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Cooper (spotted suit) and crew
Kate Smith.
their show's a collage of baby dolls, sparklers and
cinoflriQ
Cinema 1
Steelyard Blues. Donald Sutherland
and Jane Fonda together m one of
the sleepers of the year. You have
to be slightly insane to appreciate
the film but it's a mighty fine tale
about an ex-con demolition derby
driver, a prostitute and other
assorted wierdies who strike back at
a stifling society. 13th and P. 1 :30,
3:20, 5:10, 7:05, 9 05 p.m. Rated
PG.
five Academy Award nominations,
13th and P. 1 :30 , 3:55 , 6:20, 8:55
p.m. Rated R.
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Douglas 2
Cinema 2
Sleuth. The ultimate in macabre
murder mysteries. Laurence Olivier
and Michael Came give marvelous
performances, both more than
worthy of their Academy Award
nominations. The versatility which
the two actors display is
astounding. 13th and P. 1:30, 4,
6:30, 9 p.m. Rated GP.
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Billy Jack. Another time around for
the plastic liberals answer to John
Wayne. Pretentious attempt at
showing a Vietnam veteran's efforts
to save a free school from red-neck
bigotry 54th and 0. 7:30, 9:30
p.m. Rated GP.
Shamus. Burt Reynolds, complete
with moustache, in confusing but
action-packed detective flick. Dyan
Cannon does what she normally
does. ..nothing. However, minor
characters turn in some sterling
performances, 13th and P. 1:30,
3:30 , 5:30 , 7 20 , 9:16 p.m. Rated
PG.
Worlds Greatest Athlete. Walt
Disney's answer to Tarzan and Bob
Devaney. 1415 O. 1, 3:06, 5:15,
7:18. 9 25 p.m. Rated G.
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Douglas 3
The Emigrants. Ingmar Bergman
story of a Swedish emigrant family
of farmers in Minnesota. Liv
Ullmann and Max Von Sydow in
the leading roles. 13th and P. 1 :40,
4:20, 7, 9:40 p.m. Sunday through
Thursday, 2, 5, 8, p.m. Rated PG.
Sounder. Cicely Tyson and Paul
Winfield in highly touted film
about a Southern black family
during the Depression. Both Tyson
and Winfield were nominated for
Academy Awards. 13the and P.
1 :30, 3 25, 5:17, 7:10, 9:10 p.m.
Rated G.
Henzlik Hall
Embassy
Fleshpot on 42nd Street. Girls, girls
and more girls in a wilder than you
can imagine flick. 1730 O. 11,
12 45, 2:30, 4:15, 6, 7:45, 9 30
p.m. Rated X.
Friday. King Kong. The original
uncut version of the horror
masterpiece. Henzlik Hall. 7, 9:30
p.m.
Saturday: The River of No Return.
Mar.lyn Monroe and Robert
Mitchum in Otto Premmger's film
about a strange trio traveling down
a hostile river. Henzlik Hall. 7,9:30
p.m.
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Douglas 1
Hollywood
Lady Sings the Blues. Diana Ross
does a credible job portraying jazz
singer Billie Holiday. Although the
movie script is inaccurate in many
phase'; of Holida's hfe, it's
extrenor.iy entertaining. Garnered
Friends. More than adequate
escapist fantasy about adolescent
love set m and around Pans.
Excellent soundtrack features Elton
John's vocals. 12th and Q. 7:45,
9:45 p.m. Matinees Friday through
Sunday 1:45, 345, 5 45 p.m.
Rated R.
Fritz the Cat. Amazingly boring
x-rated cartoon version of R.
Crumb's frantic feline. It's nothing
like the comic and even less like
Crumb, who has since disowned the
atx mi nation. Miss this and catch its
sequels, maybe. 12th and Q. 7:30,
y.lb p.m. Matinees Friday through
Sunday, 2:15, 4, 5:45 p.m. Rated
X.
Divine decadence,
Alice Cooper style
Some people wouldn't cross the street to see Alice Cooper.
"He's absolutely worthless" they say, "the ultimate in ripping
off the audience, with a silly little show and no-talent
screeching."
But there's no dening that Cooper and Co. are the best at
what they do-vaudeville rock. Cooper's shows are more than
just concerts. They are theatrical productions.
Cooper lives up to his image as "Emperor of the Bizarre,"
by traveling in an F-27 Electra Jet furnished with a conference
room and a private suite for the band.
For amusement, Cooper has stocked the plane with a
blackjack table; two video tape projectors complete with
segments of All In the Family and The Burns & Allen Show,
Marx Brothers films and three different versions of Dracula;
400 comic books; a quarter-million cans of beer; 14 cases of
scotch and 3,000 pounds of crunchy granola.
