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Friday, January 27,1978
University Daily Kansan
Staff Photo by RANDY OLSON
Takina aim
Gayle Mallinno, Overland Park sophomore, took a long look at the pins before she sent the bowling ball down the alley in the Kansas Union Jayhawk, Debbie Grieger,
She is helping coordinate bowling leagues for the more than 200 students who will be competing in five leagues this semester. The spring bowling season began this week.
Boozer started bowling as soon as she was big enough to carry a ball. At that age when most kids were wrestling with basic arithmetics Boozer was tallying her own bowling score.
Barbara Booster is typical of the bowlers competing in the All Star league at the Jay Pineapple Cup.
Student bowlers roll once again
As a student at the University of Kansas, Boozer was a member of the bowling team. Today, she is assistant manager of the Jay team and also teaches bowling classes in the morning.
Barbara's father, Warren Boozer is recreation manager at the Union. He teaches the afternoon bowling classes. One effect of his paternal guidance is evident—he is extremely organized and qualified her for competition with other KU bowlers in the All-Star league.
EACH TEAM in the five league comprises four bowlers. They bowl one night each week throughout the semester. League competition will conclude before final
Although the season has already begun, Boozer said there might be a few openings for students who would like to join, if they do so before tonight.
"It's not necessary to put together your own team," she said. "Students who'd like to bowl can be put with another team if there are still openings."
To join, one can go to the Jay Bowl and the league roster. The entry fee is $5 a person.
In addition to the All Star league, which requires a minimum 160 average to join, there is a Greek league in which 10 cities and two sororities will participate.
THE CAMPUS OPEN league is composed of both male and female teams. The Guys and Dolls league is made up of sexually integrated teams who like to mix things up a bit. The fifth league is called TGIF, for those who like a little beer with their bowling.
Karen DeShazo, Prairie Village
sophomore, doesn't believe a person's body is real.
One doesn't need the skill of a Barbara Boozer to join a league.
'Greatest Lover' is no valentine
Reviewer
Rv MARV MITCHELI
What is most disappointing is the part of Adolph Zitz (Dom DeLause). One would expect the delicately efferinate humor that DeLause usually exhibits, but here he
"The World's Greatest Lower," directed and written by its star, Gene Wilder, falls short of its potential. The film is one series of prattfalls, bad puns and overt silliness. Nonsense has long been a prime form of entertainment, as witnessed by the articles of his friend Harry, but it doesn't look side-spitting humor and the sense of numbness that are left after chuckling through another fine mess that is truly funny.
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One problem is that the script is based upon a ridiculous proposition—the choosing of the world's greatest lover by Rainbow Studios. The lover, of course, is modeled after Rudolph Valentine. The central character, played by Wilder, is named, predictably enough, Rudy Valentine. Wilder has played other roles, notably "Quacker声" and "Young Hankenstein," with more force and skill. In this film, it is his eyes and his motions that give the character some hilarious moments, not his acting.
shuffles his way through the part like a bull in a china shop that has no breakables.
Carol Kane is Annie, Wilder's waffle wife. She is all but lost among the slapstick theatrics of the other characters. Kane gave an acclaimed performance in last year's "Hester Street," but now she has sunk to the lowest level of humor.
The best parts are bits by supporting players. Fritz Feld is the overly selfserving hotel manager, Thomas Abalone, stands out. Equally entertaining are Carl Ballantine, as Wilder's uncle, and his handwaving family.
This time Wilder has gone too far. Not only did he direct, write and act, but he wrote the words and music of the movie's theme song — "Aim it Kind of Wonderful." He also fitted in with the chaotic madness of the movie. However, the movie does have its moments of hilarity. When Kane leaves Wilder the first time, she accidentally clogs up the sink in her apartment, then suken living room that is filled with water and a ceiling in a restaurant that caves in.
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Highlights
Weekend
ADVANCED ANGELOR STUDENTS will perform the Bach Chaconnel 13 b at 8 p.m. Jan 29 in the Masonian Chapel.
JOE UTERBACK will perform a lecture-recital on the techniques of jazzman Bill Evans at 8 p.m. Jan. 29 in Swarthout Recital Hall.
LEADS AAMS will present a faculty recital of original compositions at 8 p.m. Jan. 30 in the M.A.M. Theater.
THE LAWRENCE CISMONY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA will perform its annual winter concert at 8 b.m. Jan. 29, at Central Junior High School. Clairnet琴声 Henry Cuesta from the Lawrence Webk show will be featured with a Lawrence jazz band, the Gaialg Gang
Exhibits
GARY FOSTER, a musician on the Carol Burnett show, will appear with the 12.30 Jazz Ensemble at 2 p.m. Feb. 1 in Swarthout Recital Hall.
JOHN MICHAEL TALBOT will appear at 8 p.m. tomorrow in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Concerts
Recitals
THE HELEN FORESMAN SPENCER MUSEUM OF ART is featuring Artists Look at Art on the fourth floor and Prints from the Collection in the Raymond White Print Gallery
THE KENNETH SPENCER RESEARCH LIBRARY is featuring the King's Cabinet Art Collections of Louis XIV in the Main Gallery, Other Curious Cabinets in the North Gallery.
