BD #«% “Tough Guys” (1986, Comedy}
Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas. Two small-time
criminals unable to adjust to post-prison life
return to the line of work they know best --
robbary.
7:30
Ytv x0 “Little House: The Last Fa-
rewell’’ (1984, Drama) (Part 2 of 2} Michael
Landon, Karen Grassie, Walnut Grove citizens
vow to destroy their homes after learning that
Eastern financiers own their town,
“10:00
() «*% "The Skip Tracer” (1977,
Drama) David Petersen, John Lazarus. A debt
collector finds assassins on his trail as ha com-
petes for a prestigious company award.
. 11:00 .
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- (1987, Comadie) Louis de Funes, Jean Merais.
Fantomas exige d'un riche ecossais un impot
sur le droit de vivre. & :
: 12:15 :
@ xx “Eye of the Needle” (1981,
Suspense) Donald Sutherland, Kate Nelligan.
A Nazi spy temporarily detained on a remote
Scottish islsnd enters into an affair with a
lonely. woman. ;
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ARTS GP) +&% “The Son of Monte Cristo”
(1940) Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett. .

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GB GP xe “A Place in the Sun”.(1951)

io Montgomery Clift, Elizabath Taylor.

Nigel Planer, Joyce Carey. A real-estate ty-
coon’s plan for a major property development
hits a snag when an elderly woman refuses to
salt her lifelong home.
12:15

@ ® «4 “The Final Option (1982,
Drama) Richard Widmark, Judy Davis. An anti-
nuclear group seizes the American Embassy in
London and warns it will kill government hos-
tages if its demands are not mat.

1:05
GB GD **% “Fletch Lives” (1989) Chevy
Chasa, Hal Holbrook.

1:30
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Miles, Joss Ackland.

1:35
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Cruise, Rebecca DeMornay.
3:00
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(1989) Lou Ferrigno, Teagan Klive. :
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Charles Grodin.

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novel. -

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heiress to discover the identity of an incnmi-
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page ase mutiner.

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John. (in Stereo) :
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of a hospital pediatrics ward.

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* romance with a cowboy is complicated by his
apparent cruelty during a mustang roundup.
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12:15

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Foster, Scott Baio. Victims of broken homes
and uncaring parents, four teen-age girls try to
soothe their emotional wounds with drugs and

sex.
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thau, Susan Blakely. Small-town lawyer Har-
Mon Cobb suas the state of Maryland for the
telease of a hospitatized mental patient.
GD GD axe“ nosis of Murder’? (1992,
Drama} Cick Van Dyke, Mariette Hartley. A
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turns amateur sleuth when one of his patients
is suspected of murder. (In Stereo)

10:00

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Drama) Leah Pinsent, Ed Marinaro. A journalist

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bility when she fails in love with the subject of
har story. | .
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Mindia Lordkipanidze. A:petty young criminal
begins a downward spiral vhich eventually
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(1986, Comedia) Christophe Malavoy, Claire
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ari, deux jeunes financiars sont maintenant
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{1977, Adventure). Michael Caine, Doneld
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chute into England on a daring mission to kid-
fap Winston Churchill. Based on the novel.

42:00 :
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(1974, Drama) Patty Duke Astin, John Astin.
A shy young teacher. develops a fresh ap-
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building crystal sets for $25. That
was the beginning.”

With no more than a Grade 7
‘education (‘I've always said |
~ never learned anything at school
that | didn’t already know”),
Spilsbury began plying the waters
of B.C.’s coast, supplying radio-
telephone equipment to isolated
homesteaders and far-flung logging
camps, eventually building a
. , business that-would become
. Canada’s largest exporter of this
equipment.
But the congenial octogenarian
‘will tell you it all happened by ac-
cident, that nothing Jim Spilsbury
has ever done has gone according

to plan,

4 think you should plan — it’s
a good idea, " he'says in his me-
thedical way. “But once you’
have (planned), forget about it
because it will never work out.”

“If you’re stubborn and you in-
sist on this and that, 50 years from
now you'll still be trying to make
that plan work. Nothing ever
worked according to plan for me
— fortunately.”’

Not his apprenticeship aboard a
Canadian steamship line when he
was only 13, nor his experience
learning to operate a stearm-
powered logging donkey
(Spilsbury loves to joke about this:
“t put the initials L.D.E. after my
name — Logging Donkey
Engineer’’).

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(1988, Adventure) (Part 2 of 2} Tom Burlin- |
son, Sigrid Thornton. A jealous banker steais

an Australian horseman’s herd after being ra-
jected by the man’s strong-willed lover.

&B GB “Baja Oklahoma” (1987, Comedy-
- Drama) Lesley Anne Warren, Peter Coyote. A

_ Stormy personal life clouds a Texas barmaid’s

dreams of finding success as a country song-
writer in this adaptation of Dan Jenkins’ novel.

