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Friday, November 21, 1975
University Daily Kansan
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
TROJKS
guys return to battle evil
By CHUCK SACK
It's not official yet, but because Time hasn't done a cover story about it, be prepared for that magazine to announce that 1976 is "The Year of the Hero" in Hollywood.
Net your Clint Eastwood antihero, or even your old-fashioned Gary Cooper flesh-and-blood character. Next year's new, improved model is the stuff of which legends are made.
Heading the list is Superman, and he'll be sharing the screen with them. Savage, Robin Hood, Harry Houdini and Sinbad. Even John Wayne would think twice before membership a member of that group.
THE NEW BREED of hero is actually the old breed recycled from pulps, comic books, video games and case—real life. It's impossible to tell whether nostalgia, the current crime wave, or the bicentennial is responsible, but good guys are definitely back.
The Superman movie is tentatively titled "Superman 1976," and has a $15 million budget. Producer Ilya Salkind, the 26-year-old wonder kid who co-produced last year's
Musketeer movies, has set aside $3 million for the special effects alone.
If these figures fail to persuade you that this is a serious effort, be advised that the script was written by Mario Puzo, the author of "The Godfather," and that Salkind is getting to get Burk Reynolds or Robert Redford to direct him. That director Steven Spielberg lost the chance to direct because he wanted to do it as a spoof.
OTHER COMIC CHARACTERS will ride to the silver screen on the tail of Superman's cape, John Phillip Law will star in "Dr. Justice," a movie based on a Belgian comic book character, Marvel Comics has won the title of "Batman" and Spiderman and the Hulk to producer Milton Subotsky, and Warren Publishing has made a deal that will bring "Vampirella" to theaters in 1977.
Television isn't immune to the trend either. Two "Wonder Woman" movies have already been broadcast and the threat of a three loops, Director William Friedkin ("The French Conde") has also been directed, The Exterminator is directed a made-for-TV movie based on Will Elsner's 1940s comic strip detective, The Spirit.
James Bond, one of the few heroes to survive the 1960s, will be back in "The Spy Who Loved Hitler," which begins on next the Bond bomb-shell. The screenwriter for "Moonraker" is Cary Bates, who has previously written enigmatic scripts for National Comics.
The pulps have also contributed several characters to the craze. Ron Ely has already appeared as "Doc Savage," and, even though that film was a bust, production has started on the second Savage film in a prosesed series of six.
MGM has hired Robert Towne ("Chinatown," "Shampoo") to script "Lord Grystokse," the definitive Taranzo movie. Milton Subotsky, not content with producing and scripting the film's three films, made of making three pictures featuring Thomonog, Lin Carter's sword-and-sorcery barbarian.
NEXT YEAR'S DETECTIVES are complete with ready-made reputations that would shame Sherlock. Parameter is on some of the worst in Farewell, my Lovely? that would again star Robert Mitchum as Philip Marlowe. Albert Finney has
agreed to recreate his role of Hercule Poirot in the film adaptation of Agatha Christie's *Evil Under the Sun*, where he plays a minor Spade in "blackbird," a remake of "The Maltesse Falcon."
While on the subject of Sherlocks, the Houdini film, which is scheduled to start shooting in March of next year, will deal with the escape artist's friendship with Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes.
IF YOU PREFER your heroes to be more fantastic, you can look for Sinbad, whose further adventures will be the subject of "Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger." In a similar vein, Robert Shaw will portray a pirate in "Swashbuckler."
By the time this new cycle runs its course, viewers may start praying for another run of heroes from the warriors from the heroes, instead of heroes to save them from disasters. Of course, there's a distinct possibility that several disasters will be disasters in their own right.
All is not lost, though. There will be enough勇 spoofs in the coming months to keep the rest of the group honest. Marty Feldman is going to write and direct a new, but irreverent,
version of "Beau Geste," and Richard Lester is now in Spain filming "Robin and Marian," starring Sean Connery and Andrey Hepburn. The latter was played by Kevin McKidd, Robin Hood and Maid Marian and will o-star Richard Harris as Richard the Lion-Lhearted.
Many of these films are still in the planning stage, and there’s every reason to believe that more than one hero’s image will be tarnished in production. After all, how can Salkind insist on a serious approach to running around New York City in pajamas pretending that he’s Superman?
TWO HEROES, THOUGH,
are guaranteed to survive with
images intact. The first is Rin
Hirts, who played "Wan Ton Ton, the Dog Who
Saved Hollywood." Let a face it,
Riny's not risking all that much reputation, and co-stars
Kahn should see him through.
