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University Dally Kansan
'Jaws' clenches a strong hold on '75 audience
Bv. JANET SCHMIDT
Of all the movies shown in 1975, none can claim the impact on the box office and the film industry. "Jaws," the movie was directed by Steven Spielberg, and featured good performances by Roy Schletzer as Chief Marty Brody, David Carson as Richard Dreyfuss as Matt Hooper.
The film was based on Peter Bentley's besteller about a killer shark terrorizing a New England beach resort area during the winter. Date, it has grossed more than $38 million.
Robert Altman's "Nashville" was a brilliant portrayal of the glitter and star making of the country-western music scene. Excellent performances by Lily Tolmine, John Blakey, Geraldine Chapin and Karen Jackson added to the film's depth and realism.
Another of the more memorable films shown in 1975 was Hal Ashley's "Shampoo." Warren Beaty starred as a Hollywood hairdresser plagued by the problems and attentions of his women customers as well as by his own character inconsistencies. Performances by Julie Christie, Golde Goldman and Glenn Grant message in this poignant picture of the '60s as a period of opulence and misguided awareness.
Out of the '30s and the '50s come "The Day of the Locust," starring Karen Black and Donald Sutherland, and "Giv 'Em Hell, Harry," starring James Whitmore. Both these films captured the idiosyncrasies of decades past as seen through the personal experiences of the filmmakers; version of "Give 'Em Hell, Harry!" supported because of Whitmore's warm and amusing portrayal of former President Truman's public and personal life.
"Wind and the Lion" featured Sean Connery as the infamous Berber chieftain, Raisailu, who kidnaps 'Sandice Bergen, the daughter of a soldier provoking Brian Keth, as the inimitable Theodore Roosevelt, into a game of power politics involving European moves into North Africa. Although a disappointment, Mr. Roosevelt is an Arabian Nights and some battle action.
John Wayne and Katharine Hepburn worked together for the first time in "Roster Cogburn." Although the script was lacking, the film was entertaining and captured the charisma of its performers, with the Duke playing his crochety old self pursuing an outlaw gang and Hepburn as the doughy spinister.
Staff Photo by GEORGE MILLENER
Bemny Goodman brought the Big Band sound back to Lawrence for this year's 'concert'. Alumi and students alike turned out for the concert, sponsored by SUA
Goodman toots
Even a music critic will have difficulty explaining what direction, if any, music can take on.
Bv RON COHN
A meshing of rock, jazz characterizes 1975 music
Midway through the decade, we still have no messiiah as we had Dylan and the Beatles in the '68s. Rather, we have a mushing of rock and that is said that rock is rock and that tazz is jazz.
As a critic for Billboard suggested on one album supplied to dealers, "Stock in the jazz and disco sections, as well as pop." Nothing is clear-cut.
Typically, the man of the last decade might have given us the biggest thing to think about. Bob Dylan was the old Dylan this year.
However, 1975 turned out to be a good year. Everyone who is anyone released a recording, and we even had an opportunity to see plenty of our favorites in person.
Early in 1975, Dylan released "Blood on the Tracks," which may contain his best material in years. "Blood on the Track's instantly became a best-seller."
Later, an album called "The Basement Tapes," a collection of songs that Dylan recorded in the late '60s with The Band, was released.
There were long-awaited albums from the spancy Pink Floyd, hard-rock Led Zeppelin the southern rock Altman Brothers Band and the Irish Michell, whose new album just arrived.
Each of the former Beatles released new
records although those often left a little to
be forgotten.
In the fall, Dylan's so-called digression
continued when he dropped into a club in Greenwich Village, his old stomping ground, to play a set with some long-time buddies. That developed into a tour he has undertaken in New England, playing in small-capacity houses. Joan Baez and other folk musicians have joined Dylan for these shows, reminiscent of days gone by.
It is doubtful that many of Dylan's contemporaries will follow suit. There happens to be too much money to be made playing in the stadium and paying tickets at prices ranging from $5 to $12.
The man who really got his money's worth was Elton John. Every time you look up, the guy's got another album on the charts or is on another concert tour.
