“ MotoCam for Terminator 2 ER RM eb he ONES ES gS Photo submitted ‘STUNTMAN COTTON Mather (left), Canadian-born director James Cameron and an assistant weerk with MetoCam on the set of Terminator 2in preparation for the opening sequence of a canal pusveuit. Cameron hired 6 both Mather and MotoCam to work on his iatest action film, True Lies. r wasn’ f Jong. however, that: Matter. ‘tired of f the pro racing circuit ‘Captivate his attention. ?With the movie business flourish- ing: in Toronto during the early “80s, Masher aye his mororcyere Tid-: screen flop Hearts of Fire, starring : ‘Bob Dylan, truly broke into the ULS.: market and happened upon a new ire=ction for his burgeoning career. nvoling a Harley Davidson and a ‘Corvette, he rigged a 145-horsepow- ©. x” amaha V-Max with a special © ‘sidescar platform to accommodate a mounted camera and its operator. is With Mather and celluloid side-" ‘kickk travelling at speeds in.excess of GO mp.h,, the resulting footage was spectacular. ; ; he MotoCam, as sit was later utbded, was soon a hot commodity. Carzadian-born director James -. .. Carneron hired both Mather and the . With ~ Cameron himself riding sidecar, mather drove the MotoCam at high speeds to capture the excitement of "the -znemorable openin g canal _ Sequence. "Whe MotoCam was again called into use on Cameron’s latest hit,- True Lies, starring Amold’ “Schrwazenegger.” __ Whe success of his invention in HeLiywood has led Mather to consid- : er exnarketing the MotoCam in for- eigm: film markets. Though he con- Sides sales “pretty dry conipared to ‘working ona movie and doing stunt work,” he ventured to Europe recent- ly tc test the waters. Atta German show-biz trade show, Mather sold one MotoCam, at an tzndisclosed price, and garnered intexest from film production compa- nies in England and Japan. Meanwhile, back at home, Mather has been keeping busy with ~”, stumt work and racking up the fre- “querat-flyer points. After shooting The Outer Limits, a new TV series, in Vancouver, he boarded a plane for Toronto to work on/an episode of . Due South. That got cancelled: Mather then jetted to Europe, where he managed to squeeze in a week of * R&R in Italy. Back to Vancouver to “sell one house and buy another, then to. Los Angeles to “take care of busi- _ness.” Before Christmas, Mather will be in Toronto filming stunt scenes for’ Kung Fu and Due South. 66 As long as the Canadian dollar — stays where it is ... ‘there’s always going - to be American (film) production in Vancouver. 99 ~ Cotton Muther, All this shuttling around doesn’t leave Mather with much time for his main priority, which is to establish Vancouver as his home base. He was here only seven months ‘last year and five the year before. His. goal for ‘95 is to spend 1 1 months of the year ensconced in his new West Vancouver home and “just go to Los Angeles for the bigger jobs” _ something that shouldn't be a prob- _ fern, he explains, “as long as the Canadian dollar stays where it is.” “As long as it stays low, there’s always going to be American pro- duction in Vancouver.” he states confidently, To illustiete his point, he adds . that Vancouver has just pulled ahead of Toronto as the No. 2 film produc. - tion centre in North America. : American productions that are film-. ing in our city, he notes, “a lot of people are growing up with the busi- ness here and are producing their own siuff.’ : Most of what Mather does, he calls “bread and butter work” — as little as one day of shooting some- times only one stunt with no more warning than “be there tomorrow.” . But sometimes the stecly-eyed stunt- _ man is called in to double for leading actors like Arnold Schwarzenegger. Mather’s most unusual assign- iment was to double John Candy in the “very forgettable” 1990 film. . Speed Zone. Mather figures he got that assignment because he had the - right height (6" 1", though Candy was taller) and head shape. Mather donned a special suit that Candy car- ried‘around with him to simulate the late comedic star's famous girth. But for now, Mather is concentrat- ing on finding a suitable West Van home, onc with a view and a special place for his 75-year-old upright grand. Because when this tough, no- nonsense stunt driver leaves “the office,” he likes to unwind by playing ' afew bars of Chopin. Capers’ Restaurants Bringing the whole food market to your table INNOVATIVE WHOLE FooD COOKING KITSILANO 739-6685 “2285 West 4th Ave. Located on the second floor above Capers’ Whole Food Market 925-3374 WEST VANCOUVER — 2496 Marine Dr. “Please call either restaurant to book your Christmas parties” Pantages tribute A SPECIAL musical concerti will be held in memory of A.P. (Tony) Pantages this coming Saturday, Nov. 20 at The Commodore Balireom, 870 Granville St. in Vancouver. Pantages, » West Vancouver lawyer, passed away last summer. Funds will be raised to create the Tony Pantages medal, to be awarded annually by the Canadian Bar Association to a person in the community who has performed the greatest number of ser- vices in law over the past year. Live performances by local musicians will primarily focus on jazz and music from the ’50s. Entertainment will be provided by Robin Shier’s VCC 17-piece stage band, North Shore band She Stole My Beer, and The Craze, an innovative quintet. The event takes place from 2 to 5 p.m. Tickets, $25, are avail- able through Ticketmaster. Tax receipts will be available upon request. A table of eight or 10 can be booked by cailing Walley P.- Tightbody at 684-1181. Musical comedy ‘THIS EVENING marks the opening of First Impressions Theatre’s production of Once Upon a Mattress, the wacky musical comedy that gave Carel Burnett her big start on Broadway. Set in a medieval castle and based on the fairy-tale The Princess and the Pea, the production is mounted at Deep Cove Shaw Theatre and runs Wednesdays through Saturdays to Dec. 3. The plot follows the efforts of townsfolk whe must pry the Queen’s (Joan Harris) overbearing hooks from her only son, Dauntless. Prince Dauntless (Brooke Burgess) has his heart set on marrying the moat-swimming Princess Winnifred (Cheryl Murray). No one in the town can marry until the prince does. A. wizard, minstrel and jester add to the fray. Norman Leggatt directs while musical direction is provided by Darlene Kozak. The sets are by Nick Boughen; costumes by Norman White, * Tickets are $12 for adults, $10 gor seniors and stidents. 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