Vue Weekly: Issue 16

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king stock of the political dog turds littering the
xuncil floor just three months after the civic
lection.
age 6 * News
oup, buns and dog food: How to make ends
eet as an inner City resident during the cold
pell.
Stephane Lemelin plays Con Hall. See page 8.
* Page 12 * Cover
Otherwise Bob, Northern Light Theatre's latest
production, examines domestic lives at the
crossroads. (Cover photo: Ed Ellis)
Page 15 * Music
Although Australian band Men at Work split up a
decade ago, Colin Hay, the group's lead singer,
still has some unfinished business.
— Nightclubbing * Page 18
— Highlights * Page 19
- Classifieds * Page 20
The Short Vue * Page 23
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BY JONATHAN MURPHY ing waterjug assault on Brian Ma- and the aldermanic Goodwill tening devwiasc foeun d and the
son. Stores account closed. rookies were left dangling in
embarrassment. —
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dmonton voters, it seems, Last October's election took Certainly, some of the new-
at over 1,000 locations are determined our city not place amid a barrage of back-to- comers fit the preferred mould, Noce and Rosenberger do
be dismissed as a dull pitstop in business rhetoric. All weirdos, none more so than Wendy Kin- seem to have "goof-up" anten.
Editor/ P ublisher
a frozen northern wasteland. flakes and visionaries (eg. Took- sella, whose passable Margaret nae, albeit insufficiently sensi.
Ron Garth
In the very act of retiring one er Gomberg) were to be eliminat- Thatcherimpression should play tive. aeo oam
Associate Publisher
batch of councillors for offences ed, and replaced by earnest but well in the true blue west end. Whithley ecan 't identify lurk.
. . Maureen Fleming
against common sense, the elec- dull men with dark suits and cal- Ward 4's Jim Taylor and Ward 5 ing political dog turds before they
. Managing Editor
tors can’t resist throwing in a culators for brains. poll topper Larry Langley are step on them, they do manage a
Gene Kosowan
couple of curve balls for the new both more moderate, but equal- relatively graceful slithering
Senior Contributor
Booster bosses
Charles Mandel council to handle. ly effective. away from the scene of humilia-
Marketing Manager Two terms ago, wife-beater Meanwhile the other three ton.) °
Brenda Knight-Farrell and intellectual super light- When the results rolled in, first-timers, Robert Noce, Rose Maitson, on the other hand,
Art Director
weight champion Ken Kozak daz- Doug Main and his business Rosenberger and Brent Maitson, prefers the paranoid delusiona|
Neasa Maguire
zled the nation with his bid to booster bosses were suit-ably are vying for theundisputed title strategy. "Alien spies put the dog
Copy Editor
make Edmonton the country mu- as official council eccentric. turd in my way to thwart my
happy.
Steven Sandor
sic capital of the world. The red and green was de- They each staked a strong heroic battle for freedom." —
Fashion Editor
While Ken abandoned council posed, albeit by the less predict- claim when it was revealed all Such was his response to the
Brenda Knight-Farrell
in a doomed '92 mayoralty bid, able of Peter Pocklington's fa- three (and Mayor Bill $mith) had debugging scandal. Claiming
Internet Manager
wardmate Sheila "I'm a nurse" vorite "fellows," the proportion their offices "debugged" at the powerful interests didn't want a
Jeff Barnum
McKay stayed on to pursue the cat of homosexual councillors was taxpayer's expense. "free enterpriser" on city coun-
Production/Graphics
Terry Cox bylaw and perpetrate the terrify- slashed to the national average Astonishingly enough, no lis- cil, he justifies the exercise on
Office Manager the grounds there are volunteers
Glenys Switzer who are "members of the Com-
Assistant to the Publisher munist Party" running around
Amy Hough the corridors of city hall.
quy 1996
Administrative Assistant
Andrea Harrison
Wrong business
Advertising Representatives
Don Kimery
Maitson, who reports he has
Mack McColl
taken a $100,000 annual pay cut
Carol Kerr Robinson
to sit on council, is obviously in
Local & National Advertising
the wrong business.
Phone [phone]
His ability to ferret out com-
Contributors
munists who hitherto seemed to
Jeff Barnum
Pam Barrett have completely disappeared
Paul Compassi from the face of the earth, lurk-
Frank Dobrovnik ing here in our own municipal
Chauncey Featherstone
government, shows a geniu:
Yorg Fewchuk
matched only by poor, much-
Roy Fisher
maligned Senator Joe McCarthy.
