University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, March 17, 1971
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Movies: 'Love Story'
By CHIP CREWS
Arts and Reviews Editor Something is a little overdone about "Love Story"; the enamorment melodrama currently making money hand over fist and confounding critics across the nation.
For those unfortunate who just woke up from a coma and don't know what the picture is about, its plot is simple to relate.
There is nothing wrong with love stories or even love scenes, she said. "We pure oleo. It is a picture that tries hard in its cold, calculating way, calculating the things about it."
Poor little rich boy rican Oval meets poor little girl girl. They hate each other on sight. They hurt him through law school (Big Daddy Warbucks can cut him off and she gets it as they get settled in a ritzy New York apartment, she contracts disease and dies. The end.
The story is a very personal thing to watch, which undoubtedly explains a great deal of the film's success. However, many announceances to try to ignore for one become truly enraged.
The first of these is All My Graw as Jennifer, the ill-fated wife of a popular just not a very good actress. In "Love Story," she limits herself to roughly two and one-half times her stomach size, the mostil dilation she tosses off after each of the 93 times she uses it, smirking flippinness, presumably designed to make her look like a very brave girl, does nothing
However, the agonized Miss MacGraw's earthbound performance is not nearly so bad as Love Story's 'own basic silly look' and too glossy, too Hollywoody to be believed. O'Neal's to empty relationship with his father (played by the excellent actor Ray Milland) is so convenient, a pair of poor father-son relationships, it becomes merely a pledge of a story we've heard many times before.
Jennifer is made out to be such a lippy, crudely little thing that her attractiveness is even questionable. of the two who are playing on football fields and through the snow are far too familiar to be exciting.
Rock Chalk '72 To Be Revised
Still, the greatest travesty of the script is the obvious com-
The examination and reevaluation of the group may be discussed at a meeting of living group presidents and KU-Y cabinet members at a p.m.
Laura Friesen, Clay Center senior and KU-Y cabinet member with fonds of Touk Chalem would be excused regarding to its racist and sexist characteristics. "The Y's purpose is to eliminate racism," she said. "We can't eliminate it anywhere we can't in our own programs."
All living beings are being notified now in order that the new format of the Revue will be made, and work begins on the 1972 skits.
In a letter addressed to living group presidents, Tigre Rapelle, president of the Rock Chalk producer of Rock Chalk states that "The 'Y' considers the position of Rock Chalk to be a successful re-vamping is not proposed by this meeting, Rock which may be eliminated completely."
parsion of the two stars' relationships with their fathers. O'Neal and his dad operate on a "yes, sis - no, sir" basis, they have a hard time believing Miss MacGraw is completely free, to the point of cursing and probably even belching about "Phil," as she calls him, and he does not care that she has no money. They are close as a parent and child can be. Is scriptwriter Erich Seleg trying to point up a morale or merely insult intelligence, or has he been reading Christian lends it Hans Christians爱andly?
Hero Ryan O'Neal is one of the film's assets. His performance is strong, tender and believable
KANSAN reviews
throughout in a part more diff cult than Miss. Mace*Gracw* the Milland and John Marley, who plays Phil, are most adenate
In a sense, the film's popularity is completely baffling. You really don't get to know the two people as you did in the book. Their intelligence, enough, which leaves audiences to make picture associations in order to identify. Yet they make the necessary adjustments and enhancements to present having their emotions and mentalities towed with so cheaply by this mawkish, unbelievable trifle. One must conclude that they simply have to love to and have found himself to be as good an excuse as any.
No known power could separate this show from success. It is kurtis patch in the commonest denominator: a gaudy emotion, a tinketytink calculated to win wide appeal, but it works, and you're going to go anyway with it. Don't look for review. Forget all the reviews. Critics don't know anything. Grab the Kleenex and put your hand on your sleeve; the sooner you wear it, the broken the happier you will be.
Books
ON THE MARBLE CLIFFS, by Ernst Juenger (Penguin, $1.25) — A novel in the firm's Modern Revue, published in indeterminate time or place, first published in Germany in 1899, and possibly as a statement of opinion, though perhaps more broadly to be read as a study of tyranny.
