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VWVWVw 1o the ognmlmrjroudny May 20 1979 Peter Sellers and Lynne Frederick in The Prisoner of Zenda period com edy thats tired reworking of an antique Sellers master of accent but humor is inept By STEPHEN iAIER The Examiner The laughs are very few and far between in The Prisoner of Zenda the new Peter Sellers movie that started Friday at the Imperial Sellers has tried to turn the Anthony Rose adventure novel already film ed three IIIIICSl into lavishly costumed comedy but more ef fort has gone into the sets than into the script havent seen such inept attempts at humor since Clint Eastwood tried to be funny in Every Which Way But Loose Sellers is one of the few modern masters of accent and impersonation In films like Dr Strangelove and the best of the Pink Panther series hes brought serious and comic characters to life with great skill Montreal But in The Prisoner of Zenda he plays two roles and both fail to be anything more than mild Iy amusing caricatures The first Sellers character we meet is Rudolph heir to the throne of the fictional country of Ruritania Rudolph is dim wit with speech impediment whos more concerned about seducing countess Elke Som meri than he is about his brothers plot to kill him and take over the throne Next we meet Rudolphs look alike London cabbie named Syd who agrees to travel to Ruritania to help the king sur vive his coronation Rudolph soon becomes prisoner in the Zenda castle Syd meets and falls in love with the beautiful Princess Flavia Lynne Frederick and decides pianist gets music medal QUEBEC CP John New mark Montreal pianist who came to Canada as British in ternee and refugee from nazism in the Second World War was presented Sunday with the Canadian Music Council medal for his con tribution to Canadian mUSic Now regarded as one of North Americas leading ac companists for such soloists as Maureen Forrester and the late Kathleen Perrier Newmark received the medal from MISS Forrester an honorary member of the council Council awards also were presented to Casavant Freres the St Hyacinthe Que builders of organs for many of the churches and concert halls of the world and to Andre Lap Iante of Montreal named artist of the year for his prizewinning piano performance at least years Tchaikovsky Com petition in Moscow Laplante did not attend the ceremony The English and French net works of the CBC and the CBC International service swept awards for best broadcasts and best recordings star in the Kremlin British rock singer Elton John poses with his mother Mrs Sheila Farebrother in the Kremlin in Moscow Sunday The popular singer currently is on tour in the Soviet Union AP Photo Io Office Open 645 Show At ORILLIA TIIEATRES QENEVA I6WEST 51 326633 DRIVEIII THEATRE CHILDREN 13 Vn and under FREE except at RESTRICTFD programs ELECTRONIC RADIO SOUND ear Me movie out your own car radio that life in the royal court isnt such terrible thing after all As the plot proceeds to its in evitable happy ending were forced to watch Sellers try to make the best of two equally uninteresting roles The rest of the cast seems to believe that comedy comes from exag gerated acting Director Richard Quine responsible for such film classics as Hotel and Sex and the Single Girl should be blamed for uniformly dull performances by actors like Lionel Jeffries as Rudolphs second in command and Jeremy Kemp as his scheming brother Miss Somer proves once again that she cant act no matter how undemanding the role Miss Frederick has only to look demure and beautiful to meet the demands of her role and with help from the costume department she succeeds The only consolation this movie offers is the location filming in the Austrian coun tryside and in the Schonbrunn Palace near Vienna The castles are beautiful the in teriors authentically regal and the mountains inspiring But Sellers isnt funny and The Prisoner of Zenda doesnt amount to anything more than tired reworking of musty antittiue Rudolph isnt the only prisoner who suffers in this film the audience is punished just as severely Little house in sixth year LOS ANGELES AP Not far from NBs Burbank head quarters at the MGM lot in Cul ver City is sound stage 15 where no nasty rating statistics as well as no talk about cancel lation or scheduling or program tests are heard This is Walnut trove where things go right This is the set of Little House on the Prairie NHCs little ray of sunshine As storm clouds brewed over NBC during the last few sea sons as series appeared and vanished in blur Lillie House quietly plugged away Little House is NHs only show literally It is the single film production done by the nel work rather than studio The MGM lot is rented Right now the Little House folks are preparing for their sixth season Michael Landon who is the show is directing the twopart seasonvopener which he also wrote and stars in NBC has very little to do with Little House It pays the bills TV computer connection system could cost taxpayers and fail EDMONTON CP Telidon system which