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Altho-;h the Nebraska Educational Television (NLTV)
netwoik hlsKnot tabulated all responses, Ron Hull
program manager at NETV claims there have been few
complaints about the station's airing of the Ingmar
Bergman film, Scenes from a Maltese.
Scenes from a Marriage stars, liv Ullmann and Erland
Joscfson, portray a long-married couple. Bergman opens
Scenes" with Johann and Marianne explaining to a third
party why they are so happily married. But before long,
they realize they aren't happy and that their marriage has
become one of formulated actions, with little meaning for
cither person.
The film is shown in six one-hour episodes telecast
nationally by the Public Broadcasting System (PBS).
"Scenes" is aired in Lincoln on Wednesday evening at 9
on channel 12, Wednesday, April 13 will be the final
episode of the story.
"Scenes' captures love and hate and a thousand
emotions in between with often haunting impact. The
language and subject matter are dealt with in a frank, real-to-life
fashion. In fact some might argue that its manner is
too frank for national television.
Hull explained that NETV was not bound to tele-cast
the six-part "Scenes" even though it is nationally telecast
by the PBS network.
"In public television the local station does not have to
air what the national network shows " Hull said.
According to Hull, NETV decided to telecast the' film
in Nebraska because it was thought that "Scenes" was an
important work of art by director Bergman.
"Ingmar Bergman is one of the world's three -to-six top
filmmakers and "Scenes" is one of the most important
films to corns along in quite some time," Hull said. "If
people listen, they can find out a lot about how a man
and a woman relate to each other."
But what about public reaction? Hull claims that up
until the air date for the fifth episode the reaction was
mixed.
"The language docs offend some and admittedly the
language is very frank," Hull said. "But I think there is
less criticism of an honest presentation of sexuality than
there used to be."
"Lenny Bruce was trying to tell us something some
years ago. The horror of the world is not the unclothed
human body or sex. The horror of the world is starving
children, people being unfair to other people . . ."
Hull didnt elaborate on the specific reactions of peo
ple though he did say he received a letter from a minister
in a small Nebraska town. This minister, according to
Hull, was making "Scenes" required viewing for couples
that were in counseling and taking a serious look at their
marriage.
"It is not damaging at all for people to see this film.
It's certainly not like the Hollywood movies with sex and
all the fun without any of the responsibility," he said.
giQ oysters
to be food craze?
By Michsel Zangari
About the time the movie Jaws was making the circuit,
and the powers that be decided there was a buck to be
turned in the shark market, curious things were going
down in the land of grapefruit and Anita Bryant.
Things slow down in Florida as it inches toward
summer. The compulsory number of tourists are there
draining the last bit of sunshine out of their bottle of
Native Tan. -
Then, there are the sharks. Not the great whites, the
little grays. They arc around most of the time.
Most are less than four feet long. Not many people
worry about getting eaten by them. In fact, I imagine the
sharks are often worried about getting eaten by the East
Coast mob down for the holidays. It's a legitimate fear.
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Shakespeare's sky will be explored
"The heavens, themselves, the planets, and this cef
observe degree, priority, and place, insisture, course,
proportion, season, form, office and custom in all line of
order."
" These lines in William Shakespeare's play Trvilus and
Cressida set the tone for many of his works. The tones
are pervaded by his references to the heavens and the
objects which reside there.
The Ralph Mueller Planetarium explores the celestial
sky with Shakespeare in a new program entitled
Shakespeare's Universe,
Programs will begin Saturday at 2:45 p.m. and Sundays
at 2:30 and 3:45 pan. until June 5.
The last program scheduled for the season is Rhythm
of the Rain, beginning June II.
To many many Floridians, shark meat is an excellent mid
summer treat.
The Jaws frenzy was hitting everywhere. Even in down
town Lincoln the ominous marquee read: "See this movie
before you go swimming." People avoided the many
beaches between here and Denver. It became mandatory
to take shotguns into the shower. Water bed sales were
down.
Wherever the movie was shown, people were fright
ened. The media blitz was such that most were afraid
before they saw the movie.
Even in Florida, where the sharks have been good
neighbors for years, things were getting crazy.
A friend of mine, disgruntled at having been forcibly
removed from shark fishing by a major luxury hotel in
fear of scaring away business, dumped a sufficient
amount of fish guts in the waters around the hotel to
attract a school of sharks resulting in a large school of
tourists checking out.
I'm no biologist, but to my knowledge, these sharks
are generally harmless. True, they are a little rowdy when
they are drunk, but otherwise they lead sane middle
class lives.
Then it hit. : ' 4 ;'VV'--
I am fond of morning walks on the beach. Along with
the beauty and peace of the ocean, I'm used to beach tar,
occasional dead fish and multitudes of greased bodies
baking in the sun. But I've never adjusted to blatant
cruelty and stupidity.
Dead sharks started showing up on the beach, their
fine bodies rotting in the sun. Somebody, obviously not
professionals, had cut out the jaws of the fish and had
hacked off the dorsel fins using something less than
sharp. First fear, then frenzy, and now violence.
King Kong has replaced the shark. Secretly at night
I sigh in relief tlrat there are no gorillas running
free around here. I fear for the gorillas.
Because as sure as there will be a sequel to King Kong,
if there were gorillas wandering around, there also would
be a. lot of gorilla carcasses rotting in the sun, castrated
and empty.
And gorilla gonads would replace shark ' teeth on
chokers in your local disco.
Sheldon gaery showing
By Jeny Lorenzo
Some unexpected things are going on st
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery.
Steve Cromwell's dye-transfer photo
graphs speak for themselves and Nicholas
Africano's figure studies are not what Art
Shop Director Page Spence "thought the
artist would send for the show.
Cromwell's photography uses an effect
resulting from superimposing (putting one
image on top of another) three separate
negatives and incorporating them into the
final print The result is a number of dif
ferent figures in surroundings that are
many times out of place and a color
scheme that stretches the imagination.
Cromwell's photography exhibit
displays color vividly using both bright and
dirk colors. One set of three photographs
uses the same man in a suit and tie with his
arms outstretched.
The first is a dark print, using mostly
shades of gray. The second uses brighter
colors, thedes of dark red and pais green.
His second print ilzo presents a two
disiCESoasl effect. The third is a combina
tion of the first two, usirg both the shades
cf gn y in the first and the lighter green
sad dirk ni h the second.
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Nelson, Cromwell is one of only a few
artists who use this method of photo
graphy for artistic purpose.
Africano's oil paintings are small figure
studies on wood, currently displayed in the
Art Shop.
The figures are sma3, soft, thick oil
figures that appear almost like sculpture on
painted wood backgrounds.
Spence saM Director Norman Geske met
Africa no last year and asked him to send
some of his work for a show in the Art
Shop. However, at the time, Africano's
work consisted of the small oil figures as
4 part of larger paintings and Spence said
these were the type of paintings the "Art
Shop anticipated showing.
. Not too hpy
"We're not too happy with these,"
Spence said, referring to the small figure
studies on display. "We wanted more of
a finished painting."
According to Spence, Africano wanted
to have t'o paintings per wa3 in the shop
but the entire set cf tea now is behind the
desk of one wall.
I dont think he (Africano) would be
too happy with the way these are being
dirphyed," she snii.
Spence snid she cod J not fcave" the
paintings cn the wall close to the entrance
becaucs of the danpr cf ninins the puat
fegs by touch.
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