Summer Session Kansan
Thursday, July 26, 1971
Uptown
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Staff photo by KEVIN KING
Rockin' artist
Besides operating his hairstyling salon, Martyn Olson is also an *i* **let** and a musician in the rock group Thumbs, which is
recording its first album. He here stands by "Red Tide," one of his color XKOrex creations. It will be part of an exhibit at the Shrine of Remembrance in New York City.
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"I love costumes and I like to project different images. It is therapy, I suppose," he said.
The color Xerox machine produces an art form available to anyone, he said, and there are hundreds of them.
"It is a self-teaching and a self-learning process, once you get the basics down."
Olsen is currently projecting art through the effects of color Xerox as an image art tool.
The Xerox medium, he said, has almost unlimited potential for color combinations
Marty Olson carries his personal fantasies and images into three dimensions of his life. As an artist, a musician and a hairstylist, he loves the theatrical approach.
Several of the photographs, reproduced through Olson's color Xerox works, are from a series made by Sherry Sparks, a graduate student, at A Halloween party, he said.
By BONNIE DUNHAM
Photographs, fabric or three-dimensional objects can be placed on the Xerox machine. Three different light scans, one color per scan, denote color on the photocopied print
Naturally, given this perfect setup, putdowns abound.
"Red Tide,"*a HERKPRINT print of Osnise's will in embrace*
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**THE WRITTEN BY MARC SCHNEIDER**
Xerox art, music and hairstyling give artist an outlet for theatrics
After various competitions with Camp Mohawk, in which everyone at North Star is ranked as best scorer, the winner is
Murray takes his duties as program director in irrelevant stride. In announcing the day's activities over the camp's public address system, he hams it up as a Walter Mitty-shit caricature of a would-be disc jockey and newscaster.
To highlight the difference even more, rival Camp Mohawk is just across the lake. At Camp Mohawk, for $2,000 a week, the kidnies are shown doing one activity or another via either chauffeured limosine or golf cart.
"Arts and crafts have been temporarily canceled due to bad taste. The state fish and game commission has today announced that they have raised the legal limit on campers to three a day. While hiking in the woods, they are moving, wear red, and . . good luck!"
For example, a photocopy print included a section of a Hawaiian shirt which, he said, was printed in black ink.
"It is made up of images that catch my eye," he said.
"The title is frightening," he said. "He less threatening to me in a humorous way."
Murray portrays the program director of Camp North Star — a summer camp which can be set up by low-priced margarine spread is to Imperial's scribed in the movie's promotion blurb: "Every summer the cream of the nation's summer camp. The rest go to Camp North Star."
Of course, both the campers and staff spend a good deal of their time plotting and carrying out pranks aimed at the bumbling camp director, usually under Murray's leadership. Leadership? And, one can never what's likely to be flying from the flag pole.
Even more expressive of his "internal self than the art," he said, is his participation in the game. "He's really a person," he
There is a pop art effect in his work with patterns, lines and everyday objects and a blend of colors.
The motif is a self-portrait of Olson, but he is unrecognizable in wig, white make-up and
clothing.
Movie stirs memories of camp
display during a September show at the Lawrence Arts Center.
The work, he said, is a "confrontation of various images of myself that I like to procreate."
"Mealtails," starring Bill Murray, does the same thing for summer camps that "Saturday Night Live" and the "National American Institutions." It teaches them to shreds.
Olson, who plays organ and bass guitar,
aid, "My music is a much more rare and
difficult to play."
But now I don't want to be labeled—but basically it is rock and roll or amplified folk songs.
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The five-member group "bordered on punk rock" it early days, he said.
This is no coincidence, of course, because Murray is one of the stars of "Saturday Night Live," and "Meatballs" is brought to life by Mr. Moore, who were irresponsible for "Animal House."
The typical day at Camp North Star begins with the loudspeakers telling the campers that it is 7 a.m., and reminding them that if they were at Camp Mohawk, they could sleep until they were in the campers' room. They could tell them, then, which them, which is followed by bacquette music.
By LEONARD D. GROTTA
Murray's announcements over the P.A. murray as punctuation throughout the entire film.
band's act on stage where Olson said he once appeared with wig, white smock and stethoscope. Another time, he shaved his nose and beard into a question mark shape.
Olson said he did not consider hairstyling as art per se.
