friday, October 7, 1977
page 8
daily nebraskan
lues xjust simply the truth ' for headliner
Hooker
"I was born with the blues, I-eat with the blues, I
sleep with the blues, man, I know it's just simply the
truth," says John Lee Hooker.
Hooker will be the headlining act for the "First Annual
Great Plains Blues Festival' sponsored by the Union
Program Council Concerts Committee. Also appearing
with Hooker will be well known Chicago bluesmen.
Magic Slim, and Sam Lay and Carey Bell with the Bob
Riedy Blues Band.
Hooker plays unpretentious music, primative, close-to-the-roots
blues, and unlike many bluesmen of his gen
eration, has never settled for basic blues alone. He divides
his musical energies between blues,, ; folk and "jump" ,
music. He often finds himself playing unamplified guitar
in the coffee house circuit where he is expected to be
"Authentic," or in the tough bars of Detroit, playing the
hard electric music of the dance and drink crowd.
While audiences have changed, he has kept pace, always
infusing his music with his traditional Mississippi Delta t
background. Though many may imitate his earthy style,
it truly can be said that Hooker lives what he sings.
Magic Slim and the Bob Riedy Blues Band return to
Lincoln after appearances here in recent months. They
will combine with Hooker for a night of good old
fashioned blues.
The Blues Festival will be 7:00 p.m. in the Nebraska
Union Centennial Room. Tickets are $3.00 with UNL
student I.D. and $4.00 general admission.
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Bluesman John Lee Hooker, performing with his traditional Mississippi Delta style, will headline the First Annual
Great Plains Blues Festival, tonight in the Nebraska Union Centennial Room.
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Annaud's film irreverent satire
Theatre managers don't just make up those marquee
headlines. There is a section-labeled, appropriately
enough,. "exploitips"-providing this service in the infor
mation sheets' that come with the films.
The exploitip for' Black and White in Color reads,
"mention of the Academy Award should be enough. An
irreverent comedy and satire . . ."
Happily, unlike : most, this film's marquee doesn't
lie. Black and White is a delightful debut for director Jean
Jacques Annaud.
This 1976 Oscar winner (for Best Foreign Film, beating
out Cousin, Cousine and Seven Beauties was shot entirely
on location in the Ivory Coast. Local Africans play the
parts of the natives in the story of a 1915 colonial settle
ment in French Equatorial Africa.
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Jacques Spiesser, as a sensitive goegrapher, receives
a package from home containing newspapers with word of
France's entry into World War I. To Spiesser's surprise,
the news inspires the settlers to mobilize and fight the
nearby German garrison.
Botched attack
After a botched attack led by the French sergeant,
Jean Carmet, Spiessner takes command. A unit of 'Volun
teers' and captured natives are trained and form a crack
fighting unit. But Germany's surrender soon comes and
business returns to normal for the settlers.
The satire in Black and White attacks some big subjects
and rarely misses. Annaud's treatment of the missionaries
(Jacques Monnet and Peter Berling) is particularly point
ed. The priests are first seen trading crosses for native
artwork. Later they sort out the items into those that will
bring a good price and the others which are then burned.
Their ignorant condescension is matched only by the
callous stupidity of the shopkeeper, Jacques Dufillo, and
his nitwit brother, ' Claude Legros; But Annaud never
treats them seriously-because they shouldn't be. Dufillo
presents a comic image of fervent although -.cowardly,
patriotism that seems straight out of a Laurel and Hardy
movie.
The priests, for instance, attempt to show Christian
ity's superiority by demonstrating that white men can ride
bicycles. Black men, they explain, fall off. This ridiculous
scene is enough to show the silliness of the priests'
position.
Simple and hilarious
But simple and often hilarious scenes such as the
natives marching and carrying" the priests in litters while
singing in their own language, "My white man's feel smell
like dung,' clearly put the missionaries in their place and
also tend to humanize the natives.
This humor keeps the , film on target without getting
bogged down in the, depressing reality of the period.
Annaud's greatest achievement is to effectively impale
two rather weighty subjects, religion and patriotism, in
this light and refreshingly entertaining film.
The only real fault with the film is not Annaud's or
the actors'. They insist on using atrocious dubbing where
even the worst subtitles would be better..
