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1 1 6The Daily Tar HeelThursday, October 23, 1980 TO it J A t'hrus Une at 8:30 p.m. Friday, Saiurday and Sunday and al 4 p.m. Saiurday and Sunday in Memorial Hall. Broaday on Tour brings this energetic and exciting musical which portrays a scries ol auditions for a Broadway show and the story of the dancers. For ticket information call 933-1449. Al Jarre stu at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Memorial Hall. Jarreau is a distinctive jazz vocalist with an "orchesr3 in his throat." For ticket information call 933-1449. The Murray Lout Daisce Company at 8 p.m. Tuesday in Memorial Ha!!. This award-winning contemporary dance company has Keen critically acclaimed as one of the best in America. For ticket in formaiion call 933-1449. Love on the Run at 7 and 9:30 p.m. Friday in Carroll Hall. The latest chapter in Francois Truffaut's autobiographical Antoine Doinel films, this charming comedy chronicles Doinels incurable romanticism and complicated affairs of the heart. Admission Si. . , Cinema Campus Tit !.al Supper at 8 p.m. today in Carroll Hall. Based on a historical incident, this allegory of Christian liberalism fxTtrayi a Count and the LaM Supper he stages with 12 slave from his plantation. Admission by UNC student ID or Union privilege card. The Harder TVy Con at 7 and 9: JO Saturday in Carroll Hall. A ra cult film following Jimmy Cliff from reggae to revolt. Admission by UNC student ID or Union privilege card. Sialg 17 at 3 p.m. Sunday in Carroll Hall. William Holdcn won an Oscar for portrayal of an accused POW in Biliy WilJcr'i brilliant World War II comedy-drama. Admission by UNC stuctnt ID or Union privilege card. I .a Guerre YM Unie at 8 p.m. Sunday in Carroll Hall. A powerful study of an aging Spanish revolutionary who has to face the fact that hit efforts have been for nothing. Admission by UNC student ID or Union privilege card. tiamlet at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Carroll Hall. Laurence Olivier stars in this brillum Shakespearean film, which won Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Actor. Admission by UNC student ID or Union privilege card. Chapel 1111 Carolina Blue Oh God! Book II. At 3:05, 5:10, 7:15 and 9:20 p.m. Starting Friday evening shows are at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Carolina White Tfuwe Lips, Tbo eye ends today. Final show at 3:30, 5:30, 7:30 and 9:30. Hopscotch opens Friday at 3:15, 5:15, 7:15, 9:15 p.m. Carolina Classic Jezebel. At 3 and 5:10 p.m. Blue Lalekow Ewy Rider. At 11:45 p.m. Friday and Saturday. White I teh Network. At 11:30 I riday and Satuiday. Ptaa J Stardust Memories. At 3. 5, 7, 9 p.m. PUa II -Private Benjamin. Al 2:45. 5, 7:15 and 9:15 Ptaa 111 Times Square ends today, final shows al 2:30, 4:50, 7: 10 and 9:20 p.m. Loving Couples Marls I riday. Call M7.J737 for limes. riiy The Big Red One. Final shows today at 2:45, 4.50. 7 and 9:15 p.m. Borderline starts Friday. Show at 3:15. 5:15. 7:15. 9:15 p.m. Varsity t.aiesbow The Rocky Horror Picture Show, At midnight Friday and Saiurday. Ram Triple Call 942-3561 for weekend features. Theater The Cocktail Party, T.S. Eliot's tragi-comcdy about human relationships, at 8 p.m daily through Sunday in the Piaymafcers Theatre. Eliot wrestles with incileful issues in this provoking play. For more information call 933-1121. Gaadiget Fraulein, a one-act play by Tennessee Williams, at 4 and 8 p.m. Monday in the Lab Theatre in Graham Memorial. Tickets may be picked up at the box office of Graham Memorial. Salute to lei-net and Loewe through Saturday at the Chez Condoret Cabaret, 143 W. Franklin St. Performances are at 9 p.m. with late shows at 1 1 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. Murder at the Cabaret opens Wednesday at 9 p.m. For more information call 942-8714. Yon're a Good Man. Charlie Brown, presented bv Duke's Hoff "n Horn Society, at 8:15 p.m. today and Friday in Fred Thrcatre on the Duke University Campus. For more information call 684-4059. Audition for the Carolina Union's production of Tennessee's Walt from 2 to 7 p.m. today in Great Hall. For more information call 933-1157. Concerts Faculty Brass Quintet at 4 p.m. Sunday in Hill Hall auditorium. The concert features a Sonata by Henry Purcell, as well as works by Georg and Shostakovich. Faculty Recital, cellist Elaine Scott Banks, at 8:15 p.m. Sunday in Hill Hall Auditorium. A Sammartini Sonata for Baroque Cello and a Beethoven sonata are featured. 