Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 26, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press july 1987 pages 1118 two Winni Eggers continue their flight around the actress ally Sheedy shows signs of Balking at by Barbara Robson there is a stylish awning Over the arched and one tuesday at a closed sign behind the Glass of the Bannatyne Avenue second hand inside the Brick Les owner of highbrow books Waits for custom not no one is browsing among the tightly tidy shelves stacked with antiquarian and Good old Mundwiler flips the sign to open and recalls the time that he left it perpetually on that until somebody scrawled some times on the windows at highbrow one of More than a dozen secondhand Book stores in there Are As Many chess matches and conversations about culture As there Are daily Book the shop is As close As Winnipeg is Likely to get to 84 Charing Cross the London secondhand Bookstore which Lent its name to a recent business is slow but few Winni Eggers flock to a shop which stocks Only Good old hardcover Quality paper backs and literary journals at bar gain when i first started i was shocked to find that maybe half a dozen people were often responsible for 50 per cent of the months says who is also president of the Winnipeg association of secondhand books Ell the 12member group was formed three years about the time Mundwiler set up shop at another a yearn Dahal ago he moved into the Exchange District where now three secondhand bookstores Are within a stones throw of each others Are sprinkled throughout the City two Are just doors apart on Portage Avenue near Burton who has been in the business for 16 has his shop on Osborne across from the University of Wayne a former Saskatchewan Roughrider struggles to gain yardage in a Busi Ness that appeals to a Small crowd in this when he moved from Regina to Winnipeg several years he keenly Felt the prevailing attitude that Winnipeg had More culture and class than other Prairie Phil free press out to lunch when youre talking about bal or there says but when it comes to Good old Winni pegs Way out to it does it have stores that can compete with those in Regina and the Only people who Are Mak ing Money in this he Are the comic Book which Doest say much for the culture of that is the reason Why most secondhand Book to their must sell harlequin to rent videos or spin off into record sales to Shore up their Shaw says the Federal govern ment has estimated that Only one in every 10 adults regularly buys books and local dealers believe that Only three per cent of those 10 buy secondhand considering the great treasures to be found in the stores and Winni Eggers known Zeal for a it is a constant dealers Point out that the Price of new hardcover books has in creased dramatically this six years ago new novels sold for now they Are priced at or the Price of new University texts and hardcover books in the sciences and speciality Fields that Shaw stocks have reached Stellar and As anyone who buys a new Stock of summer Reading material now knows thick paperbacks dont come As a Rule of secondhand Les Mundwiler says the Outlook is gloomy for a society that Doest read used bocks gather dust few Winni Eggers shop for old hardcovers books sell for half their original cover although there Are Many a novel published six years ago will Likely sell for half what it would fetch new at Book fair where paperbacks Are the main Stockin owner Pauline says those in the worst after passing through several will sell for As Little As a at the other end of the the collectors items in other shops Are priced at or trading and recycling Are other pluses for frequent customers of secondhand the regulars will be at the door every says there was a girl who would come into the store twice a shed be in every morning and every eve on the Downside is the difficulty in finding any particular Book a customer May want to there is Seldom any precision to the arrangement of used books on at red River Book shop on King Street customers wander around cardboard boxes of books on the floor and some titles lie horizontal out of reach and almost out of sight on top for the Seri Ous Book part of the fun is the discovery of a Gem amidst the most dealers will keep files of requests for particular but few like to engage in Active fallout searches by contacting other Book dealers outside the boosts Price i Back off from the Active says some where the Book May be sitting on a shelf priced at but the Cost of finding it will double or triple the people tend to feel Ive found that Active searches Haven been entirely sat one location where and their customers have the Best Chance of finding1 that special title is the site of the annual two week childrens Hospital Book Dennis Boyko passes up childrens Hospital which this april offered More than books to people at the vital the now in its 27th is both a Blessing and a curse to the local Many of them shop at the fair which advertises itself As Canadas largest and this year raised More than for paediatric research and child health in the i spend an awful lot of Money at the Book says its an excellent place to find but its getting harder to buy books there now because the prices Are not As attractive to a boo dealer As they once Tough Competition Shaw blames the Sale for inhibit ing development of Good shops in the childrens Hospi Tal Book Sale is very Tough Competition for he it kills our business for a month the month of and a month but we cant put it its a Good charitable Dennis owner of red River Book says he used to shop at the annual but Hast i dont like going there because it Means competing with customers and it creates bad feel j it is another sort of Competition at the that most rankles the local they see out town booksellers Chee to jowl with the Winnipeg customers and believe that too Many Manitoba books Are leaving the prov we have people from Vancou from the from Eastern Canada who take their holidays to come and buy at the acknowledges Colleen chair Man of the Book we Welcome them As much As we Welcome everybody Mundwiler often laments the literacy crisis in the electronic were not talking about the viability of were talking about the viability of society because society is supposed to be based on informed i Dividu he if telephones and computer terminals have made by passing books a Way of life for most is he sitting in museum i dont believe he i suspect that the por Tabili the use Friendly aspects of books Are things that will ensure that they will be around for people who need them for a very Long quads hidden Depths illuminate movie roles by Michael Blowen Boston Globe when the newspapers photographer raised his camera to shoot Dennis the actor didst movie stars usually adopt the Peacock stance