Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 16, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba 32 Winnipeg free press Friday february 16, 1979 singers Hilly Murray top Juno nominations Toronto up singers Dan Hill Anne Murray Burton Cummings Gordon Lightfoot Nick Gilder and the group Rush Lead the nominations or this year s Juno awards. The awards administered by the Canadian Academy of recording arts and sciences Are to be presented March 21 in Toronto. Hill has received six nominations for his single sometimes when we touch and his Frozen in the night album. Miss Murray s you needed me single and let s keep it that Way album netted her five. Cummings dream of a child album and break it to me gently single took four nominations. Lightfoot Gilder and Rush have three each. Cummings will be Host of the televised awards ceremony. Nominees for Best female vocalist Are miss Murray Patsy Gallant who won the last two years Joni Mitchell Carroll Baker and Lisa dal Bello. For male vocalist they Are Lightfoot Vannelli Hill Cummings and Neil Young. Lightfoot and Hill also Are nominated for Folk artist of the year along with Valdy Bruce Cockburn and Murray Mclauchlan. Rush s hemispheres is nominated As Best Selling album. Rush also is a nominee for group of the year and for Best producer with Terry Brown. A Freddie s saturdays 9 . 4 . 425v, Portage ave. Upstairs not just another chinese restaurant the finest in authentic chinese cuisine. Elegant and Friendly surroundings. The unique experience of dim sum luncheon. 245 a kill Street at Alexander Telephone 9443400 too Many weekends love s zest fizzles movies Leonard Klady same year directed by Robert Mulligan writ ten by Bernard Slade based on his play photographed by Robert tees edited by Sheldon Kahn Mon Tage sequences by Charles braver Man music by Marvin Hamlisch produced by Walter mar sch. Morton Gottlieb. A Universal release. At the Grant Park Cinema. Mature not suit Able for children. Doris. Ellen Burston Alda Chalmers. Ivan Bonnar a comedy about Adul Tery the mind reels in wonderment but same time next year is just that. To the movie s credit it does t sink to taking cheap shots. It s an honest witty account of two happily marrieds who happen to enjoy one another s company Over 26 weekends of their lives. The film opens in 1951 at a California resort. Doris and George casually meet Over or inn 635 Pembina Hwy. Complete dinners your Choice Only new York prime rib Tbone Steak shrimp or our famous hip of beef Only o the first i i i Tilsi s Iii Mitch Parks account Pandit feb. 18 pm. Winnipeg Art gallery auditorium tickets s3.50 students senior citizens available at St. John s music Tredwell s music Center celebrate Valentine s with us. Tarti sat Rel dinner and one thing leads to another. Doris is supposed to be on a religious Retreat and George an accountant is checking the financial rec ords of an old Friend. In Stead they climb into bed and the pattern is set. In every respect but the Law they Are a typical Cou ple sharing their dreams traumas and aspirations. The movie does not drag us Back year by year to examine the relationship. The title cards merely note that five or six years have passed. Furthermore through a montage of news stories and fads we can piece together How Doris and George s lives have been changed Over that period. In 1951 George is a clean Cut Type and Doris a rather sheltered House Frau in 1956 Doris has started to improve her mind in 1961 she s about to graduate from night school. It s these initial passages which work test in the film. The rapport despite the couple s awkwardness about their sinful state is most satisfying. They Dis cuss their families and the Virtues and faults of their mates with Candor and honesty. The relationship shows distinct signs of growth. The latter years Lack the zest of the earlier ones. In 1966 Doris turns hippy and George has become a Hawk about Vietnam in 1972 George has become involved in conscious raising. The trends and manners of the times dominate these sections at the expense of the people. In part these problems Are due to rather Ina Fec Tive attempts at aging the couple through makeup. Both Alda and Burstyn appear Overly aware that they Are playing at being old and it zaps All the bite from their dialogue. But this superficial Hin Drance hides a much greater fault. Can it be that George and Doris annual tryst is becoming Boring i think sadly yes. What began As an exciting unpredictable Romance turns into an almost prearranged routine. Year after year Doris lets the air out of George s tires. Undaunted George comeback is of maybe i did t think things it s a Good Indi cation of the Lack of punchy comedy dialogue. On screen same time next year scores Best at the relationship s serious Side. There is tremendous warmth when Doris con fides her affection for Helen George s unseen wife. George shines when he helps Doris Cope with her Rocky marriage. It s an Odd distinction for a comedy. As George Alda provides a credible if unexciting canadians motor hotel 1400 notre Dame ave. Presents the opening of our evening beef carte and salad bar in the dining room served Between . . Mom. Fri. Adults children under 12 business Funchion a taif urte Sivate dining room siatin6 40 none . Mon. To Fri. Performance. He has be come a master of Small screen humor and his movie work suffers for it. There is something too inti mate about his style. Alda s limitations Are compounded by Burstyn s dynamic spot on interpretation of Doris. She s plays him under a carpet. Rarely is she less than exceptional. Her Doris is totally believable and sympathetic. The technical credits Are All Good though a Little More set decoration to de note the passage of time 171 Ltd Urmol. I v of Peru for dance studio Ltd. Introductory offer 10 disco lessons take the hassle oat of tour Hustle no qo7 Katar a no pm pm. Oo7-oooo 181b Portage ave. Ellen Burstyn and Alan Alda. Might have been helpful. The film makers have done very Little to open up the stage version. The few at tempts made at this Are somewhat awkward particularly the bridging Mon tages which Are both intrusive and distracting. The picture is neither classic nor travesty. It s easy to remain indifferent about its strengths and weakness. I can rate it More than a passing entertainment that most will Likely forget shortly after leaving the movie theatre. Sunday Brunch where where else the Samovar 1199 Fife St. 633-2662 served 8 30 to 30 sat 8 am to 2 30 ribs. Strogies i shish Kabob lion a Friday 6 n m to b Marion hotel entertainment this week night rider daily . Uit Lacr weddings receptions Windup pm. 233-1477 Plaza motor inn All this week in the beverage room Fox Glove noon Buffet Mon. To Fri. In the lounge the Cathy Fink and duct Donald and for banquet to a win dust Call Ardath 452-9824 Tours Tours Tours the wlm leg Art gallery is having free loan every saturday Al . Gel involved walk year gallery in a practical turn expo ratio of the venal world. Bring your family bring a Friend Art in fun Art it far everyone of oar dreams Quebec palatial in Ike its a Lisa a Febry 17 m meet la the main Fayer memorial Bon Levant. This past week saw the death of one of the few people one could Call a film artist Jean Renoir. Per haps Renoir son of French artist Auguste Renoir came naturally by his gifts. Regardless. I doubt any film maker can match Renoir for his consistent por trayal of the dignity of Man and his dogged Faith in the spirit and humanity of All people. Renoir s Best known films were la Grande illusion and la Regie do Jeu rules of the game made in 1937 and 1939. La Grande illusion dealt with a group of French prisoners of War in 1918. His portrait of this isolated world represented a much larger Community and this recurrent device served him Well in years to come. Renoir once commented that when he made la Grande illusion he put All his contempt for the tragedy of War on celluloid. It was a tremendous Success both critically and com he noted. However two years later the nazis marched into Renoir was the finest of rare wines and i mourn the drinking of the last drop of his Vintage. Is that All folks Canadian order of foresters pm mid to an open House at their new senior citizens apartment Block Kana ton Boulevard and Boulton Bay february bang my Batman noon and . Altok a Cmor 1117. To. 1 ii 1217 por to. All Tull film and Cebu incl Del parking my try Chi m winged phone 957-1047 a excerpts Broadway musicals on stage at the ;