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Calgary Herald Wednesday October 18, 1995 C10 The hassle-free way to pay for your Herald subscription monthly Call22Zm today! Editor: Alan Rach 235-7285 Fax 235-7379 MOVIE THEATRES Mew Globe Cinema is city's third art theatre BEST The opening attractions are A Month by the Lake, a British romantic comedy from the director of Widows' Peak starring Vanessa Redgrave and Edward Fox as tourists in 1930s Italy, and Living in Oblivion, an independently produced American comedy about independent film-making in the United States. The Globe will join the Plaza Theatre in Hillhurst and the Uptown Screen directly across the street as the third theatre in Calgary to offer art films. "I think Calgary can support three er of marketing and promotion for Landmark Cinemas, which is operating the theatre. The twin-theatre Globe boasts a new marquee as well as completely renovated auditoriums equipped with DTS stereo-surround sound and new projection equipment. The number of seats in each auditorium has been reduced from 442 to 350 to provide more leg room.

The lobby has been redecorated, and the theatre will be offering a half-hour money-back guarantee, Imlach said. MI nn kmw sum New '70s coming-of-agefilm was an eye-opener for four young '90s actresses 1 4 Kimberly Wright, New Line Cinema THE BEST FRIENDS: Thora Birch (left), Gaby Hoffmann, Ashleigh Aston Moore and Christina Ricci FRED HAESEKER Calgary Herald Calgary movie fans will have two more screens to choose from Nov. 3, when the downtown Globe Cinema opens its doors. Located at 617 8th Ave. S.W, the newly renovated Globe is housed in the premises of the Towne Cinema, which closed last February.

The Globe will be moving into art-cinema territory with "first-run quality films that have the potential for holding over," said Gordon Imlach, manag AT THE MOVIES JAMIE PORTMAN Southam News NEW YORK The four schoolgirls in Now and Then belong to the summer of 1970, but the young actresses who play them are very much of the '90s. Christina Ricci, Thora Birch, Gaby Hoffman and Vancouver's Ashleigh Aston Moore love the story about four 12-year-olds in a small Indiana town of 25 years ago. They're amused by the details of the movie the truth-or-dare sessions, the preoccupation with padded bras, the slumber parties, the nocturnal meetings in a graveyard. But would they like to have lived back then? "I'd only want to live in New York or L.A.," says 13-year-old Thora Birch. "I don't like small towns." Birch, who played Harrison Ford's daughter in Patriot Games and Clear And Present Danger, is making a visible effort to sound sophisticated, rather like the aspiring young actress she plays in Now And Then.

In the movie, which opens Friday she grows up to be Melanie Griffith. "I like Melanie a lot," she says in a tone tantamount to a pronouncement from on high. "She's a very sweet girl." Fifteen-year-old Christina Ricci made her name as the infernal Wednesday Addams in the two Ad-dams Family movies and has just had a big summer hit with Casper. She has a bone to pick with the early 1970s as well, mainly the clothes. "At my very first fitting I nearly cried," Ricci says.

"I thought, 'This is absolutely Then she reprimanded herself. "I told myself it was silly for me to be making such a big deal over the clothes. It was also obnoxious and unprofessional." The slender Ricci grows up to be a distinctly unslender Rosie O'Donnell in the movie. But that's the kind of unpredictability that director Lesli Linka Glatter was aiming for. "We deliberately made some unexpected choices," Glatter says.

"For example, we didn't want the girl who's chubby as a kid growing up to be the heavy adult or vice versa. Now And Then is a memory piece in which four women reunite for a weekend, look back on a crucial childhood summer and reflect on what happened to them on the road to adulthood. Glatter stresses that the film belongs to the youngsters and that the four THEATRE Fanatics, unk-rock-er house wives, white suprema cists and frenzied female religious fanatics turnup on city stages starting tonight. Here's a glimpse at all three. First, the fanatics: MARTIN MORROW Herald columnist The Bacchae: This tragedy, opening a new drama season at the University of Calgary, is one of Euripides's greatest hits, and it's also the Greek dramatist's last.

