The Hamilton Spectator from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada • 17

THE SPECTATOR TUESDAY OCTOBER 6 1987 Bl A guide to the week B2 I imi 1 1 I I Knote NOW altering Hyland Cinema closed By JOHN LEVESQUE The Spectator THE HYLAND Cinema Jon Zemi effort to expand his independent first run movie operations in Ham ilton shut down today after slightly more than nine months in operation Zemitis who also runs the Broad way Cinema attributed the dosing of the Hyland to poor audience re sponse and the lack of available first run films think I may have over esti mated the he admitted yesterday certainly wait into it under financed We had to regroup and cut our losses to keep the Broad way The problem of building up an audience for the Hyland which had the reputation of a movie house under its previous operator Gne plex Odeon was further hampered by the obstacles Zemitis faced trying to wrestle away quality first nm films from two major theatre chains Cineplex Odeon and amous Players was a pretty jading experi ence the hard reality of dealing with the big boys" Zemitis said their turf Maybe not meant to be cracked by an Zemitis said when he did manage to secure a first run film for the Hy land it was often after the two chains had considered and rejected it And because the film was usually made available to him on short no wr "far 1 rrn iH IIBH As for the possibility of moving the Broadwas repertory cinema operations into the Hyland: thought about it but I see a pos sibility of hanging onto the Hyland that lease cm the Hy uary YOKoyama special to i no opwutatui customers into the Hyland But shorter runs at the Broadway attendance wasnt strong or consis tent enough to justify continued oper ation not that the Hyland was jeopardizing the Broadway but the Rmadwav was carrvine the load for both Zemitis said Most of land expires at the end of the year the films Zemitis would have opened but the lease runs until at the Hyland will now open for next September Theatre operator Jon Zemitis: Insufficient audience response tice he was unable to do much advance promotion Among the strongest movies at the Hyland in terms of audience sup port were ranco OteHo with which Zemitis opened the theatre last Christmas as well as Betty Blue Edge and My life As A Dog The Broadway ilm estival held in June brought new Bus crash CHICOUTIMI Que Abus carrying an Arizona based orchestra Up With People to a performance here flipped over in the Laurentides provincial park yesterday injuring 1 5 peo ple None of the injuries were se rious said Const Gerard Bi lodeau a Quebec provincial police spokesman The accident occurred on a stretch of highway under repair Workers had recently laid a fresh layer of gravel in preparation for paving said Bilodeau As the bus came to an abrupt stop the weight of pas sengers shifting to one side toppled the bus into a ditch run ning along the highway Best films i TUESDAY OCT TOKYO The Chinese film Old Well won the best film award and the Canadian film House Keeping won the special jury prize at the 1987 Tokyo International ilm estival Sunday Directed by Wu Tianming Old Well is the story of difficulties in constructing a well It was chosen from among 135 films from 42 countries screened in the Sept 25 to Oct 4 compe tition No prize money was awarded House Keeping was directed by Bill orsyth who also re ceived the prize for best screen play The best actress award went to Rachel Ward of Australia for the Australian film The Good Wife Artsy Osmond Hees their man Waynb MacPhail 526 3264 A 1986 study by the National Advisory Council on Aging said more Canadian elderly are in insti tutions than in many other nations and pointed to regional disparities in access to community support services is coming out swinging as the first minister for seniors By JOHN LANDERS The Spectator OTTAWA George Hees insists more to his new job as the first federal minister for senior citi zens than crass politics The skeptics were out in full force when the 77 year old political warhorse stepped into the portfolio in an Aug 28 cabinet shuffle appointment was seen as a ploy by Prime Minister Brian Mul roney to shore up sagging political support among seniors given his dismal track record a citizen said Elsie German a researcher with the Hamilton Wentworth District Health Council as a citizen and researcher I endorse it see what this guy bit of cynicism hotter me in the says Hees a veteran Tory cabinet min ister Hees confirmed suspicions how ever that he likely get either a separate department or a budget for the seniors portfolio Instead he will have to act as an advocate urging colleagues such as Health Minister Jake Epp to find money for new programs He HOLLYWOOD Donny Osmond is in Europe working with Peter Gabriel on Osmond's first album in many years "In the past Donny's spent a ton of money on material he ended up not feeling good about and scrapped rather than com promising reports Don Kid brother Jimmy Jimmy acknowledges it has taken some time for Donny to his adult style and now a matter of waiting to see if be That style as will be in evi dence on the Virgin LP be real artsy nothing bubblegum says the 24 year old "baby" pf the Osmond clan Aquino story PLANS PROCEED for a David Puttnam film about the late hus band of Philippine President Co razon Aquino the Philippine patriot who was gunned down at the Manila International Airport in 1983 on his return from a self imposed exile to the United States Plans call for Roland Joffe to direct the Warner Brothers film Producer Thom Mount says still wrestling with the script but foresee current events interfering with the film regard less of how those events turn out Experts warn the problem is growing more urgent In 1980 95 per cent of the population was aged 65andover By the year 2031 over 25 per cent of the population or 75 rnil Uon Canadians will be over 65 A federal study last year estimated that 500000 Seniors or one in four live on or below the poverty line er recommended these things not just going to be sit ting back and saying well thank God Hees told The Spectator in an interview going to be keep ing a pretty close tab on done or not done which is what anybody would Hees insists that seniors them selves will set the priorities for gov ernment action and he rush into anything He said it took six months to come up with a battle plan in the Veterans Affairs De partment where been minister