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CALGARY HERALD February 14. 1990 D3 E. L. Doctorow novel wins award for fiction PEOPLE (Herald wire services) Czechoslovak president on radio Czechoslovakia's playwright-turned-president Vaclav Havel will be interviewed tonight on CBC Radio As It Happens. According to Stage West's Myrna Superstein, Martin flew home to California and had the biopsy that revealed the cancer Monday.

He expects to begin chemotherapy soon. Superstein said Martin's attitude was "extremely positive." The actor is best known for his role as Detective Johnny LaRue on the popular TV series Hill Street Blues. Actress preparing for film set in 1963 She's been married to the mob and dabbled in a dangerous liaison. Now Michelle Pfeiffer will be roam Michael Enright will interview Havel by phone, asking about his personal experiences in the revolution that swept his country last November as well as his vision for Czechoslovakia. long-time dissident who was year ago, emerged as the lead revolution and was elected presi Havel, jailed only er of the dent Dec.

29. HAVEL i yrt a a On i Thursday night. Enright will speak to ing the back roads around Raleigh, N.C. to shoot a new movie. The actress will begin filming Love Field in April.

Her recent screen credits include The Fabulous Baker Boys, Dangerous Liaisons and Married to the Mob. The latest story involves the "strong emotional relationship" among Pfeiffer's character and a father and daughter she meets on a bus triD as she is travelling to Willy Brandt, a leading figure in German politics, about the future of East and West Germany and the role of socialism in Europe after the Cold War. Actor suffering from cancer Actor Kiel Martin, who bowed out of his engagement at Stage West last weekend because of chest pains, has been diagnosed as having cancer. was A Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East 1914 to 1922 (Holt), by David Fromkin. In biography and autobiography, A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt (Harper Row) by Geoffrey C.

Ward beat out This Boy's Life (Atlantic Monthly), a memoir by Tobias Wolff of growing up with an abusive stepfather. The winner for criticism was John Clive for Not by Fact Alone: Essays on the Writing and Reading of History (Knopf)- Clive died on the day his book was nominated. In poetry, Rodney Jones won for Transparent Gestures (Houghton Mifflin). The Alabama-born Jones, who now lives in Illinois, wrote some of these poems about the black church experience. Two Bay Area poets were also nominated: Robert Hass, Human Wishes (Ecco); and August Kleinzahl-er, Earthquake Weather (Moy-er Bell).

The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974, has a membership of 580 American book editors and critics. theatre owes thanks (Knight-Ridder Newspapers) NEW YORK The National Book Critics Circle on Monday voted to give its 1989 award for fiction to Billy Bathgate by E. L. Doctorow (Random House). Doctorow's novel Ragtime won the NBCC fiction award in 1975, the first year it was given.

The award is now considered, along with the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the National Book Award, part of the triple crown of American literary awards. Other nominees for the fiction award included The Joy Luck Club (Putnam) by Amy Tan and Spartina (Knopf) by John Casey, which won the National Book Award in November. Other fiction nominees included Ordinary Love Good Will (Knopf) by Jane Smiley and The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love (Farrar, Straus 1 Giroux) by Oscar Hijuelos. The Broken Cord (Harper Row) by Michael Dorris, about his adopted son's fetal alcohol syndrome, won for general non-fiction. Its closest competitor THE INVITES YOU TO III IkO, Winnipeg WINNIPEG (CP) She will never be ranked alongside Winnipeg stage greats like the late John Hirsch or Broadway and film star Len Cariou, but Daphne Korol's name turns up just about everywhere in the history of the city's theatre and dance.

Thirty-five years ago, Korol performed in the first production of Rainbow Stage, Winnipeg's outdoor musical theatre, and was cast by renowned director Hirsch in the first production of Theatre 77 in 1957. Korol, 65, also danced with the forerunner of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet and was a co-founder of Actors' Showcase in 1964. She helped found Actors' Showcase, now a children's theatre group, because she believed local actors were being ignored by the imroimm 0 WfJhiiLi L'1 tl pdmonton playwright wins $2,500 prize for second time Celebrate our 1 come see the world through music and dance! Friday, Feb. 23 8 P.M. Jubilee Auditorium Tickets available at BASS Adults: $8, $7, $6 601 3 and under $5 For more information 262-4899 Presented by D.C.

for president John F. producer Midge Sanford. Finalists in book awards announced The second annual Alberta Book Industry Awards will be announced March 22. Finalists, by category, are as follows: Publisher of the Year: Lone Pine Publishing and NeWest Press. Book of the Year: The Architecture of Douglas Cardinal by Trevor Boddy (NeWest); Playing Dead: A Contemplation Concerning the Arctic by Rudy Wiebe (NeWest) and The Prowler by Kristjana Gunnars (Red Deer College Press).

