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The Daily Tar Heel Wednesday, March 27, 19853
By MARK DAVIS
Staff Writer
Imagine the scene. It's the year 2000.
1 he following three movies are ruling
the box office: Rocky 67, in which
Rocky battles it out tooth and nail with
Clara Peller; Star Wars 48: The Return
of the Revenge of the Empire's Jedi;
and Halloween 26, in which the killer,
now 92 and in a nursing home, tries
to stab his nurse but is unable to grip
the knife due to arthritis.
Far-fetched? Not as much as you
might think. The latest manifestations
of sequel mania, Friday the 13th Part
5: A New Beginning and Porky 's
Revenge, have just been released.
Just when you thought you'd seen the
last of Jason, his hockey mask and his
abundant supply of knives, the produc
ers of Friday the 13th pulled together
this new epic, which features some new
characters, a new small town inhabited
exclusively by teen-agers, and a host of
gory killings, 16 to be exact.
Tommy Jarvis, the boy who killed
Jason at the end of Friday the 13th Part
4, is now a man, and after spending
several years in various hospitals, he's
transferred to a unique type of mental
institution. This one resembles a
summer camp for kids; there are no
guards, the inmates come and go as they
please, and there are a lot of axes
conveniently lying around for would
be murderers. Soon surprisingly
enough a rash of brutal murders
occurs. The population of the town
continues to dwindle until the finale,
which leaves the door wide open for
gulp Part 6.
If they gave an award for murders
per capita, this movie would take it
hands down. Also, the usual absurdities
are here in large supply. There's always
a thunderstorm brewing, every charac
ter goes out into the woods alone while
the maniac is on the loose, and every
car stalls in the precise area the
csnema
murderer happens to be in. Friday the
13th Part 5 ends up being nothing but
a tired retread of weak plot lines.
Porky 's Revenge is a mistake from
the start. To say that the first two
Porky 's lacked quality is an understate
ment, but, compared to this one, they're
classics.
The gang from Angel Beach is back
with their insipid gags and third-grade
boy-chases-girl mentality. This time,
their basketball team is playing for the
state championship, and the guys on the
team find out their coach is in trouble
over gambling debts with Porky, their
piglike nemesis from the original
Porky 's. The kids, of course, decide to
help the coach. There are also a number
of sub-plots here that serve only to
create confusion as to what the main
story line really is.
Realism is an extinct species in such
scenes as the attempted blackmail of a
mean biology teacher. The kids decide
to break into her apartment and, by
gosh, 20 seconds .later they just happen
to find her keys lying around. The
number of ridiculous scenes in this
movie makes Indiana Jones and the
Temple of Doom seem a tower of
credibility. . ' . ,
Despite their obvious differences,
Friday the 13th Part 5 and Porky 's
Revenge have much in common. In
both movies, overacting runs rampant,
the stories are ridiculous, character
development is zero, and the direction
is clumsy. If the folks in Hollywood plan
to keep making seqiels to these two
movies, they'd be wise to combine them
and make one more movie in which the
maniacs from Friday the 13th kill the
kids from Porky 's. Now that would be
worth seeing.
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expanded version on Mondays and
Thursdays must be placed in the box
outside the Carolina Student Fund
office on the third floor of South
Building by 3 p.m. Friday and 3 p.m.
Wednesday, respectively. The dead
lines for the limited editions will be
noon one day before the announce
ment is to run. Only announcements
from University recognized and cam
pus organizations will be printed.
Wednesday
Noon Student Development and
Counsiling Center, GRE infor
mation sessioin, 211 Union.
3:30 p.m. Orientation-Resume Writing
Workshop sponsored by
Career Planning and Place
ment Services, 210 Hanes
Hall.
4 p.m. "Hitler: the Unfinished
Story," lecture by Dr. Zara
Steiner, sponsored by College
of Arts and Sciences, Person
Hall Recital Room.
Campus Y Committee for
Hunger Responsibility meet
ing, Campus Y.
5 p.m. Slide show on Berlin, spon
sored by the Association of
International Students, Inter
national Center.
5:30 p.m. Potluck Dinner to discuss
career planning and place
ment, sign up at 155 Hamilton
Hall by Tuesday afternoon.
Sociology Club.
6:30 p.m. Potluck Dinner with UNC
Outing Club, meeting to fol
low at 7 p.m., Union.
10 p.m. Anglican Student Fellowship
will hold service of Holy
Communion, Chapel of the
Cross.
Items of Interest
i Monday-Friday, English majors
should sign appointment sheets posted
opposite the mailboxes in Greenlaw for
pre-registration.
Applications are now available in 21 1
Hanes for 1985-86 RCA Peer Counselor
positions with University Career Plan
ning and Placement Services, deadline
March 29.
MCAT will be given April 27. Appli
cations must include $50 and be post
marked by Marck 29. Late registration
until April 12, additional $20. Photo
required.
Union space allocation applications
due Fri., March 29. Return forms to
Executive Branch of Student Govern
ment, Suite C, Union.
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IMasfc9 prove beauty is more than skim deep
By IVY MILLIARD
Staff Writer
Near the begining of Mask, 15-year-old Rocky
Dennis tells a flustered principal, "1 look weird, but
-otherwise I'm real normal." This masterful under
statement also describes what is best and worst about
the film.
Mask is the true story of Rocky, who suffered
from a rare disorder which causes calcium to deposit
in abnormal amounts in the skull and usually causes
death by age 8. As a result, his head swelled to
twice its size and his features were horribly distorted.
But despite the tremendous odds against him, Rocky
achieved the extraordinary by living an ordinary life.
