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INSIDE TALK OF rr~\ THE j • lownsntps Nigel Spencer, a Champlain prof, is shortlisted for national literacy award .see Page 7 The Weekly Guide to Arts & Entertainment in the Eastern Townships October 25-October 31, 2002 Look What’s Inside i n ii h im; n a /'ir; ’Tl'c V/àf on 'from Hi tilde the Bush White House BILL SAMMON Bill Sammon explores what happened within the Bush’s administration after Sept 11.Chef Gregor Powell visits Deauville’s Les Temps des Cerises until Nov.2.The touring Pernod 100% Ad Festival visits Sherbrooke for the first time this Friday.CD Reviews: Jann Arden, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Diana Krall and more.Owen Wilson plays a special agent and Eddie Murphy a boxer in I Spy.Old friends just killing time Two singers join Andrew MacDonald atBandeen Hall By Jake Brennan Special to The Record Lennoxville When you’ve got old friends who are talented musicians coming to town, why not compose something for the occasion?That’s what composer and Bishop’s Music Department Chair Andrew MacDonald decided to do to welcome his old graduate school friend Anne Nispel, soprano, and her husband Harlan Jennings, baritone, to Bishop’s.The two singers, who came from their teaching posts at Michigan State University to be artists in residence this week at BU, will be accompanied by MacDonald on guitar tonight in a concert at Bandeen Hall.“We’re playing hooky for the week, but we’ll have a lot of lessons to make up when we get back to East Lansing,” said Jennings, laughing.Both his wife and him combine itinerant performances with teaching private lessons at MSU, a school Jennings described as “a very nice place to teach .a beautiful campus.It’s like going to work in a park every day that happens to have some buildings on it.” Jennings and Nispel have been enjoying their stay in the Townships, too, taking in the scenery, reminiscing and rehearing chez MacDonald.“The professional collaboration, as well as the social aspects, have been most gratifying,” admitted Jennings.See Bandeen, Page 5 ' ii-; i b m PERRY BEATON/SPECIAL Bishop’s composer Andrew MacDonald welcomes his old graduate school friend Anne Nispel, soprano, and her husband Harlan Jennings, baritone, to Bishop’s this weekend.1ÉË* .Vi;.1 - j É ¦ I' : ¦¦¦ ,¦ ‘ wm ¦ Watch me, Grandma! Macular degeneration is the leading cause of blindness in Canada.It can destroy ycur central vision in s few short months and the ability to see the faces of those you love.If you experience any change in vision, consult your eye-care professional."Is your central| vision becoming blurred?i The Canadian National Institute for the Blind 1-800-513-7813 www.cnib.ca Visiting chef gived Scottish flavour to international recipies TALK OF THE Townships page 2 October 25-October 31, 2002 RECORD dining out Let your taste buds do the walking -fine dining is a Townships tradition Scotland struggles to create a distinctive cuisine STEPHEN MCDOUGALL/SPEC1AL Temps des Cerise chef Vincent Montcalm (left to right), owner Martine Satre and Gregor Powell hold up the St.Andrew's flag.Powell, a visiting chef from Auchterarder, Scotland is featured until Nov.2 at the Danville restaurant Les Temps des Cerises.By Stephen McDougall Special to The Record Danville Apart from whiskey and haggis, there are few distinct features of Scottish cuisine which are well-known in the world, according to Gregor Powell, a visiting chef from Auchterarder, Scotland who is featured until Nov.2 at the gourmet restaurant Les Temps des Cerises.“I know that it is a bit of stereotype to just be known for haggis and whiskey, but I don’t see any special dishes made in Scotland becoming distinct anytime soon,” he said.“For the most part, we take ideas and recipes from other cultures and try to give it a Scottish flavour.We do a lot of fusion cooking, as we call it.” Powell, 27, realizes he is under some pressure to produce distinct Scottish cuisine for his two-week stay at Les Temps, and is glad to know that owners Martine and Patrick Satre can supply him with the fish and meat he needs for his featured recipes.The fish and meat are needed for him to prepare the smoked mackerel pate, smoked salmon, rack of lamb, breast of grouse, highland beef and the traditional haggis dishes.Satre said the salmon and mackerel had to be shipped in from the East and West Coasts, while the lamb and highland beef are grown locally by Robert Laberge and Russell Frost.The grouse came from Quebec City and the haggis she had to travel to the town of Gould to acquire.“A lot of our more famous dishes use wild game, which is not that plentiful here,” he said.“But the Satres have bent over backward to make sure I have the ingredients I need.” Apart from the meat and fish dishes, Powell said his specialty is the pastries and other sweet deserts that are usually found in Scotland, such as shortbreads and various puddings.“I have about 30 or 40 recipes for various desserts, but we had to settle on three for the menu here.So we are concentrating on puddings,” he said.“There’s black pudding, sticky toffee pudding and steamed whiskey marmalade pudding.” Powell added that Scottish cooking is at least different from English cooking, even though Scotland and England share a border and are still part of the United Kingdom.