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By CHUCK CROMER
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Films, as usual, contribute
heavily to the campus weekly activities.
The Russell House University
Union Cinematic Arts Committee
is sponsoring a special Marx
Brothers' double bill as this
weekend's pay film. The flicks,
"The Cocoanuts" and "Horsefeathers",
will be shown at 6 and
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in the Russell House 'Hieatre.
"The Cocoanuts" (1929) was the
four Marx Brothers first film and
brought to the screen some of their
best stage routines, including
Groucho's land auction and the
nerve-racking "Viaduct" dialogue.
The story, always of secondary
importance in a Marx Brothers
r>1m, deals with a Florida hotel
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'Horsefeathers" (1932) has the
/Iarx Brothers satirizing college
life.
Chico and Harpo portray dumb
college athletes, who help provide
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a frenzied football finale, involving
chariots, hot dogs, banana skins,
elastic bands and countless
pigskins.
THE CLASSIC Cinema Series
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Jefferson Square Theatre with
"Seven Beauties", directed by the
world's most acclaimed female
director, Lina Wertmuller. Tickets
for USC students are $2.
As critic Rex Heed wrote, "The
central figure is Pasqualino
(boldly, dymanically played by
Giancarlo Giannini with eyes that
blaze brighter than the tips of his
cigarillos until the screen is on
fire), a strutting, hot-blooded,
Neapolitan peacock who murders
his sisters' pimp to defend his
family's honor, pleads insanity to
escape the death penalty, lands in
an asylum, rapes a female patient,
and escapes again by joining the
! army to defend his country's
: honor. Sick of war in which there's
neither win nor loss, only guili; for
> everybody, he deserts, gets captured
in the German woods by
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a song, ZZ Top's Billy | _
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By JOHN ROBINSON
Gamecock Staff Writer
If you appreciate the thundering kind of rock music
ZZ Top plays, you would have gotten an ear full of it
Sunday night at the Carolina Coliseum. A festive
mood for the concert was set immediately for the
record breaking attendence of more than 13,000
persons.
As the lights dimmed on Styx, the warm-up band.
an excited and expectant crowd greeted the first
group with lighted matches. Opening the set with
"Laurelie," the group came across loud and tight as
the crowd rushed to fill the isles in front of the stage.
With a style that alternated between heavy jamming
rifts of the two lead guitarists and a synthesizer,
Styx had the audience on their feet with the first
number.
The audience, appreciated and, despite its size
listened to the group, which is not always the case for
warm up bands.
ZZ TOP made their way on stage by 10 p.m. and did
not find their way off it until an hour and a half, and
two encores later.
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rock interspersed with an occasional blues song.
Unfortunately, a three-man group does not leave a
great deal of room for musical diversity. But what ZZ
Top lacks in diversity, they make up for in energy and
power.
ZZ Top started their first set with a number called
"Get High Everybody, Get High", which turned out
to be what most people were doing.
The band did 11 songs in their first set. Some of
them old favorites such as "Beer Drinkers and Hell
naisers , i-rsirci , precious and Grace", Mexican
Black Bird", finishing with their famous song "La
Grange".
Unly two blues numbers were performed during the
set. The rest of the songs, with the exception of "La
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The Carolina Community Film painted the worl
Festival begins its six film series year sabbatical,
at 7:30 p.m. Sunday in the The exhibition
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"Camille" (Nov. 14), "Adam's paintings on ac
Rib" (Nov. 21) and "The Best paper, paintings
Years of Our Lives" (Nov. 28). and silkscre<
Season tickets cost $7 and are homemade pape
still available at the English The last week
Department. Month at the
"Singing in the Rain" (1952) is Public Library v
one of the greatest musicals of all and craft nros<
time. Gene Kelly, Debbie p.m. and 3:30 p.1
Reynolds, and Donald O'Connor Hammerman ii
star in this whimsical Hollywood will be shown. /
satire as it depicts the traumas of nesday Maree D
actors and actresses trying to the main Librar
survive the transition from silent The Columbia
to sound movies. Concert Series
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Grange", sounded very much like one another. Loud,
driving music with the lyrics sung mostly by lead
guiianst tsiiiy uiDDons.
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brought the group back for an encore that included
Johnny Cash's "Folsolm Prison Blues",
"Hollywood" and "My Old Blue Jeans". The crowd
wouldn't give up, and ZZ Top came back for a second
encore blasting for an half hour on "Jail House Rock"
and "Boogie Children".
"We don't usually do two encores, but tonight we
were really pickin', and I guess we all felt good about
the way things were going," Gibbons said.
ZZ Top got together in Houston, Texas, seven years
ago and is in the third month of a 15 month world-wide # 4
tour, which will take them to Europe.
"WE PLAY about every third day. It takes a day to
set up and a day to tear down," bass player Dusty Hill
f oirl
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"Being on the road is something that takes a lot of
getting used to and a lot of adjustment. You have to
get used to not having the nice things like being
around friends you know and being with out the
comforts of your own place, but I really like it,"
Gibbons added.
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drivers.
"We couldn't bring our animal show with us
because the hall (coliseum) is too small," Hill said.
Usually, Hill said, the group brings a stage cut in
the shape of Texas. In front of the stage, a pen is set
up with a buffalo, steer, a beaver and two rattle
snakes.
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all that," Gibbons said. "We've been doing well in the
North too. Up there we're still kind of a novelty act;
you know cowboy hats and boots. I think there is an
intrigue with the mystic of the West."
FOCUS
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i Museum of Art Lyric Theatre at 3 p.m. Sunday in
^Jov. 16. Mullen, an the Trustees Gallery of the
rofessor at USC, Museum. The concert is free to the
ks while on a one public. Arias and duets will be
chosen from "Lucia di Lami
will consist of 31 mermoor", "Marriage of Giaro",
in size from 1M> "Othello", "Pagliacci",
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jal paintings. In- Committee will present the
display will be "Wright Brothers Overland Stage
luarius figerglass Company" in concert at the
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en prints on Friday.
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of National Hobby Tickets are $1 and can be purRichland
County chased at the Travel Center.
vill feature a film As one critic wrote, "The
entation. At 1:15 breadth of their music spans from
in. Tuesday, "The ethnic down-home footstomping ?
n Williamsburg" bluegress to orchestrated ballads
it 2:30 p.m. Wed- charted for symphonies, with
owdy will quilt at many varieties of gospel, country
y at 1400 Sumter, rock and rock in between".
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opens its 1976-77 alburns, 4'The World Renowned
Vrias and Duets Memorabilia Box", and "Cornfield
seras", featuring Cowboys."
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