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entertain n 'Close En nxni>f?iop "Q Dna? ^.T 1 * mvi.uiu 1/ICJIU93 aa I\U) iwavy 1UUK an unidentified flying object in "Close I film, directed by Stephen Spielburg is di Author recc Ross E. Beard, Jr. on compuj X CAM-T fc?UkV/E M/ e*4?\ME*> l>f AT "TM*5 FfcJKW! Leni ico unters HWLk MB -i i&p5Bt% s up into near-blinding lights from Encounters of the Third Kind." The le to open in Columbia soon. >unfsexperi< By BARRY J. GI t ^ Asst. Kntcrtainnu K JPI In the annals o! I iHg most persons pri Hk 1*? C?'t and Brownir j principal innovaio I K. Beard, Jr., how introduce another [I of weaponry inv< I David Marsha y Williams, fl Heard, a very P tleman from Can Campus Bookst ternoon, displa y fnllnftinn ;>n<i f\\<i "v__ book "Carbine* dlapper Store, 31S Carbine Williar ' but Beard still spe eonvict-turned i admirable way. E several example contributions to f ? Lfc s I hcwn^ A. ? | h& CLrtd DfllJ jotff Icrf4 fer he^ dp<j rtv?v>dir. - * j i ,m7r?tt ?jH& CAymiiic By DAVID R. S11INGLER al1 Entertainment Editor ex se This is a special preview of "Close Cf Encounters of the Third Kind," a film not yet released in Columbia. sp This article is a critical review of the is film, the first section of a two part El series. The second pari will involve a pt more factual analysis of (he film, (I drawn particularly from an in- ev terview with Ihe director Stephen th Spiel hut'}; and co-producer Julia th Phillips. It \\ ill appear in the cc December I Gamecock. de ' n\ Brace yourself for you will soon encounter a movie that will change your outlook on several concepts, featuring m everything from a wife's love for her al seemingly crazy husband, to beings from p( another planet playing musical com- th positions to a group of scientists in m Wyoming. fo "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" is being billed as the movie that changes as your ideas. Interestingly enough, it will U probably succeed. m Director Stephen Spielburg's most bi recent effort, after "The Sugarland Ex- sv press" and "Jaws," has cost more than $19 million and has involved more secrecy ei than any movie to come out of Hollywood fii in a long time. To protect the dramatic cf concept as well as the impact of the story, ?nceswith gu -ENN eluding a .22 caliber machine ktil I/fiifnr ? 1 which sdvtu me guvenuiiL'ni <j 50 million dollars in its first yea f gun inventors, use in World War Two. abably think of lg as being the TI1K AMAZING FACT at rs. Author Ross Williams' accomplishments is I ever, is trying to he received his ideas while ser\ name to the list time in prison for the murder < mtors - that of deputy sheriff who raided his 11 "Carbine" near his North Carolina home day back in 1921. 1 amiable gen- "I think the turning point in iden, was in the life was the hell he lived ore Friday af- solitary," said Beard, who 1 ying his gun met Williams in 1963 and decide cussing his new tape his comments at tl ' <$12.50, San- numerous meetings. "He real ) rvadoc ^ 4^. ~ l - iil- ndu iu aui vivtr - una cit'iut'i ns died in 1975, survival caused him to think al aks of the former his favorite subject, guns, inventor, in an mentally assembled Jeard pointed out disassembled his guns. Prison is of Williams' the triggering point for his weaponry, in- Sco CARBINE, pag. fAy I "7h^ ??' - WITH I ii/yv\<r ItiriMnA '' i AV HER. Aff^XW?XVT^!( ?%' _ flk mm s UFOs Id the special visual effects, Spielberg plains, the filming was done under tight |p curity in Wyoming, India, Alabama and tlifornia. With the interest drawing tidbits such as ecial effects of the way, however, what the movie about? What is a "Close ncounter?" It is the growing controversy over the lenomenon of unidentified flying objects JFO's), and the increasing belief and 'ider.ce "we are not alone," which gives e film its importance. It is the story of e ordinary working man coming into intact with something he does not unsrstand, an ordinary man facing the :traordinary. ^ THE WORKING MAN is played as the ale lead by Richard Dreyfuss, who was so in "Jaws." As Roy Neary, he ex jriences an encounter of the first kind, e sighting of a UFO, while on a repair ission for the power company he works r. His encounter of the second kind follows ; he experienced the blinding lights of a FO in the middle of the night. In Neary's inH whon mo half nf hie fnno ie cmi lrned, how can that be attributed to vamp gas? To him, it cannot. Hence the secondary plot of the film nerges - the stress under which Neary ? tids himself operating when even his wife innnt tinln him !*-? f i M limvi Iivip 111*11 I IIIO See ENCOUNTERS, page 13 in inventor gun nNHnnnm 'ver wut iJmgfim l ?S1 Wi^W a I wm of a ^ still one HHBfl^ - --,gSfc8lllil? his in irst HHB # (',o GGBHw j5iS8'-'S:.^ i/ed jMbHjjBR; 1*1 of HHOffiMpflHtiR lie ^HHHBHBHn and MBHMHifliHHHfinRHHnH inBY GLENN RAWLS EBMML ME ^ Hl . I Ut)| |lll|| ?MU BkMHI Ml