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schools in Quebec. Tremblay's approach to tier music is bilingual. She writes in xhichever language the songs come to her. And her decision to record in both French ind English was a political one, she says. y “That was a political move. I went to English schools, and I'm grateful for that. But at the same time, I've really had to live 'hrough my problems as a FrettelrCana. iian not knowing my French properly, Misuse French was really secondary in English schools. So I've been working very hard to make sure that culture never iisappears from my life, lam very inspired I both languages." Fremblay says she tries to keep her sets rulanced (between French and English), h hen performing, but sometimes political :rnsions are detectable. depending on there the performance is, and "how many LIVS after Meech" it is. She holds true to ' hat her beliefs. singing in both languages A of respect for both languages and for personltrWttryRill0tarLiot. ta), an Irish-Italian kid when only with. full his oath“ mumba’fvinm,”n GGipeiiasuarneenoirmitein the Matin, mud in the firat _ not even The Godfather, " though the two works are not really gawnble. Most rtlttts, even great ones. --vaporat.e like mm once you‘ve returned to the real world; they "fave memones behind, but their reality fades fairly quickly. Not :hxs Ctlm, which shows Ameriea's ,rinest rtlrnmaker at the peak of 1113 form. No finer film has ever been made abet organized crime It was a mood of guilt and "egret, of quick, stupid decisions eadmg to wasted lifetimes, of vyalty turned Into betrayal. Yet a the same time there was an ~-1ement of fumve nostalgit. for uad “mes that shouldn't be mssed. but were. For two days after I saw Martin Vorsese's new film GoodFellas. 'he mood of the characters lin. 4ered within me, refusing to eave Tremblay takes a bilingual approach to music 9AGE "' _ WATERLOO ME. WED'ESDAY. OCTOBER 3. mo Entertainment , k musw em] enpymg th, her debut GoodFellas: Not a good film/a greai One 1 Canadian she performs in which E "'"'t'"""""""ctt'uttmhoemt-r,andg-ttrvommrao/iL,drrd, “It sometimes makes me a little edgy, but I have to stick to what I believe," Tremblay. "There', people all over Canada that support both languages. Both lan- guages can be healthy together - I feel it within myself. I think it's unhealthy not to respect other cultures, whatever those cultures are." Tremblay's songs speak of the need for social change and awareness, of women's issues, and of many political issues. She has tackled tabu subjects (as far as record hermit Slttttermongmtter Lucle Blue Tremblay ot Quebec will perform tomorrow evenlng at the Prlncm Gloom. , ' g ' A r w BE.' "m 2 , C " 2,;4‘,‘ ‘ I y B, r T Cd r', k a time when we were out in the streets taking back the night," Tremblay says. “So my life, where I am now, and my writing is from that angle." _ "What I do, maybe, is write with a feminist vision because of bow I grew up and was introduced to the feminist scene at companies are concerned) like incest, sex- ually-abused children and teenage suicide. But Tremblay’s songs are not soapbox 1,ieelaeationa - they are "songs of the The Grand River Folk Society presents Lucy Blue Tremblay at the Fusincess Cine. ma, 6 Princess St, in Waterloo, October 4 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $13 in advance, $15 at the door, and are available at the Princess Cinema, Dr. Dim and u Librairie Francaise ip Kitchener. "Mr favorite songs ti) write are love songs," she says, “because I live my life ve..ry witch thrgpgh Elm} tttnotion." T lay's muaic, as she sim'aéi'aegtgm lore,. lift and_relationshipo. But there's also a soft essence to TYemlr There'is a real Henry Hill, who disappeared into the anonymity of the federal government', wit- ness protection program, and who over a period of four years told everything he knew about the mob to the reporter Nicholas Pileggi, whose "WitsethIr" was a bestseller. The screenplay by Pileggi and Scorsese distill: those memories into a fietion that some- times plays like a documentary. that contains so much informa- tion and feeling about the Mafia that Emily it m the lame Marioso. There is also narration by Karen, the Jewish girl (Lt raine Braceo) who married him, and who discovered that her entire social life was suddenly inside the Mafia; mob wives nev- er went anywhere or talked to anyone who was not part of that world, and eventually, she says, the values of the Mifta came to seem like normal values. She was even proud of her husband for not lying around the house all day, for having the energy and daring to? out and use] for shying: ReT'r""re'b""rNPef A----"-.-- Wanna-22) '-titat"tiaV Bott REY MUSIC? LTD: (“WW --