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Daily Nebraskan
Wednesday, May 1, 1985
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It's the time of year when my thoughts
turn to simpler things a beach, a
beer, a girl, the sun and a Mercedes
Benz. You know, the simple things in
life.
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Finals mean pressure to many peo
ple, but not me. I just sit back and
lotice the wierd things that happen
iround the end of the semester. For
instance, people start showing up for
class that you've never seen before.
Perhaps you're one of them. I know I
am. Your steady girlfriend has to wash
her hah every night this week. The next
time you see her she is pregnant and
engaged to a guy she met at a limbo
contest. Must have been some pretty
potent shampoo. You can get off work
by simply looking at your boss and say
ing "final." Bosses, who want to appear
humanitarian, are scared to death of
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finals. You need six weeks off to take a
final? You got it. Six new movies always
come out this time of year. I think it's a
plot against college students. College
students are the biggest movie-goers.
So by releasing movies now, several
people go see them, flunk their finals,
and thus stay in college longer, seeing
more movies.
Most parents send "care packages."
Mine don't. One semester's end I got a
box from home and thought it was a
"care package." It was an old pair of
sneakers mom didn't know whether to
throw away or keep, so she sent them to
me. They weren't even my sneakers.
Everyone wants to borrow your notes
this week. You say, "Have them back in
an hour!" They say, "Sure." There years
later you meet them on the beach in
South Padre and they say, "Hey, don't I
know you from somewhere?"
Professors perk up around finals
time. They're ready for summer beer
bashes, too. They become almost per
sonable. All of a sudden they joke about
sex and other things you thought they
Underlying message gives 'Creator' life
By Julie Liska
Staff Reporter
In the midst of a world filled with
death, unhappiness and bad movies,
take heed of the big picture. It is,
according to Dr. Harry Wolper (Peter
OToole), the answer to the world's
troubles and is an overriding theme in
the film "Creator."
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"Creator" centers on the witty and
scientifically gifted Wolper whose
beautiful wife Lucy died 30 years ago.
Wolper is obsessed with the idea of
regenerating his beloved spouse from a
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knew nothing about. Usually, the first
clue that the semester is almost over is
when a professor says, "Ha, ha, I'm sure
a copy of this final is in a fraternity file
somewhere, ha ha," which
really thrills me. I have about a3 much
chance of getting into a fraternity file
as I do of getting into one of their little
sister programs.
Your friends will start borrowing
money again. They borrowed from you
at the beginning of the semester and
never paid you back, remember? Then
you got mad and swore you'd never lend
them money again. But by now you've
forgotten who they are. I have a unique
system. The trick is to never ask for too
much. "Hey, Mike, gotta dime? Thanks."
They never even notice it. It works on
strangers, too. This semester IVe col
lected $378 and people don't even
remember I've borrowed from them.
The March of Dimes has been doing it
for years.
Those things affect everyone, .but
people have their own unique expe
riences with finals week. I know I do.
few cells he has preserved from her
body.
In the process, Wolper tricks a young
college student named Boris (Vincent
Spano) to be his assistant. Together
the two endeavor to reproduce Lucy,
with Boris in the meantime falling
deeply in love with Barbara (Virginia
Madsen) whom he meets by chance in
the lab.
Wolper realizes he needs an egg from
a woman to make his experiment work.
He finds a girl named Meli (Mariel
Hemingway) who willingly obliges the
scientist's request.
The exposition of the film is quite
slow and tedious, as are the main
events leading to the film's climax. Meli
falls in love with the unwilling Wolper,
and Barbara suddenly comes down with
a deadly cranial malfunction that puts
her in a coma. Wolper is also forced by
Readers call
review poor
On April 29, 1985, Bill Allen attemp
ted to write a theatrical review of the
UNL theater department's production
of "Macbeth." If the Daily Nebraskan
continues to review theatrical produc
tions, then a competent authority should
be assigned.
Allen's review was filled with con
tradictions. At one point, he comments
on the "nice costumes" and later
states that, "the other characters were
dressed similarly and really didn't stand
out from each other." He also says, "the
pace was steady, and sometimes poetic
and lyrical," and later contradicts his
statement with, "The pacing was too
quick. The players seemed more amazed
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For instance, I know it's finals week
when all the long term paper assign
ments I'd decided to do at my leisure
are due Friday morning. Thursday night
my typewriter breaks. I throw my notes
in a bookbag and head for the door just
as the phone rings. It's an old friend
who hasn't called In four years. Over
the phone she wants to read me the
first nine chapters of a novel she's
working on. She hangs up just as Late
Night with David Letterman comes on.
