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By Hike Frost
A fanatic is often described as someone who will
travel great distances in order to sate his fetish. Film
fanatics in Lincoln are fortunate to have the Shel
don Film Theatre program to satisfy their cinematic
appetites. However, the film fan who is able to make
the 60-mile trip can complement this menu with the
bevy of foreign and domestic releases Omaha has to
offer.
One of the most extensive programs is UNO's Stu
dent Programming Organization's series. It features
a mix of new and vintage Hollywood films, with
some foreign films thrown in for good measure, the
next two weekends will feature a retrospective of
western films. "Little Big Man" will show Friday,
"Once Upon a Time in the West" on Saturday and
"The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" Sunday. "Butch
Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," "The Wild Bunch,"
and The Magnificent Seven" will be featured next
weekend.
Other highlights are a Humphrey Bogart Film Fes
tival (Oct. 14 and 15), Jean-Luc Godard's "Breath
less" (Oct. 23), "A Star is Born" with Judy Garland
(Nov. 13), the French cult film "The King of Hearts"
(Dec. 2 and 3) and Frank Capra's "Mr. Smith Goes to
Washington (Dec. 11).
The films show at 5:15, 7:30 and 9;45 p.m. Fridays;
7:30 and 9:45 p.m. Saturdays and 3 and 7:30 p.m. on
Sundays at the Epply Auditorium, 62nd and Dodge
streets. Admission to the films is $1.50. For a com
plete schedule, write the Student Programming
Organizations, University of Nebraska-Omaha Milo
Bail Student Center, Omaha, Neb. 68182-0295.
The New Cinema Cooperative, also in Omaha, fea
tures independent film-makers' ventures. Screen
ings are at the Emmy Gilford Children's Theater,
3504 Center St. Films to be presented in the series
'Nancy withstands test of time
As a public service, here is the solution to the
mystery of the creator(s) of the "Nancy" comic
strip, the subject of much heated debate recently
in art circles.
For 43 years, the late great Ernie Bushmiller
created this classic funny. Seven times weekly, its
combination of naivete and stylistic simplicity
has graced up to 600 newspapers worldwide.
Bushmiller died August 15, 1982, at 76. In his
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tradition, his protege Mark Lasky took over pro
duction of the strip. But at the age of 29, Lasky
died of cancer July 31 after nearly a year of pro
ducing the weekday versions of "Nancy." The
colored Sunday editions since Bushmiller's dem
ise have and will continue to be produced by Al
Plastine, a longtime assistant. Lasky produced a
large amount of work that will continue to run,
unsigned, until October 10.
Starting then, California cartoonist Jerry Scott
will draw the daily strip.
Diane Heine of United Feature Syndicate's
promotion and publicity department, said Scott
plans on retaining the same patented Bushmiller
look, but plans to add more physical movement
and to emphasize the major adult character,
Nancy's Aunt FritzL
Originally, Bushmiller's strip was called "Fritzi
Ritz," and I can recall comic books from my child
hood based on the character. But eventually, pub
lic opinion proved Nancy (and her orphan pal,
Sluggo), to be more popular, and the strip came
be called "Nancy."
From its inception, Bushmiller's strip has been
characterized by a clarity of line, a directness in
approach with emphasis on the si'ht gag, -and a
childlike naivete. This aint no "Doonesbury."
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The f:::t f.. t "ICnr.cy cxrts after 43 years is
are Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "Lola" (Oct. 1 ), "Say f
Amen Somebody," (Oct. 1 5), "Vortex," (Nov. 5), "Yol,"
which won the Cannes r llm Festival s prize in 1B82
and "La Nuit de Varennes," a French film starring
Marcello MastoniannL Admission to each film is
$3.50. -
The Park Four Theaters, 84th and Park Drive in
Omaha, is offering an American Classic Film Festi
val scheduled to begin Sept. 28. It will run through
Nov. 15.
The Park Four series offers double features, which
change twice weekly. Among the bills are "Casab
lanca" and The Maltese Falcon" (Oct. 12 through
Oct. 15), "Rebecca" and "Notorious" (Nov. 2 through
Nov. 5), "A Night at the Opera" and "A Day at the
Races" with the Marx Brothers (Oct. 23 through Oct
25 and a special screening of James Dean's "Giant"
(Nov. 9 through 15).
Admission is $3.50 for each double feature. How
ever, tickets can be purchased in advance, five for
$12.50. . '"" v: ..,
For more information, write the Park Four Theat
ers, P.O. Box 27315, Ralston, 68127.
The Joslyn Art Museum also features a film series.
"New Wave Cinema," as it is commonly called, is
characterized by innovative editing, political subject
matter and low budgets.
The series features Werner Herzog's "Aguirre, the
Wrath of God" (Oct. 2), "Rocco and His Brothers," an
Italian film (Oct. 16), "The Ruling Class" (Oct. 30),
"The Last Wave," directed by Australian filmmaker
Peter Weir, (Nov. 13), The Harder They Come"
which stars reggae singer Jimmy Cliff (Dec. 11), and
"Greaser's Palace," (Dec. 18). Screenings are at the
Joslyn Museum, 2200 Dodge St Tickets are $2.50 for
students and $3 for the general public. Series passes
also are available, $9 for students, $12 for the gen
eral public. Shows begirtat 2 p.m.
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worth ticket price
Dy 7crd V. Triplett III
The scene is the dark corner of a small prison cell
As a male guard unlocks the door, the beautiful
woman inside cowers in the comer, hiding the plas
tic gun she has made.
Naturally, the guard begins to undress. The girl
pulls out the gun and backs him into the hallway
while he berates her with a mouth-full of cliches.
("Youll never get away with this!") Next, the cocking
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of a triors is heard. The girl whirb around and
aims at the darkness, but too late, 3 six guards fire
at once. Hie girl falls in "&iow motion to the floor,
Hollywood bullet wounds eveywhere.- -
The beginning ofXhsined Heat," the Izitzt in the
lovable genre of women-behind-bars fL's, cfT:rs the
audience its only inteSleetasl challenge: "Do I actu
ally sit through the rest cf this?" If you can st
beyond the non-stop violence and sex, then you
stay. However, the best thing would be not to rpsnd
the S3.50 in the first place. :
"Chained Heat" has the usual story line. Naive,
sweet little girl gets sent to prison after an hor.cct
accident; in this case, Linda Blair accidentally runs
over someone with her car. Then, the little girl gets
caught up in the various struggles within the prison.
She then gets beaten up and has friends killed by the
warfare airing; the prisoners, then nets rrped and
beaten by the warden. After all this, the little girl
becomes a prison-tough leader, who organizes the
warring prisoners and proceeds to rid the prison cf
its evil administrators, v
' Along the way, cf course, is the dizzying cinematic '
rr.-es of sex and violence,, including three lecbian
scenes ar.J two sobering rape scenes. Pecple are
kpd and mutilated in o many dLTerent v.-eys
the producers could dream up.
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loosely written script, which hr.s ths v.e.rden
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