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Friday, March 27. 1 981 Tha Daily Tar Heel5 A . "ft ' - '"" '' '' -A 1. Vkii J ij. v 0y sw-i. . V W j i, bi. Robert 03 f iro Cy TOM MOORE Arts Kdifor The Academy Awards, the great self-promoting stunt created by Hollywood moguls in 1927, shouldn't be taken seriously by any real devotee of cinema. The Oscars are about as much a measure of talent and ar tistic merit as say the achievement awards high schools dole out to seniors at the end of the year (ie. they are a popularity contest). The greatest films ever made, those that have truly advanced the art and are worth watching years after they were made, have traditionally been short-changed at the Academy Awards. Citizen Kane won one Oscar (for screenwriting), Psycho none. Akira Kurosaw never has won the best director award. Henry Fonda never won an Oscar. Hitchcock never received an Academy Award. Nor has Truffaut ever won for his direction. But despite the slights which go on and on, the Academy Awards do hold a certain fascination for film followers, mainly because everyone else seems to take them so seriously. The Oscars attract folks to the movies in droves; any film that wins the best picture is assured of mak ing mucho money millions and millions. The only exception to this rule has been Annie Hall; probably the humorous cynicism of Woody Allen proved too great a burden for the minds of American Babbitts. Nov. that I've gotten my ranting and raving out of the way, I think we should get down to what this arti cle is supposed to be about. Predictions, who should win. Wait I better clarify that, I mean who I think will win. ' I pick Ordinary People for best picture over Raging Bull, Tess, Elephant Man and Coalminer's Daughter. It's not that I think that it's the best picture of the lot, actually I think it's the only bad picture nominated. But Ordinary People is one of those pseudo-profound films that the Motion Picture of Arts and Sciences Academy loves to bestow honors on. I think there's an outside chance that Raging Bull could triumph. But I think the Scorcese flick is a bit too harsh for the Academy. Best actor should easily go to Robert De Niro for his portrayal of boxer Jake LaMatta in Raging Bull. With Jack Lemmons for Tribute-, Peter O'Toole for The Stunt Man, John Hurt for Vie Elephant Man, and Robert Duvall for The Great Santini also up for New p firifl jiVW i W .W'W jdT 19 TffltPk m ( ' a ' a - a a u n r. i n a By MARC ROUTII Staff Writer The UNC Department of Dramatic Art's. Laboratory Theatre will present Naomi Court at 8 p.m. Monday and 4 p.m. Tuesday in the Laboratory Theatre, 06 Graham Memorial. There are open dress rehearsals at 8 p.m. Sunday and 4 p.m. Monday. Tickets can be picked up at theGraham Memorial Box Office. The play traces the story of two tenants that live in Naomi Court, an apartment house that is slated for demolition. Miss Dugan, a lonely middle-aged spinster, and David, a homosexuaj and recluse in his forties, are the last two people living in the building. ' The action begins with a party for Miss Dugan who is about to marry a man she met in the park a few months before. Later, David brings home a young hustler he has met in the park in a pathetic attempt to combat his loneliness. Director Bill Cash said he chose the play because of its social statement and its poetry. "The poetry of the play is apparent not only in the poetic passages, critics but also in tfiei way in which violence is portrayed,". said Cash. :;"The.p?ay is not to be considered lightly; arid some audience members may be disturbed by the violence in the production. As the two main characters attempt to escape from their loneliness, they are forced to make choices that are dictated by the strength of their emotions." The play has been labeled by New York drama critics as a "thriller" and a "gut experience," and should prove to be an interesting theatre experience for university audiences. "My directing style involves working for an attempt at being. Although it is somewhat of a cliche", my goal is an organic experience," said Cash. "I start with a concept or the seed of an idea from which nothing deviates. Everything is a new branch or a leaf, not part of a new super-structure." "I believe that a play should involve a growth process, just as the play itself must grow from the script and from the actors. Ultimately, the audience and the performers should both experience this growth," said Cash. the OsCar there really isn't any strong competition. The Academy should have no choice other than to award a truly remarkable actor for a great perfor mance. Which also holds true for best actress; Sissy Spacek should wiri for her remarkable portrayal of that Crisco-cooking, country singer Loretta Lynn. Though there is a great chance that an upset could be staged by Mary Tyler Moore playing against type in Ordinary People. The Oscars love such changes in persona. And besides Moore suffered a personal tra gedy last year with the death of her son and the Academy loves personal tragedies. Robert Redford will probgbly win best direction award for Ordinary People. A couple of weeks ago Redford nabbed the Director's Guild Award and on ly twice in the last 33 years has the recipient of that award failed to take home the Oscar too. But there is a slight chance that Roman Polanski could win for Tess. Folks out in Hollywood are get ting a little itchy about the Moral Majority and this would be a good way to thumb their noses at those reactionaries. David Lynch for The Elephant Man and Richard Rush for The Stunt Man haven't got a prayer. And neither does Martin Scorcese whose 'fJsomi Court' cast rehearses ... play to be given next week Americaii Red Cross By LUCY HOOD :- -.Staff Writer"' -- Extra! Extra! Read all about it the Ohio Ballet is coming to Memorial Hall! No, tftis may not be as exciting to some as the release of the hostages, nor may the performance influence the course of American foreign policy, but this critically acclaimed company should