The Gazette from Montreal, Quebec, Canada • 35

Entertainment People Pages 35 to 42, Friday, April 9, 1976 inside out By BETTY GUERNSEY of The Gazette AP wirphoto All those stories you've heard about Jewish mothers and their chicken soup are true. In fact, I don't know how anyone who consistently eats Jewish can possibly remain skinny. As every Jewish person knows, however, eating Jewish doesn't necessarily mean eating kosher. Nor does eating kosher necessarily mean eating Jewish. Almost any type of cooking French, Italian, Chinese can be adapted to the "Kashrut" or kosher dietary laws, first laid down in the Old Testament.

To be kosher, fish must have fins and scales (thereby eliminating shellfish); to qualify for meat, four-footed animals must chew their cud and have cloven feet (thus eliminating pork). Both meat and poultry must be ritually slaughtered, soaked in water, salted, and then rinsed again to remove all blood. i Meat and dairy products must not be served at the same meal, and must be stored and cooked separately, using separate utensils. Traditional Jewish food, on the other hand, is similar to the rather heavy dishes of Russia and Central Europe, from where many of the Jewish immigrants came. And while it may be kosher, it is not always so.

Actors Dustin Hoffman, left, and Robert Bedford, right, chat with reporters Bernstein (second left) and Woodward. Despite knowing the story's end, 'President's Men' a strong movie how the two juniors at the Washington Post fought and fumbled their way through the biggest story of the century. The movie even with Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman as Woodward and Bernstein doesn't overly dramatize or romanticize either the men or the process sometimes spoken of reverentially as 'investigative By DANE LANKEN of The Gazette You already know what happens in the end of All the President's Men (opening today at the Avenue and Fairview theatres). Nixon and his cronies get the boot and a pair of reporters named Woodward and Bernstein are America's newest heroes. But taking this trip is still fun.

It's interesting to see More rigid The cast is good. Redford and Hoffman play their men straight and well. Some of the supporting performances are gems. Jason Robards as the reporters' questioning and supportive editor Ben Bradlee is a powerhouse, Alan Pakula directed. He brought the same sound suspense to this picture that he put in Klute five years ago.

Screenwriter (of Butch Cassidy the Sundance Kid and others) William Goldman adapted Woodward and Bernstein's book carefully, correctly and well. All the President's Men is a good picture and one that will undoubtedly do very well. It will both satisfy and create continuing interest in the come-uppance of the world's highest elected crime overlord. case, when the slogging had been done and the heads of the higherups started to roll. We see the downhill rush to impeachment-with-honor only as headlines on a Washington Post teletype machine.

There's an air of authenticity throughout the picture, from the straightforward handling of the events and from the 'sets' they duplicated the real Washington Post offices, even to flying in real garbage from The Post's newsroom. There is also the authentic drama of extraordinary human events unfolding. But the filmmakers have been considerate, too. They don't expect us to remember every Nixon aid and break-in-artist all names are accompanied by a "you mean the guy who The more orthodox the Jewish family, of course, the more rigidly the dietary rules are observed. Jewish restaurants in Montreal or anywhere in North America, for that matter are usually either strictly kosher, observing the dietary laws, and closing for the Sabbath from Friday afternoon to Saturday evening; or Jewish-style, avoiding pork and seafood but otherwise relaxing the laws in general, and remaining open It doesn't have to.

There is drama enough in making a lot of phone calls and once in a long while having a hunch pay off especially when, as in Watergate, the stakes are high. The movie opens on the morning almost four years ago, after those bungling burglars had been caught committing the world's most celebrated "third-rate burglary." Woodward, 29, Wa-spishly good-looking, good family, good school and good Navy career, gets the assignment. Bernstein, 28, chain-smoking, college-dropout copy-boy-turned-reporter, noses in. Thereafter, we watch the team call up a Republican organizer and ask how come his cheque ended up in a Watergate burglar's bank account. Or drive all over Washington following the slim lead of an election committee employment list.

Or meet with the mysterious 'Deep Throat' in an out-of-the-way underground garage. We get an impression of Woodward and Bernstein's' growing shock (and excitement) as they find out that payoffs and dirty tricks are not limited to the lower-downs but to some of the United States' high officials. They can hardly contain themselves on discovering that the proverbial keys to an illegal election committee slush fund are kept in the Oval Room. The movie lasts two and a half hours, but still ends only at the brink of the big breaks in the Watergate meals plus, on Thursday and Friday morning, Babke coffeecakes. Closed Friday afternoon and Saturday, and for Passover; otherwise 8 a.m.-9 p.m.

