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Thursday, August 25, 1977 The Daily Tar Heel B11 nightlife PRC announces schedule f Continued from page 4. There's also The Station on Main Street in Carrboro, offering bluegrass bands, wine, beer, backgammon tables and an outdoor patio. The Sidetrack, just across the street, draws a mixture of college students, locals and professional people as customers. Says owner Buddy Toe, "It's not as loud as some but it's pretty hell-raising sometimes." The Sidetrack has an outdoor patio, dance floor and game room as well as taped music. Cat's Cradle, on Rosemary Street, is a different kind of bar with "a folksy, loose atmosphere," according to an employe. Cat's Cradle features a large variety of good bands from jazz to bluegrass, and draws almost a different kind of crowd every night. Chapel H ill also has some good dance halls. Eliot's Nest, located on Graham Street offers free beer every night to members and a combination of disco and beach music for dancing. The Bacchae's Back Disco Lounge, across the sidewalk from The Village Green, attracts a large and faithful student clientele with its disco music, cold beer and gameroom. Christopher's (formerly The Main Event) is another exclusively disco dance hall and is located on the Chapel nut-Durham Boulevard Summer's Forties story doesn't work in New York By LAWRENCE TOPPMAN DTH Contributor " People who complain that Hollywood doesn't make movies like it used to should see "New York, New York" and find out why. Martin Scorsese's film of the Earl Mac Rauch novel retells the love story between girl singer and ambitious musician that producers ceaselessly exploited on the back lots of the 1940s. Those wonderfully simple-minded musicals were, in the end, gaily uncluttered by annoying realities. But the world has grown harsh arid traumatic since Van Johnson and Juhe4 Allyson tripped beamishly across the sound stages. Scorsese has forsaken the brutality of "Taxi Driver" and "Mean Streets" for the madcap innocence of the postwar era, using the old story as a base. But today the Abbott-and-Costello dialogue THIS WEEK'S MUSIC Aug. 25 tvery thurtday BLUEGRASS EXPERIENCE 26-27 friday-uturday MIKE CROSS SRO 28 unday JAZZNITE PAUL MILESI & THE ISLEY TRADITION 30-31 tuefday-wednetday EMY REEVES 405 W. Rotcmfery St. 967-9053 New York type sandwiches Lox & Bagels I W Deli j FREE BEER (Draft Michelob) with this coupon -.V- a , 1 W'ftA hi 4T K1V These students are celebrating after the ACC basketball uncharacteristic. Carolina's 20,000 students, owning one of Championship last March. Many of them have visited at least the country's highest beer-consumption rates among f k...l 1 j:iti ii- 11.1 -tL ,i .i. - 'i' - i aa-.j:a:-.-.-.iu u i uiioui uiiafjci nui sseverai taverns mis nigni, wnicn reaiiy isn i universines, irequeni big - budget movie extravaganzas not all Liza Minnelli and Robert DeNiro co-star Dana singer, a saxopnonist ana tneir love fhumpS'' inanely'On;ur ears, and the light humor collapses under the weighty neuroses of the 1970s. By the time Scorsese twists the end of the tale boy meets, gets and loses girl, only to have her choose to stay lost the story is irretrievably trapped between two film generations, gratifying neither. Scorsese quickly sets us in post-World-War-11 New York, as Tommy Dorsey swings away at a V-J Day party. From the crowd surfaces veteran Jimmy Doyle, cruising for action. Doyle (Robert DeNiro) makes Erno Laszlo is a personalized skin care program for healthy, natural looking skin.. 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Big P.: "I know what I want, and you're not it. Why, you . . . . " We invite you into our store to answer those famous questions and to learn why some of the world's most famous and beautiful women are Members of the Erno Laszlo Institute. 1 l,V I FINK FEATHERS 1 i - uauiuunai oars sucn as i ne onauiv, Pretty girls, neat gadgets replace plot in By ED RANKIN and l.Ot' BILIONIS Associate Editors Every reviewer who took in The Spy Who Loved Me has mentioned the opening ski jump scene, where 007 launches off a thousand foot ravine in Austria to escape a host of Russian pursuers. These reviewers will not. Nor w ill they mention the latest in a series of Bond playtoys an amphibious automobile replete with missile launcher, mud slinger and machine gun. Nor will they mention the fine underwater cinematography, the traditional lack of dialogue in favor of non-stop action, the grim and slightly rotund villain, or the suave, debonair Bond's continuous reliance on horacious puns. Finally, they refuse to mention the vivacious beauties that permeate the film. By omitting these items from study, it becomes apparent that nothing else need be said. After all. The Spy Who Loved Me is vintage Bond the plot is predictable, the characters are stock, the special effects are truly special, and the tongue is firmly implanted in the cheek. M summons crack agent James Bond (Roger Moore) from an Austrian assignment to save the world from ?f The Lotus Kitchen Now for the first time you can enjoy delicious Chinese food within walking distance of campus. For your own cooking we have ingredients available at the Chapel Hill