Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 30, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Gics All branches open 9 am6 pm 2 Winnipeg free press entertainment Section Motley c1 october 1995 today on television referendum coverage Csc and new sword will join forces for a simulcast that begins a half hour before the referendum polls close in can West glob Al on the other Hopes to wrap everything up with a 90minute even Muc Muste has an interesting approach to referendum Hajj a the can celled if not for this new comedy Cen tres on a bestselling author Jean smart and her Best Friend Mary a publisher and divorced Mother of a teenage in the a Mutual col lege Chism Faith Prince comes into their Mara Allson four part series concludes with tackling the Marsalis on prac Wynton Marsallo introduces his 12point strategy for mastering new or difficult gel list Yoyo a joins Marsallo in a Lively jazz and the two acclaimed musicians finish their set by performing a stimulating duet of Duke Ellington mood pcs today in music history in Bob Dylan communal roiling Thunder revue tour opened in a Surprise concert before 200 people in the which was on the Road until the Spring of eventually played Large one at fort was recorded for the album and to special hard among the huge revues entourage were such regu Lars As Joan Baez and rambling Jack the shifting guest list included poet Allen Joni Mitchell and Roger formerly of the born this Day Ruth 1896 1932 Claude 1937 Grace 1939 Henry 1945 Harry 1951 soundbite its gotten to this Point where women Are painted into a Corner to play women who Are intelligent and should be As if there should be some Agenda in roles you i what the ill play a stupid entertainment actress Uma Thurman talks about her role As an unenlightened character in the upcoming movie comedy the truth about cats it today lineup out and about halloween masquerade party fort Whyte 6 to 9 and Battle of the bands West end Cul Tural halloween Street stroll Osborne 7 antique show and Sale uni City to concerts music at noon pianist Jacqueline Eckhard Gramatte u of 1230 theatre Keely and do Mac 8 to nightspots longhorns Curtis hearts on Silverado Garden City wild Sliver Spike Saloon Princess Doc Sunstone Coffee Dave Hasselfield and Zines inf cafe Rick Bough comedy rumours comedy club Jeff Crispin hellion glovers big slide show Pyramid 8 movies Cinema 3 double followed by Burnt by the to thursday to Cinema main the True Story of unto to 10 cinematheque a great Day in and and comin soon past forgetting Walker Colt Porter tribute confident Jodie Foster knows just what she wants top and with producer Peggy Rojeski on the set of Home for the strives to keep professional and personal lives by Brad Oswald entertainment reporter Hollywood you can Tell when someone has its presence in one person can inspire it in others and its imme unfortunately apparent when somebody has Jodie Foster oozes As she strides into a hotel room and seats herself before a Small group of reporters to discuss Home for the holi the big screen feature that Marks her second directorial theres no question that the two time Oscar win Ning actress knows exactly what Shes where Shes what she wanted from this project and that she fully believes she has i just love this says there i a sincerity and a vulnerability and a kind of fearlessness to this its just that we the actors and i kind of jumped in and bared their breasts for this figurative Baring sensitivities is accomplished by As Able a cast As any director could Hope to its widely reported that Fos in preparing to Tell this Story of fes Tiv season family put together an Aigist of actors she then proceeded to go out and sign every last per former on that fellow Oscar Winner Holly Hunter stars As Claudia a single Mother whose obligatory trip Home for thanksgiving dinner with her cheerily dysfunctional family is further complicated by the loss of her Job and the Rev elation that her precocious teenage daughter Claire Danes plans to toss away her virginity while moms away dining with the Anne Bancroft and Charles Durning play Claudias with Robert Downey portraying her proudly homosexual brother and Dylan Mcdermott playing the unusual Friend he brings along to the family Geraldine Chaplin plays Claires extremely eccentric and Cynthia Stevenson and Steve Guttenberg play the most sadly Normal of the extended Larson the free press was one of several Media outlets invited to los Angeles by Paramount pictures to interview Mem Bers of the films cast and the movie opens Friday across North Amer casting this was so much says the wish list was not like a Fame wish it was an acting wish one performer who absolutely want on the directors prospective cast list was Jodie Foster in she never for a moment considered giving herself an onscreen role in this i was Adamant about never wanting to act and direct says who worked both sides of the camera in her directorial debut Little Man at the you dont realize that youre doing yourself a because you get exactly what you then you print it and you walk but you have to get More than what you want sometimes you need to be sur Foster says her experience on Little Man Tate snowed her that the demands on actors and directors Are sufficiently different that its impossible to effectively do i wanted this movie