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University Daily Kansan, March 11, 1983
Entertainment
Pick the Oscar winners and pick up a little cash, too
BY MICHAEL ROBINSON
MATTHEW SCHOFIELD
& G. MARK ZIEMAN
Kansan Movie Reviewers
In a wacky, reckless gesture of magnanimity, the University Daily Kansas is sponsoring its first and probably last. "You Pick 'em: The Oscars Competition."
THE PRIZE: A pocketful of jack amounting to the princely sum of $50.
ENTERING THE CONTEST! On this page in the March 25th Kansan, you will find the following list of 16 Academy Award categories. Just pick your favorites, one to a category. Bring the form to the Kansan newsroom, 111 Flint Hall, or mail them to "I Picked The Oscars!" University Daily Kansan, 111 Flint Hall! University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kan
DEADLINE: Noon. April Fool's Day. One entry per person, and the Kanans form will be the only ones accepted. No forgeries, please! We'll throw them away. And don't come late.
ELIGIBILITY: All creatures great and small, as long as they are students, faculty, staff or administrators at the University of Kansas and are not staff members or contributors to the University Daily Kansan or their families. We know who you are.
WINNING: As in the Academy Awards, there is only one winner — no ties allowed here. And guess what? The winner has to get them all right. Every one. All 16. No joke. If by some calamity there is more than one winning entry, we'll have a drawing.
ANNOUNCING THE WINNER: The winner will be announced on this page in the April 15th Kansan.
Good Luck!
the following are the Kansan's picks according to the three of us. If we go out on a limb, you can too. You will notice that the last three categories are left unanswered. We did that on purpose. We didn't see any of the movies. We don't have to. We aren't entering our contest. You are.
Good Luck!
The Academy Awards will be broadcast on April 11th. The categories presented will include:
The Nominees: "E.T. The Extra-
Terrestrial; Universal; Gandhi; Columbia;
"Missing," Universal Polygram; "Tootsie;
Columbia," The Verdict, "20th Century-Fox
REST PICTURE:
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR
Our Choice: "Gandha" With the exception of "Missing", "Gandhi" is the only film of substance up for Best Picture. One of the 20th century's best films beats a shrieved little alien hands down.
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR.
The Nominees: Dustin Hoffman, Jonah Hill,
Jim Carrey, John Lennon,
"Missing Paul Newman," "The Verdict";
Peter O'Neal, "Mv Favorite Year."
Our Choice: Paul Newman. Not his best role, or this year's best acting performance but, having never won an Oscar, he's a sentimental favorite. This makes up for all his great years.
BEST PERFORMANCE BY JULIE
The Nominees; Julie Andrews, "Victor-
Victoria", Jessica Lange, "Frances"; Sissy
Space, "Missing"; Meryl Streep, "Sophie's
Choice", Debra Winger, "An Officer and A
Gentleman."
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A SUP-
PORTING ACTOR
Our Choice: Meryl Streep. Her consistently brilliant performances during the last several years have proven her to be the world's greatest actress. Lange will be a razor-thin
The Nominees; Charles During, "The Best Little Wheeateen in Texas"; Louis Gossett Jr., "An Officer and A Gentleman"; John Lithgow, "The World According to Garp"; James Mason, "The Verdict"; Robert Preston, "Veteran Victorian."
Our Choice: Louis Gossett Jr. Gossett gives new life to a worm-out role, and easily cuts through this year's thin field of performances. BEST PERFORMANCE BY A SUPPLEMENT
The Nominees: Glenn Close, "The World According to Garp"; Teri Garr, "Tootsie"; Jessica Lange, "Tootsie"; Kim Stanley, Leslie Ann Warren, "Victor Victoria."
Our Choice: Jessica Lange. Unfortunately,
Lange's best performance was overshadowed by Streep's tour de force. For Lange, this one is a freebie.
BEST ACHEVEMENT IN DIRECTING
The Nominies: Richard Attenborough,
"Gunduli"; Sidney Lumet, "The Verdict"
; Chris Fryer, "Boots in Boots";
Pollack, "Tootie"; Steve Spielberg, "E.T."
REST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Our Choice: Steven Spielberg. Attenborough deserves it, but you have to give "E.T." something for creating an international craze.
The Nomines: Barry Levinson, "Diner"; Melissa Mathison, "E.T."; John Briley, "Gandh"; Douglas Day Stewart, "An Officer and A Gentleman"; Larry Gelbart, Murray Schlegal and Don McGuire, "Tootse."
