C4 - Friday, September 21, 1984 - North Shore News

Gl entertainment ae
Good looks do not
counter weak acting

BO DEREK is looking for ecstacy but all she can
find in her latest and worst film yet, Bolero, is ex-
tacy. If poor spelling was the only problem with
this movie, it might spell success for Bo’s director
and husband John. But it turns out that not only is
hubby John a lousy movie director, he can’t even
successfully sell Bo’s body to the theatre crowd.

Bolero is so bad that it
doesn’t even rate to be called
a B grade porn flick. In fact,
the only excuse for this film
may well turn out to be that
after trying to edit it, the pro-
ducers found themselves with
the entire film lying on the
cutting room floor. This led
them to scrap the idea of
making a serious film and left
them hoping the audience
would think it was a comedy.

No such luck.

It only leaves peopie crying
over the $5 they wasted see-
ing it.

Bo might have gotten away
with starring in Bolero if she
had not been called upon to
do something she can't do.
Act. Delivering her lines like
some cute litthe hostess wear-

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By COLIN LAMONT

ing Mickey Mouse ears at
Disneyland, Bo soon makes
even the more admiring male
forget about her body. All
you want to do is reach the
end of Bolero without falling
asleep.

That’s hard to do when
even the characters are falling
asleep. Bolero is about Bo’s
hard fought battle to lose her
virginity. It’s her graduation
present to herself, after com-
ing of age and gaining her
substantial inheritance. So,
with her chauffeur friend and
schoolmate she sets off to
find an Arab sheik to aid her
in her quest.

A quick jaunt to Morocco

Whittaker in

Vancouver

FROM MID August te mid
October, Roger Whittaker is
on tour in North America.
He will be in Vancouver for
four performances from Fri-
day, September 28 to Mon-
day, October | at the Queen
Elizabeth Theatre.

It has been almost two
years since Roger appeared in
Vancouver and in the mean-
time he has continued to
establish a firm foothold in
the major entertainment
markets of the world.

In 1982 he returned home
to Kenya to make the ex-
citing, yet highly personal
musical film ‘‘Roger Whit.
taker in’ Kenya’’ which has
since enjoyed critical success
all ever the world.

His single ‘‘Albany’’ rose
to the top of the charts on the

German Hit Parade, he
headlined his own TV
special for BBC T V , and in
the U.S.A his “All Time
Hearttouching Favorites”’
album was an outstanding
hat

In 1983, Whittaker toured
the United States in’ two
segments, cast and west, per-

formed at a Royal Gala
Charity and sold over a
milhon copies of a new

album in Germany.

ROGER WHITTAKER

This year Roger has
already toured Britain, Ger-
many, Austria and Scan-
dinavia - several dates at ma+
jor summer fairs in’ the
United States and a 40 con-

cert tour of Canada
progress.

Tickets for Roger Whit-
taker In Concert are on sale
now for the four Vancouver
appearances - prices are the
same as two years ago
$18.50, $15.50 and $12.50
plus surcharge and are
available through al! bran-
ches of Vancouver Ticket
Centre, CBO - including
Eatons and Woodward's
stores

is in

ANIER

lands her in a sheik’s tent,
deep in the heart of the burn-
ing sands of the Sahara
desert. At last, thinks Bo.
Covering her body with a
sweet syrup, the Sheik begins
her willful seduction but loses
interest and falls asleep. He
must have read the script.
But Bo is undaunted. Off
to sunny romantic Spain
where a gallant handsonie
matador called Angel(?)
comes to her aid and takes
her to his bed. Unfortunate-
ly, he is a lousy bull fighter
and ends up getting gored

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below the belly button. Too
bad Bo.

While Bolero offers us a
host of nude poses and posi-
tions to ponder Bo in, it just
doesn’t offer us any reason to
wait for John and Bo’s next
film. The best actors in this
film are the Spanish Arab
horses that Bo does her Lady
Godiva act on.

Bo Derek was at least
seductive in the movie Ten.
In Bolero, she is just boring,
with or without her clothes
on. Bolero is now playing at
the Odeon.

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DYNASTY

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THIS WEEK:

Pub: Blackwater
Lounge: Al Foreman

NEXT WEEK:

SEPT. 24-29

Pub:
All Girls Band

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Lounge:
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