First teen romance heart of film Jeremy
Watching a movie like Jeremy
always is fun. To use a term from the
film itself, Jeremy is a "wispy" story,
light and happy with a little joyful
giddiness thrown in.
It's an informal movie that lets you
feel friendly enough to nudge that
stranger sitting next to you and and
whisper something like, "Say, did'ja
notice how that kid acts like Jerry
Lewis?"
The film is a humorous reminder to
all of us who had a crush on a cute
16-year-old in high school. For all of
us, as with Jeremy, fate brought it all
about. As Jeremy said, "Well, I was
walking past this room to get a piece
of chalk, and there she was."
It's all there. How he told his best
friend about this beautiful new girl he
met. How he's going to get around to
asking her out, but meanwhile he's so
scared stiff, he just follows her like a
drooling shadow.
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He finally asks her out, and they hit
it off big. Then he finds out she (a
junior) already knew he was only a
sophomore, so she had to like him to
begin with, right?
Later, as all of us back then, he had
to call up his best friend and tell him
that he's had his first date, what a
great time he had and how he even
kissed her good night twice. He's on
cloud nine by now, it's the greatest
thing in the world, but all his friend
can say is, "Yeah, but did you get
anything?" Ah, yes
Life for Jeremy (Robby Benson,
who does sound like Jerry Lewis) and
Susan Rawlins (Glynnis O'Connor) is a
carefree, happy existence set in a
pleasant-looking New York city that
doesn't look at all menacing.
He is an A student who plays the
cello, loves horse racing and has a job
walking dogs. Susan is the new girl in
high school, and their meeting only
makes happy lives happier.
With some of the script right out of
teen-age Pepsi commercials and with
Jeremy running up and down the
streets and hopping across car tops,
the movie does get a little "wispy."
But it's all in fun, and there are some
hilarious moments.
The entire film is handled nicely,
and its director-writer Arthur Barron,
who is a film professor at Columbia,
won an award at Cannes for his work.
Its only apparent fault is increasingly
common grainy photography that
pops up in many movies today and
looks like shimmering heat waves on
the screen.
Midway through it we are given an
all too apparent premonition from
Jeremy's wizened old cello teacher
when he tells Jeremy to play a certain
piece "expressing love and parting
simultaneously."
At the end, when Susan must
return to Detroit for good, the film
tries to force a little adolescent
heartbreak in with all the fun. But
don't let it fool you. The movie tries
to be successful by setting itself up in
a breezy, vulnerable sort of way and
gets away with it.
City crime lord
parallels Hitler
in Brecht play
By Vince Boucher
"There is political corruption in the land now; this
play is about how it works," explains William
Morgan, director of the University Theater
production The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui.
The play, by Bertold Brecht portrays the rise of
Ui, a Hitler-like character, as a crime lord in Chicago.
"Brecht's purpose is to remind us that the bitch
that bore Hitler is still in heat-the last words of the
show imply that it will always be in heat," Morgan
said.
The play which is set in the depression, shows the
domination of Ui and his henchmen while trying to
protect the Chicago Cauliflower Trust, he said. The
details of the story "exactly parallel" Hitler's
takeover in Germany, he added.
"It is an illustration, in entirely comic terms, of
big money boys trying to save themselves by using
these clowns and in turn being used by the monster
they create," he said.
He said with the current situations in Chile, the
Soviet Union and Watergate in the United States, the
play is especially relevant Brecht comments on the
same cyclical corruptions of force and consolidating
power that exist today, Morgan said.
Brecht used the horror and the farce of the Nazi
situation to warn future generations against falling
into the same stupidities, he said.
He said that Brecht "distances the drama" by
using spoken verse dialogue found in plays such as
Richard III which he refers to as a "bogus
construction of Renaissance poetry."
He said he is challenged by the epic style of
Brecht's plays. Although Morgan has directed more
than 400 long plays, Arturo is only his second Brecht
piece. The first was The Caucasian Chalk Circle,
produced by University Theater last season.
"The epic style is difficult to translate when you
come from a background of black comedy and
realistic plays," he said.
Morgan said several minor injuries have occurred as
a result of the fast pace of the play. Another
problem, was trying to find two 6 ft. 2 in. students to
portray Arturo's bodyguards, he said.
Arturo will run Friday and Saturday and then
from Oct. 15-20 at 8 p.m. Howell Memorial Theater.
Morgan said student cast members were amazed at
portions of the play that are the exact tactics used by
Hitler. For example, Morgan said, Hitler was trained
by a professional German actor Hier Basil and the
episode is repeated with Ui. Other episodes, such as
Hitler murdering some of his comrades, are less
pleasant, Morgan said.
He said Brecht "cut the corpses off of the gallows"
to explain how political gangsters come into power
again and again-a message for the audience to take
home with them.
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