Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 14, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba Entertainment Winnipeg free press january Page 18 Chuck features editor Buffet basks in Success second Book and 17th album keep Lidback writer in limelight by Richard Harrington the Washington Post Washington if the nuns at school saw me signing like they hit me on the Knuckles with a says Jimmy scribbling his name in Little More than a on the other the Sisters at Ignatius in Spring probably never expected Jimmy Buffett to be at a Bookstore signing 900 copies of his new Book of Short tales from mar in less than two a successful Singer songwriter since when Margar Taville plunked him into americas pop Buffett is now a successful author As bestseller list since its publication this tales has sold More than copies and landed him on the new York times bestseller that Good news for whose albums have been absent from the charts for much of the but its not surprising to his fervent known As Parrot Heads and Given to dressing up in Garish hawaiian rubber beaks and inflatable shark this particular the fans Are still fervent Hus band asked me three times if i was a Jimmy Buffett fan before he asked me to marry says but having come from jobs or there conservatively dressed As they Snake through the Bookstore in a quiet Conga carrying As Many As six books for Buffett to believe when they go to the there not wearing those he if the carnival must wait until next summer buffets shows at the Merriweather Post Pavilion near Here Are always sold whether he has a new record out or not the fans have the double treat of a new off to see the Lizard Buffett has a pen chant for and the which expands the locales and fleshes out the characters of his 17 previous this is not buffets first last year har court Brace published the Jolly a childrens Book writ ten in collaboration with his 10 year old daughter Savannah and a followup called the Trou ble dolls will be published next tales is part of a natural progression for who was praised Early for the narrative Quality of his which were closer to imaginative prose than to lyrical eventually he would also wed tropical languor with country fun Kiness into what some called the key West or Gulfan West with his unbaked smile and genial Buffett was the goo time troubadour who Chroni cled misadventures in taking listeners someplace they rather his turn As author come As too much of a Surprise to the folks at the University of Southern where Buffett earned degrees in history and journalism in the late i started out thinking about la times musician author buffets career continues to Bloom despite 80s absence from writing before i thought about he journalism was the Only curriculum that was any fun to study when i went to now kids can major in aviation or but in so ancient those electives were not around when i went to col they let me take music because i want a music Buffett i was singing at a pizza place in the afternoons and but they were so they even let me audit the music with intriguing after College and a unprofitable Stopover in he ended up in new Orleans and he is where his skills of observation were my age of innocence ended when i moved into the French he i came from a very Catholic and i had been pretty when i got to new i can remember the the smells and the kinds of people id never seen in the Little town where i grew 7 let my mind go where my feet yet carry this is All recounted in a enveloping Alabama but May have become the poet laureate of nucleated Beach but Hes never abandoned the spirit of his Gulf coast born Christmas Day in Pasca he grew up in and around his James Delaney immortalized in his son of a son of a had been a South seas ships Captain and inculcated Buffett with wonderful descriptions of Distant As Buffett i let my mind go where my feet yet carry if the settings for future songs were slowly so too was the sense of detail that would allow Buffett to populate those songs new Orleans and an incredible melting pot of Musi Cal but As far As taking it anywhere in the Early you had to face the facts and realize youd have to go to new los Angeles or i had an offer to go to but i Only had enough Gas Money to go to once Buffett never moved out of the though he did record a couple of albums for the Long defunct Barnaby Down to Earth 342 copies sold and High Cumberland a number of fans brought some still in for Buffett to autograph on his Stop Here re though he Doest even in clude them in his official Disogra there real Buffett says Buffett discovered key West in accidentally a booking at a Miami club fell and too broke to go Back to Buffett Hung out on the key with another renegade Singersen writ Jerry Jeff it was love at first Over the Buffett has celebrated key West and its characters rooted in that regions both physical and after this was a place where every one is just More than contented to be living and dying in three Quad Ter it was a Seaward Community of real life smugglers and would be Busy Barkeep and restless Salt bred carousels and curious tourists outlaws and expatriates right out of film i was looking for that kind of Buffett that movie and when i first went to key there were a lot More of us participants than there were of them now theres More people looking at the Way we live than living the Way we used to and that it was a genuine wild and now they come looking for the places we used to hang which we go to while radio Success has eluded him in the like the grateful Buffett remains one of the More consistent tickets on the sum me concert Selling out around the Buffett still plans to finish a novel called the Black bean sex he Calls it As a minor american novel with a few major family offers terrific dramatic comedy after what has been one of the worst Holiday film seasons in recent there is now joyous Cinema 3 has brought the unheralded but utterly delightful Queen of hearts to its a terrific dra Matic comedy about if the title is director Jon amiels name May ring a Bell with those Lucky enough to have seen the abcs the singing Detec Tive last Amiel certainly imbues Queen of hearts with the Majestic opening to this delightfully Quirky drama of love and destiny is operatic in wonderfully this opening is played with almost no dialogue As we watch two Young lovers in Italy fight against an arranged the two escape to England where they begin a new life with four children and where the Story really the struggles of this close knit italian family in Britain Are seen through the eyes of 10yearold Eddie Ian or at least we see events As he remembers them so the imagination of a child plays heavily on the unfolding prophecy and a feeling that All will turn out for the better per Vade this charming Romp through fantasy and eddies memories Are so misty its impossible to determine the time period in which the Story takes while the specifics might not be important to the images and feelings of his life Back then certainly eddies father Danilo Joseph Long movies