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Friday, October 12, 1979
University Daily Kansan
Arts and Entertainment
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Actor trades KU for Hollywood follows first role back to Kansas
By ELLEN IWAMQTO
Staff Reporter
ALINA~The huge cameras swing around to focus on the actors, lights are adjusted, the man stand his head and make-up are smoothed on the actors faces.
"Quiet on the set, ready. And roll, rolling." the director calls.
A hush falls over the set as all heads turn toward the actors.
Off-camera one of the lead actors sits wearing blue jean cowboy boots and a kilt. The camera is on a tripod, Tenuizow 18, looks as if he still belongs in a classroom in Wescoe Hall instead of on a desk.
But when Teinowitz tossed aside thoughts of books, tests and term papers at KU five months ago to pursue an acting career in the film industry, he would bring him right back to Kansas.
"I was dropping out to become one of hundreds in Los Angeles waiting to be in TV and the movies," he said.
TEINOWITZ LEFT school after his freshman wear at KU last spring.
"I was hoping that if I worked really hard for three years in auditions I could make it," he said.
But Teinowitz skipped the usual months of knocking on doors and asking for auditions. She worked in a movie one of six leads in a cinema about life in a military school. The movie is titled "Brave
In a film similar to "Animal House," a comedy about fraternity life. Teninow has the part of a teenage psychotic pyramidman who "relieves his tensions by destruction."
"I'd like to think some talent was involved in the getter, the rule," Teinozit said, "but basically it was being in the right place at the right time."
AFTER LEAVING school, Teinowitz first to Lincoln where he brought an agent, Liam, to the library. He videotaped an audition that was sent out to directors, including Robert Downey, the director of *The Pink Panther*.
“After call backs,” he said, “I got the part.”
Teinowitz admitted he was "petrified" when he first received the part.
"Scared is an understatement," he said,
"I learned the lines the second I got the script."
Teinowitz said he was glad he had finished a year of college, but, as it happened, he was three years ahead of his schedule.
"If I was going to be a doctor or a lawyer I'd go to college. But I'm an actor, and if you're good you're good and you'll make it. Otherwise, forget it."
Salinans starstruck by filming at military school
SALINA—The bright lights and the sound of the band from California to Kansas this month when Warner Brothers, Inc., a major motion picture studio, began shooting a movie.
The film, a comedy about the escapades of five students in a military school, is tentatively titled "Brave" by M. C. Eaton and Helen O'Reilly are an Arab sheil's son, a wealthy black preacher's, a psychotic pyramidian, a Mafia leader's son, and an "All-American" boy. They find themselves pitted against the commandant of the school.
Ralph Macchio, Wendell Brown, Harry Teinowitz, Tom Citera and Hutch Parker play the five young men. Only one. They are all on a very lowly wood experience, that in commercials
BETTER-KNOWN actors in the film include Ron Liebman, who wrote an television show "Kaz"; Antonio Fargas, who played the nemesis of "Sarkey and Hutch"; and Barbara Bach, who played the nemesis of James Bond in the film "The Spy Who Loved Me."
The film is scheduled for release in the summer of 1980.
Although most of the film is being shot
at St. John's Military Academy in Salina, other scenes are filmed at private homes, the Salina airport, Marymount College and the country club.
The novelty of having big-name stars and a movie company in town has had a predictable effect on Salina.
"People went crazy," Tim Baughman, a Salina resident, said. "When the company opened up auditions for bitches in real life, about 20 people showed up."
Another resident, Larry Carroll, was asked to play the part of a chauffeur in the film.
Before filming began, Warner Brothers arranged a "Holywood Night" to introduce many of the actors to the townpeople.
"I've been kidding my friends a lot about 'A Star is Born,'" he said.
No one could deny the thrill of being around the magic of Hollywood.
A desk clerk at the motel, Leonia Jackson, answered a call on the switchboard from Kate Jackson, formerly of the television show "Charlie's Angels," Jackson was
The switchboard operator asked her if she was the "kate Jackson," Dreyer said. When Jackson confirmed it, he just said, "Wow."
ALTHOUGH HIS decision apparently was the right one, Teinowitz said, initially he was "excommunicated" from his family.
"I was frowned upon in my family," he said, "because my parents persisted in their education and it was good for them. So they thought I should stay in school."
The stigma of being a college dropout stuck with Teinowitz for a while.
"That I was a college dropout preceded everything I did," he said. "Some people looked down on me but some of my friends didn't care."
Teinowitz said he became interested in theater and acting as a freshman in high school.
and he may have tradition in his favor as a graduate of Nrier Tier East High School in Winnebago, Ill., where Rock Hudson, Hugh Lennon and Cern and Clinton Heston were graduated.
Until the movie is released this summer, Teinovich said, he will wait for other film offers and try to get another agent in Los Angeles.
But more than one aspiring actor's dream bubble has been burst in Hollywood and Teinewitt said, "I could bomb."
"R:t this is my shot in the dark, my opportunity; he said. "I'll like pinch-hitting." I thought it was a mistake. Five years from now no one could have heard of me or I could be a regular on the radio."
