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C ZzTuziCzy hlzvch S. Lsta show: "Catch
LLn f end Csturt&yjit 11j1S. $1.50. '
"Th3 Ls.it American Karo." Plaza I. Story of
rzz'.r.z driver Junior Johnson. Has lots of talk
ct-sut InMinzl'.tm and such, but not much
rail ccnv'.ct'on. Dtr.n'.ta'y a "D" picture. 3, 5, 7
& C. $2. Cn-a tsday.
"Cummsr Run." Piaza II. Fi!m by a Ralslsh
ruilvt wen ewerefs at various festivals. 3, 5, 7 &
"Cr.a Russian Summer." Plaza III A- real
terfcsy. 2:3, 4:S3, 7:C5 9:15. $2. Ends
tc ry. Corr.lr.j soon: The Exorcist."
Ch-psl irtS Film FrisniKTha Lady Ki'.Ser of
Rome." (ttsly, 1S31). A ' philosophical
corn frdy-mystsry directed fjy EISo Petri, maker
of "Investigation of a Citizen Above
C-:;!cicn." Ctsrring Hsrcello Mastroiannl.
Cr!-:.-.-l ill's: "L'AsftassIno." English-dubbed.
Friday ct 9:33. Saturday et 11:30 In Carroil
i'i.'A. Amission $1-3. .. -
A!srnstlvi arsema: "A King In New York.
Chi-Hn's last starring feature. It's hot one of
his great Cms, but there are enough funny
and beautiful moments in It to remind one of
his tafsnts. Certainly not as PauSine Kael calls
it "en incomparable dog." Friday at 7.
Saturday at 2, 4:33, 7 & 9:33 in Carroll Hall.
$1X3.
Thare vA'A be no Charlie Chaplin Film Series
this Vrtk.
Free Ricks: Friday, "Mutiny on the Bounty."
The Clzrk Gable version. Pretty vulgarized for
the mass audience, but Charles Laughton as
is reslly terrific. Saturday, "Doctor
Zh.ivs -3." David Lean's epic from the Russian -novel.
Manages to be both cold and vulgar.
'Awfui. Sunday, "Cells ds Jour." Luis Bunuel's
coc'sst, msst bczvtliul end greatest VAm. Not
to ba r.lss3d. AS! Um et 6:33 & 9 In Great Hall.
Latin American Rim Festival: The Green
V.'tL" Today at 8 In Dey Hz'A. Admission free.
"A W'z'A in Jerussiem." Today at 7:33
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Hzto ho is crjein. Still 1 23. Still heavy. Nov vibo
thouoh. To whit: Dotty Lou is gstting it on today
with Eggplant Tcmpura with Chcoca Sauca,
Carrots & Onions. 01.39. 5:30-7:30 at tho
DACCHAE.
p.m. In CarroSI Ha!J. Admission free.
Sponsored by International Student Center.
"Steel Helmet" and "They Were
Expendable," double feature. Today fit 7
and &45 p.m. In Great Ha!!. Admission free.
Sponsored by the Curriculum in Peace, War
and Defense.
"A Question of Torture," a documentary on
the police and prison systems in South
Vietnam. Tonight at 753 In room 233 Union.
Sponsored by Lt Chaps! HI'.I Peace Center
end Bread end Roses. A discussion on
actions that can be taken on the Issue wt'l
follow. The film Is open to a!l.
Theatre
Laboratory Theatre presents "What the
Butier Saw," by Joe Orton. Directed by Sally
Bates. Today at 4 and 8 In C3 Graham
Memorial. Free tickets available et Lab
Theatre Office, Graham Memorial.
Auditions for 11 major outdoor drama
companies are set for Saturday, March 23 at
the Institute of Outdoor Drama, Chapel Hill.
Registration deadline is Friday, March 8. For
more Information, write Auditions Director,
Institute of Outdoor Drama, University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C. 27514.
"South Pacific." VI! lags Dinner Theatre,
Raleigh. Buffet et 7, curtain at 8:33. Call 787
7771 for reservations. Nightly -except
Monday.
The Durham Theatre Guild presents "And
, Miss Reardon Drinks a Little," by Paul Zindel.
Today through Saturday, February 23,
March 1 and 2 and March 7, 8 and 9 at the
Aliied Arts Center in Durham. Admission $2.
