The Hamilton Spectator from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada • 11

I THE SPECTATOR TUESDAYfM AY 3 1988 Bl aaM MMB maMHKMaHBMMMMMMMNMMMMMMMHHMMKMHMM TUESDAY MAY 31988 LIE ENTERTAINMENT SECTION MlllfiiraMi i ifflM EffiRH now 1 Ea2SS 1 1 V7 BEhJhjB Daikon fund may shutout Canadians WASHINGTON Canadian women who became sterile after using the Daikon shield could get nothing un der a US plan to compensate those injured by the intrauterine contra ceptive says a Vancouver group Daikon Shield Action Canada said yesterday the $24 billion US com pensation plan not only is indade quate but gives claimants from Canada and other countries fewer rights than American women who were injured or became sterile after using the birth control device Unless the manufacturer A Robins Co of Richmond Va comes up with another plan up to 4600 Canadian women who filed claims against the company may get little or no money said the group from Canada and other countries have not been treated in the same fashion as Amer ican claimants and we face an addi tional risk that we will never receive financial Laura Jones the executive director told a Washington news conference where she joined US Daikon vic organizations in urging reject ion of the compensation plan More than 300000 women who used the Daikon shield have filed claim in Richmond court blaming the IUD for pelvic inflamatory dis ease scarring of reproductive organs hysterectomies and infertili ty At least 20 deaths have been linked to the nickel sized plastic de vice sold by Robins in the early 1970s Robins filed for bankruptcy in 1985 and has now proposed a reorga nization plan to create the $24 billion trust fund to compensate the injured Copies of the reorganization plan and requests to vote on it by July 11' were mailed last week to the 300000 Daikon shield claimants in 101 coun tries including the 4600 in Canada To go into effect the plan must be approved by at least two thirds of re spondents The Canadian Press TODAY Reunited NEW YORK A'xer a 30 year rift entertainers Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis will appear on the same stage later this month for a benefit performance Martin who recently recov ered from a kidney operation and Lewis will perform at the sold out May 1 4 riars Club event for Barbara char ities Speakers will include rank Sinatra and Sammy Davis two other members of the Rat Pack Also to appear are Lucille Ball Angie Dickinson Sophia Loren Dinah Shore Don Rickels Dionne Warwick and Gregory I Peck amily feud NEW YORK Latoya Jackson has left the Jackson family home in Encino Calif to strike out on her own causing a rift between her father and her new manager a report says Jackson 31 is Staying in an $11 00 a day suite at tne Wal dorf Astoria Hotel while she looks for a New York apartment make they take her father Joe said of Jack manager Jack Gordon Gordon is a mooch said the senior Jackson who man aged his singing ca reer until two months ago Laytoya says she was unhappy with her man agerial style Michael Jackson sometimes discards his leather jackets in favor of shirts split to the waist R'Hh i fcl SBkT 1 la' 1 The ties that bind The ar Side By Gary Larson The untold ending of DB Cooper INSIDE ANN LANDERS INQUIRY LINE PARENTING TVTONIGHT B3 B4 B5 B7 Part Three qf a four part excerpt from Moonwalk by Michael Jackson Maynard said her daughters are very different from each other the younger one is a natural cuddler the elder is cooler Both like their moth er are writers One daughter writes a syndicated column from which Maynard says Continued on B8 Author unveils family secrets to examine truths that affect us all wish right before the sun tucked under the west ern horizon and disappeared It would seem as if the sun had taken my wish with it make it right before that last speck of light vanished And a wish is more than a wish a goal some thing your conscious and subconscious can teip make reality I had finished some songs of my own but I give them to Quincy until I saw what had come in from otter writers The first song I had was Something which I had written when we were doing Off The Wall but had never given to Quincy for that album Sometimes I have a song written that I really like and I just bring myself to present it While we were making Thriller I even held on Gloria Loring touchesevery musical base in a electrifying show at The Imperial Room says reviewer Gary Smith B7 NOW Editor Wayfte MacPhail 526 3264 By SUZANNE MORRISON The Spectator THE IERCE nearness that occurs between mothers and daughters can eventually ruin their relationship says Toronto author and broadcaster redelle Bruser Maynard While fathers need to find ways to be closer to their children moth ers need to avoid suffocating them RENO Nev Billy after opinions as a lead ing are protected by the US constitution in the view of a district judge whose opinion calls off the rock singer's defa mation trial Washoe Judge Charles McGee ruled that Joel did not slander or defame musician John Powers when he called him a in a 1982 interview with Playboy magazine Without mentioning him by name Joel called Powers and "poor little and said he would like break his legs with my own The 1 0 year legal battle be gan when Powers sued Joel claiming Joel's hit My Life was his Joel aqreed to settle in 1980 for $42500 US saying his law yers told him it would cost him more to fight Odd twins TOOTHY MUSCLED Arnold Schwarzenegger and crass di minutive Danny DeVito look much like siblings but what movies are all about and they intend to portray brothers in a film called Twins They like the idea so much that both actors and director Ivan Reitman have forgone the big salaries they can demand to make the movie at union scale but for a piece of the profits be too concerned the trio will lose money By working at scale they should be able to complete the film at under $15 million And if the movie is a hit they could accumulate more dol lars than they might have at their usual rates Hope Drive BURBANK Calif Hope will be springing eternal on a Bur bank street which will be re