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Show The Newspaper Thursday , October 22, 1981 PBeB7 'The President Must Die' Truth about Nov. 22 is still unknown Z ' ' V 'S, V if ; j ' 'v5v ;f if ; ffl r ' - David Grisman 'avid Grisman Quartet to appear at U of U The David Grisman Quartet Quar-tet will appear at the University of Utah's Union Ballroom at eight o'clock on Friday, Oct. 30. The concert will feature music from David Grismans latest album, Mondo Mando, which, roughly translated, means "World of Mandolin." Joining David Grisman in his "World of Mandolin" at the Union Ballroom will be Darol Anger on violin, Mike Marshall on mandolin, guitar and violin, and Rob Wasserman on bass. They are familiar faces to anyone who saw David Grisman at Symphony Hall two years ago, and at Snowbird last year. David Grisman has appeared ap-peared on over 40 albums by various artists, including Linda Rondstadt, James Taylor and Bonnie Raitt. He has written the scores to several movies, including ( "King of the Gypsies", which also featured violinist Stephane Grapelli., That musical pairing led to several sev-eral successful tours, including in-cluding a performance at Salt Lake's Symphony , Hall, and a recently released live album. Mondo Mando marks the fifth David Grisman album to feature his famous "Dang Music." David Grisman is a constant con-stant innovator, synthesizing an entirely new kind of i till .Mi , t ; ' i : a acoustic music, capturing the excitement of rock and roll, the improvisational interplay in-terplay of Jazz, the precision of classical music and, coming full circle, the joyfull spontaneity of bluegrass. Tickets for David Grisman are on sale now at the Union Building Main Desk, the Cosmic Cos-mic Aeroplane, Acoustic Music, Mu-sic, Smokey's Records, Toad Tape in Ogden, Budget Tapes ; in Logan, and The Kimball Art Center in Park City. Prices are $7.00 for student advance sales (Union Building only), . $8.00 for general admission (advance) and $9.00 on the day of the show (Cosmic Aeroplane and Union Building Build-ing only). Rick Lanman The European harvest Vineyard reports from Europe echo circumstances described by many California vineyards a scant two weeks ago. Although grape quality has been called good, quantities are definitely down and in some cases, extremely little wine will be produced. We had reported well over a month ago that white wines, both French and German, could well undergo drastic price increases due partly to limited yields. Along with reduced tonnage of Chardonnay and Riesling grapes comes additional bad news from Bordeaux and Sauternes. Sauterne, the heavy, sweet, after-dinner white wine, has experienced a variety of rain-oriented problems. Perhaps displaying some similarities to recent Utah weather, the Sauternes' region has suffered through hail, sleet, an abundance of rain and persistent lack of sunshine. Consequently, the Sauternes harvest is moving so slowly that little of the favored wine will actually be pressed. As in California, yields are running from fifteen to fifty percent below last year, with Champagne producing 300,000 barrels against 600,000 barrels in a good year. While growers note that the grapes are good, no one has used the term excellent, least of all exceptional. As growers are normally given to superlatives, such a modest review probably indicates even lower quality. Typically, grapes not receiving a full allotment of sun lack character and body along with good color. The situation presents a contrast to California where too much sun resulted in an early harvest. The early picking there meant grapes settled for low acid levels and less sugar. One bright spot appears to be Alsace. The region experienced lighter than normal September rains and the harvest is showing excellent results for such varities as Gewurztraminer, Reisling and Sylvaner. A midsummer appraisal of French wines anticipated many of the problems that finally came to fruition. In July we guessed that Alsace might see a favorable harvest; we also suggested high prices regardless. This appears the case as demand increases for the better vintages.Certainly we will see more Alsace wine exported this year with a commensurate leap in prices. As harvest reports are gathered here in the United States, the differences in micro-climes becomes more pronounced. As discussed in previous issues of Winepress, many vineyards vine-yards claim a special climate exists for their vineyard, or even several different climates depending upon grape locations. This theory can be proved and identified merely by driving around California. If one travels up to Muir Woods for example, the landscape is made up of tall grass on barren mountains prior to reaching the woods. Yet in a small protected area in an otherwise open, landscape, enormous trees suddenly form a forest. This phenomonem is the result of Pacific air acting with inland heat. Lee Harvey Oswald could not have killed President Kennedy alpne-if he had a hand in the assassination at all. That's the conclusion of the new documentary from Taft pictures, "The President Presi-dent Must Die" which received re-ceived a special showing last Friday at the Kimball Art Center. Cliff Osmond, co-writer co-writer and associate producer pro-ducer of the film, said it will be distributed soon. If not just Oswald, then who? Osmond said that after emerging from a "bottom-ess "bottom-ess pit" of information and theories, he came up with a "guesstimate". The killing may have been engineered by rogue elements of the CIA, allied with anti-Castro elements angry over President Presi-dent Kennedy's Cuban policy. When their hit man, Oswald, was captured, the CIA used their Mafia connections connec-tions to have a mob operative, oper-ative, Jack Ruby, kill Oswald. Os-wald. But there are no surefire answers at this point about the culprits, he told his audience. Osmond said the motivation motiv-ation to make the film was franklcoramepcial. Market surveys by Taft showed the public was fascinated by the assassination. Research on the mystery went on for a year and a half before filming, he said. Aided by 15 researchers, Osmond and writer director James Conway Con-way talked to some 40-50 investigators and experts on the case, including the staff for the 1977 House committee which concluded that Oswald was not a lone gunman. The film, narrated by familiar Taft announcer Brad Crandall, outlines some of the basic objections to the Warren Commission conclusion that Oswald