Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 16, 1989, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press october 1989 pages 1320 Chuck features editor up with people performers dismiss cult Globe theatre considered Cradle of English Tempo charities compete for stars by Jeannine Stein los Angeles times Hollywood it was a los Angeles party planners Nightmare Mickey Rob Patrick Swayze and other celebrities were confirmed to attend an exhibition for celebrity portrait photographer Harry Langdon at a Tony Beverly Hills although peo ple turned few celebs showed former Gilligan Island Castaway Tina onetime Prince prote gee Apollonia and actress Michelle the press was not Happy that the expected listers did not show the publicists had to soothe the ticked off press and the party didst Gen Erate As much coverage As was celebrity Factor youre just so on Edge about people showing says Kathleen Rogers of the Venema a publicist who has worked on other events with better she says that she was brought in two weeks before this event and had nothing to do with the guest its never and you dont know until the time comes who will show Hollywood has always been a town where who who always people want to be seen at parties where there Are big it is an undisputed fact of the competitive party scene that celebrities Are needed to pull in major Media coverage if its a sell the celebrity Factor has always been the says publicist Josh Baran of Josh Baran whose company has worked on projects for groups such As heal the a and the rain Forest theres so much Competition for Charity and so Many that often the Edge is the element of who Are they going to see it pulls whether we like it or i wish the Issue would pull i once had the most ludicrous situation 1 was working on a March for the and the Media wanted to know what celebs could i we got some but if i had had Martin Sheen or Bette Midler i would have gotten five times the Benefit wars Cathy who recently formed her own the Fischer there Are the Benefit and sometimes youll have a Case where there will be three major events the same and youll Call entertain ment tonight and say whether they cover it depends on who the celebrities or someone will that i believe in the but i cant Send you anyone because my Crew is out covering the Bob Hope its but its its Glitz and Glit the Public insatiable appetite for new stars keeps the Alist changing fast enough to give diligent celeb watchers grownup brat packers Judd Robert Dow Ney and Emilio Estevez were once super hot but now their status has current flavors of the month in clude Madonna better if she is with any current Best if she is with the flame and comedian Sandra Roseanne Cher and elusive celebs like Robert de Katherine Jack barbra Strei meryl Streep and Michael Jackson Are always in As is Elizabeth Star Power and look what a stint in court has done for Zsa Zsa Gabor the Media used to Yawn when her name was on a guest list now they cant wait to photograph any combination of those celebrities could pique the interest of entertainment tonight supervising producer Barry the shows former Field producer and Veteran of Many Hollywood we base covering a party on a couple of he we look at the guest see what kind of Star Power it a lot of times its the something we feel we want to cover because of the Charity or the uniqueness of the not everybody has to be an player for us to show up at a viewers like to see How people Are what there what kind of venues they go the More elusive a Star the bigger the draw and the harder it is to get him or her to show if ailment continues 17 by Tony Davis to out somewhere that big break youve been waiting the big break can creep up on you a Little at a or it can lunge suddenly at you from an unexpected some people never seem to be in the right place at the right and the big break avoids them but when it does Cross your it can reroute your life and improve your just ask Job radio morning Man John red his mellifluous voice has stirred sleepy Winni Eggers for 34 but says it was Only a Fluke he ended up in Back in the he was Strug gling to make a living on a Saskatchewan but there want enough Money room for both my dad and so i moved to Saska in he got a Job at a farm implement earn ing a too Little to live Western songs at someones who crooned Western tried to land a Job performing on a Saska Toon radio he asked a Man Ager at Cuc if he could use a timing was on alias the manager want really in recalls but hed been Given a directive from the Broad casting calling for More local Talent to be featured on the Alix auditioned on the but was Cut off after a few that will he recalls the manager we dont really care How Good you Are because were going to put you on at 6 colleagues liked alias speaking voice better than his and prompted him to try you i really wanted to be a i even be in the Vicinity of this career if it want for that Odd fifty years Catholic Broth ers who taught him at Boni faces Provencher school told Tony Tascona he was a Lousy now widely respected for his still Needles