James Grasdal
Brent, I can see it now. City
Ryan Greenwood
Hall. A crowded River Valley
Matt Groening
Room. The world's press jostling
Ken Ilcisin
for position. The first session of
Todd James
the Municipal Un-Edmontonian
Mark Kozub
Adrian Lackey Activities Commission.
Gary McGowan In the chair, fearless B.M. Our
Jonathan Murphy
first witness, Councillor Brian
Andrea Rabinovitch
Mason, sweating and blinking
Steven Sandor
under the lights and the pressure
T.C. Shaw
from your glinting, steel-hard
Haley Simons-McCann
eyes.
Sheena Stewart
"So, Citizen Mason, is it not
Cover Photo
true that the heels in your
Ed Ellis
brogues conceal a miniature
Layout/Production Team
Terry Cox transmitter through which you
Roy Fisher communicated with a worldwide
Neasa Maguire network of Bolsheviks?..." e
Glenys Switzer
John Turner
Some numbers don't lie
Internet Production
Jeff Barnum
Roy Fisher
Printing and Film Assembly
The Edmonton Sun
What's really going to affect crime statistics
Distribution
"Sgt" Shane Bennett
Mike Garth
BY PAM BARRETT use of crack cocaine (which become criminally minded? watch, guess what? Yep, violence
Christine Janicki
becomes the norm in your life.
makes its users more violent than Some of the answers are obvious,
Wes Koast
S: if youbuild enough pris- heroin junkies), and cheaper drug such as flirting with drugs and And surely you don't think Hol-
Leah Lalonde
Susan Mack ons, and particularly if you prices overall. eventually needing to support lywood producers give a damn
don't distinguish between the Fair enough. their habits. about that. Moreover, violent
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your crime rate statistics are go- munity policing— which, by the to the list, based upon interviews as well, so there are fewer coun-
Metro Edmonton, and is funded and
ing to decline. way, was initiated right here in with people who work at youth teracting resources to ameliorate
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education, you'll get similar re- happening. I have no doubt that Violent tendencies Of course, there are many fac
tors which lead a youngster to ?
We strive to ensure that our compre- sults. this is true, particularly in big
hensive listings are correct. However, in This, precisely, is whatishap- city ghettos. Economic deprivation — if life of crime, but too rarely do
this uncertain world, events beyond pening in the United States. But you grow up on the poor side of writers, or decision-makers con-
anyone's control can torpedo even the Potential criminals the ledger sheet, stealing be- front the big ones I have just
in the long run, I predict serious
best laid plans. So call ahead. It can't
cited.
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hurt. Artists are chatty people by nature,
a broader approach is assumed Still, I find the analyses insuf- buck. If job prospects are poor And I can tell you why: those
anyway. Letters/artwork/submissions are
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This, also, is the cover story there are 40 million American
devices may be ineffective against
of some demographic shifts in children under the age of 10, and angry, resulting in more vi- them.
Communist uprisings. Deficit spending and censor
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` How to live when food and the cold hit a newU RN
who like to sponge off society
к KOZUB a drug dealer,” says John Doe gun control. They’re getting me,’ so they can have three more
Esquire No. 1. ready for something,” he rages. years of room and board and but don't necessarily have to,
maybe get back on their medica- Kwak is upfront.
The “they” he speaks of, the
or all of us, January sits in In January, he is forced to
M the middle of winter like a rely on almost daily runs to the brunt of the anger inside John tion.” He suspects it would be hard
big pimple in the centre of our Mustard Seed Church soup kitch- Doe Esquire No. 3, is the usual: John Doe Esquire No. 2 ad- to "sponge" off the Salvation
foreheads. en. And everyone, it seems, is a the government. mits that he recognizes a lot of Army, since a person is generally
food critic. “They keep making these cuts, people from Alberta Hospital — allowed to get food from their
. Collectively, theexcruciating
“You can find better food in but what about the guy on the patients, not staff — on the dept only once every three
cold, horrible driving conditions
and weekly mile-high dumps of garbage cansin summerthan you bottom? All we get on the bot- streets. months.
snow are enough to push almost can in the soup kitchen. No one tom is chicken feed.” John Doe Esquire No. 3 wraps “Iftnheede myor e assistance,
“People sayitit’s as bad (now) up by saying, “There’s gonna be we look at it (their situation) a
anyone over the edge. Especially ever donates meat.”
those on welfare. In the words of a scraggly- as it was in the dirty '30s," says a lot more crime on the streets little closer,” says Kwak.
