56 - Friday, October 11, 1985 - North Shore News Coccoon star joins film cast WHILE IT appears that the legendary Fred Astaire will not be joining Bob Hope and the cast of 20th Century Fox’s Another Nice Deadly Day in Palm Springs, the long-lived gentleman who did such a magnificent job of break-dancing in a unique cameo role in the -ox-office hit, Cocoon, one Don Ameche, will. Ameche, who started his career and prob- ably his pencil-thin moustache trademark in 1932 in the film Beauty at the World’s Fair, will be joined by Kevin McCarthy, Ann Francis, Frank Gorshin and Stella Stevens. They’!l all check into Mel Zajac’s Palisades Hotel on the weekend with shooting scheduled to start on Thanksgiving . Monday. Rumors are still floating around that actress Debbie Reynolds may yet become part of the cast.... Also at Mel’s hotel, a desperately needed fund- raiser for Ronald McDonald House, a short-term residen- tial facility serving families of children suffering from cancer and other life- threatening diseases, will be held Oct. 24. Cost is $zsua plate with the top prize being $5,000 cash, second prize tickets for two to Auckland, N.Z. and dozens of other prizes. Organizers are hop- ing that some of the stars staying in the hotel, like. Hope and Ameche, just might drop by.... In town for a week’s shooting are the cast and crew of the popular daytime soap opera General Hospital. While they're bedding down at Stewart Gales’ La Residence, filming will be done in the China- town area.... open by Christmas, has just made the cover of the Fi- nancial Post, extolling his entrepreneurial talents and expanding Italian fast-food chain. He is alsa profiled ex- tensively in Paul Grescoe In the limelight by Joy Metcalfe Film B.C. boss, Diane Neufeld, currently on maternity leave until mid- January, has named her cherished daughter, Ashlee Brett Angela.... Following on the recent success of the Arts Club revival of Jacques Brel, the original cast, Ruth Nichol, Pat Rose, Ann Mortifee and Leon Bibb, has recorded an album of the highlights of the show. Recorded in Ann’s own West Van recording studio and entitled Jacques Bret Is, it should be available around November 15.... Flamboyant Umberto Menghi, who opened his Richmond and Robson Street Umbertinos yesterday and hopes to have his North and West Van locations -and David Cruise’s The Money Rustlers and spent the entire last weekend with Teporter Bill Cameron and a crew from CBC-TV’s The Journal for a big splash sometime fater this month. He still found time to host his good friend, French film director, Roger Vadim, to dinner at La Cantina during his Hitchiker directorial stint at Panorama Studios. Vadim hopes to return to sample Il Gardino’s bill of fare in a couple of weeks.... The Money Rustlers, only on the book shelves two weeks and already into a se- cond printing, also pisbes the lives of 15 other in- dividuals including the Ghermerzian brothers of West Edmonton Mall fame; top talent promoter, Bruce Allen, who almost steals the show in the 90-minute Tears Are Not Enough documen- tary showing at Cineplex in the Royal Centre, and Ed Al:ie, the founder and ow.er of the fantastically successful Rent-A-Wreck car operation that's swept North America and Europe.... Still on the book scene, How Come I'm Dead? by John Kirkwood is the story of 26 years in the career of Judge Glen McDonald, the colorful and often con- troversial Vancouver Cor- oner from 1954 to 1980. There’s an inside view of what really went on at the morgue the night that Hollywood star, Erro! Flynn died in a West End apart- ment (you’ll be very surpris- ed!); the bizarre Esther Castellani ‘milkshake’ murder; the horrific collapse of the Second Narrows bridge and many other tales. The item is, however, that for 21 years, Judge McDonald swore in inquest witnesses using a copy of the Koran under the mistaken impression that it was a Bi- ble!.... It was a 9 Ib 1 oz girl, Alexandra Elizabeth, at St. Paul’s Tuesday for publisher, David Robinson