artificial grins and false poses while photographers immortalize their Public not shoot he while scratching his Darold growth of Beard and sitting slumped on a sofa in his Plaza hotel suite in i dont have to do i As Long As i dont have to dressed in a Green hawaiian print shirt and Gray Quaid seemed As guileless As the characters Hes a Warner publicist sat quietly in the confused kid As the confused kid in Peter Yates breaking Quaid evoked the sense of confusion present in every adolescent on his Way to growing As astronaut Gordon Gordo Cooper in Philip Kaufman the right Quaid conveys the daredevil aviator with a perfect dose of restless As the Pilot confronted with an alien being in Wolfgang Peter Sens enemy he Lent a certain seriousness to his charac ters growth from a Macho Guy to a sophisticated As Remy Mcswain in Jim Mcbrides the big which opens later this Quaid suggests the Grey line be tween Good and evil As a cop in contemporary new Quaid has also been in some bombs including i never promised you a Rose the night the lights went out in All night Long and miniature Pilot i like to play characters who who follow an said whose latest film is in an action adventure comedy in which he portrays tuck a test Pilot who miniaturized and injected into the body of a grocery clerk played by Martin Doest he Ever play someone who Doest Fly i guess Ive been typed a Little he while swinging his wingtip shoes on to the Coffee although a lot of the characters have the same occur there very the casting does reflect quads fascination with flying that began with the right i thought if i were going to play the role i better learn a Little bit about said before i knew it i was up in the air with Chuck Yeager and i eventually got my pilots i used to be afraid to now i love he smiled that smile that May be second Only to Jack Nicholson on the familiarity Quaid seems to feel very uncomfortable talking about him but he Doest mind talking about his older the actor who has played every thing from the naive Sailor on his Way to the Brig with Jack Nichol son in the last detail to the title role in the recent television weve almost killed each other a couple of times but we really love and respect one an he Hes just one of my favorite if the right Story comes along wed like to work together again they played Brothers in Walter Hills the Long but neither of us want to Force we played together in new York and As the Brothers in Sam Shepard True that was in the theater but it really worked out do people Ever confuse them Only my said Quaid with a Shes always Call ing me Quaid stubbed out his cigarette and opened a bottle of he moves with a certain Jelfas Durance but never threatens to boil Over into he seems other film professionals Are not Only but to speak of hell give you anything and any time you want said director Peter Yates who cast Quaid in breaking away and who just finished working with the actor in a thriller scheduled for Christmas Dennis has this characteristic of credibility that makes him said in a Tele phone interview from his new York he also works very Jim the director of breathless which starred Richard cast Quaid As the police officer in the big Plain Vanilla you want to suggest things in a rather than make them said in an interview a few weeks Dennis brings an affable sur face to a that also suggests something deeper something threaten id hate to think that in said that one of the worst things that can happen to an i like i dont want to play in All mainstream films or All offbeat i like to think i do the Quaid stared toward the win Dow that overlooked Central sometimes they dont want that from he some times they just want Plain Vanilla and in not interested in As an Quaid cites a love scene with costar Ellen Barkin the big they wanted to Cut that scene said who refused to specify who they were except to say that it didst involve director that was an important scene that helped develop the it is a love without that scene its Plain Vanilla old sometimes they just want the said they just want me to that not what i Quaid famous for smile recording album like writing novel for Pink Floyd alumnus by Steve Morse Boston Globe Roger Waters has become a master of the concept As a driving Force behind Brit ish super group Pink he helped Craft two of the most respected concept albums in Rock the chilling dark Side of the an account of spiritual has sold 15 Mil lion copies since its release in a later the about surviving in a dreaded world of Jackboot be came a Best seller in and was turned into a film starring live Aid founder Bob Waters left Pink Floyd three years but Hast stopped writing conceptual the Singer assist just issued his second Solo radio Columbia it is a satirical look at commercial Rock radio and a Subtle treatise on the use of High technology to not the the lyrics Are supported by dreamy Bluesy ballads and dram build ing Rock not unlike his Signa Ture work with Pink some critics especially in his Homeland of England have at tacked Waters for continuing to write musically Complex concept los in an age of super sleek hit the idea of saying the concept album is outdated is that like saying its out of Date to write a Waters if i want to make 40minute Long pieces with a then so be the idea that it could be in fashion one year and out of fashion the next is now grew up on the but credits a later love of classical music for helping steer him toward conceptual son writ Ive liked a number of things which appear in a lot of classical music when you Start off with a then it recurs through the symphony which is a half an hour or 40 minutes like on dark Side of the the first piece on it is a kind of a number of the musical motifs and ideas from later in the album Are expressed in that Waters was first trained As an architect in but gave that up didst like All the jargon and the to be part of the original Pink Floyd in the bands songwriter at that time was the celebrated Syd bar who later suffered an emotional breakdown and was re placed by guitarist David Waters and Gilmour assumed songwriting but it was Waters who steered the Floyd into conceptual realms with the meddle album in radio describes a Rock station fighting to keep from becoming another of the tightly formatted stations so prevalent using real life disc jockey Jim who used to work at Kmet in los the album has dialogues with phone callers Between some Are from such characters As the California Weir do and the Monkey and dog others Are More including several Calls from the Star of the who eventually discovers a Way of deactivating military computers so there can never be a nuclear the album ends on an upswing with the pretty the tide is turning after live a reference to famine Relief 15 Waters concept albums ;