Olson's love of theatrics carry into the
"But you are still dealing with imagery in a different format," he said. "You still have to think about it because you are dealing with how people view themselves and the image they project. Within the boundaries, it is a very creative business. I deal with anywhere from 10 to 15 people a day. I have to be very flexible.
"I love people. You learn from people of all ages. I especially like people who are uninhibited, whether they are pretentious or not. I like people who come on strong, but by itself, they learn just as much from people who are not so human nature and how it reacts itself."
It is, however, his hair styling salon, Martha's Doe's Deluxe 801's Massachusetts ST, where he gets his hair done.
"We do a parody of Kiss' make-up. It is just an added theatrical effect," he said.
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nally arrives—the 13th Annual Inter-Camp Olympiad. Despite the fact that Camp North Star has an unblemished record in this game, it has been over many years, this time things are different.
The art, the music and the hairstyling all interrelate in a way, he said.
With the help of a half-dozen or so dirty tricks in the best Watergate tradition, Camp North Star finds itself trailing only a few points behind Camp Mohawk. The last event was a cross-country run worth 20 points, but the team with its first win ever. But who will run?
They, like the man who describes his art,
are "tongue-in-cheek."
The boy who made the winning soccer goal for the wrong team? The one who tried to run away after the **tget** day of camp? The man run and scratch and **meatball**? Who else!
Despite all the muckup carryings-on, the strange thing about "Meatbats," for a campground or to work at a summer camp, is that they are a believable. And it induces more than a touch of nostalgia. The film may be a satire, but it is worth watching. The movie has to be the work of ex-camper.
And the nearly stop-laughter which fills the theater is made perhaps understandable by the knowledge that, for most of us, something we'll never have to do again. Amen.
*Mouthballs* is now showing at the Varsity Theatre, Show times are 7:20 and 9:30 a.m.
'Moonraker' fails to present true Bond; fans of 007 can expect disappointment
James Bond, secret agent 007. is dead.
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By MARK SPENCER
Sames Bould, secret agent (00), is dead.
Some would argue that he has been sick for a long time, but "Moonraker," convincingly shows that Bond is now history.
Since Roger Moore replaced Sean Connery as Bond's front man, enthusiasts have been concerned about 007's image. Although Moore frequently does a good job of playing the role, he never excludes the underlying cockiness Connery had without being trite about it.
The movie begins when the moonraker, a space shuttle developed by a huge U.S. corporation, Drax, is hijacked while being transported to England. This sets off an international search and Bond is called to take the case.
The plot for this edition of 007 is much the same as the others: Bond is called in on the
case when the situation is critical," and spends most of the movie trying to solve the problems. He also has to deal with women who alternately want to kill and seduce him.
The quest begins in California, the headquarters of Drax. Bond is brought to meet Hugo Drax, a typically sinister looking man with a typically sinister looking sidekick.
Drax, played by Michael Loudale, instructs his hatchet man to get rid of Bond, and 007 is taken to meet one of the key characters of the movie, Project Dr. Goodhead, played by Lloyd Chiles.
She is beautiful and, of course, makes it clear to Bond that she is not interested in him, although the audience knows her cold-hearted will melt before the end of the movie.
TV show focuses on Lawrence
Subtle, aren't they.
SmyrgalLawrence, a program produced locally by Channel 10, about about 80 restaurants.
By this time, he and Dr. Goodhead, who discovers is really a CAI agent, are working together. They soon discover that Drax was the first to get into the dark and to try undercover to try one of the Moonrakers.
The show can be seen three times a week. 11 a.m. Monday, 10 p.m. Wednesday and 7 p.m. Saturday. The show was designed to run a 8-week scheduled start of the week of July 2.
There he discovers special glass cases that he eventually learns contain a highly toxic nerve gas derived from a rare orchid. Bond then goes to South America, where the orchid grows, looking for the operations headquarters.
Rusty Laushman, creator and producer of Smosgra Lawrence, for Sunflower Cahavevision, said Tuesday that the purpose of the project is to study the study of people and interests in Lawrence.
It is a 30-minute program of short segments that depict life in Lawrence.
"Viewers like to see people and places in Lawrence that they recognize," he said.
Later, after seducing another one of Mr. Drax's employees, Bond finds a hidden safe and in it, the name of a glass factory in Italy. Although at this point, Bond still is not sure what he is looking for, he goes to Italy in search of more clues.
