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.JjBBK &j?k. j|pfS^||pp|p ;: :';: ^ p^S^$5wftE$E8^FM^PB^K' p^- :-"V^ v'^p - HnS^V.'': James Dickey, USC's poet during his reading at the Beil night. Included in the reading w newest work, "The Flowering." 'All Th Bv David Baker Gamocock FMm Critic There's a line in a song from Chicago, Bob Fosse's recent Broadway hit, that goes like this; "Give 'em the old razzle-dazzle, razzle-dazzle 'em!" With his new film. All That Jazz, Fbsse has taken that line to heart and has proved conclusively that he can razzle-dazzle with the best of them. IN FACT, Ftasse has filled All That Jazz with so many exciting dance numbers that when one leaves the theatre, he's apt to be as 1 ts-m r?nf f 1 II (I^AICU cU> lit: lb IU??1CU Ul ua^/.icu. The distinctively ideosyncratic choreography Fbsse has created for the film virtually sends sparks flying from the screen and most of the numbers are energetic to the point where, by just watching them, the viewer feels as if he's been physically drained. Roy Scheider heads the cast as ace director-choreographer, Joe Gideon. Dressed in Fosse's trademark black and sporting a Fosse-styled goatee and moustache, Scheider is a dead ^ " ? ? A hospital bed fantasy sequet Gideon (Roy Schekfer) in 'AH Th< Ru88?H K Pace GAMECOCK in residence makes a point < Auditorium on Wednesday ere several selections from his To open i Ul ringer for the well-known director, who has admitted in several interviews that the film is blatantly autobiographical. THE GIST of the story concerns the problems Gideon-Fbsse encounters while simultaneously. directing and choreographing an expensive Broadway musical (read Chicago) and editing an expensive film he's finished shooting (read Lenny). All the while, he's popping Benzedrine, downing liquor, chainsmoking cigarettes and having sex with practically every girl he meets, bad habits that are causing no small amount of grief to his exft hie 1 1 - VPar W lie ULA/^ailU 1 MII??Vy* /, MM/ m. %+ J old daughter (H^zsebet Ft>ldi), and his current mistress (Ann Rein king). ? 1 ^ * * r-% Inevitably, CridGOtl-bOSiie allium a heart attack and from that point on, All That Jazz becomes a frantic celebration of death. IN THE FILM'S final hour. - >-> -J t- .i> i , tea envis/onoa oy mr&cror joo stJaxx.' mm dames l his divers By Lisa Frucht Go?n?cocfc Staff Wrtta* Despite the inclement weather, th< hearing USC poet-in-residence James ] selection 01 woncs Hi led tne Be IK Aud nesday night. Dickey, the second spe< 1980 Writer's Series, gave the audience hour's worth of heaniv and amiwpmpr poetry. As Matthew J. Bruccoli, associate English, commented in his introdi University of South Carolina joined Jai 1968." Since that time Dickey has cap audiences with his public readings. T reading was different, however, bees chose to give selections that he had ne before. i mm iv rnmwc* ^? ? ihvliultju hi inci piugiciiii wen from Dickey's newest work, en Flowering," which has yet to be publish which is a combination of photographs "a suite of 19 related poems about youn through 'the gate' from childhood to ' Dickey said. The essence of the poetr capture the change in a girl's life and t she matures. "Spring House, House, and Be; Plftumrc " "Tho Cii?w\un/1 " onH A. ?W ?? Vt vJ , A IIV tJU&IVUIlUt C411U T sensitive portrayals of young girls' pen and their struggles to become women. DICKEY COMMENTED that for his poetic experience is best when he ere imagination, allowing himself to take 01 of his characters. He succeeded in doi turing the sensuality of young women. Dickey read two pieces from his coll Images," which is "a very subjective re of certain biblical episodes," he said. 