ENTERTAINMENT
The University Daily KANSAN November 4, 1983 Page 6
Lemmon turns to stage
HOLLYWOOD — Jack Lemmon's career takes another twist this winter with a turn on stage in Ernest Thompson's "A Sense of Humor" at the Los Angeles Music Center.
Co-starring in the world premiere of the play will be Estelle Parsons and Polly Holly under the direction of Robert Greenwald. The play will run from Dec. 2-Jan. 22.
Namath returns to film
Lemmon and Parsons were childhood friends before achieving acclaim on the Broadway stage and later in motion pictures. Holiday is best known for her four Emmy nominations in the role of Flo in the "Alice" television series.
HOLLYWOOD — Joe Namath, the former pro-football star who show business career never got off the ground, returns to the screen to play his first game in the Sue Anderson in "Chattanooga Choo Cho."
Best-seller now movie
The romantic comedy will be produced independently by Phil Borack at a cost of $4.5 million beginning next month on locations in and around Toronto and will be released in the summer of 1984.
HOLLYWOOD — James Garner heads the cast of the HBO movie "The Glitter Dome," based on novelist Wambaugh's best-seller about Los Angeles cops involved in a crime.
Co-stairing with Garner are Margot Kidder, John Lithgow, John Marley and Colleen Dewhurst. Producer-director Stuart Margulies Jr. served as co-producer exclusively in the United States on HBO in 1984.
Oscars director returns
HOLLYWOOD — Marty Passeta will direct the telecast of the 56th Annual Academy Awards, marking the 13th consecutive year Passeta has won among the highest rated TV shows of the year.
The 56th annual awards show will be telecast
on ARC-TV from the Los Angeles Music
Center.
Savalas, Lane on stage
HOLLYWOOD — Broadway has lured TV sta-
tion. 'Telly Savasal and my new movie dearie Diana Lane
to star in "Waterfront," a new play by Budd
Oscar-winning Oscar-winning screen-
play, "On the Waterfront."
Savalias will play the role of a union leader and Lane will play the lead ingueen under the duchy.
"Waterfront" will mark the Broadway debut of both performers. Savalas is best known for his title role in TV's "Kojak" series. Lane is best remembered for her movie roles, "A Little Romance," "The Outsiders" and, more recently, "Rumble Fish."
Johnny, Ed still a team
HOLLYWOOD — And they said it wouldn't last!
Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon celebrate 25 years together as a team, first on the game show "Who Do You Trust?" followed by the "Tongtown Show," on which they've been associated for 21
The combination began in New York City in 1958 when Carson was host of ABC-TV's "Who Do You Trust?" and McMahon auditioned for the announcing job.
Lange, Shepard in film
In addition to working with Carson, McMahon recently began his own series, "Star Search," a syndicated talent show for new performers.
HOLLYWOOD ... Academy Award winner Jessica Lange, of "Tootsie," and Sam Shearp, who plays Chuck Yager in "The Right Stuff," star in "Country," a Walt Disney Studios drama.
"Country" marks a reunion for the actress and actor who co-starred in "Frances," the screen story of Frances Farmer's life, for which Lange won an Oscar nomination.
William D. Wittifl will direct "Country" from his original screenplay. The supporting cast includes Willford Brimley, who won critical accolades for his performance in "Absence of Malce."
Devices may get Oscars
HOLLYWOOD — Fourteen technical achievements of the past year, inventions that have advanced motion picture production, have won recognition considered for the 56th annual Academy Awards.
Among the inventions under consideration are a traveling matte process, an electronic fader for continuous film printing, an electronic light value, a high-speed precision light value and a high-speed negative film.
—Information for these stories was supplied by United Press International.
Traditions captured in prof's work
Photos of rural life uncover pride, joy of towns in Kansas
By PAMELA THOMPSON
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The rituals of small towns are as familiar as the post office to rural residents and farmers, but to a newcomer from the big city, a traditional events sometimes seem bizarre.
In his photographs of rodeo pony pulls, homecoming parades, demolition car derbies and threshing bees across Kansas, Earl Iversen, associate professor of design, uncover the sense of community pride and that are inherent in small towns everywhere.
This photograph, titled "Seeds of the Future," is one of several black and white photos of rural Kansas for which Ford Jeanner
With a map and a camera, Iversen has been traversing the back roads of Kansas since 1975, determined to preserve the history of the "doomed" small town.
However, from his extensive travels which have taken him to every small town in Kansas, Iversen said he recognized the "e" of the character of the state's rural areas.
THE QUALITY OF small-town life will determine agribusiness replaces family land
Iversen has concluded that the small town is a dying breed, after photographing the festivals, ceremonies and traditions that are commonplace in rural communities.
"Trendy stuff passes over kansas from the east coast to the west coast and often doesn't
do."
the bosses associate professor of design, won a $3,500 grant. It was taken at the Baldwin Mint Leaf Festival in 1976.
Although Ivors, a native of Chicago, has been a resident of Kansas for nearly 10 years,
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Earl Iverson, associate professor of design, says the small Kansas towns he photographs may die as agribusiness takes over family farms.
he said he always felt like a tourist when he visited the small towns.
But even as an outsider in those communities, he has never encountered any hostility from the town residents and farming families.
"USUALLY THEIR ONLY reservation comes from being bashful," he said. "They are not apprehensive, only curious."
But he said he had not gotten to know many of the local people because they were involved in the community events that came to photograph and were not very talkative.
Some community residents naturally assumed that he was a newspaper or magazine
Iersen often "just takes off" from Lawrence, sleeping in his truck during his treks across the state. Occasionally he stays with people he has met at a town's event a
But no two Kansas towns or their special events are exactly alike, he said.
"EACH TOWN HAS a certain look," he said. "They have a social scene you don't find anywhere else."
