Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 5, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Saturday july entertainment documentary ruled a double by Brad Oswald country Singer Suzanne Gitzi has her career on solid ground with a shift in softer and unloving Gitzi likes her new image an earthquake that hit British Columbia last month May have shaken country Singer Suzanne Giatzis Humble Richmond but the country singers career has never been on More solid who is excited about the return to her native Manitoba to perform in Portage la Prairie left tomcat and with it the image of a jaded woman presented on cd like dressed in in its hard to believe that the new soft spoken Gitzi who giggles and jokes discussing every thing from separatism to Topography with profound appreciation is the same Singer who growled out lyrics to hits like runaround and Billy that want in much softer and says who maintains that the split from her manage ment company was they picked the songs i they handed them to its refreshing to be Able to select the songs i want to Giatzis new talk of the which is receiving tremendous sup port from radio stations across the will be included on her third the 1996 Vista rising Star nominee is currently writing and selecting songs for the forthcoming expected to be released in the with the numerous accolades the country music Aileen goos Singer has including the most recent country music award for Best female vocalist two years run songwriters Are clambering for their songs to be recorded by the next big As Many critics have deemed there great but it amazes me at what people think i would she when i hear a i have to believe that its something i would say to someone or something i would although Gitzi is still in the Early stages of Shes certain the new recording will be vastly different from her previous cd number she will be the real Suzanne Gitzi in More if More awards come of it great All the More Kriick Knacks for the admitted Cleana Holic to who confesses her passion for cleanliness to the Point of cleaning the hotel rooms she stays had to remove the rubber gloves she was sporting to clean her bathroom for this i guess it helps keep me she the most Likely Home for Giatzis awards Are at her mothers she loves Shell see one and could i have this one for a while says who maintains a Strong relationship with her family despite moving West in its her Way of thanking her parents for their support and Giatzis father was the drummer for a Dixieland jazz band in Switzerland before he came to As the Story Giatzis father met his future wife while in Winnipeg and was forced to stay in the City permanently because she spent All his Money and he get Gitzi laughs at the suggestion that its a country song waiting to be although Gitzi herself is consider ing a it wont be to As is the trend with Many Canadian coun try that where All the great song writers she and that great for but i cant see myself living anywhere other than a a a Singer Natalie Ponchon from fish or Branch is the grand prize Winner of the second annual country fest vocal Talent Ponchon took the stage last night with poverty Plains men setting the tone for Duane Paul Terri Clark and Neal in to reviews were handled like baseball this one would be ruled a grounds ule double the program involved is not the sort of out Heball Park slam that whips the crowd into a cheering but a fortuitous and moderately effective Way to Advance the baseball a National film Board documentary that premieres offers viewers a primer4evel overview of the history of women in its a combination of ical footage and reminiscent interviews and profiles of modern Day female Ball players that has As Many crackling moments and tire some lulls As a major league double directed and narrated by Otta abased filmmaker and Amateur softball player Lois the film borrows heavily from trademark style of pcs mainstay Ken Burns the civil siegels digging into whatever assorted archives House the pictorial history of women in baseball has paid off handsomely the collection of still images and Grainy Blackland White footage included in this film is both revealing and quirk ily the historical portions also include conversations with women who were part of that Early which provides an important link Between the Odd looking archival images and what modern Day viewers know As base Siegel also drops in on several lev Els of current competitive women from slow pitch to fastball to As played by the touring Al female col Orado Silver some of the interviews Are inter Esting like a look at the preparations and play of a japanese team in an International softball tournament played in and touching such As the memories of Mamie Peanut one of several women who played in the depression Era negro other comments like those of for Mer Jun Baller Bill spaceman whose aunt played pro Ball Are downright in the most Appeal ing but there Are also parts of this 82 minute film that take us Back to Well covered territory and stay far too Long without offering anything siegels treatment of the All Amer ican girls professional baseball league the circuit portrayed in the Geena Hanks feature a league of their own bogs the film Down like a lat afternoon rain baseball girls gives Only passing reference to the Issue of female ownership in baseball which is because the emphasis should be on the players but its Quick hit treat ment of Marge Schotts xenophobic Misbehaviour simply leaves one thinking that if it want going to be some cracking moments to review baseball girls win tonight 8 out of five explored to any useful it should have been omitted the film is aimed squarely at the Monsport minded sticking to very simple language and basically avoiding the stats and minutiae that set baseball apart from other if you in a baseball you might find this to be a rather pedestrian but perhaps the most unfortunate decision in making baseball girls is siegels Choice of herself As her delivery is halting and ultimately because its 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