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The Vancouver Sun from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada • 56

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The Vancouver Suni
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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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56
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ENTERTAINMENT 6 She Vancouver 5un thurs, dec. 3,11 URGENT NOTICE cJ Film industry lobbying Ottawa case as we can about the seriousness of this situation for the film industry and we hope the Department of Finance will see the justice of the arguments. If the film industry has its way, the existing scheme, known as a capital cost allowance, would be extended until until Jan. 1, 1983. The allowance was granted by Ottawa in 1974 as an incentive to Canadian CONTRACTED OVERSEAS COLLECTION NO RESERVES AN EXCELLENT TIME TO BEAUTIFY YOUR HOME WITH FINEST QUALITY, RARE AND VALUABLE STOCK OF P0n0IAJo6ll0TALQU8S WILL BE SOt-O BY AUCTION TO PUBLIC.

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B.C. TERMS: CASH, APPROED CHEQUES OR VISA feature film development MONTREAL The Canadian film and television industry is lobbying with unusually quiet resolve to recover a tax concession stripped away by last month's federal budget Sandra Macdonald, film policy adviser to Communications Minister Francis Fox, confirmed in an interview Tuesday that meetings had taken place among the industry, Fox and the Finance Department with a view to maintaining at least temporarily 100 percent deductibility for investments in Canadian films. The budget changed the rules so that effective Jan. 1, investors may claim a deduction of only 50 per cent in the first year and the rest the year after. Discussions are at an "an extremely delicate stage," she said.

"We've simply made as strong a After the budget came down, representatives of almost 30 organizations and unions comprising virtu ally the entire native film and television industry met quietly in Montreal to prepare a united response. One producer, Montrealer Joe Beaubien said: "It's not the budget we're against per se, it's the sudden BOKHARA CARPET PALANCE VAN, ness of the modification. Canadian Press ''it f. JACKSON and BOGARDE portray Patri cia Neal and Roald Dahl Road to recovery oflfl 3 By JERRY BUCK LOS ANGELES Ken Kercheval in his role as a neurosurgeon fears that emergency brain surgery has saved Patricia Neal life, only to leave the actress totally helpless. Kercheval plays Dr.

Charles Carton, who per formed the life-saving operation on Neal after she was stricken with a massive brain hemor rhage on Feb. 17, 1965. The surgeon was pessi mistic about her chances for recovery, knowing that stroke victims reach a point after which no further progress is made. Neal, who won an Academy Award for her performance in Hud, did recover and returned to acting. Her incredible recovery apparently was due in part to the forceful assistance of her hus band, author Roald Dahl.

Glenda Jackson, a two-time Oscar winner, and Dirk Bogarde, star as Neal and her husband in The Patricia Neal Story, which will be shown Tuesday at 9 p.m. on Chs. 7 and 21. It is a marvellous movie about love and strength and determination and the human Vmm mm wmM iiijimii wmmmmmm SDirit. 'l It was written by Robert Anderson, a play wright and Oscar-winning screenwriter, with Anthony Harvey as director of the American se quences and Anthony Page as director of those shot in England.

Kercheval, who stars as Cliff Barnes on CBS's Dallas, says that after he received a copy of the script, he went through it looking for what he calls "typewriter writing." "That's dialogue that comes out of the typewriter," he says. "The WV '4. author may thmk it sounds good, but it's totally unacceptable. This script was a marvellous surprise. There was not a line that had to be chang ed." 'it Most of his scenes were at the hospital, and mmmmmmm were with Bogarde.

"What a treat that was act I I ing with him," Kercheval says. "In my final ft scene, I tell him what he can expect Pat's condi mmmm tion to be. I told a friend that night if you just cut back and forth between us without sound you would still know what was going on." Before shooting began, he met with the real 8 5 ir i Dr. Carton. "Larry Schiller, the producer, men tioned that Dr.

Carton collects art prints," Kercheval says. "So do 1. 1 went to a print dealer and asked him to tell me about him. I think he was taken aback when we finally met because I knew so much about He visited hospitals with Dr. Carton and read books that his family physician recommended.

were things in the script I had no idea SDH' about," he says. "1 read these books, and when it came time for me to say the dialogue I knew more about it than what was in the script. So it really looked like I was scaling down to talk to Dirk. WSA St 2000 "My main goal was to make it look like it was llllllllllilllg n't Ken Kercheval playing doctor. My father was a doctor and for five generations back there are doctors in my family." Illlllll IliiiillilS Kercheval appeared in many musical come dies on Broadway before going into television and motion pictures.

When he was called to audi tion for Dallas he sais he wanted the role of the ranch foreman, now played by Steve Kanaly. "I didn't want to be a lawyer again," he says. "I wanted to be a cowboy. But they asked me to take the role of Cliff and my rent was coming due. I took the job." Associated Press i This is the actual size of the Sony BetaPak, the world's first truly portable portable VCR.

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And when we say portable, we mean portable. The BetaPak SL2000. SONY newest innovation in home video technology. Itls light Weighing in at a mere nine pounds, four ounces. Which means it's the firsUruly portable portable Betamax video cassette ever.

So, instead of struggling with bulky VCR units that restrict and constrict, the BetaPak allows you to do your videotaping just about anywhere you care to do it. Put it together with the SONY colour video camera and the SONY TT-2000 tuner-timer and you've got the complete home video system. (By the way, you can play back your tapes through any television.) Of course, the BetaPak has all the features of its big brother, the Betamax. BetaScan II gives you full search capabilities at fast, normal and slow speeds in both directions, plus Videola CANADA LTD. MONTRFAl TORONTO, OTTAWA.

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