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Arthur Perm is the best director in
America, and Dust in Hoffman one of the
finest actors, and together, in "Little Big
Man," they've given us-well, it's hard to
say exactly what.
In "Bonnie and Clyde" and "Alice's
Restaurant" Penn seemed to be
experimentally balancing points of view
in order to attain the impression of
objective truth in narration. In "Little Big
Man" he carries the experiment one step
farther. Here, the ostensible organizing
intelligence of the film is that of 121
year-old Jack Crabb, the only white
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Remember the King Family? Well,
they are back, the family group, that is,
not the Kings. This time it is in rock 'n
roll, and instigated by the Taylors. The
newest edition to the family groups are
the Coolidge sisters, Rita and Priscilla.
Both sisters have released new albums
within weeks of each other: ' "Rita
Coolidge" A&M Sp4291, "PriscillaGypsy
Queen" A&M SP4297.
Rita, the better known of the two, has
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UNC artists featured
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UNC News Bureau
. The Art Gallery of Chapel Hill will
present a two-man show featuring the
works of University of North Carolina
artists Frank Faulkner, a graduate student'
from Peachland, and Robert Davis, a
teaching assistant in the Department of
Art.
Their exhibit will open Sunday and
continue through May at the gallery, 113
W. Franklin St. An informal open
Correction
, The Durham Theatre Guild's
production of "Balloons!" will begin
Thursday night and run througlTSunday,
not through Thursday as we reported
yesterday.
The DTH regrets the error.
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survivor of the Battle of the Little
Bighorn, who "Jcnowed Custer for what
he was." Confined to a home for the
aged, Crabb is interviewed by a young
anthropologist interested in the customs
of the plains Indians. When Crabb
digresses on Custer, he's reminded that
the investigator wants "facts" about a
nearly extinct civilization, not adventure,
whereupon he chuckles, "You think the
Battle of the Little Bighorn was
adventure?" and launches into his story.
But Crabb's memory is not the usual
cinema total recall, with its plot
sung and recorded with God-knows how
many people, including the Rolling
Stones, Eric Clapton, Joe Cocker, and
Stephen Stills. Rita, who's only forte is
her powerful voice, has again surrounded
herself with an "army" of talented
musicians. Some of those most
responsible for the exciting instrumental
half of the album are Clarence White,
Leon Russell, Stephen Stills, Booker T.
Jones, and Ry Cooder. But Rita's voice is
too good to be overpowered by this
all-star back-up cast. .
Depending on the musical
expectations, Rita's voice is sweet or
bitter; soft or powerful. Based on Rita's
reception for the artists will be held from
2 until 5 p.m. on Sunday, to which the
public is invited.
The artists are well known in the
Triangle area. Faulkner has taught classes
at the Art Gallery, and Davis taught at
Durham's Allied Arts Center. Their works
are included in several private and
institutional collections, including the
University of North Carolina.
A variety of media will be shown,
including paintings on plexiglass,
watercolors, drawings and prints.
Davis studied at the Cleveland Art
Institute and has recently completed his
UNC graduate study for the Master of
Fine Arts degree.
Faulkner is a graduate of UNC. He
taught for one year in a North Carolina
high school and a second year with
Henredon Furniture before- returning to
Chapel Hill for graduate work in art.
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organization and omniscience. It is the
garrulous, wry, opinionated memory of
an old man who wants to make the truth,
as he saw it, known. Crabb turns
characters into caricatures, organizes his
early life into immaculately delimited
"periods," and groups incidents with an
almost Dickensian facility for
coincidence. The result is a picaresque
mixture of tall tale and fact that the
viewer eventually accepts as "the truth."
Yet, in these terms, "Lirttle Big Man"
seems to me deeply flawed. Too much of
the film depended on the audience's
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voice the album can be divided into two
sections, soulful and sweet. Soulful,
which encompasses some of Rita's more
powerful vocal attempts include songs
"Crazy Love," "Ain't That Peculiar," and
"Born Under a Bad Sign." The sweet and
fresh side of Rita contains "Second Story
Window," "(I Always Called Them)
Mountains," and Neil Young's "I Believe
In You."
There is not a bad song in this album,
but it does have its weaknesses. Rita
depends too much on the other musicians
and not on her own talents. Also Rita
writes none of the material on the album
and thus relies on too many worn out
songs.
Rita's weakness is Priscilla's strength.
