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Leavsn reviews li.ZSZf,j2T2TfS. 1371 6 i n O ! 1 ? s : ; w Central YWCA winter clzsses will begin the week of January 11. Registration will be held at the Central YWCA on Chapel If III Street on January 5 from 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. Classes wHi include a new series called FOCUS IN, as well as other favorites such as bridge, sewing, auto repair and others. Call the YWCA for information. Scholarships are available by calling the YWCA. Student tickets for the Duke game Saturday go on sale this afternoon at 5 o'clock- Black students on South Campus who are willing to have high school seniors room 'with them during Carolina Talent weekend, Jan. 7, 8 and 9, please contact Bernice Ray or Bruce Samson, 933-3902. Persons interested In working as secretary in the Student Attorney General's office should go to suite B between 2 and 5 P.M. Monday through Friday for interviews concerning the position. Fraternity Fall Pledge Classes: Don't forget to make your kites for the Kappa Alpha Theta kite fly on Jan. 8, 3:30 at Fetzer Field. Most unusual kite that flies wins a keg of beer. All brothers come and support your pledges. R.S.V.P.-968-9393. The Christian Science Organization wO meet at 8:15 tonight in the Wesley Foundation. All are invited to attend. The Carolina Union Ping Pong Tournament enters the final rounds tonight at 7 o'clock in room 207 of the Union. Spectators are welcome and participant should be on time. . Found: Glasses, amber frames, olive case-Peach Bowl, Atlanta, South Stands, Sect. 14, Back Row, Seat 39. Left at your optometrist, W.T. Koha, 1 29 W. Franklin St. Lost: Gold-orange cat missing since 1219 in Davie Circle area. Medium-sized male, wearing flea collar. Answers to name Albie. Reward. Call 9424089. ' Lost: Before Xmas, a pair of wire rimmed glasses ina a hard, black case, with Dr. Barry Adler, Willow Drive, Chapel Hill, inscribed on the top. Contact Tom Corbin, 942-3321. "1776," the spirited song and dance musical about the events leading to the singing of the Declaration of Independence, will come to Memorial Hall by a company of thirty-five actors, singers and dancers. fh ANNUA JANUARY CLOS Hundreds of shiny new books from a famous publisher's warehouse, all at fat reductions And see our large selection of new posters, mostly just a buck or two. The,, loHmaSe Bookshop 119 E. Franklin St. Chapel Hill open eveings til 10 it s ? V:Hii'1' "a VvKttd 1 ft Interviewed by Haybcy, El-ott Gould once siii that from his point of view "Getting Straight" was a far more meaningful and ambitious film thxa "Mash." This critic has little enough to say in defense of the latter: but wear than "Getting Straight"? ReaSy! Returning to Gould's scale of values, however, one must assume that he considers his latest foray into significant social comment, "I Love My Wife," his best yet. Because it's awful It's so bad, in fact, that it ought to convince even a die-hard Gould fan (if there is such, a thing) that his idol is clay from the toes up. Not only is Gould not a superstar, he isn't even a good actor. "Wife," in which Gould is assisted by director Mel Stuart and writer Robert Kauffman, apparently is supposed to be a bitter comedy of married life. I say apparently because "Wife" is horribly unfunny and because it is so entirely unfocussed as to make any discussion of its content little better than a series of hypotheses. Suffice it to say that "I Love My Wife" is not a film about the infidelities of a man who loves his wife. Lord knows, this is a promising subject, and the film's name and publicity lead one to expect a treatment of it. But, as Gould, his wife, and his mistress agree, the hero does not love his wife; his marriage has simply gone bad. Once this complication is cleared away, the audience is faced with the fact that here is a movie ruie by rr.rn who have utterly no i-ea what they are trying to say, and who, in place of drama, are f c,:r..z to drown the viewer in gimics and Gould up to here. And, unfortunately, Gould's 'charm, which consists miirJy in "adolescent and self-righteous expressions "of discomfiture, is a little too frail to sustain an entire film. Lacking the quack -'qmp or the slapstick situation, Gould isn't even unconvincing-he's merely 'meaningless. He, and the film with him, become so entirely muddled as to forfeit the privilege even of offending its audience. "Wife" co-stars Brenda Vacca.ro and Angel Tompkins, neither of whom rises ; above her material. The music is by Lalo Schifrin, and, in keeping with the mood of the film, it is witless and arty. The same can be said for Mel Stuart's direction. Stuart seems to have a thing about cutting foreign footage into his film -perhaps he gets it from studying his betters-for "Wife" is replete with home movies, clips of kamikazes going into their last dive, and scenes from old Gary' . Cooper flicks: all of which are about as ' effective as heavy makeup on an ugly , woman. The few places in the film in which the director's interpretive hand is visible are also disasters. For instance, Stuart gives a fairly straight account of Gould's seduction of Miss Tompkins until they are ready to get " into bed. Then, for no discernible reason, switches to fcrci J s.i r : th.i. cf the affair in "Mis! between Carton Burrs and Hoi Lir-s. it ..'V i $us r.a are What is most striking about t! einerans per.:, ess exercise,, and what strikes this critic about Gould's ether mms-"Stri:it," "Bob and Caret," and "Mash"-is the flagrant lack cf inteUigenct on the part cf the film's makers. ! don't mean bad taste cr ignorance, but