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?D \ ft J By DalaSmoak OanMoack Staff Writ?f j Garson Kanin's Born Yesterday is set in 1 Washington just after World War II. Harry < Brock, a wealthy junkman, tries to in- < fkience favorable legislation by buying a senator, Norval Hedges. A moralistic i reporter, Paul Verrall, sets out to expose 1 Brock's plan. The play is a simplistic one; it ] makes some naive assumptions about ] government and it leaves something to be i desired when judged for literary or I dramatic merit. It is, however, a pleasant, 1 escaDist Dlav. humorous and entertaining Friday's performance by the USC 1 Summer Repertory Theatre was en- 1 tertaining due to lively performances and \ brisk pacing. The humorous and < imaginative performances of the i stereotyped characters kept them from i becoming stale and boring. J Rob Bigalke, as the blustering, obnoxious i Harry Brock, was realistic and effective in the role. Bigalke's physical presence also helped to establish and define his character. I D Kinnrln A 1/^rt/-?! > titon Dillio T*\n?ac?% t tviiuiivia niui ivh waa uiuic jL/dWii, Dl utR S v girlfriend. Her character is the stereotyped, \ dumb, ex-chorus girl. Despite this handicap, 1 Ms. Aldrich was believable and even tender i in the role. t John Ammerman, as Paul Verral, the i clean-cut truth-seeking reporter, played his ] role smoothly, at times seeming to gently i parody the hero stereotype. David Landon i Above: Frank Langella i role of 'Dracula.' Belov Burns and Brooke Shie/c You & Me, Kid.' testerda\ is EM, Brock's lawyer, played a man past his prime due to age and drink. Landon effectively projected the quiet desperation if his character's life. Some of the funniest moments of the play were due to Brad J. Senri's Dortraval of Eddie, Brock's dim-witted cousin. Tom Divan was the less-than-bright Senator Hedges, imaginative within the limits of his role. Candace Compton wa# amusing in her arief appearance as the Senator's emptyleaded, lushing wife. The pacing is brisk, except for a rather tedious gin rummy session in the first act. With two intermissions, the show lasts jnder two-and-a-half hours. The setting is enhanced by the big-band music before the show and during intermissions. The set tself is a room of an expensive (1946) hotel suite, with older furniture nice enough to ~ _ n i r* 1- ? - eneci urot'K s income. Four performances remain of Born Yesterday: tonight at 8 p.m., Sunday af:ernoon at 3 p.m., Wednesday, Aug. 1, and Saturday, Aug. 4, at 8 p.m. The company .vill continue to perform A Streetcar Named Desire and Tartuffe through Aug. 5, and will perform a children's show, Mother Goose on the Loose Wednesday through Saturday mornings at 10 a.m. through Aug. 4. All performances are at Longstreet Theatre. Oall 777-2551 for reservations and more nformation so oblivious to the v seems downright s potentially jolting puts onscreen, inc k/\nrAlmAnf (Ty \ T/xl lA/WCllllCIil. IAW UCi The Amityville Kidder and Rod St< ^Anson's best-sellin| couple's dream he Dutch Square The Apple Dunn a iic i/vuuic mat' n the title Sommer are a po ? respectively, m ti VI (jOOtge filmed in Charlest( jf* :n ' /no/ to hold y?ur inten 4/f/Sr (PG) Spring Vallej Dracula: John 1 witty film version Langella is a m movements seem , pfe. contributes anothe Hamilton Deane, a Escape From Al comedy in Kver; mm Eastwood is back *' prison tale. The ol . ?>. directed. (PG) Ric The Frisc?Kid Aldrich's new peri jp Wilder's sidekick ^ -j Harrison Ford. (Pi %>. ?& f# JjP|| Game of Death middle of filming, wild extremes to n I definitely Lee's la ^ m'ss ?