Book Design Award: The Architecture of Douglas Cardinal by Trevor Boddy (NeWest); Brazil: Land of Contrasts by Ishie Dawood (Reidmore Books); The Prowler by Kristjana Gunnars (Red Deer College Press). VALENTINES Dinner Special For Two Our Regular Menu is DANCE aUo offered FRI. AND SAT. EVE. to Validated Parking.

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PFEIFFER Washington, Kennedy's funeral in 1963, said co minister and one of the Fathers of Confederation, and granddaughter of William Johnston Tupper, Manitoba's 12th lieutenant-governor. More than 50 years ago, her grandfather left her and several other relatives mineral rights to land in Alberta. In the early '80s, oil was discovered on the land and Korol has used some of the money to further Winnipeg theatre. Last year, she spent $350,000 to buy and renovate an old meat market which now is the home of her Children's Theatre School. It's an action that springs from her love of the arts, says her husband Taras, a well-known costume and set designer.

"She feels the money was given to her for a purpose and that was to help people in the arts." on Friday and Saturday, and may be purchased from the Corral Ticket Office at the park or reserved by phoning 261-0276. The Calgary Philharmonic isn't the only organization jumping on the Les Miserables bandwagon when it rolls into Calgary this spring. The Canadian Foundation for Ileitis and Colitis is also using a performance of the mega-musical as a fund raiser. The organization-is currently selling tickets to the June 16 show at $100 a piece, $45 of which will go towards Alberta research into inflammatory bowel diseases. The CFIC has some 1,300 tickets for the best seats in the Jubilee Auditorium, of which about 500 have already been sold.

The price includes a tax receipt and a champagne reception following the show. To reserve, call 266-2342. -PANORAMA-i RESTAURANT Centre St. 17 Ave. N.W.

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SOUTHLAND bobhoskins denzel Washington chloeyvebb a Every pannersnip has us problems. Jtr( HEART CONDITION uSwl Mature U4Nr COARSE LANGUAGE Now thawing at: TOWNE, NORTHLAND, LONDON TOWN MATURE Q0 EXCLUSIVE ENGAGEMENT Now showing 1: SHOWCASE GRAND Iw -'V' fifiMirrttfhrTr 'a 'Jjp IWJUW 1 1 1 'Iff tern aAiwiriH a QXfp (tatyani'Solk Ars Council city's established theatres. She says she still thinks that is the case and that is why four years ago she began Shakespeare in the Park, an amateur company that draws thousands of people every summer. Korol's dedication to local performers draws praise from people like Diane Buck, second soloist with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. "She's an incredible woman," says Buck, who studied with Korol for nine years.

"I was a short, dumpy little girl who had abolutely no natural talent. But she saw more in me. "That's her real talent, pulling things out of people no one else sees." Korol, born in Winnipeg, is a great-granddaughter of Sir Charles Tupper, former prime THE STAGE ATP resident actors Bill Dow, Shawna Lori Burnett, Christopher Hunt, Kevin McGugan and Eric Trask, as well as guest actors Valerie Ann Pearson and Suzanne Ristic. The reading is being presented at 4:30 p.m. both days in the lobby of the Martha Cohen Theatre.

Admission is free. The Young Canadians have turned to a life of crime but only for their annual dinner theatre production. The fresh-faced troupe of Stampede Grandstand Show fame open Thursday in the Lionel Bart musical based on Charles Dickens' classic novel about life among the pickpockets, fences and housebreakers of 19th-century London. The show, produced and directed by Bill Avery, features members of the Young Canadians School of Performing Arts. Oliver! runs Thursdays through Sundays to April 8 in the Archie Boyce Pavilion at Stampede Park.

Doors open at 6 p.m., a buffet is served from 6:30 to 8 p.m. and the performance begins at 8:15 p.m. Tickets are $32, $35 SEX, LIES AND VIDEOTAPE (M) Warning: sugges tive dialogue throughout. 2:00, 4:30. 7:00, 9:30 LOOK WHO'S TALKING? (M) 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45 THE BEAR (PG) 2:15.

4:40, 7:00. 9:15 DEAD POETS SOCIETY (PG) 2:30, 6:45, 9:20 ENDS THURSDAY SKI PATROL (PG) 2:15, 4:45, 7:15. 9:45 FAMILY BUSINESS (M) Warning: coarse lan guage throughout. 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 ENDS THURSDAY THE FABULOUS BAKER BOYS (M) Warning: coarse language throughout. 2:00.

4:30. 6:50. 925 ALWAYS (PG) 2:30, 6:45, 9:20 ENDS THURSDAY BACK TO THE FUTURE PART 2 (PG) 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 3 ALWAYS (PG) 7:00, 9:15. Mat. SAT.SUN.

