NORTH

Michael Becker

News Editor
michacl@usnews.com

THE golden star on
this Lynn Valley gir!’s
bedroom door makes a
statement.

Ic says Bobbi in glittering
silver script.

Watch out LeAnn Rimes,
12-year-old Bobbi Smith is
lictle bur loud and sings coun-
try like nobody’s business.
Robbi’s got poise, polish,
focus and great pitch. She has
thar little country yodel-hic-
cup thing down solid. There's
the gutsy growl happening
too when she really wants
your attention,

When you meet a prodigy
like her it’s always kind of
scary in an exhilarating way.
Ir’s double-take time. The
voice on the tape, the girl you
meet — it all adds up toa very
large talent ina small, spunky
package. How does she do it?
Is ita trick of the light?

There’s no label deal, nor
even a CD for that matter.
She's got two great songs on
tape though and ene of them,
Sweetwater, is hor stuff on JR
Country 93.7 FM. The coun-
try cune was written and pro-
duced in North Vancouver by
Crosstown Studio Owner Al
Rodgers.

Other stations are picking
it up for play. Irs caughe the
attention of stations in
Victoria, Mount Vernon and
Ferndale in Washington.

The label courtships are
beginning.

Bobbi and her pareats
Gordy, Karen and Karen’s dad
Barry Newton are scrambling
to run with the momentum.

Karen shows me the pho-
tos she’s considering for the
art to go with the CD single.
Thev’re trying to get it ready
in time for Bobbi's major live
appearance in what's stacking
up to be a busy summer per-
formance schedule.

She’s at the Merritt
Mountain Music Festival in
July.

The plan is to have a CD
single— Sweetwater backed by
a rollicking track called Little
Burt Loud — ready by then.

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COUNTRY singing sensation Bobbi Smith is scheduled to perform at Lynn Valley Day, Saturday, May 30 at 12:30 p.m. in Lynn Valley Park.

Beaity

Judy Smith
Contributing Writer

HIS movie Bulworth
is sly, smurt, edgy,
energetic and subver-
sive — jtist like Warren
Beatty himself.

The film is also very
funny.

It opens with the fictitious
California Senator Jay
Bulworth (Beatty) spiralling
into a nervous breakdown
during his 1996 re-election
campaign.

Bulworth is weeping
uncontrollably while his new
TV ads play over and over
again. Some show him with
his smiling whitebread family
while he expounds the virtues
of family values, Another, an
endless loop, has Bulworth
repeating the same speech:
“We are on the doorstep of a
new millennium.”

The morally bankrupt sen-
ator's sell out to the opinion
polls kas sent him over the edge. He decides death is the only
answ

This is the leaping off point, as it were, for Beatty to cum
up the heat and the noise against everything from hig, busi-
ness, to the monied Jewish lobby, rhe education system and
America’s politicians.

Since Pulworth feels he now has nothing to lose, he surren-
ders co the truth as he (and Beatty) knows it ~and that’s

Photo Sidney Baldy sin

WARREN Beatty and Hallie Berry star in Bulworth on now at Park & Tilford Cineplex.

where the rappin’ Warren B. comes to fife.

It's obvious Bearry’s antipathy for authority figures hasn't
lessened over the years. The movie's breathless quality is dri-
ven both by the trenetic energy af Bulwarth’s wickedly truth-
tul campaign tour and its many funny detours and the relent-
less bear of the rap music.

See Class page 31

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Young minds:
kept active

Layne Christensen

News Reporter
Inyne@nsnews.com
UNDER the red and
white tents of the
Vancouver
International
Children’s Festival,
Charlotte Diamond,
Fred Penner and
Norman Foote are the
big stars. ;

But organizers of the
annual event dre giving young
visitors plenty of opportuni-

See Youna page 2B

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