#'* Caro \*M Hooper: An eari movie about stunti ||F are worth the pr mesmmmm ine m-t^ws: / MM? j9 briskly Rhonda Aldrich eekend Mc By David Baker slapst Entertainment Editor jq fg|< )tt has directed Alien in a manner chara* iewers' feelings that the film often are pr inister. Anything he perceives as are t (or revolting) to an audience, he Ameri :luding several scenes of disem- impen fferson Square The Horror: James Brolin, Margot careei iiger star in this filmization of Jay mer I I book. The story tells how a young better >use turns into a nightmare. (R) Palm< The tling Gang Rides Again: A totally . to The Apple Dumpling Gang. It nftthin id Tim Conway as bumbling bank- , i Square ey of the Ultravixens: The king of l^okc 1 iphy, Russ Meyer, returns with M0rw. / actresses (?) bouncing across the .. c iide. (X) Fox .. ^ea Guffin: George Kennedy and Elke , ? lice chief and a prime minister, chn^ lis new mystery-comedy. It was r.V"V >n, so the scenery is pretty enough a 1 sst through the slower sequences. to dig! Badham directed this stylish and starsof the hit Broadway play. Frank Mo< ost handsome Dracula, but his prece a bit stiff at times. John Williams away sr excellent score and the sets, bv womp re outstanding. (R) Spring Valley of elef catraz: After a dreadful attempt at and o y Which Way But Loose, Clint Coluri : where he belongs in this tense The d pod-master himself, Don Siegel, Hicha hi and Mall Frog : The rabbi goes west in Robert travai od comedy, starring Gene Wilder. Uoc here is an unusually effective Awari r? \ til u/1 id/,ii origin : Bruce Lee passed away in the rule c so the producers had to go to some stars, lake a whole movie out of what was is do^ orth of footage. At any rate, it's Rock} st film and his fans won't want to shortt lina, Columbia East The lest, offbeat, but ultimately boring Needl nen. Burt Reynolds and Sallv Field RoaHi ice of admission. (PG) Columbia Hoadi most Arthur Hiller directed this wacky River f Z\A v. w^jirTitM i i and Rob Bigalke ick comedy which is, by far, the funniest movie this year. Alan Arkin and Peter Falk (in a cienzation not unlike Columbo gone insane) iceless as a paranoid dentist and a G-man who >rought together for a world-saving South ican adventure as a result of their offsprings' iding marriage. (PG) Columbia Mall Kids are Alright: A documentary, spanning the r of The Who from the early 1960s until drumCeith Moon's death this past year. Infinitely than The Band's The Last Waltz. (PG) itto Main Event: Heaven knows, I never thought :e a Barbra Streisand movie, but there's simply g about this one to like. Streisand chews up t every scene she appears in and Howard : direction is laid-back to the point where it ike he radioed in his instructions while skiing in ly. (PG) Bush River Mall, Spring Valley tballs: A low-budget, Canadian-made comedy 1 ' ' ' c^criw uics an exienuea carioon sKeicn irom iion's Saturday Night Live. As with most of that > better sketches, it is very funny as a whole, )us in several instances, more than a bit :ted and best remembered after you have time est everything it tries to convey. Bill Murray (PG) Gamecock, Spring Valley >nraker: Like the 10 James Bond pictures that ded it, Moonraker is the kind of film that can get wiui anyining. rne stunts are exciting, the n are beautiful and Roger Moore is the picture Sance as 007. Easily the best film of the summer ne of the classiest movies of the year. (PG) ibia Mall Muppet Movie: Steve Martin, Mel Brooks, rd Pryor and Madeline Kahn inin thp and Miss Piggy in their first big-screen exganza. (G) Bush River Mall ky II: This erratic sequel to the Academy d winning Best Picture of 1976 has all of the al cast members returning under the sovereign >f Sylvester Stallone, who wrote, directed and His direction is amateurish and his screenplay wnright childish, but Stallone's portrayal of 1 ic cn arwirI Hint ?? *?1 * " j ? uiai yvu can ovenooK ms lecnnicai comings. (PG) Bush River Mall Villain: In the simplest of terms, Hal lam's new non-comedy is a live-action *unner cartoon that doesn't seem to have a mnner. Consequently, every scene looks as if its ^ 1 * * pan nit!) ueen ripped away. (PG) Cush Mall, Gamecock