Joy
Metcalfe

JOY TELLS ALL

LOTS OF excitement at Jast
Saturday’s sixth annual
Wrap Party ’91 for the
B.C. film industry and a
benefit for Children’s Wish
Foundation.

There were 750 guests at the
black-tie dinner affair at the B.C.
Enterprise Centre, including new
tourism minister Darlene Marzari.
There was a crush-crowd cham-
pagne reception and sit-down din-
ner of beef tenderloin and
Calona’s new varietal rougeon and
pinot. blanc wines complete with
glitter balls, big screen TV and
some of the best live music from
Bil! Samples on piano. .

‘Emcee for the evening was com-
ical Jackson Davies, who sug-

moved it into Bridge Film Studios.
There’s a French Revolution set
complete with cobbled stone
Streets and 20 horses. There’s the
game show set where failed con-
testants drop through a gaping
hole into hell. And there's the
1940s art deco night club with
20-piece orchestra. The set alone
is worth $40 million!

The dapper Justis Greene was
there, happily contemplating a
deal at the Bridge that will involve
Disney, Paramount and Steven
Spielberg's production company.

The teen crowd's new heart-
throb, Locklyn Munroe, star of
the TV series Northwood, was in
the crowd. He’s been dubbed the
new Michael J. Fox.

Norman Stowe, who has just
resigned as VP from the B.C,
PavCorp to go into private sector
with his own marketing business,
was enjoying the evening with his
pretty wife, Brenda. The Bridge
Studios’ Susan Croome and her
husband, Brock, and West Van
photographers and caterers, Mona
and Chris Heicermanas were ali at
our table.

Word at the do was that the
government has no intention, at
this time, of selling the Bridge
Film Studios.

Also spotted Harm Dillion and
his attractive wife, Sandi Graham
of Heatherington’s in Park Royal.
She was eye-catching in a slim,
long white gown, the off-the-
shoulder line trimmed with pouffy
white feathers. They were with
close friends, vivacious Joannie
Lee and her hyper PR husband

Winston Reckert, cruised about
the vast centre. He looks even
taller in real life than he does on
the smail screen.

Happy to see one of my
favorite people in the movie
dusiness back in business. B.C.
film commissioner Diane Neufeld
was warmly greeted by the crowd,
after a year’s sabbatical away
from the industry.

Another of the really good guys
in the biz, West Van's Boh Gray
and his wife, Connie, were there.
Bob's just returned from Alberta
where he’s been living and work-
ing for the past five months
shooting Clint Eastwood's movic,
Unforgiven with Gene Hackman,
Morgan Freeman and Richard
Harris. Bob and Connie are so
happy to be back in their cosy
abode that, to celebrate, they’re
flying to Tahiti, boarding the
Pacific Princess, the original
Loveboat, and cruising to
Australia. They’l relax and re-
juvenate in the Aussie sunshine
for the next two months! The
reason that Bob has such an af-
finity for the Loveboat is that he
worked as production manager on
every one of the television
Loveboat episodes!

North Van’s lanky, handsome
actor, Roger Barnes was really
happy to be able to have his love-
ly wife, Debbie, with him at the
bash. Debbie Barnes couldn’t be
at the wrap party last year because
she’d just had a baby. Over the
past year, while she’s become a
mama again, Roger has become
the red nose of Scotty’s tissue and
Mr. Power Smart Night in B.C. as
well as winning several roles ina
variety of the locally-shot TV
series. ,

Someone who was just back
from L.A. was movie producer
and North Van resident Tom
Rowe, co-owner of Pacific Motion
Pictures (PMP). They recently
produced A Mother's Justice with
Meredith Baxter in the lead role.
Everything is going so well for
PMP with a little financial back-
ing from Western International
Communications or WIC. Tom

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TOM ROWE (centre) with PMP colleague

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Cathay Pacific’s Liz :
Kouwenhoven. -

The Yuletide Lights of Hope is .
a fundraiser for the David Foster .

- Foundation represented by direc.
-tor Hugh Curtis. :

Monday was the launch of Le
Meridien’s sixth annual Yuletide
Lights of Hope, sponsored by the
hotel and the Hong Kong Bank of ©
Canada. .

More than a‘dozen trees have
been decorated by !2 major
airlines. For $2 you can register
your vote for the best one and, at
the same time, win fabulous trips.

Among the guests, I spotted the
Hon. Mary Collins, Deita
Airlines’ Doug MacIntyre and

was with his very witty wife, CBC
broadcaster Vicki Gabereau.

Wrap Party ’9} was in celebra-
tion of the motion picture in-
dustry’s biggest year ever! By the
end of December more than 50
major films, hundreds of televi-
sion series plus countless television
commercials will have been pro-
duced here. We are now the third
largest production centre in North
America! And that’s an achieve-
ment!...

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Don’t forget A Funny Thing
Happened on the. Way to the.
Forum with stars Tony Parsons
and Bill Reiter and a celebrity cast
next Friday and Saturday at the.
Centennial Theatre ... Cheers!

B.C. MINISTER of Tourism
Dariene Marzari.

~ Jack Lee.
Neon Rider’s dimpled star,

HUGH CURTIS, director of the
David Foster Foundation.

gested that B.C. Premier Mike
Harcourt and he get into a coop-
erative business deal and split the
price of a toupee.

Jackson and Linda have
another reason to celebrate. ;
They’ve just moved into their
new, specially-built home in
Caulfeild in West Vancouver.

Speaking of new houses, the
talk of the industry that night was
the enormous set that’s been built
for the John Ritter feature Stay
Tuned.

They built a complete three-
bedroom homie in Richmond and

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or the hotel directly at
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