First produced posthumously in 405 BC (the exiled Euripides had died the year before, possibly torn apart by hunting dogs), the play recounts the fate of a young Theban king who rashly rejects the wine-god Dionysus and pays for it in a savage climax that makes Oedipus Rex look like a picnic in the Peloponnese. The Bacchae of the title (pronounced are Dionysus's female followers, the ecstatic maenads, who bring about King Pentheus's gruesome death and serve as the tragedy's Chorus. "Euripides is a very ironic writer and his work makes sense in our world," says Nicole Zylstra, explaining why she chose to direct the ancient play for her MFA thesis. The Bacchae, she believes, is about the dangers of denying the "very powerful forces of nature, one's primal, emotional impulses." Zylstra, 27 and a graduate of McGill, is also fond of theatre-as-ritual and this is the most traditional of Euripides's tragedies. She has even staged it with masks a Greek convention generally eschewed in modern art cinemas and I'm not anticipating changing our program," said Uptown Stage and Screen proprietor Blake O'Brien.

"I hope in general it will make the market bigger. Hollywood is going the way of art films anyhow." Landmark Cinemas, an independent Calgary-based exhibition company, operated the Towne Cinema before 1985, when the theatre was leased for 10 years by the Toronto-based Cineplex Odeon corporation. don't quite know how you fit in. That really touched a chord with me." Aston Moore "I'm a born and bred Vancouver girl" seems more willing to be her age, in spite of an impressive list of credits, including the Emmy-nominated Canadian series The Odyssey, a YTV best actress award and a Gemini nomination. The four young performers are outspoken when it comes to assessing young Hollywood stars.

None of them has much enthusiasm for Brad Pitt despite Hollywood hype naming him the No. 1 teenage heartthrob. However, they all agree that Leonardo DiCaprio is great. "He's the only attractive young actor I've met who isn't a narcissist," Ricci says. says Russell-King, counting them.

It's very much about racism in our own backyards, she adds. "We still have this misconception that it's not really something that touches our lives, or our community, or Canada; that it happens elsewhere." Russell-King and Dean have formed Generic Productions to premiere the play, which is running to Oct. 28, 8 p.m. in the Engineered Air Theatre at the Centre for Performing Arts. Tickets, $14, are at TickefMaster; Tuesday, Wednesday and Sunday shows are half-price.

Angry Housewives: Shove over, Green Day The Angry Housewives are in town. Anna Marie Collins and Chad Hen- ry's hit '80s musical comedy, about four fed-up women who form a foul-mouthed punk band to vent their spleen, has finally arrived in Calgary. Some years ago, a colleague of mine saw this show in Seattle, where it was created and ran for years, thought it was terrific and wondered why no one had done it here. Wonder no more. Down In Front Productions, a new community group formed by musical-theatre performers Suzanne Martin and Kim Clarkson, has mounted a local production that begins a two-week gig at the Pumphouse tonight.

This is really an encore. The pair originally staged Angry Housewives there last spring for a one-week trial run which, despite little publicity, sold out every night. "We got a lot of calls afterwards," says director Martin, "which encouraged us to bring it back." If you want to know what all the fuss is about, you can catch the rerun from now to Oct. 28, Wednesday to Saturday at 8 p.m. Tickets, $14 and $10, are available from the Pumphouse (263-0079).

ltd TV Highlights 6 p.m. Forty years after TV exploited the myth of Wild Bill Hick-ock, Biography tells the real story of the army scout who became known as a quick-draw lawman in the Old West (Ch. 26, repeated at 10 p.m.). 7 p.m. Superchannel gives another airing to The Paper, a fanciful but amusing comedy movie about a New York newspaper war set in the 1990s but populated by 1930s-style eccentrics (Ch.

39). Stars Michael Keaton and Glenn Close. 7 p.m. Adrienne Clarkson Presents goes for baroque with a look at the critically acclaimed orchestra Tafelmusik (Ch. 6-9).

10 p.m. Showcase (Ch. 32) premieres Crocodile Shoes, starring Jimmy Nail (Spender) as an aspiring singer drawn into the seamier side of London's music business (see Bob Blakey column, page C12). Bob Blakey Clubs Ach, aye, they're enuff to make the Scottish school janitor on The Simpsons seem like a wee lamb. The Real McKenzies are the real thing when it comes to energizing the folk-rock genre.

They'll be giving a real show tonight at The Republik, 219 17th Ave. S.W, along with Calgary's reborn Ramada Gods (without whom Core magazine would have nothing to write about). James Muretich Art Attention all lovers of Walter J. Phillips' color woodcut prints. An important selection of the English-born Prairie artist's work is going on sale in Edmonton.

The exhibition opens today from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Douglas Udell Gallery, 10332 124th Edmonton. The works are available for sale only through Oct. 21. For more information, contact Douglas Udell at 488-4445 or fax 488-8335.