But wait . . . hold the violin music. Fortunately,
Mask is not a tissue company's delight. Unlike its
disease-of-the-month counterparts on television, this
film never shirks from showing Rocky's handicap
or lapses into overt melodrama.
Rusty, a caring but drug-troubled mother, and
a gang of bikers, who are also outcasts from society,
form the core of Rocky's unorthodox family. Their
cinema
refusal to treat Rocky as anything but a typical,
if exceptionally smart, teen-ager gives him the
strength to cope. x
The anticipation of Rocky's experiences in starting
a new school or constantly having to cope with the
initial horrified reactions of strangers creates such
a sense of dread that it makes his matter-of-fact
way of dealing with it even more powerful.
When Rocky becomes a counselor at a camp for
the blind and finds a girlfriend whose blindness
enables her to see beyond his looks, the film grows
a bit maudlin. Another problem with Mask is that
the bikers come across a little too sanitized at times,
as if their nickname could be Heaven's Angels.
What really sets Mask apart, however, is its
offbeat, yet totally appropriate casting. As the hard
drinking, free-loving and tough-talking Rusty, Cher
has found the part that was made for her. She proves
that her Oscar nomination for Silkwood was no
fluke. Sam Elliot, known best for his television roles,
brings an interesting, if quiet presence to the role
of the sensitive biker Rusty falls in love with, even
when the character is too good to be true. Finally,
beneath all the makeup, Eric Stolz convincingly
evokes Rocky's courage.
Mask is an unusual choice of films for director
Peter Bogdanovich, who scored big with The Last
Picture Show and Paper Moon before fumbling with
such films as Nickelodeon and At Long Last Love,
to tackle after a four-year absence from the cinema.
Luckily, he seems to have gone back to his earlier
no-frills style, which serves the Mask material well.
However, he also takes fewer risks with the material,
such as not revealing a grittier side of biker life.
The message that pervades Mask is as old as the
saying that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder,"
but the truth-is-stranger-than-fiction qualities of
Rocky's story give Mask a beauty that is more than
skin deep.
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By ALAN MASON
Staff Writer .
Story idea for a film: A young couple
on safari on Africa he a sportswriter,
she a paleontologist hear that the
"Mokele Mbembe," a surviving version
of the brontosaurus, has been sighted
by local African villagers. They set out
to find it,, while another deranged
paleontologist is hot on their trail to
steal away their discovery. The couple
stumbles upon not one, but three
cinema
dinosaurs: a mother and father with
their young hatchling. While the couple
befriends the baby, the evil doctor kills
the father and captures the mother. He
is determined to get the hatchling too,
and hell use his ruthless mercenaries
to do it. The chase is on. Exciting action!
SLS
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to raise the activities fee for the sole
purpose of completely or partially
funding SLS.
Finance Committee Chairman David
Brady (Dist. 12) proposed raising the
fee by only $1.50 instead of the recom
mended $1.75. "I think if we go over
that ($1.50), we're getting into a lot of
money (added to fees)," he said.
But Tom Vlcek (Dist. 16) said the
fee should be raised by $2.25 to fund
SLS completely and leave more money
for other organizations.
"This would free up a lot of funds
for organizations that were just cut
away and whose budgets were just
slashed apart (in last year's budget
crunch)," he said.
But Todd Mason (Dist. 14) said:
"College expenses are on the rise.
Student aids are going to be cut. You
have to think about your constituents
and the people that voted for you and
not just the organization because
without people there aren't
organizations."
John Nicholson (Dist. 17) proposed
a fee increase of only 20 cents per
semester because students voted to
provide SLS with more stability and not
to free more funds for other organiza
tions, he said.
But Brady disagreed. "I don't know
if you've seen some of these (other
organizations') budgets . . . but these
budgets are very high, and weVe got
to have money to budget," he said.
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What is this E.T. and Kunta Kinte
meet Indiana Jones? No, it's Baby. ..Se
cret of the Lost Legend, starring
William Katt and Sean Young as the
young go-getters and Patrick McGoo
han as the evil doctor. And for all its
silliness and predictability, Baby is an
exciting, entertaining film full of nice
surprises.
The undisputed star of the film is a
mechanical baby brontosaurus that
walks and grunts just like the real thing.
Baby was the creation of Isidoro
Raponi, the man who gave us the
terrifying monster in Alien. He says this
is the most advanced and complex
mechanical creature ever put on the
screen. The dinosaurs do look real (have
you ever seen a real dinosaur?), and the
best thing about them is that they do
not steal the show they leave room
for the actors to play a part, too.
This is a Disney film (Touchstone,
Disney's PG rated alias, is the official
studio), and it's those Disney touches,
which are not often seen these days, that
give Baby its enchantment. A chase
scene in an underground cave, complete
with a bottomless hole, is strict Disney
fare. And the film's lighter, less sus
penseful sides, such as the scene when
Baby decides to nudge in between the
sleeping Katt and Young in a tent, is
a classic animal-acting-human Disney
motif.
The thing that carries Baby through
its 90-minute playing time are the
performances. Not exactly a young
Tracy and Hepburn, Katt and Young
nevertheless are an extremely likable
pair, and they manage to construct a
solid screen relationship. Patrick
McGoohan is great as the heavy, and
African-born Kyalo Mativo, who plays
the leader of a primitive African tribe,
is hilarious as Cephu, who helps the
young couple.
Director B.W.L. Norton and pro
ducer Jonathan Taplin decided to film
Baby on location in the Ivory Coast.
They used real natives as extras. The
film looks authentic; there are none of
the backlot plastic plants that Disney
has been guilty of in the past. Cinema
tographer John Alcott uses the beautiful
African scenery to the fullest advantage.
Baby is a lighthearted fantasy film
that never pretends to be anything more.
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