But Laushman said SmorgasLawrence could be extended beyond the 10 week period if viewer acceptance and sufficient advertising could support the oreamr.
According to Laushman, the show could
cover almost any subject in Lawrence, but now is concentrating on artists and people. Interviews, current events and a study of history, history also are presented by Channel 6.
For those who do not mind seeing a keen destroyed, the movie might be enjoyable. But for those who want to remain ignorant and happy with memories of past successful movies, don't go. Bond still will visit for an occasional late show.
Llaushman said he also had an idea for a show that would be called "Artists in Lawrence." The show would concentrate on the artists' work and technique.
Llaushman said that he would film *norglasrall* evidence programs at random. Some shows will be held for future use and some will be used immediately.
This week, the show features an interviewer with a film animator who has done work for the Worlds of Fun amusement park in Kansas City. Mo.
What follows is the basic escape scene, climaxing to an appropriate reward or punishment.
In addition to giving way to trifeness, the movie also offends the viewer with blatent commercialism. Several name brand movies have been directed throughout the movie, and one scene involved Bond riding a horse across the countryside with background musi<sup>3</sup> similar to those in *Pulp Fiction*.
Because the basis of Bond is so unbelievable, it is important to maintain some credibility to avoid crossing the line between believable and unbelievable silly. You must have accomplished this with varying degrees of success. This one doesn't come close.
Throughout Bond's struggle to master evil, the audience is subjected to scenes that are meant to frighten him.
Llaushman said he would pre-empt certain programs on Sunflower's affiliate WTCG in Atlanta so that SmorgaslawLawrence could be shown. Sports or movies, however, will not be pre-empted. Some SmorgaslawLawrence shows will be rescheduled.
The most difficult thing for the director, Lewis Gilbert, was probably deciding how much and how often the audience would see what bustle on which girl.
David Bromberg's band mixes rock, ragtime, folk and blues
By RICK JONES
Staff Reporter
It's been said that David Bromberg can play the guitar so fast and so clean that he could flat pick the quills off a porcupine in the dark and not get stuck.
But in a telephone interview Chicago Tuesday, Bromberg, who will be playing tomorrow at the Lawrence Opera House, 642 Massachusetts St., declined to say whether or not the statement was true. "I just play," he said. "I think the foe."
"I just play," he said. "I think the techs have more important than technology skills."
Bromberg, who will be fronting a seven-piece band in Lawrence, has been on tour
The band's instrumentation includes fiddle, mandolin, trombone and saxophone.
Bromberg began his career as a musician in the coffee houses of New York's Greenwich Village in the mid-60s. His extraordinary guitar picking and an elegant stylistic range brought him to the attention of other musicians almost immediately.
"I guess I've played on about 75 albums as a session-man," he said. "I didn't get my own recording contract until after I played the Island of Wight festival in 1970."
He said his own band had been pieced together over a period of time.
Bromberg said he had played on three
players in the United States.
From Jay and the Americans to Rimbaud
David Bromberg
"The band just crept up on me," he said.
"I started out with just a bass player. Wherever we played, musicians I'd met on the road with other bands would come and sit in. Sometimes there would be ten musicians on the stage.
"It was very inspiring," he said. "But as we went along, I began to miss certain guys. And by then I was making enough money to pay whoever I wanted to play with me."
Bromberg has released nine albums to date, each of them defying categorization. The albums contain straight rock, Irish rock and bluesgrass or bluegrass and contemporary folk blues.
"Every member of the band is incredibly eclectic," he said. "There are so many different styles here that the music is bound to come out pretty varied."
Like Ry Cooder, Taj Mahal and Joan Fahey, Bromberg seems to have an archivist for collecting musical odds and ends. The title track of his latest album is a Scottish buggie tune that Bromberg is transformed into his own unique format.
Bromberg has never been widely recognized, but he said he had not worried about it.
"I figure I'll get as successful as I'm supposed to," he said. "No more, and no less. I'm not going to fight it and I'm not going to grovel for it."
His only run-in with widespread commercial success came in 1972 with a single titled "Sharon." The song was about a carnival stripper who would walk onto the street to scare and scarf and a sneeze, and who "made a little move that made me weak in the knees."
When talking about himself, Bromberg takes a hard-nosed approach to his life as musician. He said he was unwilling to compromise himself.
