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Fridav. February 20,1976
University Daffly Kansan
Arts & Entertainment
City primes for disco invasion
By DAVID HAUBER
Big business and big entertainment have descended on Lawrence so that right-liers can also move to local entertainment places.
The drawing card being bet upon by many entertainment spots in Lawrence is that of the discotheque to demonstrate and a disc jockey playing records. Some, however, are skeptical of the ability of the disco format to support the luxurious mix of disco additions to clubs.
Entertainment businesses in Lawrence have long lamented the lures of other entertainment centers like Kansas City and Seattle made by local clubs since last summer to attract more crowds.
"Lawrence has just been kind of slack in entertainment, especially their consciousness of disco music," said Spike Santee, a local disc jockey who will be working for the Eldridge House's new disco, The Big Eight Disco.
FOR MANY 21-clubs in town, like the International, the Ramada I'ms' Rubayat, the Flamingo and the new clubs in the Eldridge House and the old Free State Opera House, the disc represents the impact of its current entertainment trend.
Bugsy, formerly the Free State Opera House, is planning an elaborate and costly operation designed to outstrip any similar entertainment experience in Lawrence.
Dan Grimm, the president of Bugsy's, which is a Cedar chain, said Babbage's Disney theater would be opening March 35.
"We're trying to be trend setters," he said. "This place is going to be dynamic. One thing we're conscious of is the history of this building. We want to put more quality in it than it's ever had before. There won't be a speck of the old Free State here.
"We have the money behind us. We have the experience behind us and I think we will be around for a long time."
ACROSS THE STREET from
Bugsy's is the Eldridge House. The Eldridge House, which has a hotel, restaurant and night club, is putting a disco night club in its old Big Six room downstairs.
JESS SANTAULIARIA manager of the Big Eight Disco, said. "It's to be a permanent club. It's going to be a lot of class. I want to go some place that's soft and quiet and nice. We kind of think it's going to be the booie game to go in town."
Santularia said his main concern for the club was that it held the roundiness and elbowing of an under-21 beer job. He said his clientele would be graduate workers, bankers and businessmen.
"I get so disgusted about people saying let's go to Kansas City for dinner or to see a show," he said. "The problem is that discop never gained that in the Midwest until they learned about Dirty Sally's went into Kansas City. With that popularity and this big college town, why should Kansas City
'Cuckoo's Nest' cast director spark movie
Popularity in the entertainment business means money.
SANTAULARIA declined to say how much money he was spending on the computerized dance floor he is planning for. "We were the only one of its kind and that it was expensive."
By CHUCK SACK
The computerized dance floor is an innovation in dancing. It consists of a translucent plastic surface lightened underneath by a pulsating pre-programmed device that be disc jockey. Installing a computerized dance floor is expensive, however.
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Grimm said he was putting in about 680 square feet of computerized dance floors at Bugsy's, at a cost of $45,000. A 21-club with its own dance floor will be in the backdrop of the opera house, he said, and below that is a dance floor. Two movie screens flashing alternating slides will be going constantly, he said.
Those with an eye for film credits will be amazed at the names connected with the production of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." The magic of Ken Kesey's celebrated novel and one of his many film lingers that any producer who would gather such a group of renegade artists on one set must be crazy.
have that kind of popularity and not Lawrence?"
On the other side of the camera, there is Haskell Wexter, director of photography, who shot "Who's Afraid?" and "The Night." In 1969, he directed "Medium Cool" and his political ideas led him to make a documentary in Brazil. When he returned, he was unable to find a copy, but he ascribed as visual consultant on "American Graffit!"
Fletcher is a fine actress who retired for 10 years until she should take the part of Mattie in "Thieves Like Us". Sampson, a Creek Indian and western painter, has never played in a film before.
Jack Nicholson, as R. P. McMurphy, is the only superstar in the film, and he has always been a maverick, a rare star who eschews commercial roles for artistic risks. He is joined by Louise Fletcher, as Nurse Ratched, and Will Sampson, as Chief Bromden.
FINALLY, the director is Miles Forman, a Czechoslovakian exile who has made only one film since coming to this country in 1988. All that his group of misfits has done is to take one of the most influential books of the 60s, bend it to their own up come with one of the best films of the last year.
