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Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), March 1, 1989, p. 25

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THE HERALD Wednesday March 1 1989 Page Glory Glor provides pure satire engrossing entertainment Bobby Joe Stuckey Richard an investigative reporter to media I 7 J Entertainment Bob S pence Thornton Service Judging by the way many Muslims reacted to Salman Rushdies book The Satanic Verses it may be fortunate that the producers of Glory decided to pick on Christian evangelists Glory I Glory a twopart mini series on First ChoiceSuperchan- nel payTV offers a satirical look at televengelism Canadian Stan Daniels Emmy Awardwinning writer for The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Taxi wrote the script with Bonny executive producer and Larry Hovey This is not your typical situation comedy though Bobby Joe Stuckey Richard Thomas of The inherits a televangelism empire from his father but the ratings and the donations start to drop He recruits Ruth Ellen Greene a downand out charismatic rock stnger who literally turns the fortunes of the show around Sister Ruth is a foul mouthed heroin-taking- electrifying singer who uses the so often she must be trying for a niche in the Guinness Book of World Records Produced by Canadas Atlantic Films in association with Orion Television Stan Daniels Produc tions and the Company the mini series is a show the Walton children never would have been allowed to watch But taken as pure satire the musicaldrama is engrossing entertainment with Greene turn Log in an outstanding performance The integrity of virtually the en tire cast from the evangelists to an investigative reporter to media moguls is put to the test Only the twicereborn Sister Ruth passes The minisenes was made ex clusively for payTV Thats understandable Censors would wear out their bjeeping machines if they tried to sanitize the sound track for public TV First Choice Eastern Canada and Superchannel Western Canada are airing Glory Glory at various times inMarch Festival of praise features male choirs seven centres Among the new movies in video stores this month are Poltergeist in Tom Skerrit A Fish Called Wanda John Cleese To The Mob Michelle Cad- n Jackie Mason and Dyan Cannon and The Good Mother Diane Keaton Upcoming video releases include Iron Eagles Lou on March and Big Tom Hanks on March 23 It was taped before an audience at the FrancoManitoba Cultural Centre in Winnipeg For the first time ever North Americas top native performing artists are able to showcase their professional talents collectively to a worldwide audience said ex ecutive producer and host Curtis Jonnie Among the other guests are country and western recording ar tist Laura Vinson and actors inger Tom Jackson Indian Time airs March 26 on CTV The Ontario Christian Male Choirs Association has announced a spring date for its annual Festival of Praise concert Christian male choirs from Brampton Burlington Chatham Hamilton Sarnia St Catharines and St Thomas will perform on April at 30pm Christian male choir the from Brampton will host the event and have chosen St Pauls Anglican Church at 227 Bloor St East in Toronto as this years concert site The church features a 3000seat sanctuary and a fine organ Parking is conve niently located at the Manufac turers Life company lot at 250 Bloor St East In addition to performing in dividually the seven participating choirs will join for several mass numbers combining over 200 voices in song The men will be ac companied by organ and brass and the audience will be invited to participate throughout the even ing Excellent acoustics in the church sanctuary ensure an un forgettable performance Admission to Festival of Praise is per person Tickets are available at the door the night of the performance from choir members or by sending per ticket to Festival of Praise 7900 McLaughlin Rd No H702 Bramp ton Ontario L6Y 3N2 Singercomposer Buffy Mane and comedian Charlie Hilt are among the native performing artists featured in Indian Time an upbeat variety special that airs in late March About two years ago shortly after his business failed Payne Harrison was writing resumes that no one was reading Then an editor of Crown Publishers read a manuscript Har rison had sent in unsolicited Now Crown and a number of publishers overseas expect a great many people will be reading whatever Harrison writes Crown ran off copies of Harrisons Storming Intrepid f faith seldom exhibited by a publisher In a firsttime novelist But Harrison has an unusual book Storming Intrepid released Feb combines the past and the future A scheme bom in Stalins last days sparks an international incident when an Americanraised Soviet mole hijacks a NASA space shuttle The US sends two of its con troversial new stealth bombers in to the Soviet Union to try to pre vent the shuttle from falling into Soviet hands The novel has attracted the in terest of publishers in several countries Crown has already sold foreign publishing rights to publishers in Britain Japan and Spain Harrison combines fastpaced action with vivid details of new weapons and the innerworking and 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