8:00
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phy) Tu Huai Qing, Jiang Wen. A 13-year-old
girl endures the hardships of an arranged rmar-
fiage to a dying rich man in this account of the
life of pianist Chow Ching Lie. Q *

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Drama} Gane Hackman, Willem Dafoe. Two
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disappearance of three civil-rights activists in
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(1992, Drarna} (Part 1 of 2) Blythe Danner, Ed
Asner. A woman’s quest to find her hus-

band's killer is compounded by mounting evid- .

ence against someone close to her. {In Stereo)

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Suspense) Jaclyn Smith, Christopher Reeve. A
st hoolteacher is terrorized by a man who be-
tieves her to be his missing wife. (In Stereo} ©

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Suzanne Somers, David Birnay. Suzanne So-
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with an alcoholic and abusive father.

GA (i «* “This Is Elvis” (1981, Biography)
David Scott, Johnny Harra. Archival footage
interspersed with dramatic re-creations relate
the life and times of Elvis Presley.

AATS (2) *kx% “Harold and Maude”
(1971, Comedy) Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort. A
free-spirited 79-year-old woman teaches a
death-obsessed teen a valuable lesson about
the art of living in Hal Ashby’s cult classic.

10:40
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dal, Henri Poupon. (Noir et blanc} Apres avoir
ete seduite par un fils de familie, une jeune.
villageoise attend un enfant. :

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. pense) William Hurt, Kathleen Turner.

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sends his wife and son off for the suramer and
returns home to find a woman has sublet the
apartment above him.

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(1992, Drama) (Part 2 of 2) Blythe Danner, Ed
Asner. Bonnie's suspicions that someone
close to her murdered her husband reach horri-.
- fying proportions when her son is arrested for
the crime. (In Stereo) .

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Drama) Gienn Ford, Anne Francis. A dedicated
teacher attempts to restore order in an inner-
city high schoo! where tegn-age lawlessness
has taken root. .

@ @ ** “Fatcon’s Gold" (1982, Adven-

ture) John Marley, Simon MacCorkindale. A

scoop-hungry journalist follows an archaeolo-
ist and his daughter in search of legendary
lexican gold,

DB GB &4% “The St. Valentine's D: Me a
sacre” (1967, Drama) Jason Robartis af,
George Segal. The fight for supremacy be-

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in the infamous warehouse slaughter.

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Claude Brasseur, Richard Berry. Chauffeur de
taxi le jour, danseur mondain le soir, Manuel
vient en aide a un inconnu et !accueille dans
son logement. .

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dowad businesswoman embarks on aromen-.
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having an incurable iliness. (In Storso) Q.-
wx “Le Grand blond evec une chaus-
sure noire” (1972, Comedia} Pisira Hichard,

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potion into a water cooler in this screwball c
comedy from Howard Hawks. Ss

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of an 1880s New Zealander who found her
unhappy: marriage to an older businessman

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(1974, Comedie} Mireille Darc, Jean Roche-
fort. Convairicu que le Grand Blond a ete I'in-
strument de fa mort d'un policier, un ami du

‘nouveau ministre da linterieur lui conseille de.
le faire ravenir a Paris. Q . :

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James Whitmore, A professional gunslinger
and six hired gunmen team up to free a peas-
ant revolutionary leader from prison in Mexico.
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latest book by end of year

Not the seaplane operation he
founded that in no time at all
would grow into the third largest
airline in Canada (Spilsbury sold
Queen Charlotte Airtines to Pacific
Western Airlines in 1955, with no
regrets: ‘In the short time we
were in business we killed 43 peo-
ple, and we were always on the
verge of going broke’’).

Even his first public art exhibit at
the age of 81 and the Order of
B.C. he received this past June
were unplanned success stories.
That is the amazing thing about
this true-life storyteller; his tales
seem always to be of success.

It's a good thing his father saved
every letter his son wrote home
because it allowed Spilsbury to re-
count all these adventures in print.

With three books already under
his belt (Spilsbury’s Coast, The Ac-
cidental Airline and Spilsbury‘s
Album) he is now in the midst of
completing his fourth —
Spilsbury’s Coast of Many Colours.

But naturally, it's not something
he ever planned to do. It was at
the coaxing of Harbour
Publishing’s Howard White that
Spilsbury’s Coast came into being.

With all the interruptions (and
the Order of B.C., he notes, was a
major one), he’s been creeping
along at a snail’s pace. But

: Spilsbury hopes to have it in the
bag before Christmas. _ ;

‘mm supposed to be sitting at
that desk right now," he says with
a guilty laugh.

These days Spilsbury is content

to write and paint — two things
he’s done all of his fife.

For years his work, inventions
and energy were devoted to
bringing the independent, isolated
communities of the little coves and
sounds together. Today, after years
of migration to inland cities, most
of those dots on the map he had
worked to connect have simply
disappeared. ;

This past May Spilsbury made a
three-week trip up the coast in his
1947 50-foot wooden-hulled
vessel, Blithe Spirit, and he says
this tour was his last. ©

“The world | knew has chang-
ed completely,” he states
simply...‘‘1 must say that I’m glad
! lived in the century | did."”