Those who go to "Cuckoo's Nest" anticipating a faithful adaptation of the novel will be disappointed at the sight of a man in his early twenties, Big Nurse, and the Chief is never called Chief Broon. But it would be impossible to
visualize many of the book's powerful passages, so Forman and screenwriters Lawrence Hauben and Stephen Levine have created a
The sparkplug for the story is Nicholson. His McMurphy is an exhilarating maniac who delights in waging war with the authorities of the mental institution in which most of the action takes place. His pleasure in matching wits with the guards and nurses is obvious, and his acting in the important roles of the outside world transmits the same love of freedom that guides his actions within the asylum.
LOUSE FLECTHERS Nurse Ratched is the perfect foil for Nicholas's free spirit. She brings a firm, tightly controlled intensity to her portrayal, and the continuation of the men in the ward is totally convincing.
The rest of the ensemble are equally delightful and their background antics keep the tone soft. Especially noteworthy is Christopher Lloyd's Taber. Lloyd mires his way through every scene, and his mobile features are the source of much of the film's humor.
THE PERSON who is most responsible for the triumphs of "Cuckoo's Nest," though, is Forman. Until now, he has been typed as a director of realistic comics. Two of his Czech films, "Loves a blonde" and "Fireman's Ball," received Academy award nominations.
"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" doesn't hold back on real detail; it was shot in the Oregon State Hospital in Salem—and it is often very funny. But its tone is more serious than Forman's earlier works, and should encourage a review of past films.
However, many of the fruits of the success of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" are yet to come. Wexler, Fletcher and Nicholson are all working on new pictures and Forman, is in Europe making a comedy titled "Someone Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe."
This Week's
Highlights
Concerts
GARY BURTON: Widely known as a 'jazz vibes player,' Burton is a faculty member at Berklee College of Music in Boston. He brings a quintet, in bass, percussion and guitar.
(7 and 10 p.m. Wednesday at Off-the-Wall Hall)
SHEERY KLOSS,
VIOLINIST: Winner of the
Competition and European
awards, Kloss will perform a
program that includes selections
from Brahms, Beethoven
CONCERTS FOR YOUNG
POPERS
An adaptation of the comic
opera by Donizetti, especially
for children. KU faculty mem-
ber. (2 p.m. Sunday in the
Lawrence High School
university.)
( @ p.m. Tuesday in Swarthout Recital Hall)
MAZOWSEZE FOLK COM
member Polish company will present Polish folklore through language courses. The program will include harvest dances from the wine country and a "Kujawlik"
(8 p.m. Thursday in Hoch Auditorium)
FACULTY FOLLIES: Once again, faculty members of the School of Fine Arts let their hair
down in a spontaneous, lightly rehearsed program that includes a confronto duet, a duet with the soprano showhouse concerto. James Moeser, dean, will conduct the City Filled harmonica Band.
NOAH; The University Theatre's second major production this year is an improvisational approach to the story of the Depeper children during the Depression. The play was written by Andre Obey.
FACULTY PAINTING AND SCULPTURE SHOW: A variety of works by members of the painting and sculpture department of painting and sculpture.
(8 tonight and tomorrow night and 2:30 p.m. Sunday in the University Theatre)
(3:30 p.m. Sunday in Swarthout Recital Hall)
(Through March 5 in the Kansas Union Gallerv)
BLAZING SADDLES—Mel brooks' outrageous western. The ending isn't entirely satisfactory, but the antics of oration and humor make Madeline Kahn should divert attention from the thin script.
Exhibits
Films
Theater
8 x 8—A feature by the German surrealist Hans Richter.
SISTERS—Brian De Palma's homage to Brian Hitchcock includes the most vicious words in the humorous opening is disarmingly casual, but his De Palma goes on to demonstrate his firm comedy.
TRANSPORT FROM
TREASURES
films to come out of the East European New Wave, this Czechoslovakian film was
released in 1983.
L E S E N F A N T S
TERRIBLES—This collaboration between writer Jean Cohen and artist Pierre Melville was made as a companion piece to Cocteau's "Les Parents Terribles," written in 1900; it has become available in 1906; the country only very recently.
BREAKHEART PASS — A
Richmond Bronson, Ben Johnson, A-
bronson Crenna, Ed Lauer and Jill St.
John, assisted by Tory Gries
Bursy's stage will have a backdrop with a computerized pattern coordinated to the dance floor's thousands of light patterns. Carpeting will be laid throughout the building, be said.
NO DEPOSIT, NO RETURN—A Disney feature for families. No kids, no go.
