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READ DAILY NEBRASKAN WANT ADS i entertainment TT J V ear after year, semester after semester, the CollegeTVlasterfrom Fidelity Union Life has been the most accepted, most popular plan on campuses all over America. Find out why. Call the Fidelity Union CollegeMaster Field Associate in your area; C.G. Severin & Associates 1125 'FT Street Suite 200 Lincoln, Nebraska 68508 iifk Phone:432-0146 CollegeMaster KaaMffl -r If J M orrissey movies ranci . ... A til The key words that keep popping up in descriptions of Paul Morrissey's duo-horror versions of Dracula and Frankenstein seem to be "perversely fascinating." Few reviews have been without them, although neither of the adjectives, used separately or together, say anything about greg lukow (GU Qfip whether the movies are at all worthwhile, which they're not. You don't assault Andy Warhol protegee Morrissey on the same terms as you do other commercial film directors (he prides himself on his hip. underground aloofness), yet 1 can't help but throw Blood foi Dracula (the movie's real title together with liis Frankenstein as one of the most rancid, unnecessary films we've evei received. Both films were cheaply done Italian productions and the cast in Dracula remains ,,,,,,,, ,MtmTl4ttM ppllt Ullfe Just J olBargsiiES Out-of-print -University f " Prsss n . - 'till in r i nullum H f; ' ' I PRIG. SALE j WILLIAMS: Concordant to th Collected Poerrtf of Dylan Thomas DAVIDSON: Trarportatton ProblemsPolicief WERKMEISTER: Newspaper History of England PARKER:- Recollections of Philander Prescott NELSON: Geography of Iowa INMAN: Buffalo Jones FIRTH: Public Power of Nebraska SCHEIBER: The Old Northwest KNOLL: MC Almon and the Lost Generation CTTCSON: Lard srv in he Northern Plains CRONON: Cabinet Diaries of Joseph us Daniels JOHNSON: Pioneers Progress KELLER: Art in the Schoolroom MC COY: Landon of Kansas 7.95 5.S5 1.95 6.00 3.25 7.50 7.85 9.00 1.85 8.50 4.98 2.98 4.98 2.98 1.00 1.00 2.98 1.00 1.98 2.98 2.98 .60 1.98 2.98 Savings of 50Z Open 8-5, Monday - Saturday f M b by hi lyA Is 1 H35B 432-0111 i,n'iii"Ti ri-"iH ' ff11-! -'h' r'. '"'if l'i Yfil " w1 - r il i in n in it "I'miiii n i 'i ' ' " f "'' t ""J ''' ' : ' - " i n 'ml rir m ' li r 1V1 H ' r ' "" "''""' J; i.-feWSiaiiL."JJt'JJtUm essentially the same. Snake-like Udo Kier has moved over trom the evil Dr. Frankenstein to his role here as the anemic Dracula, a timid Rumanian count who travels to Italy in order to clamp himself on to the necks of pious Italian "wirgins." Kier's squeamy servant-assistant is back, as is Joe Dallesandro who talks socialistic garble and walks, uninspired, through his usual role as handy-man stud-service. Only the female victims have been changed, this time taking the form of four breast-baring daughters of a bourgeois Italian family. The count assaults each of them in turn, hoping that their purity is still intact. Paranoid acidity Both films have a feeling of paranoid acidity about them, although Dracula comes nowhere near approaching the detailed, blood, revelries of Frankenstein. Except for the climactic, limb-by-limb ax killing of Dracula, there is substantially less of the explicit, albeit synthetic, gore. Ultimately the movie is less offensive than Frankenstein, but by discarding this "perverseness," it loses whatever fascination it may hope for. Morrissey's strangest twist is that Dracula really doesn't deserve his final fate. He is a palid, pathetic creature who writhes through epilectic withdrawals and vomiting fits after he finds that, thanks to Dallesandro, his wictims are not wirgjns. He's a miserable wretch, so to speak. His greasy, evil-eyed servant is the movie's real villain; Dracula is just a tired, sick vampire trying to survive and totally screwed up by everything a trite movie culture has ever made of him. Rt rwirl Ware Turkish Delight, the city's other big-name X-rated film is an expensive excuse for a lovesexdeath soft-core porno exercise. The plot is elemental: a young, distinctly male anarchistic sculptor falls in love with one of the girls he picks up-Olga. She is a spoiled, rich young thing fitted out with a genuine man-eating mother. To trim a long film to a trailer, Olga plays through with the now-classic "Love Story" syndrome-she's too young, beautiful and full of life to live, so a brain tumor enters the plot. (Could this be the reason for her sexually agressive behavior throughout?) Shorn and pale The young man, of course, lives to. enjoy his manhood again, after his beloved has died, her head shorn and face pale, in a private hospital bed. The point of all of this is that young sexy girls grow up and loose their bloom, and the only way a sentimental media-sponsored mythology can deal with them (and it's own limitations) is to kill them off while they're still young and beautiful. Thanks to their touching demise they can then be used as an excuse to make a pseudo-philosophical statement about love, death, and decay both moral and physical. While Turkish Delight offers several entertaining bits (nice camera work, a fair score and cheerily animated performances by Monique Van de Ven and Rutger Hauer as the ill-fated lovers), the pathology of pom crossed with the gross sentiment of Hollywood makes for a sick film. Quintet, singer to perform Mezzo-soprano Judy Cole will sing love songs trom medieval Germany with the Nebraska Woodwind Quintet in their recital Thursday at 8 p.m. in Kimball Recital Hall. With the quintet, Cole will sing "Minnelieder," a collection of German love songs, with music composed for the group by R. Murray Schafer. Also on the free program are Franz Danzi's "Quintetto, Opus 67, No. 3" and Alvin Etler's "Quintet II," a contemporary piece. Cole and the quintet members-David Van de Bogart, flute; Wesley Reist, clarinet; Robert O'Boyle, oboe; Gary Echols, bassoon and David Kappy, French horn-are all UNL music faculty members. It f. rovAnni v starring Quartet . ... a :o?!n!f, Terry Quintet MAIN PERFORMANCE SATURDAY APRIL 12 8:00 p.m. Coliseum" TICKETS: $2 with current UNL ID) $3 (general public) Tickets available at Union South Desk, East Union and Westbrook 113, SPONSORS; Nebraska Union Concert rnidamenca sm tiltarsce Union Program Council . r,'mr.(tK'iAtfHiwiiti Mstuil international . ft page 8 daily nebraskan mortday, april 7, 1975