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entertaii 'Rollerct rAiinli w\ VW%|II I I By CHUCK CROMER Entertainment Editor Campus THE LONGEST YARI) ( Reynolds stars in this comic far it** A Otf M n ? J ui mrton. neynoias is an e> who is jailed for running his gii In prison, the warden (Eddie / organize a convict football tear team. Next to "Deliverence," 1 best film, for what that's wc Aldrich. Thursday $1. THE OX-BOW INCIDENT ( "message western" directed t P:I /ii *" piui iunuwa vjrii vdi if:i incury r to find three murdering catl suspects are arrested, Carter ti being lynched. As one critic wri most heinous injustices ever cc community ... it is indeed grir because the story is so interestii the film becomes a doubly va ching." Sunday. THE LONG HOT SUMMER stories by William Faulkner tha Best Actor Award at the Canne hv Martin Ritt fho nlnf fnllnmc ? j ...M* v*it ?nw, tuv piv/v iv/ii'7 na % between a wealthy aggressive children - one a frustrated unm the other a weakling, married Remick, and Joanne Woodwar THE BIG HEAT (1953) ? Dir a police detective (Glen Ford) 1 hall and the underwnrlH to p surrounding a fellow officc Bogdanovich wrote, "As a ere has few peers; his world is or ominous, haunted-filled with I anxiety, and death. The tears figures who inhabit it." Tuesdi Downtown ROLLERCOASTER ? Tin around blowing up amusemer Sensurround. So what! Spring OUTLAW BLUES ? Petei convict wno nas a hit song sto country-western idol. As an un who publicly embarasses the (James Callahan), as well as ELP cc Rv TPIIHV HII^IAC Gamecock Staff Writer The new Emerson, Lake and was the biggest financial gamble of the rock era. In a re Stone" interview, Greg Lake risking everything we evei everything we're ever likely to iuut. i in laiKing anoui our possessions, everything we b< It would have been a st perience, a full 57-piece s; chestra, six-person choir and entourage of 60 roadies, a 72,0 system specially designed to individual instrument with nc THE PURPOSES were I exactly on stage the music he and to bridge the gap betweer electronic instruments. As La wave of the future is not in smi nment master' ide Films 1974) ? Nonactor Burt ce that is basically a ripoff ;-pro football quarterback rlfriend's car into a river. Ubert) forces Reynolds to n to play his prison guard his is probably Reynolds' >rth. Directed by Robert 1943) ? A controversial >y William Wellman. The 'onda) as he joins a posse fl? tu:?. tin ii tic iiucvca. wnen uiree "ies to prevent them from ote, "The film reveals the >mmitted in an American n fare for the movies, but ng and the acting so good, iluable tract against lyn(1958) ? Based on two t garnered Orson Welles a s Film Festival. Directed he turbulent relationships father and his two grown arried young woman, and son. Paul Newman, Lee d also star. Monday. ector Fritz Lang presents who stubbornly fights city xpose the circumstances ir's suicide. As Peter ator of nightmares, Lang le of shadows and nightForeboding and violence, he elicits for the damned ay i Films lothy Bottoms meanders it parks to the rhythm of ; Valley. r Fonda portrays an exlen from him by a popular orthodox singer-songwriter man who stole his song ? the Austin, Texas police >ncert is it in elect pression." , ? , Unfortunat I Palmer tour Coliseum las and artistic chestraless, < cent "Rolling electronic stn said, "We're been part of tl rrtflHp nriH .... ? ? t^seiiuuuy MH ?make on this grown stagnar families, our ideas. jlieve in." Perhaps it aggering ex- disbanding o ymphony or- before the fii conductor, an whatever the 00 watt sound week in the r# amplify each their solo act > distortion. that the bar musically disc to reproduce ard on record THE CON( 1 acoustic and rendition of ke said, "The the Show Thai ash bang! Nor a "Hoedown' chief, who is running for mayor, F his promotion-conscious girlfrienc and thus becomes an elusive, western star himself. Sounds 1 m. -A ? * ** la ? u Q rnantum 01 me faraaise. uami THE DEEP ? Based on Peter the film is described as an adven Shaw, voluptuous Jacqueline Biss* to salvage an underwater treasu phine. Mixed Reviews. Richland EXORCIST II ? THE 11ERETH Exorcist" is miserable. Louise F1 mediocre an actress she really is ir