Swope’s son will talk at Emily Carr From Page 13 Hollywood — a major exhibition at Presentation House Gallery based on Swope’s 1939 book of the same name. Rather than produce glossy, stylized images of film stars, Swope focused on the realism of the industry behind closed doors, and on the business behind the glamour of movie-mak- ing: prop shops, young extras reading magazines backstage, the mammoth gateway of Paramount Pictures, and hopetuls lining up at a casting office. His shots of celebrities are equally iconoclastic: actors as lovers, or partygoers, or clowning on set; directors on dolly cam- eras frowning in concentration. “There was no division between him and the celebrities, because they were friends,” says Swope’s son Mark, on the phone from Los Angeles. “He and Henry Fonda and Jimmy Stewart moved to L.A. together after college, they lived togeth- er. “Te’s not like he was hired to go and do the work. He just had access to the backlots and sets. It just daily life.” Director of the John Swope Trust and Photographic Collection and an artist himself, Mark Swope will be giving a talk about his father’s work on Tuesday, Sept. 26. 7:30 p.m. at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. John Swope’s book, with a foreword by Dennis Hopper, will be available at Presentation House — the only stop on the exhi- bition’s Canadian tour. The gallery is also presenting Telephones — a seven-and-a-half minute video installation by New York artist Christian Marclay. Marclay has woven together Hollywood film archives to create a representation of human encounters with the telephone. The piece was included in the Venice Biennale of 1999. From Page 22 experienced script supervisor (Gary’s for- mer wife) and quietly left the set and never - returned. [ felt freer than I had in a long time as I walked from the Marina to Roxbury Drive, above Sunset (where I lived, Actually, I wasn’t that surprised by the outcome —- the inevitable conse- quence of a hallf- hearted (at best) com- mitment to the script, the process, to Hollywood itself. Ambivalendy, [had Eee maa been leaving “the business” almost from the _very start (59), This Moon In Scorpio deba- cle was simply a last straw. I took full respon- eke IN announced, “He has plenty of them, good commercial ideas for movies.” They invit- ed me to Istanbul. After a few meetings, they returned to Turkey. I didn’t join them. So long ago (mid 60's). Had I been influenced by his story? [ recall regis- tering Moen In Scorpio with the Writer’s Guild, before storing it away and practically forgetting, about it. Whar did Erduran want? Money? (“Did they tell him what they paid me?” | rd). Credit? Had he actually seen the movie? Would he really want his good aame on such nugacious junk? Maybe — perhaps the ersatz “glamour” of being associated with a movie, any movie. Ahhh, the perils of the precarious Hollywood dance. — Robert Aiken, a former actor-sereen- writer, is an internationally known prafession- al astrologer and therapentic counsellor, teacher/writer with 40 years’ experience He offers empowering personal counselling sessions as well as thorough, in-depth, tape-recorded astrological readings. Phone: (604) 926-4961 Email: sibility for it.” Postscript: Incidentally, shortly after the release of Moon In Scorpio, Gary Graver called me in Canada to inform me that Alan ’- Amiel had told him that TWE had heard from a man in Istanbul, who claimed thar I had stolen his treatment, Isabel, and fasli- - joned it into Moon In Scorpio. The man had to be Refik Erduran, a top journalist who had once asked me to teach “him how to write a screenplay. He showed me several of his synopses. His wife ‘Men & women of any age | ses2sSautns ' Gan experience at fine salons, THINNING; “™ 5 North Vancouver HAIR is ; 114 West 15th St Kathy Chan's Studio 142B West 3rd St Kirby's Hair Design 108-223 Mountain Hwy Stress, diet, medications, male pattern baldness & menopausal changes are just some of the many causes of hair toss & thinning hair. Mojan Hair Design . H 109 East 14th Segais is the Solution. Suen be : aS ee “Sie. Zazou Salon if Zk 1252 Lynn Valley Road GALS 2: sfguitorraton, Suunttn “ol-00e (3 7 Twogether Hair Design or visit i "3547 Marine Dr West Van Barber I 4A www.segalshaircare.com HAIR Rony Z Zz 1731-D Marine Or ror Friday, September 1, 2000 — North Shore News - 23 - > aR en, : CELTIC Cap has it all! One of Ireland’s foremost traditional bands : A Rogue Folk Club presentation Series opener for the Cap Folk’n'Roots Series Sept 17 @ 8pm - The Joel Palsson Quintet — Straight from Iceland ° Hot jazz from a very cool place Series opener for the Cap Jazz Series Sept 22 @ 8pm Veal Hard-driving local rockers All ages—zero and up! Sept 29 @ 8pm Capilano College Performing Arts Theatre 2055 Purcell Way, North Vancouver Box Office: 990-7810 Call for a free season brochure north shore news . AB Jazz, fo! oo) society Ty RREA ATONE oe of Yukon Pree} @ax Capilano @aa College