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Friday, February 23, 1973
University Daily Kansan
'Up the Sandbox' Bites the Dust
By ROBERT MILLER
Kansan Reviewer
If you've been to the movies in Lawrence latex, you're no doubt noticed that the theaters have raised the price of admission. The explanation given is that the increase is unavoidable because the film distributors have raised the flat rate and percentage rentals being asked for such widely publicized and successful recent releases as *The Shape of Water* and *Coraline*. In count for why it's taken so long to get here). Perhaps paying more to see a truly great film can be justified on the basis of receiving greater value for a greater investment. However, the across-the-board price hike also means that in the future you will be paying more to see all of Hollywood's latest blooms, flops, turkey and disap-
With this in mind, Barba Streisand's new film, "Up the Sandbox," becomes an even more intriguing story.
the old admission price.
The film's director, Irvin Kersher, has previously dealt with stories of individuals who create fantasy lives for themselves as substitutes for a dull existence "The Lack of anger in the world," he wrote, to that theme here, but with an important switch. Streisand, playing the Upper West Side housewife of a professor at New York's Columbia University, acts on her fantasies on the screen, instead of only telling the story, as Kersher's earlier protagonists did.
The transition from objective to subjective presentation of a character's fantasizing is quite appropriate for the move to farce, but Paul Zindel's script is just too weak to support its dramatic elements in a mélange of outlandish skits and confused meanings.
Blowing up the Statue of Liberty, joining the Sanibaru tribe of Kenya, or discovering an abandoned mine, is one of the greatest historical mysteries.
anatomy may have at first seemed like marvelous ideas for a woman to toy with while considering the abortion of her third child—but it won't out work that in the finished picture.
Streisand continues to shine amid this matter as a gifted comedienne with star presence, and her director does succeed in creating a comedy within the part (quite a feat in itself).
It's just too bad that their combined efforts yielded so little of value. When she first read the script she was quoted as having exclaimed: "Yeecchhh!" One wonders how she must have greeted the finished product.
Kansas Photo by CHRIS MeCLENAGHAN
Commander Cody Pours It On
Rockin' country sound moves crowd
'Commander Cody' Genuine Country
By TIM BRADLEY Kansan Reviewer
The side of their 1966 Greyhound Scenicruiser said "Country & Western Swing Band" and that's exactly what Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen are. They don't play country rock or rockabilly or any of those other hokey hybrids, but genuine country-western, real as rubarb.
The audience at the Red Dog Inn last night watched the Commander and his crew of crazies excel at all the various aspects of aerial traps, sniper rifles, tragedies or zipping through quickie highway tunes. George Fraye, alias Commander Cody, kninked and boogied on the piano, Billy C. Farlow played an unplugged number from the score with Bobby "Blue" Black pedaled the steel.
Andy Stine fiddled and played sax and was backed up by John Tichy on rhythm guitar (he's a Ph.D. in Engineering, too), Lance Dickson on drums, and on bass, Buffalo Bruce Barlow provided the best bottom since Thumper the Rabbit.
The band seems to prefer performing to recording and have been playing the boozehall circuits individually and as a group since the early 60's. Last night, the band performed without being good-time and projected an exuberance and sense of humor that many bands have forgotten the importance of. The Red Dog audience was right with them and added to the performance by creating a very lively atmosphere, whoop up atmosphere. A great show.
Upcoming at the Red Dog Inn are
Weekend Scene
MUSIC
Black Theatre Premiers; 'Matchmaker' Winds Up
SANCTUARY: Oat Willie tonight and Saturday.
ORLAHAM CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: Presented by the University of Kansas Concert Series at 8:20 p.m. Saturday in Hoch Auditorium.
REED BARON. Humming Bird, formerly
the Chessman square, tonight and Satur-
day.
MOVIES
WHEN THE LEGENDS DIE: 7:25 p.m.
and 9:25 p.m. at Hillcrest I Theater.
LADY SINGS THE BLUES: 7:15 p.m. and
9:45 p.m. at Hillcrest 2 Theater.
DIRTY LITTLE BILLY: 7:30 p.m. and
9:10 p.m. at Hircestrion 3 Theater.
POSEIDEN ADVENTURE: 7:30 p.m.
and 9:40 p.m. at the Varsity Theatre.
UP THE SAND BOX: 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. at the Granada Theater.
SUMMER OF 42: 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.
in Woodruff Auditorium.
THEATER
A SOUL, GONE HOME AND WE OWN
A EXPERIMENTAL THEATER at the Experimental Theatre.
THE MATCHMAKER: 8:00 p.m. at the University Theatre.
ART
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I suppose you can take the film as a bungled defense of motherhood and the American family, or you can suspect that it protests badly and a bit too much, thereby causing dissatisfaction. You can tract in favor of their destruction. Taken either way it falls as good entertainment.
Hillcrest
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