Wilder has tried too hard. What was needed was something light, airy and humorous at the same time. "Lover" is not without a few guffaws, but the script is too heavy-handed and too much a copy of Mel Brooks' unique humor.
Another entertaining scene occurs on a train on the way to California, when Wilder is made eyes at by a pathetic-looking boottouched female. To protect himself from her husband who bears a remarkable resemblance to his captor, he cuddles up to a mustached man.
Kansas Portrait in the Kansas Collection,
and Auld Ways and New Aspects of Scottish
Writing.
THE ART AND DESIGN GALLERY is showing Twelve Photographers: a Contemporary Artist, a PhD Student and an Artist.
BARBARA MARGOLI will present a series of documentary films in person tonight and tomorrow. "To the People of the World" and "On the Line," are upcoming films. "Puerto Rico: Paradise Invased;" and "Forward Together" will be at 3 p.m. and, on the Line, will be shown at a p.m. tomorrow in
After Fb. 1, the library will have baskets by Ljubica March, watercolors and silkscreens by Joyce Schild, metal smithing by Grace Carmody and yawning by Diane Emond.
THE 7E7 GALLERY is showing the paintings of Jerry Weist through Feb. 8.
The Hillcrest Bowl is open until 4 a.m. Friday and Saturday nights for late night games.
The LAWRENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY will have oils by Bse Bratton,weavings and paintings by Lois Greene, stained glass by Beth Glass and oil by Elen Kunard until Jan. 31.
night Saturdays and from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Sundays.
3 WOMEN, by directed Robert Atwill, will show at 3:30, 7:00 and 9:30 p.m. tonight at the D.C. Museum.
Films
All films are shown in Wooldruff Auditorium of the Kansas University unless other stated.
A break for all bowlers should come this summer, however.
LIVES OF PERFORMERS by feminist Yoyanna Roinne will at 7:30 a.m. Feb. 2
LA SALAMANDRE, a French movie with
LA English subtitles directed by Alain Tanner
A young woman falls in love with a
female musician.
"My girlfriend sorted of twisted my arm, but I'm just out to have fun," she said. "I've not bowled much, but that doesn't worry me."
One consequence of league bowling is that all the lanes are used when league action is scheduled. The KU leagues use the Jay Bowl lanes Tuesday through Friday nights, and on Monday nights, two leagues from outside the KU community dominate the scene. The
casual student wanting to bow a game on a weeknight may be disappointed.
HILLCREST BOWL, 9th and Iowa streets, is the only other bowling alley in Lawrence. Its lanes are used for league bowing from 6 to 9 o.m. Sunday through Friday.
DeShoza was leaving it to the organizers to place her with a team.
The occasional student bowler looking for a lane on a weeknight must consider the league schedules. Saturday and Sunday are the Jay Bowl will remain open to everyone.
The Jav Bowl is open from noon to mid-
Craig Klein, Hillcrest night manager, said another bowling alley is scheduled to open in Lawrence this summer. It is presently under construction. He said the new alley would have 24 lanes.
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Arts & Leisure
KU graduate produces, directs grim fraternity story in 'Hazing'
By JERRY JONES
Staff Writer
If the fraternity house in the recent movie, "The Hazing," looked familiar, there's a good reason for it.
The producer-director of the film, Douglas Curtis, is a 1986 graduate of KU, with a major in radio-television-film." The Hazing," his first film, is the story of an innocent fraternity initiation which takes place on a university campus. "The youngster who made a solid impression in "American Graffiti."
Curtis said that, of most of the locations he scouted, none of the fraternity houses looked like fraternity houses. Although the picture was filmed on the campus of Northern Arizona University in the center of the "fraternity house" was actually a home in Los Angeles.
"It looked exactly like all the fraternity houses at KU," Curtis said.
he reacted strongly to objections that the film is "and SKIPK." He wasn't a strong supporter, he "maintained." "It just happened that's where it takes place."
"In Lawrence, the (theater) manager said 80 percent of the audience there were frats, and they loved it."
"I knew some people in Dodge City who wanted to finance a movie," he said. They didn't have the capital, but they knew someone who did. They sent Curtis to Iowa, where a Des Moines company was building a picture, budgeted at $800,000. The film, of course, was "The Hazing."
AFTER GRADUATING in 1968, Curtis joined Calvin Studios in Kansas City, a well-known producer of educational and industrial films. In the industry, it has sometimes been referred to as *calvin*. He is perhaps best known for his effort which it affords novice filmmakers in learning their craft. At least four former Calvin employees have gone on to make theatrical motion pictures, notably Robert Altman, whose credits include
Curtis was in Kansas City just before Christmas on a two-day promotional tour.
