30 — Friday, February 12, 1999 — North Shore News TV — INTERNET HIGHLIGHTS >» Praitie Home Companion — Saturday on Internet > Winnie the Pooh — Saturday on ABC > Asian Films — Weeknights on Showcase SATURDAY B RADIO tkek& Prairie Home Companion (two-hour tape delay broadeast at 5 p.m. on Bellingham’s KZAZ-FM 91.3 and Seattle’s KUOW-FM 94.9; live feed at 3 p.m. available on Web site .) Blues performer Keb Mo makes his first appearance on Garrison Keillor’s variety radio show broadeast live from the Fitzgerald Theatre in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Regular Butch Thompson will also appear with the Jazz Originals. Keillor’s ficuuicus Lake Wobegon is the perfect place for the saga of newly- elected Minnesota populist politician Jesse Ventura. ‘The millionaire-libertarian, running on the Reform Party ticket, has promised huge cuts in taxes for his state. Ventura says he also intends to cut funding to Minnesota’s excellent pub- lic broadcasting system. As a former employee of private radio he feels that the MPR should be able to go it alone, too, Only in Lake Wobegon. Prairie Home Companion host Garrison Keillor. B® HOCKEY (CBC Channel 3,7 p.m.) Boston Bruins at Vancouver, @ DOCUMENTARY Rough Cuts: Indian Posse (NewsWorld Channel 23, 7 p.m.) One-hour film follows three North Winnipeg families and their connections to the Indian Posse gang. CHILDREN Winnie the Pooh: A Valentine For You (ABC, Channel 31, 8 p.m.) Everybody in the One Hundred Acre Wood is concerned about Christopher Robin and his “tove sickness”. New Winnie the Pooh feature created entirely at Vancouver's Walt Disney Television Animation Studio. : SUNDAY @ MOVIE *xx Moslin Rouge (1952) (BRAVO Channel 28, Midnight) Hollywood version of Toulouse-Lautrec’s life directed by John Huston. Jose Ferrer and Zsa-Zsa Gabor star. The film won an Oscar for best art direction. MONDAY | B® MOVIE kkk Crush (New Zealand 1994) (Showcase Channel 24, 10 p.m.) Creepy suspense thriller written and direct- ed by Alison Maclean. Marcia Gay Harden’s obsessive character takes over the persona of a friend in a coma. TUESDAY i‘ & MOVIE xxx Shanghai Triad (Chinn 1995) (Showcase Channel 24, 10 p.m.) Showcase introduces a week of late-night Stars Shine in show of hearts A British Columbia show featuring talented British Columbia performers, to help the Special Kids of British Columbia — that is the made-in-B.C. 22-hour 1999 Variety Club Show of Hearts on BCTV. More than 300 B.C. pertormers will join international TV stars such as Bob MeGrath of Sesame Sureet, Bob Denver of Gilligan's Island, Colin Mochrie of Whose Line is It Anyway and Nicholas Lea of The X-Files during the course of the newly-revamped program of specialty shows within the Show. It kicks off at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 13, and runs through to 6 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 14, Valentines Day, when the final tally will display the gencrosity of British Columbians yet again. Last year, more than $4.7 million was raised; and more than $72 million in total has been raised by the Variety Club of B.C. since its inception in 1965. As Show of Hearts chair J.J. Richards points out: “All of the money raised stays in British Columbia, to help British Columbian children.” The B.C. artists in this year’s Show include international headliners such as Farmer's Daughter and Patricia Conroy in a Saturday night segment entitled “The Women of Country,” as well as renowned blues-man Jim Byrnes and singers Shari Ulrich, Dee Daniels, Jane Mortitee and Moira Walley. Mix in choirs and choruses, dance troupes and rock bands, gospel singers and soloists from towns and cities across British Columbia, and the result is non-stop entertain- ment to sustain the tradition of providing enjoyment for a TV audience, and assistance for the special-needs children of our province. From midnight Saturday until 8 a.m. on Sunday, more than 40 different acts from across B.C. will be featured in The Beat Goes On, giving many of the performers their tele- vision debur. - The British Columbia stars participating in the Show of Hearts do not include just performers, either. The hosts and presenters throughout the 22-hour TV extravaganza are the leading news and entertainment personalities trom BCTV and CHEK-TV, such as Tony Parsons, Pamela Martin, Hudson Mack, Wayne Cox and Norm Grohmann, along with B.C. radio celebrities such as JR-FM’s Tamara Stanners and Clay St. Thomas. ’ They will inwoduce the hundreds of British Columbia individuals, clubs and organizations who annually contribute to Variety through special events, project and fund-raising activities in their regions, as they all seek to help our Special Kids. Besides the B.C. flavours in Women of Country and The Beat Goes On segments, other special shows within this year’s completely revamped Show of Hearts include: ® 30 Years of Sesame Street, Sunday, Feb. 14, 8-9:30 a.m. — Bob McGrath and the one-and-only Big Bird will cele- brate three decades of TV’s most famous and favourite chil- dren’s show, along with award-winning children’s entertain- ers Bing Jensen and David Cory. Danny Mann, the voice of Ferdinand the Duck from the Oscar nominated film, Babe, we ennai A>: 2 RISE, mentnt Bare BOWEN !sland resident Shari Ulrich is one of the performers set for the Variety Club telethon. will also come along to play, as will 100 talented young dancers, and Vancouver swing-musi¢ heartthrob Michae! Buble. B The Romance of Cooking: Sunday, Feb. 14, 10-11 a.m. — Three of B.C.’s internationally-acclaimed chefs, John Bishop of Bishop’s, Michael Noble of Diva at-the Met, and Sinclair Phillips of Sooke Harbour House will prepare a spe- cial Valentine’s Day brunch live on stage. Canadian Olympian and “Chef'on the Run” Diane Clement and her daughter Jennifer Clement will host. & The Really Funny Segment: Sunday, Feb. 14, 11:30 a.m.-noon — will be just that, with improvisational comedi- ans Colin Mochrie of Whose Line Is It Anyway, being joined by Ellie Harvey of The Addams Famih, Richard Side of The Jim Byrnes’ Show and Gerry McAteer. @ Sing with Your Heart: Sunday, Feb. 14, 12:30-1:30 p.m, — An hour of raise-the-roof gospel singing, featuring superb gospel entertainers Marcus Mosely and Sybil Thrasher. They will be joined by the Mennonite Educational Institute . Choir, a gospel quartet from Charleston, West Virginia, and the Gold Heart Band, directed by Bill Sample. Viewers will be able to sing along co the bouncing ball, too! Asian classics with the last film director Zhang Yimou made with Gong Li. The Shanghai under- world of the 1930s seen through the eves of a mobster’s mistress. ---5 i @ VALENTINES SPECIAL : © VALENTINE’S SPECIAL & @ MOVIE &k%% Jit Dou (Ching 1989) (Showcase Channel 24, 12:10 p.m.) A young peasant : woman (Gong Li) is foreed into an arranged marriage in 1920s China. Li Wei also stars with Zhang Yimou directing. 1 Bikini Waxing with |: Full Leg Wax Special 530 ; Reg. $42 * GIFT CERTIFICATES AVAILABLE © NEW CLIENTS ONLY « LIMITED TIME OFFER NG: C1 bead il 182) Draycott rc 980-6814 CE EE WD 2 CE SE ee ee ee eee ee ee @ MOVIE x*%*& Don Juan DeMarco (1995) (BCTV Channel 11, 1:35 a.m.) A meatal patient believes he’s the mythical Don Juan. Johnny Depp, Marlon Brando and Faye Dunaway. WEDNESDAY BK MOVIE exexx« Coungking Express (Hong Kong 1994) (Showcase Channei 24, 10 p.m. ) Wong Kar-Wai's Godard-iike ruminations on love in 1960s Hong Kong with cinematogra- phy by Christopher Doyle. Brilliant work from Tony Leung, Brigitte Lin and Takeshi Kaneshiro. Time and Again Antiquities ® Affordable Antiques ; 8 MOVIE xk The Bride with White Hair.(Houg Kong 1993 (Showcase - Channel 24, 12310 a.m. ) Leslie. Cheung and Brigitte Lin Ching-Hsia star‘in martial arts story based on nove! by Leung Yu-Sang. DIRECTOR John Woo on the set. At Time and Again, we have a variety of furniture from the U.K., Europe and North America, dating from the1800’s to 1920's. @ TALK SHOW (CBS Channel 33, 1:05 a.m. Wed. night/Thurs morn) Tom: Snyder talks to Jesse Ventura. THURSDAY BMOVIE kkkk«k The Killer (Hong Kong 1989} (Showcase Channel 24, 10 p.m. ) Director John Woo’s “best film, a preposterousiy perfect mix of Sam Peckinpah firepower and Douglas Sirk melodrama ... Chow Yun-Fat oozes charisma,” says Mick Marnn and Marsha Porter in the 1999 edition of Rogers Video Movie Guide. ; Also for lovers of Pottery and Porcelain, come and see our Toby and Musical Jugs. Teapots and more. Selected iterns on - | Sale | oak hath stand | MOVIE kak Last Hurrah for Chivalry (Hong Kong 1978) (Showease Channel 24, 12:25 a.m. Thurs. night, Fri. morning) An “Eastern Western” read the ads. Martial arts film directed by John Woo with Wei Pai and Damian Lau. @ DRAMA Orson Welles? Ghost Story (BRAVO Channel 28, 1 a.m. Thurs. aight/ Fri. morn) Return to Glennascaut narrated and starring Orson Welles with an introduction by Peter Bogdanovich. . — Jobu Goodman /