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THE PROVINCE, Thursday, April 21, 1983 B5 Entertainment srit ish Columbia's TV trade looking at alternatives to the ACTRA awards I f- A 7 Hi I -mf--J' 3 Vancouver Premieres QUEEN ELIZABETH PLAYHOUSE April 21-23 8 p.m. rickets available at all VTC CBO outlets (687-4444) or charge by phone 687-1818 Artistic Director Renald Rabu the project's pushers, said the purpose of the new awards is to "establish a single awards ceremony that would be representative of the best of Canadian TV." Aside from the clubby atmosphere of the ACTRA awards is the legitimate complaint that the awards are restricted mainly to actors and writers. No awards are given for director or for the crafts. Target date for the Bijou debut is January, 1984. (I may even start watching award shows again.) The six-per-cent surtax slapped on cable and pay TV should not have come as a surprise to anyone.

It fell out of the Liberal cabinet sieve last fall, as one of the many changes that Communications Minister Francis Fox was mulling. It was, of course, leaked to counteract the drippings from the Applebert commission that was planning to recommend the CBC be sent to the knackers. The millions thus derived from thee and me would be directed towards producers who would churn out wondrous Canadian-content films, thus ending forever our branch-plant dependency upon the United States for entertainment. That's the plan. However, Parton's Eighteenth Law states that whenever a special tax is set up for a special purpose, it somehow ends up in general revenue.

(Quick quiz: When the B.C. sales tax was set up in 1948, for what purpose were the funds to be used? You are getting old if you remembered it was called SS and MA for Social Security and Municipal Aid. And, naturally, it was changed again, with the money going into "consolidated The trouble with the six per cent, as I see it, is that it will swell like a sponge dropped into the public trough. The cable operators, if they have any smarts and they do will likely ease into their next rate-increase application the fact that they did not oppose the introduction of this tax, and so the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission just might take this into consideration when assessing the increase sought. The other reservation I have is that taxes are like herpes: Once you got it, you never can get rid of it.

Read Lome Parton's views daily, except Friday and Monday. Of Bijous and burgeoning six-per-cent solutions: It took long enough, but people are beginning to gather together in disaffected groups and discuss an alternative to the ACTRA awards. As I have said in the past, the awards have never been more than an intra-union stroke festival. Given longevity in the trade, everyone in Canadian television would eventually win an ACTRA award providing he was a member in good standing of ACTRA. Because ACTRA has fully penetrated only the CBC, the result is always the same: like Ivory, 99 and forty-four-one-hundreds-percent pure CBC.

With CTV long boycotting the awards which is something like my boycotting the Nobel prizes and the independents fighting over the other 56100 of a percentage point, things threatened to remain uniquely Canadian. But now with pay TV, and all kinds of money being promised to independent producers, and with the CTV Gordon Pin-sent movie and he is a member of ACTRA something has to be done. According to one spokesman for an interested party, they've already selected the Box Office 637-1644 name for the award: the Bijou, nicely bilingual and show-bizzy. Having picked the name before setting the ground rules might be putting the horse astern the cart, but then, it is no stranger than building a stadium in a town. Among those interested in the Bijou-to-replace-ACTRA-awards movement are the two networks, the independents, ACTRA itself, producers and the Academy of Canadian Cinema, which is responsible for the Genie awards for (theatrical) Canadian movies.

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5:30 (2 tor 1 at door) Today's television, Thursday, April 21 VANCOUVER MUSICAL THEATRE LG73 PRESENTS Ann OPENS TONIGHT 8:30 11 a.m. 2 Sesame Street 4 Family Feud 5 Just Men 6 At Eleven (lhr) 7,12 Young The Restless (lhr) 8 Headline Hunters 9 Draw Man 11 Andy Griffith 13 Bullseye 1 8 Home Gardener 21 Family Feud 26 Let Trouvailles De Cle- Will Still Blow Your Mind! CENTENNIAL THEATRE 123 E. 23rd, N. VAN. April 21-30 TKT8: VTCCBO, N.

Van. Flee. Cantre) Young. Young mountain woman falls in love with a married engineer. (1J4 hrs)" Movie: Women in Love (dra.

1970) D. H. Lawrence's story about a turbulent love affair. (2Vi hrs) Movie: Son of a Guu-flghter (wes. 1966) Russ Tamblyn.

Son seeks revenge against his outlaw father by teaming with a bounty hunter. (2 hrs)'W PBS Latenlght: Henry Ford II 700 Club Tom Cottle: Unemployment, Part 1 Movie: One Minute to Zero (bw, adv. 1952) Ann Blyth, Robert Mitchum. Korean War drama about a hard-bitten infantry colonel and a civilian worker. (2hrs)" 12:30 Late Night With David Letterman News A COMIC REFRESHMENT Simon Webb, Andy Rhodes.