For reservations, cail 882-5519.
Auditions for Taming of the Shrew" by
William Shakespeare.. Wednesday and
Thursday, March 6 and 7 et 7:33 p.m. in
Memorial Ha'l. Production dates: Thursday
through Saturday, April 18 through 23 in the
Pit. Produced by the Laboratory Theatre end
the Carolina Union Activities Drama
Committee. Parts available for five men end
one woman. Circus talent including Jugglers,
tumblers and fire swailowers urged to tryout.
Nightlife
Cat's Cradle. Tonight, Wooden Circus.
Friday and Saturday, Red Clay Ramblers.
Town Hail. Tonight, Steve Bail Band. Friday
and Saturday, Rockfish.
The Cave. Friday, Mike Cross. Saturday,
Justice St. Band. Music at 9:30. 75 cents
cover.
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Summer Run manages the tricky feat of
being gentle and easy going without
becoming weak-kneed; it is never cheap or
garish or snide but still never goes soft. This
bodes well for its young writer-director,
Leon Capetanos, as it is something many
older and more experienced film makers
have not achieved.
For years thousands of American students
have been going to Europe for the summer,
but this is the first film 1 can think of to deal
with that phenomenon. In Summer Run two
young friends, Harry and Felix, spend the
summer moving around Europe. Nothing
much happens, except that Harry falls in
love with a girl in Norway.
The film could easily have stayed on the
level of a travelogue, a series of picture
postcards. But Capetanos wisely keeps the
focus off traditional landmarks we get the
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was about an architect; so is The Brady
Bunch. Now there is a new one: Apple's
Way, which is a sort of hour-long Brady
Bunch, except that it is not supposed to be
funny.
Apple's Way is a stepchild of The
Waltons, and the networks are promising
more of the same. Now The Waltons is in
most ways an awful show. (A recent New
York Times article listed it as one of the
shows we cool people do not watch. Others
are All In The Family and Kung Fu. We cool
people, according to the articles in The
Times, do watch Maude, The Mary Tyler
Moore Show and Mutual of Omaha's Wild
Kingdom.) The Waltons is oppressively
sentimental. It has about as much to do with
the reality of rural life as Amos 'n' Andy had
to do with the reality of Negro life. Worst of
all, it persistently lauds the talents of a hack
.writer named John-Boy, who is a ninth
grade English teacher's dream, but nobody
else's. (He has a fine future as a porn writer,
however; he could have invented the word
"tumescence.")
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feeling of the environment of Europe even
though we are not left with any particularly
striking images. Likewise, the film manages
to convey the sense of an experience. We can
see how the events of the film are special
enough to remain in the characters minds
for years afterwards.
The free-flowing direction does a nice job
of giving us the loose feeling of travel, of
places slipping past. Since it is a first film, it
is particularly impressive that Capetanos
only lets his camera become overly lyrical for
a few brief moments in the romantic
sequences. The section where Harry and his
girl camp by the sea in Greece serves to point
out how false the opening scenes of Forty
Carats were.
Similarly, Capetanos manages to avoid
any indulgences in empty visual tricks,
Sometimes we have overlapping scenes to
. indicate the characters' thoughts, but this is
But The Waltons does have its good
points. It overcomes the ridiculous idea that
one ordinary, non-professional, out-of-the
way family can carry a show: the family is so
large that the different members can take
turns being the guest-star, and anyway,
famous actresses, ball-players, etc., are
always stumbling upon the Walton farm.
And there are a few attractive players, like
the utterly implausible, but very good
looking parents and the completely
untalented, but oddly intriguing, Mary
Ellen. (Good taste prevents my telling CBS
what "it can do with Richard Thomas.)
Apple's Way is set in a fairy tale present, as
opposed to Thg Waltons"s fairytale thirties.
The Waltons are dirt poor; the Apples I
swear 1 am not making this up are
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used subtly and with discretion. One
interesting device was that we never see the
American couple which picks up Harry on
the road from the front as with Harry, we
only remember the backs of their heads.
