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Alif?p r By HENRY GREEN q Gamecock Staff Writer v "Kiss my grits." Dialogue of such a nature is often heard on "Alice", a q frank, raunchy television comedy based on the movie f< "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" (1974). vn Alice portrays Alice Hyatt, a widow who works as a s< waitress in a Phoenix, Ariz, greasy-spoon diner, while it trying to fulfill her lifelong ambition to become a singer and s be a mother to her twelve-year old son. This is not an easy a job, and the movie and the show deal with the problems she B faces. ? i?i- T i? l ?u?_ l^lliua bavin urnigs u tcn<tiii aau i:nanu tu uic iuic ui jr< Alice. The viewer can sympathize with her, as the audience c did with Ellen Burstyn in the film, as she tries to stand on her own feet without a husband or other male support. s Alice can deliver fantastic one-liners, but she is by no ? means a comic. Although it can be billed as a kind of F comedy, Alice is basically a serious show and deals with h serious subjects, many concerned with sex. This discussion of sex is only natural, in the context of the story. Alice's continuing search for a strong man causes her b to want someone who will help take some of the burden off s her shoulders. She dates a variety of men but is always s frustrated in her search for "Mr. Right". 1 d IN ONE EPISODE she dates a tall, handsome u professional football player who seems to have all the 1< I | .1 From Page 11 t ocus ? mi l:1!wLi_ ?r i.i r:i? *1 n ?i h? "r*i??_ ? me uigiiiiguis ui me iimi, inraiieu wun me nun s pt though, is the sparkling dialogue virtues: dialogue, by that is exchanged between Bogart Faulkner and Leigh Bract and Lauren Bacall. Bacall, in her was concise and crackl second feature film with Bogart, excitement." plays the sensible older sister of Carmen who at first doublecrosses THE RHUU Cinemat Bogart and then helps him solve Committee is sponsor! the case. special pay films this ? "Stavisky", starring Je Biographer Alan Barbour once Belmondo, Charles Boy wrote, "Howard Hawks' expert Anny Dupery, will be sh< HirD/>flAn onrl Q 1 /iUacam A. OA wUi L ?. UII vvtiuu aim a *ytii-vuvracii tflBl dliu J.OV lUUl^Ul Ulliy 111 UH combined to keep the viewer en- House Theatre. The film tfivua tfUIIUWIU now available in the Gamecock Snack Bar thin-sliced steak, grilled, with swiss cheese, lettuce and tomato served on a six inch hard roll. all for onlv 90* # - Try One Today! Snack Bar hours: AAon.-Fri. 8am -1 1 j ^ j Sat: 1 Oam -10i Sun.:2pm-10| University Dining Service# "the people plea?er?" "i m-w 7" eiieves i V lalities: gentleness, intelligence and the strength ants. Unfortunately, "Mr. Right" is gay. In another episode, Alice decides to sing in a nig jestionable reputation, and she winds up being r prostitution. She is arrested because most of th ho frequent the club are prostitutes. As in this < enes often relate to sex. The dialogue is charact< ; saltiness: "Kiss my grits" is often delivered. Nc iy, Alice is no Sesame Street; it is made for idiences and not for the children who thrive ionic Woman". That "Alice" should have such mature dialog! ally surprising. The new boldness in television tming for several seasons. Subjects such as birth control and abortion, o dered taboo, are almost old hat under the new r.m/xcn?..nlU.. 1.. J! 1 II * L/iiiuocAuauijr tun uc U[iCIUjf U15)LUMiCU UU /\ amily", and "Maude" can have an abortion iving to think about the censor's protests. NOT ONLY IS Alice representative of tel >ldness, but it is also one of the new women's 1 lows, whose story's center on women. "Rhoda' parated from her husband; Phyllis, a widow; a yler Moore, who plays a swinging spinster, al jpendent women. All have well-developed ch llike the idiot character that Lucille Ball play* nrf r\n "Tho T iinn CIiaiii" ng v/l* AI1V UUVJ UI1UVV ripheral the exploits of a charming con man Villiam who is credited with toppling the ett, that French government in the 1930's. ;d with The film shows a perceptive examination