731-4240. Hillel Student Society- Golem Coffee House, 3460 Stanley, has a kosher restaurant which serves lunch, Monday to Friday, year-round. Hillel, founded in the U.S. by B'nai Brith as a "Jewish home away from home" to provide kosher meals as well as social and cultural activities for Jewish students, has been on the McGill campus since 1949. Their hearty three-course meal special of the day, is $1.75 for students, $2.50 for non-students.

(Hungarian- born chef Jack Preisler, a former army cook, trained many of the cooks in the Israeli army.) Open for Passover; reserve early. 845-9171. Chabad House, 3429 Peel, operated by the Lubavitch Youth Organization of the McGill campus, has a kosher cafeteria open for lunch only. The full four-course meal is $1.50 for students. Chabad, standing for "wisdom, understanding and knowledge," is run by a very orthodox Hasidic group of Jews under the administration of Rabbi Zerkind and three other rabbis as a "family kind of place." Closed for Passover.

842-6616. Kosher meals are also served at the Jewish General Hospital, 3755 Cote Ste Catherine; Snowdon YM-YWHA, near Westbury: and the Davis 5700 Kellert. SGWU Hillel's Second Nature at 2130 Bishop servies kosher vegetarian meals during the school year. Note: because of dietary laws, no kosher restaurants serve milk or butter. Jewish The Montefiore Club, 1195 Guy, was founded in 1880 and named after Sir Moses Montefiore, the outstanding Italian- born Jewish philanthropist.

Interestingly enough, Dr. Abraham De Sola assisted in the Club's founding. The present four-story clubhouse, built in 1905-6, boasts 635 resident members; an outstanding collection of Canadian art; and a steam bath. Its distinguished dining room serves in-' ternational and Jewish cuisine, avoiding both pork and seafood. Members and guests only.

Closed for Passover. 934- 0776. Balkan's 359 President Kennedy, renowned for its "Jewish- style was founded on The Main in 1929 by Polish-born Joe Balkan. Now owned by another Pole, Leon Markowicz, who has continued in the same tradition (with the same cook, at Balkan's for 40-odd years), it serves its own special European-style dishes such as lung stew, boiled beef, milts, stuffed cabbage and kishka, verein-ekes, cheese kreplach and bagelach, etc. Open 5 a.m.-9 p.m.

daily. 288-0413. Benny's Delicatessen, 5718 Park, started out in 1927 as a kosher delicatessen on The Main, and has been on Park directly opposite the Rialto Theatre since 1933, owned and operated by Mr. and Mrs. Benny Schoichet.

In the old days they made everything in their own kitchen, and threw Passover Seder dinners "on the house" for Jewish old people. These days they cater to a mixed crowd, and their shop has both kosher products (including smoked meat) for those who ask for it; non-kosher for others. Closed for Passover; otherwise 8 a.m. a.m. daily.

271-8972. The Brown Derby, 4827 Van Home, no relation to the one in Hollywood, has been a family business for 20 years. A huge, bustling place, with scenes of Jerusalem and the Holy Land on its walls, the Derby makes everything in its own kitchens, including their own smoked meat, naturally cured for 21 days; their famous matzoh balls; special gefilte fish (they sell two tons over Passover); their own frozen soups and hors d'oeuvre; and paper-thing mur (poppyseed) cookies and mundel bread. Open 7 a.m.-12.30 a.m. daily.

"39-2331. Delli, Westmount Square, is, accenting to owner Michael Seltzer, "a typical Jewish delicatessen" albeit one with plexiglass chairs, varnished natural wood tables, and gregarious Greek manager named George. It, too, has a super takeout counter, offering everything from borscht and potato knishes to gefilte, chopped liver and pickled tongue. Open daily from 11.30 a.m.-7.30 p.m.; 9.30 p.m. Thursday and Friday.

Bob Woodward? 'Call back later' Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein undid a lot of people by making a lot of phone calls and asking a lot of questions. Of course, in that time they got a lot of 'Never minds' and 'Call back Ah, but "the changing vicissitudes of life," as Freud used to go on about. Woodward and Bernstein are the ones on the run now but because they're stars, people want to know them. Thus we get this the best result of several calls to the Washington Post, where Woodward and Bernstein are trying to be reporters again (which is a little like Patty Hearst trying to be a debutante again). Telephone: Ring.

Woodward: Woodward. Reporter: Hello, I'm calling from the Montreal Gazette and I Woodward: I'm busy now, call later. Reporter: When later? Woodward: Much later. Telephone: Click. Crystal Voyageur fascinating vision By DANE LANKEN of The Gazette Half of Crystal Voyager (playing Friday and Saturday-midnights at the Outremont) is a surfing movie, about a bronzed, blond- haired Californian who lives and breathes for surfing.