The acting is loose and unaffected, rarely
very striking but seldom boring. Dennis
Redfield is appropriately spaced out as
Felix, and the various girls that appear seem
realistic if not very well-founded. Andy
Parks as Harry gives the film an engaging
center. He has a sensitive, Richard Thomas-
like face which might lose its appeal if he ever
had to be angry or under stress. A
particularly good bit is his phone call to his
parents, in which he says little and listens for
long periods of time, telling us through his
face what he is hearing.
Capetanos has a good feel for language
and behaviour, and the improvised portions
of the film never become as plodding or
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relatively wealthy, though they choose to live
in an old mill. The Apples drive a big,,
beautiful, expensive new car; and rather than
a Waltons-style brood, they have a tasteful
four children.
If you have not seen this show, you
probably cannot conceive of such blandness.
Admittedly, Ozzie's Girls has a small edge,
but I am assuming that nobody watches
Ozzie's Girb. The two parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Apple, are a pair of actors so unnoticeable
that for all their probable exposure, I have
jiever seen either one in my life, and I will bet
that after Apple's Way runs its course
soon, let us pray we will never see either
one again.
The Apple family used to live in
California, see, but life was too phony and
plastic there, see, so they move to Apple's
Way, the patrilocal homestead in an Iowa
lusher and greener than any Iowa I have ever
heard about. On the first episode, having run
out of cute things for his children to do, Mr.
Apple took up the cause of saving a tree
planted years ago by an ancestor. The tree
YMCA cafe to opee
Students who miss the coffee houses of
the 1960's will find a bit of consolation at the
Crossroads Cafe Friday night. The Cafe, a
coffeehouse sponsored by the campus YM
YWCA, will open in the lobby of the YMCA
building from 8 p.m. until I a.m.
I hope the coffeehouse will be a. place
where people will feel a sense of community
as they listen to the music," Ann Holton,
coordinator of the Crossroads Cafe, said.
"The bond is the music. All at the same
time you're in tune with your friends, with
strangers and the performers," she said.
Tapestry hangings, candles, red-checked
table cloths and ladder-back chairs will
decorate the cafe, reminding students of the
coffeehouses of their high school and junior
high school days. Homemade breads and
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I inprovisory films as John Cassavettes
Husbands. However, it's never really as
Jstrong as the best moments of Husbands
either. It's rarely, or I should say never,
extreme in any of its virtues or flaws. The
gentleness continues right on through the
film, rendering the ending uncertain.
Capetanos was a student at UNC (Felix
and Harry apparently come from Chapel
Hill) and spoke here on campus last week.
He said the film was made in Europe on a
small budget, and considering the
circumstances, he has produced an
admirable first effort. If it brings him the
kind of success it deserves, he should be able
to go on and do something better. Until then.
Summer Run remains a pleasant film which
isn't likely to stay in your mind for long
.unless of course you're one of those people
ho left a lover or a friend behind in Europe.
;was to be replaced by a big jnotel, but
Apple kept off the woodmen by sitting in the
tree. We never really understood whether
Apple (1) liked the tree because his ancestor
jplanted it; (2) liked trees in general, on (3)
hated motels. The motel, unfortunately.'
rather simplified the issue: What if the tree
was to have been replaced by a much needed
hospital? What would Apple have done
then? (Incidentally, the tree in question was
not an apple tree, something the writers did
spare us.)
On the second show, Mr. Apple helped a
crippled ex-athlete find new meaning
through music. He had to overcome the
objections of the boy's father, who wanted
his son to be an athlete again and thought
improbably, that it would do the boy
nothing but harm to study music. The father
did not know how to show his feelings, but
by the end he was crying in front of an
auditorium full of people.
Such is the provenance of goodness and
decency.
Such is the provenance of bullshit.
cakes, cheeses, bagles, Russian tea and cider
will satisfy their more anatomical longings.
The YM-YWCA has sponsored a
Crossroads Cafe as part of their annual
International Handicrafts Bazaar for the last
10 years. From 1968 through 1971, however,
additional cafes were held at times other
than during the winter bazaar.
One purpose of this cafe is to provide an
opportunity for local musicians to play
publicly, Holton said.
44 At the bazaar, many of the performers
seemed really good, but they said it was the
first time they had ever played for a crowd,"
she said. They don't want to go knocking
around on doors asking to play."
All of the entertainers will be performing
for free and there will be no cover charge.
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