He said his music was his whole life and that he didn't take too kindly to people who knew him.
"I'm not going to act surly in order to preserve my anonymity or my folkie status," he said. "And I won't eat dirt so much." He was in some concert — I don't believe in that."
"The only time I do get surly is when someone tells me how to do my music," he said. "That's all I've got. It's the sum total.
"I'm not married. I've got no kids. I spend my life on the road and I've got no hobbies beyond playing guitar, fiddle and piano, working alone in my life, so don't morn with it."
Coming up in Lawrence
Concerts
KU CONCERTS
Sum. July 29 Carillon recital by University carilouer, Albert Gerken. P.3, p.m., cam
Today, noon. Watkins park, 11th and Massachusetts streets
LAWRENCE OPERA HOUSE
BK44BOYS Today Leroy with Marcia Ball and The Misery Boys
Misery Boys
Fri. July 27 David Bromberg Band with
Marcia Ball Group
Sat. July 28 John Cougar with The Secrets
Fri-Sat, Aug. 34 Asleep at the Wheel
Wed. Aug. 25 Son Seals Blues Band and B.W.
Stephenson, Blackberry Winter and Shooting Star.
Museums
HELEN FORESMAN SPENCER
MUSEUM OF ART
Sun. July 29 'From Magit to Science:
"Mars in Astronomy" 2 p. m. Spencer Museum audium sausd
Now showing "Garden of Eden" and five other quilts from the Spencer collection. On display in Spencer's South Balcony Gallery.
NELSON GALLERY-ATKINS MUSEUM
Kansas City
Now showing Dale Eldred's "A Gallery of Reflections," through Aug. 12, William Sommer's Watercolors and Print Exhibition. The exhibition shows the styles of contem
porary printmaking in the United States and the latest developments in graphic techniques. Museum Hours: Tues. through Sat., 1 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sun. 2 to 6 p.m.
Fort Leavenworth
FORT LEAVENWORTH MUSEUM
Theatre
Now through Aug. 12. A special exhibit of original American and Canadian World War II posters. Museum Hours Mon., through Tue. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sun., 12 noon to 4 p.m.
STARLIGHT THEATRE
Swope Park Kansas City, Mo
Now through Sun. "Sugar" starring Robert Morse, Ken Berry and Donald O'Connor. Mon. July 30-August 5 "The Desert Song" starring Ann Blyth, Bryton Frederickers, Jennifer Eisenbuettner, Queen. August 6-12 "I Do I Do" starring Howard Keel and Carol Lawrence.
COMING TOMORROW
CINEMA TWIN I:
Frisco Kid: (PG) Gene Wilder as a
Movies
Jungle Book: (G) Disney's animated version of Kipling's Children's story, Showtimes at 3:15 and 9:30 p.m. daily.
Unidentified Flying Oddball: (G) Another dizzy Disney spoof, this time tackling the space program. At 1:30 and 7:45 p.m.
lonesome cowboy from Poland. Western,
perhaps, Wild. Wild, definitely. Showtimes at 7:20
and 9:45 p.m. Weekend matinees at 1:45
p.m.
HILLCREST III:
Hoper: (PG) No, the rabbit was Harvey,
Burt Reynolds is hooper. Showtimes at 7:40
and 9:40 p.m. Weekend matinees at 1:50
p.m.
SUNSET DRIVE-IN+
Journey Through death's Door: (PG) The flip-side of the Incredible Journey. Starts Friday for one week, 9:15 p.m. daily. The Outer Space Connection: (G) Perhaps it's a re-make of the French Connection. Also for one week, at 10:50 p.m.
CINEMA TWIN II;
The Muppet movie (G) Bestiality at its best, starring Kermit the frog and Miss Piggy. Showtimes at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. daily, with weekend matinees at 14:58.
GRANADA:
Moonraker (PG) See review this page.
Moonwalker and 9:45 pm. Weekend
classes: 8:30 a.m.
HILLCREST II;
The In Laws: (PG) If you think God works in mysterious ways, wait until you see how Peter Faulk and Alan Arkin do it. Peter Faulk is 4 p.m. with a weekend matinee at 15:35 p.m.
VARSITY:
Meatballs: (PG) See review this page.
Showtimes: (PG) See review this page. p.m. with
showings at 9:30 p.m. at 139 Parking
Location