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entertainment For small companies Basics of Joans life have never changed WOODSIDE Calif AP She lives in rustic but obviously expensive home wears chic clothes and doles on her 9yearold son Shes lively conversationalist who takes voice and martial arts lessons and leaves the cleaning to British housekeeper Joan Baez has changed in many ways since the 1960s when her clear sweet soprano first electrified millions and her outspoken political views shocked millions more But while shes long since shed her blue jeans and long hair for the trappings of wellheeled suburbia and motherhood the basics of her life music and humanitarian causes have never changed At 38 Miss Baez still pencil slim but her black hair now shot with gray and worn frizzy is back in the news as crusader for the first time since the war in Vietnam ended Shes trying to get aid for the starving and homeless refugees of Cambodia as well as the Vietnamese boat people HAS SAME BELIEFS But she says her current mission is an ex tension of the same nonviolent philosophy that motivated her opposition to the Vietnam war What are you going to call war she says mean its not an open declared war when you let people die at sea but it certainly isa form of violence Ive never felt proAmerican Ive never felt leftwing or rightwing Ive just been propeople Many people might have thought she drop ped out of crusading because her political ac tivities werent highly publicized after the war Miss Baez admits the postVietnam era wasnt particularly active time for her But she did travel to Russia and Ireland maintaining her support for such organiza tions as Amnesty International and the In stitute for Nonviolence which she helped found 14 years ago NOT FLASIIY For the press to know youre around you have to do some flashy thing she says And Im not interested in doing that Im go ing to do whatever work seems right If that work is raising my child want to do that well And if its making an album then want to do that well Miss Baez remains as big concert draw as ever Although she says shes started to take voice lessons because some of the high notes dont come as easily as they used to her fans certainly havent noticed And in recent years she seems even more at home on stage interspersing songs with patter that often pokes fun at her stereotyped image Ive always had sense of humor she says But she admits she found it hard to display levity in public when she was younger somehow was afraid that would negate what was saying or they wouldnt take me seriously she says show biz Singer threatened with deportation Flora Purim the Brazilian jazz singer who has won the Down Beat magazine female jazz vocalist of the year poll every year since I975 poses in recent photo conviction on cocaine possession charges that Not much profit making records TORONTO CP Youve got to be crazy to be in this business said John Watt of Toronto president of the Cana dian Independent Record Pro duction Association There are 80 members in our association and maybe to of them made profit last year he said in recent inter view Watt ought to know because he is also vicepresident of Offers to Smile Records small in dependent producer trying to compete against the giants of theindustryinthe US This is highrisk industry saturated with American pro duct and its very difficult for small independent in Canada to carve out of position he said In this business you measure success by the amount of time youve been able to stay in business buy Carr paintings VICTORIA CP The BC government has offered to buy part of the collection of 27 Emi ly Carr paintings being sold by Vancouver industrialist George Clark Provincial Secretary Evan Wolfe said Friday the offer was made Thursday but refused to give details dont want to prejudice the negotiations he said An of fer has been made we think its who is offering 3700000 to the province for the purchase pro vided she gets to keep one of the paintings The province has about 50 Emily Carr works in the Van couver Art Gallery in the Art Galley of Greater Victoria and in the provincial archives In Vancouver gallery owner Karen Keenlyside said the government wants to buy 19 of the 27 paintings She said the others are His assoctation represents the interests of about 80 domcsticallyowned record pro duction companies across Canada SEEK FEDERAL II Recently the association petitioned the federal govern ment for tax changes that would give them 100 per cent capital cost allowance for in vestmenls in certified sound recordings This is similar to the tax break investors in ana dian films get If were going to compete with the major forcignmvnPd companies said tatt Well need this external capital Statistics show that retsil record sales in Canada come to more than $350 million mahgz nestaurantlltg lt SEAFOOD STEAK HOUSE Catering tor all occasions For Reservations coll 416775636I NEW YORK APl Grease slipped into first place today as the longestrunning show on the Great White Way knocking Fiddler on the Roof from its Broadway record Todays matinee at the Hoyale Theatre was the shows 3243rd performance setting the record gala performance tonight for an invitationonly crowd was expected to draw John Travolta Olivia Newton John Barry Bostwick and Adrienne Barbeau all per formers in either shows past or the film version of the rockn roll musical Since the musical based in the 19505 opened on Feb 14 1972 the top ticket prices has gone to $22 from $990 Its gross of $70 million has enabled it to return $40 for every Sl invested To wed HOLLYWOOD AP Remember Little Ricky from the old Love Lucy television shows Well Desi Arnaz Jr is getting married Arnaz will marry actress Lin Should play role in foreign poIiCy OTTAWA tCP Artists writers and performers should be encouraged to play greater role in Canadian foreign policy the external affairs department has been told in report prepared for its cultural rela tions bureau Paul Schafer of York Univer sity Toronto and former assistant director of the On tario Arts Council says the department has been too con cerned for too long with economic commercial and political considerations in Ioreignaffairs Shatner at premiere The department this year has budgeted less than 10 per cent of its $352million program for cultural relations and informa tion activities abroad In the past Schafer says cultural relations were the last to be developed in times of prosperi ty and the first to be cut in times of recession His report was made ublic by the department Fri ay to stir interest in international cultural relations in prepara tion for the parliamentary review of cultural activity next spring Mlliam Shatner who stars as Captain Kirk commander of the Starship USS Enterprise in the move Star Trek arrives at the world premiere of the show at the MacArthur Theatre in Washington The lady with Shatner is uniden tified AP Photo WINGS AT 920 HAHN SAT SUN I30 The Human Adventure is Jusr Beginning good offer and we are just waitingfora 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