provide an evening of well-rehearsed and technically perfected ballets under the direction of Heinz Poll. Poll founded an eight-member student dance ensemble at the University of Akron in 1968. This ensemble grew and became the professional Ohio Ballet in 1974. Presently, the 20-member company tours throughout the United States, and it made its European debut at the Festival of Worlds in Spoleto, Italy, last June. The Ohio Ballet will open the program with "Concerto Barocca," to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. - "Images," choreographed by Poll to the music of Claude Debussy will follow "Concerto Borocca" on the program. The piece is broken into five sections that range from a solo per formed by Scott Heinzerling to the finale number performed by the entire company. Poll's choreography will be exhibited again in "Summer Night" which will be performed to the music of Frederic Chopin. After viewing the Ohio Ballet at the Zellerbach Audi torium in San Francisco, Calif., Marylin Tucker, dance critic wonderous handling of Raging Bull makes him the only director nominated really deserving of . ah award. ' ' I go with Joe Pesci, w ho played the gutter-mouthed brother of Jake La Motta in Raging Bull, to win best supporting actor. Most soothsayers are picking Timothy Hutton for his suffering-son performance in Ordinary People, but I think not. No special reason, just my gut reaction says otherwise. And I think there's some chance two-time winner Jason Robards could be rewarded for Melvin and Howard. His rip-roaring crazy Howard Hughes is a screen classic. And Judd Hirsch for Ordinary People and Michael O'Keefe for The Great Santini.... Well, I hone they haven't got their hopes up. . Mary Steenburgen, who played Melvin Durnmar's daffy wife in Melvin and Howard, is my favorite for best supporting actress. She's already copped a num ber of critic's awards and besides she's good. As is Cathy Moriarty, who played Jake La Motta's beau tiful, suffering wife in Raging Bull. There are a few other categories on which I have no idea what will win. So now all that remains is to tune in at 10 p.m. Monday on Channel 5 and see how wrong I am. 5 Tha Ohio Cc"ct brings its crt to U.'X ... 'the best news in dance this season' for The San Francisco Chronicle wrote, " 'Summer Night was a smooth, romantic pas de quatre." The company will perform a piece choreographed by Poll for their final number. Poll has been critically acclaimed for his choreography which is usually described as lyrical and romantic. The Ohio Ballet will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday in Memorial Hall. Tickets are on sale at the Carolina Union Box Office $6 for students and $7 for the general public. 'WiUowcoiig9 ,hao mnoieal variety IVillowsong, a musical version of Ken neth Graham's Wind in the Willows, will be presented at 8 tonight in Gerrard Hall. R.J. Schneider, professor of communi cation at the University of South Florida, and Tim Freeland, a student at South Florida, use ragtime, ballads and novelty tunes to tell the tale of Toad, Rat, Mole and Badger. The performers in Willowsong are from the University of South Florida's Departmenrof Comrnurncations. They are touring throug' ' l da, Georgia;:; North Carolina and V before going to New York for a short run Off-Broadway at the West Side Main Stage. .NCAA BASKETBALL SEilll-FIMAL TICKETS SATURDAY MARCH 20th 0 TICKETS AVAILABLE FIRST CALL-FIRST SERVED (201) 345-8169 AFTER 6 p.m. Ccrvbcy Country DI3 COOT GALE! Men's & Ladies' Ccvtor.-n end Larry f-lah&n Boots" 25 off . Boots: Tony LamaCowtown w AcmeLarry MahartCapezo -p HatsFeather BandsBelts BucklesShirts VestsCosts Ocsisfol Felt flats $15 Ci 'up tTcsas Gtxaty hats $15-$22 SALE! Leather Vests F-Ion-Cct 106 CARR MILL 567-1229 w w u u w Pcc!mO'2:1 end "Acta' 40 ' '.' This 2nd Pstlm, of Gocft Cock of Messagss to man, ssks this question end then answers It by saying the hssthsn r;3 to est rid ef God's Commandments. It eppssrs our nation. In fact our world has Just about succet dad In gstUng rid cf them! Several places the Clbfa says at times the people of God feil so low that they were "worse than the heathen!" A number of tims in recent yssrs have seen ntws items teiiing of other nations, whose government and peopia were considered ps;sns by the more enlightened nations, refusing to let some mo via films produced In this country be shown In their land as being too immoral and debasing for thtlr folks to seat "VOHCS THAN THE HEATHEfll" tpsskifig by semt cf His Prophsts God said: "SHALL I NOT CE AVENGED ON SUCH A NATION AS TH'ST Tha min In hell fire Christ told about In Luke 1th chjptsr plcsdzd thst his five brothers still alive cn earth bs wsmtd Isst thsy corns whtrt hi was! Hi wss told tht wsy for them to stay cut cf hsll was "Hear f.Toses end the Prcphfts ... If thsy htsr not f.tasss and the Prcphsts r.slhr would thty bs persuaded though one role from tha dsad!' One did riss from tha d::d, tha Lord Jssus Christ, for tha salvation cf btilsvtrs. Hs kept tha Commandments perfectly for us, paid our penalty for disobedience, rose from tha dead and enjyagsd Himself to writs God's Law in our hearts by His Holy Spirit. We see and hear of many who epaek much of His resurrection, His Ascension, and even of His coming again In power end glory with His Holy An-sls, and yet reject, neglect, or pay but llttia attention to the Ten Words dsihered to f.!o$S by God Himssif, and proclaimed by His Prophets down through the eg5S. The CtmtniM and commands cf Christ for dlscipieshlp are indssd severe: Forsska all for V.zl And a Christianity that fails to' present and insist upon its members meeting the commands and demands to "count tht cost" of dlscipieshlp m!;ht be likened to a Basement Christianity." One goes "down" bargain basement to gst something "chssper." Tht modernist cloak cf Christianity Is so worn cut that many are going about in near or total nakednsss. RtvsSation 1S:1S tslls cf tha bittla cf Arme-sdden. 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