“We tend to use more lamb because we have the land for the sheep to graze on.The English tend to use more pork because they like to raise more pigs.That is one big difference.” But he admits England still has a large influence on Scottish culture, given that it is the dominant U.K.partner.The recent move to granting Scotland more provincial powers under London’s devolution policies has had no effect on making Scottish cuisine anymore distinct, he added.A chef since he was 13, Powell is taking a short leave of absence from his present employer, the Cairn Lodge in Auchterarder, Perthshire, north of Edinburgh.He considers his two weeks in Danville a working holiday, and most of his customers are Town-shippers with Scottish roots.On Friday, Oct.25, the restaurant is booked solid for a supper concert featuring the traditional Scottish music of Jeff McCarthy and Heather McN-abb.Also featured will be the playing of the bagpipes and saber dancing.On Oct.31, Halloween night, the restaurant will have another supper concert with the Celtic band Oréalis from Montreal.On Nov.1, the evening will be set aside for a tasting of various scotch malts and whiskeys. TALK OF THE Townships ¦" ¦THEM ._ Record _ October 25-October 31, 2002 page 3 A world oj adventure, comedy and drama awaits movies International ad festival hits Sherbrooke By Jake Brennan Special to The Record Beginning at 9 p.m.tonight at the Université de Sherbrooke’s Maurice O’Bready Hall, viewers will have the opportunity to travel the ever-shrinking, globalizing world through one of the media most responsible for that process — advertising.Ideas man Patrick Maurin receives some 12,000 commercials each year from more than 500 agencies on five continents around the world.He spends months diligently sifting through them, emerging from his labour of love with about 600 television commercials, to be played to the public as a travelling show, the Pernod 100% Ad Festival.Approximately 90 per cent of the festival’s film clips are recent ads, so viewers can see the similarities and differences in the latest advertising trends worldwide.This year’s edition will be shown in seven countries: Spain, Portugal, France, Luxembourg, the Czech Republic, U.S.and Canada.For the first time in its history, that show (or extravaganza, rather) is coming to Sherbrooke.“We’re not well-known there yet, but we’re excited about it,” said the festival’s publicist, Josiane Bétit.Martin Lachance, owner of the Montreal-based Quartier Général promotion company, is the show’s Canadian producer.This marks his third year of involvement with the project, which had its sixth annual showing last week in Montreal.Some 4,000 people went to see it at Place des Arts, selling out two of the three shows.“The event is getting bigger because word of mouth has been very good, so I have big expectations for the next few years,” he said.The Canadian tour includes Quebec City, Montreal, Jonquière, Hull, Sherbrooke, and Toronto.One reason for the show’s growing success is its emphasis on keeping things light.“When Maurin makes his selections of commercials, one thing that’s very important is humour,” said Lachance.“That’s why people have such a good time.” In a Norwegian ad for Amnesty International, for example, viewers realize there’s no difference between grilling a steak on a barbecue or a person in an electric chair.A French ad shows a man on a date with a young woman, hundreds of human-sized sperm following them around, until they’re excluded from the evening’s intimate conclusion when a rubber barrier suddenly bars their way.It’s a condom.All of the commercials, which represent 44 countries this year, are subtitled in English.But because of the international nature and tour route of the event, Lachance said that “all of them can be understood by the imagery alone.” The commercials are subdivided into 10 themes, which are shown as sets.Among them: Move over macho (Women in ads for cars, but behind the wheel): Beyond porn (Is pornography chic or just schlock?); Sincerest form of flattery (The trick is to recognize a cult film): To be continued (You wait impatiently for the next ad to follow the evolution of a character or story): From the heart (Tugs on the heartstrings); The greatest hits (Features music and songs); À la française (because Maurin is French, one presumes); Up with nerds (Where ugliness holds sway.); AD-olescence (For teens, the fastest growing market); and Jackpot! (Lotteries around the world, always a creative genre).There should be something for everyone in this world tour.To ensure that’s the case, two of the 10 sets to be shown are decided by viewer voting.The event is more than just a screening, though, since the festival is presented in collaboration with Musique Plus, MusiMax, Zoom média', Voir, Hour, le Réseau Radio Énergie, AMPQ and Jobboom.The doors open at 8 p.m., when guests can listen to house music spun by a DJ in the lobby, enjoy drinks, and check out the free giveaways of t-shirts, alcohol, etc.Starting at 9 p.m., there will be three 90-minute sets of commercials, interspersed with 20-minute breaks to enjoy the music and bar.The whole event lasts five hours, but Lachance said “it goes by fast.In Montreal, 97 to 98 per cent of the people stayed until the end.” Added Bétit: “I was really impressed that in Montreal, middle-aged people were still happily watching at 1 a.m.” That’s because of the quality of the ads themselves, especially this time around, said Lachance.