ENTERTAINMENT
The University Daily KANSAN
April 10, 1984 Page 6
'Terms of Endearment' carries off five Oscars
By United Press International
HOLLYWOOD — "Terms of Endearmear," the bittersweet story of a domineering mother and her independent daughter, won five Oscars for best actress, best actress, best actress, at the 50th annual Academy Awards.
Former television producer and writer James L. Brooks won two Oscars for "Terms of Endearment" and a movie debut. One award was for best adapted screenplay and the other was for best director.
Shirley MacLaine won best actress for her acclaimed portrayal of the headstrong widow, Aurora Greenway, in "Terms of Endeardment." Jack Nicholson won best supporting actor for his role as her lecherous, drunken former astronaut boyfriend.
JOHNNY CARSON, BACK from a year's
assistance, was host of the 3½-hr ABC telecast,
which was broadcast from the Dorothy Chandler
viewers around the world watched the show.
Robert Duvall won best actor for his performance at the town-and-out country singer's contest.
The nomination was Duvall's fourth, two of which were for best actor. He missed Oscars for performances in "The Godfather," "Apocalypse Now" and "The Great Santini."
Horton Foote, who wrote the script for Tender Mercury, won an Oscar for best comedy.
DIRECTOR INGMAR BERGMAN'S "Fanny & Alexander," entered in the best foreign language category, won a record four Oscars - the most ever collected by a foreign language movie. The film about an eccentric theatrical Swedish family, which Bergman has said was his final feature, won best foreign language award for cinematography, costume and art direction.
"The Right Stuff," the story of America's Mercury astronauts that flopped at the box office, also won four awards. They were for best score, best sound, best sound effects editing and best film editing.
MacLaine's portrayal of the tenacious Texas widow coping with her advancing age and her daughter's troubled life received rave reviews
"I'M GOING TO CRY because this show has been as long as my career." MacLaine said. "I've wondered for 26 years what this would feel like. Thank you for terminating the suspense."
from the critics and made her the clear favorite for best actress
The best actress nomination was the fifth for MacLaine. She lost for performances in "Some Came Running" in 1988, "The Apartment" in 1960, "La Duce La Douce" in 1963 and "The Turning" in 1956.
Her competition this year included Debra Winger, who played her daughter in the hit Paramount film and was nominated last year for "An Officer and A Gentleman." The actresses embraced as the winner made her way to the stage.
Nicholson's Oscar was his second. The character actor, who has been nominated seven times, won the best actor award in 1975 for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." He became the third actor to win Oscars for both best actor and best supporting actor, joining Robert D尼罗
"I HAVE WANTED TO work with the comic chemistry of Jack Nicholson since his chicken salad sandwich scene in 'Five Easy Pieces,' and to have him in bed with such middle-aged joy." MacLaine said of her romance with the actor in the film.
Linda Hunt won best supporting actress for her role as a ubiquitous male photographer in "The Year of Living Dangerously," the story of a young woman dependent on living in Indonesia during the civil war.
"Flashdance ... What a Feeling" from the movie "Flashdance" won the best song award. The title theme from "Yent!" won for best original song or adaptation score.
In addition to the 24 Oscar categories, the Gorden E. Sawyer Award went to John G. Frraye for outstanding achievement in technical developments. The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award was given to M. J. Frankovich, and the Jean Award was presented to film pioneer Hall Roach.
Other Oscar award winners were: for best documentary short subject, "Flamenco at 5:15," for best documentary feature, "He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin'", for best animated short film, "Sundae in New York," and for best live action short film, "Boys and Girls."
BLOOM COUNTY
BY BERKE BREATHED
Hattie, played by Tracy Iwersen, Lawrence sophomore. points out a humorous moment on "Let's Make A Deal" to Elizabeth, played by Gigi Moyers, Wichita sophomore, in the play 'Laundry and Bourbon," one of three plays presented in 'Pou-Pouri
Robert Waddell/KANSAN Productions." "Visitor from a Small Planet" will open at 8 tonight and run through Thursday. "Laundry and Bourbon" and "Maid in America" will open at 8 p.m. Friday and run through Sunday. All three plays will be shown in the Inge Theatre in Murphy Hall.
University Theatre to present plays that KU students wrote and directed
By JAN UNDERWOOD
Staff Reporter
The first play, "Visitor from a Small Planet," will open tonight at 8 and run through Thursday. The two other plays, "Laundry and Bourbon" and "Maid in America" will share the billing at 8 p.m. Friday through Sunday. All three plays will be shown at the Inge Theatre in Murray Hall.
Egoism, lost dreams and racial prejudice are three themes that will appear in 'Pot-pourri Productions', a mixed bag of three comedy, feature plays, written or directed by KU students.
JACK WRIGHT, ARTISTIC director of the University Theatre, said that "Pot-pourri" allowed students to write, direct, and act in a scene on stage with limited scenery, lighting and costuming.
The satire pokes (un at many aspects of society — the military, the media, the battle of the sexes, bureaucracy and patriotism. The last two were things haven't changed at all, Nemeck said.
The opening play, Gore Vidal's "Visit to a Small Planet," is the story of an amiable alien from outer space who lands in a Virginian family's back yard in the 50s.
