October 29, 1979

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THE FALL KILL

In the space of a few hours on Saturday, my father saw death from two sides. In the afternoon, near a deserted potato farm to the east of Ontario’s Algonquin Park, he watched with woodsman’s pride as I used the Christmas present he had given me, a Remington .410, to sheer the upper skull off a male partridge, killing the bird instantly. By Roy MacGregor11 min

Frontlines

Jewison shoots for the truth

"Are you a good lawyer, are you honest?” asks the white-haired and moustachioed actor. Playing a wise and principled grandfather in Norman Jewison’s latest film, . . . And Justice for All (see review, Maclean's, Oct. 22), Lee Strasberg gazes at his grandson and awaits a profound response. By George Horhota9 min

Books

Wakeful nights, Canadian-style

This season, the serpent of commercialism has definitely come into its own in the garden of CanLit. With one beady eye fixed on paperback sales, the other on potential film rights, it slithers along, offering big bucks to Canadian innocents.

People

At the age of 16, Montreal’s latest musical discovery, France Joli, has already been dubbed “the queen of Lolita disco” and her hit song Come to Me is rising with a bullet on every record chart in North America. Success shouldn’t come as a surprise to reedyvoiced Joli—after all, she has been in the business since she was 2. At 11, she dropped out of regular school to pursue her professional career with the full support of her mother, Michelle, a retired teacher who tutored the pubescent Joli while she practised “lip-singing” Barbra Streisand songs. By Marsha Boulton6 min

Frontlines

Blood is thicker than English

Why does Maclean's in The “Federalist Separatists” (Sept. 17) persist in calling those of us who do not speak French “English Canadians.” I am a sixth-generation Canadian and there is not a drop of English blood in my veins. Please, if you must differentiate, call us English-speaking Canadians.

Frontlines

Paranoia and power: the marshalling of a U.S. cult

"We must save our youth and our nation from the destruction the British monarchy has projected for us,” warns the apocalyptic Lyndon H. LaRouche, chairman of the minuscule USLP, an organization whose bizarre antics are becoming increasingly vociferous. By André McNicoll6 min

Sports

A production in black and white

Since the advent of Muhammad Ali, heavyweight fights have taken on the postures of grand opera and, as in opera, the plot (or the fight itself) is sacrificed for orchestration. In this dubious tradition the John Tate-Gerrie Coetzee World Boxing Association (WBA) heavyweight championship, which highlights two untested spear carriers, could be billed as the Götterdämmerung of hype. By Joe Flaherty5 min

A phoenix rising to the front-page challenge

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Press

A phoenix rising to the front-page challenge

Canada’s third-largest newspaper chain, FP Publications Ltd., wounded and in the red after two long strikes and the recent folding of the 111-year-old Montreal Star (Maclean's, Oct. 8, 1979), is mounting an aggressive comeback. Two ailing newspapers, the Winnipeg Free Press and the Ottawa Journal, have been born again. By Warren Gerard5 min

Canada

Suicide squeeze for Petrocan

In baseball they refer to it as a “suicide squeeze.” It is a term that should be appreciated by Don McDougall, a director of the Toronto Blue Jays, and chairman of the federal task force that, last Monday, tabled its 48-page report calling for the “privatization” of PetroCanada. By Roy MacGregor, Jane O’Hara5 min

Column

In which the scribe huddles on the floor, watches a master and thinks of a mister

The smoke curls down from the lofts of the Player’s cigarette and Beefeater gin ads in the upper regions of Montreal’s storied Forum which has viewed the startling rocket-bursts of Cournoyer, the casual grace of Béliveau and the skittering genius of Lafleur, who moves like a bubble on a stove top, impossible to predict or track. By Allan Fotheringham4 min

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