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Entertain n3he Turning poinP "The Turning Point" is a mag of ballet with an intricately wo between two old friends and c names, Shirley MacLaine and worth and deliver strong perf dancing rivals. With eleven Academy Award including Best Picture and Bes! Point" should do well at the Osci now enjoying an extended j^tn i classy production in the higflfcst \ According to director Herber the choices we make at the tui we live with these choices." In several turning points in the li' Deedee (Shirley MacLaine), a 1 prominent ballet company, is n m t-?* i mree cnuaren. WHEN THE company arrive performance and is reunited Bancroft), an aging but detern find that Deedee has an intense beat her out of the lead part in pregnant and married Wayne the world of ballet for the woi This subdued jealousy and 1 Deedee's daughter Emilia (Le lacks clarity f LcDk MH$: -fh /"MLP oV6>fc s I (fiOKS SI i-rs Qa E3ja~l? S* mnm ? MTUM 8 2 Not z liesponsil A , i gLu i/vnytning ^OiH ment ...The s By BARRY J. GLENN Entertainment Editor jnificently directly film, mixing the w ven story of intense rivalry and jealc :ompetitors. In this film the big Anne Bancroft prove their ormances as the two old nominations under its belt, dMH t Acress, "The Turning jflHH ar show. For the movie, /BSf ' it Bush River Mall is a t sense of the word. t Ross, the film is "about ning points in life and how deed the film examines ves of several persons. :ormer dancer with a ow a married housewife with 5 in her town for a show she goes to set with old friends including Emma (/ lined veteran dancer. As the story sk : jealousy for Emma because years < a prestigious show.- Deedee meanw i rTnm ? C 1 ? \ a win uncuiii/, a iui uici uaucer u rid of motherhood. lostility between the two women find slie Browne). Emilia begins to shov By BILL DOUGLAS Gamecock Staff Writer 4Moonchildren,'a show by Micl at Workshop Theatre, is a c SDreads itself thin. The audi characters with very little explar they are. v The play is concerned with \ students sharing an apartmen during the anti-war movement, ground the residents meet on is tl war, but even that's in doubt Rettie (Mike Collins) gets an in draft board to stop by for a phys letter to himself for a while, but his girlfriend Kathy, played by IV starts having doubts about the starts having doubts about Bob. invoivea witn anotner residenl according to the rest of the resi< name. THE PLAY also focuses on t! man, a math major who feels i until he begins to read books atx Norman adopts Ho Chi-Minh'i warfare tactics and takes a i march to snipe a few policemen not before he meets Shelly (Tr 1 1 * ? f i a ? ? nas a naou 01 silling unaer taoi in the peace movement for the h< 'Moonchildren' often ramt tangents, particularly a scene comic relief men Mike (Dan Drj '? SEMlbfZR'S ~T HEV'K ID My ?WUSH "l ATV 1 IH'T tCMl m! Xl<5rm, 1 ?rix jle ha |Hesp< N , -P I For stars com orld ^ v )usy hile has become Deedee j liuseii, ana leit aaughtei Ufl not to fer Is an outlet in v promise as a (Weldon Horn< ment's free spi a laugh. The hael Weller playing Mike prances :omedy-drama that quiet people d ence is exposed to MikP and "C at'onef who or what of lack o{ deptl a group of college exceptfon^E t in 1966 and 1967, ^'asite bv iu The only common p y ^ leir opposition to the when resident Bob CONTROVE vitation by the local a sometimes ical. Bob keeps the manner. Cont is later found out by Mike and "Ci lcKenzie Prince. He himself on fir movement so Kathy gasoline conta She reluctantly gets himself with tl t named Dick, who he does is sin] nents, lives up to his Controversy of the lovers' t the time come! he problems of Nor- Murry (Wally irrelevant in society that his mothe >ut Vietnam history. because Bob 1< 5 ideas on guerilla her so she lea evolver to a peace The acting i i. He is stopped, but fine performai acy Salisbury), who Tracy Salisbu s and acts as if she's 'Moonchildr ill of it. plots. Great< >les off into wild which could h; tUn ? vyhii me c?si? iwo not as "togeth achler) and "Cootie" helped the pla E- OKl uiu v ZZ. r4avJ. WA R& K ^ >m I Mi jlM MlEldg srl "tW Not ansible si J lies syBi e out anc dancer and is taken und hostility even more as De a mother and wishes she The plot gets thicker a York so Emilia can There, among other t hanHsnmp ann MStVIWVAtIV MIIVI MWIiU Baryshnikov). IllliBg DEEDEE LONGS 1 BE1|8^L wonders if _ marriage and, being replaced I pushed out of her live Vi ^row, finding sex and V company. Direct ^ these three lives "The Turning like a play than a story are numeroi ? goer has the opporti Baryshnikov, the h< 18- year-old danc holds her own wi Browne is a beautifi piercing gazes are e eal show, however, belongs to MacLai jynamic performer in any role and is sensitive and full of emotion as she r. The inner struggles she experience ice her out of her own life. e). Mike and "Cootie" are the apart rits who will do just about anything foi y interrupt people while talking ant around the room with a bullhorn t( own. )ootie" are shallow characters becaus< 1 and insight about the two. The lack o it in all the characters with the possible >ick, who has been labeled a jerk an< ist about everyone he lives with. .RSY is avoided throughout the play ir comic, sometimes disappointing roversy is humorously eschewed whei sotie" prevent Norman from setting e in protest to the war by filling th< iner with water. When Norman douses tie "gasoline" and lights the match al his wrist ZJ ? "* fc/v* is disappointingly averted in the cast riangle of Dick, Kathy and Bob. Wher 5 to deal with the situation, Bob's Unci* Rodriguez) pays a visit to inform Bol r is dying of cancer. Kathy gets mac *aves to see his mother without telling ves the apartment and Dick. n the play is credible, especially th< ices by Norman, Bill Neuman; Shelly ry ; and Bob, Mike Collins. en is a piay mat has too many sub gr concentration on the main point ave been that youth of the 1960s wen er" as they seemed to be, would havvc iy. ii ii ni mil 11amiu mm'inmmmmmmmmmmmmtmabmm lf.5 W $T$R? I /SVJ M "LATE W? / .omlv-zfa : nm i?^3 POKE Esp ! BMEORn p5BB]P sponsible h ^iii n " 1 cViirta JL er Emma's wing. This intensifies the edee begins to feel rather worthless as were a dancer again. is Deedee and Emilia journey to New receive proper dancing instruction, hings, Emilia becomes involved with a dancer in the company (Mikhail to be a dancer again and continually was the right thing. Emma is fading )v vounfier dancers, is slnu/lv ? B - ? lihood. Emilia is just beginning to I a possible career in the ballet or Ross seizes on these turning points in and explores them thoroughly. ; Point" is a slow-moving film ? more movie. Tastefully mixed in with the is ballet performances and the movie jnity to see the remarkable dancing of sir apparent to Nureyev. Browne, an er , delivers a strong performance and th Baryshnikov in the dancing scenes. .u newcomer 10 me screen and her nough to startle a viewer out of his seat, ne and Bancroft. MacLainehas always this is no exception. Her portrayal of i tries to provide guidance for her s can be seen as she pleads with Emilia See TURNING POINT, page 16 1 ) a f B ,( jf mi 5 H ) IS] H gjf? I mbM M BSBt ^9^^B|BflHBHBRj9R i m f%t^/^iWMW|ffflU^ lim^L^jil 1W tJW WWH i } > I fc LAS~ , , I SEAiait^S M })66W! eODKS. n IMMMi rra WTUUK jg Responsible ' l^OT* **' | r Anytliincj