'Chuck Holloa Group at 9 p.m. Saturday at The Art School in Carrboro. The group performs jazz. Call 942-2041 for more information. Afrfeaa Samtus, David Fanshawe's multimedia choral composition, at 8:45 p.m. Saturday in Duke Chapel on the Duke University campus. For more information call 6S4-.WS. Gc!'cry Master of Photography opens Sunday at 3 p.m. al the Ackland Ar! Museum. TSie Ritinbow in Black, a photography exhibition sponsored by AfricanAfro-American studies and the Black Student Movement, opens Monday in the Carolina Union. Family Art Kxhibit at The Art School in Carr Mill Mall through Friday. Highly CtMleclabiei 19SJ). an exhibit of contemporary ceramics and other media, at the Cameron Craft Gallery, 133 W. Franklin St. Color Streams, an unusual exhibition of paintings by Nan Gressman, through Sunday at CenterGallery, 150 Main St.. Carrboro. - " Claude Howell, an exhibition of oils, watercotors and drawings, through Oct. 31 at the Sommerhill Gallery, 5504 Chapel Hill Blvd. Rsdlo The Red Clay Rambler live from Chapel Hill at 6 p.m. Saturday on WUNC, 91.5 FM. ' Planetarium Watchers of l!he Sky, chronicling the history of mankind's curiosity about the heavens, through Nov. 17. At 8 p.m. Monday through Friday; at 1 1 a.m. 1, 3 and 8 p.m. Saturday and at 2, 3 and 8 pm. Sunday. For more information call 933-1236. ' Kite Ufa The Statioa, 201 E. Mala St., Carrboro Frontfire plays reggae tonight through Saturday. Sphota performs new jazz Sunday night. On Tuesday the Snapper Creek String Band gives a square dance. The db's play new wave on Wednesday. The Cat's Cradle. 4C5Vi W. Eosemary St. The Bluegrass Experience plays tonight. David Olney and the X-Rays perform blues Friday and Saturday. Louise Branscomb and Old Train play on Monday. Riders in the Sky play western music on Tuesday and Wednesday. By TIM PO?E Staff Writer Maybe Hollywood should make a movie about the social implications of having more and more women in the military. Maybe. Fortunately, the makers of Private Benjamin didn't see this as their destiny. If Private Benjamin had looked seriously at the situation, it would have lost the charm of what it is a lighthearted, somewhat cutesy comedy which just happens to use the Army as a backdrop. tswnsmsm Clnarna L r Private Benjamin is the story of Judy Benjamin, a rather spacey blonde (played so characteristically by Goldie Hawn) who thrives in a world of electric toothbrushes and automatic dishwashers. Her chief concerns are whether her wedding gifts match the mushroom decor of her house. She has everything she has ever wanted. But Judy has a problem. Namely, a husband who dies of a heart attack on their wedding night. So off she goes to try to find herself. Taken in by a sweet-talking . Army recruiter (Harry Dean Stanton), who describes the Army as a world of condominiums and private rooms, Benjamin is unknowingly propelled into a world of barracks and boots. Before long, she has a run-in with her smirking commanding officer (Eileen Brennan). Later Benjamin helps capture the entire opposing team during war games, which wins her the heart of the base commander (Robert Webber). But she eventually falls in love with an assiduous Frenchman (Arm and Assante). Private Benjamin's storyline is plagued with typical conventions and this causes some problems. Too often the other female recruits come across as a bunch of Campfire girls, swapping stories about their first loves, instead of women who have been through several weeks of hard, rigorous training. The officers, like the Army they are in, appear much too vulnerable to be convincing. The most obvious infringement, however, is the constant interplay of sexual innuendo between the enlisted men and women and the officers. You wonder if the filmmakers are suggesting that the Army's purpose in trying to enlist more women is to supply the men with more Movie lias look Geld'3 Hawn plays "dumb b!snia, G.I. ...'Private Benjamin' will amuse viewers dates. Still, the sheer enthusiasm of the film wins out. Private Benjamin is an entertaining and fast-paced movie that clearly knows its bounds and politely stays within them. This by the fine-tuned acting of the major characters. Eileen Brennan is perfect at suppressing grins and Robert Webber plays the slightly out-of-touch macho Colonel Thornbush with a fine air of campiness. Even though Armand Assante is particularly good at appearing thoroughly busy, nobody is more perfectly cast than Goldie Hawn, who adds a new dimension to the word "dumb blonde" by creating a charcter who is both vulnerable and spunky. Director Howard Zieff uses the hammy abilities of his cast to create a comedy that excuses itself of any socially redeeming qualities. Had Zieff and the writers tried to strenthen the film by going beyond the situation of the