his former instructors for their re Marks when Ever he sees who believed in himself despite those cant pin Point an exact exhibition or painting that gave him his big but he credits Canadas Centen Nial in 1967 with contributing to his after two years and several relatively successful exhibitions in Tascona returned to Winnipeg and was commissioned to create two murals for the Centen Nial concert morning Man red says it was Only a Fluke he ended up in radio things took off after says who began painting seriously in the Early that year some of his works were selected for a National gallery of Canada and the Ontario Art gallery purchased i figured then i must be doing something he in he quit his Job As an airline electroplating because he was making three times As much Money Selling his Odd sky news Anchor Sylvia Kuzyk says she made her own big break at age when she applied for a re porting Job at the once an extremely shy Kuzyk took acting lessons and per formed onstage with actors show Case to help overcome her stage that was the Only experience in the Public Eye that a former had on her resume for she didst get the reporting but sky just happened to be looking for a female weather re says that was a daring move on the part of sky because it was to be the first female weather reporter in Manito recalls1 adding the Sta Tion was following a trend started in the i guess my timing was but 1 dont believe so much in to Tell you the i believe a person makes their own Breaks and if i haunt gotten on to a station i would have pushed somewhere Odd author and critic David says his break came much slower than he would have but it finally arrived in 1970 during a Boozy conversation in new where then was earning a pad in i met a Guy named John Moss and the two of us talked about Start ing a Canadian literary says who has since writ ten three collections of Short two books of poetry and several the two men scraped up each to mail out subscription notices for their journal of Canadian fic we got an amazing More than 400 that when 1 started the literary until then i had been an English teacher in places like Transcona and and i was preparing to be an Aca i haunt thought much about writing seriously before who says any kind of break is rare for an aspiring a began to consider writing himself As he edited the stories submitted to the i realized i could write As Well As those looking that what got me started As an Odd though he is reputed to be one of Canadas Cra Tiest criminal Law Hersh Welch didst plan on being a Legal i believe in More suited to i had a Commerce degree before i studied says who insists his dream is to manage the Winnipeg jets or a baseball but Welchs life was thrown a curve at he landed a Plum Job with the attorney generals of fice As a that had a profound effect on my it channelled me into doing criminal says i could have easily followed a different Odd As a High school Ron Cancilla dreamed he would some Day drive a porsche instead of his beat up Brown drives an 1989 porsche 944 s Cabriolet con and he owns Auto Haus fort Garry a Pembina High Way Dealership stocked with audis and Cancilla says his big break didst come until but in the he didst wait around for it to advertising when lie left High school in he sold advertising for a publishing company then joined motor sales As a shipper in Cancilla was offered a Job As a clerk in Volkswagen Cana Das new Winnipeg for 17 years he worked his Way up the from 1975 to 1981 Cancilla was a zone responsible for operations in Manito Saskatchewan and Northwest Ern then Cancilla was offered a Chance to buy into Auto the owners had no heirs and offered Cancilla 25 per cent of the i was in the right spot at the right he echoing a phrase often used by others inter it was a big Surprise to be offered part of Auto because it was Well run and doing Cancilla had to grapple with the there were Many scary moments deciding to it was the i had a secure Job with the Volkswagen and suddenly i was going to be out on my risking my own Cancilla now owns 75 per cent of Auto in glad i did its been hard work but Ive enjoyed every aspect of add if she haunt gambled and quit a Well paying Job in 1978 and hauled herself and two Young sons to Char Lesley Hughes might never had the big break that eventually led to her co hosting the popular morning edition of abcs information a University of Manitoba Grade Hughes was teaching writing at red River Community but i needed a change of Ca my brain had turned to a collection of cassette re Calls who became interested in a journalism career but her Only practical experience was her Short freelance editorial called aired occasionally on Csc Hughes heard about a new Csc station opening in she took a years unpaid leave of and moved East to work for the station for the next unbeknownst to her show reached the executive pro Ducer of a he decided he wanted me to Host his morning just like says it could have taken me years to get an Opportunity like she returned to Csc Winnipeg in the Early 80s and landed in the morning Slot in ;