' Friday, September 10, KZ
Movie builds on
Come B-ck to the 5 and Dime, Jimmy Dean,
Jimmy Dean" which is currently showing through
Monday at the Sheldon Film Theatre at 7 and 9 p.m.,
is a wonderful and exuberant picture. Even its
melodramatic quality and obvious weak moments
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dont seem to affect our acceptance of this Texas-town-epic;
it becomes a myth like the James Dean
myth which is so important to the characters.
Several of the actors Sandy Dennis, Cher and
Karen Black are the main ne3 are grand. Dennis
plays the kind of role she usually does: confused and
endearing, vague but reflective. She h transfigured
here into a saint and devotee who keeps the faith in
James Dean, goes every year to the nearby tero
where the Dean film "Giant" was made to pick up
more relics for the shrine, and most importantly
claims to have had James Dean's child, to have
been chosen like the Virgin Mary.
Cher is refreshing and blunt She lives with both
feet on the ground, or would like people to think so.
She matter-of-factly suggests sleeping with "some
nobody" first if you want to get a famous person to
fall for you: "It's like homework for the big test later."
Film about Illusion
However, since this is a Him made from a play
about illusion, all the characters must have some
little facade they need to have torn down, and the
character that Cher plays still wants to think that
she is as sexy as when she was a disciple of James
Dean. She wants to think her onetime husband
loved her.
Joanne, played by Karen Black, is the character
who works the hardest at making the others see the
bitter truth. She walks into the place like a movie
.star er.d everyone h cbrrly impressed. It turns cut
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that Joanne used to be Joe end was fired frcm
hisher job at the drugstore for hisher penchant
for dresses and apparently men.
lie h a sick boy and should be treated before he
Crc-.73 up -to a Ccmmunkt," the CT7r.tr cf the fire
and dime say3 in her cvn defense.
" Now Joanne returns 0 the sophisticated intellec
tual out to make people see the truth about them
selves (or mere simply, wreak revenue cn the bigots)
and dearly enjoys doing it. ;
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The trar.cesusl element is the key device in this
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that Joanne in Lxt fathered Llona's child, which she
named Jimmy Dean, and this revelation Is the last in
theChn.
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drugstore that counts; we never leave the Wecl
wcrth's drugstore where -the characters gather far
the Cth cr.nhcrsery cf the death cf Jarac3 D::n.
TTK f lm fis'?'a tit5 a !t r?T-,-1v r 'rf .t,.
afTectlonste look around the store fcefere anybody
process is try to decide horn they feel clcut th:!r
herrctown and to come to grips with what h:p-
What you see at the Lr'nnir cf "Come Back ..."
seems to have faded in theTexrj sun; the dru:tcre,
with its neon Christ picture and perpetual motion
crar'e drink machine, bcla Cat and muted, duty
film to he blown up to
grainy, less stick fed it gives to th-3 picture vzry
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"Ccme Back ..." ccn as a play m Vzrr Ycrk City
be put cn ar.ethcr, so cur e;es see to the wr y cur
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Eevisw by David Creincr
The Lincoln Community Play
house, 2500 S. 56, opens its 1C33-84
season with the musical comedy, "A
Funny Thing Happened on the Way
to the Forum" which is playing
weekends through Oct 1.
From the, beginning, the play is
light as the orchestra plays a short
overture before the curtain rises.
This enables the audience to get in
the proper mood for what is to
come.
The story in this musical is about
Pseudelus, a plotting Daman slave,
who desperately tries to win his
freedom from his master, Hero.
In order to win his free
Fseudolus must first introduce
Hero to the beautiful-fclende-nert-door.
This, because cf the fact that
she is.a virgin and is to be celi to a
captain from the military fcr him to
marry, becomes a dllleult tr :Ii
The play draws frequent rears cf
laughter, with well-timed punch
lines and some ridiculous spro and
dancex
The role of Pseudelus h r:Lyed by
Thomas O'Neill
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was
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for his performance in "Oklahoma."
Pseudolus is a conniving trickster
who, with a few persuasive bs,
convinces Hysterium, his boss,
played by Scott Spence, to help in
hi3 schemes.
Hero, played by Larry Leaden, .
sets up the storyline cf the py
when he agrees to grant Pseudolus
his freedom if he can help Hero win
Philia (Kristin Cchn), who plays the
blonde.
' " The acting is convincing as a
whole, and the comedy is geed,
although on a couple cf cccacions,
the songs seem a little long. Gener-.
. ally though, the sers are humsrous
enough to support the length. ;
Another very impressive element
in the play is the set The aetlsn
takes place on a street Li Heme in
front cf three houses. The hzzz:3
are painted to tl.t partel eclsrs
The past cf the str;;e where the set- ;
ing was dene was est c J ty a dii!y
;. The, play is worth seeing by
what a plry should do entertain.
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A witty and atTectisnate bck c t cr.c
cf the pioneers cf early dr.crr.a, Tcrre
Edwin S. Pcrter," plrycd at the Chcl-
when Ln Chancy cp :T3 ri a till o
the Cgurs cf dr-th, c!rts:ed to the
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don cn Tuesday nd 7cdnecd:y. Cha- har..g cf Pcrter's Cm, p:
coin to talk about his work with
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cf the r.:c!-en FZm Theater's FIImAI-
curvey cfPcrtcr's Cm career, and then
C:::s by Pester: The Ted.!Xr,-rs"
"The Vhite Caps"' and 4The Ex-'
Ccnvlet." The documentary and the
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cf IZvzzzfs Ll:rd ure cf scur.d and
celer in the excerpts cf Pcrter Cns he
chose to use in "Before the
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