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ee ae ee Entertainment Goofy humour, nostalgia in Leacock winner by Shirley Whittington This year's Leacock Award winner is a real winner - That Far Greater Bay, by Ray Guy. This is the first time in the thirty year history of the medal that it has been won by a Newfoundlander. _ This, and the fact that there's a $1500 check attached to 'ROC by Terry Dupuis One of the year's most highly-acclaimed motion pictures opens tonight at the Pen Theatre in Penetang. Rocky has been a big hit with both movie critics and the movie-going public. Several months ago it was awarded the top prize of Best Picture of the Year by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and also won the Best Director and Best Film, Editing Awards. - Rocky made an overnight star out of Sylvester Stallone, who was previously virtually an unknown writer and actor. Stallone was the guiding light behind Rocky. He wrote the scriptin3 anda half days, took it to a producer and refused to sell it unless he could play the title role himself, Such a thing was virtually unheard of in Hollywood. Starring an unknown actor in a movie is certainly a_ risky venture, and the producer had in mind actors of considerable box-office pull such as James Caan or Gene Hackman or Robert Redford. Stallone refused, even turning down an offer of $150,000 for the script. He ended up taking $25,000 and five per cent of the Rocky profits, in order to star in the movie himself. Stallone's gamble paid off; his percentage-of-the profits will amount to several million, and he is reportedly now being offered $500,000 per script. Rocky is an over-the- hill musclebound fighter who finally gets a crack at the heavyweight boxing championship. But Stallone sees it as "a love story, not a boxing story. It's the story of a man fighting for dignity."' 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Rocky will be running at the Pen for a full week, beginning Friday; two performances nightly. at 7:00 and 9:15. Papillon The 1974 escape ad- Movie review character. Some people I know have been so im- pressed by Rocky and enjoyed it so much that they've gone to see it two venture Papillon was one of the big hits of its' year, and it is now back by popular demand. It starts tonight at the Odeon Davis, Dance Wintario stars cont'd from p.8 Dance had only a few hours to spend in the town. There was time for a tour of the Military and Naval Establishments and they varied their usual dinner routine with a barbecue on the beach near the Com- munity Curling Rink. "We pulled the cars up close to the tables so everything would be handy," explained Davis," and then I saw a police car pull up and I thought, oh-oh, we've broken a by-law. The policeman leaned out the car window and said "Hi Fred!'? and drove away. Friendly. town!" That "'Hi Fred" spirit was very much in evidence in Penetanguishene, as it is in every community where the pair travel. PEN THEATRE Wed., Thurs., June 15-16 Fighting Mad - Peter Fonda 7:30 p.m. Rocky Horror Picture Show Restricted Friday June 17 to Wed., June 22 Best Picture of the Year "ROCKY" 7and 9:15 Adult "Don't forget now," admonished Davis in parting, "the numbers are the stars of Win- tario."' Maybe so, but Davis and Dance are the real people who give warmth and charm to Ontario's numbers game. In | two weeks, they'll be in Mount Forest, Ontario - the magic numbers, and the stars - Fred Davis and Faye Dance. John's Telegram. He's 39, and married with one child. An earlier book, called You May Know Them As Sea Urchins M'am was entered in last year's competition unsucces- sfully. Both his books are a delight to read. That Far Greater Bay is a en Theatre in Midland. Papillon is based on the true life story of Henri Charriere, a rebel who was sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island, the notorious French penal colony. Papillon (portrayed by Steve McQueen) is a self- disciplined leader of men with an insatiable ap- petite for freedom. The prison staff on the island is determined to break him. Steve McQueen gives the finest performance of his career in Papillon, and