Because his photographs record real situations time is not a factor in the situation.
"My photographs are informational," he said. "They are slow journalism."
Because many standard elements in small towns are slow to change, Iversen said, he only labels his photos with the name of the
town, since "the dates don't make too much difference."
Because his photographs are not arranged, his designs "take care of themselves," he said. He edits the scenes with his eye before taking the final shots in rules or standard compositional formulas.
BECAUSE BLACK-AND-WHITE photographs give him more flexibility with shading and more control of the image in his face. He said, he rarely takes color photographs.
He said he used a lot of special techniques for night photography because the majority of the community celebrations he captured on him during the night, especially in the summer.
"Kansas holes out for the winter," he said, so I shoot through the year and save up the first week of spring.
To keep informed of the well known events as well as the obscure, off-season celebrations, Iversen said he referred to an event in Kansas on October 16th in the schedule of most of the events in Kansas.
A self-proclaimed "compulsive photographer," Iversen said he carried a camera "nine days out of 10", even when teaching at KU.
Iversen was recently honored with a $3,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and Mid-America Arts Alliance for his black and white vignettes of small towns. He was one of 20 artists from the mid-America arts community. Our contribution to the field of visual arts.
PARE TIME
ON CAMPUS
THE UNIVERSITY THEATRE Series will present the musical “Hair” at 8 p.m. today and tomorrow in the Crafton-Preyer Theatre in瘩坪 Hall. Tickets for students are $2, $3 and $4.
SUA FILMS WILL show "48 Hours" at 3:30 p.m.
7. p.m. and 9:30 p.m. today and tomorrow.
Tickets are $1.50. The film will be shown in
Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
UNIVERSITY FILM Society will show "The Shining" today and tomorrow at 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. for $1.75 and at midnight for $2 in Downs Auditorium in Dyehe Hall.
KANU 92-FM will broadcast "Opera is My Hobby" with James Seaver at 7 tonight. This week's show is "Excerpts from Verdi's 'Giovanna d'Arco.'"
THE OREAD STRING Trio will present a faculty reacute at tonight in Swarthout Recital Hall.
ROBERT WARD) will present a piano recital and lecture on the music of John Cage at 8
THE CHUCK BERG band will play at 4 p.m. tomorrow in the lobby of the Union.
THE CHAMBER MUSIC Series will present
The London Early Music Group in a concert at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in the Crafton-Prever Theatre
Tickets for students are $3 and $4.
ERIC ARBOGAST will give a student recital on trumpet at 8 p.m. Sunday in Swarthout Recital Hall.
JEFFKEY CHIPPS SMITH will speak on "Nuremberg: A Century of Brilliance" at 2 p.m. Sunday at Spencer Museum of Art.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY Diane Covert will be on display Sunday through Nov. 18 in 1:4.30 p.m.
Design Gallery. The gallery is open 1:4.30 p.m.
Sunday and Monday and 8.30 a.m.-4.30 p.m.
Tuesday through Friday
A WORKSHOP TITLED "Corals, Crinoids and
C Curious Critters" will be presented for people 8 years old and above at 1:30 p.m. Sunday in the Chapel of St. Paul's History in Dyceh Hall. Admission is charged.
SUA FILMS WILL present "Aguirre: The Wrath of God" at 2 p.m. Sunday in woodruff Auditorium in the Union. Tickets are $1.50.
London ensemble to perform music from the Renaissance
By the Kansan Staff
The London Early Music Group, a sixmember ensemble that features instruments of the Renaissance and early Baroque periods, will perform Sunday at the University of Kansas.
The concert, a part of the KU Chamber Music Series, will be performed at 4:30 p.m. in the Cincinnati Music Hall.
Founded in 1976 by James Tyler, the London Early Music Group has performed for capacity audiences in Great Britain, Belgium, Holland, Italy, France, Australia and the United States.
Tyler serves as director as well as a performer on lute, mandola and baroque guitar. Other members include Glenda Simpson, mezosoprano; Duncan Drume, baroque violin; Alan Lumsden, recorder, flute and bass dulciana; Bertel Pieters, cello; and Barry Mason, tenor, violin and lute.
In its KU performance, the group will include a variety of Italian virtuoso music from the high end of the spectrum.
Since making its London debut in 1977 at Queen
Elizabeth Hall, the group has been successful in its world travels.
The group will feature music by Monteverdi, Turini, Cavalli, Marina, Gabrieli, Frescobaldio and others.
Play says society is hurt by progress
Duane Sharp, Westwood sophomore, one of two actors in the play, said that he would walk
The age of computers and high technology is just another example of the continuing push for progress in science and society around the world.
But three KU students are presenting a play arguing that this progress is being obtained at the expense of humanity. "The Assault," by Brazilian author Jose Vicente, will be presented at 8 tonight in the Lawrence Arts Center. Admission is free.
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among the audience members, engage in conversation and ask them questions such as,
He said that this was the first time one of Vicente's plays would be presented in the United States. Vicente wrote "The Assault" in the early 1980s and has since pushed for industrialization and work in Brazil.
The director of the play, Deolino Checcucci, Bahia, Brazil, graduate student, is producing the play as part of his master's degree in play directing.
The plays two characters, Victor, a bank worker, and Hugo, a junior, are at odds about
Warren Frerichs, Russell senior, portrays the older character, Hugo, who is hardened and accepts his lot in life. Sharp's character, Victor, is often the first to wonder if there is more to life than work.
"The play tries to establish a dialogue with the audience to question a capitalist society where the main goal is money." Checcucci said. "Man is being sacrificed by the machine."
"The audience should come out of this play feeling questions," Sharp said. "If they leave the play without questioning their own lives and clock they are punching, then we've failed."
BY BERKE BREATHED
BLOOM COUNTY
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