could connect television sets directly to central computers may cost taxpayers $11 million and be failure says federal research engineer It may go the way of the videophone developed by Bell said Bill Sawchuk an engineer with the federal department of communications and one of the researchers who helped develop Telidon Sawchuk in Edmonton on Friday to demonstrate test system said the public may be able to buy Telidon units in four or five years for $200 to $300 Telidon from the Greek words meaning see idon at distance deli was devel oped about eight months ago decoder box would link the TV set to computer via tele phone The decoder would con vert signals from the computer into printed words allowing the user to ask computer about the latest news sports weather and entertainment events MAY BE LIMITED Sawchuk said the system may never get off the ground because if it is introduced too quickly too few people would be using it with too little infor mation stored in the computers If the system is too limited users will abandon it Dramatist honored HAMILTON CP Drama tist and poet James Crerar Reaney was awarded an honor ary degree at McMaster Uni versity on Saturday professor of English at the University of Western Ontario in London Reaney is the author of The Donnellys and is well known as an awardwinning poet and dramatist His threepart series of plays based on the violent legend of the Donnelly family of Lucan 0nt won the Chalmers Award for the best Canadian play in 1974 1975 and 1976 He won the GovernorGen erals Award in 1949 and 1958 for poetry and in 1969 for the Kildeer and other plays He won the Massey Award in 1960 for the Kildeer and was given the Order of Canada in 1975 Born near Stratford Ont Reaney is graduate of the University of Toronto ktkkitttkiikttttttikktk ikkktk tittktttitkttiittittkttitk ktktiikitkkkitikkifikii 109 REDUCTION ON ALL TICKETS PURCHASED BEFORE THE ARRIVAL OF THE CIRCUS GATES ADMISSION ADULTS $500 KIDS UNDER I3 $300 ITS CANADAS GREATEST TENT CIRCUS FIRST TIME EVER IN BARRIE TOWERS PLAZA HWY 26 27 WEST BIG hgnroitiui ASSEMBLED ANYWHERE BOOK ow DONT DELAY BOOK TODAY AVOID THE LINEUP BY PURCHASING YOUR TICKETS IN ADVANCE TICKETS ON SALE AT SAM THE RECORD MAN I0 OUNLOP ST EAST TOWERS PLAZA STORE NORTH BAYFIEL ST GOOD SEATS AS LATE AS SHOWTIMEI itiiiittitttiiifittitii ncss oimr THUR 31 SAVE $100 4444¥444¥444444444444444444¥¥4¥¥44444444444444¥4444444444444444444¥4 The government so far has spent $2 million developing Telidon and committed another $9 million over the next four years If it succeeds Sawchuk said Canada could reap the ben efits of developing an advanced technology Ecstatic about role Tovah Feldshuh is almost ecstatic with her starr ing role in Sarava lavish musical based on the Brazilian film Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands More precisely she is ecstatic about the show itself which has managed to survive on Broadway longer than expected despite lack of critical ac claim CP Photo OIIIMD AS AN IITIITIINIIM gov Pool Fever For early installation phone ANCHOR POOLS at 7370791 or visit our showroom at 31 Toronto Street Barri Open I0 till pm Mon thru Fri IO till pm Sat and ID till For the Finest in Movie Entertainment IHE MIRISCH CIIRPURAIION PRISENIS PETE PETE SELLE sELLE IHE ISONE out PLUS THIS GREAT MOVIE SPECIA LIMITED ENGAGEMENT OF THE N194 At tIII DrIvoIn Only Wtzmormtwissmmtmmsom JOEY IRAVOUA JOHN LANSING smcsv mu NDREW Rum mu RICOMIINDIB AS ADULT INTIRYAINMKNT rejoices at the ratings but oth erwise pretty well keeps handsoff policy Landon says Ever since Landon proved himself as writer and director on Bonanza network hired di rectors and producers have found that Landon always thinks he has better way There was some arguing at first but when Little House es tablished itself as hit in 1974 the network stepped out and handed the thing over to Landon This season as usual there will be some changes in the show Two new characters will be introduced Almonlo Wil dcr and his sister Eliza June Wilder played by liean Butler is the fellow who eventually married Laura Ingalls on whose books Little House is based Over the years Little House has added couple of kids some neighbors some neigh bors kids Until now in the sixth season there are 2n regu Iars on the show Actor George Brent who appeared in more than too films and 300 plays died late Saturday of natural causes in his home near San Diego Calif AP Photo Veteran actor dies SAN DIEGO alif AP urdaynight Actor George Brent veteran Brent 75 apparently died of of more than 100 films and 300 natural causes the San Diego plays was fouan dead in his County coronersoffiee said He nearby Solana Beach home Sat had suffered from emphysema CINEMAS 7269944 Iurnohdnt him lhe In and Honey anlmdtkn WALT DISNEY DDODUCTIONS Bedknobs and Broomsticks sunnu Antela David LANSBUDY am TOMLINSON Thu $8 MLDOWALL urFE cplchsost LOVE HASNT BEEN LIKE THIS SINCE 1943 ammunition uni IIIIAIIIEII ammawmm CW IMPERIAL in Thu 700 NEVADA West 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