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Professor shuns law dreams
to entertain different audience
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By joetn Zucco
Staff Reporter
When Kevin Paul Hofeditz was
a little boy, he wanted to be a
lawyer whep he grew up. Lawyers
gel to perform in front of people.
Now, 33 years later, he ^perform
ing to a different audience.
Hofeditz, an associate profes
sor of theater arts, has been acting
since junior high when he was in
the chorus of Oliver. In high
school, Hofeditz said, he was get
ting advice to pursue an acting
career professionally and followed
through in college.
“I enjoy it,” Hofeditz said. “I
don’t really feel I have this huge
need to be on stage, which many
actors say they do.
“I look upon acting as any other
career. I have abilities and interests
and use them in the same way an
architect would. You go with your
interests and talents and I feel fortu
nate that 1 can do it and make a
living.”
Hofcditz began working as an ac
tor in St Louis after graduating from
Southern Illinois University at Ed
wardsvillc in December 1976. Em
ployed with acting jobs half the time,
he spent the other half teaching part
lime at a junior college. Teaching led
him back to school to graduate with a
Masters of Fine Arts in acting and
directing from the University of Mis
souri-Kansas City in 1982.
In the summer of 1983, Hofcditz
was invucu uiv. nv
braska Summer Repertory Theater.
That fall he began teaching in the
theater department.
“I fell fortunate in 1983 to be
teaching here,” he said. "1 assumed in
my first teaching position I would
have to pay my dues somewhere in the
sticks, instead I found myself at a
reputable university.”
Having been promoted to an asso*
ciale professor last month, he contin
ues to split his time between teaching
and recruiting and acting in several
productions.
Hofcditx iscurrcntly starring inthc
Nebraska Repertory Theater’s sum
mer productions ol Pippin, The Voice
of the Prairie and Noises Off. Al
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with 20th Teurnee bf Animatien
By Charles Lieurance
Senior Editor
The box office smash “Who
Framed Roger Rabbit?” has
prompted a renewed, almost fanatical
interest in animation. The success of
that film could make animation and
its lowbrow cousin cartooning, the
elite medium of the last part of the
1980s.
The 20th International Tournee of
Animation being shown at the Shel
don Film Theatre this week is a per
feet coda to “Roger Rabbit” and the
recent appearance by master anima
tor Chuck Jones at the Sheldon during
the Flaiwatcr Festival.
The Tournee, for the 2()lh year, has
gathered together the best in world
animation. The films run the gamut
from the sophisticated to silly, repre
senting the cutting edge of animation
— animation as art and entertain
ment. The 18 films being shown in the
Tournee are from 10 countries: New
Zealand, Belgium, Hungary, China,
Switzerland, Italy, the Soviet Union,
England, Poland and the United
States.
Thefilmsdcmonstratethccxtrcmc
variety in animation techniques.
Aside from the standard inkcd-ccl
animation, clay animation and de
tailed computer generated animation
arc also represented.
The Tournee has always been full
of surprises, little illusory miracles
that cause the artform to progress at
leaps and bounds, but this year’s 20th
Anniversary Tournee is particularly
exciting. Each film challenges the
medium technically as well as the
manually.
Perhaps the highlight of the
Tournee is “Break!,” a Soviet film
using clay animated boxers to illus
trate political conflict. The 10 minute
film, the longest in the series, isa fluid
piece of work, without the usual stiff,
robotic movements often associated
with clay animation. But the political
message of “Break!” is secondary to
the boxing tale itself, a smooth-flow
ing narrative played out by clay char
acters who speak some clever, non
sensical babble that reminds one of
real languages but actually acts as a
unifying Esperanto. It allows the film
to transcend language barriers en
tirely.
The most oddball effort in the
Tournee is a cooperative effort be
tween animation “teams” from the
United Slates, China, Switzerland
and Poland, called “Academy Leader
Variations." Leader is the first several
inches of film on a reel, usually a
countdown to the film itself that al
lows the projectionist to cue the film
up precisely. Each team submitted
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