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Entertainment
Alice Munro wins top award
The hours are long and the rewards few for those aspiring to become movie stars, but where else are you
ever going to get the chance to see yourself on the big screen? A meagre crowd of “extras” turned out in
the sweltering sun over the weekend to provide a crowd scene and applause for the filming of “Blue City
Slammers” in Blyth. Their reward for this was a “Slammers” T-shirt and all the free pop and hot dogs they
could eat. Extras in the beer tent scene shot Monday evening got free beer and evening breezes for their
roles.
Movie world not all glamorous
Huron County writer Alice
Munro won her third Governor
General’s Award for fiction in a
ceremony held Wednesday in Roy
Thomson Hall in Toronto.
’ It was one of eight awards, one
for English and one for French in
each of drama, poetry, non-fiction,
and fiction.
Alice Munro was born in Wing
ham and lives in Clinton (her father
Robert Laidlaw came from the
Blyth area). She won the award for
her new collection of short stories
“The Progress of Love.”
Another local resident, Anne
Chislett, co-founder of the Blyth
Festival and a Governor General’s
award winner herself, was chair
man of the English drama jury that
chose Sharon Pollock the drama
winner for her play “Doc”.
Besides Ms. Chislett attending
the ceremony from the area were
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Lisa Boonstoppel, a student
from Central Huron Secondary
School who has been working at
The Citlzenoverthe past school
year on the school’s co-op program
volunteers to act as one of the
“extras” for Blue City Slammers
being filmed at the Blyth ball park
last Saturday and Sunday. She
quickly found out that the glamor
ous world of movies Isn’t really
very glamourous.
BY LISA BOONSTOPPEL
With the sun beating down
mercilessly upon actors and pro
ducers and the monotony of
endless takes and retakes of the
film, the movie business lost its
glamourous appeal to the extras for
the production of the Blue City
Slammers film shooting in Blyth.
The movie called for 200 - 300
extras or> Saturday morning at 9
a.m. The extra’s were needed for a
crowd scene and to fill the
bleachers as a cheering section.
Unfortunately for the movie,
only a handful of people turned up.
Each person’s goal was to become
famous, but, after a hot, dreary
wait of three hours, the extra’s
were getting impatient. When,
finally they were needed they
performed enthusiastically and
professionallycheering “Go Slam
mers Go” to cameras and other
paraphenialia of the movie world.
The day was a let-down for most
because of the long day and
excessive waiting. It really wasn’t
very much fun for most.
The day wasn’t a waste though,
many extras were on TV that night
for the channel eight news. Extras
also received free pop, hotdogs,
and an attractive T-shirt. Extra’s
could also see how a movie was
made and meet interesting people
at the same time.
The day was an eye-opener for
most of the extra’s. Watching
movies often instills feelings of
envy and jealousy of actors who
become so famous and do so little
work. On Saturday though, extra’s
realized the intense amount of
dedication and desire it takes to
become an actor.
The actors in the film were under
seige from the broiling sun also,
they must have been going insane
from the monotony of retakes yet
they continued with smiles and no
complaining.
These actors are making these
movies for the public’s pleasure
and the job isn’t fun and exciting.
The glamour of a finished film is
only the tip of a mountain, there’s a
long gruelling climb to the top.
Actors deserve the stardom they
achieve.
Making movies is mostly a waiting game, as Blyth Ladies’ Softball
team members Karen Souch [left] and Kim McDougall discovered
Sunday during the filming of part of “Blue City Slammers” in Blyth
over the weekend. The girls represented the opposition to the
Slammers, a fictional softball team in a small town tournament.
Katherine Kaszas, artistic director
of the Blyth Festival and board
member Sheila Richards of Brus
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