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The Scenario: On Nov. 22, the official
"world permiere" of "Terms of
Endearment" will show at the Stuart
Theatre. It's been several months since
the film finished filming in Lincoln.
(CUT TO SCENE 2 - "THE PARTY")
Let the stellar celebration com
mence. There will be red carpet and
searchlights sweeping the sky. Thir
teenth Street will be barricaded to
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accommodate the arrival cflimosir.es
carrying passengers who have paid S3
much as $75 a ticket to see the show.
Proceeds will be given to the Lincoln
General Hospital Oncology Service
Area for cancer research and treat
ment. The Lincoln General chairper
son for the benefit is Penny Bradley,
who said she wants the opening night
festivity "to be as big as it can possibly
be."
(THE PLAYERS)
Everybody who is somebody is
invited, and they will bring a lot of
money with them. If Debra Winger
shows up, then Gov. Kerrey will proba
bly attend. Director Jim Brooks may
show. Producer Martin Jurow will be
there, along with several other Para
mount executives. Jurow will arrive
early in the week and is expected to
give some sort of seminar on campus.
Former Lincoln Mayor Helen Boosalis
will attend because original plans for
the firm were coordinated during her
time in office.
(Scene 3 "AINT YVE GOT FUN!")
I A formal cocktail pexty begins si 6
jlm., high atop the NBC building. The
party will jam along until 7:30 p.m.,
when everyone will stumble across the
street to see the film. The premiere is
wood.
A "rough cut" of the film was
screened in California this summer for
audience reaction. It was then line
cut" and will run two hours and 15
minutes.
At 10:15 p.m., there will be a recep
tion for the film's viewers at The Vil
lager Motel which booked all of the
dig3 for cast and crew. Epicurean good
cheer should be the order cf the even
ing at both the NBC cocktail party and
the Villager reception. .' "
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Will another HgZj J'Cr crew"
ever invade Lincoln? According to
Doug Breisch, a city employee and
informant to the newly founded "May-
essentiaily a, private screening. The crs Task Force On Film , the answer
next day "Terms . . . opens to the pub
lic in New York, Lincoln and Holly-
remains optimistically unascertained.
One thing is known for certain, how
ever. Lincoln will remain a possibility
for future Paramount projects.
"Paramount called us and said they
were pleasantly surprised with the
cooperation they got from the Lincoln
community. They couldn't believe the
esse with which they were abb to
obtain permits for locations, as well as
the overall lack of ted tape " Breisch
said. . ,
Of course if George Miller were to
film the sequel to "Mad Max," here,
local public opinion could very well,
change. However, peopia wiU still line
up to get involved with the dream-
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Lincoln citizen Jackie Beavers coor
dinated the search for local talent for
the film which involved choosing
about half a dcien people for speaking
rcies. t:te was
thousands of extras, 'including every
one who slipped chsi to participate in
the chase scenes, shot here on campus
with Jeff Daniels, and Winger.
- Beavers is forming a talent pool
from thousands of glossies and portfo
lios she received before and during the
production. The talent pool will pro
vide actors for local commercials, a
few locally produced television shows
and 'perhsps another film. ':
"Hopefully there will be another
film". Beavers said She described her
work as casting coordinator for the
film, as "really crazy."
"They wanted people at the last
minute, and when I got them there
they (director Broolka and the Para-
mount people) had already, changed
their minds. They needed somebody
totally different, sometimes totally
opposite. But it was fun and very
. satisfying, she added. .
Beavers was recently elected head
chairperson on the Lincoln film and
Television Committee, which will seek
more film production in Lincoln.
Well, the work is over for the time
being, and the only task at hand is the
anticipation of this potentially
Academy Award-winning effort. The
film allegedly contains homage to
Norman Rockwell and other bucolic,
mid-America themes. .
But forget about the Midwest for
now, On the evening cfNov. 22, Lincoln
will get a little shot of Hollywood, an
eclipse of what would otherwise be an
; exclusively west-coast stellar obser
vance. Impassionated zodiac heroes
emerging from deep, black limes. All
because cf a silly preoccupation with
fame and materialism and the way.
light is flashed on a walL . , . , '.
