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Tomo] C BY DAVID HAVIRD Entertainment Editor Saturday night I sat for about three-and-a-half hours at the New Golden Spur where Tomorrow was playing. I was told before, and have been told since, they were pretty good. But I'm still not convinced. I'll be honest--I'm no expert on rock music, but I do know when I like something, and Tomorrow bored me. Obviously they didn't bore everyone. They held a crowd and even succeeded in getting people on the dance floor. Watching couples dance was more exciting than watching, or 'Tall Bloi BY LEE TSIANTIS Entertainment Writer The Tall Blond Man With One Black Shoe, now playing at the Gamecock I Theater, is a frivolous, understated example of Gallic humor. Its protagonist is a klutzy, gangling violinist who becomes involved in in trigue between two feuding espionage outfits. Fascinating premise, huh? The kicker is that the musician can remain oblivious to the falling bodies, hugging devices and weird looks The Lo Seem * From'' U Heavy 1a * Contrast * *Straight Leg i I * All Fabr I a * U *Hundreds Of * New Fat Over 8 I rrow Shoi onsidering A] listening, to Tomorrow. I'm certainly not being iconoclastic. Everyone knows that most of these groups, amateurish as they are but which, nevertheless, insist on playing only original songs, seldom have any song that ex cites. And another thing these groups lack is a good lead singer. They've usually got three members who sing, none of them very well, and each is given his turn at the mike. I arrived at the spur at about 8:15 in the middle of a slow song. Two more of these, and one beer later, I transplanted myself in the TV room, where I hoped to catch Mary Tyler Moore, and ad Man' Si all around him as the plot heaves forward. The picture never gathers any momentum, and the gags range from mediocre to insipid. Nevertheless, two elements of the film are notable--a sequence, though all too short, lampooning Mozart's 40th symphony, and a sexy, engaging performance from the female lead, Mirelle Darc (the wife in Godard's Weekend). Dare tries as hard as she can to put up with the hero's general incompetence and is, at one point, forced by the script to utter that she considers the hero, who has all the finesse of a NNOMMMMOMOMMMMM cal Clothin To Be Sufi Dhe Fashlo: NOT fai dight Leg * Y i oz. Denim rn Slack s * Gli Piping-Pastel Colors V estern Jeans * 50( cs and Colors NE NEW Double Knits ~rics and Styles 0 Styles 0 1221 Main St. maaaummmmmmm ild Have ternatives, S found to my displeasure, that I would have to suffer through silent running. I never could hear the dialogue--the doors to the room where Tomorrow was playing were being opened constantly. I decided to give them another try. Sitting right up at the dance floor, I found to my great pleasure that something useful, that is in the way of wisdom, might be gleaned from watching the couples dance. I'm now convinced that the way people dance corresponds to how they perform sexually. But this revelation still has its hangups. What do you make of the couple which insisted on ow, Never charging elephant, to be pretty good in bed. The problem of the film may rest with something mentioned earlier--the Gallic notion of what is funny and what is not, as opposed to the American sense of humor. The French think Jerry Lewis is God's gift to mankind where motion picture comedy is concerned, whereas most of us can only shake our heads at Lewis' tedious, nerve-wracking gags. And perhaps Tall Blond Man works conversely on us in this fashion. The only reason for this film's importation into America is the added significance snooping .mmminmmmmuininu g Stores . ni Blahis!' U Testern Shirts I ~mbroided and Plain * !ter Body Shirts I All Colors and H Designs * SNEW Sport Shirtsl U w Designs and Cuts 8 U Satin Enm broided g Jackets I Only $24.95 * f ShoesI U U Been Cai pur Still Bes shagging to music impossible to shag to; or the girl who really couldn't dance but swayed her body back and forth like a green sapling in a gentle wind: or the guy who was farzan one moment, Ali the ne 1L, and finally Tarzan's chimp? I don't mean to be too acetic toward the Spur entertainment. I guess what's been playing there on weekends is as good as any other facility of its kind affords--unless, of course, you wish to spend a lot of money at Bob Hulsey's House of Ribs and listen, while consuming one of the finest meat offerings in Gathers IV apparatus takes on, given today's political climate. At the end of Tal l Blond Man, there is a title (probably added after the film was released here) reiterating. the sacred right of privacy for citizens. The title would be less jarring if the film had dealt with tugging with more Televisio: To Crea USC Prof. James Edwards is working with what he calls "the newest art medium," video television, to create moving works of art. "Historically television has been a communication device used for education and en tertainment," Edwards said. "Only recently has the true creative potential of video television been realized." "The significance of my work," he continues, "is that it uses elements inherent in the television medium so that television functions as an in depe.n dent art form." The USC art instructor creates images of different colors and forms by direct video feedback, a process which involves aiming the television camera at the television's own monitor. Once created, the image may be manipulated through a special e ffects generator or by zoom and aperture controls on in dividual cameras. "External imagery such as paintings and real objects can be recorded on video tape as well," he says, "and may be in corporated into the system. An artist can control all of this material at one time and watch the results on a monitor as he works." "The process of aiming the T.V. camera into a monitor is a simple one,,' Edwards said. "Creative decision-making comes into play in editing the video tape and exercising creative awareness over what is allowed to be seen." Edwards' work results in moving pictures of changing forms and colors which are iceled t Columbia, to Billie Mustin and her trio. Tomorrow was, I think, eminently more successful with their instrumental as opposed to vocal numbers, just as they were more successful with the fast songs than with the slow ones. In a way, I regret the New Golden Spur's being a testing ground for mediocrity. It's time for some competent rock n' roll, and old fashion jazz. But even still, I'd rather spend my weekend evenings there than at Don's or the Twilite. [omentum than superficial detail--detail we could have gotten from any spy film of the 40's. Tall Blond Man is atrociously dubbed, but that may work for the film, making it funnier than it actually is. One's response to this film is largely a matter of taste, but the end result remains an un satisfying one. n Used te Art shown concurrently with elec tronic music. The USC instructor became interested in television while a graduate student at the University of California at Santa Barbara and has also attended a video workshop at the National Museum of Art in Paris. Cultural Happenings Dr. Jerry Curry will perform harpsichord works of Bach, Rameau and Scarlatti Wednesday at 8 p.m. at Fraser Hall. The concert, sponsored by the Music DeDartment. is free to all The Crucible currently is ac cepting poetry, prose-fiction, drama, literary criticism, and film criticism of a theoretical nature for publication in its first spring issue. Address manuscripts to The crucible, Campus Box 5137. .Deadline is March 1. . Tryouts for "A Warning--A Theme for Linda" will be held tomorrow at 6:15 p.m. in rrm 307, Russell House. The play is sponsored by the Association of Afro American Students. A sculpture exhibit ot student art is currently on display at the Russell House Art Gallery. The exhibit of art by women is part of Women's Week, having begun yesterday and running through Feb. 15. Greek and Roman marble sculptures, Etruscan pottery, ancient coinage, pottery, jewelry and glass are among athe 80 ar ticles currently on display in "Classical Art from Carolina Collections," at the Columbia Museum of Art.