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If you delight in the nimble-witted
intellect of talk-show host Dick Cavett,
but relish your evening repose, you can,
at last, have one without sacrificing the
other. Furthermore, you need not even
own a TV.
Dick Cavett's current autobiography,
titled simply Cavett. is co-authored by
his former Yale roommate and Time
senior editor, Christopher Porterhouse,
now a writer for the star's show.
Appropriately enough, the book
follows a talk-show format in prose,
with Porterhouse prodding Cavett into
lapses of comic recollection that leave
the reader both enchanted and amused
paralyzed at times with
uncontrollable laughter.
The humor is distinctly Cavett: wry,
even acidic at times, yet expressed with
the refreshing boyishness that is Cavetfs
alone.
As author, Cavett continually
demonstrates that he is as talented
behind a typewriter as he is before an
audience. If anything, his mastery of
syntax and precise delivery is enhanced
in its transcription. V
-But from the calculated
Alan Bisbort
understatement and the TV poise
emerges a younger Cavett, the one who
was determined to become a celebrity.
This is the Dick Cavett who staked
out near stage doors, entered forbidden
backstages under numerous aliases and
offered unauthorized guest appearances
to celebrities from Yale all in hopes of
bringing him closer to his dream.
Cavett's search for that dream
included playing bit parts in small films
or Shakespeare in summer stock or brief
stints as a stand-up comic, writing jokes
for other comedians and finally merging
all those talents in The Dick Cavett
Show if that is indeed where his
dream ends.
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An actual conversation at a
Weather Report concert last week
in Duke's Page Auditorium.
They . must know what they're doing.
IWeather Report ' avant-garde jazz group,
; that is. They play music at space age volume!
!And they play it funky. If Weather Report is
avant-garde, then so is Buddy Milesburgers.
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What they really are is jazzbo-rock, folks.
Nobody knew quite what to make of
Weather Report two years ago when they
really were avant-garde. Critics foamed, but
not many people paid attention. So what we
have here is bastardization, for better or
worse. Well, what we actually had Thursday
night at Page Auditorium was a new
Weather Report. Josef Zawinul, keyboards,
and Wayne Shorter, reeds, still form the
nucleus of the group, but now there exists
almost a preoccupation with beat. Gotta
have beat. Gotta have it.
'j Thus, things started cooking at the outset.
The drummer kicked into soul-jazz band
beat 14, and kept it up the rest of the
evening. At least, as the liner notes on
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albums always say, the music flowed."
But, so did a lot of older members of the
audience. They got up and left (or flowed the
coop). They wanted no part of college
listening experience. They wanted an
evening of melodic, may even subdued, jazz.
Instead, they got longhair music (extended
versions of numbers from Mysterious
Traveller, the group's most recent album.)
That is why I hope that Weather Report
. knows what they are doing. If they plan to
aim for college and younger, more fickle
audiences with accessible get-up-and-feel-it
music, then that's fine. As long as they realize
that the fame will be fleeting and they may
never recover from it. When you're hot,
you're hot, to young audiences. Tomorrow is
another story.
Dom Um Romao, percussionist, became
the flashstage performer Weather Report
needed to get their music across at Duke.
There has to be at least one group member
who steps out for the rock audience to laugh
at, relate to or just watch. Romao was more
than willing to oblige. Stationed behind a
table covered with his assortment of
instruments, he played them frantically.
And, he had unnameable tools, some of
which looked like his set of golf clubs and
fishing tackle.
But at certain points of the concert, the
music drove ole Dom into a frenzy, during
which time he left his perch behind the table
and ran to center stage,' where he DANCED.
Is this rock and roll? The next thing you
known. Weather Report will infiltrate
Midnight Special and play their hit single.
An image: Wayne Shorter standing
behind Zawinul's keyboards, cutting
through the acres of loud backing with the
precision of a razor blade. Shorter will
always be a bright spot. Maybe there is hope
for jazzbo rock after all. Maybe it's just me,
with my upbringing. I think I was bottle fed.
Through the recollection of this climb
to stardom, Cavett affords the readers
his hilarious insight into show business
its frustrations and its rewards. His
memory ricochets from aggravating,
skirmishes with network biggies and
censors to elevating chats with Marlon .
Brando and Sir Lawrence Olivier.
Ironically, it is the latter that
sometimes leaves him speechless and
overwhelmed. Not yet adjusted to being
thrust suddenly into the dream that he
had lived through since childhood,
Cavett is still awed in the presence of his
early idols.
Suspended somehow in the gap
between dream and reality, a large part
of Cavett is still the autograph-seeking
fan of his early years. Many of his guests
are stars for whom he created pedastals
in his youth steps from which he has"
yet to let them descend.
In many ways, Cavett is still the naive .
schoolboy from Nebraska, who stutters,
blushes and finally declines the semi
frequent sex propositions delivered him
by his guests, both male and female,
during commercial breaks.
But inextricably intertwined in his
personality is a serious, ambitious and
perhaps brilliant Cavett. It is the artful
combination of all these men that
emerges in his autobiography.
Outrageously funny, yet candid and
revealing, the only fault with the book is
that it's only in black and white.
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"Belle of the Nineties" Mae West plays
Ruby, a nightclub singer with, naturally, a
weakness for men ("One man In the house is
worth two in the sfreef). This was West's
fourth film and contains her best musical
numbers she was backed by Duke
Ellington and his band. It also caused more
conflict wfth the Hays Censorship Office than
any other of her films; American women were
up in arms at the way she kidded sex. (The
original title of the film was "It Ain't No Sin,"
but the censors wouldn't allow it) (Tuesday at
7 and 933 p.m., Greenlaw Auditorium, $1,the
Alternative Cinema American Comedy
Series.)