Oriental Store. Ice cold domestic and imported beer Fast Service Eat In or Take Out 130 East Franklin 967-9187 The 1977-1978 Season of the Playmakers Repertory Company (PRC) Sept. 15-Oct. 2 "A Streetcar Named Desire," by Tennessee Williams Infamous Southern belle, Blanche DuBois meets brutally sensuous Stanley Kowalski. An American legend. Oct. 13-30 "Equus." by Peter Shaffer A shattering psychological excursion into the mind of a tortured adolescent who blinds his horse-friends. Recent winner of the Tony Award for Best Play. Nov. 10-27 "Play It Again, Sam." by Woody Allen Can a bespectacled film critic, with instructions from Humphrey Bogart, find lasting happiness with members of the opposite sex? Jan. 19-Feb. 5 "Hamlet." by William Shakespeare The Playmakers call it "the most contemporary play ever written." The full impact of this classic can only come across in performance, Proff Koch himself played the they're cracked up to be latest Bond nuclear holocaust. It seems that the evil megalomaniac Mr. Stromborg (Curt Jurgens) has swiped two nuclear submarines English and Soviet and plans to destroy New York and Moscow. After he seizes control of the world, his vision of an underwater civilization will reach fruition. Triple X (one of the worst puns in the movie) is a Russian Bond with a few extra curves. The sultry spy (Barbara Bach) faces the same challenge, and the two combine their talents (as Bond might say it) to undermine the arch villain's grand scheme. Whereas Odd Job of Goldfinger possessed a metal derby, the newest henchman. Jaws, enjoys dental work that would: make even the quackiest orthodontist gape in disbelief. The seven foot plus ogre, tastefully portrayed by Richard Kiel, takes the eight count at least a half .dozen times he is torpedoed, electrocuted, tossed from a speeding train, crushed by tumbling ruins and even set up as an entree for Stromborg's pet shark but is still on his feet in the fifteenth round. But Jaws isn't the only peril confronting the two super-spys. The aquamaniac Stromborg does his best to foil their mission and the result is exciting chase scenes on land and in sea. In the end, as in all Bond flicks, the forces of righteousness prevail and Stromborg's dream of a world under the waves is sunk. But it is those unmentionables which every critic has cited which make The Spy Who Loved Me another 007 classic. Bond fans flock to theaters to see outrageous gimmickry, beautiful women, a hero smooth as silk and action, action, action. Over a decade ago, the first die-hards oohed and ahhed over 007's specially-equipped Austin Martin which featured ejection seat, smoke screen, oil slick, revolving license plate and enough weaponry to equip the British army. Today, it is a customized Lotus which doubles as a submarine just this side of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Becker's Electronics SPECIAL! $10.95 Will Clean, Lube and Adjust Any Make Turntable! Expert Repairs Stereos all makes Radios Turnatables CB's FCC License BECKER'S ELECTRONICS 108 Henderson St. 942-7959 title role here in 1935. Feb. 16-Mar. 5 An O'Neill Playwright, A New Play A new play from the O'Neill Playwrights Conference. In the comic vein of "Isadora Duncan Sleeps with the Russian Navy" and the vaudevillian "History of the American Film." Mar. 16-Apr. 2 "Marco Millions," by Eugene O'Neill A comedy in which an American youth, Marco Polo, is catapulted through exotic and erotic adventures in the Far East. He is transported from Istanbul to Tartar hordes, from the inner circles of Cathay to the court of Kubla Khan, where he distinguishes between love and capitalism. Apr. 13-20 "Mr. Roberts," by Thomas Heggen and Joshua Logan One of America's more poignant comedies captures the bravery and humor of American men and women in World War II. Box office open September 6 for eaton ticket orders. Box office open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Special student price $20 for aeaton ticket. Sensuous heroines have also been a trademark of Bond movies but none can compare with Barbara Bach. She's a little short on talent but more than makes up for it elsewhere, as exhibited in last month's Playboy magazine. But then again the world of James Bond is one of fantasy with faint suggestions of sex, glamor, glitter and gold. Buxom women and macho males are the rule. As for the smooth-as-silk hero, Roger Moore fits the bill. Four films ago Moore had the dubious honor of succeeding the original 007, Sean Connery enjoyed a cult-like following and modeled Ian Fleming's fictional Briton to his liking. With cool aplomb, Moore is at home now in the role and one has no trouble believing Moore is James Bond. The Spy Who Loved Me is simply a fun, entertaining movie. It has no pretentions of being anything other than a delightful, action-packed spy spoof. The ending is never in doubt and the suspense never mounts for more than a few minutes (and neither does Bond the movie's rated PG). It's a bang-bang series of visual one-liners, a seemingly endless array of subplots which only ask that you sit back and enjoy. And so you will. 137 E. Rosemary in NCNB Plaa open y l m -midnight.
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