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entertainment Feldman movie is zany ? By HENRY GREEN son, visits an orphanage and caricaturc of the old Foreign J f Gamecock Staff Writer returns with two inseparable Legion saga. Digby and Beau JK waifs-curly-haired, comely Beau march off through the burning Marty Feldman, that pop-eyed (Michael York), and not so comely desert sands to an isolated outpost. British disciple of director Mel Digby (Feldman), his (ha, ha) Their company is attacked by wild ^ ^ Brooks, has decided to make it on identical twin brother. and woolly Arabs, but the twins, J gg |Sk . si his own. After starring in such The inseparable Geste brothers noble boys that they are, live to <wt 3 m classics as "Young Frankenstein" grow happily into manhood as the repel the attack. I f and "Silent Movie," Feldman is years quite literally fly by, until Af giJL'MI i ' getting top billing in a film that he one awful day Sir Hector brings The humor in the film is by and jLV jSgTl If J r 1 \ \ made very nearly by himself, a home a wicked stepmother, played large effective. Not all the gags | | f ^ \ film for which he co-wrote the by the suitably voluptuous Ann- work, although if Marty Feldman rJSmHRjPV ^..1. script and which he directed. Even Margret. After the cantankerous did absolutely nothin but stare into v^ljjH^^K \-y -J' larjty SL p the title, "The Last Remake of Sir Hector becomes permanently the camera, he would still draw a ^ 14 f ?r t Beau Geste," suggests Feldman's disabled on his wedding night, as a laugh by virtue of his funny face. zany humor. result of "ecstasy", his new young There are enough goodies, &9Fv>,.. .Ma ?? * This is not to say that Feldman wife sets her sights on stealing the however, to make the film has not borrowed heavily from Geste family fortune, a beautiful reasonably enjoyable. Va jiff W Brooks in the way of style and jewel. Gallant Beau Geste then +SS iwflr conception. Just as "Young disappears with the Blue Water- One gem involves a Foreign lp? \ xO Frankenstein" is a parody of a the sapphire that is the foundation Legion cook who is nearly seven NjSf; Gothic chiller, "The Last of the Geste estate-to keep the feet tall and blind. 'It's my s^; a :jVi5lr '>Wwi^"|Ly S& Remake of Beau Geste" takes a stone from falling into the hands of mother's recipe," he says cheerily slash at the classic romantic his scheming stepmother. as he ladles out stew from a '7? "Beau Geste" with Gary Cooper The story now gets really hairy, cauldron and splatters the mess on and his copious swashbuckling. Digby is charged with and con- the table, on the unfortunate ^ if The plot is similar to that of victed of stealing the sapphire and, Legionnaires heads and only oc- his enormous capacity for creating mercial made by an Arab camel many a Mel Brooks movie-- in a truly hilarious courtroom casionally on their plates. hilarious slapstick in the tradition dealer. rambling venture and is delight- scene, he is sentenced of the Keystone Cops. Perhaps the best way to describe fully silly. Sir Hector Geste The wicked stepmother, Miss Another good sequence is that of Other pluses include Peter "The Last Remake of Beau Geste" (Trevor Howard), a blustering Flavia, follows the twins to Digby's prison escape, which Ustinov's performance as a peg- is to say that if one likes zany British lord, is informed that his Morocco so she can force Beau to Feldman makes into a black and legged, tyrranical sergeant, a humor in the Mel Brooks mold, wife has died in childbirth but has tell her where the priceless gem is, white, silent film clip. As Digby scene in which Marty Feldman tinged with raciness and devoid of brought forth a beautiful baby girl, since she knows that Digby does runs helter-skelter through the carries on a conversation with a sublety, then he should not miss Sir Hector, who has had his heart not have it. prison looking for a way out, mirage of Gary Cooper, cut from this film for all the money in the set on a swashbuckling hero of a what follows is a mad, aimless Feldman gets a chance to display an earlier version and a com- world. Theatre plans busy schedule By DAVID E. STEELE presented at Drayton Hall. The two main have two new staff members this year. production of "Carousel" by the USC Theatre Season Preview special events of the season will be David Cohen, noted Broadway playwright, Theatre Department, the Department of showplaced at the Drayton Hall Theatre. will teach a playwrights course this year as Music, and the Columbia Lyric Theatre. The USC Theatre Department's With the production of "Dance '78", USC well as directing two of the main produc- They will be working together on productions this year range from theatre will be beginning its third year of tions of the season, "The Imaginary In- "Carousel". David Cohen will direct this outrageous comedy to well-known Broad- dance added to the usual theatre produc- valid" by Moliere, and "Carousel" by play, and William Moody will direct the way hits. Included in this year's schedule tions. The USC Dance Club has been co- Rodgers and Hammerstein. music. will be the American College Theatre producing this event with the theatre The second member is Kenneth Cameron, The production of "Carousel", as opposed Festival and "Dance '78", a production department for each of its previous two who will write several scripts for the to the other main events of the season, will choreographed by the students and faculty successful runs. As an addition to theatre, reader's theatre. Reader's theatre consists take place on a proscenium stage, or of the theatre department. this collection of various dance pieces will of several persons taking on several roles at traditional stage which is the style used in "We have a good year planned," stated be presented in February at the Drayton once, reading from a script and creating Drayton Hall. The rest of this season's main P at ti Gillespie, of the USC Theatre Hall Theatre. It will include a traditional character differences by the way they read plays will take place in Longstreet Theatre. Department. Four plays will be presented ballet as well as modern dance. and by their position on the stage. at Longstreet Theatre and one will be The USC Theatre and Speech Department The main event of the year will be a joint See Page 27 / , BY DAVID R. SIIINGLER hwb B aft Entertainment Editor B Iagjfga, Jfia ?i, ??. ..,.H i r-i. 3 re ^ raiT"i eHh several album reviews, local ana campus theater fill1 OITb KB I n BIEPUT There is a void at USC. Some students and specials, movie reviews Hil H H H H B B B m m III professors are glad, others feel differently. Also included is a calendar of special events For the first semester in years, including several grouped under the appropriate headings, from summer sessions, a new editor will be in charge of concerts to movies. New listings will receive priority . reporting the entertainment to you for "The on the calendar, and others will be rotated on and off Gameocck." the calendar on a frequent basis. ifjy || Briefly, it is my goal to make this section an allOne burden is among the campus population now, encompassing section on student entertainment and that burden is me, David Shingler, the most methods. Part of my success will depend on your recent of additions to the staff of the fall 1977 participation. An event cannot be covered that we do m "Gamecock." not know about ahead of time. The events I want to ^ "What should I expect," you might say. That is cover are very "grass-roots" and you will have to let oTs gflg Bsl what 1 m here to tel1 y?" You can expect to read me know ab?ut them. | vQ&p ^49 B |j mofe stories concerning varied topics of student Lastly, as is always the case, the Entertainment interest. This covers even the most minute of events. staff is definitely not overabundant. Yes, this is a Whether student frivolity should come from, films, pitch for writers, those interested and knowledgeable concerts, books, local jam sessions, or fashions, in- in certain fields of entertainment. i volving the smallest number of students, whatever A journalist degree is not a pre-requisite. Perhaps their prurient interests may be, I hope to include it a good electrical engineering student or an economics under the topic of "Entertainment." ? major Is an expert in classical and jazz music. These You want specifics, right? Just look over the next are the kirKl8 of writers that will make this student four pages, and you see a broad representation of newspaper entertainment section worthwhile, student's interests being covered. Included are Come on by, you will enjoy it.