University Daily Kansan, December 8, 1981
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Holidays bring sights and sounds
Dan Ackroyd and John Belushi star in "Neighbors," scheduled to open at a Lawrence theater last this month. The film is about a man and heals his hands with a new neighbor.
Comedy, history dominate screen
in the movies with Lawrence Commonwealth
Theatres' seven new films scheduled to
open Dec.18.
From John Belushi's "Neighbors" to Warren Beatty's new creation, "Reds," the films cover the spectrum from zany to serious.
Here are some films being offered for people whose tastes lean toward comedy:
**“Neighbors” is a wild spoon on the皮 of a man driven over the edge by his new neighbors who have just moved in to the film reunites Beishu and Den Akroyt
- Another refuge from "Saturday Night Live," Cheyne Chase, is on again on the screen as a lovesick air controller at John F. Kennedy airport in "Modern Problems." Due to an accident with nuclear waste, she has been required to enable him to move objects. Mary Kay Place, formerly on "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman," blas his ex-wife.
- "Buddy," buddy" stars Jack Lennon and Walter Matteau working with Billy Wilder and screen play writer I. L Diamond on their third movie together.
Matthew plays a hitman who becomes the center of attention when he saves the life of the village bumbler (Jack Lemon). The hitman's life is disrupted when, for example, he tries to get rid of the grateful soul, who believes he owes the hitman his life.
For a more serious angle, you can choose from:
- Warren Beaty, Diane Keaton, and Jack Nicholson in "Reds." The film
has Beaty as early 20th century journalist John Reed.
Reed returns to Greenwich Village, New York, sickened by the suffering he has witnessed and begins to identify more closely with the socialist opposition to World War I. During this time he marries author Louis Fletcher, who has an affair with playwright Eugene O'Neill (Jack Nicholson).
*“Ragtime,” the film adaptation of E. L. Doctorow's novel featuring the return of James Cagney to the movie screen, is also scheduled to open in December.
- "Tans" stars George C. Scott and
Timothy Hutton. The story has young Hutton portraying a cadet at a military school. The school is threatened with closing, so the students take it over.
- "Sharkey's. Machine" has Burt Patterson playa on a cool cove call from键盘.
But if the average KU student doesn't want to wait that long to celebrate the end of a hard semester, Student Union Activities is sponsoring two old favorites, "Miracle on 34th Street," featuring the late Natalie Wood, and "A Christmas Carol" at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 8 in Woodruff Auditorium.
sounds 'Best of' albums on sale locally
By DIANE MAKOVSKY Staff Reporter
For the Christmas season, record companies usually release "best of" albums, and this Christmas is no exception.
This year there is the best of Blondie, Queen, Wilke Nelson and George Benson. There is a collection of greatest hits. There are also recordings according to local record store employees.
The Christmas album of the year will probably be the Kenny Rogers Christmas album, said Bob Wilson, owner of Better Days-A Record Store, 724 Massachusetts.
At Kief's Discount Records & Stereo
Supply, 2100 W. 25th St., Steve Wilson,
Roslyn, NY, said Barbara
Shranahan's Christmas album is the
store's best selling Christmas album.
Record companies do not really push any particular albums for Christmas, he said. What matter is about to be released by a record label that motion just because it's that time of year.
HOWEVER, the best selling albums of the season often have November release dates and have been getting a lot of radio air play.
Steve Wilson said that this year some "potentially hot products" are being delivered later than the usual Nov. 1 delivery date because companies are competing for the best sales figures of the year.
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