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When Henry Hoffman was 4-years-old, he saw Cap
tain from CastUle starring Tyrone Power at a drive-in
theater. He never forgot it.
"Power had a zest for life and a love of glamour,"
Hoffman, 39, said. Yet Power died at age, 44 from
alcoholism, and has more than a name in common with
Jamie Tyrone, Hoffman's character in A Moon for the
Misbegotten. The Eugene O'Neill play runs through
Sunday in Playmakers Theatre.
Jamie Tyrone, a self-destructing actor who wants to
die after cleansing his conscience, is based on O'Neill's
older brother. O'Neill wrote the play as a tribute to
him.
For the past three years, Hoffman has been writing a
play as a tribute to Power. "It's really about me," Hoff-,
man said. "Tyrone Power is the context, but it's about
my experiences and the life of an actor."
Hoffman said he believed a lack of recognition killed
Power. And Hoffman had definite ideas about where he
wanted that recognition to come from in his own career.
"When I was a kid, I thought, 'If Laurence Olivier
could see me and acknowledge me, that would be
enough,' " Hoffman said.
It wasn't a farfetched notion, since Olivier saw Hoff
man perform in The Duchess of Malfi in 1976. "He
came backstage and told me that I should continue act
ing, that I had a future," Hoffman said. "That was ab
solutely the high point of my life. It's like the Pope say
ing, 'You're great.' "
Sibling rivalry with his identical twin brother first
spurred Hoffman to try the theatre. "I saw him act, and
then thought, 'I can do that'," Hoffman said.
Hoffman has been a professional actor for 12 years
and, as a resident with the Playmakers Repertory Com
pany, he teaches acting classes for majors and non
majors. "When they declare that they want to act, I tell
them, 'Go and do it,' and give them many avenues. But
there is no yellow brick road," he said.
Hoffman teaches his classes such alternatives to act
ing as mind expansion and meditation, drawing on his
experiences with California Consciousness, EST and
primal scream therapy.
His students watched him practice what he preached
as he developed his portrayal of Jamie Tyrone. But
Hoffman actually had been working on the part for
more than nine months.
He directed me acclaimed Los Angeles revival of the
play last year, starring two of his friends, Salome Jens
and Mitchell Ryan.
"Directing that play changed me forever," Hoffman
said. "Before, I wanted my signature on the show, my
HH' in the corner. But O'Neill directs that play. I had
to be somebody the actors can rely on and be inspired
by.".
After he finishes his three-hour stint on stage, Hoff
man said that he feels naked and it takes three or four
hours to unwind. "Acting does incredible psychological
damage," he said. "You have to be a very healthy per
son to do acting because of what comes up for you."
In 1976, Hoffman was working 1 1 months out of the
year, and had appeared on several television shows in
cluding Rhoda, Eight is Enough and Charlie's Angels,
but he didn't think he was healthy enough anymore. He
turned to directing and teaching, and only returned to
the boards last year in PRC's Angel Street as Inspector
Rough.
Hoffman now wants a chance to direct films. "I will
not be satisfied until I get in the highest aristocracy of
art," he said. "There's absolutely no going back to the
power of film after E. T."
Hoffman said film portrays what goes on in people's
minds, especially since people dream in frames, and
theatre eventually will be phased out. "It's important to
dress up and participate in a sense of community,"
Hoffman said of the benefits of theatre. "But it's fairly
inefficient in terms of changing people's lives.
"After you've done a stage performance, it's gone, it's
dead. But I can reach in a drawer and pull out a
Betamax," he said. "The audience was transformed
after E. T. I saw people's faces as they came out. I said,
'That's what I want to do. " :
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TODAY'S ACTIVITIES
Scott Bwtdrft CoOege presents "Control Group" at
Pegasus. All SRC residents may pay $lio in advance or S3 at
the door. Tickets are available at the Parker and Whitehead
desks.
CkiMn, presents Dr. Jeffrey Elliot, the foremost inter'
viewer in the sd-fi field at 7:30 p.m. in the Carolina Union.
Check the Union schedule for the room number.
O Qnbc do Bale Papa, the Portuguese conversation group,
meets every second and fourth Thursday of the month at 4
p.m. at MoOy KUguire's.
The AModatioa ef Bwlnrw Students' Career Planning
Coouoktee will meet at 4 fun. in G-9 New Carroll Hall.
Caayw Christina Fellowship will hold its weekly Bible
study at 7 p.m. in the Carolina Union. Check .at the Union
Desk for the room number or call 942-8952 for information.
The Order of the Cingk it holding iU fail party to afebrile
the falling of the gingko tree leaves at 3 p jn. in front of New
West. Everyone is welcome.
UlervtewiBg Workshop, sponsored by the Office of Career
Planning and Placement Services will be held at 3:30 pjn. in
209 Kanes Hall.
The Baptist Stndrnt Union program will feature a talk on
missions by Dr. James Y. Greene at 5:45 pjn. at the Baptist
Student Union. 203 Battle lane.
