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autograph, but both bought something from him — Hannah a fire hydrant-shaped Avon bottle, and Martin a Mickey Mouse figurine — and he kept the dollar bills they paid with. They weren’t the only cast members he did business with. “All the actors were into Disney stuff. They bought every little piece of Disney I had except for a little pottery doll I wouldn’t sell. It was one of the first things I had in the store and it was my mascot on my cash register. They all tried to buy it and finally I hid it.” Another actor, John Kapelos, paid $4.82 for an “ugly gnome mug.” Coletti didn’t mind asking for his autograph.
Although he rejected most of her arguments, a judge has ordered the City of Nelson to pay a woman $500 in damages over a police search conducted almost five years ago. Charity Mason sued the city, Cst. Drew Turner, and then-chief Dan Maluta after the pick-up truck she and partner Vaughn Blais were in was pulled over on the south end of the orange bridge on the morning of June 26, 2009 for a possible traffic violation. Blais initially got out of the truck and began yelling at Turner, who ordered him to get back in. When he approached the vehicle, Turner said he smelled the “very strong odour” of vegetative marijuana. He searched the vehicle along with Mason, Blais, and a hitchhiker who was with them, but found no drugs. He did, however, seize $7,420 in cash found in a ziplock bag in Mason’s purse as potential proceeds of crime. Blais gave her the money that morning and told police it was from the sale of a boat, but was unable to provide specifics. The trio was detained for about 45 minutes and then released without formal arrest or charge. Because Blais had a criminal record for violent and drug offences, Maluta and RCMP Cst. Tony Holland both responded to provide Turner with back-up. Mason, who said she suffered humiliation and ongoing emotional distress, sued over the search, claiming it was “without warrant or reasonable cause” and breached her privacy and Charter rights. However, Turner denied the allegations and said he used reasonable care, skill, and diligence at all times. Mason, now 30, represented herself in a 3½ day trial last fall before BC Supreme Court Justice Peter Voith, who in his ruling called her “bright and articulate” and said she “worked very diligently to organize and advance her case.”
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George Coletti had a small part in Roxanne that didn’t make the finished movie. He was too bashful to ask the film’s two stars for their autographs, but kept the dollar bills they used to buy trinkets from him. Greg Nesteroff photo
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The Roxanne experience dow. I have to pass by here every day. hile it’s not clear if all The antique shop was Coletti’s the scenes in the script Kootenay Exchange on Baker to Roxanne that don’t Street and he played the owner show up in the movie were actu- during filming in the summer of ally filmed, at least some were. 1986. He recalls the “hideous obFor instance, Nelson old-timer ject” as a phoney piece of pottery George Coletti had a brief or figurine and that the scene speaking part that didn’t continued like this: make the finished product. Shop owner: You know, SECOpNartDs o This is how it appeared in I’ve got another one just like tw of the script, which writer/ it in the back. actor Steve Martin later pubC.D.: Well, go get that one lished in a book. too, will you? Roxanne walks on. C.D. stares at “That was my whole part alher from the window of an antique though it took seven takes to get shop. He picks a hideous object out it,” Coletti recalls. “It was a good of the window. hour or more. In between takes Shop owner: Why are you buy- we’d chat.” ing this? He was too shy to ask Martin C.D.: To get it out of your win- or co-star Daryl Hannah for an GREG NESTEROFF
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