Sometimes, Teinowitz said, he does miss the life of a college student.
"When I lived in Nisquam Hall," he said. "I would be 30 people I could talk to. Working at 12-hour day six days a week is pretty strenuous and it also cuts out my social interactions."
Teinowitz is getting a taste of what fame could be like while he is filming in Salina.
"It freaks me out when people come up to me and ask for my autograph," he said. "I don't think I'm anything special."
Powerful play
Mike Sokolsky, Overland Park graduate student, portrays one of the terminally ill characters in the film *Saturday Night*. Mr. Cristoforoff, which opens at the University Theatre at Murray Hall, brings his story to life.
Museum revives Zorn's etchings
Staff Reporter
By AMY HOLLOWELL
The etchings of Swedish artist Anders Andersson virtually ignored his since death in 1920, (1920), United States exhibition of his work in 30 years at the Helen Spencer Spencer Institute.
The etchings will be displayed until Nov. 18.
Organized by Elizabeth Broun, Spencer Museum curator of prints and drawings, and funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, the exhibition of 75 etchings opened Sunday. It is the first U.S. show to be accepted by an English exhibition catalog.
Brown said the exhibition was brought to KU to "bring to light again" Zorn's work because he was one of the most acclaimed artists of the century and had since been overlooked.
ZORN'S WORKS are characterized by light and dark areas, without hard, defining lines in a Brambard-like style. Broun said. His etchings are primarily portraits of elites in government and society, including three members and members of the Swedish royal family.
"In his era, he was perhaps the most popular printmaker," Brouad. "At his peak in the early 1900s his prints were more priced than prints of Rembrandt's work."
Zorn was born in 1860 in Mora, Sweden,
and was reared there by his grandparents
before leaving for England when he was 21.
He was educated at a painting while he
learned the skills of fishing.
He soon became known in Europe for his portraits of the affluent and of young women.
IN 1893 he first ventured to the U.S.
where many wealthy citizens commissioned his portraits and many collectors sought his work. Among those he did portrayed of were Winston Churchill, Theodore Roosevelt and William Taft.
"He was extremely well-liked." Brunn said. "It's significant in an era of snobery, a man of such humble beginning was able to move about freely in that society."
However, in 1896, Zorn returned to his humble life in Mora. He used rusk耐湿 subjects in his work and studied the nude with both artificial and natural surroundings.
In Mora, he collected contemporary work and Swedish folk art, and established an archive of early Danish art from day as day at Zorn's Garden. He continued his work and trained until his death at the peak of his career.
HIS POPULARITY then waned, Broun said, because there was a revolution in taste and a shift away from the aristocratic lifestyle.
After the show's驻 at the Spencer Museum, it will go to the Sterling and Francis Johnson Library of the University of Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA, and the Flint Institute of Arts, Athens.
Since then, Zorn's work has not been featured in a major exhibition and nothing about Zorn and his work has been published in English. Broun said.
Broun said she thought the exhibition would be successful because it was enjoyable and because it had significance as a revival of an artisted victim.
"Thus his work just was not suited to the tastes of the next generation." she said.
At the same time, the world became engulfed in economic depression and his work was buried.
"Girl with a Cigarette," an 1881 etching by Swedish artist Anders Zorn, is included in the revival of 75 of the artist's works now at the Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art.
Etcher's art
'Shadow Box' story of life close to death
By KATE POUND Staff Renorter
If it is possible to celebrate life while dealing with death, KU's production of "The Shadow Box" is doing it, one cast member said Wednesday.
The play opens tonight at 8, in the University Theatre, Murphy Hall. It also will be performed tomorrow and Oct. 18, 19 and
Tom Swift, Prairie Village senior, who is a dying man in Michael Cridder's death, has been left behind than any other I've seen, seems to bring death to corpses without getting brutal.
Directed by John Gronbeck-Tedesco, associate professor of theatre, the play will be performed at the terminally ill. Three dying patients, their families and friends deal with their grief, anger and anger in segments of the play; they interview with a hospice staff member.
THE SEGMENTS treat the characters' feelings, according to Groneck-Tedesco, as they grieve and rejoice with each other. The actors are often encouraged in the play have made it hard for some of the actors to deal with their roles because they were made to moods quickly and realistically so they
"That makes it difficult for the actors. It can appear to be phony without psychology and the ability to communicate. I would say that the range emotions is a problem for any actor," he said. These actors are meeting the audience, very artistically and professionally.
Gorbeckeb Tedescho said the cast did special acting exercises and develop some of the feelings that dying persons and their families might have. They worked on falling
exercises to give the actors the feelings of anxiety and vulnerability that dying people often experience. Actors were also blinded by stares, and were isolated of the terminally ill, he said.
"THERE'S A lot in the play dealing with people trying to reach each other but not being able to." Grumbeck-Tedesco said.
According to Cheryl Rawlings, Prairie Village junior, the roles demand a great deal of energy and emotion from the actors.
"When we really connect on stage, it sometimes can be really frightening," she said.
Rawlings, who plays the former wife of one of the hospital's patients, said the roles are played by two men and two characters' ages. Most of the characters are in their late 40s and 40s and the cast includes a man, a woman, and a child.