RIDE ADAPTER SCREENDAY
The Nominies: Wolfgang Petersen, "Das Boot", Costa-Gavras and Donald Stewart, "Missing"; Alan Pakula, "Sophie's Choice"; André Verdict, the Verdict; Blake Edwards, "Verror-Victoria."
Our Choice: "Sophie's Choice." "Sophie" should have been nominated for best picture, so this award will be the Academy's attempt to throw Pakula a bone.
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
The Nominees: John Williams, "E.T."; Ravi Shankar and George Fenton, "Gandhi"; Nitzsche, "An Officer and A Gentleman"; Jerry Goldsmith, "Poltergeist"; Marvin Hamlisch, "Sophie's Choice."
Our Choice: Marvin Hamlisch. The music deserves it.
The Nominees: Jim Peterik and Frankie Sullivan III, "Ice of the Tiger," in "Rocky III"; Michel Legrand and Alan and Marilyn Bergman, "How Do You Keep the Music Playing?" in "Best Friends"; John Williams and Alan and Marilyn Bergman, "If We Were In Love," in "Yes, Georgio"; Dave Grasin and Ian Beal, in "Hold Me Back," in "Toootie"; Jack Nitzsche, Bufy Sainte-Marie and Will Jennings, "Up Where We Belong," in "An Officer and A Gentleman."
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Our Choice: "If We Were In Love." How can
you vote against the combination of John Williams and Luciano Pavarotti?
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Nominees: Jost Vacano, "Das Boot",
Alien Davian, "E.T.", Billy Williams and
Ronnie Taylor, "Gandhi", Nestor Almendros,
Sophie's Choice, "Owen Rizman, "Tootsie"
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Our Choice: "Gandhi." Simply put, this film was a finely wrought spectacular.
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Our Choice: "Gandhi." The Academy will appreciate the fact that Kingsley had to saw his
The Nominees: John Mollo and Bhanu Athaiya, "Gandhi"; Piero Tosi, "La Travista!", Albert Wolksy, "Sophie's Choice"; Patricia Martin, "Tron"; Patricia Nerras, "Victor Victoria."
The Nominees: Douglas Trumbul, Riehchar Yuricich and David Dryer, "Blade Runner"; Carlo Rambaldu, Murden Murren and Kemeth Wheeler; James Patterson, Michael Wood and Bruce Nicholson, "Poltergist."
Our Choice: "Poltergeist" Special effects — like a kid-eating tree — made this film.
The Nominees: "Aliso and the Condor," Nicaragua; "Coup de Torchon," France; "The Flight of the Eagle," Sweden; "Private Life," Soviet Union; and "Volver a Empezar," Spain
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
The Nominees: "After the Axe," Stuart Gumarsson and Steve Lucas, National Film Board of Canada; "Ben's Mill," John Karol and Michel Chalufou, Public Broadcasting Associates; "In Our Water," Meg Swilgatz, Foresight Films; "Just Another Missing Kid," Jon Zaritksy, Canadian Broadcasting Corp.; "A Portrait of Giselle," Joseph Wishy, Wishup Prods.
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
The Nominees: "Gods of Metal," Robert Richter, Richard Prods.; "If You Love This Planet," Edward Le Lorrain, National Film Board of Canada; "The Klan: A Legacy of Hate in America," Charles Guggenheim and Werner Schumann, Guggenheim Prods; "To Live Or Let Die," Freida Lee Mock, American Film Foundation; "Traveling Hopefully," John Avilnson, Ardnuthunyfus Films.
Child's imagination key for Seem-To-Be Players
By LADONNA LONGSTREET Staff Reporter
Imaginative and fast-paced scripts contribute to the popularity of the Seem-To-Be players, a Lawrence nonprofit theatre troupe, their director said.
"We wanted an alternative to the kind of childrens' theatre we saw," said Rie Averill, director, who started the company with a group of friends 19 years ago.
"We felt that traditional theatres were too realistic and tedious for children. Many of the shows were very moralistic, slow and boring." he said.
"We really felt the child's imagination was the key."
During an hour performance at 1:30 p.m.
Saturday March 12 and 19, in the Lawrence Arts
Center, Ninth and Vermont streets, the players
will perform "Puss In Boots," a repeat
celebrating their original performance 10 years ago.