But we can hardly complain. After all, we saw Pink Floyd, the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Chicago, the Beach Boys, the Average White Band, Jackson Browne and Phoebe Snow and countless others. Usually, we got our money's worth
Ellton had two No. 1 albums in 1975, "Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy" and "Rock of the Westies." The former was the first album to hit the top of the Billboard charts the first week it had been released.
He also had a host of best-selling singles that included "Philadelphia Freedom," "Island Girl" and "Pinnail Wizard." And, in the screen version of Tommy,
1975 was 'nothing without its suprises'. Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel got together to record a song, a reunion as long-awaited as the Beatles', which can just about be
LaBelle did a song called "LadyMaralade" with lyrics, "voulez-vous concuezave moi ce soit?" That was so surprisingwe Seattle women tried to have it bannied.
Jefferson Starship, having Marty Ballin once again as a full-dimer, released "Red Octopus," which included the fine track," Miracles."
Chuck Mangone, Stanley Turrentine,
Stanley Clarke and others joined Chick
Corea and Herbie Hancock in their assault
on pop.
Of course, we had the annual media hypes. Bruce Springsteen, the new American hero, as exemplified by Time and Newsweek, may fail some people this time. He is incredible in concert, and his new album, "Born to Run," isn't too bad, either.
Then, there were the Bay City Rollers, who made back-to-back appearances on the Howard Cosell variety show. The Rollers have driven the United Kingdom and the rest of Europe mad, and they may excite many 14-year old girls in this country, too.
written off.
And a jazz recording, "Mister Magic," by Grover Washington Jr., made it into the top 10 LPs. That success and Washington's latest release, "Feels So Good," should reward him with the title of Jazz Musician of the Year.
Olivia Newton-John asked, "Have You Never Been Mellow?" and Linda Rondat replied, "You're No Good." Rondat's two LP's, "Isaac" and in Disguise," and "Heart a Wheel," probably make her deserving of the honor of Best Female Performer.
Watergate dominates book market
By GARY WALLACE
One year of Watergate was enough. That seemed to be the consensus of the book world for 1975, stunned by a wave of Watergate post-mortems. Yet, memorable fictions surfaced. The most celebrated of these was the nostalgic work of E.L.D. Doctorow entitled "Ragtime," which thrusts the reader back to those years between 1902 and 1917. Doctorow blends fiction with the history of America during an adolescent America embarking upon a technoacademic age. In short, "Ragtime" is simply bully
Two other significant contributions appropriately highlighted this part International Women's Year. The grandam of mystery, Agatha Christie, published
However, Wateregain remained an obsession of writers. The renowned chronicle of presidential elections. The道德尔 H. Wateregain account of the unmaking of a president. In "Watchmen in the Night," The道德尔 Sorensen probed Wateregate's effect on the presidency. He revealed his notes on Nixon in "The Palace Guard," leveled much of the blame on H.R.
"Curtain," the story she wrote thirty years ago, entailing the death of her legendary wife, Sylvia Kramer, among growing ranks of feminist writers. Judith Rosner took a fresh approach to the old question of "What is a nice girl doing in this?" like this? "In *Looking for Mr. Goodchild*."
Haldeman.
Left in the wake of the Watergate deluge, only a few social commentaries gained success. Shirley MacLaiene added yet another portrait of a happy, disciplined Red Sox player who was an Exiled dissident Alexander Solzhenthn extended his Nobel prize-winning exposure of Russian bestiality in "Gulg Archipelago II." Former agent David Agee's "Inside the Company": CIA Diary" reinforced whatness was revealing to an unastonished public.
TV crime rate increases in 1975
By JIM BATES and SAMMIE MESSICK
What did shock the public was "Helter Skelter: the True Story of the Manson Murder" by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry. This wasn't thrilling suspense, but simply stark, prick details that haunted readers as few books have done.
For the past decade, FBI and police statistics have reported a rapid increase in the country's crime rate. The rate of increase in crime in the streets, however, is minuscule compared to the rate at which crime on television has increased.
The past year was no exception. Viviers could watch a show about police or adventures at almost every hour of every day. Some people maintained that these shows were partly responsible for the violence, but others such as "S.W.A.T." (which depicted a police van heavily armed with sophisticated weapons) was fascist.
The Eagles, quickly becoming America's most popular band, led the country-rock contingent with an album and title song, "One of These Nights." They appeared at Arrowhead Stadium with the Rolling Stones.
