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12TheTar HeelThursday, May 29, WEEK'S FAME TODAY QThe Woven and Graphic Art JdJot Anni Albers. an exhibition of weaving prints and drawings, will be displayed through June 1 at Ackland Art Museum. The Gallery of ArtSchool, Center for Visual & Performing Arts in Carrboro will exhibit works of ArtSchool students through June 6. The Eastern Eye. an exhibition of Japanese graphic design, w ill be held at North Carolina State's University 'TroMlble in Mind' 'characters eccentric and colorful, buit film reqnires patience By JILL GERBER Co-editor "Trouble in Mind" is a fitting title for director Alan Rudolph's film because it does nothing but breed confusion. At first, the fragmented story lines are appealing, even intriguing, until the viewer's patience is worn and the movie becomes a mishmash of so many elements that it seems useless to even concentrate on the plot. The story begins w ith a traditional theme. Keith Carradine plays Coop, the character who undergoes the transformation from a simple, wool-jacketed woodsman with John Denver-like hair, into a flashy, slick-talking criminal with fluorescent ties and a grotesquely-shaped- pompadour like a punk Ricky Nelson. Georgia, his inno cent, naive "woman," played by Lori Singer, takes refuge from Mr. Hyde with Wanda, played by Genivieve Bujold. the proprietress of a down town diner whose foreign accent comes and goes with each scene. Present this Coupon When Ordering 1 a CONTACT LENS CONTACT LENS See What You're Missing Daily Wear Spherical Soft Contact Lenses Includes: Eye examination, contact lenses, sterilization unit, fitting, and follow-up visits. Offer good through 6-20-86. r FOR $(g)(g)00 t CARE OF 0 CONTACT LENS CONTACT LENS 1986 Center Gallerv through June 30. FRIDAY y A Sweet Dreams will be shown 3 lin the Union at 7 and 9:30 p.m. The New Performing Dance Com pany, a modern dance group, will perform at the Reynolds Theater in the Bry an Center at Duke Univerity at 8:15 p.m. Bleizi Ruz. a popular folk band from Britanny. France, will perform at the ArtSchool in Carrboro at 8 p.m. Worldly Wanda periodically shares her wisdom with wide-eyed Georgia, uttering such gems as, "I been everywhere, honey." The characters fit their stereotypes so obviously that Rudolph must have intentioned it. yet they are so eccentric and colorful that they are farcical rather than boring. But most films have one character who does not work, and here, it comes in the form of John "Hawk" Hawkins, an ex-cop and convict played by Kris Kristofferson. Kristofferson. clad in a black suit and hat reminiscent of Johhny Cash, is ludicrous as a streetwise urbanite who falls in love with Georgia. Perhaps Carradine should have been cast as Hawk, because Kristofferson is extremely unconvincing. He merely propagates the macho lead ing man tradition, a genre that needs a rest. The bearded pseudo-cowboy would look more believable hauling cattle in an 18-w heeler than he does in a sparsely-furnished inner-city flat with curtainless windows. In one particularly laughable CO CONTACT LENS CONTACT LENS Dr. Thomas Costabile Optometrist 968-4774 Mon.-Fri. 9-6 Closed 1-2 Kroger Plaza Chapel Hill THE YOUR EYES CONTACT LENS CONTACT LENS SATURDAY W A Prairie Home Companion J JLwith Garrison Keillor will be broadcast on WUNC at 8 p.m. Carlos Salvo, a Chilean folksin ger. will perform "New Song" music at Internationalist Books at 8 p.m. SUNDAY 1 The Purple Rose of Cairo will be shown in the Union at 7 and 9:30 p.m. A chamber music concert featur ing Dixon Crumpler on keyboards and guitar. Beverly Botsford on percussion. Amy Glass on flute, and Paul Whetstone on keyboards at the ArtSchool at 2 p.m. scene. Hawk returns to Wanda after his stint in prison and takes her to bed. almost against her will. The screen is filled with flailing limbs as an awkward love scene ensues, with Wanda sobbing as she wails, "Take me, Johnny.1 It is nauseating, but like the rest of the movie, the viewer suspects that it is done this way purposely. Perhaps the most entertaining character