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26 the examiner Wednesday Oct 10 1979 Entertainer of the Year Willie Nelson gets standing ovation Monday night as he walks to the stage to receive country musics entertainer of the year award at the I3th annual Country Music Association award show at Nashvilles Grand Ole Opry House AP Photo entertainment Editor Stephen Gauer7266537 Thirtytwo member youth choir forming spring to add new dimension to the fastgrowing theatrical empire of artistic director STRATIORI Ont fCPi 32member Stratford Festival youth choir is to be formed next Dancers at news conference Valentina Kozlova and her husband Leonid Kozlov who detected from the Bolshoi Ballet last month in Los Angeles during US tour with the company apear at news conference Monday in New York The couple repeated their earlier statement that they defected for artistic freedom AP Photo HURONIA Sunday November l8th Georgian College esmon ey on one ee SPECIAL CONCERT THE SPRING CONCERT OCTOBER II 43 YllflH ONY ORCIESTRA 1979 1980 concert series BAYFIELD MALL CONCERT Conductor Arthur Burgin Guest Conductor Mayor Ross Archer Oct 13 at 200 300 oclock The instrumental music for this occasion is made possible by funds supplied by The Recording Companies of America through the Music Performance Trust Funds public service organization created under agreements with the American Federation of Musicians The grant for this performance was obtained with the cooperation of local no I49 AF ofM THE SEAGRAM GUEST ARTIST CONCERT piano and violin duo Up coming young Canadian artists from Barrie and Sudbury Saturday March 8th at Barrie Central Collegiate Auditorium The King Edward Choir and the Huronio Symphony Sunday May lth of Georgian College Theatre Guest Artist Dione Loeb MezzoSoprtu RENEW YOUR SERIES TICII AT Tit SYMPHONY TICKET BOOTH IN TH AYFIELD MALL Robin Phillips The choir conducted by Robert Cooper will serve tri ple purpose As training school in voice and stage move ment as performing group and as pool of players from which to supplement the casts of Stratfords major play pro ductions The idea has been approved by the Stratford Festival board of directors which let it be known recently that it is deter mined to expand activity here without becoming involved in collaboration with Toronto Arts Productions The Stratford members of the board rejected overtures from the St Lawrence centre in Toronto that might have led to threeway collaboration among TAR the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis and the Stratford Festival The board is expected to an nounce later this month that it has arranged financing for major addition to the Avon Theatre Burt Re nolds unco quwwVwvwwvwfiv IQELQhIeJDJLQLe Starting Over falls short By STEPHEN EALIIR Of The Examiner In Starting Over at the Imperial 3i Burt Reynolds teams up with Jill Clayburgh and Candice Bergen in one of the most awkward and least funny film comedies of the year Reynolds has gotten lot of screen mileage out of hairy chest and handsome grin but he looks so uncomfortable in this film that youre tempted to feel sorry for him Film groups celebrate IOth year TORONTO iCli Gerald Pratley probably will say few words before todays screening of My Best Girl at the Ontario Science Centre But he wont make speech Thats not his style Hell have more to say about the movies star Mary Pickford than about himself Its the lOtli anniversary of the Ontario Film Institute and the Ontario Film Theatre and Pratley has led them both since they began in October 1969 Those two plus the Ontario Film Archive constitute Canadas only provinciallyv financed fulltime repository and showcase for the motion picture arts Ontarios facilities are envied by film buffs from St Johns to Victoria Theres nothing else in the world Id rather do says Iratley Now we are looking forward to the second decade The we includes Pratley 56 plus four colleagues at the Ontario Science Centre SUI prisingly small staff iii view of the volume of work The institute was founded to encourage the development of the art of the film and to foster public appreciation and study of film history origins and accomplishments PROVIDES INFORMATION Its also clearing house for information on all matters af fecting films in Ontario Canada and abroad Between late 1969 and the end of 1978 the film theatre screen ed 1327 featurelength movies and also watched as 81 direcr tors presented their filiirs among them Norman Jewison Frank Capra Claude Jtitra Joseph Mankiewicz tto Preminger King Vidor and John Grierson founder of Canadas National Film Board The institute has the largest collection of Englishlanguage film books iii Canada 77 about 10000 volumes There are also 3000 soundtrack recordings and 75000 folders on films arid filmmakers The institute is part of the Orr tario Science Centre coming under the provincial ministry of culture and recreation Regional film theatres operating under the institute show films once week in Windsor and Broekville as well as monthly showings in Sarina Pratley native of England came to his job via broad casting At one point he was doing three film criticism shows for CBCRadio While he continues some broadcast work he also has