The Hamilton Spectator from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada • 49

THE SPECTATOR WEDNESDAY MARCH 2 1988 E3 Music industry salutes its star fnool oo IhIoah f'inAO 4riHSSkl i By EricKohanik Other noteworthy highlights: Bffly Crystal: conic to host show from New York Around the dial: Hyland Cinema gets one more shot at life a a to The 31 year old Guelph native opened the Gorge Cinema a reperto ry theatre in EHora when he was 20 aind ran that theatre for seven years Blair Hagar the new manager said he experimented in the past with a discount theatre in ort Erie been wanting to put one into Hamilton for quite some by Broadway Jon Zemitis after he ran it for niife months as a venue for first run art films Zemitis said poor audience response and the lack of available first run films forced the closing Prior to that the Hyland had been operated by the giant Cineplex Odeon chain as a haven for mov ies Billy Crystal is back to host the 30th annual edition of the Grammy Awards at New York's Radio City Music Hall (8 pm Ch 4 9 13 35) Among the highlights on extensive entertainment agenda Michael Jackson delivering his first live TV performance since 1983 or those who missed telecast a few weeks ago TVOntario meanwhile pre sents a repeat telecast of the poignant Brothers By Choice (9 pm Ch 19) This movie version is a condensed rendering of the original six part series look at Ed McMahon and Dick Clark trotting out their latest col lection of Super Bloopers And New Practical Jokes (8 pm Ch 10) And PBS shines its light on the Metropolitan Opera's pro duction of The Tales Of Hoffmann (8 pm Ch 17 54) ABC moves wraps up this two part episode of Growing Pains in the new Wednesday night time slot (8 pm Ch 6 7 24) That's followed by continuing post Olympic parade of returning series: Head Of The Class (830 pm Ch 6 7 24) Hooperman (9 pm Ch 5 7 24) The Maxwell Story (930 pm Ch 5 7 24) and Dy nasty (10 pm Ch 6 7 24) He subsequently managed a six screen complex in Newmarket Hagar will serve as projectionist as well as manager of the Hyland and will employ an assistant and seven part timers He said he has no intention of reviving the traditional movie orientation will be targeted at the more popular he said The Nature Of Things (8 pm Ch 5) show cases Edge Of Ice a National ilm Board'production that takes a fascinating look at the sea ice off Baffin Island and how ice plays a significant role in the ecology of the Arctic HYLAND Cinema has been reprieved again The King Street East theatre re opens today as a discount theatre for second run commercial films Its inaugural attractions are Wall Street and Throw Momma rom The Train Separate admission for each film is $3 The Hyland was closed last fall And Sally ield delivers passionate performance as spirited widow struggling make ends meet in best bet on the movie watch: Places In The Heart (9 pm Ch 212) MUSIC GRABS the TV spotlight CPL offers another tonight as the US National Aca demy of Recording Arts and Sci ences prepares to salute its finest achievements once more Crystal hosts Jackson sings on 30th Grammys Awards named Myra Gantry also pops in once or twice a week on a paid basis to eat up all the leftovers And an agreeable gent keeps up a running commentary on things to the audi ence This is all in the first act which what with skulls on the mantel ce ramic ducks flying towards the blue sky and white clouds on the walls and author penchant for word games and linguistic turnS of phrase makes for an agreeably offbeat if occasionally hard to un derstand opening It hurt either that director Jonathan Miller in his first season as artistic di rector of the Old Vic has brought over a veteran cast of 14 from En gland including familiar faces from film and TV such as John Bird Peter Bayliss Graham Crowden Brenda Bruce and the prim popeyed char acter actress Ann Way What is a shame is a second act 4iat sees the home built Old Bailey become the setting for a trial that pokes fun at the British legal proce dure and language Ttough the lines are delivered with polish the act is a dull letdown compared with the first and helped at all by an incredib ly ugly Old Bailey set that dominates the stage One Way Pendulum is very defi nitely an acquired taste and will like ly be a happier experience for theatregoers familiar with the play the author and the absurdist tradi tion It continues at the Alex through April 9 Mondays through Saturdays at 8 pm with Wednesday and Satur day matinees at 2 pm Martin Sadler (left) and Peter Bayliss in One Way Pendulum By STEWART BROWN The