ENTERTAINMENT
The University Daily
KANSAN
October 24, 1983 Page f
Stars fete Met's 100th
NEW YORK — The Metropolitan Opera's celebration of its 100th anniversary was a two-part, all-day gala concert that gathered more than a quarter of the world's singing stars, past and present, ever assembled.
"There hasn't been anything this grand in the history of opera," said Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti, who closed the $8 \frac{1}{2}$-hour marathon of music.
The gala, which began at 2 p.m. Saturday and ended at 1 a.m. yesterday with a break for dinner, grossed $14,450 at the office a, Met record. Ticket prices ranged from $1,250 for tickets and $1,000 for orchestra seats down to $50 for the top balcony and $10 for standing room.
Llovd gets 'trek' role
HOLLYWOOD — Christopher Lloyd, who played the burned out drug zany, Reverend Jim, in the defunct "Taxi" series, will play a key role in "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock."
Lloyd, who won an Emmy for best supporting actor in a comedy series this year, also recently completed a role in the movie "Buckaroo Bangai."
"Star Trek III" will feature the same performers who starred in the TV series and the previous two movies: William Shatner, Deforest Kelley and Leonard Nimoy.
Vincent tries TV series
HOLLYWOOD — Jan-Michael Vincent will make his debut in a TV series as the star of "Airwolf," a CBS-TV adventure drama with Vincent piloting a state-of-the-art helicopter
"I was ready for the day-to-day grind of a series. I actually wanted that pace, to work on a different story each week." said Vincent, who has limited his work to motion pictures and TV
Show features 'rapping'
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The producer and creator of "Airwolf" is Don Bellisario, who also created the CBS series "Magnum P.I."
HOLLYWOOD — The most recent dance craze, "rapping," will be the central theme of the new movie musical, "Beat Street," under the direction of Kaking of Harry Belafonte and Dyane V. Pickner.
According to Belfonte, rap music is a unique sound that started on the streets of Harlem and the South Bronx in the mid-1970s and now is catching on nationally.
"Beat Street" will be filmed entirely on location in New York City and is being planned for release in thetheatre next spring.
Jungle remake coming
HOLLYWOOD — "Sheena, Queen of the Jungle" is almost as durable as her male predecessor, "Tarzan, The Ape Man," and proves it by returning to the screen for Columbia Pictures.
Pictures.
A remake of "Sheena, Queen of the Jungle," will begin filming on location in Kenya in mid-December under the supervision of Israeli-born producer Yoram Ben-Ami and director John Guillerman.
director John Gummer-Harris
Tanya Roberts, one of the latter-day angels of
the "Charlie's Angels" TV series, will star in the title role.
Information for these stories was provided by United Press International.
"Pickin' and grinnin'" Clark visits KU
By PAMELA THOMPSON
Staff Reporter
With the sparkle of a Las Vegas stage show and the unmistakable sound of a Nashville bontonky, Roy Clark, country and western music celebrity, performed his mischievous style of pickin', singin' and jackin' for a small crowd Saturday night at Allen Field House.
Clark took a day off from tapping the long-running television show, "Hee Haw", in Nashville, Tenn., to give a halftime salute at the KU-Oklahoma State football game in the afternoon, before his headline performance at the KU Parent's Day concert that night.
Mike Hamrick, administrative assistant to the athletic director, estimated that about 3,100 people attended the concert in the field house, which holds approximately 16,000.
The audience of mostly parents, students and faculty members, were entertained first with musical performances by the KU band, Jazz Ensemble, Glee Club and Jazz Choir, and dance performances by Leezle Williams, KU baton twirler, and the Pompon squad, before Clark and his touring band, Rodney Lay & The Wild West, performed.
Throughout the show, Clark joked with the members of his band about his weight, age and playing ability, a practice that has given him some of his fame. Funnymum, as well as a proficient musician.
DRESSED IN A light purple suit with a huge silver belt buckle and holding a white guitar, Clark, a 50-year-old resident of Tulsa, Okla., and his nine-member touring band opened their hour-long show with the rousing country song "Alabama Jubilee."
The musical virtuoso plays the 12-string guitar, acoustic guitar, banjo, mandolin and fiddle, all with an intensity that counters his comedic antics on stage.
Clark demonstrated to the audience just how hard his work was by gritting his teeth.
WITH HIS FEMALE background vocalist group "Fanci" from "Hee Haw," Clark performed 10 numbers, including the instrumental version of "Somewhere My Love," "I Wonder If She Ever Thinks Of Me," "Love Takes Two," and "Orange Blossom Special."
staring at his flying fingers on the guitar strings and sweating profusely.
