HALTON HILLS OUTLOOK June lW Page 11 Entertainment Outlook Weir play garners nominations The Idler a play written by Thorn m News Service humor columnist Weir has been nominated for even Vancouver theatre awards lm really pleased said the Vancouver playwright currently In Toronto awaiting Thursday open ing of the piny at Centre After 10 radio plays a few one act plays and ralnute television pro ductions The Idler l Weir a first full length play One actplays don get that much attention This lime the whole even ingt devoted to the work said The playwright says The Idler Sooner or later had to happen is already full experts on thinking self fulfillment creative all of them riling books and sharing their secrets And now someone has gone straight lo the heart he issue one Peter a yearold wig maker I as founded the Archimedes Hon world s first centre or domic research into hitman happiness more or leas la an offbeat look at the unemployment situation His hero Wlfred la chronically unemployed and feels be can use his idle time to help being the country Into a new era Yes Grimsbaw falls in love with the wrong type of woman of course Calamity comcdicaUy falls upon catastrophe While It a basically a comedy Weir serious themes lie awaiting within the text Cast as Gtimshaw Is 40year stage veteran Donald Davis supported by Stratford actor Reld who por trays J J Davenport The play has previously been presented In Vancouver and Thursday will be Weirs first open night in Toronto I alt around on opening night very very nervous I get a seal near the aisle In case 1 can handle It says the playwright Weir has a weekly humor column that appears in many Thomson Newspapers The Idler produced by Theatre Plus will run at he Cen tres Jane Mai let I Theatre through June ASK DICK KLEINER Where is Luana Patten Even to it heartening to there at least one man out there ling to devote his energies to finding what might make us happy By Ian Weir Thomson News Servlca- To the truth 1 remain just lightly as to a wig maker ould to apt the invest on iman happiness Perhaps Just a logical extension of his work And apparently the academic com remains decidedly lie about the project Say Mr the Idea would catch on but it They re not for the study of happiness yet This is to be sure regrettable Still you can see why the average academic not yet ready for the study of This bit muchtoopeel from someone v ho spends his life read ng undergraduate essays Granted there have been previous attempts In this direction As a for instance was overjoyed to cover the Greek philsopher Epicurus who argued that the key to happiness is lo devote your life to doing exactly what feel lite doing And then I read on and discovered the half of Epicurus prescription for happiness which is to reatiic that the only thing you truly feel like doing is silling in the library studying philoso phy This is and I parted company According to him the key to happiness is lobe unable to get dales to Iivl hundreds of miles from the nearest pub and to ha the bank machine tat your card at the beginning a long Of there have been other mon practical prescriptions for pointed out that should never bet on horse with three while nevtr trust a redhead wearing black stock and never play poker with a man named Doc thought lo the that I eat the ore of happiness And as far as 1 can sec key to it all is lo avoid situations and decisions which are at most guaranteed lo lead to disillusion men As such perhaps I could pass on my own small insight along to Ihe Ar Foundation One In a world of lineups never en lerlaln the foolish hope that yours might be just the second slowest one Never tell house guests that there lots of hot water Three Never buy a used car from a man named Honest Ed And while you re at it never spend lime with per home renovations salesmen who are stuck with a large Inventory of I me green aluminum siding our Never ever tor a baseball team rive nearly possible lo be happy in a troubled mar riagc So do your best to find a spouse who understands that your Utile fallings pale beside your numerous wonderful qualities Six Dont hold your breath Seven Ilemember that we are bound be bitterly disillusioned if we expect loo much from our children So we must not expect our kids to turn out any bet wed tight On the other hand you might choose disregard all of Ihe above and simply locus on the Three Great Truths about One If you really wanl to be happy choose rich parents Two If you don I have rich parents marry someone who does Three If you end up with neither of the above stop whining You ve had two chances lo be happy and blown it em both Dear Dick What can you tell me about Patten who played in very good movie In the 0sT I would also like to know the name of the movie Mllford DearLT I m sure you re referring to the Disney classic Song of the South Miss Patten a teen age star of the Is now and she tells me her health has been very poor since a cancer operation In She has un dergone several operations In the last decade a kidney removal and re cently heart by pass surgery and she says her health Is so poor she doubts she will ever work again Dear Dick A few months ago the TV listings said there would be a world premiere of a movie called Moving Target with Jason Bate- man the movie What happened to it N B Reading Pa Dear It was duly aired by NBC on Feb It is possible that the NBC affiliate in your area elected not to carry It but it was aired through out the nation Maybe you slept through It Dear Dick I loved Julie Christie In the movie Par From Madding the robot on the show Lost In Space Ohio DearCC It had no name It was simply called The Robot Dear Dick Back In the middle 60s I purchased an album of songs from Judy Garland films In it was Bei Mir Schon which I be lieve was written by Sammy Cahn Where can I find this recording by Judy and what movie is it from TC Key West Fla DearTC That was Cahn first hit written in He wrote It for the An Sisters not for a movie It Is possible that It was performed In some movie but it was originally strictly a Tin Pan Alley tunc written just to be sung on record Dear Dick Do you know what the first name of Castillo Edward James Olmos is on Miami Vice None of us know and Its driving us DES Council Bluffs Iowa Dear DES Control yourselves His name is Martin Castillo Dear Dick Joanna Kerns of Growing Pains has a sister who was an athlete But I can t remember who It was Can you help Watson a as Jason teniae Send your questions lo Ask Dick Kleiner PO Box Palm Desert Call Doe to volume mail personal replies cannot be f a F1LMETER What s new in movies and video Robert DiMatteo In Movie Theaters SALSA Imagine a cross be tween Saturday Night Fever and Dirty Dancing and you have the es sence of this movie It t come close to either though It about Rico a Los Angeles club habitue and prime specimen of beefcake a guy who knows the full measure of his uh physical charms Stepping out or the shower and donning a carefully placed towel the lissome Rico ca vorts In a manner that would shame Michael Jackson Rico dreams of becoming a big La jazz dancing star a and relocating to Puerto Rico First he must win the local salsa contest at Club La Luna That Is if be can choose the right partner Will he slay with his loyal girlfriend who easily com mands the dance floor or will he part ner up with the reigning salsa queen a voracious older woman In heavy eye makeup On the home front Rico is obsessed in a different way possessive or his sister Rita Magall Alvarado a sup posed innocent who nevertheless knows how to get dolled like a hooker to sneak into the clubs She also secretly smitten with Rico best buddy an Anglo who known In the movie rather seliconsclous idiom a tic parlance as a bro In the Directed by Davidson this glitzy urban fantasy Is as silly as It sounds even reviving corny tlons or 30s movies not that kids will know Characters say things like dont want get In the way of your dreams And everything is hotted up for the camera so that the movie re sembles a succession of lascivious La Itino commercials Rico is played by former Menudo lead singer Bobby Rosa and he photographed with the sexobject adoration normally re served for the likes of a Raquel Welch The two redeeming features are the music by the likes of Cella Cruz Tito and Willie Colon and the sen and sometimes even dazzling dancing choreographed by Kenny Or tega who did Dirty Dancing GRADE H Crowd Was It made before or after Dr Is it available on vld Why don we see the fabulous lie Christie any more or have I just missed her J Cedar Hills Utah Dear J S Her most recent films have not been very good they come and gone quickly They had such names as Miss Mary and Power But watch for her In a forthcoming CBS mini series tentatively called A Long Way From Home with Victor was released In and Far From the Madding Crowd which Is not available on cas sette two years later Dear Dick What was the name of STOCK OPEN DAYS A WBX Lkncd Mechanic 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