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Pages HILLS OUTLOOK Friday Outlook Armchair critics of Canadian television Armchair critics of Canadian tele vision Have been known to complain that the trouble with Canadian tele vision Is that It merely copies can television I don suggest there Is absolutely no basis for such complaint be difficult la level that charge against a CBC hourlong program called The Real Stuff which is set to air on Sunday evening March on TV network The title is a parody of Tom Wolfe book The Right Stuff which was turned into a moderately interesting the American The Real Stuff produced and dl reeled by John is an absorb ing look at the Snowbirds Canada world famous Jet acrobatic team cot some Invaluable help from a fine team of tors coproducers second unit rectors all of whom receive well earned credit at end Of the pro gram But most visible help came from pop composer David best known perhaps for his work also with on Tears Are Enough Foster provided the music for The Heal Stuff and also served as on camera host for the pro gram I like most about The Real Stuff Is not the stunningly beautiful aerial photography although that certainly laudable but the fact that the show high quality was achieved without the kind of spe cial effects that have become so com In presentday TV and films and Foster set out to give us a closeup look at the nine Canadl who make up the Snowbirds and they had enough confidence In their subject lo avoid the sort of gimmickry that so easily could have turned this program into yet another dreary ex ample of the triumph of style over content It gratifying also to see thai Za ritsky found time to Include some foot Face in the crowd GEORGETOWN CINEMAS STREET STARTS TODAY J I f- Mai Sat 3 3rd GREAT WEEK Whan tw comes to Ms cor happen I fl Evtnlngat700SS1G Matin Sun STARTS TODAY 2 NOMINATED CI DENT SPECIAL MATINEE STEVEN SPIELBERG presents An American age of Snowbird wives along with some or their comment on the work their husbands do And It also pleasing to see that the usually ground crew are given some measure of credit Apart from the footage of the planes during their breath taking aerial maneuvers what stands out In the memory after you see The Real Stuff are some of the telling com made by the Snowbirds them selves Here ore some I recall I scared of heights I can t look over a Balcony I get Stay It burl to get scared It helps keep you honest J always butterflies in my stomach walking out to the plane I know right now It the best Job I ever have So for two years you re a hero Next to sex It s the best thing Classifying The Real Stuff as a doc umentary Is probably accurate enough but I urge you not to be put off by that mlsleadmgly dry ration It a a most entertaining pro gram one that all those were in volvcd In should be proud of You may remember a story here some months ago about Bob the Vancouver based minstrel and his show Bosslns Home Remedy For clear War It a witty and sane look In musical form at the horror of the nuclear age Boss In taken to the road again tcr a winter layover and he In midst of a string of dates across Can ada This month be already baa put on his show In a few places In Ontario and Alberta but there are still quite a number of scheduled performances to Unity Saskatchewan and Reglna From Marches to April Home Remedy For Nuclear War can be seen at the Prairie Theatre Ex change in Winnipeg Between April 12 andlS he will do his show at the Great Canadian Theatre Company In Then come some scattered dates Aprils In Windsor Mav2 at naimo B and Mart In Vancouver From MayMtoJO hell be at the nadian Popular Theatre Alliance Con in Sydney S Names Names Names Andre Gagnon will compose music for the Stratford Festivals production of The School For Scandal And veteran do Agostinl will perform the same function tor the same festival s pro duction of Othello All you Ed fans can catch him as a school on hlfncw scries The Bronx Zoo which debuts this week on Global TV Is the host Sun day MarehM of a special called The Ticker Test It deals with the est statistics and developments about heart disease A Nest Of Singing Birds Is the title of a TV movie cur shooting in Saskatoon Its based on the Susan Charlotte Haley novel and is being directed by Eric Till from a script by Jo Sheila McCarthy and Barry MacGre- star And rector Don ald who did Canada Sweet heart is preparing a threepart film biography of William Lyon Mackenzie King Singer Louisa career got an early boost last year was In troduced to audiences across Canada on Roger tour of this country The young Toronto singer Is Harris Beat written way back In by Greenwich and Tony Powers and was recorded by Darlene Love The record dido do that well back then but Greenwich has been rediscovered of Isle and with the boomers reaching the age of nostalgia this new version by Louisa could break through Have you noticed by the way now many TV commercials now use songs from the 1960s That a because to day 30yearold viewers relate to those songs of their youth Is the subject of a onehour television profile due on March on CBC Callagnan now In his 80s Is the author of some dozen navels and about short stories and he still a feisty and fascinating man On the TV program Callagnan looks back at his Hie and career In eluding his time In Paris with ihe likes of Ernest Hemingway Scott Fitzge rald and James Joyce Also appearing In affectionate tribute are Timo thy MarieClaire and Callagnan sons Barry and Michael Inside Howie My friends make fun of me but I need noise I sleep with Ihe television on Wnen I a baby couldr was quiet My vacuum cleaner on ai my bed No offense Howie but I sometimes sleep with the television on too SPECIALS Thursday Is Ladies Night THURS APRIL 16th THE ULTIMATE BEACH PARTY Door Prizes and Bikini a Bum Contest DAIL DINNER SPECIALS- FBI SAT SPECIALS JJJGfl 6788 Restaurant l NORTH