soul and vocal chops behind this angry and sassy number full of attitude.It is set to an infectious beat that will surely get you going.‘Starts With Goodbye’ begins with simple piano and builds musically and vocally from there to a crescendo of sounds and emotions.This song will most likely be a single because of its great quality.‘I Just Can’t Live a Lie’ is another pop leaning track, actually written by the same guys who wrote Rascal Platt’s top hit ‘Feels Like Today.’ The song is not that interesting but Underwood’s way of singing it, along with her phrasing, is what’s appealing and makes it unique.‘We’re Young and Beautiful’ is probably the song that offers a lighter side to this emotional collection.The number opens with a country-rock guitar driven beat.It is kind of a fun, catchy song about being young and not having to worry about getting older.‘That’s Where It Is’ is a catchy pop number.It is about finally settling in with someone.It is a happy and heart warming song.‘Whenever You Remember’ is a very impressive ballad about looking back.The newcomer shines vocally on this particular number.T Ain’t in Checotah’ is a fun song, and obviously autobiographical (Checotah is where Underwood comes from and she co-wrote the song).It is all about how different her life was in Checotah.It has fiddles, violins and guitars, and a fast beat but most of all it is very country.All together.Some Hearts is a real fine initial effort and offers enough great material to establish her as a new artist to deal with.Country Connection Jessie Au LIS .THE, page 16 December 23 - December 29, 2005 RECORD :^=====—- TALK What’s On To place an ad A What’s On notice costs $6 for 25 words or less (.25 per additional word) or, $11.00 for a What’s On and Brome County New$ Billboard notice.Deadline is Wednesdays at noon.Notices must be prepaid (we accept Visa or Mastercard).Send your notice by fax to 819-821-3179 or e-mail to clas-sad@sherbrookerecord.com or call 819-569-9525.Andrews: Cont'd from Page 7 with Aryan beauty?1 have to admit that I couldn’t stomach reading past the first four chapters this time around.• Susanne Hiller: 1 first discovered Flowers in the Attic when 1 visited my older cousin in England.I was twelve.I nabbed it off her shelf and 1 was immediately addicted.And reading it again I was caught under its spell, despite the melodramatic prose.Mind you, this time round there is the “ew” factor, but I also don't remember initially being bothered by the brother/sister action.• Tracey Lazos: I'he ‘ew’ didn’t register with me when 1 stayed up all night recently re-reading this book.Twenty-five years hasn’t altered Flowers’ status as a page-turner.But 1 don’t remember the incest making much of an impression on the tween me, either.While my tfiends and I re-read the page in question over and over, it was more a case of, Oooh, they “did it.” I think that’s why we devoured these books.We were Judy Blume kids thrown into a V.C.Andrews’ world of adult taboos, and it all felt so sublimely naughty.But now, it all feels so sublimely I Music I Dec.23 Lennoxville's Golden Lion’s ANNUAL FOOD & TOY CHRISTMAS PARTY, Friday, Dec.23.Featuring the world premier of Slightly Haggard.Dec.31 Wishing you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from Gary Darling and hope to see you NEW YEAR’S EVE, December 31st and also every third Saturday of each month starting January 21st at the Royal Canadian Legion, 77 Lewis St., Waterloo at 8 p.m.$6 per person.No smoking hall.Music by Gary Darling.Dec.31 NEW YEAR’S EVE PARTY, December hilarious.I wonder how today’s kids would react.• Melissa Pluch: I think any 13-year old-girl today would get into it as much as we did.You can always count on the angst, loneliness and burgeoning sexual curiosity of teens.• Susanne Hiller: You’re right Melissa: Cathy goes through all the same issues as any young girl (mean mom, changing body, first sexual experience) _ albeit while locked in an attic with her brother and the “hillock of his growing maleness before his strong thighs.” • Tracey Lazos: The mother’s callous behaviour plays out as such a soap opera I can’t bring myself to be emotionally affected.I felt ashamed reading this book again, but it had nothing to do with sex or evil relatives.I guess that’s the problem with revisiting something you remember so well as a child.There needs to be a certain innocence brought to the story for it to have an impact.• Susanne Hiller: Do you people really mean to tell me that the diabolical grandmother did not have you in her grip once again?Maybe it’s the buzz of nostalgia, but, really, the whole premise is deliciously intriguing.The attic, the wealth, the beautiful people, the tears.