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Toilet bowl tragedies offer true acting test
"It' 3 a mouthwash you could
lev.-." Could you say that with a
straight face when you knew that
trillion'-, .vould laugh at you and retch?
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makes a true professional,
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:": :.-:iouQh to say such
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t" ; . t n training for actors.
j;iy is m.)hta:ned that the best
r'o i ' j; young performers is to
I" a Shakespeare company or in
-ock c',o'--i Bertolt Brecht,
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i.rj by thj great playwrights,
you pause to think about it,
ail wrong, because the greatest
surely must Ix? the easiest to
perform. It's easy to sound good when
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you say, "It is the east, and Juliet is
the sun" or "That was the unkindest
cut of all." It may take subtle
intonation to. speak Shakespeare
ingeniously, but it takes a French
accent to speak it badly.
Novice actors should avc' ' great
plays and seek out bad ones. Lousy
lines can give them a sense of the
challenge involved in conveying sense
and personal feeling. Budding
musicians can play Chopin without
mistakes, but that doesn't mean
they're ready for the concert circuit.
There are examples. Look at
William Shatner, who played Captain
Kirk in Star Trek. He started his career
playing Shakespeare in Canada, and it
didn't do him any good; when it came
time to deliver all that cornball
space-age philosophy, he was reduced
to inane punctuation and widened
eyes.
I always had the sneaking suspicion
that Dr. Spock wanted to knock him
out with his Vulcan nerve-grip.
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you hove my word
Look, on the other hand, at John
Bernardino, star of the soap opera
Genera Hospital, a perennial TV actor
who recently challenged all corners to
an "acting contest." I don't know
what in the world an acting contest is,
but if one ever were held, ' think
Bernardino probably would hold his
own. When you've been saying things
like "Jessica, are you sure want the
baby?" for ten years, "friends,
Romans, countrymen" is pud.
It is the toilet bowl tragedies, the
underarm soliloquies that test an actor
to the utmost. The small-timers who
bravely attempt "don't squeeze the
Charmin" and "for the first time in
years, I need a laxative" are those
suffering spirits, dear friends, who
raise my admiration even as their
words turn my stomach. Have some
sympathy for these poor devils,
although th?y lay your soul to waste.
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George Segal is having trouble with his love
life lately. Segal and Blume In Love left the
Cinema 1 theatre last week. Now he is back
y:; i'n, co st ji i iiuj with Glenda Jackson, in a
":!! v !" love sto'y, A Touch cf ClilSS.
AYiii'M', produced anil directed by Melvin
"k .-;v. Ims been writing, producing and
,;tivj kntu minor comedies since 1942),
'cu:i' of r-!.iss is incumbered by what has to
) ie of I'-.c- oldest plots in trie world.
Art A'rarican businessman living in London,
.. ; has h senes of incredibly coincidental
; tings with Jackson, a young British fashion
igner who is more than happy to return his
at: 3nces.
Tf.r r.vo I tjv d week long jffair in Malaga
.!...!.., n'oi Umjtfly for them, they fall in love
aid wnfoi tu'Mtdy for the audience the story
tut'i1. to (li-Jie Segal isn't prepared to give her
i;p -t, .f. rural, the haunting image of his wife
j i c: .r.il'.'i en lurks in the background.
AmI -..s we have seen so many times before,
then; .ee the usual slip-ups such as, putting on a
i:vn; y-jr.k, mid coveiups as he trios to keep his
!.. f; oei findinrj out.
The best parts of the film are the crisp,
v ell handled comedy scenes in Malaga. Hoping
Of leTidliy for seme simple no-strings sex, their
rebJtif.rv,hip soon deteriorates. Arguing,
shouting find insulting each other, their scrap
ev r tuolly ends up in a good old fashioned fight
where !i ; utempts to rapo her but can't get his
zipper rio n.
'' ,'. J i-.v -,on v: a brilliantly matched
;ii, s .'!ly vt.n'i;'s 'hey actually don't fit
together at all. They are dynamic in their
attraction for each other. Jackson gives more
insight into her character, but Segal, a good
actor who has never really hit it big, gives one
of those enjoyable performances that wins a
person over.
He is also director Frank's vehicle for what
moralizing is found in the film. Segal is a sharp,
classy executive at the beginning of the movie,
but his amorous adventures lead him from one
comic faux pa? to another. When adultery is
replaced with love after he returns to London,
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his life is so frazzled that he Incomes pitiable.
In spite of Segal and Jackson, A Touch of
Class is only intermittantly enjoyable. It deals
with the comedy and tragedy of a love affair,
but lacks the luster to liven up this age-old
story.
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This week's offerings in the Charlie Chaplin
Film Series are The Circus (1928) and The
Immigrant (1917).
The films begin at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. Friday
and at 3 p.m., 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. Saturday a
Sheldon.
Mime Marcel Marceau stars in The Mime of Marcel
Marceau, the xree Lively Arti
Gallery Sunday at 3 p.m.
in Sheldon Art
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Unseasonably wet weather to clear by weekend
I-. '-. Ciis'ie j'ld Omar Sharif head the cast of Doctor
.'h'"'j. W. this week's weekend film at Henzlik Hall. The
'.'.:'! !. . !''' spect'icular will bo shown at 7 p.m. Friday,
; i ;-( c.j -,'),' for 75 cents.
is u genuine masterpiece of staggering
proportions." -Edward Behr, Newsweek
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V- not a 'dirty' movie. The film is stark,
; ensitive and completely shattering
in its intensity. Yes, by all means, see
Last Tango'." - Aaron Schindler, Family Circle
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If the weather seems cooler
and wetter than usual this
month, it is, ai.oordinq to John
Bird sal I of the National
Weather Service office in
Lincoln.
Tc'rntxM jtua'S have averaged
two to three degrees below
normal for September, he said.
The coolest recorded this
autumn was 34 degrees on
Sept. 18.
The average first freeze in
Lincoln is Oct. 18, but it has
occurred as early as Sept. 24 in
some years, he sa'd.
The recent severe weather
and extended rainy period was
an indirect result of hurricane
I rah located near the Daja
Peninsula of Mexico, he said.
Warm, mo;st air was drawn
north from the Gulf of Mexico
by the hurricane and clashed
with a cold front from the
Pacific Northwest over
southeastern Nebraska. It
resulted in a series of tornadoes
and thundersloi ms.
Lincoln has recoided 5.94
inches of precipitation so far
this month, That compares
with an aver ay.' of 2.58 inches.
Friday's forecast calls for
gradually clearing skies with
temperatures in the 70s. There
is little ch.ince of more
pecip;tation.
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