Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 12, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba Free pm May idas Page 1 pops concert blend of familiar classics Fikert ailment by Karen Clavelle last flights Seagram pops conceit was a comfortable blend of Well known drawn from operatic selections from Verdi and Sibelius and Strauss comprised the first half of the while the remainder of the evening belonged to Richard Burton Cummings and none other than the great Root Bear Verdis grand March from the prayer movement from Sibelius and the Polo Visian dances from Borodin Prince Igor were the works Sung by the Winni Peg philharmonic the Boro which is More commonly recognized As stranger in opened and closed with an almost angelic the choir exercised Good dynamic control and held the interest of the audience of about throughout the this very obviously programmatic moved from these ductile beginning through Folk me Lodies to a slavic Short of Mark the grand March from Aida was just Short of the desired this piece demands lots of and in All fairness to musicians and chorus Seagram pops Winnipeg philharmonic Centennial concert May it must be said that the Energy was but balance was too frequently throughout this the chorus was the unequal toward the where More volume was required of the balance of sound improved and the result was much More Satis the choral part of the Sibelius selection was marred by poor Arti perhaps in a less familiar piece this could have been Over but dear land of Home has been beautifully and it is too bad that the words didst come through it redeemed the combination of voices Over shimmering strings simply mesmerized the the Surprise appearance of the great Root Bear delighted the Audi children All for at least the duration of the great Root Bear As the tuba player stole the show with an unexpected compositions by Richard Rodgers dominated the second half of the Wagner movie premiere help opera company from the news services North american premiere of a nine hour movie that was seven years in the will take place Here May 19 sponsored by the Canadian opera starring the late Richard Burton As composer Richard the cast also includes Vanessa red grave and three knights of the Brit ish theatre Laurence John Gielgud and the late Ralph Richardson their Only screen appearance the opera company arranged the viewing to promote its premiere production of die meistersinger at okeefe Centre May Stallone in Hospital Santa actor Sylvester Stallone was already on the ropes after going a couple of rounds with the flu when he took a few punches while filming Rocky in that landed him in a Hospital was bruised while filming the climactic fight scene for the film in the injury was compounded by the flu and Stallone was flown to los Angeles and admitted to Saint Johns Hospital in Santa Stallone was expected to leave Hospi Tal this show bits Heads Centre stage Toronto Edgar who for the last two years has been associated with the National arts Centre in has been appointed general manager of Centre stage a graduate in theatre adm Nistra he was for five years Gen eral manager of the waterfront the atre and new play Centre in Helen Hayes honoured new York actress Helen Hayes has been saluted for her life time achievement in the broadcast ing Industry by american women in radio and a National professional organization established 34 years the organization made Hayes an honorary member at its annual Irving Berlin turns 97 new York Irving who wrote god bless America and com posed such hits As theres no Busi Ness like show business and White turned 97 enl Rrt Ainor Murray finds it that poo Job i his rap reef to assume he is a song Sparks image woes by Dennis Hunt los Angeles times Hollywood Murray who sings the top five single one night in int Black some people think he sounding said in mock in Conversa head witty and often a lastingly sarcastic sounds like a shakespearean its not that i mind the compari but its so bizarre for anyone to think i sound in i sound so proper and Are these people deaf or what the reason for the confusion is Bangkok is a rap with head reciting lyrics to the accompaniment of a sizzling dance female who really sound perform the rap style i never tried to emulate that new York rap head pointed what i do is a quasi its a Honky not a Black i find it puzzling that so Many people have assumed in once head was probably sorry he is not this top Black agent in new York rang up my manager and said i could make a Fortune in America because of recalled who lives in he said i could d6 clubs and this and that and i could wind up making a that would have been real but my manager Are you aware that head is White the Guy a what if i had come to new York and not said anything about my color that Guy would really have been in for