Clark thanked the KU band for playing his song, "Yesterday When I WAS young," at the football game, and said that "since they did it for me, I'd like to do it for them."
Monte Johnson, Athletic Director, shared the stage with Clark and master of ceremonies Mike Oatman when he was asked by Outman to fill in the spoons that were direct from the catapult.
Chewing him while he concentrated on his knee. Johnson delighted the audience by shaking the spoons to the beat while Clark strummed the guitar.
Johnson said after the concert that he had played the songs once before in Wichita.
"But Oatman hasn't done that to me in years," he said.
OATMAN PRESENTED CLARK with a KU "fighting hat" and an "extra medium" Jayhawks sweater for the performer's 210-frame dress.
Clark and 19-year old banjo wizard Jimmy Henley faced off in a mock banjo duel that ended with Clark attempting to imitate Henley's leaps.
Clark said that KU had treated him royalty and that he especially wanted to thank all the parents who were in the audience.
After tailing to jump as high as Henley, Clark gave one of his standard quips: "I can still jump as high as I ever could. I just can't stay up as long."
stay up as long
His quick humor and on-stage buffooney have made Clark a frequent guest host on "The Tongat Show."
When he is not taping "Hee Haw" or performing in Las Vegas, where he spends 15 weeks a year, Clark travels around the world playing 200 to 250 concerts a year.
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Roy Clark fiddles "Orange Blossom Special" for about 3,100 people at the Parent's Day concert in Allen Field House. Clark was the headline performer at the event Saturday night, which also featured several KU performers.
MOVIE REVIEWS
Rating System
Under Fire
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If you consider the number of recent films that have portrayed the United States as a big political bully in the third world, it's amazing that they are so significant as ignorant as it is about Third-World politics.
one is based on the Nicaraguan revolt of the late 70s and the ouster of Somoza as president. It stars Nick Nolte, Gene Hackman and Joanna Cassidy.
Cassidy.
The film is carried by the screemplay and the acting. Technically it is plain and not very impressionistic. At least there are no major faults in the drawing, but there is one minor faux pas in the darkly scene in which the audience is treated to the sight of a man whose head has been rearranged by a hand grenade. That kind of gore really is not needed.
but this work points
"Under Fire" is another of those films. This
The story revolves around a trio of American journalists who specialize in covering Third-World wars. Nolte is a photographer; Hackman and Cassidy are reporters.
The major point of the story is the relationship of Nolte and Cassidy with the rebel Sandistas. Nolte and Cassidy discover that the U.S. is again backing up a government, which, they are nothing new to them.
But, through a complicated series of developments, the two are carried across the
dividing line between being neutral observers and being participants in the conflict. This adds to the controversy over this film. Some may be horrified by the journalists' actions, others may laud their decision.
tade them.
This film deals directly with the duplicity of some people during times of war. It shows how war creates a kind of social insanity, where death and terror become as commonplace as are McDonald's TV commercials in the U.S.
No matter what your political preference or your level of understanding of third-world affairs, "Under Fire" is exciting and entertaining.
The Dead Zone
It would be unfair to say that "The Dead Zone" is a bad movie, but in some respects it would be unfair to say that it is a good movie. Let me try to explain this wishy-washy rating.
Boredom is the worst enemy of any movie, and boredom won in this case. The movie crawls from one psychic encounter to the next
Christopher Walken plays a schoolteacher, John Smith, who has a terrible accident and lies in a coma for five years. When he wakes up he has to work with the students and the future and can change future events.
Halfway through the movie, Smith is asked by the sheriff to solve a series of horrible murders. After that, the movie bogs down. It picks up again near the end, when Smith discovers Martin Sheen and discovers that the politician is not the nice guy everyone thinks he is.
Sheen does the best at... is on the screen, he commands the action.
The psychic encounters are well done, but they are few and far between. The ending is good.
The dead zone is not mentioned until the last 20 minutes of the film, and even then you really do not know what it is. You will have to read Stephen King's book to find out.
Art exhibits positive female concept
by CHRISTY FISHER Staff Reporter
When Annie Wheatey was young, her mother refused to let her own a Barbie doll.
Although it used to upset her, she now thanks her mother for not allowing her to have a doll that represents a negative female role model.