The only real restriction on the crime shows came from a new Federal Communications Commission (FCC) policy known as the Family Hour. This policy banned overtly violent or sexual shows from the early evening hours.
Some viewers said the FCC was far tougher on sex than on violence. They said the policy forced shows such as "MASH" and "All in the Family" to be switched to
new time periods, although other shows, many of them violent, remained in Family
Throughout the summer and fall, CBS, ABC and NBC nugged, cut and added shows to try to win the mythical title of "most funny network." The networks were still a virtual life.
The concern seems to be that this area will be ready for rugs yet. Heck, we'll still plug them.
Among those who died this year were T-Bone Walker, famous for the blues and "Stormy Monday"; Pete Ham, lead guitarist and vocalist for Baddger; Bob Wills, country and western great; and Tim Buckley, folk singer.
Among the more noted casualties were a takeoff on Robin Hood called "When Things Were Rotten," produced by Mel Brooks, and "Fay," a series starring Lee Grant.
Perhaps the most controversial of the specials this year was CBS's "The Guns of Autumn," a program about hunting in America. Response to the program was so great that CBS later aired "Echoes of the Guns of Autumn," which presented some of the responses to and the network's defense of the original program.
Journalists were brought into the room, and he was called in 1976. One was "Four on Trial," the story
An excellent special, aired last spring, was "I Will Fight No More Forever." It was the story of Chief Joseph and his tribe of Tsezs from ancient Egypt against the U.S. government in 1877.
Mediciority appeared to be the general theme demonstrated by most of the year's fiction. Arthur Halley reached a low ebb in "The Moneychanger," an insight into the banking world. Martin Mayer lectured tediously on the same subject in "The Nightingale," where he wrote "the Gift"; Norman Mailer's "The Fight"; and John Updike's "A Month of Sundays" provided good reading, but did not reflect the heights of those authors' genius.
All in all, 1975 wasn't bad for music. But,
still we wait for that explosion of the '60s,
the spark of the '70s that just can't seem to
ignite. The explosion rocks on.
the 1953 trial of talk-art artist John Henry Faulk. Faulk was black-listed as a pro-Communist, and fought back with a label Carlyth tactics over radio and television.
ABC led the movie parade, with offerings such as "Cnderella Liberty," for *Pete Sake*, "Cabaret" and "The Great Gatsby." BBC aired "The Owl and the Pussycat" and "Dr. Zhivago," among other, lesser known movies. CBS's biggest movie showing of the year was "That's Entertainment."
The second was "Guilty or Innocent; The Sam Sheppard Murder Trial," concerning the murder of a student who was the murder of his wife and the effect of pre-trial publicity on the outcome. The program was
The PBS stations, as usual, had excellent programming during 1975. One of the best specials aired on PBS was "The Incredible Machine." This program was the first of a new body. The program included a "tour" of the body via microscopic cameras.
Alen Durry concluded on a low note his prestigious series of political novels with his own signature style.
On the eve of the bicentennial, biographers showed little interest in founding fathers. The lone tributes were "The Portable Thomas Jefferson," edited by Marilyn Peterson, and "The Private Martial Peterson." The ClaudeAnne Longe and Eugenia Herbert.
Richard Holmes provided a long-deserved understanding of Shelley's poetry in "Shelley. The Pursuit." Ben Bradley wrote about the 1926 New York and Frances Donaldson offered extensive research into "Edward VIII," revealing much more than the mere story of his abdication. But the most moving siege was over the death of Charles Worth alias Christopher Robin of "Winnie the
Pooh. "It was sad to learn that A.A. Mille hatched children, that the author hates being compared to Christopher Robin, but in turn he understands that Pooh probably understands them both.
Historicals also shunted bicentennial history, preferring the spirit of "setting the record straight." This characterization such as Philip Knighty's and Charles L. Mee's "Meeting at Potsdam," Phillip Knighty featured the dark side of war correspondents in "The First Casualty." Readers were also taken on a 50-mile journey to "Inauguration Bend Gill" in "Here at the New Yorker."
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Other works featured Edmund Wilson's memories of "The Twenties" and John Kenneth Galbraiths attempt to trace the history of "Money". Fortunately, two epic works reminded one that a true history book never ends.
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