the particular combination of the two that you get hen someone who thinks he's pretty sharp operates way out of his depth- It was apparent in "Getting Straight" in little way; the book list Gould gives to the black chkk he makes. Who are his favorite authors? Why "Shakespeare, far and away," and next Chaucer, and so on, until the script-writer has listed all the "big" names he's heard of. Notice, there's never a characterizing peculiarity: never an inexplicable preference for Jonson's comedies over Shakespeare's, for instance, or a hopeless distaste for Proust. Because the writer sticks to the canon of "great authors," having no preference himself. In "Mash," the entire fabric of the movie was permeated by a kind of cruel, immature humor. I don't mean the hospital humor, but the jokes the doctors perpetrated; these were childish, "and appealed to the worst instincts of that heart ar.J fire ur thrL? !:lr,;re t..e to eperate on a suk b-iry; cr the fcetra'l game, with the cppciuticn tam t?,-- pet (as if the film's wr.ters thcu:.Xt i: over and' then figured they r::r.M at e'.t throw in in): the entire film i$ faulty fcr - lack cf aai Lntellig-ent writer. Of "Bcb and Care!" there's I.:!r to be said, except that it epitcmirei the bad artist's trick cf eeUrg ccmedy, drama, and social comment out cf a situation merely by refusing to depict it ser.,My. Come,, now. Four pccr'.e try ir ta r..': love in a double bed; best fner.J. by side, uith cni another's spouse. Need I give the mcral? The bed is tcx small. Then, finaUy. e come to "I Loe My Wife." After you've seen about four of Gould's films, ar.d skimmcJ the intetTiew, you start to realire that what you see on the screen u the real I ihot Gould. He is, or is very like, the characters he chooses to play. Act:re is hb way of being honest with himself and with his public; and he believes in the moral of his films. So, in "Wife." v.c hate the typical Gould-lead: in this case, a surgeon with an I.Q. of 162. But, as we watch this aimless movie, we suddenly learn the truth. Elliot Gould is tryi'g t tell us something, and he's been trying all along. Only, he has nothing to sjy. Woyzec!f chosen for southeastern theatre festival The Carolina Playmakers' production of "Woyzeck" has been selected to compete in the southeastern regionals of the American College Theatre Festival. The regional competition will be held January 13-17 in Abbeville, S.C. Five schools will participate. The other productions and sponsoring schools are 'The Man of La Mancha,"j Mempnis aiaxe university, iuumu, . Flonda Atlantic university; viei ixowk, : North Carolina State University; and "The Miracle Worker," Georgia Southern College. "Woyzeck" by Georg Buchner was presented in December at the Graham Memorial Lounge Theatre. Skip Lefler was featured as Woyzeck. The play drew critical praise from several area critics, according to Mitch Douglas, Playmakers business assistant. When 23-year-old Buchner died in 1837, he left a rough draft of a play based on the life of a condemned murderer, Johartn Christian Woyzeck. The play was pieced together and presented 75 years later. Buchner's play utilized short, rapidly moving scenes. Some contained only a few lines. In form and content, it was well ahead of its time. Bruno Koch, director, provided the new English translation. Koch, a member of the dramatic art faculty, presented "Woyzeck" in a multa-media production designed by Gordon W. Pcarlman uith lighting by Glenn Dunn. The winner of the southeastern regionals will compete in the national finals in Washington, D.C. The American College Theatre Festival is sponsored by American Airlines, American Express and American Ofl Company. It involves more than 200 American col'cgtii ar.J universities. The Public Is Cordially Invited to Attend Services of the Everlasting Church of Evangelical Redemption Wed. Nites & Sun. Afternoons . ... at - r vTheCat's Cradle L.K. Sparks, Past6r ONI NIGHT fjHtY' JAU. U III iHCOM! . 3 VJ V Li Li. U ft 6 rAbUj If I . . ) i i ll I. r , n n 1 t FUE it hi u w. r 1LM 4 ll o p I ... N y 3 I V 7 V The Cinematheque will present six of VV.C. Field's best features the second week of next semester. The films will be on the 7,8,9,10,1 1,12,13 of Feb ruary in Carroll Hall. There will be four showings of each film, at 6:00, 7:30, 9:00, 10:30. Tickets at the door will be $1.00. A ticket for the whole series is being sold for $3.00. A sellout is expected at some shows, so be assured of seating and save $2.00 by purchasing a series ticket. They will not be sold after Friday, January 15. For its Wednesday nirht series, the Cinematheque will offer fifteen movies for five dollars, starting the first week of next semester. These movies come from the U. S., France, Mexico, Russia, and Ger man, and featuring the talents of Luis Bunue!, Jacques Cousteau, Louis Malle, Sergei Eisenstein, Ernest Hemmingway, -Tennessee Williams, among others. The films will be shows in 111 Murphy at 7 and 9 O'clock. The last two films of this semester, not included in this ssriss, are The Blue Angsl this Wednesday and next Wednesday 42nd Street. All shows wilt be $1.00 at the door, so save $10.00 by signing up for the series. FOR Ii!FORMATiOSl Af!D TICKETS The Cinematheque vi!l continue its Friday night series of the films of Ingmar Bergman. Shows will be at 7 and 9 on Friday nights in 111 Murphcy. There is no subscription for this series, and tickets are a dollar apiece at the door. Showing this Friday is Brink of Life. 1 5 SEE THE CI NEMATH EQU E TAB L IW THE LOBBY OF THE STUDENT UWIOW 1 i EVERY SCHOOL DAY 14
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