“It’s like wine.Some years you have better wine than others.I’ve seen this event for the past five years, and this year we have a very good crop.” The Pernod 100% Ad Festival hits Sherbrooke Friday, Oct.25, starting at 8 p.m.in Maurice-O’Bready Hall, Université de Sherbrooke.Tickets are AVAILABLE AT ADMISSION NETWORK, 819-820-1000, OR AT THE DOOR.••••• Mf COURTESY JOSIANE BÉTIT The touring Pernod 100% Ad Festival, featuring commercials from 44 countries, will visit Sherbrooke for the first time this Friday at the Maurice-O’Bready Hall, University of Sherbrooke.2002 EASTMAN QUEBEC November 1-2-3,2002 Saturday, November 2th 10 a.m.to 6 p.m.Sunday, November 3th 12 a.m.to 5 p.m.Parish hall and»-^Golden age hall Opening night, Friday, november Ist, 7 p.m Admission : 10 $ per person With 30 well-known antique dealers, discoveries await antique lovers, collectors and treasure hunters ! EVALUATION OF ANTIQUES Come and find out the value of this antique you hold dearly.Saturday, Novembre 2 - 1 p.m.to 4 p.m.A small fee for each item brought.Information : (450) 297-4475 TALK OF THE Townships page 4 October 25-October 31, 2002 RECORD books From novels and biographies to cookbooks and beyond, there's nothing like a good read Champlain prof translates side job into success By Tricia Davidson Record Correspondent Lennoxville Nigel Spencer, a long time teacher at Champlain, is not new to the field of translating from French to English.But the recent announcement that he was a finalist for translation in the Governor General’s Literary Awards is an exciting first.Thunder and Light is the translation by Spencer of Dans la foudre et la lumière by Marie-Claire Blais.Spencer notes it is the second volume in a trilogy, and Blais won the Governor General’s Award for the first volume in its original language.It was through translation that the two met, and for the last five years he has been translating her works into English.“There was something else I had worked on of her’s before, a novella in it with stream of conscience,” explains the Fleurimont resident.“It was extremely difficult and very experimen- tal.It had sentences that would go on for 13 or 14 pages.It’s quite a puzzle to translate.To get the style and the feel of the author is something that I feel is my strong point.” It is precisely for this excellence that Spencer is recognized.The Canada Council notes that Spencer uses the “same spirit of invention as the author.” But talking to Spencer, he says inventiveness and an evocative nature are not easy things to capture in the translation of a text.“There were 23 nominations from French to English.There is a jury of three and they select the finalists, of which there are five of us,” Spencer continued.“I’ve never even been a finalist.I’ve never even been nominated before.“There is a dinner at the Royal York on Monday, Nov.11, and Tuesday there is a press conference when they will announce the winners.Then there is a reception at which the winners read a bit of their work.” A week later, Spencer and the other i'F.11 k in to run Well give you 4 million.More than four million Canadians have arthritis.Find out how you can help by participating in marathons around the world.Train.Travel.Triumph.IN J dÊr MOTION For more information, call 1-800-321-1433 or visit us at www.arthritis.ca/jointsininotion candidates we travel to Ottawa, where they will attend a brunch and briefing at the Chateau Laurier.After that there is a meeting with the Governor General and a formal dinner.On Wednesday, Nov.20 the winner is presented to the House of Commons.Candidates were nominated by publishers, while a jury of peers at the Canada Council decides who will be nominated and then pares it down to several finalists.“The publisher applies and there is a peer assessment committee.There are juries for each category which means there are seven for the English and seven for the French,” explained Valérie Truong, a Public Relations Officer with the Canada Council.“The juries met between the end of August and the end of September.” Each category is vastly different, and some of the other categories include Children’s Literature in which Pierre Roy of Rock Forest is a finalist as well as Drama, Fiction to name but two.With teaching, Spencer finds time for translation after work hours and over the summer months.Several of the other past works Spencer has involved himself in comprise of poems, short stories and journalistic pieces.“Marie-Claire Blais is currently writing a piece on Michel Tremblay, and I will be translating it for Time Magazine,” said Spencer.Having many years of experience behind him, Spencer is enthusiastic about the future and will be working on other translation projects, teaching and finding time for some dancing and sports in the midst of it all.