Spectator TORONTO One Way Pendulum may very well get an enthusiastic re ception from British audiences when the screwball comedy opens at Old Vic Theatre in late April But the play will have an uphill battle attracting customers over the next six weeks at the Royal Alex andra Theatre judging from luke warm audience reaction at last opening A noticeable number of audience members left the theatre after the first act which was much better than a yawner of a second Certainly British writer play is unconventional though hardly the novelty today given the allied nonsensical line of several British television comedy shows such as Monty Python that it was in 1959 though does seem to create a bar rier with Canadian audiences One Way Pendulum exaggerates the eccentricities of the Groomkir bys a suburban British family whose members are wrapped up in individ ual fantasy worlds the better to es cape daily routine and convention The father for example is gung ho on law and is building a do it your self replica of Old Bailey in his living room Son Kirby is trying to teach 500 weighing machines to sing the Hallelujah Chorus Daughter Sylvia wishes her arms reached her knees like the apes in the zoo Aunt Mildred sits in a wheelchair and be moans the fact years earlier she caught the wrong train A lady One Way Pendulum is an acquired taste ti KTi Is A I MW? in 7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 Ent Tonight wood Squares Highway To Heaven Movie: Places In The Heart 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series of four one hour Na tional ilm Board dramas chronicling the experi ences of Metis people Daughters Of The Country begins on CBC TV tomorrow (8 pm ch 3510) one of those all too rare occasions when the NB and public TV network actually help each other deliver top quality Canadian pro gramming to the widest possible audience Daughters Of The Country won three Gemini Awards including best pay TV drama as a result of an earlier airing on the irst Choice channel It also has been honored at numerous international film and video festivals Norma Bailey who produced the four dramas and directed two of them has performed a minor miracle Hie series examines from a highly personal feminine perspective the legacy of injustices against the Metis Yet none of the films resorts to sermonizing The result is an eye open ing portrait of the world probably the most overlooked segment of Canadian society Bailey and historian Jennifer Brown decided on four periods of Metis history as the basis for the films: the first contact with white settlers the days of the Bay Company monopoly the De pression era and contemporary Metis life The stories were subsequently developed by Sharon Riis who wrote the script of Loyalties a fine 1986 film from Alberta The series begins tomorrow with Ikwe set in 1770 on the shores of Georgian Bay It tells the sto ry of a young Indian woman (Hazel King) whose marriage to a Scottish trader (Geraint Wyn Da vies) is part of an elaborate deal of furs for muskets Tragic Ikwe leaves her home and family behind to live with the Her adjustment to the white way of life is difficult and ultimately tragic But her Metis daughter survives having absorbed fragments of her drastically different ways of life Mistress Madeleine airing next Thursday is the story of a Metis woman (Mireille Deyglun) who lives with McKay (Neil Munro) an ambitious Bay Company official at a James Bay outpost nae a wee boss declares of Madeleine on a visit to the out post So McKay abandons his common law wife and their children to find himself a proper spouse Madeleine meanwhile goes to live with her own people free trading trappers who are preparing to back Louis RieL Places Not Our Own (March 17) reunites two of the lead actors of Loyalties Tantoo Cardinal and Dianne Debassige Again they play mother and' daughter respectively in this gently evoca tive Depression era story of squatters on the out skirts of a Manitoba town While her husband goes north to find work Rose (Cardinal) stays on near the town in the hopes of enrolling her daughter lora (Debassige) in school Government prejudice thwarts their dreams and shapes attitude toward the fu ture Thus the cycle of uprootedness and dispos session continues The Wake (March 31) is set in a northern Alberta town in 1985 about the tragic con junction of a romance between an articulate Metis woman (Victoria Snow) and a local Mountie (Ti mothy Webber) and an accident on a frozen lake Collectively the four Daughters Of The Coun try 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