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The Edmonton Journal, Wednesday, June 5, 1996 B7 IMinnelli babies 'destructive' tabDoSd 'Sales The final stages: latter-day Miles has his moments Wtn r. who thinks it's slightly true." There's also no denying that her career has been a roller-coaster ride, she allows. She's won three Tonys, an Academy Award as best actress for 1972's Cabaret, an Emmy and two Golden Globes. She has sold out a three-week engagement at Carnegie Hall (in May 1987) and broken box-office records at Radio City Music Hall (in April 1991). Even when she's not casting a high profile, however, she's still touring with concerts.

And now comes the CD Gently, which marks a major departure for her. The songs that typify her are "strong, unsentimental and relentlessly cheerful," she says in the liner notes. "The songs on this album, in truth, are much more what I'm really like: sentimental, romantic and sometimes foolish." So why did she hide that side of her? "To tell you the truth, I thought nobody would like it. That's me, not that person I built up over there," she says. such a pat and predictable story, says the 50-year-old Minnelli, whose father was Academy Award-winning director Vincente Minnelli: it's not true.

"Completely. From the get-go." Yet, up close your eyes see a very tired Liza. Near the end of the interview at Sony's studios, she starts to nod off. It's further true that nearly 12 years ago she checked into the Betty Ford Clinic to detox from alcohol, a 20-year addiction to Valium (originally prescribed for back problems) and what she called "party drugs." But as for the gossipy tales now, no one close to her has been quoted, she maintains. "Just amazing! It makes me laugh so hard," she says, "because, oh my God, I never felt better in my life." Still, there's no denying that the thrice-married-and-divorced Minnelli has made headlines as much for her personal tribulations as for her career triumphs.

She acknowledges that. "So it doesn't bother me," she says. "What disturbs me is anybody DOUGLAS ROWE The Associated Press New York Liza Minnelli says she tried to do her latest album "with dignity and elegance and then the National Enquirer comes along." Tabloid whispers about her health and erratic behavior have made it into the mainstream press. So that's what she finds herself having to talk about as she tries to mount a publicity campaign for the new CD, Gently. The album features romantic standards with a few surprises.

There's a duet with Donna Summer on the torch song Does He Love You? and a turn with Johnny Mathis on his classic ballad Chances Are. "I haven't read anything," she says of the tabloid gossip, "but people have said that it was very mean. And destructive!" The story does seem a bit too irresistible to gossip mongers. Call it: Judy Garland Redux. They suggest that Minnelli is hurtling headlong toward the fate of The Associated Press Liza Minnelli her mother Judy Garland, the legendary singer who died of an accidental drug overdose at age 49.

There's just one problem with Backers ready bid fourth for TV station INFORMATION JAMES STEVENSON Journal Staff Writer ME WARNINGS LEGEND: 1 Violence throughout, not suitable for pre-teens. 2. Not suitable tor young children. 3. Elrernety violent scenes, not suitable for pre-teens.

4. Violent and disturbing scenes, not surtabte for pre-teens. 5 scenes. 6. Coarse language throughout.

7. Whence, coarse language tastic year" in 1995, Craig said Tuesday at a news conference. As proof, he cites a study which estimates profit performance in the Alberta private sector TV industry increased by $5 million in 1995 to $45.7 million. Craig will have competition for a new Alberta channel from Can West Alberta Television, which will also renew its bid at the hearing on July 15. Craig promises his channel would provide 60 per cent Canadian programming, with 17 per cent local news.

Aiming at a younger viewing audience, Craig proposes a more "funky, hip, urban look" to newscasts akin to Toronto's City TV. "Rather than portraying a bunch of talking heads, we'd be trying more for the man on the street approach." Craig Broadcast Systems operates the independent three-station Manitoba Television Network (MTN) and six radio stations, includ Edmonton Boyd Craig is convinced that Edmonton is ready for a fourth local television station. So he's going back in front of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission next month in Calgary for his second licence application hearing. Craig's family-owned Craig Broadcast Systems of Manitoba believes they can provide a hip new approach to news in the form of their proposed station, the A-Channel. As a selling feature, Craig offers an "intensely independent service" with stations in Edmonton and Calgary.

The company promises 139 full-time jobs in each city and more than $14 million in financial support for Alberta's independent TV production community. The province's broadcasters enjoyed "a fan- THE ARRIVAL (PG2) DAILY 2:00, 7:00, 9:25 PM. DRAGONHEART (PG5) DAILY 2:15, 7:15. 9:35 PM. PRESENTED IN DTS -DIGITAL THEATRE SOUND.

No Passes. EDDIE (PG12) DAILY 2:30, 7:25. 945. SPY HARD (PG2) DAILY 2:20, 7:20, 9:30 PM. ENDS THURSDAY JANE DAILY 2:05, 7:05, 9:20 PM.