Finally, he decided it was time to try his hand at feature films. Curtis, a Dodge City native, had secured what he considered to be an exceptionally good script. His next stop was to find the money to produce it.
Within three years of graduation, Curtis and a partner formed their own production company in Kansas City. But Hollywood beckoned, and Curtis moved to California to join Corporate Film, which he worked for three years making commercials and industrial films.
WITH FILM in hand, Curtis next had to find an agent in Los Angeles to represent him. "You can't function in that city in the
mainstream without an agent, he noted. Three agents expressed an interest in him and his film, and Curtis finally chose Phil Gersh, an agent who also represents Altman, Robert Wise and Mark Robson.
The film was released in several markets in December and distributed by a network of independent film distributors across the country.
Despite what he considers an excellent education in the radio-television/film department at KU, Curtus said there was much more to learn.
"I don't think you could learn that much (in the classroom) in 20 years," Curtis said of his real-world experiences. "It really are unusual."
For example, he would consider contracting with a major studio to make a film but he would avoid television work at all costs.
"I would work for a major because they have the best product," he said. "The best scripts go to the studios."
BUT, ALTHOUGH Curtis admitted that TV movies had improved during the last two years, he said he was still reluctant because of the trauma. "I don't want to do anything," he said.
"You really get select in Hollywood," he said. "Some of the best directors are in TV but they stay there because they're typecast as actors."
With "The Hazing," he said, "it compares with any first film. It thinks it's solidly crafted and it pleasures the audience. If we were my friend, I would say, 'Okay, I'm confident.'"
Curtis said that in making a film, a person must be completely honest in analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of his creation. "In growing, in terms of an artist, you've got to recognize what you're doing wrong," he said.
BUT IF CURTIS recognized any flaws in the film, he would not say what they were.
Curtis had some advice for people aspiring to be filmmakers.
"The first way is to make a lot of films," he said. "The second is to see a lot of films. When I talk to a film person who says he doesn't see a lot of films."
“It’s like a personal secret,” he said. “It’s laying my soul bare. That’s putting too much on the line.”
"You wouldn't believe how hard it is to find a good script," he said.
"If you find any scripts, please send them to me."
Douglas said he was negotiating with a major studio to direct a picture later this year, but in the meantime he had been reading "The Woman Who Loves Me" and "The Man Who Loves Me."
Curtis's search for a second film is indicative of the success of his film. As he noted, "The first one better be good, or it'll be a long time."
Trivia contest awards big prizes
For a mere dollar and the ability to answer a few questions, a person well-versed in trivia may be on his way to winning thousands of dollars through the mail. The only catch is that a monetary investment is required.
Opportunities Unlimited Publications, Inc., a Kansas City-based organization, has sponsored skill contests through the mail for the last three years, Barbara Barkley, a member of the corporation, said recently.
Contests for the games are solicited through magazine subscription lists and direct mail lists purchased by Opportunities Unlimited. Barkley said many of the contests were winners or participants in the contests sponsored by the corporation.
The current contest, which began in December and will end late this month, is a mock television game show, except the contest answers the questions at home instead of on television and sends the reply through the mail.
THE CONTEST, called Channel 77,
allows participants to select the value of
the grand prize they wish to compete for.
An investment of $8 enters a contest in
the race for the $50 prize. A $20
prize makes a participant eligible
for $1,000. The winner is awarded the
winner $3,000 and $40 could bring
the winner $5,000 in prize money.
Because there are no prize sponsors as there are on television programs, Barkey said entry fees were charged to the company for handling expenses, as well as for the prizes.
The entry fee is paid in four installments. It is submitted along with each questionnaire that is returned to Opportunities Unlimited.
She said $7,500 in prizes would be awarded in the Channel 7 contest.
In order to qualify for the contest, a person would answer the sample question in the introductory brochure and be given a $100 scholarship Unlimited with an initial $1 payment.
ADDITIONAL QUESTIONNAIRES are then sent to the contest. After the questions on each successive form are answered and returned along with the required fee, the entries are submitted to a computer for judging.
The entries are scored like tests. The more correct answers, the better the chance a contestant has to win.
Contestants are eliminated through
this process until a winner, or several winners, remain. If too many contestants remain after the judging, to four tie breaker questionaires are sent to the finalists to determine the ultimate winners.
Barkley said she wouldn't know how many persons had entered the Channel 77 contest until the results were compiled, but she said about 10,000 people were expected to participate in the nationwide contest.
FORTY THOUSAND dollars in prizes have been awarded in similar contexts by Opportunities Unlimited during the last three years, Barkley said. Consolation prizes, such as gift certificates, are available to contestants who do not win cash prizes.
Barkley said the key to winning the mail contest was to carefully follow the rules and to answer the questions that were posed. He disqualified from the contest because
they failed to follow directions on the entry forms.
Barkley asked the questions used in the contest were not too difficult. Answers could be found in common reference books or at the library. Researchers at the institution could also sure the answers for each question could be found in at least two sources, she said.
A list of answers and where they may be found is made available after the contest is over, she said.