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Kaplan and MgBPMP fl|pnf?1? The top 10 singles this week, 1. I Will Survive 2. Da YaThink I'm Sexy 3. Tragedy 4. Fire 5. Heaven Knows 6. A Little More Love 7. Shake Your Groove Thing.. 8. What a Fool Believes 9. YMCA 10. Sultans of Swing The top 10 albums this week, j 1. Spirits Having Flown 2. Blondes Have More Fun ... 3. Cruisin' 4. Dire Straits 5. Minute by Minute 6. Briefcase Full of Blues .... 7. Love Tracks 8. Totally Hot 9. 52nd Street 10. Armed Forces jvj|^f^ ICtJBBmMMO-* ' ^PPV/'''. J^K >c? * B f ?H riflA >\. ^. | '4 l^wjn^ i -vhSEJ^wIIPSiH ; V " ,\ | Interviews: Placement Of 5; Lieber Co lie PeaceC I A WORLD OF OPPORTUI VI ^ y.-'X*f?:< . >.' *r?v- ^;. ij~/?'"1 - j fit rg ji ^ L" 1 .? ' >.*:-y>:jja^^aHW' :r^yVl^^tg^p-rUMr^^ mM J Bail ' team in 'Fast Break' according to Billboard magazine, are: Gloria Gaynor Rod Stewart Bee Gees Pointer Sisters Donna Summer Olivia Newton-John Peaches&Herb Doobie Brothers Village People Dire Straits according to Billboard magazine, are: Bee Gees Rod Stewart Village People Dire Straits Doobie Brothers Blues Brothers Gloria Gaynor Olivia Newton-John Billy Joel Elvis Costello March 13&14, 1979 [ :f ice \ jge orps MITY CiT" A VOLUNTEERS IN SERVICE I| W I F\ TO AMERICA |j Kaplan sount A in amusing By David Baker Entertainment Editor In Fast Break Gabriel Kaplan portrays Manhattanite David Greene, a delicatessen clerk who dreams of one day becoming a basketball coach. He sends a countless number of job applications to colleges across the country, but none of them seem to want him until he contacts Cadwallader. an obscure university in northern Nevada. When the president of Cadwallader comes all the way to New York to visit him, David knows the coaching job is his. The fact that he's only going to pay David $60 for each game he wins makes no difference. It's still a coaching job, and David would probably do it for free if only the president had asked him. It's really just icing on the cake when the president tells him that if he can beat top-10 power Nevada State, he'll give him a three-year, $30,000 a year contract. Before leaving New York, David makes a quick run through Harlem and recruits four players ? a pool shark, a phony preacher, an ex-convict and a girl. The fifth man is to be added after David gets to Nevada. The pickings at Cadwallader are pretty slim, though, and David must settle for a musclebound freshman who went to school to play football but forgot to ask if Cadwallader had a team. Don't let this unlikely line-up fool you into thinking I 11 I m i _PSzza JExpress_ Free: Delivery |jg| S Free: 16 oz. Coke ^HHH with any whole sub 4pllp||p: j Free: Qt. Coke with H^Hj Small Pizza I 1 Free: 2 Qts. with Large Pizza fcllpflHlHi 256-0301 ||BH1 " VC STOUD SG VICE-P ds like Kotter Fast Break* j that Fast Break is just another rip-off of The Bad News Bears, though; for unlike the Bears, the Cadwallader basketball team beats its first opponent by 40 points and doesn't lose a game all season. They're so invincible through the first part of the film that you know Nevada State doesn't stand a chance either. If Cadwallader lost just one game, a little suspense could have been generated around the climactic confrontation, thus making the film a great deal better than it is. i Fast Break could also be a great deal funnier than it is. Most of the film is genuinely amusing, but there's not really a single funny line anywhere in it. Almost every laugh stems from the "Swish" * character, a sure-shot who everyone thinks to be a flaming homosexual but who is really just a girl with her bosoms tied down. Mavis Washington is excellent in the role, having a face that is just androgynous * enough to let her get away with it. The performances of the remaining team members (Harold Sylvester, Michael Warren, Bernard King and Reb Brown) are also first rate, and Kaplan is also very good, though his character bears a striking resemblance to the one he portrays every week in Welcome Back, Hotter. Fast Break isn't the best movie in town (thank God!), but it's a nice way to waste time on a boring afternoon. HHmMnnHHHIHHi Te I RL f I RESIDENT i Student Senator Judicial Committee BA Major-Finance Athletic Committee State Student Legislature J