is played, surprisingly enough, by Divine, the corpulent drag queen who starred in John Waters' bizarre works. "Pink Fla mingos" and "Polyester." Here, he plays a big time gangster, Hilly Blue, who sports a large diamond earring and coolly operates the black market crime ring that propels Carradine into his downward spiral. "Trouble's" setting is one of its most innovative, although perplex ing, elements. The characters are placed in a typical American city that is transformed into a police state teeming with militiamen. Like Bat man's Gotham City, it could be any large metropolitan area in the KENSINGTON TOCE Weaver Dairy Road 967-0044 Pre-lease Now for Wider Selection Free Concert with The Shady Grove Band New bluegrass, swing, and original songs Tuesday, June 3 8:00 p.m. in the Great Hali Presented by Jazz Pianist Robert Griffin will perform at the ArtSchool at 10 p.m. MONDAY 2 The Killing Fields will be shown in the Union at 7 and 9:30 p.m. TUESDAY 3 The Shady Grove Band, a tra ditional and contemporary blue grass . music group will be the Union's" Free Concert at 8 p.m. in the Great Hall. WEDNESDAY 4 Rear Window will be shown in the Union at 7 and 9:30 p.m. The Raleigh Community Band will be giving a Raleigh Parks and United States, and is full of the Orwellian degregation-of-mankind overtones that seem to be so pre valent in movie-making today. The city is portrayed as a dark and threatening entity riddled with decadent types who are more than, willing to pull the uninitiated into their twisted life styles. Basically, the film is a farce. It ridicules city life, black market crime and racketeering, stereotypical film characters, and in general, the complexity of our society. If nothing else, it is interesting; Rudolph's juxtaposition of stereotypical char acters into the police state setting is certainly creative. But watching it takes patience and a little more concentration than should be neces sary for a feature film. In other words, it isn't really worth the "trouble." ?! SOCIETY IS W 9 wT mm Students! Come Spend the Summer With Us. Recreation concert at 7 p.m. in the - Gardner State Ballfield. MOVIES Plaza 1, Cobra at 3:30, 5:30, 7:35 and 9:45 p.m. Plaza 2, Short Circuit at 3:15, 5:15, 7:15 and 9:15 p.m. Plaza 3, Top Gun at 3, 5:10, 7:20 and 9:35 p.m. Ram 1, Sweet Liberty at 7 and 9 p.m. Ram 2, Jo Jo Dancer at 7 and 9 p.m. Ram 3, The Color Purple at 8 p.m. Varsity 1, Ginger and Fred at 2, 4:25, 7 and 9:25 p.m. Varsity 2, Ron at 2, 5 and 8 p.m. Lou Reed from page 11 blistering guitar solo. The song that brings all of his talents together for maximum effect is the briskly-paced funk workout called The Original Wrapper." A consummate poet, and now guita rist, Reed uses these skills to remind us that he was indeed the first rocker to rap, although no one could ever manage to do it in his inimitable style. He doesn't pretend to have invented the funk rap of the Ws, but instead tries it on for size to show that he has always been doing something that closely approxi mates and transcends "message rap." There is nothing on this record for the more pedestrian, "Walk on the Wild Side" type of fan. It is unfortunate, but perhaps inevitable, that Reed never has gotten the recognition of a Madonna, a Spring steen, or a Robert Frost, because it should please even the most casual rock fan to see a performer grow both personally, and within the tight boundaries he chooses to operate within. If asked by a rock fan interested in Reed's particular idiom, they should be referred to the Velvet's great efforts, their debut record, Loaded, White Light White Heat, Live at Max's Kansas City, or Reed's earlier solo efforts , particularly Transformer, but Mis trial would surely be near the top of any rock fan's required discography. Anglicans hold weekly barbeque The Anglican Student Fellowship will hold a cookout every Thursday at Chapel of the Cross (next to Morehead Planetarium) following the 5:15 p.m. service. Summer activities will follow the cookouts. There is a $2 charge. 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