and internationally-acclaim- ed designer, Zonda Neéllis.... And finally, loved Royal Motors readograph: Speeches are like babies - easier to conceive than to deliver!.... Cheers!.... (1 tb. min. order) Tan iOS ta i Ye Ouse, » YI, W357, pp: ma) a Ocean Fresh '* Fresh Whole Prawns * Fresh Shrimpmeat § 499 * Fresh Shucked da Ib. 2 Ib. or 1 qt. min. order CAPTAIN’S CATCH 2065 Dollarton Hwy. 929-1597 Wonder fill at Bat the Wonderful AS THE name suggests, ue Wonderful Chinese Seafood Restaurant, 3555 East Hastings Street, is not about to cower behind false gastrological modesties. With over 600 Chinese food restaurants in the Van- couver area serving everything from industrial grade won ton to five star shark’s fin, the management at the Wonderful know that inferiority complexes can be ill afforded in a business with ever-more tenacious competition for ever-smaller slices of the Chinese food market pie. The Wonderful has therefore swaggered into the culinary tong wars with every available recipe gun ablaze. Its menu, with assorted appetizers, soups, and entrees, is the restaurant equivalent of the New York phone book — a monumen- tal and exhausting read. The Wonderful took up residence three months ago upon hallowed grounds in the building that once hous- ed the Rickshaw, one of of seafood most wonderful and in an effort to satiate the ever-increasing public hunger for seafood Eee table hopping by Timothy In addition to purusing the live prawn and crab shows, customers can don the executioner’s mask and have -staff deliver flounder- . ing rock cod in plastic buckets for pre-consumption inspection. A cursory leaf through the Wonderful’s epic menu con- vinced my wife and | to flag down one of the restaurant’s red-jacketed gastronomic guides to help ease the frightening prospect of wild guess work.” ‘EDIBLE ESOTERIA We were directed past sec- tions featuring Geoduck and Oyster, passed on such edi- ble esoteria as Tossed Jelly Fish with Sesame Seed Oil and Vinegar ($8.50), and settled instead on Beef Wrapped in Lettuce Leaves ($9.50). This marvellous Chinese version of Mexican tacos features a stir fry of beef (at the Wonderful accompanied with chips of deep-fried won we 2323 “J lintaan Canes Wate on matigiy oe OPEN 10:30 AM - 6 PM 7 DAYS _ | erty oF. NORTH VANCOUVER | CHANGE IN GARBAGE SCHEDULE Thanksgiving Day, October 13, 1985. Garbage collection for Monday, October 14th. will be picked up on Tuesday, October 75th. No other changes in schedule. “ ; aa _ atin ALL CHAINSAW ACCESSORIES ¢ Complete line of woodstoves and fireplace inserts OCT. 11—13 ¢ Free coffee & donuts * Special discounts on all Sharpenin: Limit 2 Par Customer Vancouver’s first big league ton and hearty ginger sauce), Chinese food restaurants Rensha w a side dish of iceberg lettuce 7 and one of the area's first SE leaves, and a deep brown, restaurants of any kind. Externally, the Wonderful retains the Rickshaw's origi- nal architectural bombast of Western-Oriental overkill. Inside is basic Chinese res- taurant decor: ornate knick-knacks, a hodge- podge of wallpapers, plants, bizarre chandeliers, and lots of big round tables outfitted with lazy Susans for max- imum family and group feeding production. Consistent with its claims freshness, the Wonderful stocks three large saltwater aquariums with lobsters, prawns, crabs and rock cod. Lobster is one of the res- taurant’s featured specialities. It retails for $15 ptr pound and is available in a variety of post-cauldron incarnations, including beneath a special Wonderful cream sauce, in a hot pot with rice vermicelli, or sim- ply laced with spicy salt. semi-sweet Hoi Sin Chinese chili sauce. The concept of beef wrapping is to take lettuce leaf in hand, load with stir- fried filling, roli the whole works Havana cigar style, dip in Hoi Sin, then con- sume, The crisp snap of the lettuce and the sure bite of the Hoi Sin combine with the beef for a truly debauch- ed yet unbeatable feast. 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