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XBhe Standard SPECTRUM riday January 10 1997 CLARK 0 Shaw's Christopher Newton feels time is running out MCCARTNEY W' leave of absence last season to star as the bed rid den woman who overhears a murder plot on crossed By ANGELA MURPHY Standard Staff By SEAN CONDON and ANGELA MURPHY Standard Staff The Hour which stars Kelli ox (The Playboy of the Western World) and Stephanie Belding as school teachers accused of being lovers Returning to Shaw in 1997 after three seasons at Stratford is actor Barry MacGregor Known for his comedic skills MacGregor stars as the misfit brother of a trou bled mild man nered bank clerk played by Neil Barclay in the farce Will Any Gentleman? Mary Haney is lines in the lunchtime suspense Sorry Wrong Number as well as the love interest in Will Any Gentleman? In the flagship pro Harris all play upon release but we hope be able to bring pictures to the mar ket place later perhaps two or three weeks after LSO of note: Gordon Rand a resident ofNiagara on the Lake even before joining Shaw takes over the lead of Christy Mahon in the remount of last Jackson composing tune for 65th PASADENA Calif (AP) Michael Jackson will compose a song titled Elizabeth for Elizabeth star studded 65th birthday bash which will feature never before seen footage of her life and career But Taylor said Wednesday the toast of the night will be neither her life nor her career not because of my birthday to celebrate AIDS and all the heroes and heroines who have fought so hard to stay she said at the Television Critics Association meeting Moviegoers in St Catharines will have one less place to go and many less movies to see for most of this year Pen Cinema closed Monday for a $3 million expansion that will be completed in the fall The replacement of the three screen cinema with an eight screen complex will keep the theatres closed during the busy summer movie season meaning fewer feature films will make it to the city wax or more information call the box office which opens to the general public Jan 13 open now only to Shaw mem bers and for group sales) 468 2172 Marcia Clark resigns job to finish book LOS ANGELES (AP) Marcia Clark return to her job as a prosecutor in the district attor office saying she will devote her time to finishing a book and other projects Clark who signed a $42 million book deal after the unsuccessful prosecution of OJ Simpson has been on leave since Simpson was acquitted in the deaths of his ex wife and her friend in October 1995 In a statement Wednesday Clark say what her other obligations are but said she hoped to to champion the causes of truth and justice in other are nas and to focus on lending my support to the advancement of Her book scheduled to be pub lished early this year will be the latest in a flood of tomes resulting from the Simpson case Books already have been published by fellow prosecutor Christopher Darden and by Simpson defence lawyers Johnnie Cochran and Robert Shapiro Widow gets no help from Beatle friend LONDON (AP) She says just trying to get by But Paul McCartney says he give a lit tle help to this friend Lily Evans widow of the former road manager wants to auction off a scrap of paper on which McCartney wrote the lyrics to With a Little Help from My riends 30 years found the script papers left husband Evans But McCartney charged that Evans is trying to sell something she own Mai Evans he says was holding the lyrics for the Beatles as their employee His lawyers got a legal injunction blocking the sale is no question that they ever belonged to anyone other than the McCartney said in a statement Thursday Lily Evans who has worked as a secretary since her death 21 years ago told BBC tele vision that auctioneers at estimated the paper could fetch up to $100000 She was upset that McCartney wants to stop the auction McCartney spokesman Geoff Baker said McCartney had twice offered to help Evans if she was gopig through rough times but she refused Christopher Newton top Shaw's artistic director is getting out from behind the desk to take on two acting roles in the upcoming season iona Reid shown above with Andrew Gillies in Shaw's 1995 pro duction of Cavalcade is returning to the Niagara on the Lake theatre this year for two plays file photos Tories stacking arts appointments: critics TORONTO (CP) Opposition critics say the appointment of writer Linda rum to the board of the Ontario Arts Council is a sign that the provincial government is stacking its arts organizations with conservatives are very partisan appointments They