alone fired three rifle shots from the Texas Book Depository. Using film of the shooting, the film contends that it would have been almost impossible for Oswald to fire off all three shots during the elapsed time of the assault. It also shows that if only three bullets were used in the attack, then at least one bullet had to take an incredibly circuitous route to account for injuries to Kennedy Ken-nedy and Gov. John Con-nally. Con-nally. It mentions the theory of the "grassy knoll." A Texas couple tell how they were standing below the knoll and hit the dirt because they heard gunfire coming from in back of them. A woman also testified that she saw Lee Harvey Oswald on the first floor of the book depository when the shooting occurred. The film also questions Oswald's background as a Communist sympathizer. His service with the Marines was suspiciously linked to intelligence activity. (He frequently was allowed to receive Russian literature in the mail. "That's not the Marines I know," said one investigator.) He was very visible as a Castro sympathizer sym-pathizer in New Orleans, but the film says the address on one of his pamphlets was the headquarters for an anti-Castro anti-Castro group. There are many hypotheses hypo-theses on the killing, Osmond said, but the film gave time to each theory based on the amount of support each had from the investigators they talked to. "We wanted to show an objective overview," over-view," he said. "We didn't get into the kooks." The filmmakers also shot film with a former counsel to the Warren Commission who still defends the report. But they did not include him in the film. "The statements he made were so incriminating of the bad job he did that we felt it would be a cheap shot to use them," said Osmond. "He's now in the vault somewhere." The audience had some theories of its own. "It's a documented fact that Lyndon Lyn-don Johnson ran the Texas Mafia," said one man. "I think that was an angle you missed." At the beginning of this year, Osmond said, it appeared ap-peared there might not be a market for the film after all. ' "Reagan had just come into office. It was a new beginning," beginn-ing," he said. People weren't interested in poking around in dead issues. Then, he said, came the murder attempts on Reagan and the Pope. In a speech written for the film, Osmond said that the truth about the assassination should be known because the death of John Kennedy is one of those events that forever altered the world around us. "Nobody wants to see this exploited," he said. "It's too important." Kid-drama filming nears end 9" J A TV special about a wilderness program for troubled youngsters is about to finish shooting today in Park City area. A crew working under the LDS church-owned Bonneville Bonne-ville Productions has been filming for about a week in such places as : the lower Provo Canyon aha the Bald Mountain area. The program entitjed 'All for One", jyiJJ be shown as an after-school special on CBS, according to Morris Chap-nick, Chap-nick, production manager and assistant director on the project. The plot deals with an Outward Bound-type program, pro-gram, he said, which takes problem kids' runaways, truants, etc. and puts them in a course of wilderness survival. "They learn to rely on other people, and, at the same time, develop greater confidence in themselves," Chapnick said. The film stars Ralph Macchio (formerly a regular on "Eight is Enough"), Dori Brenner and James Richardson. Chapnick commended the local school district and the Chamber of Commerce (especially (es-pecially Amanda Peterson, Mt. Metro and Taft International Inter-national Pictures) for their help in making the program. FOR LEASE Units 4 and 5, Corn-Park Plaza (Corner of Woodbine & Summit Road) Size: 45' 8" x 29' 4" Height: 13' sloping to 23' Amenities: Restroom, two overhead doors, two passage doors, loft for storage, gas heat. Lease Amount: $1100 NNN Purchase Option: Available Call 942-6935 or 486-4921 for inspection Last week we reported that Sebastiani had a good early harvest showing excellent quality and quantity. This week, reports from the Napa Valley are less encouraging. While quality is good to very good, yields are down and excessive heat was considered a problem. The Napa Valley, of course, is slightly further from the ocean than is the Sonoma Valley. In each area, three or four different climate growing zones exist as outlined by the University of California at Davis. The differences in these zones became obvious this year when minute environmental changes altered the harvest. Only as each harvest report comes in will we be able to assess the damage. Dark horse competition: Lawrence Winery, located near San Luis Obispo in Southern California, marketed its first vintage in 1979 and has produced some pleasant surprises. The winery markets an impressive array of wines and has earned some sixty awards in the past two years in international competition. competi-tion. Most remarkable are achievements with what the French call vin ordinaire (table wine). Their non-vintage Red Table wine is a gold medal winner along with their non-vintage Burgundy. The 1980 Gamay Beaujolais has taken medals from Yugoslavia to Los Angeles. It is light and fruity, in short a classic Gamay Beaujolais. We have tasted several other Lawrence wines and only the whites left a negative impression, possibly as they were drunk quite young. The Red Table wine, however, is impressive for the price and I can recommend it highly. In continuous production, produc-tion, it received a silver medal at the English International Wine and Spirit Competition, a respectable honor. Several months ago we mentioned the Engligh International Wine Compeition and at least one reader thought it strange that the British would presume to pass judgement on wine, having little of their own. While the latter part of the assertion is true, the English have always said the following of European wines: "The French and Germans may grow them, but the English have always drunk, them." For the past thousand years, the English have collected and consumed the greatest wines in the world. The English arranged for the shipping of Port to England and even established rules for its appellation, when the Portugese themselves were unaware of the vurtues connected to this delightful drink. Consequently, while boasting little of their own product, the English may be the ultimate critics of wine. 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