Along with the original music and comic skits, the players will perform "The Adventures of Nyfrm the Sprite, Part 1."
Two of the five actors are also musicians, he said, and between the shows they play sing-along songs with the children, who form 60 to 70 percent of the audiences.
Anne Evans, director of the arts center, said,
"Children become totally enthralled with watching them, and so do the adults."
true snows last about an hour, which Evans said is the attention span of the pre-school and early grade school children.
"Many people believe that it is tremendously important for their children to see live theatre," she said. "It's a way of educating children and exposing them to literary art forms."
Averill said he wrote most of the plays the group performs. Every year the Seem-To-Be Players usually perform eight shows, four times each.
"We're constantly in progress," he said.
The same month the players are presenting one show, they are learning another.
The time commitment is one of the reasons the players change so often, Averill said. Some of the 25 performers in town will work in the spring and some in fall. Each month there may be more players.
"We do adapations of fairy tales quite a bit, and we've done Indian legends," he said.
He said the troupe would tour 15 communities this month with their performance of "Rapunzel."
The childrens' theatre is no longer Averill's own company. In 1977 the group became a nonprofit corporation with a nine-member board of directors. Averill is hired by the board to be the artistic director.
Lawrence full of entertainment over break
The group had been nonprofit but it incorporated so that it could receive grants.
The Kansas Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts help sponsor the Senate Budget Committee.
By LADONNA LONGSTREET Staff Reporter
staff reporter
Picture a spring break of skiing over snowy slopes or an orange sun setting behind a tropical forest.
Although students remaining in Lawrence may envision a more sedate or even boring week, they have many options available to present the vacation days from dragging.
And most of these options are within reach of a bicycle ride, so owning a car is not necessary
THE M.T. OREAD BICYCLE Club will start pedelling an 1 p.m. Saturday, from the South Side of Madison Avenue.
"We don't want to ride any faster than you can carry on a conversation," Bruce Epperson, Wichita senior, said. "We arrange the routes so the rider who wants can turn back to Lawrence."
he said the 12-mile Saturday ride to Lake View Lake would last from one to one and a half hours.
On March 19, members of the club will ride to Wells Overlook County Park, a 15-mile trip, Epperson said, and will rest before returning. He said he and his wife are those who are less experienced and out of shape.
The club bikes as many as 50 miles on Sundays for training, he said. These tours are much faster than the Saturday rides and last two to three hours.
"YOU DON'T HAVE to be a member to join either rides." Empson said.
But, he said, each person should bring an airpump, spare tube and a patch kit. The riders can change a flat and have a bike back on the road in eight minutes.
for people who want something to do every day, the Lawrence School of Ballet, $205_{1/2}$ W. Eighth St., will offer a dance workshop from 5:30
to 7 p.m. March 14 through 19, taught by Janet Hamburg, KU associate professor of health, physical education and recreation.
"It will be highly aerobic and energetic." Hamburg said. The class will be for beginning and intermediate levels.
and more because the workshop and people can progress rapidly by practicing every day," she said. "I think it will be a lot of fun."
IF LAZING in a boat gently rocked by water is more appealing than strenuous exercise, then Clinton Marina, between Lawrence and Topeka, will offer the original Tuesday. The marina will officially open Tuesday.
"We'll just be getting our fishing boats into the water," Mark Retonde, the owner, said. Fishing licenses are also sold at the marina.
Sailboats, pontoons and canoes will not be available until later in the spring, he said, but it would be a good idea to have them.
Joyce Shaw, Clinton project assistant, said that the Outlet, Rockhaven and Woodridge, all federal camping sites, were open and do not interfere with the Outlet area is five miles from Lawrence.
She said the water had not been turned on in the camping areas so campers would need to bring their own. Her two words of advice for any March campers were "Dress warm."
RETONDE ECHOED this sentiment. "Dress warmly and don't fall in the water. The water is 42 degrees and you're not going to last long in it."
For the person who wants to stay warm and day white relaxing, the Spencer Art Museum may offer a variety of indoor activities.
A new exhibit, "Photographs from Kansas," will open at 9:30 a.m. Saturday. The show, which has 66 prints, consists of two separate displays featuring the work of Terry Evans and Earl Iversen.
"They're nationally known photographers," said Tom Southall, curator of photography at the
museum, "and there's not many nationally known photographers in Kansas."
