Martin movie
filming on
North Shore

IF YOU wondered? what iV crews
were up iat Versatile Shipwards
fast week, Gick Martin of Lough-lp
tame and his son, dirvetor Richare
Martin. were an tenn tiling
North of Pittsbureh an attbeat tale
of oa osmallaime punk and his
widowed grandmother,

Principle photography began
March TO at various locahons in
Vancouver, the North Shore and
New Westminster, Wrap-up date
is this Frday, according ta
publicist Greg Potter.

Produced by the North Shore’s
Kim Steer and Cal Shumiatcher,
the same people who brought us
the bizarre feature, Atatinee, North
of Pittsburel stars veteran stage
and screen pertormer Viveca Lind-
tors and Victorian-born actor Jett
Schultz, who also wrote the
screenplay.

Martin plays the son of a coal
magnate whose mines have
knocked off many workers.

Schultz plays small-time hood
Tony Andretti, who steals, cheats
and fies his way through fife. tn
major debt for a drug deal gone
bad, Andretti joins his grandma
Rosa in search of compensation

Photo Cameron Pashak

VIVECA LINDFEORS and Jeff Schultz were in North Vancouver

last week filming North of Pittsburgh.

money he hopes will save his
neck.

Schultz, 26, says he based the
story on an HBO documentary,
lite of Crime, which traced two
years in the fives of tour New
Jersey hoods and their daily
routine of shoplifting and selling
drugs to survive.

“LT thought it would be interest
ing to do oa story based on these
characters but it was hard to find a
premise,” says Sehultz. “The
characters (Andretti and his
grandma Rosa) live in two dierent
worlds but they're sa much alike
that they can’t stand each other.”

Catchy’s delivers on promise

From page 24
the glittering candlelight and
crooning Frank Sinatra soundtrack,

Dessert was a feather-light
Chocolate Terrine ($4.95) parnish-
ed with Star Fruit, an orange
wedge and a splash of strawberry
coulis.

Catchy’s kitchen was somewhat
stingy with the coulis, but the
dessert provided a good sweet
finish nonetheless.

Service throughout the meal was
informed, efficient and friendly.

Catchy’s has delivered on the in-
itial promise made by Sir Francis
Caulfeild to provide some aristo-
cratic dining for the aristocratic
folk of upper West Vancouver.

APPETIZING:

*carefully prepared and elegantly
presented food

*romantic decor and atmosphere
"informal accompanying oyster
bar

UNAPPETIZING:

“expensive wine list

Jewish source for Tolkien’s ‘‘Golem’’

From page 25
poral matters.

Some of Rabbi Loeb’s ingenious
solutions, including the magical
creation of the golem to protect
Jewish victims of persecution, are
to be found in Val Biro’s The
Golem of Old Prague.

In The Golem of Old Prague,
Biro traces Loeb’s birth, marriage
and exploits ina series of self-
contained short stories which will
provide readers with a brief yet

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ees

Next Week

Vancouver author William Gib-
son (Mona Lisa Overdrive) and
cyberpunk writer Bruce Sterling
(Uslands In The Net) collaborated
to produce The Ditference Engine,
a weird sci-fi effort based on the
intriguing premise of drastically
altered history.

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