The Ottawa Citizen from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada • 82

Page 82, The Citizen, Ottawa, Thursday, November 30, 1978 GOLDEN RAIL lVlnnfl BIBLES NATIVITY jMBC drops 8 prime time shows SETS a time or giving HOME COUNTRY MUSIC 1 CROSSES MEDALS STATUES PICTURES BOOKS PLAQUES RALPH CARLSON and the Country Mile It IN THE PICK WICK LOUNGE Randy McMahon mm LLi ik hVi COMING DEC. 4J 'V NEW YORK (UPI) NBC announced JVedricsday that it was dumping all but sev-5n of its regularly scheduled television series, be replaced by a new look designed by its new president, Fred Silverman. I The Silverman sweep that the television industry had been awaiting cleared out all the new series programing introduced this fall with much hoopla programing Silverman had no hand in developing, i Nine new shows will be introduced at as yet unspecified dates in January and February, with a heavy emphasis on comedy and light adventure. The shows that will remain on NBC are hits from previous years Little House on the Prairie, Quincy, CHiPs. Rockford File, Disney and Weekend.

The only other series to remain is Diffrent Strokes, a Silverman addition to the lineup last month. Centennial, a mini-seriesin the Big Event slot, will conclude in February. Gone will be Grandpa Goes to Washington, Dick Clark's Live Wednesday, Project UFO, David Cassidy Undercover Cop, Who's Watching the Kids? Eddie Capra Mysteries, Sword of Justice and Lifeline. The new shows include Supertrain, a comedy adventure starring an atom-powered railroad train that has everything from a swimming pool to a discotheque; Cliffhang-ers, three adventures each week that wind up in cliffhanger to-be-continued situations; Mrs. Columbo, with the detective's wife out of the closet and into crime solving; Little Women, the continuing adventures of the March family, and Turnabout, based on the Thorne Smith novel in which husband and wife switch bodies.

Other new features include Brothers and Sisters, a campus comedy; Hello, Larry, with McLean Stevenson as a bachelor father, Sweepstakes, about winners and losers of a SI million lottery, and BJ and the Bear, the comedy adventures of a trucker. KING ELVIS LZ-AV OPEN SUNDAY 12 Noon to 10 p.m. HOTEL 749-5937 Plan to dine out at one of the many fine restaurants located in the area. Make a reservation and assure your party of proper seating. LAFOrJTAirJE 338 MONTREAL RD.

(if For the day entertainment pages 82-91 you just want to The Four Seasons invites you to pamper yourself with the luxury of our Sunday Brunch. Keeping with the tradition of superb cuisine and impeccable service, the Carleton Room now offers you a perfect way to relax. I I U.r4. iii iiuiiiwi' 1 i Human endurance Soviet movie Why not join us from 1 1 a.m. 3 p.m.

sombre stu dy 7 if. sJM aUD- VIW TONY GABRIEL (of the Ottawa Rough Riders) will be at PROSPERO BOOKS Billings Bridge Plaza ON SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2 from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. to Autograph "DOUBLE TROUBLE" Hardcover 30 4 W- PROSPERO BOOKS BILLINGS BRIDGE PLAZA 731-2444 Sorry, only books purchased at Prospero Books will be Four Seasons Hotel OTTAWA 150 ALBERT STREET For Reservations 238-1500 Towne THE ASCENT. Directed by Larissa Shepitko.

By Noel Taylor Of all the ennobling themes honored by Soviet filmmakers human endurance and its triumph over physical and mental torment is the one most consistently observed. Larissa Shepitko's 1976 Berlin festival award winner, in black and white, which might uplift were it not so unremittingly sombre, is the ultimate expression of that concept. Its descent into the depths of human suffering, epitomized in the fortunes of a couple of partisans taken prisoner by some sadistic Germans, is at the same time an ascent to the peak of spiritual triumph. The point may seem elusive under the crushing weight of adversity Shepitko throws their way, but in a scene on the scaffold, as one recants to save his life and the other dies with the recognition of spiritual salvation in his eye, the message is compellingly clear. This acknowledgement of weakness in a fighting patriotit is the man of action who succumbs and the intellectual who endures is something of a curiosity in the Soviet cinema.

As the two men stumble through waist-deep snow, survive a brief encounter with some stray Germans and find shelter in the home of a mother and her three children, their roles gradually reverse. Sotniko the teachers hovers near death, Kolya saves him and yet it is Sotniko who survives the branding iron and Kolya who grovels before it. kTo die is the easiest thing" he has told his friend, "we must survive," as though that alone were justification for betrayal. The five who are herded into a rat-infested cell the two soldiers, the mother, the village head man and a young girl endure brutality and an agonizingly protracted buildup to execution. Four of them die on the gallows surrounded by a circle of impassive peasant faces.

The fifth wretch stumbles back to the enemy's camp. He tries to commit suicide there but he can't even do that properly. Shepitko offers no repose. It's a harrowing and demanding film, enriched by a moving score and the grandeur of its outside photography. "The main thing about says Kolya, "is to get used to the idea." And that is what Shepitko allows us to do, relentlessly and with glimpses of compassion.

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But Justice Gerard De-slandes said the hotel had taken sufficient polram VAIMEUt PAPATHWWMIOU CoACkut PATRICK JUVET polvtyum 10 CC BLOODY TOURISTS polyjvm JACaUES MICHEL La coaur plus chaud 0J DIANE DUFRESNE Olympya 78 RCJ1 DARYL HAliJOHN OATll Along the Red Ledge I'apoolypH dn vwraux Got Feeling OTTAWA LITTLE THEATRE 400 King Edward Ave. 233-8948 OPENING Nov. 30-Dec. 16 TABLE MANNERS Tickets $3.00 $3.50 Ptrformanca 8:30 p.m. ymng i is.

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