FLIPPER (G) DAILY 2:15 PM. ENDS THURSDAY DEAD DAILY 7:10, 9:40 PM. THE TRUTH ABOUT CATS AND DOGS (M) DAILY 2:10, 7:15, 9:35 PM. TWISTER (PG) DAILY 2:00. 7:30, 9:25, 9:50 PM.

DAILY MATINEES PRIMAL FEAR (M15) NIGHTLY 7:10, 9:40 PM. FARGO (M11) NIGHTLY 7:20. BIRDCAGE (M) NIGHTLY 7:00. THE CRAFT (M) NIGHTLY 7:30, l.rl-&- THE CRAFT (M) DAILY 2:20, PM. DEAD MAN WALKING (M) 7:15, 9:40 PM.

FLIPPER (G) DAILY 2:40, 7:00, ft THE TRUTH ABOUT CATS AND DOGS (M) DAILY 2:10, 7:10, 9:10 PM. THE ARRIVAL (PG2) DAILY 9:30 PM. DRAGONHEART (PG5) DAILY 2:30, 7:30, 9:10, 9:45 PM. 'PRESENTED IN DTS DIGITAL THEATRE SOUND. No Passes.

AND WORLDBEAT DISCS ROGER LEVESQUE Special to The Journal Edmonton Miles Davis: Live Around the World (Warner71 minutes) Rating: -k-kYz out of five Nearly five years after his death and released just in time for his 70th birthday (May 26) here's another Miles Davis album. It's a set of previously unreleased live concert material "from 1988 through to his last performance in mid-1991, recorded in Osaka, Montreux, New York and other locales. In addition to re-inventing what jazz was about several times, Davis left us with the most imitated sound in trumpet playing (open horn and muted). Expect to see new anthologies of unreleased material into the next millennium (for the year 2010: Miles Dials, a disc of his best music left on other people's answering machines; or this August, a box of his recordings with bandleader Gil Evans). In his last years a sound man taped virtually all Davis's shows.

This disc certainly has its moments and no fan of late-period Miles will want to be without it. But it is also a reminder that the man with the horn often had much younger, sometimes uninspired players filling out his groups for the final decade or so. They're the players who combed through the tapes to come up with this set, stitched together to simulate a typical concert experience. But for a short introductory theme on In A Silent Way most tracks are reworked versions of tunes from the Tutu, Amandla and You're Under Arrest studio albums and not all are improvements. For instance, is it worth sitting through nearly 13 minutes of Michael Jackson's Human Nature to catch a couple of minutes where the band basically ditches the tune and gets down to cooking? The tunes Tutu, Full Nelson and New Blues are highlights.

The multiple electronic keyboards from Adam Holzman, Robert Irving III and others have a disposable plastic quality at worst and hazy background presence at best. While various percussionists and bassists add texture and heat, drummer Ricky Wellman doesn't. Kenny Garrett's sax and some guitar-sounds from Foley's "lead bass" provide the only real improvising to balance out the trumpeter himself. And Miles, he's just himself of course, the economical master of less-is-more, tasteful, dark, even buoyant at times, and rasping to ham it up between the tunes. Sinti: Sinti (Columbia-Sony46 minutes) Rating: y2 out of five Yikes! The blinding speed, fine articulation and frantic spirit of gypsy swing couldn't get much hotter than this trio, featuring lead guitarist Jimmy Rosenberg (age 15), his cousin Johnny (17) on rhythm guitar, and bassist Rinus Steinbach (the oldster, in his 20s).

It says much that they idolize the late gypsy-jazz pioneer Django Reinhardt, that Reinhardt's colleague Stephane Grapelli invited the 11-year-old Johnny to perform with him and that after sending a crowd of 50,000 into a frenzy at Montreal's jazz fest last summer the trio was signed to Sony Music. Move over Gypsy Kings, you've got some competition. Expect greater improvisational depth with age, but for now these guys are pretty entertaining. GARNEAU THEATRE Movie Info 433-0728 8712 109 St. Wide Screen Full Surround Stereo Mr.

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r.i i a is I ii IMPOSSIBLE amm. ftreG V-o-eT Scenes PRIMAL FEAR a 4 Cry spy tines PRIMAL FEAR (M15) DAILY 9:40 PM. ing K-97 Edmonton. 423-1307 29tn Ave Traii SPECIAL SAVINGS S3.M BEFORE 6:90 -J MATINEE (at performances prior to Cruise film down 62 in 2nd week The Associated Press Los Angeles Tom Cruise's Mission: Impossible was the top film for the second straight weekend at the box office but poor reviews and unfavorable audience reaction led to a staggering 62-per-cent decline from a week ago. Following its record-setting premiere during the four-day Memorial Day holiday in the U.S., Mission: Impossible slipped from $56.8 million to $21.6 million this last weekend.

Twister, this week's No. 2 film, dropped by only 10 per cent in its second weekend. Mission: Impossible debuted in about 5,000 individual theatres in 3,012 locations, the widest opening ever but it failed to break the nine-day record Jurassic Park set for reaching $100 million. Mission made it in 11 days. The movie also probably will finish far behind Twister when all the tickets are counted.