The other hero, after an absence of nearly 20 years, is returning to the screen in *Jane* and J. Hunt in *Roy Rogers*, and no writer, director or producer in Hollywood would dare tr to be played by *Kevin Wayne*, move over. The big boys are comin' back to town.
Staff Photo by DAVID CRENSHAW
Learning of love
Kevin Kincaid, Mission junior, learns about love with the help of his father (middle), played by Donny Walters, Mission senior, and a lady of the night, played by Judy Sterling, Lawrence sophonore. The scene can be seen in Hashinger Hall's production of Nell Simon's "The Good Doctor," playing through Saturday.
Albums rate highs and lows
Bv JEAN BLACKMORE
Reviewer
Variety can be a rare spice in the life of the
patient, and for several recent
procedures do, indeed, offer just their
taste.
In a jazz vein, Charles Musselwhite's "Leave the Blues to Us" on Capitol Records is a unique collection of original pieces dashed with a few old-time traditionals.
Musselwhite, a self-taught Mississippi musician, knows what the blues are about. His 31 years have been spent in careers ranging from exterminating rats to cleaning latrines to finally working and learning with the band Memphis. He has played in the Memphis Jug Band and with such men as Will Shade, Furry Lewis and Mike Bloomfield.
The mature blues style in this album ranges from a lively tempo in a Musselwhite original called 'Skinny Woman' to an excellent, relaxed change of pace in "Keys to the Highway," written by McKinley Morganfield, better known as Muddy Waters.
*Musslewhite plays* "blues stripped down the essentials" in *Wille Dixon's* "Business Man" and a gospel-laced, traditional "Just Take Your Time" with vocals by Lynn "Mornon Lion" Carey.
However, perhaps the best of Musselwhite comes through in his original "Long As I Have You" and "Candy Kitchen," backed by Mike Bloomfield's guitar and highlighted by an outstanding Musselwhite solo on his specialty, the harmonica.
"Leave the Blues to Us" is good advice.
Nothing new, but worth more than the weight of one disc in the Lennon Plastic One Band's "Shaved Ice" album.
more or less an assortment of the John Lennon band of music in greatest hits form, this shows the enduring appeal of the band.
former Beate and reflects his changes and musical maturation.
The "shavings" includes the thought-provoking "Imagine," war songs "Happy Xmas (War is Ower)" and "Give Peace A Chance," plus "Cold Turkey." "No 9 Dream," "Woman Is the Nigger of the World" and the more recent "Whatever Gets You Thru the Night."
to the listener who enjoys and appreciates this controversial but neverlastless legend figure in modern music, "Shaved Fish" is truly "collectible Lemon."
From the old standard loud of vein rock'n' roll music emerges a new release on MCA Records, which achieves recognition merely for its gallant attempt to break its own monony.
In the album "The Eddie Boy Band," the group by the same name barely ascends the boos it received preceding the Nov. 1. Beach Boys concert was the first such appearance of spammed内科s of a country western theme and a surprising addition of what may be described as a tropical island theme save the album from disastrous falt of oblivion any other recording of the band's upright musical and technical immaturity might achieve.
Taking honors for the filler song of the album is "Come On Virginia, I Wanna Win Ya." This selection is a change in the pace of the recording but is less than refreshing. It succeeds only in confusing the listener in a seemingly irrelevant form of names from Ernie Banks to the makovans.
Keeping the band's effort from being completely unlistenable is "The Maze" and "Good To Have You Back Again," helped along by the good piano work of Mark Goldberg.
The listener might have to turn down the volume, but the Eddie Boy Band's album has a slim chance of being enjoyed more than their other albums. The choice of a small amount of the occasional price which variety demands.
Melange of styles in photographv exhibit
By JUDY CUNNINGHAM
When asked to comment about her own photography, Imogene Cunningham remarked, "There's too much philosophizing about photography already these days
People will just have to look at my stuff and make up their own mind. Eneryart, curator of photography at the Museum of Art, has made up his own mind and included two of Imogene Cunningham's photographs in her exhibition. Exhibition which closes Sunday, Nov. 23, in the Museum of Art. Eneryart's choice does, reveals what she learns and reveals has importance and necessity of "philosophizing."
In the 1974 exhibition catalog entitled "Language of Light," which accompanied the first comprehensive exhibit of the museum's photographs by the museum's proprietors, the primary consideration common to the acquisition of each has been the potential of the photograph to contribute as a unique medium to the progress of art. The collection exists to document and encourage it. It is the museum's responsibility to support and encourage the artist; it is
privileged to preserve for the public the best its artists have to offer. The works simply represent a choice in quality and style, which is sustained toward objectivity and breadth of representation."