2:05, 4:20 ENDS THURSDAY SKI PATROL (PG) 7:05, 9: 10. Mat. SAT.SUN. 2:00, 4:15 ENDS THURSDAY MOVES TO MARLBOROUGH FRIDAY BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY (M) Warning: crude language; disturbing scenes; not suitable for pre-teens. 6:45.

9:30. Mat. SAT 1:55. HEART CONDITION (M) Warning: coarse lan-guage. 7:20, 9:20.

Mat. SAT.SUN. 1:45, 4:00 ENDS THURSDAY TREMORS (PG) Warning: coarse language; frightening scenes. 7:10, 9:35. Mat.

SAT. SUN. 1:55, 4:10 ENDS THURSDAY MOVES TO MARLBOROUGH FRIDAY THE WAR OF THE ROSES (M) Warning: coarse language. 7:15, 9:25. Mat.

SAT.SUN. 1:50, 4:05 'ALWAYS (PG) 7:00. 9:25 ENDS THURSDAY THE WIZARD (PG) Mat. SAT.SUN. 1:30 BACK TO THE FUTURE PART 2 (PG) 7:20, 9:30.

Mat. SAT.SUN. 1:55 THX THE WAR OF THE ROSES (M) Warning: coarse language. 7:15, 9:35. Mat.

SAT.SUN. 1:45. NOTE: No 7:15 show Feb. 15th 'HEART CONDITION (M) Warning: coarse language. 7:10.

9:10. Mat. SAT.SUN. 2:00 ENDS THURSDAY SKI PATROL (PG) 7:30. 9.15.

Mat. SAT.SUN. 2:00 ENDS THURSDAY iBy Martin Morrow (Herald writer) Brad Fraser has walked off the Alberta Culture playwrit-ing prize for the second year in a row. Fraser's latest work, The Ugly is the winner of the $2,500 prize for a new, full-length play in the provincial govern-ment's 23rd annual competition. Last winter, the Edmonton playwright picked up the same award for his controversial drama Unidentified Human Remains and True Nature of Love.

That 3)lay had its premiere production jat Alberta Theatre Projects' play-Rites'89 festival. It is currently 3being staged in Toronto by the Experimental Crow's Theatre IJToupe and is due to make its -Edmonton debut at Workshop 2West later this month. According to ATP, which co-Sponsors the contest and announced the award Tuesday, The Ugly Man is a psychological Shriller based on the Jacobean tragedy The Changeling, in which 3Jie weakness of beauty is pitted against the power of ugliness. The script receives a staged Steading Feb. 17-18 as part of SMTP's playRites'90 festivities.

The theatre's dramaturge, Bob -White, is directing the performance, with a cast consisting of 1 MY LEFT FOOT (M) 2:00, 4:15. 7:00. 9:15. NOTE: No 7:00 show Feb. 14th ENDS THURSDAY MOVES TO ESSO PLAZA FRIDAY THE WAR OF THE ROSES (M) Warning: coarse language.

2:15, 4:30, 7:15. 9:30. NOTE: No 7:15 show Feb. 15tH ENDS THUSDAY MOVES TO ESSO PLAZA FRIDAY 1153335 'HEART CONDITION (M) Warning: coarse language. 7:00, 9:15.

NOTE: No 7:00 show Feb. 12th or Feb. 14th ENDS THURSDAY TREMORS (PG) Warning: coarse language; frightening scenes. 7:15, 9:30 MOVES TO ESSO PLAZA rHIUAY I'iP-ffffltfg 1 "BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY (M) Warning: crude language; disturbing scenes; not suitable lor pre-teens. 6:45.

9:30. Mat. SUN. 2:00 ENDS THURSDAY MOVES TO NORTHLAND FRIDAY 1 TREMORS (PG) Warning: coarse language; frightening scenes. 7:15, 9:10.

Mat. SAT. SUN. 2:30 END THURSDAY BACK TO THE FUTURE PART 2 (PG) 7:00, 9:20. Mat.

SAT.SUN. 2:15 BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY (M) Warning: crude language; disturbing scenes; not suit able for pre-teens. 6:45. 9:30. Mat SATVSUN.

2:00 BACK TO THE FUTURE PART 2 (PG) 7:00, 9:20. Mat. SAT.SUN. 1:45 LOOK WHO'S TALKING? (M) 7:30, 9:30. Mat.

SAT.SUN. 2:30 ENDS THURSDAY LETHAL WEAPON 2 (M) Warning: violent scenes; extremely coarse language throughout; not suitable lor pre-teens. 7:15, 9:15 ENDS THURSDAY I SB i fffWflftfffti BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY (M) Warning crude language; disturbing scenes; not suit able totjreeensJM5JM0 ALWAYS (PG) 7:00, 9:15. Mat. SAT.SUN.

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