Following the temporal bearded, nearly toothless John John Doe Esquire No. 1, but de- soon.” In other words, back to In the nine years Kwak has
livers word from the street which the all-out civil war stuff. been involved with the Salva-
warmth of Christmas charity, Doe Esquire No. 2, “The food
welfare recipients have to worry banks tell people not to.” is quite to the contrary. tion Army, things have gotten
Borderline-poverty worse in Edmonton.
"You couldn't bum anything
_about a serious lack of endurable
Repulsive lengths back then. You had to kill some- “The food collected (through
weather, food, shelter and mon-
ey. one to get something to eat or a If it's true hunger and cold Christmas drives) used to hold
place to sleep." can bring out the most desperate us through the year and now it
| Left out in the cold by socie- In the quest of a little meat,
|... ty, some people are also forced to John Doe Esquire No. 1 has gone He laments even though he of survival instincts, there ap- lasts us for only about two
_ ponder their darker impulses. to great, even repulsive lengths would certainly find a gun useful pear to be more people suffering months... and after that we're in
from the affliction of poverty, or a purchasing situation —and that
| Like crime. in the past. forlifein the '90s, he would have
borderline-poverty, than before. puts us up the creek."
1 Among this breed of people “I've eaten dog food,” he to know how to use it first. "Me,
| arethreemen who each preferred claims. “You gotta get the low I'd probably shoot my foot off!” According to Envoy Andy The Salvation Army's current
Kwak, Executive Director of Sal- food drive is dubbed “Christmas
| tobenamed "John Doe, Esquire" ash stuff, though, because other- The John Doe trio believe
|] in this article. wise you can get bunged up, eh?” there is more crime happening vation Army Family Services Assistance and Winter Relief” and
^ I met them just after they'd John Doe Esquire No. 1 can- in the inner city than any of us Center, about 50 to 100 families Kwak stresses the winter part.
| consumed the obligatory soup not work because he has a bro- would care to realize. a day come in looking for food “January and February are the
ken elbow and a pin in his ankle "Crack cocaine is coming to assistance during the cold win- real tough months,” he says.
| and buns which, in January, be-
In order to meet the demands
. come the staple of nearly any after falling from a third-storey Edmonton. That's going to ter months.
_ starving inner city welfare recip- scaffolding on a past construc- change things," warns John Doe “Ovthee lasrt f ive years we’ve for food in January, the Salva-
tion job. He also has a pacemak- Esquire No. 1. "The majorty of seen about a 300 per cent in- tion Army Christmas Assistance
[| dent.
They were dressed in a slight- er, he claims. To him, he says, crime that happens in this com- crease in traffic to our food de- and Winter Relief program has
ly higher grade of used clothing, life has been reduced to “just munity is for a fix." pot,” says Kwak. been held over.
Who takes advantage of the Now participating Shell Can-
though it was hardly thick or biding time.” John Doe Esquire No. 2 disa-
| warm enough for them to walk Somewhere behind the old grees. "Maybe cigarettes too... or Salvation Army's emergency food ada Circle K stores have agreed
Jasper Avenue without turning wire-frame glasses of John Doe even lottery tickets." assistance? Not just John Doe to accept food donatitohnrosug h
into human popsicles on the way. Esquire No. 3, darker thoughts If this is starting to sound like Esquires one through three. It’s the end of January, seven days a
What were they cold and bit- brood. an inner city comedy routine, become a varied group, from week. You can also make your
terabout? Practically everything. “Т hope they can do away with consider the last-laugh line from welfare families to those jobless donations to the Salvation Army
“In summer, you don't even unemployment insurance and John Doe Esquire No. 1: “What due to cutbacks and even post- Family Services Center at 10175
. have to have a welfare cheque. welfare for good, real soon, so we these guys should do out there is secondary students. and 107 St.
can get down to the basics... all- just write a letter to their parole To cynics who perceive mis- Please, no perishable meat.
You could live on the street if
. you had to and steal money from out civil war. There'sa reason for officer and say ‘Come and get use of this service, from those And no dog food. $
Se V U E wish to show their support for
| LIFEIN DAD.