Wheatley, a Louisville, Ky., graduate student, has since found a positive role model. Now she dedicates her art to expressing the ideal of a whole, pure feminine concept. She uses the theme of an exhibit of her work that opened at Lawrence Arts Center, 9th and Vermont streets.
Wheatley began exploring feminine symbolism in art five years ago because she was disturbed by the lack of strong female role models in society.
Annie Wheatley, Louisville, Ky., graduate student, has opened her exhibit of drawings and lithographs depicting feminine symbolism and its relationship to the Earth. Her work will be on display until Nov. 3 at the Lawrence Arts Center.
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models in society.
"SOME OF THE CONCEPTS of femininity exist today, but they are a negative distortion of a wonderful, positive concept," she said. "I think advertising and pornography are popular symbols of idealized femininity."
To find a more pure concept of women, Wheatley researched feminine concepts in mythology, religion, folk stories, and oral tradition.
tradition
SHE FOUND A PURE ideal in the mythological goddess. To her the earth goddess represented the feminine concept best because the goddess represented life.
In her lithographs, Wheatley ties the earth goddess ideal with feminine symbolism to express femininity in art. Often she makes abstract use of landscapes and parts of the female body to express her artistic statement.
"Here you have this slender young thing. Where's the reality in this for a middle age woman?" she asked. "I think the youth worship is a negative fragmentation from the whole ideal. It's womanhood marketed for somebody else's purpose."
She said blue jeans advertisements were just one example of the negative concept of women.
Once she created a visual symbol that represented the earth goddess by working, or "playing," with dirt, sticks and bits of colored paper. Once satisfied with the form, she photographed it as a model for a lithograph of women in
When she prefers the concepts of women in mythology to those in religion, which she said distracted from the pure model she was looking for.
"RELIGION FRAGMENTS concepts into different personalities and provides a model," said the 28-year-old artist.
Wheatley said the biblical figure Eve was an example of such a distortion of the mythological concept.
Wheatley said she thought the moralizing in the Eve story was negative and distracted from the feminine ideal.
"I can't deal with accepting religious moralizing. I can't deal with religion telling me what to be. It was asking me to be self-denying in my sex life, it was asking me to be self-denying in my sexuality."
SHE BELIEVES THAT modern images of women, both religious and secular, originated out of the myths and were distorted and abused over time.
"I just went back to the beginning with the concepts in mythology and unlearned what I had learned," she said.
understand her art, but that doesn't concern her.
"If I can communicate through a work of art,
that's wonderful — a connection is made," she said.
"But if you can't figure it out and they think it looks like the state of Tennessee, I don't worry about it."
Wheatley admits that many might not understand her art, but that doesn't concern b-
Although Wheatley considers herself a feminist, she said she is not a "card carrying woman of NOW" She said she would rather dedicate her time to her art than to political issues.
"I'm indebted to the women's movement," she admits. "But my work does not exist to illustrate an example for a cause. The strength of my work is in that it faithfully reveals my personal issues."
SPARE TIME
ON CAMPUS
"THE ELEPHANT MAN" will be performed at 8 p.m. today through Wednesday in the Inge Theatre in Murphy Hall. Tickets for students are $1.50
A STUDENT RECITAL by Nancy Schmitthenner, soprano, will be at 8 p.m. today in Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy. Admission is free.
PHOTOGRAPHS by Pok-Chi Lau and Anita Au are on display in the Visual Arts Gallery of the Art and Design Building.
KANSAS WOODINDS will give a free faculty recital at 8 p.m. tomorrow in Swarthout Hall
recent "BRUEGEL AND DUTCH Painting: Three Films" will be shown at 1:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the Spencer Museum of Art.
authorized by the
FINE ARTS HONOR RECITAL will be presented at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Swarthout Hall. Admission is free.
SUA FILMS will show "LouLou" at 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday in Woodruff Auditorium. Admission
is $1.50.
THE SAINT PAUL CHAMBER Orchestra,
directed by Pinehas Zukerman, will perform at 8 p.m. Thursday in Hoch Auditorium Tickets for students are $5 and $6.
REGION
"BENT," A PLAY by Martin Sherman, will be presented at 8:30 p.m. tonight through Nov. 5 at the Unicorn Theatre, 3514 Jefferson, Kansas City. Mo. Student tickets are $5.
"THE LADY'S NOT FOR Burning" opens Thursday at the Center for Performing Arts at the University of Missouri at 5100 Rockhill Road, Kansas City, Mo. Tickets are $5.
BLOOM COUNTY
BY BERKE BREATHED