IN ADDITION to accepting any local talent ranging from 'belly dancers to sword swallowers', Grimm said he wanted drama and fine arts students at KU to contribute to stage productions for payment under theatrical fund, bubble and fog machines and would have five explosion chambers.
MYSTERIOUS MONSTERS
-An uninspired rehash of every tired legend from the adominable snowman to the gorilla who makes it mysterious is that its difficult to see how two hours can be filled with so little material.
Check advertisements for theaters and times.
"My experience in this town is that it's dead. I ask people where they live, and they say Karasae City," Grimm said. "It's going to be an escape, I'll tell you that. It's an escape. We are going to can their minds."
"We're going to have to change students' habits. Hopefully, we'll give them what they need so that they'll come back."
GIMMICKS SEEM to be a necessity for the success of
discos. Giveaways, special nights and different kinds of entertainment revolve around the existence of discos.
A question as to how successful discs are going to be in Lawrence with the great increase of new discs in the area led by Pete Hunt, a bartender and manager at the Rubayat.
"I think everything's getting tired of it," he said. "It's just the same old thing. I think it." He didn't. It it. It peaked for us last semester.
"If they get more things going I think that's the direction to go right now."
JOHN WORKS, assistant project director for the Kansas Union, said the Hawk's Nest featured disco nights on irregularly scheduled weekends.
"The general marketing outlook is that discos are in," he said. "If we don't come out with it, first someone else will."
He added, however,
"Anybody and everybody is having a disco and you're going to see a weeding out."
Works said the entertainment business in Lawrence was fiercely competitive but it didn't sit each other's throats. "I don't sit each other's throats."
SANTEE SAID he had heard rumors that more discos would be coming to Lawrence. He said the old bowling alley at Ninth and Mississippi might become an 18-year-old disco tavern.
He said, "Discos will just go wild and the people will slack off and the discos will say, 'What am I going to do to be better than the disco across the street?'
"By the end of next year there are going to be too many discos. I think that's when the companies get together. A disco jockey who works with Santee, Ted Oshirak, said he thought discos and the dancing music that went with them are the matter of educating the public.
"It's a big business now," he said. "I'm not going to see we're jumping on the band because I think it's going to last."
An Ark!
0 BY JAY KOELZER
Cliff Rakerd, Lawrence junior, gestures in delight as be found out that the structure his father has been building is an ark. The University Theatre's production of Noah starts Friday at 8 p.m.
'Barry Lyndon' abandons all the rules
By GLENN MEYER
The public be damned
That may have been Stanley Kubrick's attitude when he created Barry Lyndon.
"Barry Lyndon" seems to violate just all the rules for making a successful movie. "Barry Lyndon" amusing or chilling, not stimulating. There are battle scenes, but their violence isn't bloody and horrible, or worst of all, "Barry Lyndon" begins slowly, and moves slowly through its first half. It is more than three hours long. Surely no one would want to sit through such sedum.
In the first half of "Barry
TO WATCH "Barry Lyndon," we must abandon the rules. Kubrick's design has elements that are similar to elements in the writing of English novelist William Thackeray, whose first novel is the source of Barry Lyndon, Esq. it is the source for the film's plot.
Lyndon", Kubrick focuses on the panorama of 18th century society, not on personalities or experiences to use in experience the setting, the plot moves slowly and there is little dialogue. The characters, including Redmond Barry, are small, distant and slightly comical.
When we first see Redmond Barry, he is a simple-minded, stubborn Irish youth who is in love with his cousin. Redmond shoots his cousin's English boyfriend and is forced to leave home.
Redmond becomes, successively, an English soldier, a Prussian soldier, a Prussian officer, a card shark and, finally, Barry Lyndon, the husband of Lady Lyndon, played by Marisa Berenson. In the process, he is killed by a barbarian to a rogue and an opportunist.
THE FILM IS all Kubrick's. The scarcity of dialogue continues through to the second half. The fine outdoor settings
so typical of the first half become subordinate to the second half's elaborate indoor settings and costumes.
For a satire such as "Barry Lyndon" to be effective, it must be very specific. It generalize. For that reason, the characters may seem two-dimensional. The satirist asks what he thinks he can examine what he has to say.
Thackeray said of his character Lyndon:
Berenison is a good choice for Lady Lydon. Her etherae beauty and her excessive costumes and hairdos make he seem little more than one of the girls in Lydon. She is, however, one of the few characters in the film who seem capable of love.