Shell by filling up?” He replied
yes, it happens all the time!
с, I went out to my bicycle only
to find that my bicycle had suf-
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AFTER WE DIE, SURE, MY DO You BELIEVE YES LOO. IN Avenue, Edmonton, AB T5) 1V9, or faxes to then went inside again to ask
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SCHEDULE
SPEND ETERNITY
IN SEVERAL.
1S OPEN, NO YOLKING MATTER porters they had that would egg a
WITH ME?
defenseless bicycle. They were sup-
On Dec. 13, 1995, between 8:45
and 9:30 I was peacefully dis- portive that it was done. I left.
playing signs to passing motor- Soladvise caution when peo-
ists on Whyte Avenue (Shell Sta- ple criticize Shell because it Em
tion at the corner of 100 St. and that "The Friends of Shell"a
82 Ave.) asking them to boycott armed and ready to defend their
Shell. Just prior to packing up gas station with the yolk and
I BELIEVE IN THE BWE my signs, one of the Shell em- shell of eggs.
IF ITS GOOD ENOUGH
ANGELS, THE HELLS ANGELS, FoR THE PRAYING ployees remarked that havingm e I will not be so easily deterred
ANO MOST OF ALL,
MANTIS, ITS GOOD stand in front of their service by the yellow of some unborn
ANGEL Еос CAKE. ENOUGH FOR ME.
3bPUbI^9пib5NV5g b0уt)D I1 O:нYO9 N3E3 S station was good for business. chicken. It is frightening to think
After packing up my signs and that this global company cannot
storing them on my bicycle, I take any criticism here or in Niger-
decided to ask the attendant what ia. Maybe my smugness comes
he meant by his remark. I went from the knowledge that myrights
of free expression is guaranteed by
into the service station andasked,
“Ате you implying by your state- our society and our laws.
ment that my standing in front
OF COURSE! THATS of your station is good for busi- Michael Kalmanovitch
DO You BELIEVE Ecological Systems
How I PLAN ALL ness, and drivers come into your
MY PRIME-TIME IN HEAVEN? station to fill up with gas just Information Society
TV VIEWING. because I am there and that they Edmonton, АВ
Qux THE WAY You TALK,
You'Re HEADED STRAIGHT,
FoR EVERLASTING HELFIRE
ANO DAMNATION!
tell us your tale and win
lunch with ernie zelinski
(author of "Joy of Not
Working") and
mieko ouchi
ther a harbinger of spring or a sign of simple
(actress "The War
consumer escapism, resort clothing has hit Ed-
ton stores with a distinct presence.
Between Us") at
right colors, zany prints, travel-easy separates
the shape of a 60s trapeze dress are favored by Yuk Yuk's Dinner
mers who dress those who lounge on beaches
a or mingle in Mexico. Theatre
"Color blasts out lime green, tangerine orange,
оп yellow and strawberry reds. Prints range
imm simple polka dots to eye-crossing mixtrues of
apes, dots and squiggles. Think '605 Pucci prints
the perfect effect.
Fabric is light weight, no-wrinkle fabrics like
ster-rayon blends.
һаре revolves around the sheath silhouette.
arms and shoulders add a hint of cool.
Footwear has slipped into an easier, more re-
d shape. Ballet slippers and low-heeled sandals
WEATHER • HUNTING & FISHING
easily translate to summer staples. TALL TALE THEMES: SPORTS & GAMES » BOOKS
"Travelling to a balmy, sub-tropical locale this
ter? Or simply building your spring style a little Semi-finalists of the "Tall Tales" contest will present their tales at TUXES, TILES,
Early. You'll get a great start with this year's resort
and TALES presented by The Edmonton Public Library on Saturday, January 27th.
choices.
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Sites for what ales ya
|P lease attach your “Tall Tale" and enter at The Edmonton
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cluded a section for hockey fans Well, the beverage isn’t availa- THE Tuxes, Tiles and Tales on | ES
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with stats, schedules and stories. ble in Canada (that I-have seen, F a |
Westin Hotel. Winners will be
The Fresh Plastic section looks anyway) but you can get to the : wESELb Ya |
notified by telephone. Must
at CD releases and you can vote Zima web site from here. The be 18 years or older.
