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The response from last week's column was really great.
As a matter of fact, it was one of the largest mail responses
received by the Daily Nebraskan from a single news article.
Thanks! . . , , , .
In case you don't know what I'm talking about, last week 1
asked for public response to the idea of bringing the musical
Hair to Lincoln next fall.
Well, as I said, the response was very good. There was not a
single response from anyone opposing the idea of bringing Hair
in In fact, not only was the student response large, but I also
got favorable response from the University faculty and even
from four Lincoln attorneys.
Now to the point which I assume everyone is interested in,
is Hair coming to Lincoln?
I don't know yet. The Pershing Auditorium board will vote
on the matter Tuesday, April 6, to decide for certain, but I can
say that the situation looks very very good.
Keep your eyes open for next Wednesday s newspaper, I
should have something definite for you by then.
Thanks again for the tremendous response.
Blood, Sweat and Tears will be at Pershing Auditorium
Saturday, at 8 p.m. and on April 16, Rod McKuen will be
there. Get your tickets now!
Tommy, the Kosmet Club's latest production, will be
presented Friday, and Saturday, April 3, at 8 p.m. in the NU
Coliseum. '
Under the Yum Yum Tree is going into its final weekend at
the Lincoln Community Playhouse.
Of interest to people with cars, Sly and The Family Stone
will be in concert at Ames, Iowa at the Iowa State University
Armory on Friday, April 2, at 8:30 p.m. and Saturday, April
3, at 7:30 p.m. It would most certainly be worth the trip.
Wagner's last opera, Parsifal, will be broadcast Saturday,
April 3, beginning at 12 noon and will be heard locally over
KRNU (fm) (90.3 mc).
Featured will be Irene Dalis as Kundry, Sandor Konya as
Parsifal, Cesare Siepi as Gurnemanz, Thomas Stewart as
Amfortas, Morley Meredith as Klignsor and John Macurday as
Titurel. Leopold Ludwig will conduct.
inosaur flick is bad from all angles
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Review by
RICHARD BOOHAR
Warner Brother's When
Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth
could be reviewed from many
standpoints. It doesn't really
matter which, because it's bad
no matter how you look at it.
From a conventional angle,
it's a prehistoric skinflick in
which Sanna, the silver-haired
sacrificial maideit played by
Victoria Vetri, escapes her fate
and everyone devotes the rest
of the movie to hunting her
down lest some terrible fate
befall the tribe.
EVERY SCENE is filled
with actual or impending
violence, with semi-undressed
savages screaming, shouting or
moaning monosyllables as the
situation warrants. Only rarely
is there any visible connection
between any two scenes, and
sometimes there appears to be
little relationship between
parts of a sinele scene.
I was asked, however, to
consider the film as science
fiction, and from the
standpoint of legitimate
science fiction at least, that is
one thing this cinematic horror
ain't.
Not only are we asked to
swallow the paleontologically
horrendous juxta position of
humans and dinosaurs in
geologic time, wc have to
accept the notion that both
existed "when there was no
moon."
The moon's place is
occupied by a writhingly
vaporous apparition in the sky,
and one gets the impression
that the catastrophe which
wipes out the bad guys at the
end is somehow related to the
birth of the friendly old moon
as we know it.
Before that occurs,
however, we have to sit
through Sanna' s
history-making domestication
of a carnivorous reptile big
enough to have her for an hors
d'oeuvre and her subsequent
gambols with a baby dinosaur
which acts like an overgrown
puppy. The list could go on
and on-these are just some
outstanding examples- but
they illustrate my primary
point.
LEGITIMATE SCIENCE
fiction involves at least some
attempt to produce
versimilitude by some
standard. Nowhere in When
Dinosaurs Rules the Earth is
there the slightest suggestion
that anyone paid attention to
any aspect of scientific
accuracy.
The flying reptiles still fly
swiftly on slow-moving wings,
the jungle monster of The Lust
World still crashes through the
same jungle (oddly out of place
in a mostly arid landscape) and
dinosaurs with the most
astonishing combinations of
(jEnferan age cf unknown terrors,
isafian ocrsfilp and virgin sacrifice... j
"TOMMY CAN YOU SEE ME" ... sings Danny
Kosmet Klub's production of the musical Tommy.
gigantic strength and great
weakness, thunderous stupidity
and doglike intelligence pop up
behind the nearest rock
whenever the viewer is
temporarily seated with staring
at Vetri's voluptuously glowing
flesh.
In summary, it is difficult to
see how anyone could find
something enjoyable about this
film, unless he just plain likes
skinflicks.
Laugh about it,
shout about it. . .
Thursday's Hyde Park will
be devoted to major platform
presentations and a debate
between ASUN presidential
contenders.
The program will begin at
3:30 p.m. in the Nebraska
Union lounge.
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THE ACTING is
non-existent, and Vetri's is
noticeably worse only because
we see more of her than
anyone else. The direction is
typified by a late chase scene
which really should have been
filmed on several different
planets to get the wide variety
of terrains and climates
through which the hero and
heroine pass on foot.
See it if you wish, but as a
courtesy to science fiction
fans, don't blame this
monster-osity on science
fiction.
ISSUE: Joint Treaty of Peace
E(017 THE ISSUE AND VOTE
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7
SPRING GENERAL ELECTION
ASSOCIATION OF STUDENTS OF THE
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA (ASUN)
The following issue will be on the April 7 Spring ballot:
EXPRESS YOUR OPINION:
I favor the Joint Treaty of Peace
I oppose
Joint Treaty ol Peace
Between
the People of the United State
and the People ol South Vietnam and North Vietnam
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