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Monday, November 21. 1977
University Daily Kansan
'Goodbar' film proves
By MARY MITCHELJ
Reviewer
"Looking for Mr. Goodbar" is a disturbing, depressing film. Audiences are fighting their way into theaters to buy late-night seats for a film that already has been sold out. Perhaps they are encouraged by the starring role of Diane Keaton. Maybe they have read the blockbuster bestseller of the same title by Judith Rossner.
Either way they are going to be disappointed.
The film is not the same as the book. Both dwell on sex and violence, but the book uses subtly. Director Richard Brooks uses a sedgehammer to drive his meaning home.
The central character, Terry Dunn
was a hunty schoolschooler in New
York City.
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dard--showing that the delegates were split
dard--showing that the delegates were spit.
The delegates, however, said they could
handle the situation. Kenny,
Kansas' anti-ERA delegates were felt
sunflowers and a yellow ribbon saying they
represent the majority of Americans. But
one delegate said the convention was voting
right.
DURING OPENING ceremonies Saturday morning, Rosalyn Carter said her husband cared what happened at the convention.
"Jimmy said he wants Amy to grow up knowing she can not only be the President's daughter, but that she can be President," she said.
Mrs. Carter was joined at the conference between her first ladies, Betty Ford and Lady Bird Johnson.
The presiding officer was former New York Congresswoman Bella Abzug, who led the sessions with a gavel used in the 19th century. The first two years of her on loan from the Smithsonian Institution.
Abbas said the purpose of the conference was "not to tell women how to live or what to do, but simply that women must be free to choose what they do."
ABZUG SAID, "Democracy can only work," all the people are in the democracy.
Keynote speaker at the opening ceremonies was Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, who said the goal of the National Park Service is to make slants to 'America the Beautiful.'"
She and tennis pro Billie Jean King were present when runners were greeted at the end of a 2,612-mile torch relay, which started Sept. 28 in Seneca Falls. Symbolizing "Women on the Move," the relay concluded in Houston Friday.
"Human rights apply equally to Soviet dissidents, Chilean peasants and American women," Jordan said to recurring aplause. "Women are human. When our rights are limited, when our rights are violated, we need a domestic human rights program."
Abortion divides delegates
HOUSTON (UP1)—The National Women's Conference endorsed abortion and sex education yesterday during the tense moment of the historic four-day meeting.
The conference, which went on record favoring the EMA tradition, also passed a new rule. The rule allowed EMA members to
The feminist proposal advocating "reproductive freedom" divided the 2,000 delegates more severely than any of the other groups, including the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA).
Later, in another controversial vote, the conference adopted a lesbian's rights resolution calling for elimination of discrimination on the basis of sexual preference in employment, housing, public services, credit, the military and child custody.
Ant-abortion forces protested the conference decision with a floor demonstration, carrying signs that called for "equal rights for the unborn."
The resolution supported the 1974 U.S. Supreme Court decision allowing abortion during the first three months of pregnancy, in order to prevent the for poor and sex education in the schools.
A brief punching incident was witnessed during the aftermath of the vote. But Odessa Smith of Detroit refused to tell reporters Jann Kamba Jamn Zambra of Austin, Texas.
would protect the rights of minority women, older women, victims, women law, women education.
THE VOTE on a resolution supporting minority rights prompted a floor demonstration of black, Indian, Eskimo, Hispanic and Asian women. Nearly all of the 2,000 delegate joined hands and sang, "We shall Overcome."
The Mississippi delegation was booed,
however, when it failed to join the
delegation.
Negotiators struggle to avert bus strike
SCOTTSALE, Ariz. (AP) — Negotiators for Greyhound Lines and the strike-primed Amalgamated Transit Union met in a hotel room yesterday in hopes of heading off a walkout that could strand Thanksgiving holiday travelers across the country.
Bargainers met for an hour, broke briefly and then reconvened without comment.
Union members voted 10,313 to 1,304 on Friday to reject Greyhound's offer of a $300 bonus, continued cost-of-living provisions and a profit-sharing program, Owen Jones, president of the AFL-CIO union's Greyhound Council, said.
with strangers for comfort. In the book, she was merely a teacher of first-grade pupils. But the movie attempts to make her character more sympathetic by making her teacher of deaf children. It even adds a subplot with one of her students.
The father (Richard Kiley) is portrayed as a bigoted, almost hateful figure. His character was much more believable in the book.
ROSSNER'S ORIGINAL narrative gives a picture of Terry's mental conflicts through flashbacks. He tries to be humble but fails miserably. The movie attempts to but fails miserably. The editing of the film is wretched. We never know whether what we see really happens or not, something that is going on in Terry's mind.
The lighting is poor. Every scene in Terry's apartment is darkly lighted. To further complicate matters, Terry is wearing a pair of shoes. The sound in these same scenes is blurred.
Keaton gives an adequate performance. But it is obvious to anyone who has read the book that certain scenes of comic relief were added.
Terry is not a comic figure. The director apparently tried to capitalize on Keaton's
Richard Gere, as Terry's crude and brash lover, gives the best performance in the film. The scenes in which he dances by his side are especially difficult, although he tends to overact in some spots.
distressing
strong performance in "Annie Hall" earlier
in her role and it is a great disappointment.
TUESDAY WELD, as Terry's sister, is rather uneven in her performance as a swinger. Her lines are muddled, and she is to portray the character in a believable light.
Brooks fails to grasp Terry's inner conflicts, which are crucial to the book. Instead, he chooses to exploit the sex and violence and ignore the distressing aspects of the woman's character that cause her descent into hell.
The story is jumbled. The addition of flashbacks to a story line that already includes scenes of the present and scenes that take place in Terry's imagination makes the film confusing. The continuity is choppy and almost nonexistent at points.
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Whatever Brooks tried to achieve in tastefulness was lost in the final scene. The use of a strobe light, a switch to black and white and an overly long conclusion ruin what otherwise might have been an understated, effective character study.
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