The other half is pretty pictures, taken by this same surfer, pictures of waves taken from underneath, from underwater, and of the sunlight through the rolling, crashing surf. And if you don't think half an hour of sunlight through salt water is interesting, it is because you haven't seen the movie. George Grenough is the surfer, and as he explains in the voice-over, he is interested in nothing other than surfing and things closely related to surfing, like taking films of surfers and sailing to where there are bigger waves and few surfers than the sunny coast of California. The thing is, though, that he is good at all those things. He can ride a bowl-shaped surf board of his own design (or even an air mattress), catch a wave no bigger than the ones you and I frolic in at the seashore and get up to remarkable speeds.

He says 50 mph and the movie makes it look at least that fast. He has also apparently developed some sophisticated camera systems for making surfing movies, and some of the shots in Crystal Voyager taken by him from inside a tunnel a rolling wave just before it crashes are quite remarkable. It seems like that by keeping his camera rolling after the waves crashes that Grenough captured the natural light show that makes up the second half of the movie. The patterns are endless and fascinating, and the perspective consider waves from underneath is not one you're likely to find anywhere else. Music, by Pink Floyd and the Crystal Voyager Band, adds considerably to the impact of the pictures.

Oscar winner says firm is in weak financial shape Fridays and Saturdays. Kosher restaurants have an ambience all their own. Where else will you see men remove bowler hats to reveal yomul-kas; rabbinical students pore over, the Torah; or people fall asleep at the table after a hearty meal of chicken soup with kreplach, flanken, carrot tzimmes, cole slaw and nudeln, followed by a strudel? This year the feast of Passover, commemorating the flight of the Israelites from Egypt to the promised land of Canaan, falls on April .14 and 15 and the six days which follow. In orthodox kitchens this is preceded by a complete cleaning and changeover of utensils. Nothing made of leaven is allowed in the house during this period (a range which covers everything bread to whisky and beer).

Because of the exhaustive amount of work involved, some kosher restaurants close for the period. Kosher De Sola Club, 3636 de Musee, Montreal's most elegant kosher dining room, also has the distinction of being the only strictly kosher private club in North America. Founded in 1960 by members of the orthodox community, it was named after the family of the Montreal Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue's first permanent i rabbi, Abraham De Sola. To enjoy the excellent kosher meals served here, you have to be a member or guest of a member. During Passover, however, the Club's new manager, Harvey Kahn, is opening its doors to the public.

Re servations only, 845-0430-1. Carmel Kosher Restaurant, 5397 Park, run for the past 25 years by Roumanian-born Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Carmel, is by their own admission "plain, not fancy," serving delicious, home- made meals, fresh every day: Soups, brisket, roast chicken or veal, flanken, cabbage rolls, Mrs. Camel's special gefilte fish, and her own cakes, pies, applesauce and prunes.

The menu changes daily. Closed Friday afternoon and Saturday and during Passover; otherwise noon-fl p.m. 276-2238 Heller's Kosher Bakery and Restaurant, 2355 Ekers, started ten years ago as a light lunch and bakery. (Owner Hungarian-born Herman Heller is a baker by profession; part of the restaurant is still a bakeshop, although Heller's no longer does its own baking.) A friendly, neighbourhood-style place, ultraplain in decor, it offers Jewish and Hungarian-type kosher JTBATFORD FESTIVAL 1q76 IUNE 7 TO OCTOBER 16 CANADA FESTIVAL THEATRE The Way of the World William Congreve The Merchant of Venice Antony and Cleopatra Measure for Measure A Midsummer Night's Dream Plus: Hamle, The Tempest, The Importance of Being Earnest. Ee, and Ihree Sisters at the Avon Theatre.

Plus outstanding concerts and International Film Festival. OTTAWA (CP) Crawley Film: is in the most uncomfortable financial situation in its history, recent Academy Award winner Budge Crawley said in an interview this week. Crawler, winner of an award for The Man Who Skied Down Everest, said the company isn't on the verge of bankruptcy but will film has yet shown significant returns. Crawley Films is suing the U.S. distributer of Janis Universal for poor distribution of the film.

By last June Janis had played at only 166 U.S. theatres although ready for booking? in 1374. Crawley Films has received nothing from the U.S. distribution of Janis but they have paid $13,000 in legal fees and Crawley says his court costs could go as high as $100,090. The Man Who Skied Down Everest has net proved much of a financial success ither although Crawley probably have to sell some of its property to meet fi ir frff rnnr hi irf nancial obligations.

ffX roMPl FTF INFORMATION The problem exists partly fXvT i For your copy-or reservations. because cl Luge investments in two recent feature documentaries. Janis. a docu vnte Mrauora restivai, iirauora, Ontario N5A 6V2 or phone (519) 273-1600 mentary based on the Lie of AAAAAA blues singer Jams Joclin and The Man Who Skied Down Everest. Both cost about $300,050 to produce.

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