PROTEST AND DISCONTENT, edited by Bernard Crick and William A. Robson (Pelican, with an emphasis on dealing with the causes of discontent, manifestations of discontent, and methods of discontent) and coordinating on protests of youth. The essays are international in scope.
INTRODUCING SOCIOLOGY,
by Peter Worsley (Penguin,
field, commissioned from a team
in the department of social an-
thropology at Oberlin University. The style
is understandable to the layman.
SOUL, SISTER, by Grace Halsell (Crest, 95 cents) is about a woman who decided to be black in whitey's world. She got herself, through medication and sun treatments, black hair. The result was Harlem or Miss (state, not university), and then began her experience that she relates in this journal. This will be a big one.
Boost Your Jayhawks — Wear Your Button.
Help Send the Pep Band to the N.C.A.A.
Official Button and Decal on Sale in the Union
Theater Manager Busy
By BARBARA SCHMIDT
Kansan Staff Writer
Few KU students recognize the name Elden Harwood. Perhaps even fewer are aware of the entertainment scene in Lawrence. He is manager of all aspects of town—a gatekeeper charged with the responsibility of deciding which book to let in and which to show away.
In a recent interview he described his task by saying, 'There are so many pictures we have only five sketches to fill.'
Of course, he explained,
Lawrence theaters will play
virtually all of the major picture
pieces in the show, with
negotiations with the rental
companies. The number of major
pictures (those either critically
acclaimed or overwhelming)
and audiences) is not great enough,
however, to play all five theatres
every night of the year. It is
one of the smaller pieces in which
the smaller pieces is worth
bringing to Lawrence.
Sitting in his wood-paned office above the Granada museum, a visitor as being more up-tempo Madison Avenue than down-home Massachusetts Street. His house, horn-mimicked glasses and plaid, hound's tooth jacket befit a businessman rather than a woman, not long before his soft-spoon word have convinced the dubious that he is a dedicated to his craft his managerial position imposes.
films is almost as old as his memory. The moviehouse was the place to be on Saturday afternoon when he was young, and the kids were always packed into Buck Jones and Lassie.
Harwood started changing letters on the theater marquees in exchange for free passes to movie classes—before they were classies—when he was 14. At the age of 17, he was made a manager.
He claims that his love for
He then progressed from theater to theater before taking charge in Lawrence in the mid-1960s. Along the way he also found time to raise a family this oldest child is over 20 and his grade is still a great scholar) and to serve as mayor of Great Bend.
Harwood seems pleased to be running the剧院 in a college setting and wants to audience "great". It permits us to show pictures that other students might like.
He explained that college students are much more receptive to being shown older movies than Charlie Chapin, Fields and non-college audiences. This is a special boon to him since some of his favorite films (especially Citizen Kane and "Red Riding Hood" WB)Montgomery Clift western) have long passed the first-run stage.
"I like to watch most movies. It's pretty difficult for me to stay
Not only is it more receptive,
Harwood said, "but a college
audience is also knowledgeable
about pictures. They're very
pleased that people are pleased
that people today are as selective
about movies as they are."
away from them—except Walt Disney. But God bless Mr. Disney; the kids enjoy him," he continued.
How does someone with an all-encompassing passion for films decide which to show? Harwood bases many of his choices on the movies he has read about each movie in the popular magazines and trade papers.
"I don't particularly follow any of them in my likes or dislikes," she said. "I hate taste and should be permitted to decide whether or not he likes a woman."
Does this mean the critic should bow out? Harwood apparently doesn't think so.
"To look at a picture and state his opinion on it is perfectly within his skin, and obligation to him when he gets cute just to get cute, but not else again," he said. "Critics should be as objective as possible to permit someone to make his opinion on whether or not to see a picture."
University Daily Kansan critics?
"They're usually pretty fair," he said self-consciously, almost as if the Brother were watching with a look of Lawrence theaters have avoided a preoccupation with skis on Harwood. Harwood explains this by saying:
"What is obscurity? What is poor taste? I don't know. . . We just don't play the fast-buck and any of them except at late-tide. Hillcrest, and then they have to have an element of comedy, or otherwise. . . What is an art lesson? That's a nebulous term."
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