The Harder They Come" One of the
hottest "cult" films in the country today, this
Jamaican film has been breaking records in
Boston, . New York and Washington for
months. Reggae music is a a distinctively
Jamaican product, and the film stars Jimmy
Cliff as a reggae musician who wants fame
fast. He gets more than he bargains for. The
whole atmosphere of the movie is defined by
the music, though the film's native realism
Union sponsors
Cicely Tyson
Award-winning acress Cicely Tyson will
appear in Memorial Hall at 8 p.m.
Wednesday presenting a program of
dramatic and poetic readings.
Tyson has won an Academy Award for
best actress for her role in Sounder. She also
won wide acclaim for her portrayal of an
110-year-old former slave in The
Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.
Critic Pauline Kael said of Tyson, "She
has the haughtiness of the enormously gifted
of those determined to do everything the
most difficult way, because they know they
can."
Tickets are on sale for $1 at the Union
desk.
Election 74
"Election '74, a program to introduce
candidates for elected offices in the state, will
sponsor its first of three forums at 4 p.m.
Tuesday in Memorial Hall. State Attorney
General candidates James Carson and Rufus
Edmisten will discuss their platforms.
The program is sponsored by the current
affairs committee of the Carolina Union.
Members of the audience will be able to
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Time: 8 p.m.
Place: Memorial Hall
Topic:
"Two Frontiers to Conquer":
Black women and
the Women's Movement
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Admission is free.
John Harding
The John Harding Quintet featuring Jerry
Coker will provide an "Evening of Jazz" at 8
p.m. Tuesday in the Union Snack Bar.
The concert will be free.'
Shinichf Suzuki
The Chapel Hill Concert Series will open
its series Sunday, Oct. 6, with the Shinichi
Suzuki's of Japan, a unique ensemble of
young Japanese violin students, ages 3 to 13.
The concert will be at 8 p.m. in Memorial
Hall. Season price for the entire series is $6
and individual concert tickets are $2.
. Tickets are available at the Union desk,
Huggins Hardware downtown, and
International Chef in the Kroger Plaza.
Chick Corea
Return to Forever, a jazz group featuring
Chick Corea, will perform at 9 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 5 in Memorial Hall.
Admission is $3.
Return to Forever is led by Chick Corea
on keyboards, Bill Connors on guitar,
Stanley Clarke on bass and Lenny White on
drums. Their credentials include working
with Stan Getz, Miles Davis, the Jazz
Samaritans, Freddie Hubbard and Herbie
Mann.
Tickets will be on sale at the Union desk
Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 7
p.m.
caused Vincent Canby to write that it "has
more guts, wit and humor than most movies
youll see in any one year." (Wednesday and
Thursday at 6, 8 and 10 p.m., Greenlaw
Auditorium, $1-50, an Alternative Cinema
Special Event)
"Chinatown" Roman Polanski's finely
crafted private-eye from a witty and
' intelligent script by Robert Towne exudes evil
and corruption, epitomized by Chinatown, a
section of 1930's Los Angeles where
amoraiity is the norm. Jack Nicholson is
original and interesting as JJ. Gtttes; Fa ye
Dunaway is neurotic, exotic and hypnotic.
(Plaza 1 at 6 and 8:30 p.m., $2.25.)
"The Owl and the Pussycat" George
Segal gives an assured Comic performance as
a bespectacled bookseller cum writer who
temporarily Joins forces with Doris, the
prostitute searching for ways to increase her
word power. Herbert Ross directs Segal and
Bar bra Streisand with a real feel for urban
chaos. (Plaza 2, at 3, 5, 7 and 9 p.m., $2.25.)
The Parallax View" Alan Pakula's film is
about political assassination who is behind
one and how a newspaperman's suspicions
are aroused. It has gotten mixed reviews, but
is seems to affect those who like it quite
strongly. Warren Beatty is the reporter.
(Carolina at 5:10, 7 and 8:50 p.m., $2.25.)
"Fantastic Planet" A lethargic French
cartoon 8bout the future. It's imaginative
enough, with some fascinating animative
tricks, but the pace is deadly. Anyone not
primarily interested in the art of animation will
probably stay uninvolved. (Plaza 3 at 5:10,
7:10 and 9:10 p.m., $2.25.)
"The Bank Dick" and "You Can't Cheat an
Honest Man" It doesn't matter that most of
his films weren't any good. If you're a Fields
fan, nothing can dissuade you. These weren't
the worst. (Varsity at 1, 3, 6 and 8:30 p.m.,
$2.25.)
Tickets are on sale at the Union Desk for the
Chick Corea concert. Corea will appear at 8
p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5 in Memorial Hall. $3.
Harpsichordist Kenneth R. Bruggers opens
the "Tuesday Evening Series" of free concerts
8t 8 p.m. Tuesday in Hill Hail.
The John Harding Quintet featuring Jerry
Coker will provide an "Evening of Jazz' at 8
p.m. Tuesday in the Union Snack Bar.
Admission is free.
Organist Jane Dimmock Cain will perform
at 4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 29, in Hili Hall.
Admission is free.- ' ' - ' --
Metropolitan Opera star Shirley Verrett will
perform at 8:15 p.m. today in Dana
Auditorium at Guilford College in
Greensboro. $4 for adults and $3 for students.
Woody Herman and his orchestra will
perform at 8 p.m. today and Tuesday in
Stewart Theatre at N.C. State University.
The Duke Ellington Orchestra will perform
at 8:15 p.m. Saturday in Cameron Indoor
Stadium at Duke University. Dance floor
tickets, $4.50. Upstairs reserved tickets, $4, $3
and $2.
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