¦ PERRY BEATON/SPECIAL Champlain professor Nigel Spencer is a finalist for translation (French to English) in the Governor General’s Literacy Awards.The winners will be announced Nov.12. TALK OF THE Townships Record October 25-October 31, 2002 page 5 Sounds to soothe the savage beast music 5 x Bishop’s composer’s latest came easily to him Bandeen: Cont’d from Page 1 “We’re really having a good time, as we knew we would,” said Jennings.When MacDonald visited them in Michigan last August, and they conceived tonight’s concert together, they wanted a piece for all three of them to perform.Nispel suggested as lyrics a humourous poem she copied from a pub chalk board in Isle of Skye, which, as MacDonald explained, “is about all the various animals that don’t drink alcohol, and how they don’t live as long as humans do.” The result is MacDonald’s latest composition, The Preservation of Man, premiering tonight.He said the music to accompany the lyrics came to him quite easily.“I knew their voices from our rehearsals (in August), so I had a good idea what they sound like.That helps, when I can work with the musicians and get the sound of their instruments going through my head.” The rest of the evening’s program is quite varied, and includes MacDonald’s Gustafson Landscapes (2001) and A Notebook of Love Songs (1993).Other pieces on the bill are American Dominick Ar-gento’s Letters From Composers, the lyrics of which reveal the composer’s personality, as well as works by 19th and 20th-century British composers John Ireland, Roger Quil-ter, and George Butterworth.Dr.Nispel will be singing a number of folk song arrangements by Benjamin Britten, including Sailor Boy, The Salley Gardens, and Master Kilby.Jennings will also sing Copland’s crowdpleasing Old American Folk songs, specially arranged by MacDonald for guitar accompaniment.Nispel has performed 30 roles with opera companies throughout the United States, and is equally at home on the concert stage, appearing as a soloist with the Detroit, Lansing, Long Beach and Virginia Symphony Orchestras.She often plays the ‘soubrette,’ or ‘ina/etta’ roles (so called because the character names for these younger sister or maid parts often end with those Italian suffixes), type-cast because of her lighter voice and diminutive stature.A long-standing commitment to opera education prompted Nispel to take part in a number of state and federally funded tours.Through her association with Opera Iowa, Opera Go round, and Overture to Opera, she has also given hundreds of performances and workshops for approximately 500,000 elementary and secondary school students.Nispel has won a number of competitions and grants, including first place in the New England Lyric Operetta Competition, and is a three-time recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Study Grant.In her 10th year teaching part time at MSU, she said she enjoys the freedom of giving private lessons not just for the contact with students, but also, despite her performing successes, for the stability.“It’s nice to have a regular pay cheque, because as a singer you never know where your next job is going to come from,” she said.Baritone Harlan Jennings, Associate Professor of Voice at MSU, has performed more than 40 roles in opera and musical theatre including Sharpless in Madame Butterfly, Count Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro and the title role in Don Giovanni.A versatile performer, he has appeared frequently in recital, oratorio, and on Public Television in the “Artistry of.” series.As artists-in-residence at Bishop’s from Oct.22 to 27, Nispel and Jennings have been conducting master classes in Bandeen Hall, and will hold more at 10 a.m.and 2 p.m.on Saturday, Oct.26.These classes are open to Bishop’s University students as well as to the public.Singers choose their own music, to be performed at a final concert at 8 p.m.Sunday, Oct.27, along with selections by Nispel and Jennings.Admission to this concert is free.For the concerts tonight and Sunday, Nispel commented that she and her husband have great anticipation.“Bandeen Hall is a lovely, intimate setting, so we’re really looking forward to it.” Tickets for the opening concert TONIGHT AT 8 P.M.ARE AVAILABLE AT THE CENTENNIAL THEATRE BOX OFFICE (819-822-9692), OR AT THE DOOR.ADULTS $15, SENIORS $10, STUDENTS $7.FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT the Department of Music (819-822-9600, EXT.2642), OR CHECK OUT THE ENTIRE Musique Chez Nous series at www.ubish-ops.ca/ccc/cultural/mcn/index.html.J11 J •1*1* •Kll Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, October 24, AND 26, IN THE CARREFOUR DE L'ESTRIE MALL Take home some great reading-you might even find that rare book you've been trying to find for yearsi Every year, the Second-hand Book fair collects between $6,ooo and $10,000 which is redistributed to the Sherbrooke community.The Rotarians are waiting for you! IThe Rotary Club of Sherbrooke^ Intellos et mows ORCHESTRE SYMPHONIQUE DE SHERBROOKE Stéphane Laforest conductor and artistic director Baobab's Planet St.Exupéry's Little Prince.A wonderful concert for the entire family, Magical effects.Produced and directed by l'Arsenal à Musique.Centre culturel.Université