he is matched all the way by a magnificent | performance by his co- star Dustin Hoffman. Papillon reveals all the brutality and inhumanity of the French penal system as it once existed. The movie is gripping, moving and exciting. Papillon was directed by Franklin Schaffner, whose most recent work was Islands In The Stream, another triumph. Other notable previous movies by the same director include Patton, Nicholas And Alexandra, The War Lord, The Best Man and the original Planet of the Apes. The most exciting original motion picture event of all tim . TONITE THRU SATURDAY : AY ST LAUREN BACALL MIDLAND : SHOOTIST" DRIVE-IN THEATRE EVERGREEN SIDE RD. 526-2411 collection ot articles originally printed in the St. John's Telegram and they range all the way from glorious' goofy humour (Reflections From the Convalescent's Couch) through bitter social comment (The October Crisis) and everyday trauma (Down the Drain). There's one piece on Aunt Cissy, the aged chatelaine of Witless Bay Barrens, in which she spouts some of the finest in colourful Bay invective.. ('Always on behind,"' she says, "'like the cow's tail. How do you manage to get out of your own way at all, at all?") Some of the most pleasant writing comes in the entries in "Guy's Encyclopedia of Juvenile Outharbour __ Delights". There's Catching Con- nors, Tying Cans on Sheeps's Tails, and Randying, which is the sprint and belly-flop method of coasting down icy slopes on stave sides, toboggans, pieces of cardboard, old floor canvas, book bags and pants seats. There's gentle nostalgia in That Far Greater Bay too. Guy gets almost poetic when he talks about the lilacs flourishing in abandoned farm yards, and the nice smell that comes from a back kitchen woodbox. There's a column on oil lamps and on "'what feeds Is an we used to have". "And thank God,"' says Guy, '"'I was twelve years old before ever a slice of baker's bread passed my lips." Guy can be smilingly cutting too. He's '"'won- derful down" on Mr. Smallwood and _his centralization * program, which emptied the out- ports and brought the citizens into urban colonies. He _ calls Smallwood "the "only living millstone' and says he may be depended upon to try and prove that Newfoundland would have sunk into the Atlantic Ocean without him. "'It'll take a lot," says Guy, "'to repair the damage and not enough forgiveness under the sun to cover the crime of those who thought they could plunge in like mad bulls and tear asunder a delicate thing."' The chief delight of That Far Greater Bay is the language. It sings in the rhythms of the out- ports - that peculiar blend of Irish on the rocks, with equal twists or irony and whimsy. It is a Newfoundland custom, Guy tells us, to call the older men of the community "Uncle" whether they are related to you or not. And the uncles (or aunties) can be "cross as the cats' or "deaf as haddocks."' "They say,"' complains vthiing worth the terror of THE A Columbia/EMI Presentation - The Casablanca FilmWorks Production - A Peter Yates Film ROBERT SHAW - JACQUELINE BISSET - NICK NOLTE "THE DEEP" - LOUIS GOSSETT and EL! WALLACH Based on the novel by Peter Benchley - Screenplay by Peter Benchley and Tracy Keenan Wyn Produced by Peter Guber - Directed by Peter Yates - Music by John Barry PG | panewta cumance suscestea >. i STARTS FRIDAY AT THESE THEATRES GAYETY SHOWTIMES 7 & 9:15 p.m. Plus ELMVALE DRIVE-IN White Line Fever COLLINGWOOD DRIVE-IN Plus "Drive-In" Sunday features on CKMP 6 p.m. German Canadian Club 7 p.m. Area Church Service 8 p.m. Back to the Bible 8:30 p.m. The Hour of Decision 9 p.m. Gospel Call 9:30 p.m. The Peoples Gospel Hour 10 p.m. This is my Story 10:30 p.m. The Doug Johnston: Show Listen for In Memorium at new times, soon to be heard Page 10, Wednesday, June 15, 1977 following the 1 p.m. and 6 p.m. newscasts. "THE ONLY STATION YOU'LL EVER NEED" _CKMP 1230 a small boy, "I must be a Newfoundlander because I talks quare." Well, quare it ain't, but charming, and wonderful amusing. Whether you've been to Newfoundland or not, you'll get a chuckle out of That Far Greater Bay. 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