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The Band Wagon Vincente Minneli, 1953.
A washed-up movie idol, a prima ballerina and
a busy producer put on a Broadway show
which turns into a pompous musical version of
the Faust legend. Starring Fred Astaire and
Cyd Charisse at their peaks. At 8 p.m.
Wednesday in Carroll Hall.
television
Tuesday
The Big Event: Little Mo Glynnis
O'Connor stars as the late tennis great
Maureen Connolly, who became the best
woman player in the world at age 1 7, when she
won the Grand Slam of Tennis. At 8 p.m. on
Channel 28.
Tuesday Night Movie: Happily Ever
After Suzanne Somers stars as an aspiring
singer torn between becoming a star in Las
Vegas or returning the love of a mountaineer.
At 9 p.m. on Channels 2 and 1 1.
Drama Special: Roots Returning to TV,
the Emmy award-winning special will begin
with the first episode, starring LeVar Burton as
the young Kunta Kinte enslaved at age 17. At 9
p.m. on Channels 5 and 8.
Wednesday
Roots In part 11, young Kunta is involved
in an unsuccessful rebellion aboard a
slaveship, and then is sold in Annapolis. At 9
p.m. on Channels 5 and 8.
Thursday
Roots In 1775, Kunta makes an escape
attempt which costs him his right foot but wins
him a wife. At 8 p.m. on Channels 5 and 8.
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I Do! I Do! Dorothy Collins stars at 8:30
p.m. nightly except Mondays at the Village
Dinner Theater, Morrisville. Matinee
performance at 1 1:30 a.m. Wednesday.
Nightly buffet begins at 6:45. Call 787-777 1 for
reservations.
Jumpers The Unexpected Company's
production of Tom Stoppard's comedy w ill be
presented at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday and
Thursday at the Ranch House Restaurant.
Call 942-5867 for reservations. .
Gallery Theater The Carrboro Arts
School announces open auditions at 8 p.m.
Thursday and Friday for its upcoming
production of Otherwise Engaged, a recent
work by the British playwright Simon Gray.
Roles are available for five men and two
women. Professor William Hardy will direct.
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In Focus Featured artists this week
include: Randy Newman and Joy of Cooking.
Tuesday; Neil Young and Sea Level,
Wednesday; and Moody Blues and Straw bs.
Thursday. Aired nightlv from 6-11 on YVDBS
FM 107.
Album Feature A new album release will
be featured at 1 1 p.m. every Tuesdav and
Thursday on WXYC-FM 89.3.
Jazz Show Tim Stith hosts this show that
features all forms of jazz. Airs form 9-12
Wednesday on WXYC-FM 89.3.
music
Muddy Waters Performing Wednesday at
State Theater in Raleigh.
Fiction is so much kinder than truth to those we
choose to create as legends. So be it with The Buddy
Holly Story.
The fortunate ones are not those who knew Holly as
the less than sweet and naive guy portrayed in the film,
but those who know only of Holly through the legacy of
his music. , , .
Starring Gary Busey. the film traces Holly s rise as a
pioneer of early rock 'n roll until his untimely death at
the age of 22 in 1959.
For the two hours the film runs, the memory of Buddy
Holly and his music comes alive. Busey does not just
portray the singer, he becomes the singer. More than
doing a mere caricature, Busey's mannerisms and voice
are those of the late Holly.
Beginning in 1956 with radio broadcasts of country
music from a roller skating rink in Lubbock, Texas, the
19-year-old Holly sets out to create his own sound.
Backed by his friends, Jesse (Don Stroud) and Ray Bob
(Charles Martin Smith), Holly cannot stick to the tame
rhythms of country, but insists on moving into the new
beat, of rock n roll.
The disapproval of town, church and family
evaporates as Holly and his pals become more involved
in creating their music.
The fame of the trio takes off when a local disc jockey
sends, w ithout their knowledge, a tape of their songs to a
record company in New York. The band becomes
known as t he Crickets and sets off for New York to sign a
record contract.
In a few months, the band is billed as the first white act
to play the Harlem Theatre, the Apollo, and Is touring
with black groups. The hits pile up as rock 'n roll
becomes the new wave of popular music.
Friction among the group develops. Jesse and Ray
Bob want to go back to Lubbock, but Holly, who has
since fallen in love with a record company receptionist,
Maria Elena (Maria Richwine), has decided to stay in
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Student Printmakers Exhibition throught
Sept. 30.
Morehead Planetarium North Gallery
The September exhibit features the painting
and drawings of Deborah Covington.
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New York, where the money and opportunity is.
The film jumps to early 1959, Holly, without the
Crickets, is on a midwest winter concert tour. Holly feels
insecure performing without his friends, and they feel
the same. So Jesse and Ray Bob return to New York to
try and catch up with the Holly road show. But on that
night in February 1959, Holly and two other popular
performers are killed in a plane crash in Iowa. That was,
to quote "American Pie", "the night the music died:"
While the majority of the viewers will be too young to
remember Holly, the importance of his music is evident.
Songs thought to belong to contemporary performers
crop in Hollv's repertoire, such as "Words of Love,"
"That'll Be the Day." and "It' so Easy".
Even the stage postures of Mick Jagger and Peter
Townshend of the Who can be traced to the antics of
Holly and the Crickets.
Although the musical numbers may have been some
of the best in recent movies, the film, directed by Steve
Rash, does have some annoying technical faults. The
tone of the late '50s is strangely reminiscent of 1978. The
faces, styles, clothes and sets are little too modern to be
authentic, with Holly and the Crickets often looking
absurdly out of place
Solid performances by Busey, Stroud and Smith
make up for the weaknesses. Even so, they are hampered
by the film's saccharine sweet facade and at times seem
too good to be true.
The ending, with the friends racing to meet the hero,
whom we all knew is doomed, is a little forced. This may
be one of the several times the film deviates from the
truth. But all this is forgotten or ignored when viewing
one of the more pleasant, tuneful and entertaining films
around. The Buddy Holly Story is a film definitely worth
seeing and enjoying for its music and history, no matter
how altered that history may be
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