de Sherbrooke Tickets sold at 820-1000 Regular price 15 I ^ Seniors (60+) 12$ Students (to 26 years) 5 $ LAÇASSE LACHANCE BEAUPRÉ POISSON NOTABLES, CONSfJU.f.W 1PRÎBIQOKS #101 Première Chaîne Radio-Canada CHLT630 La radio de l'information UlR RockDétente 102.7 FM Radio-Canada IJF.Estrie RECORD' TALK OF THE Townships page 6 October 25-October 31, 2002 Record books From novels and biographies to cookbooks and beyond, there's nothing like a good read Behind the scene with Bush Somebody once said that journalism is the first draft of history.In the aftermath of Sept.11, 2001, events, a lot has been written and said on the events of that day.And it’s a safe prediction that in the years to come, the well of history won’t dry on that topic.From that perspective, it is important to learn what was happening behind the scenes within President Bush’s administration, on this day and in the aftermath.A recent book, “Fighting Back: The War on Terrorism - from Inside the Bush White House”, responds.Washington Times journalist Bill Sam-mon brings us along on the journey with the president, as he leaves Florida upon learning the tragic news and on his visit to Ground Zero, a few days later.From the beginning, one can observe that the author was granted special privileges from the White House and the president himself.We can thus observe the emotions of the president, as he went through the different motions of these crucial days.While the author does not elaborate much on the personalities, presence and actions of President Bush’s close advisors, the reader can grasp the importance of this inner circle’s influence in the days and months following 09/11.The author nevertheless makes an exception and elaborates in detail about Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.According to the author, at the time of the terrorist attacks, one media in particular “was speculating about successors to the defense secretary.” This key player in the Bush administration was underestimated.But it was not to remain that way.From the moment of the attacks, the De fense Secretary was to become a designer of military actions and a highly visible promoter of the administration’s policies.At some point, the author notes that “Rumsfeld had publicly skewered numerous journalists for asking inane questions.” And he provides good examples.For instance, at one point, a journalist asked the Defense Secretary if he was ruling out the possibility of dropping leaflets, before air strikes, to inform Afghan people that some given locations may well be a military target.Donald Rumsfeld replied to the journalist that it was not quite clear to him what advantage there would be for the US military to send such a warning, which could be helpful to the Talibans who might be hiding in these civilians compounds.Speaking of the media, there is a very interesting chapter in Sammon’s book, where he questions the actions and motivation of his colleagues of the Fourth Estate.Cataloging many double-standards, he analyses that, in their coverage, certain people in the media were giving a free pass to America’s enemies.For instance, a “wire service had no compunction about its reporters describing the Taliban’s war against America as “holy”, Fighting Back: The War on Terrorism from Inside the Bush White House Author: Bill Sammon Publisher: Regnery Publishing Published: October, 2002 (256 pp) ISBN: 0895261499 Price: $44.95 while - at the same time - President Bush had “been taken to the woodshed by the press for using the word “crusade” in offhand remarks about his war against terrorism.” In his opinion, “journalists were spending more time anguishing over the meanings of patriotism and terrorism than over the effectiveness of President Bush.” Needless to say, it is interesting to see a journalist reflecting on the work of his peers, and this is a fascinating aspect of the book.Bill Sammon also discusses the role of political correctness in the preparation of military interventions in Afghanistan.In that regard, he notes one occasion where “after much anguished consultation with the PC (political correctness) police in the press and academia, “Enduring Freedom” had been deemed a sufficiently bland moniker to replace the discredited “Infinite Justice”, as a code-name given to the military operations in Afghanistan.Bill Sammon’s book is hard to put down, but there is a shortcoming.It is well known that President Bush is not a micro-manager.He’s not insecure about having bright people by his side.Thus, it might have been very informative, and useful for the reader, to know more about the role of the people in the inner circle following 09/11.While it might be said that Bill Sammon is not an adversary of the Bush administration, his book is no less relevant as a result.Since there is no lack of criticism against President Bush and his military policies by the mainstream media, it is beneficial to encounter the other side of the story.Between The Covers Marc Nadeau Lesson one: Fire tutor, call for help It stands to reason that Peter Abrahams, celebrated Ottawa thriller writer that he is, probably at one time was the victim of some malevolent tutor.How else could this now Cape-Codian plumb the mind of a truly vile private instructor?To understand the mind-set of a twisted tutor, you have to have walked the walk and submitted your brain, even if temporarily, to an addled aide.When I was 15, and desperately seeking a passing grade in Italian, I was saddled with a man of the mind that repetition was next to godliness, that nouns like “casa” (house) were best hammered into the grey matter through face time.To have “casa — you idiot!”’ bellowed into my tender complexion from six inches away by an angst-ridden ogre with a purple snoz and halitosis that would peel the paint off a tramp steamer, left a vision from hell in my brain for life.I did pass, but as the American military would say: There was collateral damage.Abrahams has created just such an educator in Julian Sawyer, the so-ciopathic star of his latest psychological mystery, The Tutor (Ballantine; $39.95).Now, here’s a man who, although not saddled with bad breath, is cunningly plotting the destruction of a traditional — if dysfunctional—American family.In most other authors’ hands, the scenario would seem a stretch, but for Abrahams, who Stephen King calls “my favourite American suspense novelist," it’s a recipe for comedy, irony and sheer bloody badness.The Gardners, Linda and Scott, invite Sawyer into their home to help improve their teenage son’s SAT (Standardized Academic Testing) scores.His score was passable but not acceptable, considering how well his cousin did.Little do the Gardners know _ but any Abrahams fan would have guessed _ that here’s a nightmare waiting to happen; that dear Julian is the author of their destruction.This is Abrahams’ 11th novel (Last of the Dixie Heroes was his last) and one of his cleverest.First he draws a portrait of a typical American family, paints in all those domestic dreams, career ambitions and troubled, but resolute, teens.Then he shreds the ideal, allowing this smoothtongued psycho to manipulate the family _ treating them like specimens in jars — as he says, creatures to be studied.Even poor Zippy, the dog, gets it (oops) in the end.The one fly in the ointment is the Gardners’ 11-year-old daughter.Ruby, a girl with a love for Sherlock Holmes.Some critics call Abrahams “surprisingly plausible,” and “perverse,” but, in feet, he’s more than that: “Precious” would be more apropos.If you want to test drive The Tutor before buying, you can enjoy a free read of chapter one on Abrahams’ Web site: www.PeterAbrahams/com On New Releases If you’ve been scanning the shelves lately for a new Ruth Rendell mystery, you need look no farther.Barbara Vine (aka Ruth Rendell) has just released a fat new thriller, The Blood Doctor (Viking/Penguin; $33), that will satisfy any Rendell fen.Dancing between Victorian times and the present, Vine tells the story of Queen Victoria’s favoured physician, the first Lord Nanther and of his great-grandson, the current Lord Nanther.This is more than just a skeletons-in-the-closet affairas the grandson pokes into a surprisingly murky past.His great-grandfather, the expert of the day in blood diseases, carried an horrific secret to the grave — one that takes a writer like Rendell to happily pull readers through the wringer in the telling.Between The Covers Mike Gillespie TALK OF THE Townships —¦ — THE ¦ .— ¦¦¦¦¦ — .i.—.¦— October 25-October 31, 2002 page 7 RECORD music Party for the bridge Staff The Capelton Covered Bridge Reconstruction Committee will continue its fundraising efforts to rebuild the historic bridge with Okto-berFest! at Mont-Joye Ski Centre, 4785 Capelton Rd„ Saturday, Oct.26, starting at 1 p.m.On the schedule is performances by La Bande Élastique (2 p.m.), singer-song-writer Sandra Brassard (3 p.m.), singer-songwriter Kate Morrison (4 p.m.) and Bavarian music with the Musikmeisters ensemble (6 p.m.) There will also be an drawings of art inspired by the bridge.Games and activities for children will be available.Admission is $25 for adults, $10 for children (10 to 17 years), free for children under 10.Tax receipts are available.Included in admission is a souvenir 10-oz beer mug with a picture of the bridge, A mug of beer on the house, sausage, sauerkraut and fries.For reservations or more information, call 819-346-9545 Donations to The Capelton Covered Bridge Reconstruction Fund can also be sent to Fondations des Villages Miniers de Capelton, P.O.Box 14, Lennoxville, Que.JIM 3Z5.Brief Georgevflle Christmas carols 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" ¦—THEw h .RECORD CD Reviews Sounds to soothe the savage beast New morning, new view for UK quintet * *» Suede A New Morning (Columbia/Sony Canada) It’s not only a new morning, but also a new view to UK music makers Suede.This quintet of eight years formed from the pastiche of popular music on the other side of the Atlantic.Violins and a string arrangement add colour to the album, while the lyrics are a little more sophisticated.Anecdotes of 10 women are featured on the single ‘Lonely Girls’.Brett Anderson co-wrote the song, plays percussion and sings “Sylvia stays in bed on her own / She can hear the cars outside and wonders where they go / And if you call her answer phone she’ll get back to you one day.” This is one of the more melancholy and mellow numbers.But the album also includes several upbeat, clever and fun numbers including ‘Streetlife’, which sings “Street life into the night with the syncopated melodies.street life it’s alright you get your tips from a popular song.” British music once again proving its mettle.