a dont expect an album of disco rap numbers from that hit single is not at All indicative of what i he what does head do in a Singer and a he its hard to describe what i sound like when i when i was younger Hes now people made dubious comparisons with cat i have a High sometimes i sound like Ste vie some people say i sound like Peter some of the songs i write Are others Are some Are ponderous and some Are there to i must say some Are pretty Damn Good basically a pop who has no american record con records for Virgin records in his biggest Market is where Hes a big dont ask me he i dont understand it makes absolutely no sense Why id be so popular the French have bizarre maybe that Why they like one night in Bangkok is one of the songs from an unusual written by lyricist Tim Rice and composers Benny Andersson and Bjorn both of the swedish pop group Rice is known for his work with com Poser Andrew Lloyd with whom he wrote the colossal hit musicals Jesus Christ superstar and Rice is marketing chess according to an unorthodox pattern established with his Webber Collar the cast album is recorded after the musical has been but chess exists Only As a two record set on super Star and Evita were also albums before they were according to chess wont be a theatrical production until Early next chess concerns a Battle Between an american and a soviet for a chess championship and a Hungar Ian hired after the composers saw one of his concerts in sings the role of the american with Tommy Kornberg As the soviet and Elaine Paige As beleaguered original head Sang on the original superstar but want in the Tim liked me but i dont think Andrew he but head does expects to be in the theatrical production of i want to do it but id Only do it if theres a Good script and its properly he backed by the London symphony orchestra and a huge head and the other principals on the album did a five Date european tour performing the chess it want anything he it was just to announce the release of the it was very we just stood there and it begged for direction and movement and what a frustrating experience that some May remember head As an in the Brilliant 1971 sunday bloody he played the Young Man who was involved with both Glenda Jackson and Peter its the Pinnacle of an largely undistinguished film acting Ca reer that began in 1965 in a Hayley Mills the family its the Only time Ive been directed properly by John Schle he Ive done 10 the last movie i did was pretty dont even ask me what it As a film head is in Semi Only an exceptionally Juicy he would change his mind i dont miss acting in i Haven had that Many Good experiences with if i i probably would like it an unschooled head has no formal training in acting he stumbled into both Ca Reers As a youngster doggedly in search of my parents locked off most areas of he the Only outlet left to me was the first i started with music writing playing later i got into in not a Brilliant musician or a Brilliant to there still great vehicles for that Why in still doing i Heads immediate problem is what to do for an encore to bang an artist follows a big hit single with something Simi but who working on a followup in the London is unwilling to do that with bang its really a Novelty an he its a hard act to i cant follow it with any thing like its not i do More stuff like i be Able to tolerate people saying to you changed direct Ion for commercial you sold i live with my self if that the instant International Fame resulting from Bangkok Hast gone to his Hes still the sensible i got Over All that crap about Fame years he i have no aspirations for stardom at my career has been up and i got used to being in the shadows most of the once in a while the Sun shines on like now with Marigold restaurant 718 of Bow St fat Only mothers Day chinese smorgasbord 750 Par Camran under 11 May 12th 11 to 3 for 4742401 new thoughts about defeat form basis of film the Winnipeg Art gallery presents the a cyers in concert Linda Horn inward piano Arthur violin May 13 members the Winnipeg Art gallery 300 memorial Uoti Levim los Angeles a when Masahiro Shinoda Learned on that Japan had lost the the 14yearolds first thought was How he could kill him it was a Clear Shinoda recalls after 40 i believe the and i cried a lot against the Blue i seriously considered suicide but when i went my Mother and my father and my brother were not thinking of killing so the idea left a member of a landowning family in Gifu near Shinoda went on to major in drama at Waseda after graduation in he was one of five chosen from applicants for assistant director at Shochiku since he has made two dozen with Nagisa he has become one of the most famous of japans new wave sinodia never forgot Vij for the past 40 years i have been thinking of the Day As a then i read a novel by you Aku about his