Wednesday, January 16, 1935
Pago 16
Daily Nobraskan
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student, faculty artists
By Roger Knee
SufTEeporter
The University Art League is alive
again with the opening of a gallery
Monday in Richards Hall 205.
The opening marks the first activity
of the league since it disbanded several
years ago, said Pat Rowan, faculty
sponsor of the Art League.
Rowan said the league, comprised of
35 to" 40 students, received a small
amount of funds for materials from the
art department. Students volunteered
to help convert the former classroom
into a gallery.
Rowan said the students' work is
"filling a certain void that was here on
campus and in the department."
The gallery can display about 30
pieces of art. The league will accept
works from undergraduate or graduate
students and faculty.
Nanci Sloan-Ehrlich, secretary-treasur
er of the league, said a new show will
open once a month and exhibitors need
not be art majors.
Rowan said non-majors are welcome
as members of the newly-revived art
league. No membership fees or dues
are charged, but members are encour
aged to volunteer one hour a week to
work at the gallery.
Ric Marsh, a student whose work
will be exhibited in the gallery, said he
invested a lot of time and effort in the
project. He said he hopes UNL students
and faculty will submit vorks for
exhibit and view all of the gallery's
shows.
Supporting the gallery "is like going
to a football game, a concert or a play,"
he said. "It's supporting the university
community."
The gallery is free of charge to all
and is open Monday through Thursday,
0:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Fridays, 9:30
a.m. to 2 p.m.
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Television
Land of the Tiger, airing tonight at
7, begins the 10th Anniversary Season of
National Geographic Specials on public
television. The 60-minute close captioned
special takes viewers to two national parks in
the heart of India to study the tiger's private
life in its natural habitat. The special will air
on Channel 12.
Cousteau Amazon: Snowstorm In
The Jungle. Jacques Cousteau and his son
Jean-Michel examine the cocaine trade along
the Amazon River. The special airs at 7 p.m.
on channel 1011.
Playwright Edward Albee discusses his
work and directs two actors for his plays,
"Zoo Story," and "Counting The Ways." Albee
is also the author of the critically acclaimed
"Who's Afraid Of Virginia Wolfe." He airs at 9
tonight on channel 16.
The late Peter Sellers stars in one of his
more popular movies, "Revenge of the Pink
Panther," at 8 tonight on Channel 6. In this
1978 movie, the bumbling inspector Jacques
Clouseau attempts to smash an international
crime ring, with somewhat hilarious results.
Around Town
Why Not plays tonight at the Drumstick,
547 N. 48th St. The band will start playing at 9
p.m. Cover charge is $2.
The Backbeats bring their blues to
the Zoo Bar, 136 N. 14th St., tonight. Cover
charge is $1.50.
At theJoslyn
Joslyn Art Museum, 2200 Dodge St. in
Omaha, will sponsor a guided tour at 1 p.m.
today for an exhibit of Early Western American
art. The exhibit includes works by noted
artist-explorers Karl Bodmer, George Catlin
and Alfred Jacob Miller. The tour is free, but
museum admission is $2 for adults and $1 for
children under 12 and senior citizens.
Joel SartoreDally Nebraskan
Nanci Sloan-Ehrlich sits watch among sculptures, photographs and paintings of a new art
exhibit at Richards IMl.
'Flamingo Kid,' 'Dune' best
of worst Christmas films
aplenty, a few hideous sores and a couple of
flesh-searings. But if you've read the book, most
of it will be a delight to finally see, such as the
Fremen eyes, the worms, the mentats and the
ornithopters. Huh? Unfortunately, the movie
doesn't wait for you to understand all that, and
chances are "Dune" will blow over you the same
way. "Dune" is playing at the State Theatre.
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By Ward W. Triplett III
Sports Editor
Editor's Note: This is the second
in a two-part series of reviews of
Christmas movies.
Some big stars appear on the shorter end of
the motion picture stick this Christmas. "City
Heat" with Burt Reynolds and Clint Eastwood
has made nearly everv "worst" list available. Few
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critics and even fewer audiences have found the
gang comedy efforts of "Johnny Dangerously"
endearing.
Eddie Murphy and Matt Dillon also appear on
the second part, but the top seven ("Micki and
Maude," "2010," "Cotton Club," "Starman,"
"Flamingo Kid," "Beverly Hills Cop" and even
"Dune") are toss-ups anyway.
5. FLAMINGO KID It took a while, but
I think I finally know what all the critics leved
about this rather simple early 1980s coming of
. age story. While I thought it lacked direction and
did little with an apex when it found one, Matt
Dillon and Richard Crenna turn in two honest,
human protrayals representing two ideologies.
One of a rich, egotistic, do-anything-to-win man.
The other, a simple, blue collar approach that
accepts the shorter end of the success stick for a
better outlook on life. If that sounds overblown,
it is. All the "Flamingo Kid" should be is a winter
escape, and with its scenery and light story it is.
"The Flamingo Kid" is showing at the Plaza Four
Theatre,
6. DUNE Another situation where one is
tempted to think so much and miss the point.
But, unlike the "Flamingo Kid," Dune's biggest
challenge is to make you understand what is
going on, not what it all means. Kyle McLaughlin
stars as the "seed," "God" or, in Dune terms,
"Kwisatz Haderach, of a desert planet. The
planet contains an element (spice) that's crucial
not only for food, but for everything related to
space travel, building and everything else, (kind
of like the "Miracle Whip" floor-cleaner, dessert
topping from the early Saturday Night Live
days).
But what the various powers of this world are
willing to do for this spice isn't a laughing
matter. Neither are the enormous worms that
protect the spice itself. There's also blood
7. BEVERLY HILLS COP There's no
denying that Eddie Murphy's performance as
renegade cop Axel Foley is the best comedy act
of the year and this is also the largest money-
making film ever for a Christmas season. But I
still don't buy the story, and I don't understand
why, once the producers got Murphy's signature,
they settled for such a common plot and ending.
But, Murphy's great, and the film follows, however
reluctantly. The jokes aren't the quick, cheap
kind either (though those offended by Murphy's
overused gutter language may disagree). If you
want proof, corner someone who has seen it and
have them recreate some of the funnier scenes,
such as Murphy's playing a Herpes victim to get
an audience with the lead meany, or Murphy's
"Supercop" tale to get himself and two Beverly
Hills cops out of trouble, or Murphy's first, run in
with the thickly-accented assistant to his former
childhood friend at her art gallery or... Beverly
Hills Cop also is playing at the Plaza Four
Theatre.
8. CITY HEAT While the first seven (on
my list anyway) were all good in one way or
another, this is where they started dropping off.
"City Heat" is nothing more than a gallery for
Burt Reynolds and Clint Eastwood fans with the
only catch apparently being that Eastwood plays
Burt's flippant character. Not a good story, not a
good film. "City Heat" is at the Cinema 1 & 2.
9. ELECTRIC BOOGALOO The
dancing is great, but how much dancing can you
still stand to watch? "Beat Street" was about my
fill, and judging from the returns on "Electric
Bcogaloo" compared to the first "BreskinV' I'm
not the only one. But, the breakdancing craze
still has enough steam to merit this second
picture, which devotes even less time to its
flimsy characters and their beyond-the-stars
ambitions.
One too many dance sequences actually hurts
this dance movie since the scenes begin to
repeat themselves. Flos, I'm still trying to figure
out how the stars (Michael Chambers and Adolfo
Quinones) feed themselves living in that shack
without jobs, much less afford all thst equipment
and those occasional studded uniforms. "Electric
Boogaloo" is at the Cinema 1 & 2.