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Producer of LittIeBig Min visits Goderieb
as movie industry grows in Canada, particolarg Vancouver
HoIIgw...ood is dying
BY RON SHAW • '°
A social note fell onmy desk
earlier this week, pne that'at first
I took' only limited note of. 'We
receive—°a—number otsueh--sec s
items each week and, although we
'are very glad to have Jihem sent •
along to us, they tend bribe a, fairrl:y
routine item in the work day of the
news, department -here, at the
Sighal Star .` •
It read: Mr, -.and Mrs. Les.
Kimber .and daughter Valerie of -.
Calgary, Alberta are,visitirtg•with
Mr. and Mrs. Ross Sparks Of,
Picton Street in_Goderich.
It wasn't until my esteemed
associate at the news desk,
Shirley Keller; pointed out just
who this Les Kimber fellow was
that I sat up and took notice. At
coffee break she explained tome
how . Mr. Kimber., was C a film
producer -and pointed out that he
had worked on such well known
box office hits as "Little Big
Man." •
"I want you to interview him for
a story," she added, "He'll be
dropping by in about 10 minutes.
That statement was a bit of a
• bombshell.
"I've never interviewed a big
.film producer before," I
protested,
Shirleyafelt certain I knew more
about movies than she 'did and I
had at least one advantage in that I
had seep "Little Big Man" and
she only faintly retnembered
hearing of it. The effect an
announcement that a movie
producer was coming to the
Signal -Star had on me was
mintmajlo theeffect it- had on' the
rest of the staff,
As I started trying to jot down
some intelligent questions,
typesetters began 'rehearsing a
song and dance routine, the press
crew practised an old vaudeville
act and Shirley brushed 'up on a
few :of her mind dazzling magic
tricks.
Reading further into the notes I
was handed on Mr. K.imber's
visit, I found that he had recently
completed work on another big
budget movie, +Prime Cut"
starring Lee Marvin, set for
release soon. I also discovered
the producer was in Goderich on
his way hack home after a four-
month vacation. •
The Kfrnbers had left Calgary
in mid-November in a motor home
with a motorcycle hung behind and
towing theirs sports" car•, ,th'ey had"
gone to Vancouver for the Grey
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Cup. From there, they swung
south to Pasadena' and the Rose
Bowl Game.
"This guy must like football," I
�dedaieteci #�rlllautf�c�_.._...;—
After
: xAtter a stop in Hollywood, the
Kimbers , crossed the United
States to Venice, Florida and then
moved northward again through
New York, Montreal, Toronto and
Goderic.h,
Befdre ,I ceuld get any . more.
organized, ` it was time to meet
Les Kimber. Half expecting some •
'grey-taired, cigar -smoking
overweight slob wearing
sunglasses and • a loud printed
shirt, I 'encountered a quiet -
spoken balding man of about forty
(with a:pipe).dressed casually in a
Cardigan and summery slae'ksf"
(Hmmmm, doesn't look like a
producet:')-
He v.s a producer all right.
Aftervelling with the stage
production of ?My Fail' Lady" for
some time in the capacity of stage
prad .u.e a i; h e lr'a bcu cXr e
interested in film: Among his
accomplishments are the two full- -
length features, already
mentioned as well ras travelogues
and various commercials.
"„It's .great•to work on feature
films; especially' the big budget
movies like YLitt'1°e Big Mau"
`wh[ I1 cost between $11,0.00,0,00
and ° $I', 2,000;000,' but
con'iinercials are the bread. and
butter of the film business," he`
observed:
Mr. Kimber explained that his
job in productions like "Little Big
Man" 'and "Prime Cut" dealt
mainly with the arrangements of
locations and the work involved
with pre shooting those scenes.
"1 do act a little and did a bit
part in "Little Big Man" prying
the role of an old trader but rnQst
o1R..__ my` " iiivolvembnt _ in lie- `.
pictures deals with technical
probleins of pioduc ' >a,''be•said•.
"Hollywood' is ;dyi ,''z Mr:
Kimber says, "and Canada,seI?Iris,
°to be obtaining a bigger piece ,of
the film aetion•all the
Vancouver is getting a fair
amount of this work, he explained,
poinfing out that -the . Warren
Beatty -Julie , C.hri's,tie. film
"McAbe and Mrs. Miller" was
;filmed there':.
"Little Big Man" was worked
On . in Canada for a considerable
length of time, but in the prints
only about 10 minutes of the
winter scenes are the product of
this work.
SS Board would prefer
four -times annual taxes
BY WILMA OKE
a .Concerned about paying
interest on money borrowed from
the bank, Trustee Howard Shantz,
Stratford, told his fellow
members . of the Huron -Perth
County Roman Catholic Separate
School Board at 'a meeting in
Seaforth Tuesday that the board
should request -each municipality
to pay its school levy four times'a
year rather than the two payments
now made by niostreimicipalities.
Mr. Shantz said Stratford
ratepayer scrap theti' taxes-itrfour-
instalments.
Chairman of the board,' James'
Morris, Stratford, agreed;
"We're entitled to the money and I
think we should collect it." Mr.
Marris.suggested that Jack Lane,
Business Administrator for the
board who was not at the meeting,
should be asked to tiring in a
report at the . next meeting on,
"how much it is costing. us .by not
collecting the taxes.four times a
year and the regulations covering
the payment of"the levy."
Neither Mr. Shantz nor Mr.
M,or'ris agreed with ,the
suggestion that the separate
school board should follow ,the
polleyotthe public school -boards
.in accepting the levy twice yearly
from those munictipalitcs who
collect'taxes in one or twoyearly
payments.