story, making the Army a little less easy foil and penciling out the dumb throw-away lines of the minor characters, Private Benjamin could have been a really good comedy instead of just a pleasant diversion. orldl War 1 1 ..fr Murray Louis Dane ...show begins at 8 p Company to perform at UNC ,m. Tuesday at Memorial Hall The Bottom Line takes a lighter look at the news. Look for it every Tuesday and Thursday on the editorial page of The Daily Tar Heel. By TOM MOORE Arts Editor Samuel Fuller's The Big Red One is an anachronism; the movie has the look and feel of those World War II movies we watched as kids. Fuller, a cult director of B movies, had wanted to make a film about the First Infantry Division nicknamed The Big Red One," for years. Finally in 1978 he got financing and . went to Israel to make his movie. The Big Red One was shot on a budget of abouL$6 million. But you can't really tell. It still looks like a B movie without vast landscapes and a large cast. And the film retains some of the conventions of B movies with its neat wrap-ups and sometime,? trite dialogue. But to dismiss The Big Red One as a cheapie and to dismiss Fuller as a hack would be a great mistake. The Big Red ONe is one of the best films released this year, outranked only by Being There, Stardust Memories, Dressed to Kill and The Black Stallion. Cinema THE CAROLINA UNION, PRESENTS o AUDITIONS for Tennessee's Waltz an original production based on the poetry of Tennessee Williams TODAY 2 PM-7 PM IN THE GREAT HALL, CAROLINA UNION ; -m fa t mm J wm m j m w t m ) m J m jm -m J w f mm fm fm f.tjj j mil o STUDENT FALL FASHION SHOW Male and Female Models Needed! applications at Union Desk Screening: Tues., Oct. 28 1-5 in Room 202, Carolina Union o FREE LECTUREDEMONSTRATION by the MURRAY LOUIS DANCE CO. Monday, Oct. 27, 4:00 Mem. Hall and buy your tickets now for Murray Louis' Oct. 26 Performance q4 DO YOU NEED MONEY WE ARE BUYING GOLD AND SILVER! NAVAJO TRADING FOST M. 510 W. FRANKLIN STREET 929-0263 WE ARE BUYING DIAMONDS i "-T a r-r t t y r- frrr f fi t- t tt-t- Njwe are now Duying luvj uiniOD, ucihim. oulu, mlu-i s tfV.DING BANDS, GOLD COINS, GOLD JEWELRY, SILVER' N' test unmarked gold. r S' fvVE PAY TOP DOLLAR FOR STERLING SILVER ORJ VI SILVER COINS Mi The Big Red One traces the adventures of four young soldiers played by Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine, Bobby DiCicco and Kelly Ward and their veteran sergeant, Lee Marvin, as they fight from North Africa to Czechoslovakia. The focus of the film is narrow in scope, concentrating only on how the war affects these five soldiers because LiOer' is more interested in conveying war as a terrifying personal experience. Fuller has long been criticized, mistankenty, for making films that are explicitly right wing in viewpoint. That view is too simple-minded, though you can see where such criticism arises watching The Big Red One. When a young dogface tells Lee Marvin that he has some qualms about murdering his fellow man Marvin answers by saying. "It's not murder but killing.' And Marvin further clarifies his point adding that the Americans aren't killing their . fellow man but the enemy. Fuller also has the Germans in The Big Red One say the same thing, showing that soldiers on both sides have to think they're right in order to continue fighting. And although the dialogue is often gung-ho, the images are definitely anti war. Yet Fuller in the movie does suggest that wars can be fought for just causes. And it's this suggestion that makes The Big Red One seem like a .film from another era. War films of the past few years have portrayed war as a brutal and savage absurdity. The Big Red One portrays war as a brutal and savage absurdity for a just cause. ..The first cut of fuller's film ran more, than four .hours and it has since been cut' to slightly less than two. The film might have once had a more concrete storyline, but now it's a series of vignettes that remain powerfully etched in the memory. Scenes in such The Big Red One such as a soldier getting his genitals maimed by a land mine, the liberation of a concentration camp, the D-Day invasion, a woman giving birth in the midst of war are as brilliantly rendered as anything in film. Kir T ! I -31 illiJ M-SA1. Q-: SUN. 12-4 24 Court St. Roxboro 599-8881 712 Ninth St. Durham 286-7714 510 Franklin St. Chapel Hill 929-0263 fit? i v-m w -m t am rat m t m f mm m t mm t m wm i mm t mm I mm f mm ai i mm lm fm ' ! ? Rft A Admlzzlon limited: First come first cerve SOFLENSe r, . .J n i i f . ! fit i i ' i r K B 8 ! I 1 PRICE DOCS NOT INCIU Lit I XAM .NAUOM. 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