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entertaini Buffett conc Homecomin By CHUCK CROMER and TRACY GOULDEN Gamecock Staff Writers Some credit for the success of this Homecoming Week rests with the favorable football record. Logically at tendance figures for the Homecoming Parade and Cockfest improved drastically over last year. HOWEVER, WHAT really made the week a triumph was the competent foresight of the Homecoming Committee and the University Union Contemporary Sounds Committee to book such crowd plcasing acts like Arthur, Hurley and Friends and Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefers and the Hues Corporation on campus. Homecoming Week began last Monday with "Spirits Nite," where students could get smashed for reduced prices or an occasional free drink at many places and clubs around campus. "Spirits Nite" was mildly amusing but did not really offer the student more than a discount drunk or something different to do on a Monday night. The first rewarding activity of Homecoming Week were the Wednesday and Thursday nights performances by Arthur , Hurley and Friends in the Golden Spur. 'The band consists of four musicians intermixing acoustic, bass, electric guitar, electric piano and drums to deliver both a laid-back mellow and up-tempo country rock sound. McCabe & l By CHUCK CROMER and SAM L. IRVIN JR. Gamecock Staff Writers Campus Films MCCABE AND MRS. MILLER (1972) man directed this story about the 1902 'S Presbyterian Churchr with all its primiti violence, Warren Beatty stars as the grlz gambler whose business Is bringing pleast Julie Christie stars as the frizzled, hard-nos coerces him into setting her up into busin4 the profits. This combination of Beati achieves far more success than their team Shame. Thursday, Friday. $1. ant ert captures week spirit 0amckc seafn Pe fe music~ was mostly of the easy listening genre with a three-part vocal harmony. The electric guitar player used well-timed country-oriented solos to enhance the concert. The audience's reaction to the music and their desire to show approval of it through sing-alongs and thunderous ovations also enlivened the evenings' festivities. The mellow, country-rock sounds of Arthur, Hurley and Friends did not antagonize the crowd with the loud guitar riffs or inane rock an roll lyrics characteristic of most rock bands appearing in the Spur. Instead the group extended an invitation to the audience to enjoy themselves, relax and become enveloped in their music. For 5,500 people to show up at Williams Brice Stadium on Friday night for Cock fest '75, you knew something different, something special was going to happen. THIS YEAR'S Cockfest ran quite smoothly. But the show ran ahead of schedule so when it came time for The Hues Corporation to come on, they weren't there. Scheduled to come on at 10 p.m. the crowd was ready for them at 9:20. The evening began as the cheerleaders came out to get the crowd in the spirit for the night's activities and for the:game the next day. The crowd eventually got into some cheers and the mood of the event was picked up. Bob Fulton and Dave Wright kept the atmosphere lively with their insipid wit. The skits this year' were of the usual standard and typical Carolina humor. The skits could have been rehearsed a bit more. tiller highlig: INNOCENTS Jack of direction to this superb adi of the Screw. The ambiguity with supreme Intelligence. I] the governess of two child possessed. The marvelously Pamela Franklin and Mai Robert Alt- Redgrave has the small par mining town of and Megs Jenkins plays the Ii ye despair and subject matter is brilliantly r.ed, small-time white cinematography that ' ire to the town. spine. Monday. ed madame who KNIFE IN TH E WATER A ~ss and splitting up a hitchiker and invite hli :y and Christie and horror break out. Dire uing together in did The Fearless Vampir4 chinatown and Macbeth. Jimmy Buffett (left) brou Intramural Field A last Si sun-splashed onlookers. J Hurley and Friends perh Spur. THE FIREWORKS display proved quite disappointing. Shooting up one firework at a time got to be tedious and eventually boring. Throughout the display ono could hear voices in the crowd exclaim they wished they would shoot up aboit ten fireworks at a time. Evidently scmeone heard the plea, because for the fin,fle the sky was a flashing mass of color. Between the fireworks display aind the time the Hues Corporation came e' wh ich was a considerable amount of time -many of the townspeople and the alumni called it a night and left. To fill their placesv a lot more people came in, just to catch Th1e Hues Corporation, it seemed. . The start of the concert was delayeI until the people who had moved down i the track were back in their seats in tie stand. The concert was a fantastic rue cess. THE HUES Corporation played for rr, hour, but in that short time they had a large percentage of the spectators down on the field bumping and dancing and just really gettinginto the music and the ex citement. Saving their famous hit song, "Rock the Boat" for the end, they played many other favorites including "Runaway Child", "Papa was a Rolling Stone," "Touch Me in the Morning," "Freedom for the Stallion,'- and two songs from their newest album including the title song, "Love Corporation." Everyone seemed to really enjoy themselves. Without a doubt the highlight of Homecoming Week was last Saturday afternoon when Jimmy Buffett and the ht films this w Clayton gives his greatest Job THE H AUN ptation of Henry James' Turn Music) has dhi eme of the ending is handled haunted house. eborah Kerr is magnificent as novel The Haui ren that she believes to be a group of peop evil children are portrayed by evil that haunti tin Stephens. Sir Michael head the strong of the father of the children all the hauntet ousekeeper. The horror of the T HE A D capture with eerie black and (1938) '1 vill send chills down anyone's the greatest fil story of intrij sports writer and his wife pick England. TI n to their boat, where passion productions an fted by Roman Polanski, who direction, best Killers, Rosemary's Baby, de Havilland, I ght his "salt water and shrimp-boat rock" to iturday, much to the enjoyment of about 2,000 eff Arthur (above) sings a soft tune as Arthur rmed for two days last week in the Golden Coral Reefers invaded intramural Field A with their "salt water and shrimp boat rock". An estimated 2,000 students at tended to soak up country-rock, the beautiful hot sunny weather, beer, wine, pot and everything else that goes with making a mini-festival successful. THE FESTIVAL actually began about an hour before the scheduled 1 p.m. showtime as several hundred Buffett fanatws picked their sNts close to the stage. The music Buffett and his Coral Reefers played . was country rock and "good times" music geared towards an outdoor festival crowd. Most of his mellower and more pensive ballads, such as "He went to Paris," and the incomparable "Nautical Wheelers," were scrapped in favor of faster paced and amusing storytelling numbers. From his opening song "The Wino and I Know", Buffett maintained an informality with the crowd lasting through both of their 50-minute sets. BOTH SETS were included songs off his last three records and new ones from his soon to be released fourth album . Only the poor mixing of the band's sound and the obvious lack of a pedal steel gultar player handicapped a dynamic concert. The football game that night was an ticlimatic compared to the excitement experienced on Intramural Field A wat ching Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefers playing country rock and getting drunk. eek TING Robert Wise (The Sound of 'ected a thoroughly shocking film about a Based on Shirley Jackson's classic horror ting of Hill House, the film tells the story of Le who go to an eerie mansion to exorcize the i the house. Julie Harris and Claire Bloom cast in this chiller that is the grand-daddy of I house films. Wednesday. VENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD 'he greatest adventure film of them all stars rn swashbuckler Errol Flynn in this rousing lue, romance and comedy in merry old uls was one of cinema's earliest color d won three Academy Awards for best art film editing and best musical score. Olivia lasil Rathbone, Claude Rains and Alan Hale lay 9 p.m. WNOK-TV (19)