But that's Cooper's private life. It's his on-stage antics that
either turn people on or off to him.
His latest show uses props like a guillotine; a dentist's chair;
a surgical table; a sawing-in-half machine; whips; hatchets;
22,000 sparklers; 300 baby dolls; 58 mannequins and (shades
of Lawrence Welk.) 14 bubble machines.
These props background sequences including one with a
dancing tooth, a seven-foot toothbrush and a six-foot tube of
toothpaste.
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At another point Cooper is sawed in half on stage. Later, he
is guillotined with his head held up for the crowd. The show's
finale has Cooper's corpse reviving, waving a giant American
flag and leading a demonic parade to Kate Smith's "God Bless
America".
These antics have alienated many of Cooper's listeners.
They think throwing posters and bubble bath into the
audience is immature and nonprofessional.
Alice Cooper is the last of a vanishing breed the rock
showman. Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix are dead, and
Cooper has not only picked up their fallen gauntlets, but has
sewn rhinestones and emeralds to them.
Cooper's shows may be weird and extravagant, but they
keep one type of rock entertainment alive and kicking.
And look at it this way Ringling Bros, and Barnum and
Bailey would have trouble topping it.
(blurbs )
Kosmet Klub's One Flew
Over the Cuckoo's Nest is
showing tonight, Saturday and
Sunday at the Lincoln
Community Playhouse, 56th
and Normal Blvd. On campus it
opens Wednesday in the
Nebraska Union Centennial
Room. Cuckoo's Nest will run
through April 14.
Theatre Inc. of Lincoln will
hold open tryouts at 2 p.m.
Sunday for this season's first
Mellerdrammers, No Opera at
the Opry House Tonight or
Too Good To Be True, at The
Gas Light, 322 So. 9th St. Five
men and six women.
The Civilisation film series
this week finds Part 10-"The
Smile of Reason" on Sunday
and Part 11-"The Worship of
Nature" on Thursday. All
Civilsation shows are held at
the Sheldon Art Gallery and
are free.
Kimball Recital Hall will be
busy with the Brass Ensemble
and the Brass Choir performing
tonight; the Nebraska Brass and
Woodwind Quintets will give a
Faculty Recital on Monday;
Harvey Hinshaw, pianist, in a
Faculty recital on Tuesday and
the Symphonic Band in
concert on Thursday. All
concerts and recitals are at 8
P.m.
Kosmet
Klub 'g
new
roost
"Is this the spring musical?" was one audience member's
comment about Kosmet Klub's (K.K.) first non-musical
production, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
Inheriting a debt from past productions, K.K. President
Mirk Wirth said he started the year facing the decision of
whether to let K.K. try something new. Overexposure and
lack of available musicians left the club without its first
choice for product ion -Fiddler on the Roof.
"I had been working six months to get something which
sounded like the right show to do and suddenly ended with
nothing until Dean Tschetter suggested One Flew Over the
Cuckoo's Nest. I'd never been opposed to doing drama, but
as with musicals, just didn't know one which sounded like
the one to do," Wirth said.
But this show seemed ideal, he said. "It is one of the
finest novel adaptations I've read." Because it's not an
extravagant play, production costs would be smaller than
previous years.
Theatrically, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a long
way from the "chorus line of thousands" tradition of
Broadway musical (past K.K. productions). It involves 13
characters from Ken Kesey's novel, set in the dayroom of a
mental institution, in an intimate arena-theater.
According to director Bruce Borin, there are no backrow
seats and, in fact, part of the audience will have the play
happening in their laps. The production runs throuah
Sunday in the Gallery Theater of the Lincoln Community
Playhouse. Next week it moves to the Nebraska Union
Centennial Room.
Critics say Kesey's story is lively, funny and
melodramatic, but still very human. Even though mental
institutions such as the one depicted in the play have long
been outdated, the story doesn't suffer, Borin said.
Borin, who also plays Randle P. McMurphy, sees much
of Kesey in his character: a con-man with magnetic charm
who overwhelms the men in the ward who have been long
dominated by Big Nurse.
"While Big Nurse is all of the men's neuroses rolled into
one and just barely humanized, McMurphy is a vital life
force the men identify with, drawing from him what they
need to complete themselves. He is a primitive man, acting
on emotions which he can't control even though he can see
he is about to make a mistake," Borin said.
"McMurphy is the kind of outlaw-renagade-antihero that
walks into a situation and is automatically loved because
every man can identify with him. I think, most men in their
dreams would like to be the gutsy open kind of person he
is, at least for awhile or maybe think he could be if he
wanted," Borin said.
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daily nebraskan
friday, april 6, 1973