Paul Mckie is no longer that Young Lover from the old country but the father of four children and the owner of a Small his oldest son Bruno Jimmy Lam Bert thinks Hes a weak but his wife Rosa Anita Zagaria says he is Strong enough for Danilos strength becomes a crucial Factor in the family conflicts arise when the Man Rosa was supposed to marry 20 years Barb riccia Vittorio arrives in England to seek his the seeming tragedy of the unfolding is always co Vered with a sense of even when things Are at their eddies Youthful naivete carries the Odd cinematheque continues its Salute to animation this week with a tribute to animator Marv Newland who made the hilarious Bambi meets also on display will be Lupo the dog brain and therell also be two Hollywood Clas King size Canary and goofy Goat the show continues each night at and until at 100 Arthur Odd the Winnipeg film group and the Manitoba society of inde pendent animators Are sponsoring a workshop on animation that begins 31 and runs into a resume and examples of your work Are necessary with a fee to get into the where youll turn out an animated Contact the mfg for Abc to compete with world series the Baltimore Sun los Angeles Alan Alda wont be on Abc next fall in a regular series As but Jane who want expected to return to series so will a primetime version of dark the gothic these were some of the announce ments made by Brandon president of Abc Tartikoff also announced that Abc will counter program baseballs league playoffs and world series next fall with Fourt six hours of made fort movie versions of Jackie Collins and Danielle steel which the network recently obtained rights Abc lost the rights last year to major league baseball in a bidding War with Tartikoff said this is 1 abcs were not taking it lying no ones Ever seriously counter programmed the world be but we when asked if he would watch movies based on Collins Lucky and or watch the world Tartikoff i have a Tartikoff also announced that fall from a made fort movie based on the Jim and Tammy Bakker television is going into and two mini series one about Jacqueline Ken Nedy Onassis and the other based on the the oldest living Confederate widow tells All bestseller will be filmed for next season on Tartikoff explained the loss of a regular series stalling Alan Alda next fall As being the result of a decision by Alda not to return to weekly the plan for the series was Alda starring As a mid dle aged Man facing midlife in other developments at the Ann Jillian show has been pulled from the schedule and is going in for a major overhaul with new my two dads will return sunday evenings starting Abc will also reprise a programming tactic from last years february sweeps when it stacks the Cosby the Golden dear John and empty nest All on one night 12 under the Banner night of laughs addressing the issues of trends and the television season As a Tartikoff said the advertising Community is still very sensitive to because the viewers showed they Are sensitive to fallen hero portrayed in Sterling production by Rod Curtie Toronto up eccentric Alan Turing was a mathematical Genius who broke nazi Germany unbreakable Enigma saving countless lives and shortening the second world he was a National but in 1951 he broke another foolishly and unnecessarily admit Ting to a homosexual relationship at a time when such acts were illegal in he was a National his sins outweighed his Genius in the Public Eye As a National Security he was hence Forth treated More like a spy than a the Story is Grippin Gly told in breaking the the Hugh White More play that won High Praise London West end and on Broad Way and opened this week As a Canadian stage company product Ion at the Lawrence running through the production brings together the remarkable talents of actor Tom Wood and director Bobed Monton natives who created the sensationally successful the a Madcap comedy widely produced through North America and now scheduled to be made into a who last season performed at the Shaw carries the incredible Burden of the on stage for virtually the exhausting three hour run As Hes ably supported by the elegant Elizabeth Shepherd As his rather naive and by Donald Davis As the droll Dilwyn Turing Superior at the to secret Bletchley Park it was Here that a Cam Bridge fellow and so called father of the modern cracked the code used by the German air Force and submarines trying to starve Britain into submission by cutting off shipping from North dressed throughout in a ragged sweater and an incredibly baggy Tweed makes no attempt to change his appearance or age As he switches from Schoolboy to Blos soming Young Genius and then lapses into oddball Middle it is a virtuoso performance As often sweat ing dominates the stage from beginning to struggling against a painfully debilitating stammer As he moves through the various stages of Turing troubled As in real the play focuses much More on the unfortunate tur Ings breaking of the moral code than on his incredible accomplish ments in laying out the theory of digital computing and winning High recognition in the United states and for All his Genius he was a very silly picking up Young men in taking them Home for sexual encounters and then foolishly re porting to police when one of them robbed him of a few one coverup lie followed another until Turing blurted out the truth about his Homo sex leading to a humiliating he died in aged sesame Street Veteran Galloway Dies at age 41 from the news services new York Northern Cal a Broadway actor and 16 year Veteran of the sesame Street childrens television has died at age Calloway played the proprietor of hoopers from 1973 until last when he retired for medical sesame Street viewers were told David was moving to Calloway died at Stony Lodge hos a private psychiatric Hospital in Louis a Deputy Westchester county medical said the cause of death was undetermined As of soupy Celebration Minneapolis Robin Host of lifestyles of the Rich and was on hand and there was a Small crowd of Well known singers and an olympic ath so what was the big event it was a Celebration of Campbell soups 20 billionth can of Tomato the company said the twin cities of Minneapolis and Paul were perfect for the Observance be cause the metropolitan area has one of the highest per capita rates of Tomato soup consumption in the United Hall to Honor King los Angeles Arsenio Hall show bits will present a special program in Honor of Martin Luther King to celebrate the slain civil rights Lead ers joining comedian Hall on his syndicated talk show tomorrow night will be the grammy nominated gos Pel group the Christian Singer Amy Grant and 1960s Folk Singer performing his tribute Martin and music producer Quincy Jones will conduct a childrens choir led by 12yearold Tevan con Job upsets Rivers new York a con Man who says Hes borrowing jewelry for Joan Rivers has made off with thou Sands of dollars Worth of Dise from at least two Manhattan the syndicated talk show 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