Seven of the eleven songs were composed
by Priscilla, and a fine writer she turns
out to be. Priscilla writes largely about
freedom, either national or personal. On
the subject of national freedom is "Salty
Haze," a song about how" nothing has
really changed, we are still fighting wars
and still dying. Or personal freedom in
the sad love ballad of Gypsy King," a
tune about being tied to a traveling
gypsy.
All of Priscilla's songs are good, they
are her person, she caresses them and
loves them. Booker T. Jones' influence as
an arranger and a musician is felt
throughout the album. Booker's heavy
organ is perfect solo accompaniment on a
haunting blues tune called
"Hummingbird."
Priscilla, lacking Rita's recording
experience and vocal ability, finds
strength in that her album is more
personal as conveyed through her songs.
There is a mystical smoothness to
Priscilla's songs, like a warm kiss, whereas
Rita's songs are of a funkier type that
makes you want to get up and move.
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- awareness that the whites brutality and
treachery with respect to the Indians was
a fact. If our own current history had not
been so far-fetched, with its predictions
of imminent victory in Vietnam, and its
intense self-deception, not even my
historical knowledge of General Custer's
egotism and of the monumental
foolishness of his decision to attack at the
Little Bighorn would redeem a line like,
"A Custer decision -impetuous?!" By the
same token, although Thomas Berger's
novel has been acclaimed as one of the
few accurate accounts of Indian life (and
I assume the film sticks fairly close to it),
some of the details, like a henpecked
brave or a homosexual Indian, do not
reinforce our belief in the film's
historicity. Truth may indeed be stranger
than fiction. Here I think no attempt
need have been made to domesticate it.
A second flaw in "Little Big Man" is
its episodic narrative. It never bores you,
but it wearies you out. The film is no
longer than "Husbands," yet it has, and
needs, an intermission. -
Having made these two criticisms,
however, it would be churlish of me not
to add that there is far more good in
"Little Big Man" than bad. Penn makes
excellent use of Crabb's memory to filter
out all but essential details. Hence, the
characters who appear and reappear in his
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life have the simplicity of figures in a
morality play: his sister, who believs that
a man who won't use a gun is no man at
all; the fundamentalist preacher, whose
two main concerns are beatir.g the
heathenism out of Jack and stuffing his
own belly; the preacher's hy perse xed
wife; the chronically jittery Wild Bill
Hickok, who has lived by the gun and
now is trying to stave off dying by it for
as long as possible; the seller of patent
medicines, who tells Jack that the
Indians' vision of an ordered universe has
ruined him, and that the stars twinkle in a
void; and, of course, Custer and the U.S.
Cavalry, on a holy war to exterminate
the how about gooks? Balanced against
these are the Indians with whom Jack
passes his youth, the Cheyennes, or
(translated) "human beings."
Perm's use of camera is expert and
faithful to his narrative premise. He's
been criticized for his failure to make
Custer's surprise attack on unarmed men,
women and children at the Washida River
quite as frightening as perhaps he could
have. But Penn relies on Crabb's memory
to organize the scene, and manages to
convey the boundless horror of the
slaughter without melodramatics and
without distorting the dramatic emphasis
of the story.
Hoffman, as I hinted above, is
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marvelous. It is hard to realize just how
good he is unless you remind yourself of
his other roles. The rest of the cast is
excellent, too, with Chief Dan George, as
Hoffman's adoptive Cheyenne
grandfather, takir. second honors.
All in all, "little Big Man," it seems to
me, is a flawed, but humane and
intelligent film. And at least in the
context of today, it cakes us deeply
aware of the truth of Chief George's
comment, that 'There is an endless
supply of white men, but there has
always been a limited number of human
beings."
TWO OTHER RECENT films of note
are "Perfect Friday" and "Get Carter."
The first is a "perfect crime" flick, done
with care and some wit. Stanley Barker
and David Warner, as a slightly kinky
British Lord, are both fine, and Ursula
Andress is pretty in clothes or out of
them. The trick ending is entirely
predictable, but the film is a tight,
modest thriller.
Michael Caine's debut in film was a
. kind of annus mirabilis. In his first year
he starred in among others "Gambit,"
"The Ipcress File," and, of course, 'The
Wrong Box." Since then, there hasn't
been so much a levelling off as a straight
drop. "Get Carter" is I surely
hope bottom.
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