Ontario Community Newspapers

Whitby Free Press, 30 Mar 1972, p. 3

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Page enteftaiime ud TELESCOPE P aul B radl ey, one of the stars of the film t"Goin Down the Road", is profiled on- TELESCOPE, Tuesday, April 4 at SUICIDE!O -A Race Suicide.. . what drives a man to take his own life? Suicide is an t"act of defi- anceil against social prescription, psy - chiatrists tel l us: If one cannot achieve his chosen goals in 1life, he may corne to prefer death to frustration. Suicide can be ingenious or crude, cold and calculated, angry, emotional, un th inking. It can be 'a ritual - hara- k i r i , s u t t ee, the captain going down vvlth his sinking ship. It can be brutal. It is 50 final. A probe of the suicidailIa* thoughts "Metroto Calvary"l is a deep, prob- ing s t udy of a s u icidai person's last thoughts, 'and those of the priest he has c al le d on for help. It will1 be teleca.ct Fr iday, March 3stat 2p. m. , as a. Good 9:30P. m. in colour on the CBC televis- ion network. This edition of Telescope w as d irected by the director of "Goin Down the Road,"I Don Shebib. Agaist Timo Friday Special on 080 television. Based on the Montreal play by Jean Letarte and Claude Jasmin, the haîf- hour teleplay stars Patrick Peuvion in two roles, as Rev. Patrick Pelletier and the would-be suicide Jerome Ol ivier Narrators are Beniot Girard and Louis Albert. A f rantic caili-for help Father Pelletier is preparing to celc- brate mass on Good Friday, when he re- ceives a frantic telephone cal1 from his forgotton school friend, Jerome Olivier. D istressed, the l atter , i s about. to end hi s 1life by throwing himself in the path of a subway train in Montrealis Metro. As he races to his friend's help, the young priest f inds himself "Irel iving"' the MAN ALIVE In 1 967 Cardinal Paul-Emile Leger of Montreal lefthispost for Africa to par- t i c ipatein t he transformation of the worldbymissionary social action - and has become for rnany a modern day saint. CBC Televisionts Man Alive documents in the Carmeroons in an hour-long col- or special Monday, April 3 at 10:00 p. m. way to Calvary. O r iginall1y produced for the French C'B3C network, "Metro to Calvary"l has been translated for English TV by Mic- hael Sheldon, and re-adapted by Mon- treal producer John Thorne. PULLOUT SECTION entertainment sports Sales 72, CAMPER ON DISPLAY Srceo WA S-CO VOL KSWAGEN LTD.à WHITBY -'OSHAWA Body Shop 142-5 DUNDAS STREET EAST WHITBY ONTARIO0 TEL, 668-9383 4.

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