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Superman-^
After the final fires of the title a
on the planet Krypton, where Jorleaders
about the fact that Kryj
ciutjuciiue ucgun to win me over ai
screen were less impressed.
Jor-el returns home to his wife
whole picture), and when the run
make life on its surface a bit ujibeai
star-shaped rocket and send him
The spaceship arrives in Smallvil
and Pa Kent (Phyllis Thaxter and \
to keep his powers a secret. The Sm
beautifully photographed ones in
contains one scene which comes c
The young Clark Kent, portrayed I
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Had the scene been deleted, the otl
rigged.
But with the exception of a few i
are obviously back-projected, the 1
in the film.
Once Clark grows up to be Christ
presence known by saving cities, Su
film-making. Donner may have Y
contemporary Manhattan (though
credit for the film's success should j
He portrays Kent as a fumbling
great joy in Knowing Uiat unae
hopelessly pursues Lois Lane (Kid
strip, and of course she can only lov
The funniest scene in the mov
both Clark and Superman on the
first , and the looks on Reeve's fac<
is just dying to get into his tights ar
looks on his face when he enters L
Lois still bowled over from the visit
glasses back on his nose and sm
believably comical. It's as if he
greatest stud pretending to be a eu
it."
The rest of the film never read
section. The sub-plot about Lex I
Pacific is never worth the time Don
Beatty and Perrine are quite good ai
Also, the movie doesn't really hav
the audience with the words, "Next
to advertise a sequel just as the fir
previous 220 minutes so much that I
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that Superman will actually take I
that's true, the looks on Reeve's f;
price worth paying.
The Fine Arts Committee of the
Russell House University Union
presents "Eastern Photographs"
by Michael Todd. The exhibition
will run until Feb. 1 on the second
floor of the Russell House.
Columbia engineer
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pnuiugrtipiier nusseii iviaxey Will
present a one-hour sound-slide
show, "Egypt," in the Science
Auditorium at the Columbia
Museum of Art and Science on
Wednesday, Jan. 24 at 8:00 p.m.
The second portion, also one hour
in length, is entitled "Treasures of
Tutankhamun" and will be shown
at the Columbia Museum of Art
and Science on Wednesday, Jan. 31
at 8 p.m. The two sound-slide
presentations are free and open to
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uie puuuc. vhjiuuci uie museum,
799-2810, for more information.
A selection of video tapes made
by Syracuse University faculty
members and students is on
display in the Video Gallerv of
McKissick Museums. The exhibit
will be open through Feb. 11.
McKisssick is open Monday
through Friday, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. and
Sundays from 1-5 p.m.
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equence die away, we find ourselves '
el (Brando) is lecturing the planet's
)ton is going to blow up. Brando's
most immediately, but the people on
Lara (York, who has one line in the S
lbles of the doomed planet begin to
rable, they place their only son into a Jl . JB
lovingly to Earth. Jhv
le, USA, and the child is found by Ma
Grlenn Ford), who impress upon him
iallville scenes are possibly the most pH '
the film; the sequence, however,
lose to destroying the whole movie.
by Jeff East, to shown outrunning a
:ial effects are positively ludicrous.
tier effects would not have looked so
over-the-shoulder flying scenes that
ocomotive scene is the only bad one
opher Reeve and begins to make his j
iperman becomes a brilliant piece of * ?
lelped by transposing the story to Be
it s still called Metropolis), but the
?o entirely to Reeve.
, timid, love-stiuck priss who takes
rneath he's really Superman. He j
Ider), just like he does in the comic |
e Superman. i
ie comes when Lois has dates with
oanic cvcuiiig, uupci man auivca
e when it becomes obvious that Lois
e truly hilarious, topped only by the __
,ois' apartment as Clark and finds JJ?
of his alter ego. When he pushes the ? . 1978
irks at the camera, Reeve is un- this we
were saying, "Here's the world's your *a
much and enjoying every minute of Acco
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hes the effectiveness of its central , j"
^uthor blowing California into the n . J?
ner devotes to it, though Hackman, an, .
s Luthor and his cohorts. ?
e an ending ... it just stops, leaving affect
year ? Superman II." It takes gall best sc
st film is ending, but I enjoyed the "a|1
really didn't find the advertisement materi,
vait to see the sequel. Rumor has it two-hoi
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ifying. Saturday 30 million copies worldwide,
and his alone. No Saturday Night Fever will be
ens to steal his showing at 7:00 and 9:30 tonight
and Saturday night in the Russell
>undtrack, which House theatre. Admission is $1.
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