Tonight's guests are Bruce Springsteen,
Rodney Dangerfield and the Playmate
of the Year. The show ends as an auto
mobile comes crashing through my
bedroom window and skids to a stop on
top of my kitchen sink. It takes nine
hours to fill out the insurance forms
and for the wrecker to get rid of the car.
This kind of thing happens to me every
semester. How come professors never
believe me?
My finals are inevitably scheduled
during National Basketball Association
playoff games. Then two weeks in
advance I tell my professor of this
tragedy and he says, "What's more
important, son, your education and
the villainous Dr. Kunl (David Stiers)
to move to another college.
It is then that the idea of the big
picture comes into play. The big pic
ture is not fully explained, nor should
it be in the better interests of the
movie. The audience only gets the
essence of it as being a certain unde
fined power one could loosely label as
hope. Whatever the case, it is the only
element that prompts the characters to
endure their situations and is instru
mental in the movie's fulfilling climax.
The truly disappointing part of the
film is its conclusion. Next to the
unnerving human intimacy of the rest
of the film, the conclusion comes off
weak and unsatisfying. Although it suf
ficiently "ties things up," it isn't as
memorable as one would like to see
from such a melodramatic production.
"Creator" has a tendency to become
in their own ability to remember all of
Shakespeare's English than in being
actors..."
Comments such as, "(Bell) acted the
lines" and, "(Thone) rushed the lines a
bit and stopped acting to concentrate
on those lines," prove to me Allen's
inability to successfully describe what
actually took place on stage. These
statements would seem ludricrous to
even the beginning theater students,
who, according to Allen, are required to
see the production. What better way to
learn about theater than to actually see
live productions? Perhaps if Allen would
have been required to see more pro
ductions, his reviews might appear
more intelligent. Granted, all produc
tions have flaws, but a reviewer or
critic must be knowledgeable in his or
her assigned area. Allen is not.
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future hapiness or the Celtics playing
the 'Sixers?" What do you say?
Professors have not hearts. I think
their blood is pumped by intestinal
contractions. Once I was taking a final
and this woman beside me went into
labor. The professor rushed over and
comforted her, then called her hus
band. He tore up her final and said not
to worry about it. She was smiling as
she left, until he said, "Oh, by the way,
don't sell your textbook. See you next
semester."
Then I spend three weeks worrying
about my grades and wondering what I
got. I used to listen to people who get
bad grades say, "Gee, they must have
got my grades mixed up with a football
player's."
But I would always defend the Hus
kers. "They are no dumber than any
other people who smash their heads
into each other four hours a day."
Me, well, this time of year my mind
turns to simpler things, like a beach, a
beer, a girl, the sun and nuclear proliferation.
a little corny at times. There is, for
example, the scene where Boris tells
Wolper he wants to grow up to be just
like the doctor. Superficially, the remark
is somewhat childish. The pure honesty
and power of the scene, however, over
ride the silliness of the scene.
Especially worthy of praise is Mariel
Hemingway's performance. She captures
the zesty, strikingly fresh, and daring
essence of her character fully and with
complete believability. Hemingway
singlehandedly captures the film's major
theme of the love of life.
Overall, "Creator" is a good movie if
you're willing to brave the slow parts
and put up with a rather dry conclu
sion. The underlying message and
stimulating climax of the film make it
worth the viewer's time.
The movie will be shown in Lincoln
soon.
Cards .&
Letters
theater arts
Timothy Ganser
senior
broadcastingtheater
Editor's Note: A careful reading
of the article in question will reveal
that Allen was not contradicting him
self. He was referring to different
people.
Reader lauds
writer's style
In regard to Bill Smith's letter put
ting down Scott Harrah's review of
"Desperately Seeking Susan," let me
say this: a review is merely an opinion
and will not always reflect the percep
tions of the entire public. I also found
Madonna's acting "miserable" in the
film. The screenplay was changed once
Madonna was cast in the film, so she
just played herself, like the reviewer
said. If she really wants to prove herself
as an actress, she should do a role
totally unlike her tummy-besring, sex
object image. Otherwise, I find it nau
seating to pay to see in a film the same
disgusting girl who's on the cover of
every magazine.
I also would like to comment on the
reviewer, Scott Harrah. It's true that
he's often a bit biting in his reviews,
but he's also eloquent and witty. Har
rah is perhaps the most distinguished
writer at your paper, besides, say, Bill
Allen and Ward W. Triplett III. I would
like to see Smith write a review with
half the style some of these guys put
into theirs.
Jacqueline Greenburgman
freshman
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