Mr. Shantz had another
suggestion, for the board ` to
consider. He asked if the board
should be considering the vacant
Convent of St. Joseph's -parish in
Stratford as aboard 'office in view
Of the possibility that the present
board office in Seaforth would not
be large enough• s soon for its
needs.
Trustee Joseph Looby of Dublin
.disagreed vigorously with the
suggestion of moving the board
office to Stratford as he said it
should be centrally located in the
Huron -Perth district as it is now
ll1 Sea or . r oo 1 sal( this
was .the decision of the Interim
Separate School organization
committee when' the `two -county
board was formed in 1968. Mr
Shantz is to investigate the
availability, of the convent. .
John • McCarron, physical
education ' consultant for the
board, presented a summary° of
his. program in the 19 board
schools. He explained that in the
program of studies 10 per cent of
school time is 'suggested for
physical and health ` education,
This amounts to about halfaa hour
per'day but mdst schools are
programmed ,for two ' 40 -minute
e sods each week and a period of
level,whileTn
Heal�e senior
the Grades i to 6 at least three'
half hour periods perweek"should
be devoted to activity lessons with
additional time` allotted to Health
Education.
"We shot more Mtn in that
movie than any production ever
has," Mr. Kimber recalls, "but
although a lot of s,heotillg,was. done
in Canada, the finished product
has only those 10 ' minutes of
Canadian locations in it.' t
"•'°Prime Cut" on the other
hand, was•donealmost, entirely In
Canada.'
'` `Although the story. is • d
modern -type,' gatrgster ' movie
dealing with the cities: of Chicago.
and Kansas as. 'well as a long
motor trip•.6etween those point s,
most of it actually takes place in
Canada, In the movie, the streets
• of Edmonton become bbth' Kansas
and Chicago," Kimber stated.
, What's it like to work with
really big name stars like,Dustin
Hoffman acid Chief Dan George'?
"1 found them both to be
frndly, down-to-earth .people,'
Mr. Kimber recalls. "Dan
'George. is a quiet, nice old man
aiid Dustin is a very talented
person and likeable."
Mr. McCarroll used a movie he,
has made •to demonstrate to the
board members one of the
tumbling and climbing classes as
an example of .the activities
carried out in the school term
program, which includes touch
football, floor hockey, swimming,
skating, ice hockey; basketball,
volleyball, tumbling, soccer and
softball type activities, running
and jumping, rhythmic activities
and folk and creative dance and
Health Education.
"Most people in the .movie
business are really down -to -earth -
when you get to know there," he
went on: "Dustin Hoffman tends to
go the image 'route, with the big
chauffeur -driven Cadillac, while
Lee Marvin, for example, would
rather drive his owr1 car and'
refuses to sign autographs! They_
.• both like 'Canada very 'much and
Lee Marvin cho'to motor back
through British Columbia and
enjoy the scenery after we
finished shooting "Prime Cut".
Burl Ives and I are- close•friends
and we enjoy fishing trips in the
Vancouver Island area
occasionally."
-Mr. Kimber feels there are a
great many .film opportunities in
ana a 1 •
better use of• them. in terms of
American filmsfand 'films tirade
with Canadian money.
Who is Bill Smiley?
Lio.NEL;S
SUNOCO
At The Five Points
-icensed. Mechanic
Repairs to all Makes
Continued from Page 18
which he is intensely interested.
His ambitions are stated in this snippet
from an old column: "When I'm 85,'I want to be
. known in the Nursing Home as `that old devil
Smiley, who pinches your bottom every time
you pass his wheel chair." . •
In the meantime, every Tu sday night Bill
returns to his . centur '-old brick-' house arrd4-'
dumps the d'ay's crop of 'unmarked essays or••
exams on the kitchen table. He settles 'himself, •
at his typewriter with a drink, (anything. wet—
Coke, coffee, beer, tea) and a smoke (I'll
smoke till I croak")and percolates his weekly .
ration of wrycomment. Then he starts rapping
With the folks in gollingwood and Seaforth and
High River ,and :bout a hundred other very
important places in Canada:
Approval was given, for J. • A.
MacDonald, London, to s-iipply and
install soundproof tiles for a wall
in ab lassroom next to a general
purpose room at Immaculate
Conception School in Stratford for
$559 and for Bud Steel Services to
,, repair, about 190 lockers at St.
Michael's School in' Stratford at
$2.00 per locker.
• • Trustee Arthur Haid, RR 4,
Listowel, chairman ,of the
transportation committee.
reported that Lee Regier,. Zurich,
has resignedas regular driyer of
one of the school board owned.
fuses tort'.'' BonifagT School in•
Zlir eh:, effective -Jane 30, but will
connate' . as custodian at St
Boniface School. He sa,ic' he would
be willing to drive the bus for
extra curriculum activities at. the
school during the .day. His
Position will be'advertised. ,
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OODERICH SXKNAL-STA
for Yr
INSU
What's coming up in the future?
"Well, I keep my ears open for
any developments that might be
taking-pla•ee=4n theibusiness; die
explains. "There's talk of doin a
new version of the Lost Hori on
story but, theses things are .never
finalized to my satisfaction until.1
seethe production trucks rolling
in,and the .camera crews setting'
Tlr social note .tbat,resulted•ii
this whole story,• concludes by
explaining that Mrs. Kimber is.
the daughtet-ofMr. and Mrs. Ross
•Sparks and' 'that' site was ,the
former,Joyce Simmons of Exeter.
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