since 1984 my job is now is to learn from seniors and organiza tions what they think could and should be done to make life better for he said talked to some so far and got to talk to a great many more I want to really know what like to see happen The most foolish thing in the world that I could do would be to simply walk "No matter what happens in the Philippines whether Corazon Aquino stays in power or hot the story of Benigno Aquino is a stunning story a dramatic piece of Mount says Grounded DIANE KEATON was mustering her courage to jet to Los a Angeles for premiere of her United Artist film Baby i Boom However she go to Japan as planned for the screen ing of her Heaven picture at the Tokyo International ilm estival Keaton directed Heaven and says the offbeat picture was a la bor of love but only so far you can go with a fear of fly ing 3 and Diane's fear is acute The ar Side By Gary Larson in to my colleagues and give than my ideas today be doing that for some time forming my ideas as to what the seniors really want really quite a simple plan nothing up the Hees a quarter century ago hailed as the test of the Diefenbak er ministers has some fence mend ing to do among the 26 muuuu souurs ur aced with widespread protests from senior organizations across Canada the government backed down on a proposal to de index old age security pensions in 1985 The reversal came eightdays after Mulroney was confronted by a 63 year okl pensioner on Partia ment Hill who told him: lied to Seniors claim the government has been insensitive to their fears that Bill 22 the drug patent legis lation will increase drug prices They are also worried about tax reform proposals particularly one that wmili tar interest incotae from investments despite govern war vets ment claims that 225000 additional Canadians 65 and over will no long erpay any federal income tax fit said tod NDP seniors critic Neil Young with youth says the government track record isterrible Hees who walks three miles and swims a quarter mile a day to keep nt said woays society is uutemi segments of the economy have received more attoition than told Hees that unless there are seniors have I think probably be some financial expenditures cadse they really organized involved some secretariat he will the way other more militant be heading up then going to groups are got to ronem her pretty important peo Hees has hired Margery Boyce pie Theylve had tremendous former executive director of the experience They cast Council on Aging in Ottawa as his policy adviser and a group of experts in the health department will provide public service support Hees said his blueprint will likely centre on five major goals for the elderly the chance to uve indepen dently to stay out of institutions better housekeeping and grounds keeping improved home health care and better transportation fa cilities Hees says be has a head start be cause those are all hallmarks of the Veterans Improvement Plan his department established for the na Although their descendants firmly deny this Neanderthal mobsters are frequently linked with the anthropological treasures of Olduvai Gorge TOMORROW Annie Haff grows up I 4' George i 4 li i If SECTIONS Health workers escaping AIDS infection: study OTTAWA Canadian healthcare waters have so far escaped inf ection with the AIDS virus as a re sult of on the job accidents says a study co ordinated by the ederal Centre for AIDS No evidence of AIDS infection was found in any of the 120 nurses labo ratory technicians doctors and others who had accidents that exposed them to the blood or other body fluids of infected patients Many of the accidents were nee dlestick injuries that occurred when the people were drawing blood giv ing injections or inserting intrave nous lines Other accidents involved splashes of blood or body fluids in the eyes or on the skin including splashes on open wounds and scal pel injuries care workers need to be reassured that if they are practising proper infection control procedures as they should they have a lot to worry said Kimberly Eknslie of the AIDS centre ewer than a dozen infections with the AIDS virus through on the job accidents have been reported worldwide among healthcare work ers but not all of them are docu mented cases Elmslie said The Canadian study started two years ago and covered workers exposed to the bioodor body fluids of patients who had full fledged cases of AIDS symptoms normally assort ated with AIDS or antibodies in their blood showing previous exposure to the AIDS virus The workers were tested within 30 days of the accidents for antibodies in their own blood The tests were re peated at regular intervals rom Canadian Press kids before Groups urge ban on program length TV ads WASHINGTON A US group that monitors television asked the ederal Communications Com mission yesterday to ban cartoons that feature toy products as central characters In a petition to the CC the Cam bridge Mass based Action for Chil Television said such shows are program length commercials that violate an CC policy requiring a se paration between programming and commercial messages are our future the most precious resource this country the petition said recognition tins fad broadcast licensees are to put profits second and tte children first Yet the trend in programming is now precisely the The petition follows a federal appeals court decision last week that ruled programs based on toy man products are commercial matter and require sponsorship iden tification In that case the Los Angeles based National Association for Bet ter Broadcasting had filed a com plaint against KCOP TV Los Angdes for airing He Man And The Masters Of The Universe based on a line of fantasy action figures made by Mattel Inc without identifying Mattel as a sponsor Action for Tdevison in August filed a similar petition with tte CC asking tte agency to re impose guidelines to limit commer cim time during programs The group estimates that at least 73 product based programs are being broadcast by Tv stations across tte United State Sone of tte programs are carried by border sta tions and can be viewed in Canada Legislation has been introduced in Congress to eliminate tte programs by reimposing tte commission's commercial limits: The Associated Press INSDE ANN LANDERS MUSIC PARENTING TVTONIGHT TomBerenger plays an active young man in In A Praise Of Older Women on TV tonight B8 NOW TODAY INSIDE all 5 I.