—CanWest News Service 31, 2005 at Bar Country Salle des Érables, Sawyerville.Door prizes.Admission: $12 dance and buffet: $5 dance only.Music by Southern Comfort.For tickets call Bob or Audrey 832-4067, Mike 875-2061, Francine 823-7109, Salle des Erables 889-2633.Dec.31 NEW YEAR’S EVE DANCE at ANAF Unit 318, 300 St.Francis St., Lennoxville on Saturday, Dec.31, 2005 from 9:00 Roth: Cont’d from Page 7 their own in a successful effort to exonerate Williams and his family.The judge sent Roth to jail, where he spent three-and-a-half years in maximum security before his conviction was unanimously overturned on appeal.Roth calls his book Chainsaw’s Justice both as an allusion to his experience of the justice system and because he is a chainsaw artist — one who creates sculptures with the unlikely, though undoubtedly macho, artistic combination of chainsaw and wood.While in jail, Roth also learned to paint and draw, both of which he does well.The bulk of Chainsaw’s Justice is about his prison life, the guys he met there and his observations of the system.Anyone unfortunate enough to be jailed in North Carolina’s overpopulated maximum-security system does not enter a world of enlightened justice but, according to Roth, is confined to a place where rehabilitation is a foreign word and female guards get their kicks training binoculars on showering inmates.p.m.to 1:00 a.m.Music by Buck Sayers.Tickets available at the bar at the Hut after 4:00 p.m.Tel.: 346-9122.Everyone is welcome! Dec.31 NEW YEAR’S EVE PARTY at the Lennoxville Rifle Club, 22 Beattie St.Lennoxville, on December 31.Pot-luck supper at 7 p.m., followed by dancing to the Late Bloomers.All welcome.Roth’s fellow inmates, who read about his case in newspapers, decided he was a standup guy before he arrived.Killing a pedophile in a Wild-West style shootout in defence of his son guaranteed him protection from the prison population and some respect from the prison guards.Almost everyone, he says, figured he was innocent, but that mattered less than the ' ' noble” nature of his "crime.” Corrupt criminal lawyers, and especially the lawyers involved in his case, are Roth’s main targets for vitriol, although he has used fictional names, not as protection against libel, he insists, but because his intent is to change the system, not exact revenge.The North Carolina chainsaw artist says writing the autobiography was chicken soup for his soul and a small effort to right wrongs that are committed in courtrooms and prisons — mostly against poor men — daily.Although Roth tends to be self-righteous, Chainsaw’s Justice is a troubling, gutsy read and the stuff of a Hollywood movie.And why not?John Grisham couldn’t have made up this stuff.—CanWestNews Service Couple: Cont’d from Page 2 rately, a month at a time, so when one is on the road, the other is home to take care of the kids and the house in Toronto.“We re anticipating that a few years from now, we could travel together, just the two of us,” he says.“We laugh because we don’t know what that will be like.” Along the way, they’ve learned a unique set of travelling skills.“There are things that you learn, like how to make yourself look silly so people laugh and you’re not threatening,” Alford says.For instance, he admits he’s not very good at learning languages.So.when lie was doing research for the China book, he found a Kazakh children’s primer and used it to learn basic vocabulary in the little-known language.Then, when he met Kazakhs in China, he would use expressions like “Do you have to pee-pee?” or the Kazakh word for “hamster.” People would laugh and relax and, once they felt comfortable with the goofy visitor, they’d invite him into their lives.“It’s a very big dependence on serendipity,” he adds.Another technique he used to gain people’s trust (and their recipes) was going to the same restaurant every day for three or four days.Once the owners and regulars recognized him, they would come over and talk about their food and family traditions.“Good things start to happen when you show up every day,” he says.But it’s not just the recipes and the ingredients that fascinate this duo.Their bigger interest is in “cultural survival issues.” "Food is a great way of understanding culture,” he says.By writing about the foods and tradi- tions of the different ethnic groups they encounter, Alford and Duguid believe they can help preserve their ways of life before they are lost to globalization.“I feel like you can go anywhere in the world and food is interesting,” Alford says.And “anywhere in the world” is just where you’re likely to find this pair, eating well, cooking up a storm and making the locals laugh.This Bengal recipe is from Mangoes and Curry Leaves: Culinary Travels Through the Great Subcontinent Sweet Yogurt Sundae with Saffron and Pistachios Serves 8 for dessert or brunch 1 quart (1 L) plain, full-fat yogurt, organic if possible 1/4 teaspoon (1 mL) saffron strands 1/3 cup (75 mL) whole milk 1/4 cup (50 mL) pomegranate seeds 1/4 teaspoon (1 mL) ground cardamom or freshly grated nutmeg 1/3 cup (75 mL) honey or brown sugai 1/4 cup (50 mL) coarsely chopped pis tachios Line a large sieve or colander with cheesecloth or coarse cotton.Wet the cloth with water, then place sieve oi colander over a bowl.Place yogurt in the sieve to drain for 1 hour in the fridge.Turn yogurt into a bowl and set aside.Discard whey or use it for anothei purpose.Lightly toast saffron strands in a small, dry skillet over medium heat, until brittle.Add the milk and cardamom or nutmeg.Briefly bring to a simmer until cardamom releases its aromas and saffron gives off its colour Remove from heat and stir in sugar oi honey until dissolved.Whisk mixture into yogurt.Use a ladle to pour yogurt into 8 small glasses or bowls.Sprinkle each with pistachios and pomegranate seeds.¦CanWest Newt FOND OU IMPRIME SUR DU RAISON