“If the tale of his life has any moral (which I seriously doubt), it is that honesty is not the best policy.”
This theme is presented in the film, as in the book The Lydons' high society is beautiful and cold. It indifferently
destroys those who love, such as Lady Lyndon, and those who seek glory the glitter, such as Lydon. The winners, like the weak and disgusting stepson, Lord Bullington, are no more deserving of wealth and title than is Lydon.
The solemn music that begins and ends "Barry Lydon," George Handel's Sarabande, sets the mood for the characters of the film selidm express their thoughts and feelings. When they do, it is usually through an almost invisible motion or expression.
the panoramic view taken by Kubrick gives us a complete view of the time in which Lyndon lived. It also dwarfs people and makes them seem petty.
The kind, wise voice of narrator Michael Horden often tells us of events before we see him, including Barry's downfall.
EVERY DETAIL of "Barry Lyndon" makes the hero's
downfall not just predictable, but inevitable.
Lyndon doesn't have enough restraint,够 deformiousness or a noble enough birth to fit into the social world of high society, Vair Fair.
We can, of course, dismiss *Barry Lyned* as a boring spectacle that is too depressing and overly clinical, but a vanguishing director gone completely mad. We can, as Pauline Kael, New Yorker movie critic, does call her "boring" film critic "pets" and his film "a three-hour slide show for art history majors." But if we do, we may have a mockery of Thackeray's closing words to "Vanity Fair":
"Ah, 'Vanitas Vanatum!' Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or having it, is satisfied?—Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out."
New books offer little that's new
ONE JUST MAN, by James Minkes (Pocket, $1.99)—A novel about criminal justice in America. The hero is a man who has been wronged, tortured and has become wary of all what happens when this man, who is angry about plea bargaining, urges other criminals to demand rights to be the main theme of the book.
THE SHADOW KNOWS, by Diane Johnson (Pocket, $1.95)—A psychological thriller about a woman who goes through a series of terrorizing acts that she cannot understand. vanessa's first book is based on her step, an attack on her maid and vicious phone calls.
BITS OF PARAIDIE, BY F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, and CRAZY SUNDAYS, by Aaron Latham (both Pocket books, $1.95 each)—Works to capitalize on the eternal interest in the
Fitzgeralds. A scholar named Matthew J. BrUCColi has collected 21 previously unpublished gradares, and these constitute the first volume. "Crazy Sundays" is about the 1837-1940 period when Fitzgerald was on tour in Spain to play music for the Hollywood studios.
MASH GOES TO LAS VEGAS and MASH GOES TO MOROCCO, by Richard Hooker and William E. Butterworth (Pocket, $1.50 one)-Uncle! The first two or three of these were pretty funny, and each guarantees a laugh or a tear. We love them and the MASH books will soon be in a class with "Mutt and Jeff."
THE DREDAFUL LEMON SKY, by John D. MacDonald (Gold Medal, $1.50) - Travis McGee is back, and for some readers that's all that has to be said. Travis lives on a
houseboat, the Busted Flush, drives around in a truck that was once a Rolls Royce called Miss Agnes and helps delamps in distress—and others—who have been bilked of their fortunes by the heinous types who live in southern Florida.
NIGHT RIDERS, by Thorne Douglas (Gold Medal, 95 cents) - Douglas turns out westernists that are fairly respectable. And this one is even relevant. The hero, an ex-slave who is part Comancho, is part owner of a big ranch. He's forced to fight his way to the bottom of a wall as he wander inside the pages of a paperback.
OPERATION COUNTERPUNCH, by Dan J. Marlowe (Gold Medal, $1.25) — Another series, the Earl Drake books. Drake is one of those rough- tough们 who can help people in trouble, especially female people. Damn
chauvinist pig. Drake has to fight an army of killers in this one.
DICK Tracy 3. NO: MRS.
PRUNEFACE AND CRIME,
INC., by Chester Gould (Gold
Medal, $1.25) As you read
Dick Tracy today it may be
hard to believe that he well
drawn and even interesting. And it
has some marvellous villains. In this collection Tracy is fighting a villainess named Mrs.
Pruneface. Good fun. It may even show up as an LA&S course one of these days.
FOXFIRE, by Anya Seton (Crest, $1.50) — A novel about two lovers in Arizona, a woman born to wealth and culture and a mining engineer who is half Indian. A story of hidden wealth and the importance to their attention after they involved with some vicious folks in their small mining town. Soap adventure.
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