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Outlook Lifestyle Friday Aprili a boon to Toronto film industry Visit To A Village Big 1m week for the official opening of a new large and Impres live facility for film ana video produc tion to serve the burgeoning Toronto movie and television industry Two major companies got together to build Cinevillage which will cover some four acres of land lust minutes from downtown Toronto They are At lantls which already has a good track record in the production of TV films and scries Airwaves Ray Bradbury Theatre Really weird Tales and S Production Services Tales Ltd equipment The combined facllli expected to attract film and TV pro ducers from across Canada and well as giving Atlantis a useful home base Communications minister Flora passed up the to slay home and watch herself on TV on CTV The Campbells go hat she on band to officially open Cln As big parties go It was a good one Several bund red Invited guests crammed the premises browsing ex changing trade gossip refilling their glasses from one or another of half a wellstocked bars dancing to a group called The Cadillacs There was a sprinkling of celebrities Megan Follows Cordon various representatives of Telefilm Can ads the Ontario Film Development Corporation numerous Independent producers lawyers accountants agents acton and hordes of people who work in film or TV and Just love No objections to quarry land switch to homes The town has no objection to quarry lands be con residential use in J Duff Ltd the Niagara Escarpment Plan amended la redesignate three acres of is I censed t area Part Lot Con from resource ex tract on to escarpment rural The property has been rehabilitated and fins grass some trees and shrubs along its southern and western perimeters NEC staff also feci res would be com pal for Ih property Duff also another I from mineral resource extraction to escarpment protection and escarpment natural areas lands arc also part of he Duff licensed pit area but lhe Town councilors have no to this on by Duff either When I took back at all the Im pacts and problems we havt v in the aggregate Industry I think of any better use to put the land to residential use Pom Sheldon sold Monday night to party Plus a fair number of those anonymous young people who dress like Juno nominees One of the attractions was a tour of Cinevillage Sound Stage D the first of four such sound stages sched uled to be built Already In place there Is part of set for Q a 10- hour series of children s programs be ing produced by Atlantis films start leg April Atlantis Films headed by three bright graduates of Queen Univer sity Michael MaeMillan Janice Piatt and McLean has done re markably well since It was formed In One of Its short films Boys and Barris Beat Girls won an Oscar In 1984 and was nominated the following year Us true hat film production is booming In Canada these days from coast to coast It also true that much of this business represents American production on location partly to take advantage of the dollar exchange But Its hope that the combination of Ihe growing agenda of Atlantis Films and availability of a first rate facility for outside produc ers Canadian American and Euro pean will add up to a happy future for this bold new venture No one in his right mind would wish them anything but the very best of luck Has anyone pointed out that the casting of Howard Rollins to play tbe title role in Othello at this years Stratford Festival represents the tint time a black actor has been cast in that splendid role or Indeed in any other starring role the his from Ragtime for which he got an Academy Award nomination and from Norman 1985 movie A Soldier Story He was recently appearing Is where Stratford artistic director John Neville saw him and made the decision a star Rollins as Othello Colncldentally the of 1 Not Ranpsport opens nut week at the Royal Alexandra Theatre with Paul Soles and Leon Bibb In the leading roles The award by Hero Gardner wrote A Thou sand Clowns Is being mounted for the famed Toronto theatre with a cost that includes Michael and Is being directed by Guy Spring It interesting too that tils pro duction pairs a Torontobased actor Soles with a Vancouver based The show is slated to run for six weeks a movie like Charing Cross There is not one single car chase In There Is not one single deafening ex plosion It have so much as one mur der If offers no nudity frontal or other wise nary a rape there is no Incest and nobody Is suffering from AIDS There are no spies double agents traitors It has no rock music no special feels no tan Lathing slow motion and no closeups There are no drug busl not even any drugs It does not expose child abuse or preach for prison reform It does not address capital punishment or es pouse any political philosophy All It has to offer are charm wit warmth an Intelligent script subdued and outstanding by Anne Bancroft and An bony Hopkins And if uat sounds like a sneaky en dorsement of Charing Cross Road ProiAcf SCOTCH TAPES OR BETA NOW ON SPECIAL St Georgetown 3686 Nice Note Department Got a scrib ble from Jack Jensen of The Rhythm Pals telling me be reads this column In the B Courier He and his wife moved to the from Ontario and he says they love It there He and the other two Pals Mike and Hare are now in their year to gether and arc still plunking out those country songs Names Names Names Fred Da vis Betty Kennedy Pierre will go on for a list season of Front Page Challenge beginning next fall Actor Lloyd and writer AI Ian Mailings are Joining forces to make a feature film In Canada next year The title as of this moment Is Four Days Anne Of Green Gable The Sequel honest the title will run December and on for a total of Megan Follows stars of course with Collet again as plus Barbara ton Schuyler Grant and Jonathan Crumble Leon the brilliant young director of Dancing In The Dark Is dickering tor his next pro ject The Stone Angel based on the Margaret Laurence novel That one as well as another Laurence novel The Diviners will be made by Atlan tis Films And bow long can 11 be before some bright producer finds vehicle that will team Genie winners Martha Henry and Gordon Their first fait record The Lonely Bull launched both Alpertl TfJuanaBrassandtheAIMlabel To mark the anniversary Alpert has Just released a new album called Keep Your Eye On Me EXHIBITION AND SALE VALUE CONTINUES TO INCREASE ON THIS FAMOUS CANADIAN ARTISTS DRAMATIC SCRAPERBOARD AND PENCIL WORK ROBERT POW SIGNED LIMITED EDITION PRINTS THE FRAMING CENTRE 348 Guelph St GEORGETOWN 8777491 ENTER AT BELL GLASS 877631 0