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| E W. C. Fields e: in The Dentist. famous comedii Chaplin and Har 7:30 and 9:30 p. Holmes' D By Terry Duga Two major 1 motion pictures story and the coi successes with Burt Reynold! mcnara i^esn prompted ?,ome executives to < genres and c detective. It ha Two films nov The Black Bird Theater and Th? Sherlock Holmes at the Richland J from chronic coi One problem Bird is that m depends on the > of The Maltese I to Archer and reoccurrence of from the earlie the appearance < very funny if ret the audience, mystified rathei " ? rhe Gam ntcrtai \ SK ^ :.W (tracts the tooth from a f The Dentist as well as fi ans as Laurel and Han old Lloyd will be shown i m Brother, Bla etectiv ? 1 din a c mis *ecent trends in fun are the detective con nedy film. Major Jack Nicholson, mmm : Mol R rnnl/c ^ ' J, AfAVI uuivo, er and others sage Hollywood combine the two :reate a funny in sn't worked. j? f playing in town, at the Palmetto JU r Adventures of )'Smarter Brother flail II, both suffer ? * mic overkill. ^ the with The Black con luch of its humor cha viewer's knowledge exp 'alcon. References whi Gutman, and the unl specific situations a h t. film, especially but Df Wilma Cook, are auc cognized. Much of bor however, was T than entertained. . whc Lecock nmcnl J . 1 ' ^ *S?KF ' ^jifl ^^ rj^M^9UHrT^ k. 4 S Sr' jgjBa ;i1 ' ^P U,1wHBH^| . v'/: emale amazon the hai ve other film shorts b dy, Buster Keaton, ( n the Golden Spur ton ick Bird fai e com 'he main problem is ector insists on using lozen times, just in >sed it the first. One niest running jokes inotations of Sam Sp The main pro that the diret sists on using L>/i n f II ft. r, u *11 #1 in case you issed the first here is also heavy em modern phenom riedy of obscenity, racters the viewer w< >ect to curse use profai ch profanity is used in ikeiy situations. This i ...wU 4L? I wl tugii cti nit; seldom at the en lience is 'damne edom. he film's funniest pai >n the director aban . About I Spi |j By Chuck ( l?BJ In the sun negotiated and represe B including tl Russell Hoi wine to be i The sale < troversial a applied for i outcry fron parents, wh might lead rapists. Because o downtown ' center of st Dublic nuisii HMay 1970, i dying subje However, reason, sec organizatior on the issut I closed door organization discussions In the sui a reality vvi old Golden sold there Spur were Another negotiation who woul ministratio Harold Bi jurisdictior former s McKinney manageme control pre would have There we demanded d way managemei y such ^he Spur wa V A. I _iL harlie 01 u,e oini ight at around the abuse their Public dru would not t 1 edies s that the witty repar each joke slapstick, case you Spade's car of the the moronic as concerns with Spade' ade- and the characterisl ' Drovide mi blem becomes bo Words car Ztor the ending ( juvenile, am each press just he falls int< WQS) of cinemati f minutes of I destroy wh< ll,9 created. I "How can tl would hesits phasis on film to anyor enon of the last figh in which jokes becon [>uld least better than e flity, or in Sherlock ] the most the same b s good for Black Bird, of a film major differ d. The Holmes' is s< d" into than most m jokes are moi physical at rJS oc^"r Feldman an dons his muc^ more a***-* Campus ir's purp Cromer lmer of 1973, an unwritten aereen between the university admini ntatives of several student organ le Student Government Associa ise University Union, to allow t sold on campus. )f beer on campus had been a v nd highly explosive issue. A lice n the late 60,s, but was refused be n religious organizations and o were concerned alcohol at the their children to becoming dru f the controversy, surrounding 44 'coffeehouse" that was supposi udent activism before it was clo ince in 1969, and the university t annparpH that lippr r?n pamnn - -ri ? f" Ct. by the spring of 1973, for some i ret negotiations between the is and administration were resu i. These conferences were helc s so adverse publicity from i is and other critics would not dis as they had done years before, mmer of 1973, beer on campus di? th the first draught being consun Spur on July 5. Beer would conti until the renovations ot the ne> completed that September, disagreement again almost do s, though, when a stalemate ens d operate the Golden Spurn or the student body. Vice 1 run ton wanted the Spur wi i under the office of business aff< tudent government Preside and others argued for nt. Fortunately, the supporters < mailed. God only knows what i been like under the control of re certain guidelines, the admir student organizations follow tit of the Golden Spur. First and f is not to become a watering hole I er niteclubs that students p; university. As long as student; beer privilege, it would be ma nkedness and other such disti >e tolerated. uffer ove tie and turns to visual slapstii Running jokes about rest c bitchy secretary and vigoroi sistant are combined much s occasional ineptness works, unusual physical it does i tiCS Of his nnnmlor- I did vuuiiuv-J Jch laughter until it am tire ring. use the inot describe how bad an(^ s^11 >f this film is. Trite, am also d tacky all fail to ex- Kahn 8 >w low the ending a *ai ^ the depths ^ontDS. c art. The last few J?e* J~ this movie completely J , if hnmm-A?c Sherloc *" i?u?iiv/iuuo 1uuuu 13 walked out thinking w,se!' y< ley do this to