Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 9, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press january 1987 pages 1322 entertainment my m m foxhole ordeal Charlie Sheen gets taste of grunts life in platoon Sheen exorcised demons by Roderick Mann entertainment news service it was Charlie Sheens second visit to the Philippines and he Felt he was prepared for hed been there As a 10yearold when his Martin was making apocalypse now and hed enjoyed it in a helping to do the makeup for the running seeing the so Yuul what to expect before the 21yearold set off to make Oliver stones movie but it was not quite the three Days after we we were taken out into the country allow us and made to dig Sheen and that where we lived and slept for the next two id expected a there was this was a cram course in an infantryman and it was thus were some 30 of the Pla Toon actors Given a taste of life As the grunts knew How Well this Brief indoctrination worked can be seen in stones autobiographical look at the Vietnam War a movie in which Sheen plays a character modelled on former infantryman Stone eyeball scene Cut and just As his father did the narration for apocalypse so Sheen does the commentary for it is a violent but Accord ing to some of the More violent scenes were removed be fore the final there was one he where i look Down in the mud and see a human that was i guess they Felt audiences might Start walking out at that Point if they left it before leaving for the Philip Sheen took a look at stones highly praised movie Salvador and said he was blown away by since it was shot like news foot age and we were going to use the same Bob Richard on realized right at the Start How graphic our movie was going to he he found playing the role of Chris a rewarding i i was playing want i id do a certain scene and then look Over at him and sense that he was right Back there in the it must have so Tough for him i think for him the film helped exorcise certain demons about Sheen first auditioned for the role Back in 1983 when he was just Chris Pedersen and Francesco Quinn from left were made to dig at the Oliver want interested in me at he Felt i was Gawky and so he offered the role to Emilio Sheens actor director who is three years then financing fell through and by the time the project got restarted i had a couple of films the boy next door under my so this time i got and i knew it was the Chance of a not Only was it a great but it gave me the Chance to work with some one id always i thought it would be Cool to play the Man on the screen and be directed by him at the same on Beer limit Sheen had exactly one week be tween finishing the Wrath and starting it proved to be an anxious few someone from wraith called Oliver and said some not so kind things about he Oliver was urged not to hire it was suggested that i drank while i which just int for a it looked really and As a result Oliver made me agree to have Only one Beer a Day while we were in the but by the end of the fourth he was so pleased with my work he was buy ing me drinks at the that Sheen Felt reasonably at Home on the platoon set was probably to be As a his father took him on All his movie sometimes he even landed a tiny part in his fathers films the wedding scene of tvs the execution of private for if platoon had been my in not sure i could have handled he but Ive worked on 10 Small a few Good they me gain and Ive done a lot of work with my with Ive shot lots of sometimes using sometimes using friends like Chris and Sean Penn and Rob and Chad peo ple i grew up in going to use some of the footage for the reel in putting together to prove i can direct a feature one he wonders now if hell Ever again get anything As Good As but meantime Hes Pil ing up he just finished a comedy in three for the he can be seen soon in a Cameo role in which brother Estevez directed and stars and he has now begun work on no mans in which he plays a car thief who specializes in i just bought a porsche Carrera to do some re he said with a do you think the irs will buy that took up smoking but he said he finds it hard to get platoon out of his it was an he one Hundred and fifteen degrees by in the we were always but if they haunt put us through that initial i dont think the film have been half As it was on that movie that he started id never he but Oliver wanted me to smoke in the he so i and now i find it hard to i guess you pay a Price for los Angeles times Syndicate backstage Canadian Legal eagles series flies right heres a series about three Spunky Young a Loutish office in the big cites hippest and a floating collection of colourful clients whose Dilem Mas often play second fiddle to intr office it aint Law fooled but it aint chopped from the Bluesy Intro to the part ing Aerial shots of the glorious at Street Legal is a understated and so far engaging Little series airing on Csc tuesdays at 9 Sonja Eric Peterson and David Johnson Are the