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Actress Goldie Hawn Isads lawmen on a merry chase in The Sugarand Express.
Marshall
Tucker's
'New Life '
refreshing
Record review by Diane Wanek
It's a New Life, by the Marshall Tucker Band
Distinctive and refreshing are apt words to describe the
Marshall Tucker Band. One also could use words such as
mellow, inventive and excellent; they are fitting oo.A New
Life proves just that.
While the band's Southern background is obvious, its
given its music a country twist that is unique to them. It
seems to have achieved a solid identity, as opposed to
countless groups that sound so similar.
Doug Gray, the lead vocalist, has a fine voice-subtle yet
driving. Tommy Caldwell on bass and Toy Caldwell on
guitar are excellent. Along with drummer Paul Riddle, they
are truly fine musicians, inventive and pleasing.
This new release features a guest artist, fiddler Charlie
Daniels, who adds lots of spice. He does a superb job on
"Blue Ridge Mountain Sky."
Other good cuts include "A New Life," "Another Cruel
Love," "Southern Woman" and "You Ain't Foolin' Me "
TheJMarshalljTucker Band will perform in Lincoln In a
few weeks. Meanwhile, latch onto this album.
Symphonic Band in concert
What happens to ail the musicians l.i the
Cornhusker Marching Band when the Big Red
hangs up its jerseys at the end of the season?
Many of them-81, to be precise-play for the
University Symphonic Band.
The band, formed at the end of each
football season, is directed by Jack R. Snider,
UNL professor of brass instruments and
director of bands.
Tha Symphonic Band will give a free concert
Tuesday at 8 p.m. at Kimball Recital Mall.
While it is the band's first performance of
the year at UNL, it is not its first public
concert.
It appeared on the Nebraska Educational
Television Network earlier this month. !
To aid in the marching band's fund drive for
its European tour, it also played in Auburn and
at Omaha Burke High School.
On the program for Tuesday's concert is
Prelude "Richard III," by William Walton.
Walton is a contemporary English composer.
Composer Paul Hindemith's piece, March
from Symphonic Metamorphosis is also
featured. March is the last of the four sections
on of the Symphonic Metamorphosis, which
was originally written for orchestra.
Also on the program is a set of English
dances, the contemporary Sinfonetta by Ingolf
Dahl, Sketches on a Tudor Psalm by Fisher Tuil
and Black Jack March by Fred Huffe,
Monday
Owen Wirtgrawc, ETV, 7 p.m.
This doesn't fit into the movie
category, but many will be
interested to hear about this opera
written by Benjamin Britten
especially for television. Produced
by the British Broadcasting Co., the
opera it based upon the Henry,
Jamei story about a pacifist, and
features Benjamin Luxon in the
this role,
Tuesday
Larry, channels 8 and TO, 8:30
p.m. Frederick Forrest end Tyne
Daly star In this true story of a man
who had been institutionalized
since infancy as mentally retarded
even though he , was of normal
intelligence.
Husbands, channel 10, 10:30
p.m. John Cassavettes' best film to
date; stars himself, Peter Faik and
Ben Gazzara as three men
confronted with the death of a
close friend.
Wednesday
A Touch of the Poet, ETV, 7:30
p.m. Fritz Weaver stars In this
revival of Eugene O'Neill's play,
about a poor Irish family in Boston
in the 1820s.
UIvmm. Shcildctn Film Theatre.
3, 7 and 9 p.m., admission $155.
Joseph Strick directed this
visualization of several passages
from James Joyce's famous book.
Its sincerity and refusal to
compromise are its enduring values. .
Thursday
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Movie great first
for young director
The Sugarand Express (a title that, unfortunately smacks of
Wait Disney) is a flawed, but exciting first film by director Steven
Spielberg. Spielberg is only 26-years-old and the youngest of the
new American wave of film schooled directors. If th.s
candy-coated Bonnie and Clyde story is prone to minor
meanderings, it is a tribute to this new but noticeably remarkable
talent that this picture is so appealing.
Goldie Hawn, proving she has more range as an actress than
just portraying a dumb, giggling blonde, plays Lou Jean Poplin, a
Texas girl who sets out with her convict husband Clovis (William
Atherton), to reclaim their baby boy who has been given away to
foster parents. The child is in a town named Sugarland, and on
the way mishaps occur, the couple panics, and somehow end up
hijacking a police car and young patrolman named Maxwell Slide,
played by Michael Sacks (he was Billy Pilgrim in Slaughterhouse
Five).
Neither of the kidnapers is too bright, and if their intentions
are innocent at heart, their crimes are soon blown way out of
proportion. Led by an understanding Highway Patrol captain
(Ben Johnson), nearly every police car In Texas (and some from
Louisiana) falls in behind to join the endless express.
What Busby Berkeley did with goiddigger dancers, Spielberg
does with police cars. They maneuver, crash, and race through the
film in a beautiful choreography, and Spielberg uses a creative
contrast ot telephoto views and expansive long shots to show
their treck through the small towns, dingy gas stations and roiling
Texas landscape.
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Spielberg's instinctive style is aided by some marvelous
photography by veteran cameramen Vilmos Zsigmond. Zsigmond
is one of the few American cameramen whose work has its own
recognizable, distinctive look. His photography was an integral
part J)t trTpbert Altman films he shot (perhaps this is part of
tfse reason" Sugarlanra such a distinct feel of early Altrhan
about it), and his low toned photography of the endless rows of
shimmering red and blue police lights adds a dimension to the
film that is more easily seen than explained.
Spielberg's characters are all well acted and deftly presented.
They are hilarious as not too desperate desperados who become
bosom buddies with their captive patrolman, but at the same time
they convey a frustration to the audience who knows the futility
of their spur of the moment efforts.
Spielberg is not without his excesses. One scene finds him
ridiculing two gun toting Southern rednecks who literally shoot a
used car lot to pieces because they think they are doing a good
deed in capturing the Poplin couple. The film also wanders in
feeling; the opening scenes in a rather straightforward humor; the
middle with its hundreds of cars and frantic, idolizing
townspeople; a strained, heavy handed finale when tha whole silly
parade comes to its tragic ending.
But The Sugarland Express is still a perfect example of a great
commercial motion picture, even more so than a film like Tha
Sting really is. Few directors have ever made their first feature
film this well, and Spielberg's captivating, funny-sad shuffle off to
Sugarland seems to promise good things to come.
Theatre, 7 p.m., admission $1.25.
The inmates of e French insane
asylum stage a play concerning the
death, in his bath, of the French
Revolution leader, Marat, at the
hands of Charlotte Corday. There
are, of course, a few peculiarities in
the result; the inmates' diseases
have a tendency to intrude upon
the proceedings, and the whole
thing is under the guiding hand of
the Marquis de Sade. This brilliant
mini vuaiy film, Imwu vii Jay uy
Peter Weiss, is directed by Peter
Brooks.
Lady in c Cage, channel 6,
1 1 :45 p.m. Olivia de Havilland gives
a stunning performance as a woman
terrorized by hoodlums in her
home.
Saturday
The Slack Tuiip, ETV, 7 p.m.'
Simon Ward and Tessa Wyatt play
the young lovers in the great
adventure classic by Alexandre
Dumas. This is the first of six
episodes.
The Manchurian Candidate,
channel 3, 8 p.m. This is an expert
political thriller, mostly due to
John Frankenheimer's fine
direction, which has emerged as an
extremely taut end tense action
packed film; star Frank Sinatra,
Laurencs Harvey, Janet Leigh and
Angela Lartsbury, 1
East of Eden, channel 6, 10:30
p.m. jamas Dean's famous film of
frustration. This week's best
viewing.
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