Each of Enyeart's considerations has determined the excellence and quality of judgment practiced in the selection of the acquisitions, funded by a National Endowment for the Arts Purchase Award Grant.
During Walker Evan's affiliation with the Farm Security Administration in the 1930s, he used the photograph as a documentary capable of expressing the conditions of migratory workers and farmers who suffered miseries in drought and soil erosion. Two photographs from this series, taken in Hale County, Ala., are represented in the exhibit.
Evidence of photography's function as an artistic medium that penetrates specific social layers is evident in Logan's 1966 photograph of a member of the Louisville Outlaws motorcycle gang. Robert Frank develops the camera to capture the details of the camera to interpret
a new work of art or does it merely reflect the aesthetic qualities inherent in the sculpture?
Star Harlow not just sex object
The exhibition offers to the artist a gallery of imaginative, stimulating ideas materialized by the photographers who have defined and continue to maintain photography as a major art form in the 20th century. To the public, this exhibition provides an opportunity, seldom available in a single exhibit, to consider the expressive and artistic potential of five decades of photographers and photography.
during the 1960s when he experimented with large sheets of paper that were articulated vertically and photographed.
Clark Gable and Jean Harlow in "Wife vs. Secretary"
By WARD HARKAVY
Strandly stimulating is Paul Strandl's interest in the camera as an instrument that can interpret an artwork created in another medium. Does the photograph of a wooden sculpture from Mexico, "Christo with Thorns," become
"Little Medicine Man," a sensitive portrait of an American Indian, exemplifies Laura Gilpin's ability to use the camera in the traditional function of portraiture.
In a selection from the "Pillazformen" series photographed during the 1920s, Imogene Cunningham exploits the distinctive forms of plant life with such imagination and foreignness that she created contemporary when they appeared in a 1967 calendar for West Coast Airlines.
Jean Harlow is regarded by many people today as the woman who represented a male chauvinist era. That type of society, some say, was rotten to women, because of the pressiveness of women, a society whose culture was also tainted and worthless.
Today, many people have vague visions, usually based on only hearse, of Harlow as a child and Marilyn Monroe. Much of this impression comes from such films of hers as "Platinum Blonde," "Hell's Broom," "Bombina" and "Dinner at Eight."
Technical innovations are represented in a 1935 "Raygraph" by Man Ray and in a contemporary mixed media collection. The exhibition included is a photograph by Frederick Sommer developed
Actually, many films of the 1930s gave a better chance to actresses than do contemporary films. One such film is "Wife vs. Secretary," a 1938 film that will make its way in 3D in Woolford Auditorium.
However, Harlow was much more than a sex object. She was a talented comedienne and, at the end of her very brief career, an accomplished and versatile actress.
ficient, thoroughly wholesome and beautiful woman.
Harlow was best known at the time for her portrayals of amoral, dunlone, blonde women. But in "Wife vs. Secretary," she eschewed her platinum-blonde image for that of a bright, ef-
One of the reasons for the movie's success is its strong comedy, with Gable, Myrna Lynn and Harlow. Supporting players include James Stewart (while he was played by Drewey Martin Barber and John Quinlan.
Despite its unoriginal and somewhat weepy plot, "Wife vs. Secretary" is one of the most popular titles shown on campus this semester.
The plot is a pedestrian story of a mild love triangle. It concerns a, handsome, aggressive boss, his sprightly and vivacious secretary and an unwilling, although not evil, wife.
However, Gable, Harlow and Loy bring excitement to this somewhat maddian storyline. The result is a bright, lively, scintillating mixture of comedy and drama.
marriage. Those people will never learn to look at cultural artifacts in the context of the period in which they were produced. A crude arrowhead may be an absurd tool company technology, but there is often an artifact suitable and beauty such as an artifact suitable to its place in its own historical period.
The director was Clarence Brown, who directed several Garbo films and had an extremely long career in Hollywood. Fatha Raldwin, a popular author of soap opera tales in the 1930s, wrote in which the film was booked.
"Wife vs. Secretary" reflects a society that, in many ways, is far different from ours. This takes into consideration when taken into consideration when
There were certainly many 1930s movies, especially those concerning gangsters, in which women were allowed to play the role of fleshy scenery. But films such as "Wife vs. Secretary," "Holiday The Women," "Bringing Up the Baby" and "This Is His Life," all made under 1930s and 1940, gave primary roles to women.