"We just don't have the life experience that the characters have, so we have had to work hard on the ages," she said.
SWIFT SAID he did have a problem coping with his character's age, but that he enjoyed the role's demands.
"I like the intensity, it doesn't seem that hard for me," Swift said. "You don't have to hold anything back in these roles."
The characters deal not only with their deaths, but also with their relationships to each other. Swift said. The play points out, "There is more afraid of isolation than of dying."
"It deals with death, but it deals with relationships and feelings a little bit more," he said. "People just don't want to let go."
Rawlings said he thought the play had taught the cast a lot about death and emotions.
"It is the kind of subject that makes people think," she said. "But once you have come to terms with your own death, you can really appreciate your life."
Galleries
ART AND DESIGN GALLERY Visual Arts Building
"Pushing It," an exhibition by under-
graduate photography students, the
week of February 5 at 3:00 and at 4:30
p.m. Monday through Friday, 1:30 to
4:30 p.m. Sunday.
Paintings by Cella Smith and pottery by Alan Brummell, through Oct. 26, Open 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
745 New Hampshire St.
Wildlife limited edition prints by Allen Hughes, Maynard Reece, Mark Reece and Robert Baterman, through Oct. 31. a to p. 5 on Monday. through Saturday.
LANDIS GALLERY 918 Massachusetts St.
SATURDAY
LANDIS GALLERY
Spare Time
Photography by Kent Van Hoeem,
Photographer for the RUK Dance
Culture exhibition by the RUK Dance
Club, today through Oct. 25. Open 9 a.m.
to 9 p.m. Tuesday through Fri and
Saturday.
LAWRENCE ARTS CENTER
Ninth and Vermont streets
Oil paintings by Paul Penny, through Oct. 31. Open 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
Wildlife prints by Roger Tory Peterson and Maynard Reece and traditional scenes by Dahart Windberg, through which he portrays it to p. 10 m.pm. through Saturday.
ROY'S CREATIVE FRAMING AND GALLERY
PEN AND INC. GALLERY
823 Wash St.
711 W.23rd St.
623 Vermont St.
7 F. 7th St
Watercolor and wash drawings by
Evonne English, through Oct. 31. Open noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.
"Art posters," a circulating exhibition from the Museum of Art at the University Oklahoma, through Oct. 27. Open in m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Fridays.
UNION GALLERY
Kansas Union
VALLEY WEST GALLERIES 2112-A W. 25th St.
Stoneware by Roger Copeland and
Kathy Barthoullen, graphic drawings
by Dee Lauderdale. Wood back buckles
and hinges in blue and green from
Lorenzo, through Oct. 21. Open 10:30
a. m. to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.
Music
FACULTY RECITAL SERIES Swarthout Recital Hall
Antonio H. Perez, bartonie, with Karen
douglas, doctoral student in piano, 8 p.m.
Kansas City, Kimber, video, 8 p.m.
Wednesday, Kansas Woodwin Quinter,
p.m. Thursday.
FALL CONCERTS
University Symphony Orchestra,
George Lawner, conductor; 3:30 p.m.
Sunday, University Theatre, Murphy
Hall, KU Jazz Ensemble. 8 p.m.
Tuesday, Swarthout Recital Hall,
Murphy Hall.
LAWRENCE OPERA HOUSE
842 Massachusetts St.
St. Louis Sheiks, tonight and tomorrow night, with Open Stream in the balcony. The Night Hawks. Wednesday night. Memorial Campanile at 9. MEMORIAL CAMPANILE
Tofu Teddy and the Brown Rice Cow
People, tonight and tomorrow night. The
Leapards, Tuesday night. The Queen,
Thursday night. Doors open at 8, music
Albert Gerken, University carilone-
neur, 3 p.m. Sunday and 7 p.m.
Wednesday
OFF-THE-WALL-HALL 737 New Hampshire St.
PAUL GRAY'S JAZZ PLACE
Gaslite Gang, tonight and tomorrow
door. Doors oo at 8 music begins at 9.
611 Vermont St.
PENTIMENTO COFFEEHOUSE AND CAFE
David Frederick, 8 tonight; Tom Dougherty, 10 tonight; Tom Campbell and Jim Crismer, midnight tonight; Paul Bylaska, p.m. midnight; Perry Gill, p.m. midnight; midnight tomorrow; RPaul Reane, 8.pm.; Sunday; Al Brune, 10.p.m. Sunday
Sunday: Al Brune, 10 p.m. Sunday
Al Brune, 10 p.m. Sunday
Al Brune, 10 p.m. Sunday.
VISITING ARTIST SERIES
Swarthout Recital Hall
Linda Maxey, marimba, 8 p.m.
tonight. Master classes with Leon
Flesher, piano to 5 p.m. 7 to 10
p.m. and 1:30 to 4:00 p.m. Monday.
p.m. and 1:30 to 4:00 p.m. Monday.
KU CONCERT SERIE
University Theatre
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University Theatre
Theatre Chamber Players of Kennedy Center with Leon Fiescher, conductor, 8 n.m. Sunday.