The Daily Tar Heel
Tuesday, November 9, 1971
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One afternoon last week, after a hectic
morning which kept rne working well past
my usual lunch hour, I staggered into the
Pine Room ready to eat practically
anything - which is about as ready as
you have to be to venture in there. I
banged through the turnstile, grabbed a
tray, and rushed across the no-man's land
of the newly renovated cafeteria section
to survey the fare. There were some
'"veal" patties in grease sauce, some
chopped meat patties in grease sauce, and
some other unidentifiabSes - also in
grease sauce. It turned out that I wasn't
as hungry as I thought.
Unfortunately, when I surveyed the
Chapel Hill film fare for this past
weekend, my instincts didn't serve me
quite so well. Like the Pine Room lunch
menu, the selection - '"Preacherman,"
"Marriage of a Young Stockbroker,"
"Omega Man," and "Catlow" - was
something less than palate-grabbing. But
determined to see something, I chose
what I took to be the least of four evils,
"Catlow," a Western directed by Sam
Wanamaker and starring Yul Brynner.
There was a book, apparently of the same
name, by a certain Louis L'Amour.
Roughly, the film goes something like
this: Catlow (Brynner), at the depilated
head of a gang of gur. slinging hippies,
rustles some unbranded cattle
("Mavericks") and drives them through
Indian territory to auction at a tidy
profit. His old Civil War buddy, now a
marshal! played by Richard Crenna,
pursues, and stages an unsuccessful
ambush. Caught with his pants down,
Catlow blasts his way out with a derringer
hidden in his boot he has asked to die
"with his boots on." The bad gang
scatters - corpses littering the ravine
and only the leader, Miller (played by
Leonard Nimoy of "Star Trek" fame),
stalks on.
Through a rarely amusing cycle of
ambushes and escapes the action proceeds
(or recedes) to Mexico, where the Catlow
gang is after a shipment of "maverick"
gold. The gold, like the cattle, belongs to
no one in particular, thus possession is
the only legitimate claim. Catlow's
thieving is portrayed as merely the
transferring of property i.e., not really
stealing. Attempted humor blurs with
attempted romance, but the aging
Brynner, funloving good bad-guy, is
hardly up to it, and Richard Crenna,
though occasionally funny, is more often
just sloppy.
A lesson is to be learned from all this.
Next time your stomach rebels at Pir.e
Room fare, take the long trek up to
Y-court. Perhaps the Pine Room people,
taking the hint, will throw away their
usual slop and start disgorging edible, if
not gourmet, vittles.
THE BRITISH INVENTED drawing
room comedy, so I suppose they're the
ones who have to be credited with the
realization that there's something
inherently ridiculous about their Upper
Crust - those people who, as Henry
James said in another contect, would be
"infantine if infants ever expressed
themselves in falsetto." Imagine a world
in which one's major concerns are getting
"dressed" for the inevitable seven o'clock
dinner party, worrying about a scratch on
one's Rolls, and tending each year's crop
of chestnut and bay thoroughbreds. "See
No Evil," with Mia Farrow, is set in just
such a world, with its wrought iron gates,
well-wrought urns, long drives, rolling
English lawns, glacial white country
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broods awhile on the scene, and then
invades it and slaughters its inhabitants.
Of course, the crime is unmotivated; or at
least it has no motive beyond the hatred
of a Satan for anyone happier than
himself.
I rather liked "See No Evil despite
the elements of put-on. and the main
reason was Mia Farrow. Farrow, playing 3
blind girl who is first hunted by the killer,
then kidnapped and abandoned, takes a
role which a less tasteful actress would
have turned into a virtuoso performance
and makes it convincing. Her desperate
determination and human dignity are
almost out of place amid the artifice of
the film - the quirky hand-held camera,
the strangely angled shots, the
hyper-stylized presentation of the villain
fall you see of him for the first half of the
film are his cowboy boots and his
identification bracelet and particularly
abrupt hand gestures). But Miss Farrow
brings it off and in the process makes
"See No Evil" a good night's
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-Uere the hell's that sour.i truck'"
In the msodle of i scrtirr.ir.g croi of
f.ig-uav-.ng hom-tooting basketball fans,
a few long-haared freaks tr not to think
ibout how they're going to get ready far
a concert.
Sound truck arm en. An odd
assortment of Scottish and English
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about anv damn
basketball. I v. ant those people OUT!
They're going to np off all our
equipment."
Flushed and happy flag-wavers going
out clash with lean and hungry looking
freaks tmr.2 to get in.
"GET THOSE PEOPLE OUT OF
HERE!"
The Pinks start to clear the hall.
'Christ, this!! take at least two
hours .... look, the group's going to be
here in half an hour ...."
'i MUST have a piano tuner ... Ian
will go out cf his mind if there's no piano
tuner."
About six groupies mill around.
"We're with the group."
Groupies start getting dressed up and
readv to start their bie pitch.
"OOH! There's Ian!"
Ian Anderson stalks into the hall w jth
a tote bag on his shoulder, and guitar and
flute under his arm.
Feverish activity among roadies and
helpers.
"That speaker to the front . . . get that
amp over here ... I NEED A BLOODY
HAMMER!"
Finally, some kind of order reigns.
Jethro Tull do their sound check, while
Curved Air play soccer on the court w ith
an old basketball.
"No, we can't let the people in for
another half hour.
Tull run through 'A New Day
Yesterday."
Suddenly, the sound of a crowd on the
move, and people start sprinting across
the floor to the front.
Both groups retire to the
dressing-room.
''We want beer, ice and
food . . . TONS ... of beer. NOW!"
"There's no way we can get a car
out ... no way in the world."
"Don't worry, someone's gone ..."
Curved Air start to play. The lights,
four huge spots, flash on and off. Th;
bass drum pulsates with green, blue, -and
yellow in tune to the music.
"What do you think?"
"Oh, definitely psychedelic."
Curved Air finish. Lights corns up.
groupie sits embroidering 1 der.impck?:
A policeman confiscates a toy nrp'a-?
Tull start to get dressed, in an amar:-;
assortment of multicolored gnome su:;
hot pants, candy striped tailcoats a-j
skin-tight leotards.
(Meanwhile, some people gtt bust
for breaking and entering. Two of ther
handcuffed together, take off into
night. "I'm sorry', chief. m cuff
must have walked away.")
Pandemonium as Ian -prances
onto the stage.
'You'll just have to .-
imagination if it doesn't come out !:
the record."
Cheers and yells.
Ian starts clowning, holding his
between his legs.
A drunken couple down b th? :-;
starts to boo. screaming that the ). .. .
been cheated because the main attract:
had started late.
Immediate reaction from Anderv--.
who gesticulates at them like a dru-.V .
gorilla.
Tull start to play, against a tidal f. .
of noise from the audience.
Ian keeps up a continuous d:sp!i
acrobatics, leaping, pirouetting, sinking t
his knees, exhorting the group.
He clutches the mike to him. fond:,
it, caresses his flute, croons, sere a a-;
tosses his hair back.
The whole group line up on the f:
of the stage to announce the next v ;
A NEW DAY.
YESTERDAY!" they shout
' 4 A NEW DAY
YESTERDAY!", over and over aga n
The music goes on and on. Jethro 1 .
moving from one song to another with-.-..:
a break, playing far into the night.
The other players leave the stjc t
the guitarist, whose solo dissolves m:
Bach prelude, and then swells Kivk :
screaming Clapton.
"MORE MORE MORI'"
They come back for an vxt.'-J. :
encore.
Finally, the end. The crowd melts ;r:
the night. Time to pack up. Goods.
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