HALL OF FAME

Star-studded honors

Layne Christensen Gail MeCance turns 73 on Thursday
News Reporter 7 cuon designer and: technical director tor
layne@nsnews.com Vheatre Under the Stars (PUTS), the North Van resi

dent designed and built more than YO shows between

DARYL Duke could have a star on that “44 and ‘64.

other walk of fame. Asa child he suffered tram a bronchial infection.
Contined to bed. be missed grades one and two, and

Bat the internationally renowned producer and diree- instead produced hundreds 0) sinus and watercolors
tor of film) and television is just as honored that en at home on 27h Street.
Thursday he'll get a star on Vancouver's own entertain When he was just 20, MeCance went to New York to
work with the Metropolitan Opera Company. “f had lors
one of two North Shore residents to be P nervous ¢ WT osad MeCanee, r Wing this he
inducted into the B.C. Enrertainment Hai of Fame. Phe STAKE sit the Met, whe re
other is theatre set designer Gail Mc€ Both will i
have brass rlaques placed in the de rs” on the
sidewalk along Granville Street between Nelson and MeCance was a founder of the Vancouver Opera
Georgia. MeCan taris to be located in front of the Association and a consultant for dhe building of the
Vogue theatre and 1 sin front of the Cineplex. ve abeth Theatre.
*s not Hollywood's Chinese MW he has kept busv as a watercolor artist who
heatre but thar’s OR with has many students including sufferers of arthritis. They
bd find his gentle teaching style and encenr nent both
Hy very, very personal and therapeutic and inspi
importani,” said the OS vear old The Dec. 16 inductions will bring the Srarwalk star
producer from his West) count io 87.
Vancouver home Tuesday. “lm
honored (the star is) to be sus including singer-songwriters Bryan Adanis and
here where [was bora, where tite: actors Nicola Cavendish, Robert Clothier
Pm still located, instead ofhun- and fackson Davies; the late theatre director Larry Lillo; — GAIL MeCance receives his star on Granviile’s Starwalk
dreds of miles from: where 1 radio and TV personality Vicki Gabereau; ard rock “n’ — Tuesday. The North Van resident is a founder of the
live.” roll deejay Red Robinson. Vancouver Opera Association.

Besides, “more of my
friends and associates will
see this here than if it were
down south” on
Hollywood Boulevard, he
added.
Duke has owned a home in
West Vancouv
though his ¢
him ro Hollywood,
York, Europe and th
i East.
PARYL Duke, director of A UBC grad, Duke began
mhe Thorn Birds and Tai- his carcer asa film editor,
Pan calls West Van home. er and director for the
ional Film Board of
His association
nadian television
goes back to the opening night of CBC-TY, for
which he produced a show.
In °76, he founded and launched the broas
s of the independent television station

80s, Duke directed the 10-hour mini-
series The Thorn Birds, which, at the time it was first
telecast, was the most watched ‘TV drama ever
broadeast in the U.S. and Canada. Also in the “80s,
he directed Tai-Pan, based on the best-selling novel
by James Clavell and the tirst western theatrical fea-
ture film to be shot in the People’s Republic of

hina.

Most recently, Duke has been in the news tor his
very public resignation from the board of directors
of VIV, a company he criticized for not living up to
its promise to report to a B.C.-based board. rather
than Baton Broadcasting’s Toronto headquarters.

Tuesday’s Starwalk induction will come as a
birthday present for the other North Shore res
among the seven local luminaries to be honored.

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