Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 27, 1989, Winnipeg, Manitoba Entertainment Winnipeg free press february 1989 Page 14 Hometown audience puts pressure on King the last time David King was part of a Manitoba the atre Centre production he worked backstage As a lowly Dresser in something called hotel Para Twenty years the 37year old graduate of James Colle who now lives in has returned to his Hometown and Mac As the author and costar of the comedy life but King arrived Here to discover that his usual opening night nerves were nothing compared to the Jit ters that come with playing before audiences packed with old neighbors and school toned Down Ive been trying not to think about it because it makes me kind of said the second of the late bandleader Jimmy Kings five its a real enormous pressure because of who in the Here was where i did most of my so its really exit i suppose i have to prove myself All Over although i think in at a Point in my career where i dont feel i have to prove the presence of his Mother in the audience also prompted him to tone Down the amount of profanity in life which opened wednes Day night at the Mac the unexpurgated version has Al ready been a Box office hit in Van King is keeping her in mind As he writes new works because i dont want to offend King said with a King has lived on the West coast for 10 Vancouver has on stage Kevin Prokosh claimed King As its own and re Gards him As one of its leading in his first full length garage won the Vancouver theatre scenes award for Best new in life skills he joined comedic forces with Nicola Cavendish and walked off with an other Jessie in its Box office Success led to a successful revival the following Kings return to where he Hast performed in about 13 has released a flood of me Mories in while relating stories about his Early Days in the atre he stopped himself to mention when i hear myself talk i sound like such an in the late King literally walked in off the Street and joined actors this was before it became exclusively a childrens oriented and a month later he appeared in a minor role in its production of Archibald Macleish he subsequently became a Mem Ber of the Manitoba theatre work shop the previous incarnation of Prairie theatre Exchange and joined confidential an improvisational theatre he treated the boards with Many no familiar names in Winnipeg the 1975 confidential Exchange production of his play lowest fort Garry was directed by future pet executive producer Colin and featured actors David Harry Jay Brian Richardson and David King also made sojourns into Tele vision and he appeared As the Host of the Short lived Csc variety program the Eddie Devega show and wrote for gentlemen a 30minute film for which he won an the Canadian award that preceded the As his career began to take off in several King was faced with choosing Between work in the emerging Canadian film Industry and pursuing his love of after flirting with the idea of living in the United states and writing for he opted to concen trate on playwriting based in the the thriving Vancouver theatre right decision in King said he made the right decision due to the num Ber of opportunities in at the although currently Winnipeg boasts the More vibrant theatre people Are just not going to the atre said whose new the psycho opens in Vancouver this in the last few years its been Tough on All the theres so Many other things to do in Vancou which is also trying to set itself up As a film All the actors want to act in film because theres a lot More Money in it for if he has suffered any disappoint ment in returning to Winnipeg to do life its not being Able to perform it in front of his the popular musician who died in King returned to Winnipeg As the author and costar of an Mac life show bits n Orris digs debated in election from the news services the Valley a ruckus Over the Angui Ilan governments decision to let actor Chuck Morris build a beachfront mansion on the Caribbean Island is one of the Campaign issues in today parliamentary opposition parties accuse the governing Anguilla National Alliance of breaking its own policy of prohibit ing foreigners from owning More than hectares of residential prop erty on the 90squarekilometre is land inhabited by a frequent bought hectares on the islands West Side in 1985 and built a Holiday Griffin seeks profit los Angeles former talk show Host Merv Griffin is reported to be seeking million us for his 65hectare Mountaintop estate Over looking Beverly Griffin bought the property once owned by Princess a sister of the late Shah of for a reported million in october Accord ing to an account yesterday in the los Angeles jazz great dead at 78 Valley Roy one of the Century great innovators on the jazz died yesterday in new York state at the age of Eldridges passing in Valley Long came just three weeks after the death of his wife of 53 he just stopped eating and wanted to said a Friend of the actor wins millions los Angeles actor Timothy Button has won a award against Mem after a los Angeles Superior court jury found the studio engaged in fraud and breached its contract when it can celled plans for the 1983 Button had argued that Mem executives deceived him by telling him Tolje picture was being terminated because director Richard Brooks suffered a heart the actor contended that the which had recently undergone a change of had lost interest in the film and that Brooks had never agreed to direct jazzman gets Bammy san Francisco Bobby fresh from copping a fist