friday, december 2, 1977
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School, finances keep Lark from out-of-town gigs
By Charlie Krig
What do four sophomore music majors do with their
time after long hours of study and practice in the UNL
School of Music?
They practice some more.
Ann Hackman, Jeff Binder, Tim Roper and John Swift
spend their school hours working on their music majors.
Among the four there are three guitarists, three flutists,
a violinist, one violist, four recorder players, one
harmonica player, four percussionists and four vocalists.
Put together all those instruments and talent and they
form the folk-rock group Lark.
The group has been together only two months but it
already has a small, loyal group of followers who no
doubt will be at Oscar's (245 N. 13th St.) this weekend
during Lark's appearance there.
Lark opened Thursday night and plays again tonight
and Saturday. It's like coming home for the group because
Oscar's was the site of Lark's first Lincoln gig.
Since then, Binder said, the group has been well re
ceived by the public. Swift said audiences usually call
them back for encores and they get compliments from
their fellow Centennial Educational Program residents
who hear them practice.
Binder said they usually practice three hours a night,
four to six nights a week, but the work usually is done for
fun. He explained that the group's profits still are being
used to buy equipment.
Swift said that "ultimately, we want to make money
but right now we have to pay off our equipment costs. We
do it for fun because of our expenses."
Expenses have kept the group from accepting bookings
in other cities because travel costs are high and traveling
would keep them away from school.
"Lark is kind of a lazy group because of our commit
ment to school," Swift said. "If it's between school and
playing, right now we'd have to go with school."
Work is progressing, however, and the members also
have committed themselves to advancing Lark's career.
"I'm slowly starting to believe we can make it with this
group. We've been in groups that have been reluctant to
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Practice is a way of life for Lark, a folk rock group composed of four UNL music majors.
'Mr. Goodbar' violent end fits well
in movie but not in viewer's mind
Looking for Mr, Goodbar is one of the recent big films
that features a female lead. After years of total male
domination of starring roles, going back to Redford and
Newman in Butch Cassidy, the movies seem to be open
ing up again to actresses. Julia, with Jane Fonda and
Vanessa Redgrave, and The Turning Point, with Shirley
MacLaine and Anne Bancroft, are others in this winter's
crop. The star of this film, which is a look into the seamy,
violent underside of life, is Diane Keaton.
Keaton offers a complete, solid performance in this
unlikely follow-up to Annie Hall While she proved her
self a gifted comedienne in her first three Woody Allen
films Play It Again, Sam, Sleeper, and Love and Death),
Annie Hall established her as an actress capable of hand
ling an important and complex role with ease.
Mr. Goodbar, from Judith Rossner's novel, must not
have been so easy. If I had seen the film without having
seen Annie Hall, I probably would have been much more
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impressed. But seeing Keaton before and after Annie
Hall it's clear that the character of Annie has held over
into this film.
Double life
Mr. Goodbar's plot takes us into the double life of
Theresa Dunn, by day a school teacher for deaf children,
who spends her nights cruising singles bars. Her exploits
on the raunchy side of life send her out of her conser
vative Catholie home to her own apartment. And just as
the apartment's cockroaches terrorize her, the sordid
liaisons of her increasingly fragmented life end up kill
ing her.
"Terry," as she calls herself at night, is played by
Keaton with sensitivity and-this is the main problem with
the film-a lovable quality and sense of humor that makes
her demise not only hard to watch but also hard to
swallow.
Throughout the film, director Richard Brooks tries to
counter this by dropping hints about her skewed percep
tion. Particularly interesting are the short fantasy se
quences where the action continues we see it through
Terry's imagination. In the film's first scenes. In a col
lege class of Terry's, the bell rings and the students leave
except Terry who has a furiously passionate clinch with
the professor. No, we find out, she didn't. It was just her
fantasy.
But the professor turns out to be a serious love affair
for Terry. Ihe fantasy loses all of its impact when we
learn this. Later, another imagined sequence has Terry
stepping in front of the oncoming car of her lover. But
the sequence turns into low comedy as she is wheeled into
the hospital with her father insisting on a Catholic doctor
as the attendant fondles Terry's breasts.
Misguided detour
Brooks seems to waste what could have been an
effective device; each fantasy ends up a misguided de
tour from the action of the film and does little to make
Terry seem any less than a normal sane person.
Another hindrance to our understanding the deve
lopment of Terry's character is the lack of any reasonable
sense of time in the film.. Brooks neglects to establish a
continuity to the action, and, in what seems to be an
afterthought, he tacks on some rather obvious time mark
ers as the TV New Years celebration saying "as the year
1975 draws to a close . . ." It still doesn't help us gauge
the time involved in Terry's descent, and this leads to an
uncertainty about just how serious her alienation is get
ting. So the shocking violent end of Terry's life fits into the
story but doesn't rest well on our minds. Brooks never
allows us to separate the loving and caring teacher of dis
advantaged deaf children from the prowling night animal
she is supposed to be. This separation would have made
the film work; instead we have an interesting look into
the scummy night life of a modern city. But what a
truly fascinating look we could have had into the head of
Terry Dunn.
Movie schedule
Cinema 1 : Oh, God! 7:30, 9:30 p.rn.; PG
Cinema 2: Another Man, Another Chance: 7. 9:20
p.m.;PG .
Cinema X: She Never Said No and High School
Reunion; continuous showings; X
CooperLincoln: Nashville;!: 1 5, 9 JO pjn.; R
Doughs I ; Heroes; 7:35, 9:40 p.m.; Plf
Doug as 2: Damnation Alley; 7:20, 9:20 p jn.; PG
Douglas 3 ; first Imvc, 7:30, 9 :30 p m R
Embassy: Portrait of Scductbn and' Felicia; con-
tinuous showings from 1 1 a .m.; X
Joyo: You l ight Up My Life; 7:20 psn.; PG
laza 1 : Bobby Deer field; 7,9:15 p!m.;PG
Rf Tbtbyn PeerfieU; 7:30' 95 P-m.;
JnTpUaXi Dmf: 9145 P-4Ran4W
Plaza 4: Smokey and the Bandit; 7:30, 9:30 p.m.;
State: The Hazing; 7:30, 9: 1 5 p m; PG
Stuart: Star Wars; 7:20, 9:30 p lto.; PG