to be passionate and spontaneous and just a Little More human and full of you do that and act at the same that Fosters remark lifelong career in film she has appeared in 32 movies during 32 years gives her an acute awareness of what the people in front of the camera Are she provides More compassion and More True understanding of the rhythm of your Day As an because she is says i Felt very protected by Jodie because of her knowledge of what we were All other cast members Are equally effusive in praising Fosters behind Helens this movie proves that Shes a film maker on top of being a great says she has a great which is what separates her from a lot of other whose acting career spans four decades and includes literally dozens of also describes his experience on Home for the holidays As she likes actors very he Shes a Bright she just Shes Wise beyond her its almost perhaps whats most amazing is that Foster has managed to achieve this level of reasoned perspective and Basic normality while grow ing up in the Hollywood pressure Cook or that has turned so Many Young stars into grownup addicts and consider this the woman who started out As the to commercial version of the Coppertone girl had appeared in a handful of television series by the time most kids enter Grade she made the jump to movies at age eight Napoleon and Samantha and tackled roles in such controversial films As Alice Doest live Here anymore and taxi Driver while in her Early and at the time when Many Young performers remember Danny Bonaduce How about Kristy Mcnichol Are hanging on for their Showbiz Foster walked away from it All to pursue a College degree an honors a in literature at upon she returned to the movie Industry and promptly won Best actress oscars for the accused and the silence of the and through All these various career stops and never went Hollywood when youre born in the As a Public you realize very quickly that you want to separate your professional life from your private says i just have never had any inter est in having my personal life become part of my professional for it each Side of life has sustained the and so the strategy has you i love this she i love my i cant think of any better Way to express its the perfect Artim just so Happy with my life and the Way it turned Liberty Street earns its Praise its an Odd twist on the old Good news the bad news about Liberty Street is that it int Melrose place or Beverly Hills and the Good news about Liberty is that it int Melrose place or Beverly Hills because of its subject matter and the audience its aimed the abcs Sopho More series about being Young and hip which kicked off its new season earlier this month will unavoidably be com pared to its pricier cousins from the simply trying to compete with shows like Melrose and 90210 is a mugs with seemingly unlimited production budgets and the incessant fawning of americas electronic entertainment Media machine behind these hol Lywood shows Are Able to create the con Stant impression that there must see even if As is True of Melrose in its dotage the actual onscreen product has descended to the level of merely Stu pid and As has been the Case for other Csc shows with comparably themed Ameri can counterparts Street North of Side Liberty Street has had to confront the Challenge of distinguishing itself As both Worth while viewing and uniquely its a question of convincing the to audience that a show with a much smaller less famous cast and less ambitious production values is equally Liberty streets characters Are a group of attractive Twenty somethings who live in a refurbished Industrial mixed Media Brad Oswald Worth an investment of valuable Couch Quality that a Tricky when you consider that Many viewers on this Side of the Border still consider the term Good Canadian series to be an Roxy in this Pursuit of audience Street Legal North of 60 has also fared Side to has with the Early episodes of its second Liberty Street which airs Mon Days at on cd ctr has shown that its ready to stand on its the series concerns itself with a group of attractive Twenty somethings who live in a refurbished Industrial Nick named the in a Toronto neighbor As was the Case with the producers previous it has taken some time for Liberty streets Busy cast of characters to define individual roles and but As she did with series creator Linda Schuyler has been both patient and perceptive in giving this new show its layers of Ridenti the new season started with single Mother Jan Beecher played by Kimberly Huie waking to discover that liven companion Mack has flown the music Biz hopeful Frank Pagnozzi Degrassi alumnus Pat Mastroianni being forced to use his talented hands on a plumbing mishap and earthy Optimist Annie Hamer Henriette Lyannas find ing herself with an intriguing proposal from illegal alien Stuart Ball Dean because the series is con fined to 30 minutes per week As opposed to the full hour most dramas the pacing of the two part season opener was despite its hurried Liberty Street still manages to give its Young characters enough room to move and allowing them to get better and prompting us to care about and that regardless of the thickness of your producers wallets or the fre Quency with which your cast members turn up on entertainment tonight is what making worthwhile television is All ;