-T.D.The Coral Self-tided (Deltasonic Records/Sony Canada) The Coral might be better called The Collage given the agglomeration of lyrics and photos in the CD booklet.But the group of six young lads between 18 to 21 years of age blends classic rock elements reminiscent of The Doors, jazz sounds of the 20s, chain gang songs and folk songs to name but a few influences on their self-titled album.The songs are short but very sweet, while its fanciful and fun sounds must make this a grand band to see live.This is a rare record, in which each song is worthy of attention in its own right.Lyrics on the record are gems; the single ‘Calendars and Clocks’ sings “Pretty pendant descendant of joy / Return the father to the boy / Resent your past, repent at last / For we are only lines on the map”.-T.D.The Shining True Skies (Zuma Recordings/Epic) On The Shining’s Web site, band members say “Imagine a band that can make music that’s as paranoid and beautiful as a Stanley Kubrick movie, written by Stephen King, sung by a 22 year old.” Listeners will find an interesting assortment of compositions hearkening to the days when rock ‘n roll was not quite as diluted as it is today.Vocals periodically sound like that of Oasis or Crowded House.The band provides a selection of mostly moderate songs.The music arrangements are pleasing to the ear with guitars that almost sing in the manner they are played.The single ‘Find A Reason’ sounds like one of those older numbers you would hear as the last song at a high school dance.‘What You See’ is also a slow, contemplative piece.Soothing elements of classic rock sounds abound, providing pleasant music without being sappy sludge heard on adult contemporary radio stations.-T.D.ÆARTBRf.ÀKERS TOM PETTY ; Diana Krall Live in Paris (Verve) Only 11 of the 13 tracks here were actually recorded live in Paris — at the Paris Olympia in November and December of last year, and in front of a responsive, excited audience by the sound of it.The fact that Krall took her show overseas for her debut live release is an indication of her international stature as one of jazz’s foremost proponents.The singing and the ensemble work of her Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers The Last DJ (Warner Brothers) Not one to roll with the punches, Tom Petty is downright ornery here in his criticism of the radio and music businesses.There’s a tiny note of smarminess in the way Petty sings the song Joe with Roger Waters-style wildness in his voice.The title song is a nostalgic lament of lost innocence, if rock ‘n’ roll ever had much of that to lose.Producer George Drakoulias aims much of The Last DJ along the straight and narrow, and on songs like Lost Children and When A Kid Goes Bad the Heartbreakers demonstrate again how visceral they can be at times.-S.N.mm ^r.à,svj&a# jjpISPIIP regular working band _ guitarist Anthony Wilson, drummer Jeff Hamilton and bassist John Clayton — are proficient and practised.A bonus is the orchestral accompaniment on Let’s Fall in Love and I’ve Got You Under My Skin, arranged by Alan Broadbent.The extra tracks are a pair of studio gems — Krall’s evocative reading of Billy Joel’s Just The Way You Are, and an original, Charmed Life.-S.N.Blue Rodeo Palace of Gold (WEA) There's a loose, liveoff-the-floor sound on this new Blue Rodeo studio album which allows the songs to breathe.Like an earlier release, Outskirts, Palace of Gold features a good mix of Greg Keelor folk-rockers and Jim Cuddy country-rock ballads, from the straight-ahead sentiments of the title song to the sexual politics of Cuddy’s Bulletproof.The band is anchored throughout by strong contributions by James Gray on organ and Bazil Donovan on bass.Even the orchestrated tracks here lend Palace of Gold an acutely nostalgic element.The strings and horns, however, don’t overwhelm the basic strengths of the songs, which as a group constitute the strongest Rodeo collection in years.-S.N.Jann Arden Live with Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (Universal) Half the fun of seeing Jann Arden live is hearing her humorous banter, one-liners and funny stories about her life and family.The humour helps leaven the serious content of her music, which is anything but tongue-in-cheek.Thankfully, that sense of humour is a key element in this first live album.Included here within the lush environment of a major Canadian symphony orchestra are many of Arden’s most popular songs, like I Would Die For You, Good Mother and the cover of Eddy Amold/Ray Charles' You Don’t Know Me. TALK OF THE Townships ————— »THE» ——— RECORD _ A world of adventure, comedy and drama awaits October 25-October 31, 2002 page 9 movies Murphy and Wilson together in I Spy By Jamie Portman Southam News The way director Betty Thomas saw it, she had been blessed with a potentially fascinating comic combination for her new spy frolic, I Spy.In one corner, she had Eddie Murphy with all his free-wheeling, in-your-face energy.In the other comer she had Owen Wilson, the guy with the broken nose whose sly, slightly-skewed humour served him well when he teamed up with the exuberant Jackie Chan in Shanghai Noon.Thomas wanted a contrast of comedic styles in the new movie opening Nov.1, but there remained two crucial questions: Would they get along?How easy, or difficult, would it be to get them to click comedically?Thomas didn’t get those answers until the first day of shooting in Hungary.And as zero hour approached, the 54-year-old filmmaker became increasingly nervous.