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whether you agree or disagree Zima web site was one of the
with a review! Finally, Molson most highly touted Web sites
sa great time to be Canadian. has implemented a cross-Cana- about six months ago, апа it still
ith the explosion of micro- da M.U.S.H. (Multi User Shared gets tens of thousands ofh its per
eries, there is quite a variety Hallucination), where Canadians week; however, in comparison
alt-based beverages outthere
can hallucinate about a country with the two previous sites, this
the sampling.
with no snow at all. was a bit of a disappointment.
/m speaking, of course, about Not to be outdone by their Sure, there were the links and
rivals, Labatt introduced its own the neato information, but it
And, like everything else on World Wide Web site (http:// didn't seem that there was any fes
their marketing budget, the beer www.labatt.com) a short while effort to keep the site up and
companies pour tonnes of mon- ago. Like the Molson site, it has running, using all of the current
to its web sites. Not only are an area for registrants only, web trickery out there.
promoting their products, which of course has all of the Finally, we finish our journey
they are selflessly promoting a
cool stuff like Labatt merchan- ofthe virtual pub sampling some
£u Quality live entertainroent that takes
2 of community — а com- dise. In exchange for all of your of the best beer everto be brewed
inily which just happens to
most personal information, you on the face of this earth. Yeah,
place on Saturda: айггы {бо piros
its products. are assigned an Internet MVP we are talking about Guinness,
The 7 Am Online site (http:// number which allows you to the "beerthat drinks like a meal." featuring some ol Gdinonton’s best solo
Iw.molson.com/canadian/)
qualify for the aforementioned The official Guinness home page
out by Molson Breweries is Labatt’s merchandise. (<http://www.itl.net/guinness/ and group artists as well as touring acts,
à site. In order to take full So how do you get all of the >) has some pretty neat things
tage of all of the goodies sport paraphenalia your heart going for it: the official Guin- all performing “unplugged” so as nol le
bleon the site, you have to desires? By going through and
ness screensaver (Windows and
disturb your head fromthe night before.
er as a member (which also answering trivia questions about Mac), wallpaper for your compu-
fles pa youare of legal drink- beer and brewing. There are three ter's desktop, and video and print IFs the perlect curee
age).
levels of questions: easy, kinda versions of some of Guinness's
ou can send and receive hard and you'd better get Uncle best ads.
mail with other users wired Fred who knows everything. Now if only they could send
П the Molson site. As well, beer over the Internet. e
However, the competition is
Сап check out some of the tough: the top scorer for January
t happenings and other hada total of 9999 points (which Jeff Barnum will never ever turn
ral” listing for selected cit- means that he would have had to down an invitation to have a pinto f 20th - McCormack & Ward
055 Canada.
Of course, a answer 1,250 sets of questions.) beer purchased for him. Invitations
per cent of people who What if you don’t like the may be sent to the Vue offices or to
27th - Scott Wicken
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Vue Weekly • January 18 - January 94,1 55;
Pite preps for ballet
at Timms
um, VU
ly and very intensely," she says.
She has been commissioned
to create pieces for Ontario's Bal-
let Jorgen, Alberta Ballet, Les
Ballet Jazz, Independent Vancou-
А Crystal Pite is the ver modern choreographers and
lance scene’s flavor of the Ballet B.C. "I haven't had to pro-
year, she considers choreography mote myself so far. Everything's
a sideline. come to me. It's been very nice
“I've been fittingitin between but I know that won't last forev-
the four-month layoff at Ballet er," she says.
B.C.," said Pite. She is keeping a level head
A native of Victoria, Pite about her new-found fame, but
joined Ballet B.C. straight out of
insists that a full-time choreo-
high school. A piece choreo- graphic career isn't imminent. "I
graphed for a Ballet B.C. work-
love dancing," she says. "Ballet
shop was integrated into the B.C.'s pieces are very satisfying
repetoire and from there her star to do."
has risen. Still, Pite will continue to use
her talent to create work that
Sans jewels inspires her. Luckily, that work
has struck a chord with critics
Pite's piece Quest, Peter Puc- and audiences alike, ensuring
ci's Lifted by Love (a piece chore- that we'll be hearing about her
ographed to seven k.d. lang years from now. e.
songs) and Artistic Director Ali
Pourfarrokh's Butterfly Dreams
round out an evening at the bal-
let sans jewels or second balco-
Crystal Pite gets ready for her Quest for pointes
nies at the U of A's Timms Centre
for the Arts.
