Harry Kelierman
is universally dull
Review by Roland Reed
Who is Harry Keller mun
And Why Is He Saying Those
Terrible Things About Me? at
the State Theatre, is immersed
in universal notions. Director
Ulu Grosbard (even his last
name seems symbolic) takes
themes sueli as time, aging,
decay, love and loneliness,
dribbles and spills them all
about on his cinematic canvas
and makes them as hip as the
Afro-ed, mini-walrus-ed star,
Dustin Hoffman.
"We are treated to splashes of
schionphrenia and paranoia,
yin and yang, high comedy and
low tragedy, acrophobia and
autophobia, sex and sincereity.
We fall in and out of
Hoffman's dreams in the most
ingenious ways. In fact, it's
packed. It's chock-full of treats
designed for every palette. But
it's dull.
DUSTIN HOFFMAN as
Georgie Solo way (fraught with
allegory), popular singer, can't
sleep because people don't love
him anymore. Why don't they
love him? A great, generous,
outgoing fellow like that?
It seems this Kelierman calls
all of Soloway's friends and
tells lies about him, and turns
people against him. This keeps
Georgie from sleeping and
Baker and McConnel . .
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where one partner is dominant.
He said he and Baker view their
relationship as 1 hat of two
equal individuals living
together.
BAKER AND McConnel
said they were bofh brought up
believing in God and that
religion is still a part of their
lives.
Asked about how early they
knew they were gay. Baker said
he remembered prefering males
to females at an early age. He
added that he is comfortable
with women, but is not
confortable going to bed with
them.
"At 19 I decided I was no
longer going to date girls just
to impress other people," he
said.
McCONNEL SAID "There
comes a point in every life
turns on his hallucinogenic
memory.
Sometimes his interesting
memory channels in on his
built-in, stereophonic,
semi-automatic, remote TV set.
Sometimes it beams out of the
control dials of his lyrical
private plane as it meanders
aimlessly, like the film,
through the pollution screen
over Manhattan.
GEORGIE SEES his
psychiatrist often. He calls his
stable of girl friends, colleagues
and his accountant. He
remembers the girls he done
wrong in his youth. He looks
for understanding. He wants
love. Peace. Will he get these
things? I won't tell you. But it
doesn't matter. Because
Georgie Soloway is barely the
skeleton of a human being.
He's a computerized
compilation of hip
characteristics and promotable
hangups. The producers pulled
together all the right
ingredients, but neglected to
infuse the final product with
life. There are no meaningful
moments of human beings
relating to one another.
The filp is ultimately about
human relationships. It does
not communicate the
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when you realize you are a
sexual being. You also realize
that your drive S
directed toward some object."
He said he realized when he
was between eight and ten that
his dr;ve was directed toward
persons of the same sex.
Baker's final comment was
directed toward State Senator
Terry Carpenter. He said he
resented Carpenter for
misrepresenling gay people.
HE ADDED THAT
Carpenter is "a fool who does
not deserve the trust of the
people of Nebraska." His race
for the Senate "drags the high
office he seeks to the level of
the gutter,"' Baker said.
"Luckily, though, the newly
enfranchised voters will decide
the upcoming elections," he
said. "They will not be fooled
by hate-mongers disguised as
messengers of God!'
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Black Sabbath, A British quartet from Aston, a rough downtown area of
unfashionable Birmingham, will be appearing at Pershing Auditorium on Tuesday,
October 19.
Developing their musical identity by winning followings in Belgium, Holland,
Denmark, Sweden, Germany, France and Switzerland, Black Sabbath's music is
tough. An honest reflection of their backgroup.
Two back-up groups will be featured with Black Sabbath.
Walkabout microscopic cultural clash
Review by
Bill Wallis
Walkabout is an
extraordinarily beautiful show
in several ways. The plot
credibly combines fantasy and
the starkest realism, and welds
them together into a powerful
human drama.
The superb camera work
captures a magnificent natural
environment (Australian bush
country) and integrates it
literally and symbolically with
the story. The visual
storytelling is augmented with
a very effective score by John
Barry. Musical coordination
and sound effects add brilliant
dimensions for the viewer.
THE STORY is of a
sixteen-year-old girl and her
younger brolher who are
stranded in the bush country
after their father attempts to
kill them and then commits
suicide.
After several davs of
Pamela play a happy lusty piano
and sings tier original music songs
which have been recorded by such
performers i The Byrds . The Stone
Poneys, and Vtcki Carr She hat
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exposure they are rescued and
provided for by an aborigine
youth who is undergoing a trial
period away from ms tribe,
after which he will be initiated
into it as a man and be allowed
to take a wile. This is his
"walkabout," a time of growth
and intense experience.
After the several days they
are together in the most
primitive of environments, the
m a 1 e -p r o v i d e r proposes
marriage in a dance which
terrifies the civilized young
Englishwoman.
SHE REJECTS him and
returns to her civilization. The
aborigine boy is left hanging
from a tree, as the girl's dead
father was shown to be in
flashbacks to the scene of his
suicide.
Civilization is shown to be a
destructive force, which
sterilizes and destroys its own
members, as well as those
outside itself.
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most skillful and thematically
integrated use of flashback
technique I've seen recently.
Sequences which combine two
separate yet simultaneous
scenes (the girl dances and
swims while the boy hunts) arc
also exquisitely done.
THIS IS NOT the
romanticism of Friends or
Summer of '42. It is a
microscopic cultural clash, a
very basic failure of
communication because of
disparate value systems. But it
is a beautiful and revealing
experience for the viewer.
The show is a rare and
priceless psychological study
and integration of symbol and
story. Do not miss this glimpse
of man at his most joyful basic
and his most tortured
complexity-and the young
woman caught in between the
two men.
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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
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