22 - The Prince George Citizen - Tuesday, January 5, 1993
Entertainment
UNFORGIVEN HONORED
THE FAR SIDE
By GARY LARSON
SHIRLEY SOLOMON
ABC adds Canadian to talk lineup
TORONTO (CP) — ABC has bought the Canadian daytime talk show Shirley.
The show hosted by Shirley Solomon will continue to be seen on CTV and will be added to the ABC schedule in April where it will remain for at least a year, CTV said Monday.
“This U.S. deal is a dream come true,” Solomon said in a news release.
The show, which is produced by Solomon’s husband, Les Kotilcr, follows the provocative U.S.-style talk show format.
Topics debated by panelists and the studio audience have included sado-masochistic sex, gay cops and cross-dressers. An upcoming topic is whether rapists should be castrated.
“The show’s roots will not be disturbed,” Arthur Weinthal, CTV’s vice-president of entertainment programming, said in the release.
“The qualities that have made Shirley successful in Canada are what attracted ABC to the show in the first place and maintaining these roots is crucial to its continued success.”
Top country
Here are the week’s Top 10 country singles in the United States, based on sales, as compiled by Billboard magazine.
1 Don’t Let our Love start slippin’ Away — Vince Gill
2 Somewhere Other than the Night — Garth Brooks
3 Sure Love — Hal Ketchum
4 Walkaway Joe — Trisha Yearwood
5 Look Heart, No Hands — Randy Travis
6 She’s Got the Rhythm — Alan Jackson
7 Life’s a Dance — John Michael Montgomery
8 Love Without Mercy — Lee Roy Parnell
9 Too Busy Being in Love — Doug Stone
10 Anywhere But Here — Sammy Kershaw
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Eastwood critics’ choice
NEW YORK (AP) — Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven, a bleak Western about frontier justice, swept the National Society of Film Critics awards, winning best picture, best director, best screenplay and best supporting actor.
Eastwood, the film’s star and director, also was runner-up for best actor of 1992.
Of the society’s 35 member critics from major newspapers and magazines, 25 were present to vote Sunday for the annual awards at the Algonquin Hotel.
The critics chose Irish director Neil Jordan’s The Crying Game as runner-up in the best picture category. In third place was Robert Altman’s The Player.
As best director, Eastwood was followed by Altman and Jordan in second and third place, respectively.
The Chinese film Raise the Red Lantern, director Zhang Yimou’s study of marital repression in pre-revolution China, was named best foreign language film. Second in
that category was the Finnish film The Match Factory Girl, directed by Aki Kaurismaki.
Other awards:
■ Best screenplay: David Webb Peoples for Unforgiven. Runner-up: Neil Jordan for The Crying Game.
■ Best actor: Stephen Rea as the IRA soldier in The Crying Game. I Best actress: Emma Thompson as a woman tom by class prejudice in the British film Howards End. Runner-up: Susan Sarandon in Light Sleeper and Lorenzo’s Oil.
■ Best supporting actor: Gene Hackman as die genial but sadistic sheriff in Unforgiven. Runner-up: Jaye Davidson in The Crying Game.
■ Best supporting actress: Judy Davis as a distraught woman separated from her husband in Woody Allen’s Husbands and Wives. Runner-up: Miranda Richardson in The Crying Game, Enchanted April and Damage.
■ Best documentary: Director Barbara Kopple’s American Dream, which follows a strike at a Hormel
Year’s top videos
by Associated Press
Here arc 1992’s most popular videos, based on sales and rentals in the United States, as listed in this week’s issue of Billboard magazine. Copyright 1993, Billboard Publications, Inc. Reprinted with permission.
SALES
1 Fantasia — Disney
2 101 Dalmatians — Disney
3 The Jungle Book — Disney
4 Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves — Warner
5 Cherfitness: A New Attitude — Fox
6 Fievel Goes West — MCA-Universal
7 1992 Playboy Video Playmate Calendar — UniDist
8 Home Alone — Fox
9 The Rescuers Down Under
— Disney
10 Playboy: Sexy Lingerie IV
— UniDist
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1 Thelma and Louise — MGM-UA
2 The Silence of the Lambs —
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3 The Fisher King — Columbia TriStar
4 City Slickers — Columbia TriStar
5 Backdraft — MCA-Universal
6 Cape Fear — MCA-Universal
7 The Hand That Rocks the Cradle — Hollywood
8 Father of the Bride — Touchstone
9 Deceived — Touchstone
10 What About Bob? — Touchstone
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plant in Minnesota. Runner-up: Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky’s Brother’s Keeper, which documents the trial in upstate New York of an illiterate man accused of murdering his brother.
■ Best cinematography: Raise the Red Lantern, with Zhao Fei as the director of photography. Runner-up: Laws of Gravity, director Nick Gomez’ film about machismo in working-class Brooklyn, with Jean de Segonzac as the director of photography.
The critics also cited Michael Almereyda’s Another Girl Another Planet for “expanding the possibilities of experimental film making, including the use of a Pix-elvision toy camcorder,” a $40 US apparatus.
The 27th annual awards were dedicated to the memory of Stephen Harvey, film critic of Inquiry magazine and curator for the Museum of Modem Art department of film, who died of AIDS on Friday.
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