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Page A10 Wednesday February 25, 1981 Entertainment ih.provaimc Gibbs diffident about art ON TELEVISION Canadian Press EDMONTON Len Gibbs will talk about fishing, sailing or his favorite pub in Victoria, but when it comes to his painting he sounds almost apologetic. "I'm usually terribly disappointed with my work," he said in an interview before the opening of a one-man show in an Edmonton gallery. "I feel an intense emotion about something, sit down and try to paint it. And when I look at it, I think I've failed. I can never seem to recapture that first emotion." Despite his misgivings, the 51-year-old artist has exhibited his work in more than 50 group or one-man shows in Canada, the United States and Europe.

But Gibbs hangs only one of his paintings in his Victoria house one damaged in transit a few years ago. "I'd sooner buy other artists. It's a better investment." Much of Gibbs's new work the familiar Prairie landscapes, barns and cowboys is inspired by his sketching trips around Alberta with friend and fellow painter Meredith Evans. "We travel the back roads, all the way down to the American border. Meredith just loves painting mountains and I love the low lies of the Prairies.

So we just sit back-to- back and sketch facing different directions." The solitary figures or unpeopled rural scenes are the way Gibbs captures a feeling of solitude or peacefulness. "It's one of the few precious things we have left, with the intru sion of every damn thing. "A lot of realist painters painted the Vietnamese war or scenes of violence, whether they lived it or wanted to make a statement. "I've lived in violence. And if I wanted to make a statement, it would be that the world is still a good place to be." One of Gibbs's recent paintings, a portrait of black singer Louise Rose, is a departure from his usual style.

He saw her in a Victoria nightclub, singing and playing the piano "a powerfully magnetic performer." Now that he has made at least one excursion beyond the Prairies scenes and characters, will he ever include the Pacific coast in his landscapes? "Nope. I grew up on the Prairies. That's where my heart is." among the Big Three and CBS was first. After ABC took away the lead two weeks ago, CBS charged back into its accustomed top spot thanks to Dallas and 60 Minutes. Dallas has been No.

1 in 13 of the last 16 weeks. NBC did manage to get three programs in the week's Top 10: Little House on the Prairie in third place; a movie, Angel Dusted, sixth, and a sort of new series, The Brady Girls, eighth. CBS had four Top 10 shows, while ABC had three. Among the new series that didn't do well were CBS's Concrete Cowboys in 65th place and Ladies' Man 66th. (If they had bothered to ask me, I could have told them and saved them bundles of dough.) Another clinker, ABC's rotten series version of the movie Foul Play, was 67th.

The Top 10: Dallas and 60 Minutes, both CBS Little House on the Prairie, NBC; Dukes of Hazzard and MASH, both CBS; movie, Angel Dusted, NBC; Love Boat, ABC; Brady Girls, NBC, and Happy Days and the world TV premiere of the movie, Norma Rae, ABC. Meanwhile, in Canada, allowing for the time lag of BBM ratings, here is what we watched: Super-bowl, CTV, 3.5 million viewers; Hockey Night in Canada, CBC, 3.2 million; Dallas, CBC, 2.8 million; MASH, CBC, 2.7 million; movie, The Other Side of the Mountain, CTV; Terre Humaine, Radio-Canada Dukes of Hazzard, CTV; Diffrent Strokes, CTV; Benson, CTV; and movie Exorcist, CTV. Cheek-of-the-week award goes to market analyst Joe Granville, talking non-stop on the Webster show. Granville, who says his business is the market but his hobby is earthquakes, predicted a big one for the Los Angeles area. He was specific, and added that if pushed for an -exact guess of time and magnitude, he would venture something like April 15, 5:31 in the morning, 23 miles east of Los Angeles, between 8.5 and 8.8 on the Richter scale.

"I pray to God I am wrong, and if it doesn't occur, then God will have answered my prayers." It must have been a tough job, casting Evita Peron. The two-night movie followed the career of the ambitious Argentine from her village to the vice-president's mansion, but it had this problem. According to history, Eva was still a teenager when she reached Buenos Aires to find fame and fortune. She was 26 when she married Juan Peron. She was 33 when she died of cancer.