Umbrellas are optional
In 1995 Pite, 25, won the Clif-
іп Opposites,
ford E. Lee Choreographic Award,
lot wilder, ” says
an award that guarantees an art-
1 trying toj
ist a few good years of acclaim
and opportunity. Along with a THEATRE so Lemoine put a twist on them. you get entertained, you get to
He assigned the songs to artists buy cheap booze and all the
substantial cash prize, the cho-
BY CHAUNCEY Pe VUE
sen one choreographs a piece for who might not otherwise get a money goes to a worthwhile
FEATHERSTONE
dancers at the Banff Arts Festi- chance to perform them. cause," said Ferguson.
“We had Gary Lloyd doing a And, he promises, any and all
val. Pite created Quest for 14 danc-
ers— seven men and seven wom- ays Rapidfire Theatre's Ian country version of "The Sound rubber chickens will be on stage,
en. Performed en pointe, Questis Ferguson about the upcom- of Music," the titlesong, y'know, not the buffet table. No tuxes
the most classical example of ing Varscona fundraiser, "This is da dumm da dum da dumm..." required. Tickets are on sale now.
My Fair Lady with the songs, but sings Ferguson. "Wait a minute." Ferguson
Pite's work. According to her, it
explores "certain aspects of Ro- without all that other stuff..." The idea played to a sold-out was hidden around a corner
house last year. This year the checking the schedule board for
mantic love: the tradition, chiv- Rapidfire, The Union, Shadow
D debut is 4
arly, the Prince and Princess Theatre and Teatro La Quindicina Varscona's managing companies the performance date when he
travaganza
idea." theatre companies co-habitate Ol’ are hoping for the same. The al- noticed something.
And what does a young wom- Fire Hall #6 on 83 Avenue. They're liance, less than a year old, re- “We're doin’ Mary Poppins!
an living in the present day of an innovative bunch inclined to ceives no government funding Take everything I just said about
cynicism know about knights in innovative techniques both the- for building operations. My Fair Ladyand insert Mary Pop-
shining armor? atrical and fiscal. Among the artists donating pins. Jesus Christ, what the hell
“All I can do is choreograph Sometimes they combine the their talents for the upcoming was | thinkin’...”
two objectives; Ferguson was the evening are Sondheim songstress It’s okay, Ian. Just remember
what I know," says Pite. "There's
a bit of the princess in all of us, one who rented the hose tower Shari Somerville, Hookahman, to send a thank-you note to Julie
especially if you were raised in out to a rock-climbing crew. Cathy Derkach, Die-Nasty Bad Andrews. You'll be covered ei-
the ballet world." Last year Lemoine developed Girl Kirsten Van Ritzen, and Mike ther way. ө
And that world is not known an abbreviated but augmented McDonald. More people are be-
for giving young, female chore- musical using tunes from The ing added to the list daily, most-
ographers a break. Sound of Music. The songs that ly those unable to contribute to
“It has been a strange year. made Julie Andrews career are a last year's gala.
Everything's moved very quick- little pedestrian for the Varscona, "For 20 bucks you get fed,
The Edmonton Community Foundation presents a series of new work
OTHERWISE ВОВ
by Connie Gault
bEEPldyhl i ost o
A WORLD PREMIERE
DIRECTED BY DD KUGLER
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JAN 23 - FEB4 ,1 996
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music by Ed. lang
LIFTED BY LOVE choreography by PETER PUCCI * BUTTERFLY DREAM choreography
by ALI POURFARROKH ° QUEST choreography by CRYSTAL PITE
JANUARY 24 & 25, 1996, 8:00 PM
TIMMS CENTRE FOR THE ARTS, UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA
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Dumping on taste
Gilliam scores
Peut
CINEMA
York City, I was late for my plane donna’ “Justify My Love” video.
because they made me unspool Holbloom's spin on it all is his
BYoA DeRtIA N
my film.” graffiti scrawled love poem to
If Holbloom were a circus, Madonna and their star-crossed
then House of Pain would be his love affair back in high school.
oronto advant garde film- freak show. This 80-minute quar- When you see it, you get the
maker Mike Holbloom not tet of black-and-white films fea- feelingthe essence of Holbloom's
only pushes the conventional tures gay fellatio, urination, def- creative spark is of a class-clown:
definition of art film, he is con- ecation (A dump square in the the best joker in shop class, when
stantly baiting censor boards and mouth! How does this guy moti- it's Friday afternoon and you've
customs officials. smelled one gas fume too many.
vate his actors?), copaphillia and
“1 don't have much problem a transvestite raping an uncon-
Gay porno
in Canada," said Holbloom. scious man.