found time to write books about the careers of four directors John Frankcnheimer Otto Preminger David Lean arid John Huston Its been fine 10 years he said AMPLE FREE PARKING 7269944 AT7 L9I$pm THE ONIO riiiiii 7269944 AT TI pm freela rice The film gives us few reasons to feel any sympathy for the Reynolds character the recently divorced lhil Potter Potter is about as appealing as limp rag hes comatose one minute and smitten by smirks the next minute When he moves out of the apartment to try life as middleaged single leaving behind Jessica Miss Bergen its clear the film is trying to say something about the trauma of this midlife crisis The comeon is that were about to see the masculine flip side of An lnmar Old Blue Eyes Entertainer Frank Sinatra waves to spectators Monday as he and other dignitaries march up New Yorks Fifth Avenue in the Columbus Day parade Sinatra was Grand Marshal of the parade Behind Sinatras arm is New York Gov Hugh Carey Others are unidentified AP Photo Cartoonist is proving natives have lighter side CALGARY CPI Everett Soups major beef is people who believe that Indians have no sense of humor Were stereotyped as very stoic peeple with stone faces like iii the old movies where people are always striking their matches on cigarstore In dians he says Soup 39 has been titillating readers of the Kainai News Blood reservebased newspaper serving five tribes of southern Alberta for years with his cartoons and more recentlv barbawitted column Soop interprets the world with satirical ink Amd despite tendency to bluff people into thinking hes miserable ornery cuss his trademark is compassion like that of nrost other satirisls Without rancor Soop takes aim at the insensitivity of white society toward the countrys original inhabitants and what he feel is the pettiness of the federal Indian affairs depart nicnt Among his more than 3000 cartoons is one showing Quebec Irciiiicr ltenc Levesque puff ing on four cigarettes at once saying to air Indian Why dont you join us Split from English Canada The Indian replies Why dont you unite and leave PLAYS NO FAVORIIICS But Soop isnt color blind when it comes to his sense of justice Many of his cartoons REERESHMENT CENTRE TO SERVE YOU filiiflff FIELD True Story WAVCO EMBASSY EICTURES Release as 01 4nnuwnuo PETHURST LTD PRODUCTION UNIVERSAL ASE mmwvgtstcivv nouns in nonrvflmvw his own people particularly and columns take pot shots at overblown Indian politicians SIMCOE HOTEL FIVE POINTS BARBIE BUSINESSMENS LUNCHEON BUFFET STYLE Roast Eight 225 ya Ext Spareribs 225 No1 Special of the Day 195 All dinners include mashed potatoes veg roll wig2 REMEMBER AMA TEth NIGHT VERX TUESDAY PLUS iiVE ENTERTAINMENT NIGHTLY temptingly tasteful comedy for adults who can count DODLEYMQOQE JULIE EEKJLlEvf BLAKE EDWACIDS ii IMPERIAL Show IIIIB 700 900 11M LQBUT vvt BEE rat14 ABLAZE WITH ADVENTURE IMPERIAL EVENINGS 7300 ONLY dictatorial tribal councils and WONDROUS ANIMATION SPECTACLE ried Woman 77 instead we get messy love triangle that about as convincing as an episode of Charlies Angels It easy to see why Potter left his wife not only was Jessica unfaithful to him but she also had the annoying habit of bursting into song at the iriost inopportune moments Jessica is supposed to be professional pop singer riding the success of her first hit single but thats no reason to inflict Miss Bergens unmusical voice on helpless audience lHITS III So lottcr leaves his wife and tries to start new relationship with Marilyn the kooky but illiptillllltll nursery school teacher played by Miss liiy burgh Marilyn is working on her soshe must have something on the ball but its hard to fell shes cithcr giggling cr ing or grinning like fool While lottei tries to make up his mind between Jessica and Iarily II he ilso spends one night week at divorced mens encounter group The other men are losers and soon we begin to suspect if dont already know that Phil Potter isa loser lOti lliit Itcy nolds looks too handsome in his tweed jacket and lie to come across as loscr who needs our sympathy Reynolds doesnt proicct anything in this tiliri hes an emotional zero who ney cr really connects with the two women in the film For her part Miss tlayburghs supremely intelligent face cancels out the kooky cageritions of her role while Miss Bergen pro yes once again that she looks nice in expensive clothes ls Starting iycr tnnny Not really although half dozen times in the Iliii ie joke hits home and releases all the tension built up by the awkward performances and the equally awkward dialogue As sat ire the film is mostly lttliltrlllllltlttl and as comedy its mostly impotent lty the tune the final credits roll you may find yourself wishing that Starting lycr had never begun ORilliA TIIEATRES TQENEVA iowesr 51 326633 NONIPLAVI oCTio20i979 APLEASANT PLACE TO DEAL istE DISTRICT 726653 BURT REYNOLDS JILL CANDICE CLAYRURGH BERGEN Phil Potter would like to straighten out his life One way or the other sears IMPERIAL 33 statuemafia BRAVE INTELLIGENT BRILUAIITLY ORA TED FILM AS 00 TEMPORARYIS TODl YS HEADLINES ION iAii Ntw ts Innai IIIILZl THE SEDUCTIUNV 0F JUE TYNAN ALAIN ALDA BARRNRA HARRIS MI RYL STREEP HELD OVER THIRD WEEK IMPERIAL marine Show Times 700100