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D10 Entertainment THE EDMONTON JOURNAL, Monday, October 28, Opera outshines topless moments PRIME TIME TONIGHT asasMS 7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 Cheer: Diane Live It Up: The Marilyn: Say Goodbye To The President: An Miss Canada Pageant: 42 young women vie lor $80,000 in is convinced that best mini-van; examination of the lite and death of Marilyn rrV gifts and scholarships and the title of Miss Canada 1986. (3D a deranged actor back exercises. Monroe including a look at her alleged 8 Karen Tilley. Miss Canada 1985, will be on hand to crown her is stalking (CC) relationships with President John Kennedy and Vi5' successor and will be joined by cohosts Jim Perry and her Sen. Robert Kennedy.

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Boxing: Luis Rivera (16-3, 9 KOs) vs. Keith Adams (1 8-1 -2, 1 2 KOs) in SportsDesk The Way It Was: Kick Start ISportsPage a middleweight bout scheduled for 1 0 rounds from Atlantic City, N.J. A look at the TSN (Taped) '55 World Series. earlier dominated the opera, and now includes the chorus of former prisoners. Yet Kupfer's is an idea of Fidelio, not a discrete political notion imposed on Fidelio.

Still, he belabors some points. In an age hung up on misinterpreting Kafka and Orwell, brutal police-state plays constitute a cliche unto themselves. And as a huge picture of the storming of the Bastille crashes down in front of the curtain four bars into the overture, you have to wonder whether Kupfer is wittily sticking his directorial tongue out or just doing the old-fashioned teacher's thing you tell them what you're going to say, then you say it, then you tell them what you've But the biggest, and shock-horror silliest, "scandal" of this Fidelio has been the two topless cameos in the closing tableau scene, for which Vancouver Opera hired two exotic dancers, if that's the appropriate phrase. (Even a Journal editorial wondered what new light this might cast on opera buffa.) However, only one customer has asked for money back, and the company has been naturally anxious to play the national giggle down indeed, as PR director Joan Driedger observes, "you'd have to have the most high-powered field glasses to find them." There were plenty there Saturday. It was stubborn of Kupfer to include those two, though.

He should have guessed at the tiresome reaction; and this small storm at the periphery of an already controversial production could typecast him as a titillation and asininity director. For all that, and though the Harry Kupfer Fidelio may represent to some the unacceptable face of progressive opera production, this director has recreated Beethoven with integrity in a contemporary context. By BARNABY PAGE Journal Staff Writer VANCOUVER The Harry Kupfer Fidelio, which opened Vancouver Opera's 1985-86 season last week, has audiences talking about much more than its briefly notorious topless scene. As one fan put it after four nights at this vital, intellectually challenging production: "People in Vancouver have to do their homework. We don't go to the opera to escape." In Fidelio, his only opera, Beethoven packs a heavy philosophical punch, taking the tale from triviality to triumphant humanism: Florestan has been imprisoned for criticizing the despotic prison governor Pizarro, and so his wife, Leonore, disguised as a man (Fidelio), finds work at the jail in order to search for him.

In due course, love and justice prevail, and in the oratorio-like final chorus all I'izarro's political prisoners, now released, make Fidelio's statement in a Ninth Symphony-like hymn to freedom. East German Harry Kupfer is a real auteur of a director, subordinating everything to The Concept, and so it's his Fidelio. The Kupfer Fidelio is set in your standard, nameless, faceless 20th century dictatorship, all black shirts and searchlights and submachine-guns. Until the final tableau a concluding paragraph where Kupfer's production intentionally transcends realism designer Wilfried Werz sets the scene with blank concrete walls, clear lighting, black and white costumes, never a splash of cheerful color. So when this production first hit the stage in Britain in 1981, some critics saw the final scene as overt socialist agitprop: the whole company is equal in vocal status, in colorful costumes, in favorable stage positions.

Power has been diffused from the solo voices from the social world of the guards who Late night Play salvaged by its wit and humor 1:30 (XS3JQ Lata Night With David Lerterman: From February 1985 1:40 rjf) Movie: Threesome (1984) Stephen Collins. Deborah grsgjQ Tonight: Guest host Joan Rivers Scheduled: musicians the Brunson Brothers. George Hamilton, John Jarro-quelte. Liv Ullman 1:00 t)1) Movie: Five Deadly Venoms (1979) Chiang Cheh, Sun Chicn. 11:55 4 Movie: Blues In The Night (1941) Priscilla Lane.

Richard Whorf 12:00 35i SCTV 12:30 a 2 Twilight Zone MEET THE REAL MISS AMERICA By LIZ NICHOLLS Journal Staff Writer From the outside looking in, Estelle, 53 going on 54, is in the pink. The house is paid for, the kids are grown up, her job at Eaton's has survived 14 years, her marriage 30 years. But there's a moment in which security spells r-u-t. When time is the big trap. When passion is transmuted into a peck on the cheek.

