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Monday. September 18, 1972
University Daily Kansan
Kanaan Staff Photo by ROGER FU
George Carlin Gets Serious
quit nightclubs, prefers college audiences
Nightclubs, T.V. No Joke To Comic George Carlin
By JOE ZANATTA
Kansas Reviews Edito
Kansas Reviews Editor
Emperor—George Carlin has gone through many changes as a comedian.
Carlin was a stand up cover act and an on-set partner of the airline driver He was the "hipppy dippy weatherman" yelling "que passa la calle" to WINO—the bit broad in the big town." And lately, he has become a recording star, with a successful concert album. "A-M
After a concert in Emporia Saturday night, Carlin talked about these changes and his present role in comedy.
"I quit nightclubs two years ago and I'm still satisfying myself and I had to try another answer. I like college audiences best. They're more sophisticated."
"There are small clubs--you know, folk clubs, rock clubs and things like that—I do," Carlin said, "but no more juice-head Shirner clubs, no more of that. Cause you know booze comes in. And I don't mind them and then entertainment's fifth and art might run a close sixth."
"I just like to try to make it as real as I can," Carlin said, "and when there's sweat and pain and hurt the audience should know what is going on." He little frustration. "It is especially great when the big laugh comes.
"I'm just trying to make this game real, my audience because it's been too long a lot of crap-guns coming out going to 'entertain' people," he said.
"And television's the same way," Carlin said. "Television is selling biscuits—1 mean the only place for a comedian is the
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Eighty high school bands from Kansas and Missouri will participate in the 26th annual University of Kansas Band Day Saturday. The bands will present their music during the morning and perform during half time at the KU-Wyoming game in the afternoon.
Band Day has become a tradition at KU, Robert E. Foster day, Robert E. Foster day. Since its founding by Russell L. Wiley, former director of bands and current director of the Midwestern Music and Arts Camp at KU, it has developed into the midwest, Foster said.
The purpose of Band Day, he said, is to provide an opportunity for high school students to visit a major college campus. It also serves the university community to host the bands' their directors and chaperones.
The year, more than 8,000 band members, twirlers and drill team members, will be forming a mission United States shield and the letters U and S. The bands will perform "The Land is Your Land," "Seventy-Six Trombones" and "Patriotic Finale," directed by Foster and
concert stage where people come unobstructed to hear and see the comedian.
The parade will begin at 9 a.m in Central Park.
"Television is trying, but not really. It's business and as long as television is an arm of advertising it will be really true entertainment art."
"I hosted the Tonight Show for
the first person I asked on was
Ralph Nader and they said no,
a lot of money on our network.
"I then asked for Jane Fonda and they said no, we have to bring too many other people to counter her," Carlin said.
"The they censor you," Carlin said, "because they are afraid they're gonna lose a whole section of the country where people are under five feet or everybody has some descent. It just is not free."
Carlin said he tries to talk to the audience or with the audience but not at the audience.
"That's why I left Las Vegas,"
"Carlin said. I wasn't taking
with them, for them, only at
them. I was being a puppet,
creating a series of characters—
a emotion in that type of
contact."
"We all have different ways of saying the same thing," Carlin said. "That's one of the ideas of the book; it's a comedy to show our oneness."
"There's a lot of times in comedy performances—I know when I watch T.V. —that there's a moment when you are right, that happened to me." And that's the thing that would be great—if you could make people take home with you that really are-areal-all-in-the-same-boat.
Carlin said there were three reasons why he enjoyed being a comedian.
Censors Sharpen Swords And Await Films' Arrival
HOLLYWOOD (AP) -- Remember all those movies everyone said would never be on the sex education and violence?
"The main idea is self expression—just to show off." Carlin said. "Secondly, *eeg*, and thirdly—a it’s great life to lead."
Well, a lot of them are coming to television—but laundered.
Television has virtually exhausted the supply of movies made before the Motion Picture Association of America instituted its rating system in 1980, and the networks and studios with scissors ready—to later pictures with bolder themes.
"When you go into a home where there are young children who don't want to be that graphic about," said Hirimichi Travlesac, NBC vice president for practice and training. "We are careful because we don't know who is watching and yet we have to provide more, provocative images."
William Self, president of 20th Century Fox Television, said, "It's a problem. Motion picture companies are aiming at a different audience, one that's more appealing than the others. Movies don't have to appeal to everybody. Television is just the opposite. It's a mass medium."
"Obviously, we don't try to edit a film for television. I can't help. Self said, 'I'd never offer 'Myra Brickeinord' or 'The Staircase' for television. But it I language can isolate, I can cut that out."
NBC's premier movie on
the Anderson
last week was "The Anderson
Tapes." a crime star carpeting
Sean Connelly that had been rated
"When we first saw the picture we didn't think we could use it. But Columbia Studios said, "But Columbia Studios sent over two editors and we reviewed it together. We told them our photography and what they saw."
"They went back and did a masterful job of cutting, turning scenes around and getting the language out. We think the integrity of the picture was preserved contentually. You can conform to broadcast standards and ruin movie for viewing."
Grace Johnson, director of standards and practices for ABC, said. "Our position is to indicate where editing is required. Then we return the film to the producer." He said the film to the Motion Picture Association for a new rating. If he disagrees, he managed we don't accept the film."
"I think we're getting tougher in the violence area," she said. "In the sex area I think we're a little more relaxed. Certainly not with nudity, however, which is always edited out. But we are more relaxed with subject matter as long as 45 in good taste."
BBC also edited "Love Story," "Patton" and "True Grit," which were rated PG, for language, and "Lawrence of Arabia," for violence. NBC edited "in the face of nudity."
Among the R movies ABC has edited for television are "Goodbye Columbus," "The Sterer Cuckoo," "Hard Contract," "John and Mary," "The Magus," "Lady in Cement," and "The Adventurers."
A movie can be edited for television in different ways. Nudity, for instance, must come out, but that does not mean the entire scene is lost for television. In some cases revealing angle can be found among the original film that was shot and not used. Other times, studio editors can optically scan the film to move the nudity out of the frame in a somewhat same way the movie can take a closeup from a group shot.
If a character utterts a four-letter word it has to come out, but the actor can't be shown silently mouthing the word. Usually, the studio will go back to the original angle that can be squeezed in.
That was the case with "Love Story" which will be seen on an upcoming film, language," said Mike Policare, director of technical operations for Paramount Pictures, the production company that cut picture has not at all hurt the All McGraw character. She's the second to without the strong dialogue.
in the scene in the park in which Miss McGraw asks his cousin to play a character in his father, in the theater version he answers 'son of a bitch.' for the television version the editors changed the name and found another piece of dialogue. Now when O'Neal asked what he calls his father, he said he knew his mother.
In the Oscar-winning "Patton," however, some of the stronger words were left in.
"Actually, there was very little editing on 'Patton', said Self. He made it happen with the culture and the integrity of the character would be harmed by his writing."
"Near the end of the picture in a celebration with the Russians over the fall of Berlin a Russian general asks Patton to join him in a drink. Patton says 'Tell the son that I am going to die.' That was left in because it out would have destroyed the rest of the scene."
The studios, aware of the profit potential of television, are using another method of getting around
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questionable scenes. The directors are filming two versions of such scenes. That was the case at 20th Century Fox with the Culpepper Cattle Company" and "The Mephisto Walk."
Although the networks are looking only at movies rated G PG or R, CBS did run an X-rated movie on its late night movie in 1972. Luchino Vicentino's "The Damned" dealt with zinnia in the 1980s.
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