Note: In its Oct 21 efon, VisLin
.ccHizr reported tZzt J'Tcrzzs cf
in cl'icr pzrts cf Ls ardrdry hqfare it
here. . . . -.,
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the evening cf Nov. 22 vtill show cs
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'Good Friday9 a long day of wrain'
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"The Long Good Friday," a British film ty Jehn
Mackenzie shown as a UPC Foreign Film at the
Sheldon Film Theatre Sunday and Monday, is se
parated from many suspense films by its highly
developed and interesting mood.
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' Harold, the main character played by Bill HosMns,
suddenly finds himself in very big trouble without
understanding why. When Harold is just about to
close his biggest deal, the crime boss finds that all he
has considered solid ground is giving way. The Long
Good Friday" does not simply picture a chain cf
events, but shows through that chain of events how
a person faces his day cf wrath. ; . "..'
The opening shot follows a suitcase, and the
hands gripping it, to its destination. We see a man,
Colin, played by Paul Freeman, pick up another man
at a bar, then narrowly escape being abducted and
killed. Then a widow spits in the I zee of another
"corporate" (the crime syndicate thinks cf itself in
purely business terms) figure. The progress is per
fectly chronological and straightforward, and as in
most suspense films we wait for further information
to fin in the gaps of what so far is a completely
disconnected series cf occurrences.
Net only the audience feels this disconnection at
first the confusion is general among the
characters. "It's the work cf a maniex," Harold sey3
"II2 never hurt, a fy IwcH, cr,Iy when it wes
Ar.i th3 Cm tr!:3 to rr.e!;e Ilexcld come rcrci o
r.c t zzch a 1 2d guy, even II Lis- tusir.es is ills'?! Ilg's
very p-trietis rss!3 r;ith gres.t prids cf Lozt en
people emphatically do not consider themselves -gangsters
they aim for security, and Harold he
ruled cmlmly over part of London's underworld for '
some years. This is an ironic attempt to portray;
Harold as a guy who might have had his faults
(didn't Oedipus?), but who is the undeserving and
sudden vietim of fete, f . -: :-:-' ' i .'. ? " : , :
Christian imagery is used repeatedly in Harold's
story. We see a line cf people, including Harold's
mother, kiss the foot of a statue cf Christ and
, soon after Colin is stabbed at the pool. :
Directly after that, we see the host lifted up at the
moment of transubstatiation in the Mass and, in
front of the church, a bomb rips apart Harold's
Rolls-Royce with one of his people in it.
Another victim of this seemingly source less reign '
of terror i3 nailed by hb hands to the floor, and after
Harold senselessly and insanely kills one of his
friends, the burning of his bloodstained clothes and
his own purifying shower have religious as
sociations. The religious metaphors help to
' strengthen our idea cfllsxcld 3 vietim. ' .
His wife, Victoriaertrayed very well by Helen
Mirren, is strong, like Harold, but cod and intelligent
as well. Yet she seems no more able to discern why,
; as Harcld puts it, "Ccmebody ij having a go at me."
With the paranoia cf this Good Friday, even two
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courage and resolve. ' . . -
Harold's anger helps to do him in. The most
If television ever manages to replace news-;
" papers, Mark Russell may very well become the new
Art Buchwald. Russell's quarterly FD3 speciils fea
ture some cf the vittiest political commentary
around. In light of Tuesday's events in Grenada, it
will be interesting to see what Russell comes up
with. Hie show airs at 7 p.m. tonight on KUON,
channel 12.
Sir John Gielgud, James Warwick and Cheryl
-Campbell star tonight in one cf Agatha Christie's
greatest thrillers, "Seven D;:.!3 Mj-stery," which will
air on channel 12. The mystery set during the Roar
ing Oj is scheduled to begin at 8 p.m.
ICUCV (C0.9 FlI) Maxim. Shostakovich con
ducts the Chicago Symphony tonight at Op.ro. Fea
tured will be pianist Ilcrado Gutierrez. Pieces tonight
include Rachm.-nmcfTs Piano Concerto No. 3 and
Tchaieovs'.s Symphony after Eryon's Manfred.
- IinJM(CD.5RI)Aurd Delights" wl feature
tvo hours cf regg-s music tonight, bcinnir.i zt
10Z0 p.m. Among featured artists v.3 13 Eeb !.::t
ley, The Gladiators, Third World and Steel Pulre.
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1 p.m., 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. The film has a wcrld-.7li3
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