The latter film has banked $168.9 million to date. Here's the weekend's top 10 movies in Canada and the U.S., according to Exhibitor Relations and Entertainment Data Mission: Impossible, Twister, Drag-onheart, Eddie, The Arrival, Spy Hard, Flipper, The Truth About Cats and Dogs, The Craft, Toy Story. 10233 Jasoer Ave. LiiL.lg DAILY MATINEES EDDIE (PG12) NIGHTLY 7:20, 9:30 PM. DRAGONHEART (PG5) NIGHTLY 7:00, 9:00 PM.

No Passes. FOR PATE OF PUBLICATION ONLY 8. Language warning. 9. Not suftaole for pre-teens.

10- Brutal violence. 11. Brutal viotence and coarse language. 12. Coarse language.

13. Violence and coarse larcuage throughout. 14. Gory viotence and coarse language. 15.

Gory violence, coarse language and sexual content FLIPPER (G) NIGHTLY 7:10 PM. THE CRAFT (M) NIGHTLY 9:20 PM. THE TRUTH ABOUT CATS AND DOGS (M) NIGHTLY 7:35, 9:45 PM. THE ARRIVAL (PG2) NIGHTLY 7:15. 9:30 PM.

BIRDCAGE (M) NIGHTLY 7:20. 9 50 PM. DRAGONHEART (PG5) NIGHTLY 7:30, 9:40 PM. 'PRESENTED IN DTS DIGITAL THEATRE SOUND. No Passes EYRE (PG) MAN (M14) FLIPPER (G) NIGHTLY 7:20, 9:10 PM.

DRAGONHEART (PG5) NIGHTLY 7:00, 9:20 PM. PRESENTED IN DTS -DIGITAL THEATRE SOUND. No Passes. THE ARRIVAL (PG2) NIGHTLY 7:10, 9:30 PM. 2:30.

7:00, 1 THE TRUTH ABOUT CATS AND DOGS (M) NIGHTLY 7:30, 9:40 PM. 9:20 PM. BOX OFFICE OPENS NIGHTLY AT 6:15 PM OPEN FOR MATINEES SATURDAY SUNDAY AT 1:30 PM. 9:30 PM. 9:50 PM.

i TOY STORY (G) 1 PM. NIGHTLY 6:55 7:20, 9:25 i ends thursday rumble in i 1 the bronx (m) nightly 7:05 pm. 1 ends thursday fear (m7) nightly 9:05 pm. the substitute (m13) nightly 7:20, 9:40 pm. i executive decision (m) NIGHTLY 6:45, 9:30 PM.

i I SGT. BILKO (PG) NIGHTLY 7:10, I i 9:15 PM. i BROKEN ARROW (M5) NIGHTLY i 9:20 PM. i ENDS THURSDAY GREAT WHITE HYPE (M6) NIGHTLY 7:25, 9:50 PM. DAILY 2:00, 9:00 PM.

2:20, 7:15, 2:10, 7:10, GATES OPEN AT 9:00 PM. SHOW STARTS AT DUSK TWISTER (M) (FRI.SAT. PLAYS 2ND. SUN. THROUGH THURS.

PLAYS 1ST) EXECUTIVE DECISION (M) (FRI.SAT. -PLAYS 1ST. SUN. THROUGH THURS. PLAYS 2ND) DRAGONHEART (PG5) (FRI.SAT.

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SPECIAL! 1 mi Si! Tl MISSIOfWMPOSSiBLE (PG) 7:00 8:45 violent scenes 111 Ave, Groat Rd. 455-875 (PG)' 9:45 woieit scenes EDDIE (PG)' 7:20 9:40 coarse language TWISTER (PG) Mon Tue Thu 7:15 10:00 Wed 10:00 SPY HARD (PG)' 7:30 6:30 not suitable for young children MISSION. IMPOSSIBLE (PG)' 1:30 4:00 7:00 9:30 violent scenes (PG)' 2:00 4:30 7:30 10:00 violent scenes (PG)" 1:30 4:00 7:009:30 violent scenes TWISTER (PG) 1:454:157:159:45 SPY HARD (PG)' 1 3:15 5:00 7:20 9:20 not tor young children TWISTER (PG) 1 :45 4:15 7:15 9:45 TWISTER (PG) 2:15 4:45 7:45 10:15 EDDIE (PG) 1:40 4:10 7:109:40 coa'se ianguage nrr West Edomon Mall THE TRUTH ABOUT CATS (M) NIGHTLY 7:30, 9:40 PM. JAMES AND THE GIANT NIGHTLY 7:05, 8:45 PM. TWISTER (PG) NIGHTLY 7:10, 436-6977 MATINEES PM 475-4555 MATLNESS PM PARENTAL GUIDANCE V'Otert SctmM 9:5 violent scer.es Check C1NEPLEX 0DE0N Check CINEMARK Tessiona! 1 5 7 AND mAnci Prices 444-1242 Ave.

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