Annabel Kershaw, Linda Boyd David King Directed by Mario Crudo 8:30 This Frl. 8:30 Sat. 7 4 9 30 11 13 21 11 p.m. 2 Newscentre 4 News (local) 5 News (local) 6,8 News (Nat.) 7 News (local) 11 Benny Hill 12 Dave Allen 13 Saturday Ray Charles 21 City Lights: Chuck Norris 11:20 6 Van. Is.

News 8 News Hour Final 11:30 2 Barney Miller 4 Campaign News Coverage 5 Tonight Show: Priscilla Barnes, Mickey Rooney 7 Close Up 11 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman 12 QuIncy.M.E. 21 Sounds Good 11:35 9 It's Your Move: Eric Syke's silent film about a honeymoon couple's moving day. 11:45 7 QuIncy.M.E. Midnight 2 Movie: Spitfire (bw, 1934) Robert LIVE THEATRE YOUR BEST ENTERTAINMENT 9:30 2 McGarrigle Sisters 4,8 It Takes Two 5 Cheers 18 Math for Modern Living 10 p.m. 2 The Nat'LThe Journal 4 News Closeup: On Borrowed Time.

Examination of the international debt crisis. (1 hr) 5,8 Hill Street Blues 6 Memories With Lawrence Welk 7 Tucker's Witch 9 Movie: The Blue Dahlia (bw, mys. 1946) Alan Ladd. An ex-serviceman is accused of killing his wife. 11 News 12 Benny Hill 13 Baretta 18 Stranded 26 Pile Ou Face 10:30 12 News 26 Free Political: Social Credit 10:37 26 Free Political: Liberal 10:45 26 Cinema: Meurtre a haute tension, (dra.

1970) Suzy Kendall. arts cms SEYMOUR ST. Ma A rttawcui 21 Charlie's Angels 26 Bobino 4:30 2 What's New 5 Lie Detector 11 Bewitched 12 Hogan's Heroes 18 Job Package 26 Pop-Cltroullle 5 p.m. 2 Newscentre 4 News (local) 5 News (locai) 6 Maude 7 News (local) 8 Hawaii Five-0 9 Mister Rogers 11 What's Happening 12 Chips 13 Little House On The Prairie 18 Path Of The Paddle 21 News (News) 26 LaChasse AuxTresor 5:30 2 6 Vancouver Island News 9 3-2-1 Contact 11 Laverne Shirley 18 Spread Your Wings 5 p.m. 2 Newscentre 4 News (Nat.) (cc) 5 News (Nat.) 6,8 News Hour (lhr) 7 News (Nat.) 9 Business Report 11 Soap 12 M'A'S'H 13 Eight Is Enough 18 Time of Your Ufe (lhr) 21 First News cont.

26 VlvreaTrols 6:30 4 News (local) 5 News (local) 7 PM Magazine: Woman who is trying to set a nonstop bicycling record; how farmers can get milk from computers. 9 MacNellLehrer Report 11 Three's Co. 12 Three's Co. 26 Monsieur LeMlnlstre A Corrttjy by Allan Stration Slarhno Alana Shintrla 13 TO APR- SO HELD OVEJRTU rn Set. 6 30 9 30 Thyrt Mat.

5:30 (2 tor 1 at door) Ana Club nMrvations U7-1644 12:45 7,12 McCloud 1am. 4 PM Northwest 9 Evening Edition 11 Final Report Qroup Rales Available bin Mulvaney Dine' Theatre Qui Advance Tlx VTC CBO outlets Eaton a wocdwimi ee7-i8e 7:30 2 Free Political: Social Credit 5 Tic Tac Dough 4 The Muppet Show: Lesley Ann Warren 6 Live It Up (cc) 7 Special: Taiwan: The Other China 8 Littlest Hobo (cc) 9 Butterflies: Part 6 of 13 11 Bamey Miller 12 Mary Tyler Moore 26 Telejournal National 7:45 2 Free Political: NDP 8 p.m. 2 Drama: Best of Both Worlds. Romantic comedy about a young East Indian whose parents want him to marry a bride from India. (IVi hrs) (cc) 4 Benson 5 Fame 6 Hart To Hart (cc) 7,8 Magnum, P.I.

9 Sneak Previews 11 Special: They Cry Alone 12 Movie: Bless the Beasts and the Children (dra. 1971) Bill Mumy. Six misfit boys attempt to stop the slaughter of buffalo. (2 13 Special: Believe You Can and You Can. 18 Intro Biology 26 Les Grand Films: Breezy (com.

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