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TV com folding By SAM L. IRVIN JR. Gamecock Staff Writer In the last few years, theatrical motion pictures have had to become increasingly competitive with television. Television offers the convenience of entertainment in your own home whereas theatrical motion pictures require admission. Also, television is competing more vigorously than film by paying exorbitant prices for the rights to show theatrical movies like "The Godfather" (shown last year) and "Gone With the Wind" (to be shown this fall). The essence involves why pay to see a film when it inevitably will be shown on television. Ironically the movie studios, always willing to make a fast buck, continue to sell all their major films to their biggest competitor. The Paramount motion picture comoanv is a crime examole. Thev I ^ * I ?/ produce several television series such as "Happy Days" and are a steady supplier of made-for-TV movies. Paramount is making quite an annual profit so their situation is precarious. WHEN A NETWORK came to Paramount with a seven-digit check to buy "The Godfather," it The Ga | Enteric FO Chapin co -? /-v Wk -mm-mm x /am* LUfllUI I UlAJ A variety of programs highligl music still seems to be the predoi Writer-performer Tom Chapin v night in the Russell House Ballroon can be purchased at the Travel Cen House. The Russell House Unive Committee (RHUU) is sponsoring TOM CHAPIN has not received tl older brother, Harry Chapin, but is in his own right. His career has included musical ana television. He nas done the sc( and the documentary, "The Sea P documentary, "Up With People". TOM WON Emmy and Peabody / A Wish", which he hosted for fivt Tom co-authored with his brotf Cinema Center Film, "Cutting l>o "tOM'S SONGfc are varied. AfU Bow', a ballad written about a frien of his songs, shows a great deal of Tom's range of songs are from audience participation to his mon The Contemporary Sounds Comrc a five piece band that plays a comh and creative arrangements of song orvrvAot* tr? fKn ^/\1 Crvi* + Mt uppuai in mc; uvnucii upui nucviuu 29. The Cinematic Arts Committee's Live Here Anymore", showing T Russell House Theatre. petition theatres was an offer they could not refuse. Some of their movies were not turning profits and needed a boost. If Paramount had re-released "The Godfather" to theaters, the cost of fresh prints and advertising would have cost almost $1 million. If the film had only made a couple of million, this would not have been as large a profit as television offered. Also, the company had to consider that if they refused the network's offer, the network could have easily found less need for a Paramount made-for-TV movie or could have even cancelled a Paramount series. SO WHO IS LOSING? The movie studios, while showing smaller theatre movie profits, are compensated by their television sales. Thus, with this arrangement the networks are happy. Because fewer people are coming to the theater, ticket prices have to be raised to meet the film company's exorbitant demands. More theaters are being built out of the desperate need to have as large a variety of films as possible to get people out of their living rooms. Concession prices rise because it is the only clear profit See TV, Page 11 > mecock linment ) cus ncert night its this week's campus activities; minant offering. vill be in concert at 8 p.m. Friday i. Tickets for the concert are $1 and ter on the second floor of the Russell rsity Union Contemporary Sounds the event. le national stardom possessed by his indeed a talented and versatile artist achievement in the areas of records >res for "Blue Water White Death," eople". He was the narrator for the iwards for the ABC-TV series "Make s years. ler Harry the music score for the ose". ne critic wrote, " 'Sorrow Takes A d's marriage breaking up, like many creativity, emotion and sensitivity. i x 1 ? - i iigni, numorous tunes tnat invite 3 serious songs." littee has also booked Silent Partner, >ination of original acoustic material s by the Eagles and Poco. They will for two nights, at 8 p.m. Sept. 28 and pay film this week is "Alice Doesn't hursday and Friday nights at the See FOCUS, Page II Cente The ligh the audi lead gu lakes cm ... . . J| ; Miir )r stage ts are dimmed except for two spotllgh ence's eyes are fixed on Larry Goshoi itarist of Pure Prairie League, as ?nter stage with his solo. WKr ' f ;J| By BARR Gamecock every cow j large crow j arises witt .v.;:.;.j Many in freely bef I audiencesj the Golden : do not fit v that pays i ! and leaves The pooi night's ( Coliseum Pure Pra Amazing I the group: ceptions. about 1,30C disappointi performan missing. THE CI throughoi saved th< ^stomping l formance. left the Col great mus didn't have This was not the fa League. Ir performed Patio and best musi< students h I Not mar Prairie Le Craig Fulh new band, Pure Pr dropped b Their onl> "Amie". worldwide to a frer However, does their i well. FOK AB night, tl bluegrass, with pure i well execi displayed talents. Michael John Call c io present 44 Kent uck> Pure Pr an excellei Goshorn, 1 guitarist C several gr< leader of himself at to sing lea ts; rn, he , t all wd ils ague' YGLENN Staff Writer >ugh the logical goal for cert band is to attract ds, a strange exception i certain groups, usicians perform more ore smaller close-knit -similar to crowds at i Spur. Many musicians veil in a coliseum crowd ts money, enters, listens r attendance at Sunday concert at Carolina supports the idea that irie league and the thythm Aces are two of > that are strange exCertainly most of the ) that attended were not ed with the League's ce, but something was KOWI) was scattered it the coliseum, and ?ir vollinp anH font for the end of the perMany people probably liseum thinking, "It was ?ic, but the band just ) the crowd in its grasp." true but it was certainly ult of the Pure Prairip 1 April, 1974, this band on the Russell House delivered some of the 2 that this university's ave heard. ly of the original Pure ague members remain. ?r left the group to join a American Flyer. airie league has been V 5^ P A I? rlo j iV^V.V/1 UO IW1V,C. f top ten hit has Jseen They are not known and do not drive crowds lzy with their music. Pure Prairie League ityle of music extremely I OUT 55 minutes Sunday le group combined ] country and western ock 'n roll resulting in a j uted nerformanfp that ? ?j every band member's Conner on paino and >n steel guitar combined a fast moving "Two s ghway" and soulful ] ' Blues." airie League has found it lead guitarist in Larry vvho along with rhythm ieorge Powell produced jat double leads. Bassist ly appeared to be the the group, positioning the center microphone d in most of the songs. See LKAGUK, Page II