It is inevitable that some morons will hoot and jeer at the ending of the movie, when Harlow forsakes her career for
In a historical sense, this movie is important. "Wife vs. Secretary" is one more example of the depth and power of the genre. It also describes Hollywood's Golden Age. In general, the Hepburns,
viewing such movies. It would help if people knew something about the period in which the movie was made. In this way, judgments about the value of "Wife vs. Secretary" can be entertaining and entertaining movie, regardless of other considerations.
Harlows, Dunnes, and Garbos had better and more important parts in movies then, although many of these actresses played roles that portrayed women as subservient to men. A few characters entertained and liberated is Jill Ireland in those Charles Bronson enacts?
Recent exceptions to the current paucity of good movie roles for women include "A Woman Under the Influence" and "Alice Doesn't Live Here anymore." Maybe there aren't actresses like Heepburn, Harlow Dome and Anne and anyone. Whatever the reason, there seem to be fewer good movies whose plots revolve around women.
Although the values expressed in many of these films may seem archaic to some of us today, the presence of these movies and modern parts puts many modern "macho" films to shame.
This Week's HIGHLIGHTS
Theater
THE GOOD DOCTOR—Neil "Doc" Simon's *Simon* broad version of nine Anton Chekhov short stories — dry, pungent and kind in their original forms. Simon's sure to have jazzz them up, but his touch is as sharp as its way in its way. As Chekhov's.
(8:30 tonight and Saturday night in Hashinger Hall Theatre.)
GODSPELL—The Gospel of Jesus seen by two young rock composers. An appealingly articulated Christ's teachings and formations.
7:30 tonight and 2:30
Saturday afternoon in Rice
Auditorium on the Baker
University campus, Baldwin.
Concerts
WELTING - HOLLOWAY — Ruth Welfling, soprano, and David Holloway, barfone, pool the talent — previously choir concert performances all over the nation—for an evening of classical, operatic and contemporary in the jazz 14-C concert Series.
(8 tonight in University Theatre.)
PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE - Opening performance of the fourth annual series of the Gobber series. George Böger conducts the group in a lively selection of special pieces. Linda Maxey, marimbiist, will live in Rimsky-karakov's "Flight of the Dove."
(2 p.m. Sunday in University Theatre.)
UNIVERSITY CHOURS
CHOIR THEMES
Ralston and Burt Allen direct the singers. George Lawner the musicians, in the annual combined per-formance program completes Handel's "Dettingen Te Deum" and "De Teum Laudamus."
(Tonight at the Free State Opera House.)
Exhibits
HARD FREEZE—Disco bump to another lively group. (Saturday night at Free State Opera House.)
(3:30 p.m. Sunday in Hoch Auditorium.)
NO MOUNTAINS IN THE WAY—A comprehensive survey of Kansas landscapes, buildings and people in photographs by Robert Evans and Larry Schwartz. Perceptive and delightful.
FREEDOM JAZZ BAND and TIDE--Funky dancesicles from a Teopka group in the first offering. Jim Stringer, of Teopka, offers for our performance with his old group. Tide, in the second.
Perception and Understanding
(Through Dec. 11 in Kansas
Union Gallery.)
ROBERT SUDLOW -The Flint Hills, fields and streams, birds and flowers in oils, rocks, landscapes, master of painting and sculpture.
(Through Dec. 4 In 7E7 Gallery.)
Films
CHINATOWN—Jack Nicholson as a 1940s private eye in seedy, grimy Los Angeles. He wields a nose for getting into trouble.
THE SEVENTH VOYAGE OF SINBAD - Ray
Herryhausen's stupendous animation and Bernard Herrmann's beautiful music. He is memorable. Once again on this campus we have a children's museum, College kids are also invited.
GONE WITH THE WIND—
for romances stars Clark
and Vivien Leigh, but frankly,
my dear, I don't give a damn.
I love you.
HURRY UP OR I'll BE THIRTY—Joseph Jacoby cowrote, produced and directed this, which is being advertised as another "American Graffiti," but it has a charm of own. Starring newcomers John LeKowitz, and Linda Deckoff
LET'S DO IT AGAIN— Again? Week six for Cosby and Co
EARTHQUAKE—Both the storyline and the acting are shaken in the disaster With Helen Hertz in Her Garden Kennedy and Ava Gardner.
A WOMAN UNDER THE INFANCY—Fantastic performance! On lands and Peter Falk give this study of a suppression housewife its disturbing骂语. It's the type of thing you need to memorize for your friends, but John Cassavetes' direction and the lack of context in the vital that anyone who is interested in the future of American film-making dares not miss
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