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Critic comments on films
By JUDY JARRELL Kansan Staff Writer
Bantering with a matter-of-fact, dry humor, Pauline Kael criticized just about everything last night, including the critics.
In the second of the week-long Festival of the Arts series, Miss Kael dominated a panel discussion with five KU students and faculty members, as well as the audience.
"No one sets out to be a film critic." she said.
Miss Kael boasted that she had started the cycle for twin theaters in a Berkeley grocery store from necessity. She ran the more popular movies on one side and less popular on the other side.
She explained her short tenure on any one newspaper results from working on magazines which "don't want critics who will upset movie-makers or advertisers."
Concerning the new movie ratings code, Miss Kael expressed regrets that kids are not allowed to see everything.
She added, "Personally, I yelp the loudest at violent scenes."
However, she expressed an even greater resentment of any form of censorship, and said the new rating at least prevented a massive crackdown, "which would prevent even the adults from having any entertainment."
The film critic described the writing process as "hellish."
"I see seven movies for every one that is worth writing about," she said. "Then I sweat and booze it up."
Miss Kael offered comments on a number of films and film techniques.
Miss Kael explained she knew the "Sound of Music" would win the Academy Award several years ago, so she planned her blast of the movie for the week of the awards.
Criticizing the critics, Miss Kael described them as "critics of middle class tastes who love
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Jerry Rogers, associate director of the office of student financial aid, was elected vice-president of the Kansas Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators.
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Rogers, elected at their spring meeting at Washburn University in Topeka, will serve as vice-president for the 1969-70 fiscal year.
to feel they are educating the audience by praising dull movies."
Miss Kael continued, "Most critics write as if they want the approval of their old high school teachers." She later added, "Art is not to be good for you, it is to give you pleasure."
She added, "It is silly to attack the public for liking sex
and violence. After all, sex and violence are a part of all popular art."
Miss Kael did emphasize "absolute simplicity" as what she considered to be the necessary characteristic of a high quality film.
"I am interested in movies because they synthesize all forms of art," she explained.
KU freshman wins $1,000 with green ice leprechaun
Ken Cinnamon, Kansas City freshman, netted $1,000 for carving a 600 pound block of ice into a leprechaun. Donn Pearlman, Chicago senior and WDAF radio announcer, said last night.
Cinnamon entered the "Givin' of the Green" contest, sponsored by WDAF-TV in Kansas City. The contest, for the most unusual green object, commemorated St. Patrick's Day.
The heavyweight leprechaun was colored green, and the artistry was completed in three days, Pearlman said. The work was done in a zero-degree cold house, and the block of ice was provided by the All-Star Dairy of Lawrence.
Two WDAF-TV announcers, Ken Robinson and John Rayburn, presented the cash prize to Cinnamon on the WDAF-TV news program last night.
Nine churches plan merge to 'super church'
A commission on the Consultation On Church Union (COCU), holding its eighth annual meeting here, presented a plan by which the church could have three levels of ecclesiastical offices and four levels of geographical organization.
The plan is to be studied in this session and readied for possible presentation at next year's COCU meeting. It would probably be two or three years before the plan could be implemented.
ATLANTA (UPI) - Plans were outlined yesterday for a "super church" combining nine black and white American Protestant denominations into a single organization.
COCU envisions approval of a plan that would combine the African Methodist Episcopal, African Methodist Episcopal Zion, Christian Methodist Episcopal, Christian, Episcopal, Presbyterian U.S., United Church of Christ, United Methodist and United Presbyterian Churches.
The churches have a combined membership of 25 million persons.
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