of the glittering facade of the lives of some c Arts prominent French people during rig two the Great Depression. According to week. Judith Crist, 'Stavisky' is an m-Paul exquisite recreation of the early jr, and thirties milieu of political scandal wn at 7 and prejudice." The N.Y. Daily Russell News wrote, "(Director Alain) frtllPocnaic Kmnno fKn namnrl nf lifA 1U11UW& itvoiiuic ui nigo mc (fctivni VI UiC, X LANDM I ft COLUMBIA, S.C I The* "Rac | HJ1 " reoti V H mm, I This Thus* y Sal* Alto Includes / A Boston Gary Burton Elec By oeaues niue magic barfi X Beach Boys Joan Baez Eagli >J Jimmy Buffett Bartok Emei / Bad Co. Bee Gees Duke \) Bach Dave Brubeck Elgai ||Y| A Brick BTO Eartl Vj George Benson Julian Bream / Beethoven Dave Bromberg [_,..pLy; 11 silliness i that she The new women are they do not forsake the Alice is looking for a r ihtclub of ways to be reunited u arrested Richards seems to be dc e women Lou Grant. case, the erized by Alice's plots are too si jedless to show which lasts only c . a A 1* 111 a - _ .1 / maiure /uice win De acquiuea 01 on "The ' Alice tells her son that homosexual, can we re ue is not nonchalant? The son, T< has been but, far from being shod realistically. nee confreedom. THE SUPPORTING a 11 in the loud, vulgar, gum-chew without employer, is grumpy an oc cr\o/>nH Aiif no mrnv MO OpUV.\^U UMt CIO CYU behaved to be the foullevision's movie. iberation \ who is For all its shortcominj md Mary It takes as its model an [1 are in- welcome relief from the aracters, Six Million Dollar Man' ed for so in their lust for mone "Alice" into "The Bior creating an aura of elegance and grace and a mood of sadness and corruption." On Friday night, Mel Brooks' satirical salute to Hollywood westerns, "Blazing ^Saddles", will oe snown in tne Kussell House Ballroom at 7 and 9:30 p.m. As a treat, 16 oz. beers will be sold for 50 cents during the movie. "Blazing Saddles" will also be shown Saturday night in the Russell House Theatre at the same times but without the beer. UnY^ . if! rer?n IARK SQUARE ? 6800 GARNERS FER ACROSS FROM THE VA HOSPITAL . 29209 ?(803) 776-'7208? OPEN ?\ 1" Sale In Our "Best of' ?t Hits" ft PES On S< *. - Sat. (Oct. 28 Vny Artists Fil*d Und* trie Light Orchestra Rod Stewart Sty) d. Wind, ?. Fire Tom Scott Ear bs Santana Sati rson, Lake, & Palmer Spinners Gil i Ellington Shoshtakovich Rin r Box Scaggs Stej hquake Al Stewart Still 1IIWDS M!3 ^ANY^MANYMJ I intelligent and independent?vet male-female relationship. tew husband while Rhoda looks for rith her husband Joe, and Mary istined to fall in love with her boss ? mple (what can you expect from a >ne half-hour?) It is expected that ' the prostitution charge. But, when the man who took him fishing is a ally expect his response to be so )mmy, acknowledges his surprise, ted and bewildered, takes the news ast is strong. As in the movie, Flo is 4 ing but good-hearted; Mel, Alice's d sloppy; and Vera the waitress is \ Tommy, however, is too wellmnntho/) Krot JKol Kn mop JkltVUVI 1VVA Mi (XV uiat I1C W CIO 111 tl IC ?s, Alice is a reasonably good show, excellent motion picture, and it is a ! silliness of such programs as "The '. Hopefully, the television moguls, y and popularity, do not change lie Waitress". * THE COLUMBIA Music Festival Association opens its 1976-77 Artist Concert Series Nov. 10 with a performance by the Ballet Folklorico of Mexico, at Township Auditorium. The Ballet Folklorico, 4 which returns this season for its olairantli mntAf A??on?not, vivvviiui iimjui niiiciitOli IUU1 OUU second Columbia performance, is a special tribute to the Mexican spirit whose "color, gaiety, passion and life are all embodied by the company of 65 dancers, singers and musicians." <\ f tapes I ecords x HY ROAD ft /ERY NITE 'til 9:00 V History! J 'or .P's and S ale 1 , 29,301 6 < r the Letters Below: | < Trammps Q\ I Scruggs Traffic 7 e Tchaikovsky Qv Scott-Heron Stanley Turrentlne Y ? go Starr James Taylor ipenwolf Robin Trower / i& roung Dana Tanya Tucker (\ Is Crofls Tower of Power V ORE! | 4