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story of weirdos in limbo
By STEVE CARR
Staff Writer
Don't be tooled by the very trendy
exterior of Choose Me there's a lot
more to the film than meets the eye.
Alan Rudolph is not everyone's
favorite director, but no one can deny
his distinctive style. His earlier films,
such as Remember My Name and
Welcome to LA. seem fragmented,
disjointed, even self-indulgent.
Yet, like his mentor Robert Altman's
masterpiece Nashville, Choose Me,
written and directed by Rudolph,
creates its worldview out of a mosaic
of scatter-brained weirdos. His style is
like the characters the film portrays
schizoid, intensely subjective, full of
gawky beauty.
Choose Me centers on three extraor
dinary personalities. Genevieve Bujold
plays Dr. Nancy Love, a lonely radio
sex-therapist who gives wonderful
advice over the airwaves but needs to
follow some of it herself. Lesley Ann
Warren is Eve, a hooker who found a
bar with her name on the marquee and
impulsively bought it. Keith Carradine
is Mickey, the romantic catalyst who
asks every girl he kisses to marry him.
The three talk, make love, fight
sometimes unaware just how much they
come into contact with each other. Little
does Eve know, for instance, that her
mousy roommate Ann is really Dr.
Love, thp woman to whom she confides
all her sexual problems.
Ultimately, however. Choose Me is
not about people themselves, but about
the appearances they don and some
times become trapped within.
The whole look of the film is one
of glossy unreality. Eve's bar, for
example is in the worst section of town.
Fair analyzes Jobs for health grads
By SCOTT LARSEN
Staff Writer
Jobs for graduates in health services
may not be as attractive as in the past,
health services recruiters said Tuesday
at the annual Health Sciences Job Fair
held in the Great Hall of the Student
Union.
According to Marian C. Holmes,
health services placement counselor for
University Career Planning and Place
ment Services, jobs may not be as
plentiful for this year's graduates
because of cuts in Medicaid and
Medicare which will cut down on the
number of patients.
"There are always jobs available,''
Holmes said. "With entry-level posi
tions, students may have to take the 1 1
p.m. 7 a.m. shift instead of the 8
a.m. - 5 p.m. shift, but the jobs are
there."
Representatives from both the Army
and Navy said the military offers nurses
better pay scales and opportunities for
advancing their educations than com
mercial health services.
"Pay is about the same for both
military and civilian nurses at the entry
level, but pay goes up faster than in
civilian counterparts," said Sgt. Donna
M. Comeau, a U.S. Army nurse
recruiter.
The Army looks for competent nurses
with good academic records and a
potential for future leadership, said
Comeau.
"They're not only nurses but also
Army officers," she said.
Lt. Cmdr. Louise George said the
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Yet the interior of the place resembles
a Holiday Inn cocktail lounge. Music
constantly interacts with the character's
emotions, whispering fragments of
lyrics into the soundirack. At one point
in the film, Mickey sees an old billboard
advertising Coca-Cola. There is a
woman lying on a white-washed beach.
It is in this one tiny scene that Rudolph
sets up his fantasy-versus-reality theme.
Later in the film. Eve climbs to the
roof of the building, where the billboard
is, to commit suicide. It suddenly dawns
on the viewer that the woman in the
billboard bears an amazing likeness to
Eve, only the woman is much more
glamorous. Eve's mascara is running;
her hair is unkempt.
Alan Rudolph may be the West
Coast's answer to German director
Rainer Werner Fassbinder. But while
Fassbinder's homage to the unreality of
'50s Hollywood becomes stodgy and
tiring, Rudolph keeps his work alive,
not only with decadent, glaring colors
and carefully plotted mise-en-scene such
as the inclusion of the billboard, but
also with some very strong perceptions.
The strongest one of these is how we
tend to glamorize people and expect
from them the same kind of sanitized
sensuality we get from Playboy or even
a magazine advertisement.
Ultimately, however. Choose Me is
not just a film with a message. It is a
character study of people living in
limbo, somewhere between comedy and
tragedy, glamour and seediness, illusion
and reality.
Navy offered nurses responsibility and
opportunity for rapid promotion.
"Nurses can also pursue a master's
degree at the Navy's expense while
earning the salary of their present rank.