The AFROTC and NROTC will participate in a Veterans
Day ceremony in the quadrangle between South Building and
Wilson library at 3:30 p.m. The public is invited.
A potluck dinner and discussion with West German students
and Dr. Griffiths win be sponsored by the Glottal bsnesIn
terasooaal Affairs CfMomittcc at 6 psa. at the Wesley Founda
tion. The FCA wffl sponsor speech by Pete Kumega at 8 JO p.m.
in the Carolina Union.
"GeaeratioM of Resistance," a film on black apartheid, will
be shown at 7 JO p.m. in 106 Carroll HalL Admission is free
and a discussion will follow.
Leant how to skydhre. Join the Parachute Club. There will
be a dub meeting at 6:30 p-m. in the Carolina Union.
There will be a Tins Managmsent workshop at 7 pjn. for
undergraduates only. Call the Counseling Center, 962-2175, to
sign up.
A Campas Y general avthfnhtp meeting will be held at 4
p.m. in Gemrd Hafl. All committee members and others con
nected with the Y are encouraged to attend.
The Clef Hangers will present an entirely revamped multi
dimensional stage show at 8 p.m. in Memorial Hall. Admission
is SI. v
Dr. John K. Stifle of Colorado State University win present
"Palladium Catalyzed Coupling of Organic Halides With
Organotin Reagents," at II p.m. in 308 Venable Hall.
The International Health Forum presents Joan Talbert and
Frank Dimmock, speaking on Health Care in Zaire, at 1 p.m.
in BerryhUl Hall.
The Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship will have an All -Quad
meeting at 7 p.m. in Gerrard Hall. Clyde Godwin will speak on
"Authority of Scripture."
-The Policy Committee of the ABS will hold a meeting at
4:30 p.m. in room 201 New Carroll.
The Baha'l Club presents "The Spiritual Destiny of
America," Friday at 7:30 p.m. in the Carolina Union. The
speaker will be Paul Dunn.
COMING EVENTS
Geography ndergrads and grads: Come to a party at 8 pjn.
Saturday at the Village Green Clubhouse. A map and details
are available in the office.
Test Anxiety Group starts Tuesday at the Student Develop
ment and Counseling Center. Call 962-217$ for more infor
mation. The North Carolina Student Rural Health Coalition is spon
soring a benefit square dance at 9 p.m. Saturday, featuring the
Red Rose Flyers and the Apple Chill Cloggers.
Don't forget to sign up early for the Campas Y's Footfalls
Road Race on Sunday. Every entrant receives a T-shirt. Prizes
will be given. Call the Y for more information.
The Prague Symphony Orchestra will perform at 8 p.m.
Sunday in Memorial Hall. AH seats are reserved. Individual
tickets are on sale at the Union Box Office.
Morrison Residence College presents "Christmas Break." a
comedy in two acts. The play deals with college relationships
and life choices. The play will show Thursday, Friday and
Saturday at 8 p.m. Admission is SI.
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Clef Hangers ' popularity gains strength;
campus concerts, tours, promote group
By MONT ROGERS
Staff Writer
If you were walking through the Pit this week and heard
barbershop quartet music, you were fosterling to the Clef Hangers,
who are performing tonight in Memorial Hall at 8.
The Clef Hangers are in their sixth year at UNC.They are one
of the few a capella groups in the South, and the first at UNC.
Their sister group, the Loreleis, formed only last year.
After becoming popular-at UNC, the Clef Hangers went on
tours to parts of North Carolina, the Northeast and New Orleans.
The success of these tours and the difficulties of booking subse
quent tours to places where they were not known led them to cut
an album, Once in a Blue Moon.
. The songs on the album are a mix of traditional barbership
music and the newer, more contemporary styles like beach music.
The album also features rock, like the medley of Elvis Presley
songs.
Moon was scheduled to be released at the beginning of this
semester, but will not be released until mid-December. The album
is dedicated to Barry Saunders, the group's founder.
The Clefs regard this album as a milestone for the group and
say that their popularity is growing. "More people know about
us," Mark Jacobson, a group member, said.
Besides cutting albums and going on tour, the Clef Hangers
practice two to three hours each week. They have performed at
various banquets and have sung at the chancellor's luncheons
before each football game.
In preparation for their concert, the Clefs have practiced three
hours a day this week.
"The first set of the concert is eight to nine songs of new stuff, "
things we've never sung. The next set is cut from the album and
old favorites," Wylie Lowery, a group member, said.
The new songs include a Drifters tune and "Stormy Weather."
The old favorites are "Coney Island Baby" and "Shame and
Scandal."
The Clef Hangers may work hard preparing for concerts, but
they know how to let off steam. "It all boiled down to this
after an hour of practice we were bored, and we knew we couldn't
get any work done, so we decided to break the monotony of the
Undergraduate Library. Nobody studies there anyway," Jacob
son said. The Clefs broke into an improjnptu concert a
welcome break from the Midterm Frenzies.
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