For better or worse, the NBC show had Faye Dunaway, who turned 40 last month, play the much more youthful Evita. Dun-away is an accomplished although not what I would call a versatile one. Her role in Network was her personal best, just as Virginia Woolf was Elizabeth Taylor's best: It seemed to fit her own style and personality perfectly. But as a scruffy kid out of a crummy, poverty-ridden village, with Katy Jurado as her mother, she seemed almost comically out of place. She looked like a Viking among all those dark-skinned Latins.

Even James Farentino, veteran of dozens of TV series and shows, looked more at home as Peron, although he portrayed him as something of a simpleton. Dunaway's problems, then, are that she can't look poor and she can't act half her age. So many other liberties were taken with the facts that this wouldn't matter, I guess, but the Evita story deserved more than this concoction, complete with ham-handed direction and hams before the camera. Maybe they should have cast Brooke Shields as Evita. It is typical of NBC that it just can't seem to do anything right these days.

The latest Nielsen ratings show that things aren't getting any better. Once again, NBC was last Actress writing diabetes book Associated Press NEW YORK Anyone might be pardoned for doing a double-take on hearing that Elaine Stritch has been commissioned to write a book on diabetes. Is this THE Elaine Stritch, actress, singer and TV performer? Yes, the very same. On a recent visit to New York she described how she found out four years ago she had diabetes. She has even found some humor in the situations caused by the necessity to take insulin as soon as she needs it.

"I accept things in life most readily," the actress, now in her 50s, said of the diabetes. Another facet of the Stritch Canadian cities with a one-man show on Groucho Marx. It's not only her marriage that has planted Stritch in London, it's also the British way of life and way with the theatre. She finds the British theatre considerably less competitive than Broadway, explaining: "People seem to have gone into the theatre and become actors in England because it's the natural thing for a lot of people to do." She has also been on TV in England for seven years and became virtually a household name with the four-year run of a weekend series called Two's Company. And recently she has been doing her own version of the American TV series Maude.

"I don't like to see a good movie twice. I like to live with the memory of the impact that it had on me the first time." So when New York began to seem like a movie she'd seen before, she decided to leave. She admits, too, that living alone in New York was becoming a bit scary. She says the life of a Broadway star may seem glamorous to an outsider, but "ask an actress when she had her last exciting date and you don't always get a positive answer." She wanted to find a man she could love and commit herself to and wasn't finding anyone in New York. She found her man in London.

He is the actor John Bay, who has recently toured various U.S. and- FEB. 25 television (Cable 3) (Cable 4) (Cable S) (Cabt8) (Cable 8) (Cable 11) (Cabla9) (Ticoim) (Cable 12) (Cable 13) (CaMa 7) It sounded ripe for a grant Ml Presents SCOTLAND TMVETJUi RUI Narrated in person by BILL MADSEN Canadian Press CALGARY Karen Noad is hooked on sound. She is fascinated by the way music can be slowed down or speeded up by turning a knob or pressing a button, entirely altering the nature of the piece. "When the producer says, 'I want that punchy, an AM sound so all the teeny-boppers will run out and buy it's up to you to achieve this effect with your equipment," she says.

The 21-year-old Calgary resident has been awarded a $10,000 Canada Council grant to study the intricacies of sound engineering, the first person to Receive a council grant for technical use. When she applied, Noad was told a category for sound engineers did not exist. "I was very skeptical when Karen Noad applied," says Lucille Cousineau-Allard, music officer with the council's awards service. "But the jury was greatly impressed with the tapes she submit- Noad plans to spend her grant money on a 10-month program at the Institute of Audio Research in New York. Although she understands the recording process, she hopes to improve her background in electronics and the behind-the-scenes mechanics of a sound studio.

"Anyone can record a band but to create a great sound you have to understand your equipment inside-out not just know what the knobs do." Returning to school full-time will be a challenge for a woman who dropped out of high school at 17. To acquire first-' hand knowledge she helped out without, pay at Calgary television and radio stations and recording studios. Noad says there is a lot of room for improvement in the recording business. "Canadian talent is going to waste because many studios are only interested in making the bucks and are closed to new talent. To be recorded, you have to be well-known or prepared to pay a lot of money." Hotel Hyatt Regency Ballroom 855 Burrsrd St 1 shows: and 1:30 p.m.

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