Divine Miss M
WOWS audience

Joy —
Metcalfe

JOY TELLS ALL

BETTE MIDLER, the
Divine Miss M, was at her
very best Tuesday night at
the Pacific Coliseum!

Powerful leather lungs, sassy,
audacious and positively energetic,
Midler is a raunchy Mitzi Gaynor
with a gigantic voice! She never
stopped moving and she never
stopped talking. The concert was
2% hours long with one 15 minute
intermission and had been sold out
for months. Her opening was an
absolute show-stopper with Bette
perched high golden sun-swathed
lamé. She came off her perch, came
right to the edge of the stage,
looked down at the front row, who
were craning their collective necks,
and said, “Hey! it’s the American
Express Gold Card ticket-holders!
Yuppy Swine! And how is every-
thing in the British Properties?”

She did her mermaid shtick, the
burlesque number with bare breasts
bouncing and Jots of body-painting.
She did jokes about cleavage, Lisa-
Marie Presley, John Bobbit, Joey
Buttafucco, Jean Chrétien, Brian
Mulroney and her own efforts to
be an eco-warrior and composting
queen of 1994. .

In between teetering all over the
Stage, she sang most of her hits,
including The Rose, Do You Want
To Dance?, Delta Dawn, Boogie
Waogie Bugle Boy, the powerful
From a Distance and finally, The
Wind Beneath My Wings. Her
encore was That's the Glory of
Love.

Lots of VIPs at the concert,
including two sets of twins, the
Morrey Brothers and the Barnett
boys. Also Molson’s John Winter,
Front Page Challenge’s Cameron
Bell, U-TV's Diane Johnson,
Pacific Press’ Lynn Munro, miae-
stro Dal Richards, and the British
deputy consul general Ron
Boardman, along with about
another 10,000 ecstatic fans...

Speaking of eestasy, if was a
great day last Saturday for popular
sports guy Tommy Larscheid. The
voice of the B.C. Lions got mar-
ried! Tom is # widower with two
grown children and last weekend he
wed his long-time sweetheart, the
lovely Lesfie, the legal lady trom
Ladner Downs, down in Las Vegas.

Now, Lalways thought that
Vegas was the place to go to untic
the marital knot! Nevertheless, it
was a very classy affair, Tom wore
a well-cut suit, his bride wore a
long gown of oyster satin and car-
ried a beautiful bouquet. There was
wedding cake, flowers and pho-
tographs.

On hand for the happy nuptials
were Tom's friend and colleague,
J. Paul McConnell and his wife
Alix Kerr, and Bob and Nancy
Dunn. The guys were there on
assignment to cover the football
game between the B.C. Lions and
the Las Vegas Posse so after the
wedding ceremony, the two guys
went to work. The honeymoon will
take place in February when
Thomas has some free time.

Last week the Purdy's people
got caught with chocolate all over
their red faces!

They had created a delectable
chocolate medallion to celebrate
their sponsorship of the Dive B.C.
athletes in the Commonwealth
Games. But their enthusiastic sup-
port got them in trouble with the
Games’ logo police when they used
the words “Commonwealth
Games.”

So, after much brainstorming,
they decided that, rather than
destroy the 5,000 medallions,
they'd redesign them. They redid
the mold in a giant meltdown
Tuesday morning at the Purdy's
chocolate plant on Kingsway with
candy master Tom Cinnamon of
West Van tossing the chocolate
goodies into the bubbling vat and
launched their new Medal of Honor
medallion which will continue to
support Team Purdy divers — West
Van sisters Paige and Megan
Gordon, Jeff Bacon and Karl Fix
— in their competitive efforts at the
famed over in Victoria...

And the next voice you hear on
AM 1040 airwaves will be North
Van's talented Roger Allford.
Roger will join pert Julie Brown in
a daily 2 to 3 p.m. open-tine show
starting Labor Day.

Cheers!

Sunday, August 28, 1

Photos Joy Matcaite

CLOCKWISE FROM top right:
The Divine One, Bette Midier,
was in fine voice and spirit
last Tuesday niaht at Pacific
Coliseum, giving the crowd
great iaughs and great songs
during her Vancouver con-
cert; Purdy’s candy-maker,
the aptly named Tom
Cinnamon, was on hand to re-
mould a sweet faux pas dur-
ing the Giant Meltdown at the
company's Kingsway plant;
North Vancouver’s Roger
Allford Is teaming-up with AM
1040’s Julie Brown to host a
new open-line show starting
on Labor Day. The time-siot
for the one hour show is daily
at 2 p.m.; another radio voice,
the sports world’s Tom
Larscheid, took some time off
during the B.C. Lions’ away
game in Las Vegas to marry
his long-time sweetheart
Leslie. Joining the happy
newlyweds in the the city in
the desert were J.P.
McConnell, his wife Alix Kerr,
and Bob and Nancy Dunn.
The happy couple will wait
until February to treat them-
selves to a honeymoon.

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