repeats her role as Rep.an who four the grim fact she is still having tro once again come face to face with thought to have been exorcised fr< directed this horror that also star Von Sydow, James Earl Jones, anc Columbia East and Dutch Squar< tour rt ronics! It is in musical ex- ges ten ely, the concert at the she >t Thursday was an or- sor expressionless, smash bang exi )be light show that may have 1 le death knell for ELP. It was of i same show presented in 1974 wa it, a few new songs but no new trh wa was the cost that led to the wh f the orchestra, $2 million sta Kit nnnnorf tOIR AAA r? u?, w.ivvi t,, f?iu,vAA/ u wcriv, YVi reason, ELP spent a frantic the wording studio^econstmicting ?] .. It is, then, understandable tur id was so lifeless and so nu| >rganized. no] JEHT began with a sloppy Welcome Back My Friends, to t Never Ends" and moved into ' that found Keith Emerson 1 Tli ililMliaiMlMi i iHTMrriiiwm ''onda is encouraged by I (Susan Saint James), underground countryike a ripoff of "The jcock. Benchley's bestseller, ture thriller, as Robert et. and Nick Nolte trv re of jewels and morMall. 2 ? The sequel to "The etcher proves just how i this trash. Linda Blair years later at 17, faces ubled dreams and must the demonic spirit once om her. John Boorman s Richard Burton, Max 1 very old Paul Henreid. ?ach( ituring to Carl Palmer t ipo. During the entire fii iw, the band's timing was neone who was expecting jression," it was a great nrnKlflm iuqo in , a IV |?1 VMtVlll tTMO Wilipviuil the audience who thout tching Lynyrd Skynyrd. :ate piano solo during "T s nearly ruined by re istles. The people behind ntly shouting, "Let's pari idy to assault the first pers j word "Boogie." rhe band gelled musicall; es at an Exhibition" and mber, "Pirates," perfoi rmal high standards, ening could best be desc inic noise rather than inting to the ears. rilE SHOW was visually e: y ' ^ . A BRIDGE TOO FAR Cornelius Ryan and produc cost of $27 million and direc the film attempts to be a st but because it only slightly for the failure of the battle viewer is confused about its continuity of Hip tnnvip i* only after reading the book follow the strategy, action a with any regularity and co THE OTHER SIDE OF melodrama based on a bes reviews. A story of love, re 1939-1946 in Greece, Pai Hollywood. The heroine, Pisier) rises from an innocc influential mistress of a Gr< revenge on the only man Douglas (John Beck). Mire >s dea< o pick up the much in the s st part of the derby or wresl off badly. For along a por fine "musical fireballs. Smo letdown. off sporadica ded by pockets smoke rings i fhf thow 11'"^ L!-L )sav U1VJ TTVI C 1UC Illgn Emerson's in- cacophony di ake a Pebble" revolving dru bel yells and gongs, and s me were con- shallow.Thee ty,M and I was during which on who shouted an organ. It w > with a stage y during "Pic- trapdoor to pi by the closing head as he coll med to their MAIUV ... However, the Y V> xibed as elec- Sa-V?f!if ^ei music, disap- Ppten individual art though, it wai Kciting, though, that the ELP I'lMHiimi Hi Based on the bestseller by ea Dy josepn L^evine at a ted by Richard Attenborough, inging anti-war commentary, alludes to the major reasons instead of stressing them, the main intentions. In fact, the so terribly disorganized that can the viewer satisfactorily nd consequences of the battle mprenension. Palmetto. MIDNIGHT ? A romantic tseller that has met with bad venge and power set between ris, Washington, D.C. and Noelle Page (Marie-France nt girl in Paris to become the ;ek millionaire in order to get she has ever loved, I^arry icle Theatrp d end ame manner as a demolition tling match. Emerson brought table keyboard that shows ke bombs and flash pots went lly, and cannons blew giant nto the audience. point was Carl Palmer's iring "Tank," played on a im stand with kettle drums, trobe light, spectacular but pitome of flash was the encore Emerson supposedly wrecked as exquisitely choreographed, ;hand appearing through a ace a pillow under Emerson's lapsed in feigned frenzy. ME away from the concert rhaps they were unfamiliar itial of the band or taken by the istry of the members. For me, > a weak repeat of 1974, a sign tour has reached a dead end.