Ful of topped off his week with a san Francisco answer to the National music Mcferrin was honoured saturday for Best jazz album of the year at the 12th annual Bay area music a Star studded affair Honor ing jazz and blues performers with regional Csc rejects Colin James video As too naughty James relatively tame Toronto up Treyve been musical bedfellows for More than 30 but sex and Rock n Roll can still Shock the video the networks weekday afternoon music has rejected a video by baby faced Regina Rocker Colin James As being too naughty for its Young the video for Why you lie shows the musician and his band singing in front of a scrim while a darkly it couple kiss and get into sexually suggestive positions behind Artsy video but sometimes the perspective is reversed and the couple who keep their underclothes on Are shown kissing passionately on the at at no time do they simulate sexual you can see very obviously what the couple Are said Pamela producer of video and we just feel its not the image were looking the show is seen by an average audience of about people Many of them preteens from monday to Friday at 5 across the full Csc so we have to be very careful what we Macfarlane a screening committee comprised of Singer Sylvia Tyson and several of the shows production team decides whether videos Are too steamy or violent for its it also rejects videos that glorify drugs and Alco in the video hits has banned sexy songs by such popular singers As George Michael and As Well As Raunchy material by the likes of Platinum blonde and Grace but the Artsy James video is relatively tame and no More risque than what children can see on afternoon soap says the rockers Man tasteful in the video is already being played on the National music and will have its first showing on the abcs own Friday evening Good Rockin tonight on March theres no flesh or heavy Metal humping going Steve Macklam of Homestead productions said in an interview from its All very the producers of the video made by acclaimed director Dominic Sena were surprised to learn Friday that it had been rejected by video i would never allow something to go out that i show to my own said Annemarie head of music videos at Hollywood propaganda and i certainly dont think kids Are seeing anything new in this Mackay said the production House knows the main audience for videos is Young teens and therefore steers away from sexually explicit con Reiner film restores Nice to big screen your satisfaction is our 1 priority Book your function today Norvilla motor hotel 1763 Henderson 3380334 chinese and american dining a cocktails by Nina Easton los angles times Hollywood what a Nice when the tape recorders Bat teries Carl shrugging off insists on leaving his lunch and walking the length of the hotel lobby to buy new funny As the hotels fire alarm he Calls out its Only in my head Reiner has gone Solo for the first time in 20 years to write a screen Bert youre a which he also the film is the Story of an English Coal Miner with some Talent for song and dance who tries to break into show and guess what but pure seen it All at age Reiner has seen it too much of it if truth be he has lost patience with the graphic violence he sees in movies Reiner is not kidding around when he proclaims himself a Man on a serious Mission to restore Nice to the big after i wrote Bert Reiner i wait a am i going to go up against people crashing through windows Why would anyone go see this when they can go see hardware then i realized that people can still be moved by i Hope it makes enough Money so the studios let people make these kinds of he Reiner was inspired by the Success of his son Rob Reiners stand by a Story of boyhood Friendship that received critical acclaim and a healthy showing at the Box Reiners recent including summer school and Steve Martin vehicles like dead men dont Wear plaid and the Man with two were but he wrote Bert Rigby alone during a monthlong stretch at his vacation Home in the South of the result was a screenplay writ ten specifically As a vehicle for Robert an actor Reiner had spotted on a Broadway stage As the Star of me and my Reiner got the idea for Rigby when he read an interview with aussie actor Paul Hogan of Croco Dile Dundee he said he had been a Blu Collar working on a and someone put him on an Amateur Reiner he but he was so charming and funny that they had him Back every hogans interview provided the starting All Reiner had to do was create a Story that would fit the background and personality of Lind an so Reiner created the Story of a British Coal Miner in a dying English Industrial town who sets out on the Amateur show but the character of Bert Rigby is less or than Vintage Reiner a nostalgic who Longs for a return to the Days when Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire danced on and looks genuinely puzzled when his friends mention modern Day artists like Michael nostalgia Bert Rigby also incorporates Reiners nostalgia for the Early Days of comedy a passion that was More fully expressed in his film the comic in which Dick Van Dyke portrayed a silent film comedian trying to Cope in the new age of Rigby resembles Reiner in other ways Rigby is a Man who re Lishes being the Centre of attention but whose dreams Are Rigby wants Only enough Success As an actor to be Able to reopen the towns just As Reiners Early ambition was to earn a week in to dream the possible Reiner dont dream the impossible dream there Are too Many chances 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