There's no civilian counterpart for that,"
George said.
Proposed cuts in federal and state
medical aid money are not hindering
recruitment, said Dana Davison, a
representative of the Department of
Health Services. A wide variety of
positions are available at DHS ranging
from nurses to dental hygienists to
clerical work, she said.
A nurse may choose to work for
Health Services rather than a hospital
because of the regular work hours
compared to working shifts, Davison
said.
The starting salary for a nurse with
a master's degree at DHS is $23,616
and negotiable.
Eckerd Drugs is looking for staff
pharmacists, said representatives.
Eckerd offers a wide range of benefits
for employees, they said.
"Dealing with customers rather than
patients is essentially the difference
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By IVY MILLIARD
Staff Writer
Fetching ail: ATTRACTIVE,
PLEASING. ( Webster's)
Positively fetching. That's how to
describe The Purple Rose of Cairo,
the latest film written and directed
by Woody Allen. By any other name,
this rose of a movie might seem just
as sweet, but only Woody could lap
into every moviegoer's fantasy
that his favorite character might step
right off the screen and into his life
and get away with it.
This is exactly what happens to
Cecilia (Mia Farrow), a wistful,
wide-eyed housewife in love with the
movies. And who wouldn't be, in her
depressing situation? It's 1935, she
works in a seedy diner and her
husband is a fat, abusive, unem
ployed slob who fritters away her
waitress salary on booze and broads.
Unfortunately, Cecilia is so caught
up in Hollywood lives that she can't
keep her mind on anything else.
When she gets fired for dropping too
many dishes, she spends the after
noon at the Jewel Theater watching
a near-perfect parody of glamourous
depression-era flicks. She is sitting
through her fifth showing when Tom
Baxter, the handsome, pith
helmeted hero, breaks off in mid
sentence and tells Cecilia he'd like
to meet her. Next thing the confused
audience knows, Tom steps right off
the screen, forsaking a "madcap
Manhatten weekend" in movieland
for a nerve-tingling New Jersey
escapade and leaving his fellow
characters on screen terribly
confused.
If this sounds not fetching but far
fetched, bear in mind, as one of the
between working in a store and a
hospital," an Eckerd representative said.
The shortage of nurses experienced
in the last lew years doesn't exist today,
said Alvin Disher of Forsyth Memorial
Hospital.
"Patient load is building up again,
and more nurses are being hired. This
generates hiring in other areas such as
physical therapy," Disher said.
As life span increased, Disher said,
more elderly people would need nursing
care. People today are more health
conscious and will live longer, but
eventually they will need health care,
he said.
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film's characters comments, that
anything can happen in New Jersey.
Pretty soon Gil Shepard, the
dashing actor who plays Tom,
arrives to cajole Tom into getting
back up on screen before he ruins
(iil's career. Suddenly, Cecilia has
two seemingly perfect men one
fictional and one real out to win
her heart.
The Purple Rose of Cairo is not
Woody Allen's first venture into
mixing fantasy and reality. One of
his best short stories engages a
college professor in an affair with
Madame liovary herself and trans
ports the couple between the pages
of the book and the New York's
Plaza Hotel. However, this film
boasts the trademark caricatures of
the Hollywood dream factory as seen
through the slightly skewed percep
tion of Allen, the fijmgoer's 'Ever
yman' who has always suspected that
movie champagne was really just
ginger ale.
Mia Harrow has an ethereal
quality that blooms as Cecilia
emerges from her shell, but the real
revelation of The Purple Rose of
Cairo is Jeff Daniels. Previously
known best as Debra Winger's
husband in Terms of Endearment,
he plays the dual, very different roles
of Tom and Gil. The marvel is that
he's equally funny as the gee-whiz
Tom, who socks abusive husbands
because it's written into his charac
ter, and the narcissist Gil, who feeds
on praise the way Cecilia does
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film within the film are even more
delightful. There is Zoe Caldwell, as
the stilf-necked dowagercountess;
John Wood, as an aristocratic
dandy; Deborah Rush, as the
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of character with the rest of the film's
mood. Still, the very worst to be said
about this 90-minute film is that by
the time Fred and Ginger glide across
the screen 'cheek to cheek' in the final
scene, the audience, just like Cecilia,
is left wanting more.
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