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THE CALGARY HERALD June 17, 1982 D3 Cable firm offers video games Nudity proves lucrative FRGfST ROW month, receive the games on a special channel. They each purchased an Intellivision unit and have special servicing arrangements with the cable company. Francis said the latest video games are rotated into service each month, some before they are released to the arcade and home markets. However, he said the cable company has not made any commitment to offer Playcable on a permanent basis. BRAMPTON, Ont.

(CP) A Brampton cable company, anxious to get a toehold in the burgeoning video-game market, is offering an experimental game service to 200 subscribers. Jim Francis, project co-ordinator for Brampton Cable TV, said he believes the two-year trial is the only one of its kind in Canada although there are four similar tests under way in the U.S. The experiment is a test of Playcable, a joint venture between Mattel Canada Inc. and Jer-rold, a division of General Instrument of Canada Ltd. Playcable combines the video-game technology of Mattel's Intellivision system with cable TV.

The 200 subscribers, who each pay $12 a i After 4 years in New Yorh. London ard Philadelphia So why shouldn't the unblushing boy behind the bare bodies be smiling? Thanks to the popular appeal of the public nudity in Let My People Come he's a wealthy man. He's worth, he tells me, "a good six figures." He's laughing. He's Phil Joy. He just turned 30 and the young fella's riding high on one of the sweetest winners ever invented.

Since that magic night of Oct. 21, 1977, he's been producer of Let My People Come, the nude revue that thrives on controversy. He went into debt to the tune of $140,000 when he signed LMPC for his 175-seat theatre in a neo-trendy neighborhood of Philadelphia. But it paid off and how! Now the show is pouring thousands of dollars into his bank account every week. It isn't polite to ask how many thousands but Joy candidly announces that his partners in the Toronto production of LMPC got an $87,000 return for each $12,000 share and the flood of cash shows no signs of ever stopping.

one year TofontoBoston LA San Francisco and Madnd Philip Roger Roy presents The National Touring Company PATRICK TIVY Earl Wilson Jr's Grammy Award Winning Hit Broadway Musical Comedy ravijl 7 Mt 1i if -1 3 ff 1 I I The reviews weren't that hot, though but then, as Joy hastens to mention, "it's never been a critic's show. "It's designed for the public. "It's like I told the cast in Toronto if we get good reviews, well do well. "But if we get bad reviews, we'll do even better." That's why Joy was tickled pink by the nasty-nasty treatment from the local religious crowd when LMPC hit town last summer. The notoriety of pickets in front of the theatre gave LMPC the biggest box-office it's ever had.

'Two weeks in Calgary paid for the entire tour," he boasts. 'It was the biggest moneymaker I've had anywhere." Edmonton didn't do well at all compared to our pretty little city the show was booked into the student union building at the of A. which Joy says is not as nice a room as the Mitchell Theatre at the QR Centre. He had to go to the campus, though, because the Citadel refused to accept the show. That's why he isn't even bothering with Edmonton this year.

That's also why LMPC won't play Regina Joy simply wasn't able to book a hall in the Athens of Saskatchewan. "They wouldn't let us in," he laments. Joy's a pro. He tells me LMPC is his 17th stage act, and that he's produced hundreds of other performances. He claims to be the first to book The Police for a concert in North America and the last to book Phil Ochs.

And before he was a producer he was an aspiring actor one of his first performances was in a TV hairpiece commercial produced by his father. i lhe snow Tjionto Philaaeiphia Ponce Couian I Close! WARNING. Certain scenes, tangitaqe. and nuaily may be oHensive lo some Admittance restricted to persons 16 years ol age and over In fact, just before a chat over coffee the other day the lad steps aside for a moment to call the box office in Toronto to get a fix on the books in a moment he has it: LMPC came up with an $11,000 net last week. It's no-risk income.

All he has to do with the Toronto production nowadays is call up and ask for the figures. The show always sells out weekends. It's been at the Basin Street club for 71 weeks now 71 wonderful sell-out weeks. Of course, it helped that there was a little controversy when the show first hit Toronto the Good. The cops thought it was as dirty as a strip act strippers have to wear G-strings in Canada's largest English-speaking city, after all but the courts thought otherwise and the charges were tossed out.

The publicity was worth millions especially when the head of the strippers' union complained about the discriminatory treatment. The yarn was on Page One of the Toronto papers for weeks. "NAUGHTIER THAN HAIR. MORE WHOLESOME THAN 'OH, San Fmncisco Chronicle "A CELEBRATION OF LOVE'' Playboy Magatme "IT'S A SMASH" Re, rteed GOOD CLEAN DIRTY FUN" Vamomei Sun. Phiia.

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