18 — THE CITIZEN, Prince George — Tuesday, November 27, 1984 CANADIAN PERFORMERS Holiff offers helping hand VANCOUVER (CP) - If nothing else, David Holiff can get you invited to some of the best Hollywood parties. And if things go well, maybe you’ll be hosting your own. Holiff, who managed comic Howie Mandel to fame and fortune before their falling out earlier this year, operates a Los Angeles firm called Canadian Only Management Consultancy Business, helping Canadian performers get their feet in doors throughout southern California. "There are about three or four thousand Canadians trying to make it down here,” Holiff, 33, said in a telephone interview. “And it’s a whole new world here for them. You can be a star in Canada but when you get to Los Angeles no one has heard of you.” Not many folks had heard of Mandel back in 1978 when Holiff began booking him into Yuk Yuk’s, a Toronto comedy club. One year later he moved Mandel to Los Angeles where he worked his way up to movie parts and a major role in the NBC television series St. Elsewhere. Holiff comes by his show business and sales blood naturally. His uncle, Sol Holiff, managed Johnny Cash for 14 years. His parents began Ambassador Leather Goods with a simple mailorder business. Since his dismissal by Mandel — Holiff is currently suing his ex-employer for breach of contract — Holiff is concentrating on managing Toronto comic Jim Carrey and consulting aspiring Canadians. For $500 to $700, Holiff gives advice on such things as obtaining the all-elusive green card (resident-alien status permitting the artist to work in the United States), finding an agent, manager or business lawyer, getting in touch with casting personnel and how to get the most of promotional photos and videos. Holiff says the key to crawling on top of the talent heap long enough to be noticed is persistence. He’s proud to be called a pest. “You can send in a resume and photo to a studio but they get 5,000 of those things,” he says. “You have to be different. The one thing I’ve always had is persistence. You just keep calling and calling.” Moscow given Muppets MOSCOW (AP) -Kermit the Frog took Manhattan by storm when the Muppets made a movie, and now the green guy, through creator Jim Henson, is talking to the Soviets, including another top puppetma-ster. Henson is making a documentary film about Sergei Obraztsov, who Henson says is “the father of international puppetry.” Henson, 48, using Kermit’s high, gurgling voice, said, “When I started out, I knew nothing about puppets. So I had to read books.” Obraztsov’s book was among the first, he said. Obraztsov, 83, using one of his favorite glove puppets, The Romantic One, said, “This means a great deal, much more than we think. I really believe in these contacts.... You can’t love humanity if you don’t love people. Now I love Henson, and he loves me, I know.” Henson presented Obraztsov with four of his puppets to add to the hundreds in Obraztsov’s Moscow Theatre puppet museum. ★ ★ ★ MILAN, Italy (AP) — Soviet film director Andrei Tarkovsky, who decided in July not to return home, says he wants to stay in Italy, where “Russian artists always have found a privileged creative working atmosphere.” Previous reports have said Tarkovsky, 51, in Italy for the last three years making his film Nostalgia, .might seek asylum in the United States. His most popular production was the 1966 Andrei Rublev, about a 15th century monk. A copy smuggled to the West won wide acclaim at the Cannes Festival. ★ ★ ★ MASSAPEQUA, N.Y. (AP) — Singer Engelbert Humperdinck, who collapsed before a scheduled performance earlier this week, “has some residual swelling of his windpipes,” but should soon return to work, a doctor says. 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