are people who have a philosophy that is not as supportive of the arts as it could Liberal culture critic Michael Gravelie said this week of five new appointments to the board would expect advo cate for the arts in a position like this and these people rum who identifies herself as a philosophical conservative said she has never been a member of any political party and supports public sector funding of the arts have to wait to see what kind of decisions be making before I take any she said cal The Chocolate Soldier Brigitte Robinson and Laurie Paton are The Two Mrs Carrolls in the Martin Vale sus pense opposite David Schumann as the adulterous husband Shaw veterans Andrew Gillies and Peter Hutt star as Sir Isaac Newton and King Charles II in Bernard history that never In Good King Golden Days called for Pen Cinema to house 10 screens The current plan is for eight screens in a five storey com plex that will alsoinclude an inter active games area a Pizza Hut and a Cafe said Harris New York prior to establishing himself as a director and then artistic director at the Vancouver Playhouse in 1972 had a few roles during his 18 years at Shaw most recently Barker The Marrying of Ann Leete in 1993 as the quirky butler in daughter Vivie Charley Aunt and opposite iona Reid in the 1990 produc tion of Noel Present Laughter While cast Jim Mezon as Trigorin and opted for the sec ondary role of Dorn the doctor in The Seagull in the production of Irish classic The lead as disillusioned politician Playboy of the Western World Evan Strowde in The Secret Life once again opposite to Reid Reid who has done a number of plays at Shaw and in Toronto Toronto to a role in the jnusi theatre tollowing ner tamous role on King of Kensington stars as unattainable love Joan Westbury as well as the self indulgent actress Madame Arkadina in The Seagull two roles Newton said had in mind for her for some time 1 work very well together although we seldom get the chance and from my point of view we do have quite a bit of chemistry we know each he said Not all the roles have been cast still looking for female actors age 10 to 13 to play schoolgirls in Lillian Jo anne Kirwan Clark returns to Shaw after a six year absence much of it spent in the mega musical scene in WHEN one is successful at one thing usually at the expense of some thing else or Christopher Newton the artistic director of the Shaw estival the sacrifice has been his acting career The casting list for the festi 1997 season released this week indicates making an llth hour reclamation bid casting himself in Harley Granville The Secret Life and The Seagull as coming to the end of my time here I feel I should be doing some of the things forced to give up as an artistic he said pausing for a moment an back after a actor 60 now and spent much of the last 20 years here sitting behind a said Newton adding that he came to this realization recently while reading the play The Seagull part all actors want to do is Trigorin and I realized I telephone was too old rm very con scious of having given up that side of my life time is run ning EWTON who acted at Stratford with the Canadian Players and in duction of George Bernard Shaw Mrs Warren Profession Nora McLellan (Mr Cinders You Never Can Tell) plays the lead role of the unconventional madam Kitty Warren and Jan Alexandra Smith (An Ideal Husband) plays her ambitious feminist gourmet pizzas great mexican galore baked sandwiches A more much more! CAE 204 ST PAUL ST ST CATHARINES Spectrum editor Brian Collins 684 7251 ago She manu among by her Mai The new theatres will feature steeper stadium style seating digital sound and curved wall to wall screens 1 Harris said that two to three management positions will be created by the renovation and 20 to 30 part time jobs The theatre expansion is one of two in the works for St Catharines Cineplex Odeon announced last year that it plans a to expand its airview Mall cine ij mas to nine screens from five Rob Miceli manager of the Pen Centre said he expect the lack of a cinema to diminish i the drawing power New Pen Cinema won 7 open until fall ewer feature films in city until eight screen complex ready a little bit of pain but in the long run hopefully everybody will said Roger Harris vice president of marketing for amous Players UfhilA thA Pon finpma ic closed the only amous Players Plans announced in August theatre operating in Niagara win be the three screen Lincoln Mall cinemas in north St Catharines when you go from six to three screens your ability to show pictures is said It M' tiff Pwmmm A quick I.