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Waterloo Chronicle (Waterloo, On1868), 6 Feb 1985, p. 16

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PAGE 16 â€" WATERLOO CHRONMICLE, WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 6, 19805 Moskalyk meets challenge with Ice Capades Chronicle Staff Bob Moskalyk thinks Iee Capades is the best show in the world â€" and he‘s not just saying that because he‘s one of its upâ€"andâ€"coming stars. A native of Port Colborne and amateur skater of note, Moskalyk realized as a 19â€"yearâ€"old if he was going to make skating his profession, he would have to make it with an ice show. And so he glided over to Buffalo to an Ice Capades audition, held each Friday in the city which the group performs. Cindy Povey *‘"When I auditioned I was so nervous," said Moskalyk last week from Johnstown, Pa., the group‘s stop at the time. ‘"The most important thing for me was to get it over with and accept whatever decision they made." The rest, thumbs up, is history as Moskalyk was taken on board and has been working with the company for six years now. Ice Capades arrives in Kitchener Feb. 12 through Feb. 17 and fans can look for Moskalyk in a comedy number called Comedy Trio, a selfâ€"described "ballet on ice." In it he performs with fellow Canadians Bob Mac and Julie Patterson, both from Victoria, B.C. He was fresh out of high school and describes the Ice Capades as his first job... **besides bagging groceries and jobs along those lines." The Ice Capades tours 35â€"40 weeks a year, a city at a time and stays a week each time. According to Moskalyk, at the auditions the company doesn‘t just ‘"scoop you up right there. If they don‘t accept you, they tell you what you need to work on. If you make it, they put you on a waiting list." Now at 25, Moskalyk said he enjoys life on the road where he‘s in a situation with young people his own age. He drives a car on tour, so he claims he has a lot of freeâ€" "I was lucky there was a space for me and I got in." The skaters get time off twice a year which means Moskalyk gets home to Port Colborne, Ontario. He said they usually get a couple weeks at Christmas and six to Special lesson to aid visuallyâ€"impaired kids Paul Martini and Berbara Underhili eight weeks in the summer. Moskalyk‘s comedy routine with the veteran Mac and Patterson is a combinaâ€" tion of comedy and serious skating. At the beginning of the number, Moskalyk said it is really important that Patterson and he look good. ‘‘We want the crowd to believe that we‘re doing a serious number and this crazy guy (Mac) comes in. It‘s really dangerous and exciting." Moskalyk said he enjoys both comedy and serious skating, so the number is good for him . But his goal is to become a serious skater. "I can‘t imagine doing anything else. I definitely realize it‘s a job, but it‘s a job I really enjoy. I wouldn‘t be fulfilled any other way . It‘s the challenge I need. I think it‘s great to be paid to do something I When performing, he sometimes gets nervous. He said it depends who‘s there. **When Mom and Dad are there‘‘ he gets nervous because they only get to see him perform twice a year. He said he also gets nervous when the president of the comâ€" pany is there. Moskalyk would like to skate with the Ice Capade ‘or as long as he can. really enjoy." This year‘s Ice Capades will feature the professional debut of 1984 world pair champions Paul Martini and Barbara Underhill, which Moskalyk thinks is ‘"exâ€" cellent." ‘"*Both are very great people. besides exceptional skaters. TV doesn‘t do justice to the power they have. Their routine Memories just gives me chills. Martini and Underhill are just fabulous. They‘ll be in Kitchener with us. That‘s great." But when it comes to his own perforâ€" mance, he said it‘s hard to say what he feels about it. ‘*Most of the serious skating I‘m doing is on my own. I want to show the company the skills I have. There‘s so much to strive **You can never be the best. Sure, if you were world champions you could say that. Otherwise, you can be consistent and never stop learning. You can never learn it all. For me, I‘m working for myself." â€" 1984 world figure skating champions who are launching their professional debut with Ice Capades, will hold a special lesson while in Kitchener with visuallyâ€"impaired children. _ The lesson will take place Thursday, Feb. 14 prior to an Ice Capades performance at Kitchener Aud. Martini and Underhill, who won the hearts of the skating world with their efforts in Ottawa last year, will tutor eight visuallyâ€"impaired primary and elemenâ€" tary school children in a lesson deâ€" signed to expose sightless children to . the fun and:â€"exhiliration of ice skating. | Martini and Underhill will be assisted | by members of the Ice Capades cast. .‘ ‘The event is held in conjunction with ; White Cane Week Feb. 30. d Paul Martini and Barbara Underhill, Ford Cuppola opened sacred doors to the harsh realities of war with his shattering epic Apocalypse Now . This was ‘the end‘ of Night To Remember and Douglas Bader, as the Deer Hunter infiltrated and began to explore the emotional conflicts on the edge of war‘s insanity . : After six years of battle tailes and inner fears of man against man‘Trom Gallipoli to Chronicle Special Think back for a moment to 1979. What were you doing? Three quarters of a dream almost became reality when Paul, George and Ringo were reunited for a birthday party at guitarist Eric Clapton‘s. Exâ€"Beatle John Lennon signified interest in an album project after four years in seciusion. Comics Chevy Chase, John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd had just left television‘s Saturday Night Live. America was still flooded by the news of Watergate and president Richard Millâ€" house Nixon, who possessed a ‘sécret honor‘ no one could have suspected, yet political activities were still ruthlessly Movie review . \ The Killing Fields awesome account At the box office, mastermind Francis Bob Moskalyk and Julie Patterson berg (Sam Waterston) and his loyal Cambodian assistant Dith Pran. The Killing Fields masterfully chronicles Pran‘s and Cambodia‘s anguish under the brutal captivity of the Khymer Rouge. captives. There are several gasps throughout this film. Pran is played by Dr. Haing S. Ngor, in a haunting screen debut who draws on his own actual horror and torment that he endured as a former doctor in Cambodia, between the years 1975 and 1979. . It is this terror reâ€"enacted combined with grisly corpse â€" littered footage, and infinite pain of the peoples that gives Killing Fields a chilling aura, an aura forever etched into the minds eye. Based on Schanberg‘s screenplay ‘The Life and Times of Dith Pran‘, Fields is a genocidal history lesson. Only the silent survive. The crucial reality in the Killing Fields, is the children, dirtyâ€"{aced tykes crying in the streets of ruin, and the offspring of the Party, taught that God is dead, that they have no past. .

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