When the idea of an affair is deeply inspiring. When, no matter how you add it up, the total is less than the sum of the parts. Right. You get the idea. The topography, so to speak, of the Elizabeth Bourget comedy with which the Theatre Francais opens Bonne Fete, Maman! Theatre Francais d'Edmonton also Oct.

31, Nov. 1-3 its season of Canadian plays, is nothing if not well-trod some would say flattened by now. What redeems Bonne Fete, Maman! from the ranks of the coy, pseudo-radical middle-age crisis comedies that haunt the tube is its wit, its self-deprecating humor. And what makes Pierre Bokor's handsome amateur production at Theatre Francais an entertaining way to spend an evening out, is the director's snappy staging, a well-matched domestic ensemble, and a star turn by Adele Fontaine. It may be Estelle's birthday, but What Maurice is all about is tinned beer, hockey, and the absolute certainty that his wife is in the kitchen taking care of life.

When she reveals that she's had dinner with another man, his genuine astonishment is far from flattering. For him, the crux of infidelity is whether Jean-Michel has picked up the tab. The portrait, like the play, doesn't break any new comic ground (and it's hard not to feel cheated when Estelle and Maurice, newly reconciled, embark on the next 30 years of marital co-habitation). But Chiasson is understated and funny, and the climactic moment he confesses to his stolid daughter (Angele Buteau) on the phone his fear that he's losing his wife, is genuinely touching. At Edmonton's French community theatre, it is by no means out of the ordinary to find sets and costumes out of the ordinary.

From a large shallow space, Wi-told Kurpinski has created a cozy, agreeably ordinary house for the (moderately) happy couple. Plaudits to his ingenuity: he manages to stage five distinct venues at once. Odette Dionne's costumes Here she on the occasion of her 99th birthday! it's Fontaine's party (and she can cry if she wants to). In a series of interlocking scenes and monologues, she moves from bafflement to exasperation' never without an endearing and energetic self-consciousness born of seeing herself from some distance, and finding a hint of absurdity in what she sees. It's a real comic flair, this combination of gravity and volatility.

And the sight of the ample Estelle, decked out in an African caftan with the inevitable oven mitts, doing a few pirouettes in honor of her birthday is a prize. The scene in which she decides to be seduced by a charmer from work (Rene Aubin, in a shirt artfully unbuttoned), is a very funny combination of guilt and desire. And she retires from perpetual motherhood, with its perpetual associations of stoves and fridges, with a robust finality that saves the play from its own cliches. Ernest Chiasson's Maurice has a dogged, charmless persistence especially on the subject of food that should aggravate even the most determined 'total woman'. He eyes hors d'oeuvres with the suspicious glare usually associated with customs men in airports.

He greets the prospect of stuffed mushrooms with lamentations about the absent roast beef. fl The Statue of Liberty, tonight at 10 p.m. BBC examines evidence of coverup on Monroe 3 rJSB-W SPOKANE, WASHINGTON Hoffa knew of his relationship with Monroe, secretly visited her the afternoon before her death to tell her their affair was over. Peter Lawford, the British actor and the Kennedys' brother-in-law, who introduced Monroe to the brothers, found Monroe comatose and rushed her to the hospital shortly after midnight Aug. 5.

hit all the right notes. Marlin i Travel Please Join Us For: I so 4 Cnuiu 0( A Retime In the lovely Mediterranean SpringSummerFall 1986 Canadian Press Twenty-three years after the mysterious death of Marilyn Monroe, a BBC documentary is raising questions about a coverup, Monroe's relationships with John and Robert Kennedy and the involvement in those affairs by the Mafia. Marilyn: Say Goodbye to the President, to be seen tonight on CTV (8 p.m. locally on CFRN) uses first-hand accounts and second-hand information to arrive at some sweeping conclusions that challenge conventional knowledge about the film star's life and death. Monroe died Aug.

5, 1962, at age 36 in Los Angeles. The cause of her death was listed as suicide, the result of an overdose of barbiturates. Relying largely on the work of Anthony Summers, a former BBC reporter who recently wrote a book on Monroe, the 90-minute special concludes that: Monroe had affairs with President Kennedy and his attorney general-brother Robert and told friends shortly before her death that she was planning to hold a news conference to tell all. The Mafia and corrupt former Teamsters' boss Jimmy Hoffa hired detectives to bug Monroe's house to gain material they could use to blackmail the Kennedys. Monroe kept a diary of her many meetings with the Kennedys and one entry said one of the Kennedys told her of a plot to murder Cuban president Fidel Castro.

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