Nancy Tousley Performance Art When Swiss artist Gido Dietrich said on the phone that the name of his CalgaryZurich collaborative artists' project was P(sk)eudo Divers, I thought he was saying their performance would be about "scuba divers." Well, that's not right. But Calgary artist Don Mabie, a kingpin of the project, says the sounds-like mistake captures the Da-da flavor of their activities. Tonight, the group of 10 artists will perform P(sk)eudo Divers at 8:30 p.m. at Truck: an artist's run centre. What they actually do, will be the result of three days of workshopping the performance.

It's free. Truck is parked at 210, 209 8th Ave. S.W Nancy Tousley CD-ROMs Who would have guessed those old Atari games could still be fun to play Despite their limited graphics and tinny sound, it's still easy to become addicted all over again. To make it easy to run the old games on your new computer, Activision has brought out the Atari 2600 Action Pack 2 for Windows 95. Inside, you'll find such classics as: Atlantis, Barnstorming, Dolphin, Dragster, Euduro, Ice Hockey, Keystone Kapers, Laser Blast, Megamania, (you can pause for a breath here), Plaque Attack, River Raid Skiing, Stampede and Tennis.

If you loved them then, you'll probably adore them now. Grant McKenzie mckenzigcadvision.com Quotable "There's nothing worse than doing movies on the water. When you get 45 guys on an 80-foot boat and it's pouring rain and there's no place to go and the galley holds about 10, it's like, 'If I give the money back can I go actor Robert Vrich, who recently completed work on a remake of Captains Courageous, on the low side of reel life on the high seas. What's Up Today 1201 Muretich's Record Tracks 1300 Books on Tape 1104 Soap Opera Directory 3450 Horoscopes Directory 3999 Hollywood Starline 3634 Royalty News 3756 Tabloid Talk 3753 Pop Music World 3656 Entertainment World 3657 Preview NOW AND THEN, directed by Lesli Linka Glatter, opens in Calgary on Friday. adult actresses consider their roles to be supporting cameos.

The story unfolds from the perspective of Saman-tha, played by Demi Moore, who has succeeded as a writer but failed in her relationships. Her younger self, a dreamy visionary trying to come to terms with a troubled home life, is played by 13-year-old Gaby Hoffman, best known as the star of the now defunct NBC series Someone Like Me. Aston Moore makes her film debut as housewives hit city stages the fourth girl, a sweetly naive kid called Chrissy. When we meet her in later life she's an extremely pregnant homemaker (played by Rita Wilson) whose imminent childbirth is being assisted by the local doctor, who happens to be O'Donnell. Demi Moore is one of the movie's producers and used her personal clout to have it made for a paltry $10 million.

Glatter says she and Moore simply felt it was time to do a project like this. "The movie is definitely a labor of love," Glatter. "We just don't see enough coming-of-age films about girls. I know that growing up is not a gender issue, but I think that at 12, especially for girls, you don't quite know who you are. You're trying to fit in but K'l I Rob Galbraith, Calgary Herald denying the powerful forces of nature dinner-theatre operation closed in 1991.

But this time, they're aiming for something more than just post-dessert giggles. Russell-King was prompted to write this play after years of volunteer work for the Committee Against Racism. "Finally I just decided I wanted to combine my comedy writing with my political beliefs," explains the play- wright, whose sources of satiric inspiration include This Hour Has 22 Min- utes and the Royal Canadian Air Farce. A zippy comic survey of intolerance in its many forms, Klan Bake is an attempt to provide an entertaining look at a serious subject. It boasts 36 scenes, 80 characters (played by seven community actors) and a wide variety of comic flavors.

"There's spoof, farce, sitcom, romantic comedy, science fiction, fantasy," 1 A is I HI UAl. 7 A i it fry 1 THE BACCHAE: About the dangers of "Visually, they can have a very powerful impact," she says. "You get an instant sense of character with masks." A university production can be ideal for conveying the pageantry of Greek drama, what with all those student actors eager for a crack at the stage. Zyl-stra's got a company of 23, including a dozen actresses just for the Chorus. Performances run Wednesday, -through Saturday to Oct.

28, 8 p.m. in the University Theatre. Tickets, $8 and $6, are at the Campus Ticket Centre (220-7202). Klan Bake: Burning crosses, white-hooded white trash the Glenmore Dinner Theatre was never like this. Klan Bake: The Comedy reunites Glenmore artistic director Zelda Dean and resident writer Caroline Russell-King for the first time since the little 1-.