'EVERYBODY HAS their o\ relationship with the Bible and the Dickey said. "Samson's Dream" deals1 * f n LxQiumoia t( i9dazzl fantasy scenes are piled upon dream sequences, each of them stylized, expressionistic and, more often than not, downright bizarre. With its neon-veined anatomical | dummies, floating silver heads | with dayglo eyes, singing f surgeons and afro-wigged strippers | taking turns in the spotlight. All I That Jazz tops even The Rocky Horror Picture Show in the | imagination department. Alan Heim has done a masterful job of editing what Fbsse put on film. Shots of spinning dancers are edited together so that there ap pears to be onscreen only one | dancer, who seemingly changes | bodies every two seconds. GYRATING DANCERS fly I through the air precisely with the 1 beat of the music and scenes i depicting open heart surgery flow j beautifully into scenes depicting 1 Gideon-Fbsse talking with the f Angel of Death (Jessica Lange). Given the fact that no shot seemsto approach 30 seconds in length, Heim's accomplishment is all the more extraordinary. Come April, he should win an Oscar, hands down. i Aside from the dance routines, which one is likely never to forget, the scenes that work best in the film are those involving Scheider and Fbldi (who is an exceptionally talented young actress-dancer). Fosse treats the relationship between father and daughter very loVingly as if it's the only kind of relationship meant to last for more than a year or so. i ' THE DRAMATIC scenes dealing u/ith OiHpnn-IOrtfi?iA's rplntinimhins with everyone else, however, are a bit too cynically written (by Fbsse rv? . L/icKey i e world c fiuilindc oc ho ie Incii | IWllll^Q U*J 11V lO IVOII j prospect of his strength. Dicke Dickey read a inside the whale. "II litorium Wed- creative writer, yo ilfor in IICP'c .Innah in thp hollv t more than an have been like?" it through his Dickey said the nr himself into his woi professor of more often and wi uction, "The relates the message nes Dickey in of life and explores ii >tivated many ^ POEM which u his particular entitled "Close of t luse me poei ' raise Youth." It d< ver presented flashes of youthful place on Harden St i lour poems around a fur hat . ititled "The received as gifts. X rri. ? 1 1 icu. 1 lie uuuiv, A poet is two kill' and poems, is One is a regular pei g girls coming happen "in the n< womanhood," other person is a c y attempts to happen to him as hinking when Dickey dislikes ai material. yond," "Ray DICKEY READ r Voices" are though he were di :eptions of life time. He laughed perienced the moi type of poet, a audience did. sates from his He concluded hi; itheemotions deeply grateful" f< ng so by cap- feeling of gratitud nriviloHaiwI In hoar lection "God's JSpon^d by th iinterpretation , 5"o c? of ' ' 1980 Writers Ser Heller, author ol vn personal Following Dickey figures in it," and John Hawkes with Samson's wiH appear during >night es the i i-: WL^^y ^3i!SiiiiSB5^ Jessica Lange, as the m\ director Joe Gideon (Joe Scheic and the late Robert Alan Aurthur) for my taste and, even though it's brilliantly done, placing closeups of open heart surgery into the heart of a musical is just begging to have iL . !.l I .1 1 i me musical laDeiea an ego-inp (Fbsse had an arterial bypass a few years ago). These problems are minor ones. | pu<>a Is >f poetry ig his locks and, along with them, y also read a piece about Jonah f you are a writer, and a sensitive, u want to project yourself into af the great fish. What must that lain objective of an artist is to get *k. He feels poets accomplish that th "more memorability." Poetry that you are not getting enough maffinfltivpnntinnK Dirk??v said /as popular with the audience was he Age," from a four part series eals with an older person who has Iness. The amusing poem takes reet in Columbia and is centered and denim jacket which Dickey ds of people, according to Dickey, son who encounters things which >rmal course of existence." The raftsman who uses events which material for his work, although lists who go out and look for ' his works with a freshness as iscovering the poems for the first at the humorous images and ex-p sensitive moments hist as the > program by saying he was "most or the audience's reception. That e was mutual, for the crowd felt such a fine poet. e USC Department of English and manities and Social Sciences, the ies began March 5 with Joseph I Catch-22 and Good as Gold. will be novelists William Price FOx oo 1ak?> Cimnn icrvia >9 do W^ll CIO V.IHIV UWiiu UIIIIVIII wiavr [April. senses . ;^^^|||^| v-v] mTf^81 Wi itI WmBM ysterious AngeUque. entices fer) though, and they are tar outweighed by the movie's goou points. If one happens to consider nithpr nf thorn a mninr drawback. ne should take along earplugs and eyeshades to use%hen needed, for tn All T"1 l.'lkt T Antinaln iu uiiaa nil i ri^ jua4u ciiuiti^ would be the equivalent of committing a crime jjpinst oneself.