“They wouldn’t meet each other before we went to the set,” Thomas says incredulously.“It was so weird — and they didn’t really have a reason.I told Eddie that I wanted him to meet Owen before we went to Europe.And he said: ‘No, no, I don’t have to meet him.I love his work.I’ve seen his work.That’s all I need to know.He’s good.I’m ready.’” Thomas then figured they would still get together because Wilson would insist on a preliminary meeting, but he surprised her too., “I don’t want to meet him,” Wilson said firmly.“I love his work.I’m fine.I don’t need it.” Thomas had never encountered a situation such as this in all her years in the business.She says it’s routine for a film’s stars to meet before shooting starts, and often before contracts are signed.Thomas still can’t understand the resistance shown by Murphy and Wilson.She was worried about arriving in a strange foreign venue with some essential groundwork neglected: Normally she would know well before the first day of shooting how easily her two stars would click with each other.“I asked myself: ‘What am I doing?We’re going to be in Europe and they’re not going to meet until the first day of shooting.” That first day arrived, and Murphy and Wilson were immediately plunged into a straight dramatic scene.“We didn’t have to do comedy that first day, thank God!” she laughs.But she did sense the two were hitting it off.“The second day we were doing comedy, and they had already started to form SOUTHAM Owen Wilson plays a special agent while Eddie Murphy stars as a middle-weight boxes in the new spy frolic I Spy.this bond.After we called ‘cut’ they continued to talk to each other and I thought - that’s good.But I didn’t know until I did those first comedy scenes whether it was going to work.” Thomas admits she had one other major worry, the widespread public perception that I Spy would be based on a classic 1960s TV series of the same name starring Bill Cosby and Robert Culp, and that Murphy and Wilson would be resurrecting the Cosby-Culp characters.In that series, Cosby portrayed a tennis pro who teamed up with secret agent Culp for a series of adventures.In the film, Murphy plays a middleweight boxer who reluctantly teams up with special agent Wilson in a top-secret mission to recover a technologically-sophisticated renaissance aircraft from a millionaire arms dealer played by Mal- colm McDowell.A championship boxing match in Budapest is cover for the American mission.Thomas says the film has a completely different dynamic from the TV series because the emphasis is on comedy.In fact, she didn’t even want to use the I Spy title, and at one point won agreement on the point from Columbia executives.Then, the film studio backtracked and told her the film had to be titled I Spy.“They said so many people will recognize that title and we want these people to see the movie.” Thomas’s concern is the movie these old I Spy ferns will see has little to do with the series.“I think it’s right for people to say that it’s loosely based on the idea of two guys getting together with one being an athlete and that being the cover they’re going to use," she concedes, but that’s as far as she wants to go.In fact, she doesn’t think advertising for the film goes far enough in emphasizing that it’s a comedy.“I think it’s important to say that it’s a comedy - and a big comedy.” Even the movie’s many high-tech set pieces are firmly rooted in laughs.But always the emphasis was on the frivolous.She wanted a movie which told audiences: Hey guys, don’t take any of this too seriously.Furthermore, Thomas wasn't trying to follow in the footsteps of Austin Powers and spoof the Bond films.“As soon as you do a spy movie, you do compare, so I wanted to make it clear to people right from the top that this was the kind of spy movie where they would actually, do the mission but at the same time be funny with it.” SHOWTIMCS EFFECTIVE OCTOBCT £5TH TO OCTOBER 31 ST SWEET HOME ALABAMA (G) (FV) Fri-Sun 12:35, 1535,1835,21:35 Mon-Thu 1535,1835,21:35 DRAGON ROUGE (l6Y)Fn6tn 12:30, 1530,1830,21:30 Mon-Thu 1530, 1830,21:30 BECASSINE: IE TRÉSOR VIKING (G) Fn-Sun 1300,1600 Mon-Thu 1600 FORMULE 51 ( I3Y ?Violera) Evey night 1900,2140 LE CERCLE ( 13 Y)Fn-5un 1255, 1555,1855,2145 Mon-Thu 1555, 18552145 420^1, boul, Bertrand-Fabi MOVIG INFO S 2 I 9 9 9 9 ammj.galaxycin6mas.com JAQCAS5 THE MOVIE (0V) (I8Y* violera ?coarse language) Frt-Surt 1305.1605.1905.2145 Mon-Thu 1605.1905.2145 DES HOMMES DE MAIN ( 13 Y ?violera) Fn5un: 1245,1545,1845, 21:35 Mon-Thu 1545 1845,21:35 LE SMOKING (G) (Not namnindtd tor ywng RED DRAGON (I6Y) Everyday 1550,