own experiences at the end of the i was he was six years younger than i and to him the meeting with the americans was like going to an adventure eating Hershey having chewing seeing jeeps this was a new and exciting experience to Young peo to my age and the defeat was a to those who were it was an but int All life somewhere Between tragedy and adventure Shinodad rethinking of the immediate postwar experience resulted in the film Macarthur based on the Aku released in Japan in it has attracted three million though it was japans entry As language film in the Academy it want among the five and is Only beginning a the Story takes place on a Remote where the youngsters react with wonder and adults with to the Advent of the Shinoda saw no american movies during his his first postwar films were a Sonja Henie musical and 100 men and a girl with Deanna Durbin and Leopold he also was profoundly influenced by the films of William particularly the Best years of our Macarthur children has prompted Many japanese to reexamine their feel Ings and experiences since the wars Here is the most shocking thing that we Learned from the Shinoda until the end of the we were taught How to Macarthur brought own plan for philos the americans taught us How to that is a very Radical we always buy Seu t Trade Good books mags records tapes video red River Book shop 348 Cumberland 9439788 film director tackles wild Rock Osborne motor hotel ibo Osborne upstairs at the zoo All brunches include fruit fresh baked Corn bread with hot Maple Choice of entrees open k38 dinner menu on reservations Call 4 77 1i2s os608ne downstairs moan it my the medieval lady Hawke to the magical the goodies to a wild Cyndi super music Richard Don Ner proves he is a fun Raker who refuses to be Hes the Man who directed the first Superman epic and the first version of the in demand As a maker of big he turned around and filmed the Small scale inside during the past two Donner was occupied with a medieval Tasy about spellbound lovers who became a Hawk and a Wolf by and Steven Spielberg Romp about seven Young people in search of just to show he can swing with the he cranked out the video for the Carrot haired Rock Donner talked about his wider ranging projects in is office at the Burbank a spacious room whose Walls Are jammed with me mentors from movies a new yorker who graduated from off Broadway acting and episodic to directing wanted Fead or Kojak he is gregarious Man with a voice that pm amur and huge movie lady Hawke has been released to reviews that ranged from ecstatic to some reviewers complained the film was an Antiseptic View of the Middle it is not a period Donner research into the Medie Val period and found that it would be distasteful nobody i wanted to Tell a love Story about people in a Beautiful i purposely used warm colors to ate the effect of a Caravaggio paint Pretti fied world this want very movie like Krull or i wanted the levers to live in a f red the same with the i didst want a classical score in Stead i asked Andrew Powell to write Rock music with classical lady Hawke was filmed in Italy for about m million with a cast beaded by Matthew Rutger Hauer and Michelle Donner filmed genies in Oregon and Hollywood with unknown Steven Spielberg and 1 have known each other for mostly in said i always used to Tell i really enjoyed your films when j was a Donner is a few decades older than last Steve called me and said one of the ideas he had for a Long time has been put into a script by Chris Donner would i read it i read it that night and loved the movie seemed easy to and i said not knowing what i was getting the goodies concerns seven agers in a Northwest town who Gage in an adventure that takes them into a magical world dormers first problem was casting the seven the Oregon locations were fairly he the kids were wonderful they infused me with their but when we came Back to the studio and started filming the underground it became very at one Point there were four different including Steve to get the sequence done in time for the summer the Only saving Grace was the kids i never had kids of my and they became like my Fame even Dormer needed to get away from kids and shooting sched and he left for his House on Maui As soon As the goodies on my first Day a neighbor lady asked if i could take her to the Ponner i and it seemed to me she was taking an uncommon time to finish her when i got Back i found 10 people on my Doorstep As a Steven had sent All the their teachers and Cyndi pauper visited the goodies set and had so much fun she agreed to record a goodies Are Good Donner then agreed to direct her in the music it was a whole new world for he the first Day we did setups camera angles compared to 1516 for a feature i made two videos in three and it was one of the Best exhaustion Ive Ever ;