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Colum bi Film. By Terry Dugas Gamecock Staff Writer During the summer months, the downtown theatres tend to bring in waves of mediocre films. For tunately, the drought of good films may be ending soon. "S-P-Y-S," staring Donald Sutherland and Elliot Gould will be opening Friday and will be reviewed in next week's Gamecock. The only way the theatres will bring specific films to Columbia is if they believe that there is enough interest to make them profitable. Consequently, this week I am suggesting a list of 10 films, gleaned from the pages of various film magazines, that I think are entertaining enough to succeed here. At The, Movies Heading the list is "That's En tertainment," a collection of film clips from the classic M.GM-M musicals. This film received a record of twenty-one favorable reviews out of a possible twenty two in Variety's reviewer pool. The film is setting box office records all over the country downtown theatres feel that it would not appeal to a younger audience. This type of thinking is indicative of the general lack of rapport that the theatres have with the college level audience. Whenever the Cinematic Arts Committee brings a Gene Kelley, Fred Astaire, Busbey Berkely, or even a Ruby Keeler film, the theatre is filled. Such a film would appeal not only to the older audiences who might remember the films first hand, but also to the younger audience which, in these days of high melodrama, enjoys seeing a man dance on a streetcar or hundreds of dancing girls wearing neon skirts. Next on the list is the Universal re-issue of the Marx Brothers second film, "Animal Crackers." Every time a Marx Brothers film plays on campus or downtown, the attendance is great. This par ticular film has been unavailable for years and now Universal has made new prints, guaranteed to be in top condition. The Marx Brothers are America's greatest contribution to sound comedy and are always funny. ~ by Sa June 25 - August 11 MYRTLE BEACH C box office tel UNI\/ERSITY OF SnOU ri Summer Fizzle A British theft thriller, "1 Harrow House," may be the bes of its type to ever come out o England. The story is simple - the theft of twelve million dollarn worth of diamonds using ingenuity guts, a cockroach, a thin cord, anc a vacuum cleaner. It stars a trul3 great actor, James Mason, and. fine actressCandice Bergen. Bott witty and suspenseful, the filn would do well here. Also in the mystery genre is "Murder on the Orient Express' starring Sean Connery, Vanessa Redgrave, and Ingrid Bergman. Sidney Lumet is directing this Agatha Christie story and, if anything like her.. other works, it may be one of the best spy films made. A most unusual motion picture, a well-made horror film, has. come from Britain "The Wicker Man" is the story of paganism and ritual in Scotland and just won the Grand Prize at the Festival of Fantasy and Science Fiction Films in Paris. It has been cited as an intense work with meticulous detail paid to atmosphere and suspense. Still another thriller is the "Odessa File," the story of modern day Naziism in Germany. Based on Frederick Forsyth's best seller, the film stars Jon Voight and Maxamillian Schnell. More suspenseful than his "Day of the Jackal," the film should be a top money maker in America. "Uptown Saturday Night" contains some of the best comedians in America. Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby are robbed of a $50,000 raffle ticket by Harry Belafonte. Private eye Richard Pryor and Reverend Flip Wilson help them recover their winnings. Although Poitier's acting has been given mixed reviews, the picture is still considered one of the better comedies. For my fellow smut lovers, Andy Warhol's 3-D version of "Frankenstein" has drawn horrible reviews from outraged critics across the nation. Paul Morrissey, of "Trash " fame, has put together a disgusting film of sex, evil, and horror that should fit well here in Columbia. Although rated X, the film can be no worse than"'High Rise" which has played here at least three times without incident and must be superior to the ill-fated "The Devil in Miss Jones." Please Turn to Page 11 dy of the Tues. - Sun. 8:30 p.m. DNVENTION CENTER ephone 448-3041 TH CAROtLINA THEAThE TV-"Jam" By Chuck Cromer Gamecock Staff Writer With nearly 175,000 paid ad missions at $10 in advance or $15 at the gate, the "California Jam's" twelve hour rock show held on April 6 at the Ontario Motor Speedway grossed close to $2 million and set a record for the largest paying crowd ever assembled for a live rock concert. This, in a nutshell, was what the "Jam" was all about. However, what makes the event even more significant than just its dollars and cents value was its overall effect on the TV rock world, resulting in a revival of pop festivals. The "Jam" was held in Southern California and promoted entirely by ABC Television Inc. It was to last just one day, quite unlike most festivals of the past which usually dragged on for three days. ABC spent about $1.3 million putting on the "Jam" and their profit approaches $700 thousand. However, one third of the budget went for a massive TV crew videotaping the entire event for broadcast as four complete segments of ABC-TV's "In Con cert." Appearing at the show were eight acts which are normally all concert headliners: Deep Purple, Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, BlackSabbath, Seals and Crofts, Black Oak Arkansas, Eagles, Rare Earth, and Earth, Wind and Fire. The "California Jam's" success appears to have caused a revival of the old music pop festivals of the late 60's and early 70's. Watkins Glen had been the only real festival in America in the last three years until the day of the "Jam". Festivals had never been a worthwhile event for most promoters until the "Jam". Because of huge crowds, gatecrashers, endless headaches, local county ordinances and, most importantly, severe financial losses, the days of the pop festivals were numbered and appeared to be over. The ABC promoters learned much from the failures of the initial pop festivals and took great pains to make sure that theirs Revives Rof would be a success. The first problem they 'solve< was the length of the event. AB( decided that the."Jam" was to las but one day so as to avoid the hassles of people spending the night. Security and planning were exceptional. A mere 5,000 people managed to break into the concert without paying. The four "In Concert" segments of the "Jam" were to be aire< every two weeks from May 10 t< June 21. The first segment served as an ir troduction for the TV audiences to the "Jam". It presented assortec interviews of the "Jam" audience and band members and showed a ten-minute clip on each of the eight groups that performed at the festival. The last three segments of the series then focused on two or three of the bands in concert. The second segment of the series featured the heavy sounds of Deep Purple, Black Sabbath and Rare Earth. Deep Purple was supposed to be the highlight of this segment. The instrumentation was typical of the band, but fairly well done. However, the vocals were horrible. The words were not un derstandable and the instruments drowned-out the audible notes. Furthermore, their new vocalist is no Ian Gillian. Black Sabbath was even worse. The volume was up so loud during their set that the noise must have been unbearable for the audience. It was loud and distorted enough to deafen 200,000 people. The third segment featured the varied sounds of Emerson, Lake, and Palmer and Black Oak Arkansas. Black Oak was as repulsive as ever. Their music lacked U Lum' DraJ Roas .*Fish Open I Mond __2005 < In k Fests imagination and their exhibitions on stage were childish. The emcee at the "Jam" then had the audacity to announce Black Oak as the "pioneers of Southern rock and roll," thus setting the South back another ten years in its music. Emerson, Lake, and Palmer should have been the highlight band of the whole "Jam," but they weren't. There is little doubt as to their ability, but there is some question about their showmanship on stage. E L and P was lackluster both in appearance and per formance, but Keith Emerson did save the set with a beautiful piano solo. The fourth and final segment was probably the best. Seals and Crofts were good for those people seeing them for the first time. 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