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Page 11 HILLS OUTLOOK Saturday February Entertainment Canadas first mainstream horror novelist Alice Cooper who has been called the King of horror rock t spend ail his time thinking up bizarre acts Tor his stage per He has been known to pick up a book or two Along with a growing number of others Cooper has become enthralled with the forts of a relatively new writer Michael is Canada lint In mainstream horror novelist He Is already being com pared at least by his publisher MaeMillan of Canada with American Stephen King and tain s Clive Barker second novel Ghoul hits the bookshelves March l This threeheaded six armed HI I Thomson News J Service ror writer Is raising as many hackles with Ghoul as with Headhunter the first Slade novel Just like the characters in Ghoul though there really is no Michael Slade is the pen name of Jay Jay Clarke and Banks are Van lawyers who special lie in cases of the criminally Insane Bet ween them they have been in more than murder cases Few could have been as bizarre as the novels they write Reading Michael Slade said Cooper Is like taking an advanced course in psycho horror stunned me Ghoul convulsed me This book is terrifying I put It down It I a novel hat shock some VCR owners Sony ac complished this recently with a pie announcement bony once a giant in the home video field with its Beta VCRs rock cd the video Industry when It an it will star selling V1IS video cassette recorders this spring Sony was the last major holdout against a format that now claims about 90 per cent of the video Sony pledges to continue to manufacture Us Beta But Beta s days are limited as everyone who purchased a Beta VCIi must realize Movie studios and tape manufacturers were already culling back on Beta pro duction for the home market tour The Tom Russell Band has releas its Canadian debut album Road to Bo yam on Ian Tyson feels this Is the best band In Canada Russell a landed immigrant was Tyson a cowriter for Navajo Rug he Canadian Country Music Association single of the year Its Been So Long album in five years struck the right note with a number of critics The group by Walsh and singer Tony has set out on a crossCanada promo- Barry Manilow takes a trip down Swing Street next month for first TV In eight yean The Emmy Grammy Tony award winner dances and sings his way down a street populated by a cast of colorful characters and noted musicians The music ranges from Jazz to rhythm and blues to pop Barry Manilow Big Fun on Swing Street will be shown in Canada March7byCTV BRIDGE James Alert defense holds it to 10 It not high drama when a careful defensive play does nothing more than irevent an ridge If you want the deal to be more Interesting pretend the contract is five hearts doubled and redoubled West onespade was somewhat daring but it has become acceptable to with a good fourcard suit at the onelevel with a band of opening strength but without the correct shape or a takeout double Influenced by his partners spade raise West led the spade ace It was now toe responsibility of East to suggest a shift It was obvious to West not to play a second spade so the card contributed by East to the opening lead would show strength in one of the minor suits a high spade would Indicate good diamonds a low card would show highcard values in clubs the lower of the remaining stilts Although East did not have much In el ther minor suit his clubs were better than bis diamonds so he played the spade two West dutifully switched to a low club but there was still more to I be done to prevent declarer from I stealing an Declarer won the club ace played A K of diamonds and a low diamond Bat West was ready be ruffed In with the ace of hearts and cashed the king of clubs to bold Sooth to his con tract Or for those of you who chose to dramatise the situation the contract of five hearts doubled and redoubled was down one