occupying a Queen Street West of fice located one level above the weird and wonderful life of the downtown pavement and one below the stomping feet of a russian Folk on air Doreen Martens dance Smits plays Carrie a hard working criminal lawyer with a Strong moral a feel for relationships and a vulnerable Johnson is Chuck tchobanian blow dry and Hes the archetypal yup whose Bril Liance lies in his ability to spot the details everybody else and to turn them to the Downto Earth partner is Petersons Leon Rabinovitch me politically aware and blessed with a sense of the cast also includes Mark Saunders As the eager Arti cling student stuck with the Library Tanja Jacobs As the Ever patient office and Maria Ricossa As chucks last tuesdays opener saw our three heroes struggling to keep their partnership together after carries a Chubby leaves the taking with him their Best wrangling courtroom wrangling continues As they take on an intriguing selection of Chuck performs a minor Miracle for a millionaire pornography who in turn offers him a Quick ticket to a Plush Carrie tries to get a smirking Junior criminal to smarten up and Stop taking the rap for somebody Leon successfully defends an eccentric Street Corner propagandist on the basis of the charter of taking As his fee the mans remain ing Stock of White supremacist literature which he one piece at a chuckling All the somewhere in theres time to look for a new Cook and eat dinner Smooch and Parry with and worry about whether the Friendship will it of but in the meantime weve been reminded that the simple personal lives of to Law yers which in the past consisted of Perry masons cheerful banter with his and variations thereof have become More complicated in the the client May be but Hes not if All this Points up some Strong and doubtless coincidental resemblances to the critically approved Law its not an entirely unflattering comparison for either in recent abcs Suc Cess with Well written continuing dramas like Steven Bochco Origi Nal Hill Street has High lighted the loyalty that can develop Between an audience and characters that change and grow inside a dramatic if Street legals writers can weave some of that magic into a show about Toronto Legal have done something rather new for Canadian and something rather actors on Way up pay Price Montre Alef Robert in town to play the Lead in Prairie theatre exchanges production of sched Ules opening says the atre is All Kenwood arrived in town a Day Early to pose for the plays publicity poster sit in this chair while we douse you with a he was not one to shirk his thespian Kenwood sat there in his dutifully going through eight shirts and blow drying his hair Between in their wis the publicity people decided to use one of the few pics taken be fore the water started moaned a sopping Kenwood three years of training and they make me sit around in soggy under Only to use a dry shot Porteous returns Mark is Back with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet after Tak ing oneyear leave of absence to be the manager of performer services at expo 86 in who was company manager with the Rob when he moves into the newly created position of Assis Tant general As part of his expo Porteous managed performers ranging from Street entertainers to 400 italian opera sing ers to the 350member Moron Taber Nacle the key to Success persistence and says who admits its a Relief to be theatre in darkness dont bother renting a Tux or Shin ing up the costume jewelry just for Manitoba theatre Centre next even if you show up in Blue jeans the place will be dark when you get seems its the theatres an Nual week of matinee performances for the school so the evening performances Are last the kids were treated to this its this is part of our mandate to provide theatre for Young Audi explains Mac spokesman Syd Tennis match rumours rumours continue to Bounce around like Tennis balls that promoter Bruce Rathbone of Nite out entertainment May have something up his deflecting questions about a Possi ble big name Tennis match being planned for Rathbone theres really nothing to talk about at this he also says to Call Back at the end of the it want a yes or a but it could be considered a definite Eckhardt writes Book former Winnipeg Art gallery director Ferdinand is keeping Busy these Days writing his Eckhardt published a biography of his late com Poser Sophi Carmen Eckhardt in that music from carried tantalizing titbits such As the suggestion that Leo Tolstoi was in fact Eckhardt Gramatte real and it appears the new Book wont be a letdown since Eckhardt has dropped the hint that his own life is also scandalous in some 1987 acadians collectors edition special shipment 28 Only 8460 19tf Century estate Wagon demo most options 1986 Lesa re 2 g demo fully 1986 regal Ltd demo fully 1986 Century lib 4 Sedan demo most Tiona grand am 4 demo air 1986 loaded off just across 2110 Mcphillips from the Garden City shopping ;