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GORDON'S OLD PARTNER, Bud Cort, of Harold and Maude fame, stars as Max Brown in a Canadian production of Max Braithwaite's novel Why Shoot the Teacher? The film reportedly set all kinds of box-office records in Canada--it's set in Saskatchewan and was filmed in Alberta--and it's easy to see why. Like My Bodyguard, it emphasizes real people in real situations--a young schoolteacher in a barren Canadian farmers' town...
...what exactly are real people? Do they eat meatloaf and shop at K-Mart or wear moth-eaten sweaters and hum Haydn in the shower? And what is a real situation? A Saskatchewan classroom during the Depression can appear as real as a Chicago classroom today and a Canadian bully can be just as real as an American hood. So what gives both these films the accessible quality of coffee-table books, full of colorful portraits, sensible prose and a handful of good chuckles...
...record, Gordie grew up on the wheatfields of Saskatchewan. He scored his first professional goal in 1946. He has played on the same squad as his two sons, Mark and Marty. His agent is his wife, Colleen. He has played against Orr, Hull, the Espositos, the Richards, and the Russians. He possessed the wickedest pair of elbows in sports, football giants notwithstanding...
DIED. John Diefenbaker, 83, "Mr. Conservative," the flamboyant prairie lawyer who was Canada's Prime Minister from 1957 to 1963 and one of its most outspoken Members of Parliament for almost four decades; in Ottawa. Reared in the northlands of Saskatchewan, Diefenbaker won fame as a crack trial lawyer, before winning a long sought seat in the House of Commons in 1940. As Prime Minister he urged increased independence from the U.S., to be accomplished largely through the development of Canada's natural resources and the Arctic north. Though an unwavering antiCommunist, he detested McCarthyism and promoted trade...
...Canadian provinces, which feel that their growing economic clout is not matched by commensurate political influence in the central government. The Westerners served for decades as a captive market for high-priced manufactured goods from Eastern Canada. Now that they have come into their own, oil-producing Alberta and Saskatchewan are resentful that the Trudeau government has claimed a slice of their petroleum revenues to subsidize the price of imported oil, on which most of Eastern Canada depends...