me?" I mtly recommend this le who will leave after Even t scene. Even if the star of ne dull, the film is save inything on television thrust Holmes' suffers from as to be asic weakness as the dressing overused jokes. The to? over ence is that Sherlock you 3 much more intense slapstic ovies. The obscenity before. *e incongruous,the odd 86611 a ( tributes of Marty devoted d l/eo McKern are on startling, and the f,Vn."y * shit". ose unf Secondly, the lent was Golden Spur. N< istration making a strici izations, As a third r< tion and serve as a rel jeer and munity. Thus ti possible progra ery con- booked in the S inse was student organiz cause of Also, they felt :?i wui i icu }m csciiiv:u uii tt i college quality and dunks and community poj Since its inc< UFO," a followed these edly the and infrequent? sed as a Spur has faller riots in twelve months c is was a void in the fa< . organizations a inknown obligation to th student There is no r rrected tivities. Peculi 1 behind been booked the *eligious questionable t rupt the In the past, >1 become T01 led in the ;"",u.c^ "l 10 nue to bo talented Mad P * Golden mov'f had aP weekly campus omed the studentandad, >ucd over '?>' stude,,t bod: -the ad- These progra President student popula< thin his Robert Penn Wi urs while have held disc nt Rita there. Even th< student have held infori )f student Spur. the Spur The Spur has Brunton. present. Musk nsirauon little other prog in their questioned felt oremost, belly dancer \vh< like most navel and swiv? itronized and envious fer > did not last fall's enter intained. irbances srkill ck of Gene Wilder and the ?f the cast much more is. As a result, the film is funnier when the comedy but much more boring when not. not like the film because I d of watching Gene Wilder i same facial expressions ill emotional outbursts. I i tired of watching Madeline rossly overact for the sake lgh. If you have not seen tart the Revolution Without lazing Saddles, or Young tnstein, you might find k Holmes funny. Otherqu can't help thinking that ve seen it all before, and done at that. Marty Feldman, the comic Frankenstein, cannot this film from old age. He so far into the background negligible. He is window ? at best. The film is iust ' ? J done with too many jokes ive heard and too many k routines you have seen Unless you have never Gene Wilder film or are a fan of his, stay away from !. I just don't think it is o see Queen Victoria say u ilf ilk beer was limited to the o beer was to pass outs t enforcement of this ri *gulation, the Spur w? axing haven for the i he administration felt t imming for the univer >pur by our more than ations to attract faculty this entertainment, continuing basis, shoi erso as possible so al mlation would be repn option in 1973, the Go! first two guidelines wi ixceptions. On the thirt 1 flat on its face. Di >r so, there has been an ^ility. The more tha it USC have failed to e administration. eal variety in the Golc iarly, only musical p nnrlul 1 1 V, I vgium ly , lUlU many r*ste and notoriety. >rofessionaI comedians nds and Curley and ine Show; cultured pro] fountain Mime Troujx peared in the Spur. / ; Issues Scries there h ninistrative leaders bei y members. ims were not iusf en :e. Such notable fig jrren and Senator Erne ussions with Carolin 2 law school and histor rial yet scholarly conf( had a proud past, yet ha :al events are somewh ramming exists. Some that Mystic Maria,.a ' [> charged a whopping $ si motions to a bunch 1 nale students, was the tainment schedule in t Please See SPUR, P Indepeii Filmmal Series S< The Independei Filmmakers, Soi Circuit will begin i with five short fi Noyes, Jr. Clay: Origina of (1 Dog, Sandman, Th? and She and The E p.m. Jan. 23 at Colt of Art. Admission Noyes completed animated film in since made docui WNET's new progi State and segment Street. An inventor using experimental made Clay while Harvard. This fil oiiiiuaiiuil III tU <111 cl has grown populai filmmakers and au short, film. Bad Dog uses the \ to portray a dog's e; world, while Sandms of sand constantly perfect synchronize original bluegrass s The Ballad of He further example c ventiveness as an a tells a mythical si reality deals with th and women as they Please See FILMM Eight jd confines of the ide of its doors lie a necessity, is expected to Carolina comhat as often as sity should be 200 chartered and students, besides being uld be of high I genres of the esented. Iden Spur has th only minor i principle, the iring the past entertainment n 200 student i uphold their ten Spur's aerograms have of these are of sucn as Move Moondog and grams like the ?; and special \t one time a lad prominent ing questioned nfined to the ;ures as poet ;st F. Hollings a community j vjujjch iiiieiu ?rences in the is a frustrating at erratic and students that I 'professional" 60 to show her of horny male ; highlight of he Spur. age Seven Ldent kers pf at American ith Carolina its 1976 series lms by Eliot le Species, Bad ; Ballad of He >ot shown at 8 imbia Museum is Free. Clay, his first 1964, and has mentaries for ram, The 51st s for Sesame of film styles techniques, he a student at m lifted clay rt form which among both diences of the vide-angle lens ye view of the in uses images changing in ition with an rnrp and She is a >f Noyes' innimator, as he tory which in e roles of men are defined in AKKKS, I'age ,