8 - Sunday, November 1, 1987 - North Shore News Hee, 1 ‘ a or ik NEWS photo Noll Lucante NEWS GET This Straight columnist Noug Collins matches mugs with his latest book. The, Best and Worst of Doug Collins, a collection of Col- lins’s News columns from the past three years, is now available in your favorite book store. 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We regret any inconvenience, and if you experience any electrical problems followin:; the interruptions, please call our Service Centre at 299.0311. ¢) BC Hydro OTORS| ay oe FRONT $49.95 DISC Collins presents best and worst FANS AND foes of News Get This Straight columnist Doug Collins can now buy a cloth-bound retrospective of the Col- lins wit and wisdom to hurrah or hiss. North Vancouver's Whitecap Books has just unleashed upon the book-buying public The Best and Worst of Doug Collins. The 207- page, chth-baound hardback tome includes 100 of Collins’s North Shore News columns selected by the author from his Get This Straight production over the past three years. “IT suggested the title,’’ Collins said, “‘for al] the people out there who write nasty letters to me.”” The book’s columns were -chosen, Collins said, for their en- during appeal: “the ones that sull have a point...that are still inter- esting to me.”’ The Best and Worst is suitably alive with Collins’s vivid writing style and the merciless skewering of what he says is the “idiocy of our society. I think society has gone mad in the past 15 or 20 years. Not everybody, but the trendies have gone mad. The peo- ple who think criminals can be reformed and that all will be well if The B.C. Lions’ recent firing of Don Matthews illustrates the ob- vious — the C.F.L, has a death wish. Ail that Joe Galat — a man who will go through life acting as his own Proctologisi — has done in fir- ing Matthews is to increase his coaching budget and garner a lit- tle publicity of a thoroughly negative variety. He has done little to promote the team. Twenty-five years ago the 8.C. Lions were part of the com- munity. | remember taking my sons to see Willie Fleming and Joe Kapp at Park Floyal in the early 1960's. A coupte of hundred kids, with fathers, were there to see two stars of great lustre, who acted like gentlemen, who were neatly dress- ed, who showed up on time and who obviously cared about how they were perceived. The kids were ecstatic, walking on air and noisily insistent about the joys of sitting in the end zone of Empire Stadium in the presence of other members of the “Quarterback Club.” This, the club is no tonger doing. They are content to sit in their ex- pensive training facility or in B.C. Place talking to the media and others who have a vested interest in the way things are going. Typically a professional football player is a bigger edition of Dad, who is quicker, stronger and, so one’s son wants to believe, just as nice a guy, The only way to see this, however, is to see the product in the flesh — without helmet and shoulder pads. The C.F.L. is in trouble. T.V, scheduling and game times, are merely a symptom of a deeper pro- blem. Giving a commissioner things like interest-free loans and a big new salary will not help. Hard work will. {f this does not happen then the annual general meeting of the C.F.L. general managers will be called the Canadian Football Lem- mings — and the League may as well just commit suicide quickly in- stead of a slow, boring but public death. 1151 Marine Dr. North Vancouver 985-0694 By TIMOTHY RENSHAW News Reporter we all go dancing around the multicult maypole.”’ The book will be the third pro- duced by Collins and follows P.O.W., a book published in 1968, chronicling the columnist’s Second World War experiences and Im- migration, The Destruction of English Canada, which was published in 1979 and followed up in 1986 by the Collins booklet, lmmigration: Parliament versus the People. 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