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JOY TELLS ALL

HOT ENTERTAINMENT
scoop is that we will have
both Bette Midler and Harry
Connick Jr. on stage in
Vancouver this summer.
While Harry will be on
stage at the Coliseum
Concert Bowl on Friday,
July 22 the date for Bette
hasn’t been confirmed as
yet. So we now have Harry
and Bette coming this sum-
mer, Carol Channing is here
with Hello Dolly in late July
and Liza Minelli is con-
firmed for three dates in
late September...

Also heading our way is one of
the most dynamic comediennes
around, Ellen Degeneres, the star
of the ‘new ABC-TV sitdown
These Friends Of Mine and one of
stand-up comedy’s reigning super-
stars. Ellen makes regular appear-
ances on Jay Leno’s and David
Letterman’s late-night shows.
She’s been described by various
critics as a female Jerry Seinfeld,
a distaff George Carlin and a spiri-
tual daughter of Bob Newhart.
Ellen Degeneres will be on stage

“at the Orpheum Theatre on
Sunday, June 5...

Even though the photo of
Vancouver Mayor Philip Owen,
Bill Pedersen and Chuck Davis
ran last week, we ran out of space
for the story.

This was the party to celebrate
Bill Federsen’s 45th anniversary
in business, as Pedersen’s Party
Rentals, and il truly was a party

Robyn MacKay

CKTAILS

Sunday, May 15,1994 - North Shore News’- 35

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Last Wednesday the Coastal
Jazz and Blues people hosted their
luncheon launch at Derek
Campbell's B.C. Ctub for the
annual du Maurier International
Jazz Festival. The jazz fest plays
at various venues around town for
10 days in late June and they'll
open with a super double bill. The
legendary jazz giant Shirley Horn
will be joined by the master of
stride, bebop, boogie-woogie and
ragtime piano, Marcus Roberts
and bis trio. Small disappointment
at the luncheon launch was the
non-appearance of the usual
debonair host Fred Davis of Front
Page Challenge fame. Apparently
Fred hosts each one of the promo
lunches across the country and
he’s a bit tuckered out. Filling in
admirably for him was the equally
dapper BCTV vice president and
news anchor, Tony Parsons. Also
spotted, Coastal Biues and Jazz
Socicty’s Kate Hammett-
Vaughan, singer-columnist
Denny Clarke, du Maurier PR
man Wade Stevenson, Musician
Union head Stu Barnett, U.TV’s
Mark Driesschen and Ted
Friend, BCTV’s Michael Mead
and Grouse Mountain’s Naney
Chilton...

Another really good hard work-
ing person is genial West
Vancouver councillor, Andy
Danyliu, who's positively burst-
ing his buttons. The business news
is that Andy Danyliu has been
appointed as chief executive offi-
cer of the Kinsmen Rehabilitation
Foundation. Couldn't happen to a
better guy! Andy and his wife
Meredith were certainly front and
centre at the Orpheum Theatre last
week as super singer Cleo Laine
and her husband, orchestra leader
John Dankworth took to the
stage as a benefit for the Kinsmen
Rehab and the Zajac Foundation.
Cleo Laine and John Dankworth
took us to wonderland with songs
like Send in the Clowns, 1 Didn't
Know What Time lt Was, Stars
Fell on Alabama, You Are My
Lucky Star, When the World Was
Young and 3 superb medley by
Duke Ellington. Both Clea and
John came to the cocktail recep-
tion after the show and happily
mingled with the crowd, posing
for phutos, signing autographs and
sipping and supping on the good-
ies supplied by the Century Plaza .
Me} Zajac and Gary Wong of the
Zajac Foundation and Ross

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Narris and Andy Danyliu of the
Kinsmen Rehab Foundation were
vestatie! Nice to see so many
familiar faces at the event, people
like Art and Mary Jones, Caren
Reynolds, Wendy and Sergio
Cocchia, Winnifred and Stu
Wilkinson, Wendy Brain, ‘NW‘s
Vice President John Plul and
afternoon host Rick Honey and
his wile Gale, Ron Fontaine,
maestro Dal Richards, Century
Plaza PR Nina Rhodes and her
husband David Hughes, Penny

Photos Joy Metcalf

Clockwise from top right:
Comedien Ellen Degeneres,
star of the new sitcom These
Friends of Mine; Sherry
Cooper and Glen Ringdahf at
the Cieo Laine after-party;
Mr. and Mrs. Ross Harris,
Andy Danyliu and wife
Nieredith munch on goodies
at the Kinsmen Rehab and
Zajac Foundation benefit.
Danyliu was recently
appointed CEO of the
Kinsment Rehab Founda-
tion; and orchestra Jeader
John Dankworth, songstress
Cleo Laine, Nancy
MacDougall and Mel Zajac
enjoy the event.

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and Mel Sprackman, CFUN’s
J.J. Richards and his wife, Tessia
and Patrick Oswald who was
quite dashing in his plaid trousers.

Cleo and John left their luxuri-
ous suite at the Pan Pacific bright
and early at 5:30 the next morning
for Southern California ...

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Garden at QET Tuesday and
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