Black and White in Color is playing at the Plaza Two.
The Roxy is showing two splendid musicals this
weekend. Broadway Melody of 1940 starts Fred Astaire
and Eleanor Powell, and On the Town stars Gene Kelly
and Frank Sinatra.
I had my first visit to the Roxy this week, and I cannot
think of a more relaxed and comfortable place in Lincoln
to watch a movie or two.
Patrick Callahan owns and manages his theatre solely
for the audience.
Maybe it's my imagination, but it seems that movie
audiences have gotten obnoxiously noisy over the past
few years. To prevent this, Callahan posts some friendly
reminders to stay quiet and enforces his rule that no
late-comers will be admitted.
This atmosphere, the low costs, and the pleasantly
unconventional munchics make this weekend's musicals
at the Roxy highly recommcndable.
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A unit of "volunteers" and captured natives train to form a crack fighting unit in a 1915 African colonial settle
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Movie schedule
MOIVE SCHEDULE 18.5
Cinema 1: Outlaw Josey Wales; 7:05, 9:25 p.m.sPG
Cinema 2: You Light Up My Life; 7:30, 9:15 p.m.;
PG
" Cinema X: Superlady;no set times; X
Sex Delivery; no set times; X
CooperLincoln: Wizards) 6:25; 8, 9:30 p.m.; PG
Douglas 1: Annie Hall; 5:20, 7:20, 9:20 p.m.; PG
Douglas 2: The Spy Who Loved Me; 7:40, 9:55
pjn.;PG
Douglas 3: The Last Hard Men; 7:30, 9:30 p.m.; R
84th and O Drive In: Devil's Wedding Night; starts
at dusk; R; Legend of Wolf Woman; second feature;
R; Annabelle Lee; third feature; R
Embassy; Hie Jade Pussycat and Every Inch a Lady;
continuous showings after 1 1 a.m. with a late show at
midnight; X
Plaza 1: Smokey and the Bandit; 5:30, 7:30, 9:30
p.m.;PG s -.- ; - -,', t.-
Plaza 2: Black and White in Color; 6:15, 8, 9:45
p.m.;PG
Plaza 3 : Valentino; 7 , 9 : 30 p.m. ; R
Plaza 4: Between the Lines; 5:45, 7;45, 9:45
p.m.;R
Roxy: Broadway Melody of 1940; 7:30 p.m.; G
On the Town; 9:30 p.m.; G
State: The Lincoln Conspiracy; 7:40, 9:20 p.m.;
G
Stuart: Star Wars; 7:20, 9:30 pjn.; PG
Joyo: Herbie Goes To Monte Carlo; 7:20 p.m.;
G
Starview Outdoor Theater: Empire of the Ants;
starts at dusk; PG; Tentacles; second feature; PG
Food of the Gods; third feature; PG Squirm; fourth
feature; R . ,
West ,cO" Drive In Theater: The Sex Machine;
starts at dusk; R; Flesh Gordon; second feature; X;
Girl From Starship Venus; third feature; R
Old radio shows
back on the air
The Lone Ranger rides again at Lincoln radio station
KLMS.
Fred James, assistant program director, said the
station's reviva) of old-time radio programs, begun one
and a half years' ago, has proven successful.
t "I guess it was an experiment-we wanted to see if it
would work, James said. "And it did."
James said the station started its experiment with
Gunsmoke, Vie Shadow and Vic Green Hornet'. He
said that when the Gunsmoke episodes ran out, Vie
Lone Hanger was added to the schedule. James called
The Lone Ranger the most famous of the old radio
"dramas.'
"We got favorable response on them," James said of
the programs. "But. we were getting people calling for
Fibber McGee and Molly. The comedy series was teamed
with Hie Lone Ranger to form the present schedule which
runs from 10 to U p.m. Sundays.
"I think we've had our biggest response on Fibber
McGee James said.
He said the program was popular because it was light
comedy and more recent than the other programs.
James said sevcial companies provide recordings of
the old programs.
"They're kind of expensive," he said. "But you C3n
sell (advertising on) them, that's what we do."
"It's nostalgia, I suppose," James said of the programs'
popularity. "They remember them. l or the younger
audience it's something new and different " '