named in honor of comedian Bob Hope Burbank council voted this week to rename a portion of Cat alina Street as Bob Hope Drive in honor of the comedian who lives in the adjacent community of To luca Lake The city will also take it neighborliness a step further next month when it proclaims May 13 Bob Hope Day Spectator wire services Doors dose on Hyland once more THE HYLAND on King Street East has been closed due to poor ticket sales Manager Blair Hagar who re opened the old theatre in March as a discount cinema for second run mov ies said he decided to drop the cur tain on the Hyland last Tuesday after reviewing attendance figures for the last two months decided that in order to revive the theatre it would involve a lot of money a lot of marketing and a lot of time which I have the re sources to carry Hagar said This is the second time the Hyland has faced oblivion since it was aban doned last year by the Cineplex Odeon chain Jon Zemitis of the Broadway Cine ma took it over for first run art films late last year but closed it due to poor ticket sales and the lack of available films or the Hyland to have remained open Hagar said attendance would have to have been at least 40 per cent above what it was pulling in think probably a prob lem in attracting people into the downtown he said Hie demise leaves the Broadway Cinema on King William Street the only second run cinema in Hamilton es how the labels parents give chil dren dever pretty lead to painful sibling rivalry and confusion about their own worth as human beings and the complex dynamics of the alcoholic family Maynard and ter older sister Celia grew up on the Canadian prai ries with their fatter a Russian painter turned country merchant and their mother a homemaker who had the potential for greatness but never achieved it Because life circumstances thwarted her mother she chose Maynard as the diild who would achieve the success that was never hers In her home intelligence and scholarship counted more than anything else As a result Maynard early in life was assigned the role of the intelligent daughter Her older sister was the one (At 16 Maynard a Jewish intel lectual entered the University of Manitoba She met a handsome old er Anglo Saxon professor Max May nard when she was 20 When they married five years later she discov ered in the first year he was an alco holic with bottles hidden under mattresses and behind books) The separation between May nard and her sister as a result of be ing labelled smart and pretty is a Mothers should think early about letting their daughters go Maynard said cannot walk through the world with them important to let your children take some risks and have some Her mother never allowed that and Maynard following the example her mother set went on to never let her own daughters try challenges she decided Were beyond them encouraged them in things where I knew they would be success ful but I encourage them to ski or 1 In an interview before publica tion of her new book The Tree Of Life (Viking Canada $2295) May nard talked about her own family in a way that lets readers gain new insights into the ways families work Maynard now 65 is a broad caster and author of hundreds of articles about family relationships and child development Throughout her new book she dis cusses ter own well kept secrets from her driven passion for Maynard to succeed to her alcoholism Using her own life as the exam ple Maynard shows how daughters often mirror their own liv 1 THE Wall was released in August 1979 the same month I turned 21 and took con trol of my own affairs and it was definitely one of the major landmarks of my life It meant a great deal to me because its eventual success proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that a former could mature into a recording artist with contemporary appeal Looking back I can view the whole tapestry and see how Off The Wall prepared me for the work we would do on the album that became Thriller Quincy Jones Rod Temperton and many of the musicians who played on Off The Wall would help me realize a dream that I had had for a long time Off The Wall had sold almost six mil lion copies in this country but I wanted to make an album that would be even bigger Ever since I was a little boy I had dreamed of creating the big gest selling record of all time I believe in wishes and in a ability to make a wish come true I really do Whenever I saw a sunset I would quietly make my secret to Beat It for a long time before I played it for Quincy He kept telling me that we needed a great rock song for the album say on where is it? I know you got I like my songs but initially shy about playing them for people be cause afraid they like theifrand a painful experience He finally convinced me to let him hear what I had I brought out Beat It and played it for him and he went crazy I felt on top of the world When we were about to start work on Thriller I called Paul McCartney in London and this time I did say get together and write some Our collaboration produced Say Say Say and The Girl Is Mine Not My Lover was a title we almost used for Billie Jean because Quincy had some objections to calling the song Billie Jean my original title He felt people might immediately think of Billie Jean King the tennis player A lot of people have asked me about that song and the answer is very simple just a case of a girl who says that the father of her diild and pleading my innocence because kid is not my Continued on B8 'iim Ron Albertson The Spectator redelle Bruser Maynard: 'This is my ife I am personal hurt and a depriva she said father was a spirited non judgemental man My mother was a strong ambitious somewhat thwarted woman She needed some one to go out into the world for ter (She chose Maynard for that): So my sister became my enemy since I was a little boy I had dreamed of creating the biggest selling record of all Michael Thriller has sold 40 million copies a dream come true for the singer but because of deadline pressure from his record company it was almost lost Hr swl Jl I ben 1 VERAS i ROTTWEILER ARM TODAY INSIDE.