"It's when I cross borders that The film Scotland found too
I get flak. When I took House of shocking to screen and other Frank's Cock concerns itself
Pain to the Edinborough Festi- Holbloom creations make their with a man describing his life
val, the Scottish Customs seized way to Metro Cinema's Colin long homosexual relationship
it. The first screening I had at an Low Theatre this weekend. In- with Frank, who is now dying of
experimental film festivalin New cluded in the collection is Ma- AIDS. Rennie's monologue is ac-
companied with shots of blood-
Bruce Willis stars as Cole in 12 Monkey,
Going post-Suede
cells and explicit gay porno. Af-
ter the eight minutes of vide
CINEMA Gilliam's (Monty Python, Brazil)
The best work in the porfolio
best to date, is the script by th.
is Mexico. The 35-minute film isa
BY ADRIAN Pe VUE husband and wife team of David
CINEMA returns as the hapless actress who
poem of yearning to a land and
LACKEY and Janet Peoples. Set-ups and
has to play Chad’s lover. The
people who were conquered and
pay-offs are brilliantly executed
BY FRANK РЕ
movie they're filming is called...
protected from their true nature.
he year is 2035. The rem within the jumbled time contin.
DOBROVNIK
Living in Oblivion.
In conjunction with the
nants of humankind exists
uum. Only the most microscopic
Divided into three shoots,
screenings, Holbloom will be
in a desolate netherworld under- flaws were visible.
qu DiCillo is an independ
each of which esca;ates into a
holding workshops at both Met-
ground and CJSR is still writing The prognostication here js
ent filmmakerAs.i t happens, disaster, this is DiCillo's ode to
ro and FAVA. So how does a guy
angry letters to See Magazine. that Peoples will be given an
so is the hero of his new comedy the anxieties and frustrations of
like Holbloom cope in a Mike
In order to preserve the fate Oscar nomination for best screen.
Living in Oblivion, Nick, played trying to make a low-budget
Harris Ontario?
of the planet, the surviving race play based on another medium
by Steve Buscemi. A few years movie — bad coffee, neurotic
"Harrishas attacked everyone
must find “volunteers” to travel and Pitt will follow with a nod of
ago, DiCilio made Johnny Suede, actors, infighting, senile actors,
in Ontario except for the rich.
back in time to prevent the re- hisown for supporting actor. You
starring an unknown slab of meat incompetent crews and simply
No wonderthe Toronto Sun loves
lease of a deadly virus. read it here first.
named Brad Pitt. bad actors. Sort of filmmaking as
this guy. They're a tabloid that
This task falls on James Cole 12 Monkeys would also make
Interestingly, his alter-ego in therapy. If Johnny Suede were a
reports the news for people with
(Bruce Willis), a convict with a a nice jury of my E $
Living in Oblivionis trying to make
book, this would be the after-
short attention spans. And Harris
history of innocuous crimes
a low-budget movie starring an word.
is just one of those people.” €
against the state. Cole is zapped
After 90 minutes, though, it
actor called, ahem, Chad (played
back to 1990 and placed in a
by James LeGros). gets predictable.
psychiatric ward for all of his
But wait, it gets better (or
КЕР прои
troubles of warning authorities
worse, depending on your point
of the impending doom.
of view). Catherine Keener, who
was so exceinl Jlohneny nSuted e,
Lunatic confidant
METRO CINEMA
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fery Goines (Brad Pitt), who be-
MIKE HOLBLOOM Canada's mo:! |
comes his lunatic confidant,
dangerous experimental
Bad enough that Cole has
filmmaker presents a collection
been placed six years in the past of his short films including Now
too late to stop the activists from Yours, In the Cinema, Justify My |
FOR DATE OF PUBLICATION ONLY
Friday, Janvary 19 a drastic thinning of the herd, Love, Red Shift, Modern Times
Saturday Jenwary 20 but it looks as though he’s going 1+1+1, Mexico, Brand, Moucle's
11:15 p.m. Island and Frank’s Cock (Jan. 19, |
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