The play also points a finger at all individuals. It implies that people are caught up in their own little worlds and do not pay attention to what is happening around them, he
HOWEVER, THE REAL PROBLEM is not Kreton but the humans. When they realize what is happening, the humans become so locked up that they fail to recognize Nemecki, a Lexington, Okla. graduate student.
"He's very polite, very genteel," said Larry Nemecke, director. "He tries not to patronizing. He is stirring up World War III for laughs."
At first, the family is impressed with Kreton, the alien, but then they realize that their cosmic visitor is planning World War III for his amusement.
Kreton is actually a child on his own planet, and Earth is his hobby and toy.
In addition to spoofs and jabs, the play achieves its humor through sound effects. For example, Kreton has the ability not only to hear themselves but also to hear them so everyone they can hear them, too.
THE SECOND PLAY. "Laundry and Bourbon
Texas" was a Texas woman trying to
make the best of what the world had to
offer.
As the play opens, two of the women, Elizabeth and Hattie, are folding laundry on the back porch while drinking a bottle of Jim Beam and chatting.
They are recalling their high school aspirations to live exciting, romantic lives, but they realize that things did not turn out the way they had dreamed. Hattie is married to an auto mechanic and Elizabeth's husband has not come home for two days. A third friend, Amy Lee, has married for money, but she too, seems dissatisfied.
The play takes place in a small Texas town, said Director Judy Matetzschk, Elgin, Texas, junior. But, she said, the characters were like women all over the world.
ONE REASON MATETZCHK chose the play was to dispel the stereotype of drawling, horseback-riding, Texas women. She said the three actors worked hard to get a small-town Texas accent "without sounding like a hick."
However, the play is not downbeat
Matzeschk said some of the lines were so humorous that they sometimes downplayed the fact that they had to do something.
The women see that they can not get everything they want, and that "happiness is not what you want."
The third play, "Maid in America," is the story of four black maids who band together in a crisis. The one-act play was written by Biliie Dee Anderson, Wilmington, Dell, junior.
The play was inspired by Nina Simone's song "Four Women."
When the play opens, three of the mads are in the employee lounge an expensive hotel, joking during their coffee break
THEY ARE VERY different women. One is old and tired and is about to retire. Another, much younger, loves chasing men and enjoys the night life. The third maid is more articulate and more removed from the others, but she jokes with them anyway.
When the two woman comes in, she is in a bad mood and picks a fight with the others. She complains that she is tired of being called "girl" and being propositioned by rich white women.
As it turns out, she has just returned from a room she was cleaning. While a, drunken man grabbed her so she pushed him down in the shower stall and killed him.
At this point, the man comes in at the employees' louge — not dead after all demanding ice for his bloody head. But he doesn't care and defends him. They defend one another and kick him out.
When the song "Four Women" plays at the end, they realize they share the problems of being overworked, underpaid and black in a rich, white world.
Lawrence artist Tim Forcide watches one of the many light formations from his exhibit "Objects and Enities: Incanthropies." The light and sound display will be shown at the Lawrence Arts Center, Ninth and Vermont streets, through April 26.
Creation of light and sound is on display at Arts Center
From two of the columns, a throbbing series of low, vibrating musical tones and voices echo through the room — interrupted only by an occasional startling scratch.
Four large, black columns stand alone in the darkened room.
By PHIL ENGLISH Staff Reporter
But from the other two columns, bright colorful light fragments dance to the pulsating sounds. The throbbing becomes louder and louder until a loud crash joins the room.
THE ROOM BECOMES pitch black and silent. Then, the music and light show quietly begins again.
These phrases are the tape-recorded words of Lawrence artist, Tim Forcade. "Objects and Entities: Incantations" is his latest creation in light and sound that is on display through April 26 at the Lawrence Arts Center, Ninth and Vermont streets.
The audience seems to watch the blinking, dancing light images, as if in a trance.
"I am this light. I reach you. I reach you. I was reflected. I am transmitted. I am changed," the voice from the columns said.
" 'Incantations' is a list of transition provoking phrases." Forces said. "The action in the process is that, to see me, all you are really seeing are light reflections and sound patterns.
"So, the piece is actually me. It is my voice,
transformed as I sing or speak into a microphone
"The bending of raw light has a fantastic quality, that I wanted to work with," he said. "I wanted to work with motors, lenses and projectors, more than paint."
and changed into a series of light images."
FORCADE AND HIS AUDIO and visual display are a product of more than 20 years of work in the field of art and light experiments. As a KU art student in the middle 1960s, Forcade became interested in the day to day phenomenon of light reflections and patterns.
Forcade said that watching the exhibit was similar to watching a sculptor or painter create
"I don't sit around and plan what I do I litterally don't know what I'm doing. I don't care either, because in order to provide for something I can you can't know what is going to happen," he said.
"INCANTATIONS" IS A SERIES of three dimensional light images produced from oscilloscope screens. These television-like screens display the light image according to the sound pattern.
Although the exhibit would be labeled abstract or contemporary art, Forcace said his imagery
"Transformations are common in the world." he said. "There are ways in which the whole world can be repositioned through reflections in images and things in the outside world that are very mysterious.
"I don't care about virtuosity. I want to work with the light process and sit back and see if I get it right."