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By Carta Erstrorn
' Acting is a tough profession. The-hours are long, the
work is intense and jobs don't promise to come regularly.
But Jack Honor, professional actor and UNL graduate
student, has taken on the challenges of a competitive
career. -
The New York-born actor was in the off-Broadway
production, MoonchiMren. He played the character Ralph
and also was an understudy for a little less than a year.
The production ran one year and won the 03JE (an off
Broadway award) for the best-directed play.
He was also in the off-off-Broadway play, The
Common Garden Variety.
Commenting on New York acting life, Honor said, "It's
possible for an actor to work outside of New York. But
for me corning from New York, I really wanted to work
there. .
"Don't get me wrong, there's fantastic theatre all over
the country, but there's more theatre (in New York) per
square inch-and making a decent wage attracted me."
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After working summer stock in Tennessee, he found
himself teaching people how to accomplish technical
aspects of theatre. Honor went back to New York, out of
work and without an apartment.
He received an offer to teach at UNL
"I needed a chance to work. I came out here not know
ing what to expect," he said,
Lincoln's slower pace , as compared with New York,
gives him the opportunity to be alone and concentrate on
his work, Honor said. r
The 26-year-old actor is working on his masters degree
in acting, taking direction and dancing classes, along with
teaching movement.
Movement is an "essential part of training an actor " he
said. "I'm trained in it and can teach it"
Demanding as teacher
But he added, "I'm very demanding as a teacher. I
expect a lot as a teacher." . "'
In his movement class,- Honor said he uses yoga and
some meditation, but the class focuses on how an actor
personally would react and move for a certain character or
emotion.
""j "The kids have my class.but therels no follow-up. Rex
McGraw, Theatre (Arts Dept.) chairman, knows what he's
doing and is really trying to build a theatre department,"
he said.
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J ask Honor is a demandkg teacher. lie h shown here emtch'mg alongside Lis students.
"We need more speech teachers, movement tdachers
and dance teachers. There should be ballet, modem dance
and (advanced) movement (classes offered in the Theatre
Dept.).
"The budget is crippling," Honor added.
The bearded actor comes from a " theatre-oriented
family. His father was in Vaudeville and at one time
played on Lincoln stages. His sister is a dancer in Paris
with her own company.
"Because of my father's theatrical background, I was
always aware of it (theatre)," Honor said. -
While in high school, he studied with and learned under
professional actors and teachers at The Herbert Berghof
Studios in Greenwich Village. . .
- He attended New Utrecht High School, the school
where segments of the television series, Welcome Back,
Kotter are filmed.
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Two-Minute Wonting (Plaza 4) is a
movie that will appeal to the fascist in
everyone.
When sociologists talk about mindless
violence in today's culture, they can point
to Two-Mlmte Warning as a prime
example. ,
The film is a direct descendant of the
genre that spawned Esrthquske, The
Towering Inferno, Airport, The FosMen
Adventure, ad nauseum.
The ingredients are an all-star cast, pre
ferably top-lined by Charlton Heston, and
a sure-fire suspense situation.
After earthquakes, flaming skyscrapers
and hijacked airplanes, one would think
Hollywood would be hard pressed to find a
real attention getter, but in this case
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they've come up with a beauty-a sniper on
the loose in a football stadium, armed with
a k-2-Vfcwered rifle feat can blow its
victim to bits, as is graphically demon
strated at the outset.
, Why me?
Set in the Lcs Ar-eles Memorial
Coliseum during profesaonal football
game, the film focuses on about a dozen
'different 'spectators who, for some un
known reason, the wiper keeps limiting"
through his rifle scope.
As this type of CrzrJ Hotel exerci::s
go, the character development is raflbient
-at bzzt good enough to held ycur inter
est and provide the shoes when they've
tlown to bits before ycur eyes.
There are Dr.ii Jrnn and Gena
Rewinds, the unmarried couple having
problems; t&i ZrJyt. the young married
nun er-rri:r.:irj financial woes; V, slier
Pidgeon, the lovable old pickpocket; Jack
Klugman, the hyperactive gambler who has
everything riding on the outcome of the
game; Martin Balsam, the concerned
stadium manager; and John Cassavetes, the
eager Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT)
division commander. '
Charles Heston, as the policeman in
charge, continues the tradition of meaning
less big roles that have been his staple for
the last several years.
To add realism, the producers hired
91, 000 extras to fill the stadium, and
employed Howard Cosell, Keith Jackson
and Merv Griffin to play themselves in
cameo roles via the television monitors
constantly in evidence. (Most of the
audience seemed to hold the fervent hope
that Cosell would end up being one of the
sniper's victims.) . ;
When the SWAT team and sniper open
fire on each other, the film comes into its
own as an example of the kind of imper
sonalized, mechanized violence that has
permeated our culture. We-see people
sighted through a rifle scope who ihen
explode in blood with a squeeze of a
' The ruthlessncss of the SWAT force has
become a kind of outlet for the frustra
tion and helplessness many Americans feci
against the rising crime rate. Judging from
the popularity of the SWAT series and the
way the audiences react to this movie, it
seems the uniformed pnmasi provides a
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forces of crime.
We never see the smper'i face during the
Cm. Apparently the Crmikers didn't
want us to build up any empathy or
identification fith the vUlian. That would
confuse the issue.
Two-Minute l.'sr.:rz is a movie that re
duces everything to a tk tr.d dis kroe
-it's Us 2rjainst Them. Unfortunately,
Him like Two-Minute l.'zrz.-", sszktiz lo
show us hew repulsive violence is, end up
orL'ying it instead.
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the came cf the band, which leaves you to
wonder if Mary DuShane is one of the
boys, Mad Jack, or an entity unto herself
DuShane is a fine fiddle player in a
gnjup of superior musicians.
IM Jade wfl perform b the South Crib
at 73 pun. tcci-ht. This follows a con
cert it dd si Nebraska Vr'e&ysa Ua'rrsity
this past week where a S2 adrriaon vis
chsrsed. Coffeehouse wO not chaise ad
rriion for this concert.
Mad Jack menihers have a vanity cf
st?ks-jug band music, early tlur-ri:,
I:Lh tunes, as wsll as tradHionsl and cr'j-
The- four-pie cs band's civerjity comes
from the combined taimts ol i-i me;
' Ecb Eovse, crhinaZy from Ncbr,
pbys fuitar hznr.rnica, banjo and auto
hmp. ile doss fcclh kzl and inrmony
cha,
voc?Is, and has toured extensively in the
Uu3. and Europe.
Cob Douglas, originally from Texas, Is
a virtuoso picker on both guitar and man
dolin. He ahu plays a mean set cf spoons.
Hs has toured widely, and has recorded
two albums with The Strinjbaad while in
Europe.
Msry Dushane, from Minnesota, has
been able to capture a number of styles on
fiddle and has been proven to be a versa
tile tings whose work on country rock is
as strong as her more traditional music.
ftp izzt, from Chio, rounds out the
group. Iieis a fLie guitar player, cror
sonATiter and al plays the fkldle. ile
sho .has recorded with European string
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"Stre-itiiner's Heaven have been called
underground daisies by fickti' ILszLis.
Deth rones have been done by cl:r
artir.s at li'J. thr-e tinurs.