Evans, a photographer from Salina, focuses mainly on prairie landscapes with color film, he said. Iversen, KU associate professor for design, uses black and white film to portray people having fun at festivals in small towns.
THE ORIGINAL APPROACH of each artist provides contrasting views of Kansas, he said.
The exhibit will be open through April 28.
The Lawrence Arts Center also has several exhibitions.
A Juried Painting Show, co-sponsored by the Lawrence Art Guide ad Lawrence Arts Center, will be on display until April 13 at the center, Ninth and Vermont streets.
A display of the Kansas Artists Postcard Series, "The Best Little Art Show in Kansas," a project of the Association of Community Arts and Councils of Kansas, will be on display until
Others interested in the arts may want to attend a doctoral recital by Peter Picerno, an organist, at 8 p.m. tonight in Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall.
On campus
TODAY
DOUGLAS HOFSTADTER, who won the 1980 Pulpitzer Prize for general nonfiction, will speak about "The Seek-Whence Project" at 11 a.m. in the Big Eight Room of the Union.
THE BIOLOGY CLUB will meet at 4 p.m. in the Sunflower Room of the Union.
INTER-VARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOW-
SHIP will meet at 7 p.m. in the Pine Room of
the Union.
Downtown museum houses memorabilia reminiscent of Lawrence's fiery history
By LAUREN PETERSON
Staff Reporter
You've probably driven or walked by the massive, terra-cotta Romanesque building downtown hundreds of times, but like the rest of us impetuous students, you went on your hurried way, oblivious.
The Elizabeth M. Watkins Community Museum, a shrine of marble and bury pine on the corner of 11th and Massachusetts streets, is usually recognized for its excellent Kansas All Sports Hall of Fame on the first floor. But the museum also offers a gold mine of local state relics as well.
"Many people come here without a map," Steven Jansen, director of the museum, said. "The museum is the map that helps them relate to Lawrence.
INSIDE THE DOORWAY, under a mat, the word "Watkins" is spelled in squares of red, white and sand-colored marble, greeting visitors on the behalf of J. B. Watkins, who built the building in 1888 and who established the Watkins National Bank there.
Jansen said that Watkins died in 1921, and in 1929, the Watkins National Bank building was
willed to the City of Lawrence by his wife, Elizabeth Watkins, to be used as City Hall.
IT IS IMPOSSIBLE to ascend the flight of white marble stairs with the wrought-iron and brass bannister without noticing an original design. The undeler that hangs from the third floor ceiling.
The building served as the City Hall until 1970, be said, when Elizabeth Watkins willed it to the city council.
"The fixtures are all originals." Jansen said,
"but many of the furnishings from the bank disappeared or were sold during the building transition."
He said that the original bank counter, which had been on the second floor, had been sold. He and his staff members studied the old photographs of the bank, he said, and were able to find a counter similar to the original in St. Joseph, Mo., to replace it.
PARTITIONS standing on the west side of the marble-floored room exhibit photographs and a narrative of the fury history of "Yanakee Town." Thenames referred to Lawrence in the early 19th century.
Besides housing the oak and brass counter, the second floor displays explain early Lawrence history.
Lawrence had many other names such as
Wakarua and New Boston before its settlers decided to name it after Amos A. Lawrence, banker and director of the Emigrant Aid Company in 1856.
Late 19th century farm equipment, a canon once used to bring a drowned victim's body to the surface on the Kaw River in Ireland. Brougham automobile are also displayed on the second floor.
The third floor, once used for Watkins'
Mortgage Land Co., is now the museum's open
space.
THE WORD "MORTGAGE" is spelled out in marble squares in front of the third floor pine doors, and the word "Private" is inscribed in front of the room that was Watkins' office.
A fringed-top survey with leather fenders and dash stands across from the office. Inside, the original office furnishings include a pencil roll-tab table, a meeting table and a terra cotta bricked fireplace with Watkins' stately photograph on the mantle.
The current temporary third floor exhibit, "The Holloways; Store, Pioneer Family and the Nineteenth Street Neighborhood," will continue until March 31.
"The exhibit is an attempt to show people how Lawrence developed from a small town to what it is today," Jansen said.
This old-time carriage exemplifies the relics housed in the Elizabeth Watkins Community Museum, 1047 Massachusetts St. The exhibits are reminiscent of the days when J.B. Watkins was a banker and horses roamed downtown Lawrence. The former Watkins National Bank building was donated to the city in 1929.
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