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gamecock IVaah.cmr! ) v w jl By David Baker Oumtcock Film Critic The Buddy Holly Story: Earnest, if not always true, account of the life and loves of one of America's greatest songwriters. (PG) Jefferson Square Coining Home: Jon Voight won this year's Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival for his portrayal of a paraplegic veteran, and Jane Fonda matches him line for line in this wonderfully sexy love story directed by Hal Ashby. (R) Columbia Mall ..Eyes of Laura Mars: A stylish and absorbing thriller which features a great performance by Faye uunaway. (K) Kichland Mall . .F.I.S.T.: Academy Award nominee Sylvester Stallone does nothing to help this crippled account of criminal infiltration in a teamster-like union in the 1940s. (PG) Bush River Mall Foul Play: Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase are a delight in this comedy-thriller from the producers of "Silver Streak." (PG) Columbia Mall and Bush River Mall Grease: The year's most entertaining film. Any man whose temperature doesn't skyrocket when Olivia Newton-John sings "Hopelessly Devoted to You" must be dead. (PG) Bush River Mall Heaven Can Wait: Warren Beatty and Julie Christie, together for the umpteenth time, make for magic, the likes of which we haven't seen since Streisand cast her spell over Kristofferson in A Star Is Born." (PG) Gamecock and Spring Valley Hooper: Totally inferior to "Smokey & the Bandit,' the previous Burt Reynolds-Sally Field-Hal Needhanr collaboration, but it still has some nice moments (PG) Spring Valley and Bush River Mall ffjcf WEI /^>i Ski? ~ (|nair < 1314 N m ir i Vlovie {jriiide It's Alive 2: Those murderous babies are back for more flesh and blood. Good horror-house fun if you can forget the ridiculousness of the plot. (R) Richland Mall and Palmetto The Last Waltz: A marathon of boredom about The Band's farewell concert. Directed by the usually precise Martin Scorsese. (PG) ,^rNational Lampoon's Animal House: After a deceptively slow start, it goes on to become one of the funniest films of the decade. It should be missed by no one, living or dead. (R) Dutch Square and Gamecock Piranha: Another "Jaws" rip-off, this one featuring Heather Menzies as fish bait. (R) Revenge of the Pink Panther: Infinitely superior to its predecessor, "The Pink Panther Strikes Again," but still not as good as the first three films in the series. (PG) Spring Valley The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Meat Loaf, Frank 'n Furter, and the rest of the gang in the best transvestite musical ever made. (R) Midnight Movie ? Bush River Mall Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band: If this doesn't kill the Bee Gees, nothing will. Your money u/rtulri hp ?nont nn nr\w monnro of laoot vnn >VV??VA xsaa VV T* AAtMllUA V UV AVMOI> J V/U could use that for fertilizer. (PG) Thank God It's Friday: Probably the best thing you can say about "TGIF" is that Donna Summer's singing career will not be hurt by it. (PG) Plaza Think Dirty . . . Everyone Else Does: Marty Feldman in a sordid little comedy that should have stayed on the shelf forever. (R) Who'll Stop the Rain: Bland screen version of 1 Robert Stone's best-selling novel, "Dog Soldiers." . Stellar performances from Nick Nolte and Tuesday Weld make it worth while. (R) ? _ LCOME BACI * rman When looking your best is impc the professional stylists at The U.S.C. students' favorite head i full time stylists up on the lates hairstyling will help you emphe individual features and persona Roffler Style created for the ler just two blocks down Main Str< Lhour of free parking at the mui ssionally ahead with Man I 'HCCf^WC mi? 7Q" L/LA^IUi VU M V^ib ? v man 1 IAIN ST., DOWNTOWN ? RH Pay Film 'The Big Sleep' 'The Big Sleep' will be shown at 7 end ?:30 p.m., tonight end Saturday nlQht, September 8 and 9 In the Russell House Theatre. Admission for students is $1. Bv David Baker Gamecock Film Critic If the names Eddie Mars, General Sternwood and his two wild daughters Vivian and Carmen, Joe Brody, A. G. | Geiger, and Shawn Regan, not to mention Phillip Marlowe, mean anyuiiiig u> you; u uie iona memories of a melancholy Martha Vickers slouching against a giant door in Sternwood mansion, and a sleek, yet forceful Lauren Bacall j trading racehorse metaphors with Humphrey Bogart in a cocktail lounge makes you drool with delight, you're in for a treat. s This weekend's campus film is probably the epitome of the American whodunit ? Howard Hawks' 1946 version of "The Big Sheep." Bogart portrays Phillip Marlowe, a hardnosed detective who is hired by a crusty old millionaire toinvestigate the gambling debts of the old gentleman's yuungesi uaugnier. /uter just a tew hours on the job, Bogart finds himself caught in a nightmare world of murder, blackmail and paranoia. It's a world in which the viewer can't escape from, either (though I doubt her or she would want to). As in so many of Hawks' films, the main character (in this case Marlowe) is completely wrapped up in himself: in his job, in his interests, in his sense of pride. Bogart fills the role as no one else could, and no one was ever a better foil to Bogey than Bacall. Their on-screen rapport coupled with the outstanding script by William Faulkner, Leigh uracKeu, ana Jules lOirthman (from the novel by Raymond Chandler) made Hawks' job easy. By adding his knowledge of the crime melodrama and severalof his own special cinematic touches, however, Hawks made the potentially mediocre film into the classic that we know and love today. Working within the confines of studio sets and black-andwhite photography, Hawks created the illusion of a closed and shadowy world in which each location -I? Geiger's fog1 covered ranch house, the outlandishly vulgar gambling casino, Sternwood's old-world mansion, a lone country road, and Marlnw#?'s omhhv nfdna ? E r ? D. viuvv occuia illterconnected. ! This great continuity gives the viewer a keen sense of the scotch-on-the-rocks and pistol-in-the-poeket world of 1940's Los Los Angeles after dark as well as an ample dose of the famous Bogart mystique. A I UAMtUUtKb. W #** ?f rtant sec \ / ^ ? r in t a gth ot tiair you preter. were conveniem ... et from the State House. 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