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Summer from page 9 A WEEK LATER, on June 20 aU~ u:- ? ruined uic uig u?e; a ne t,mpire Strikes Back. For the Star War; fans who can't wait until June, the further adventures of Lukt Skywalker, Princess Leia, Har Solo, R2D2 and C3PO will open in i handful of cities (the nearest o which is Charlotte) on May 21. After you've seen it, you car gorge yourself on the other film; that have been put in the uneviabU position of opening on the sam< day. They include: Roughcut starring Burt Reynolds anc Lesley-Anne Down; Urbcir Cowboy, a country western ver sion of Saturday Night Fever tha stars John Travolta; Fame directed by Alan Parker; Roadie starring Blondie, Meat Loaf, Alic( Cooper and Art Carney ; Brubaker Stuart Rosenberg's prison drairu starring Robert Redford; The Bit Red One, Sam Fuller's eagerlj awaited war movie; Can't StopTfu Music, Allan Carr's $20 millior musical starring the Village People and Valerie Perrine; anc The Blues Brothers, John Landis comedy with music that stars Dar \ /-* \r i ? /J T I* ?? Ti av.i\iu^uctiiu<;uiin otruibiu. YOU CAN CELEBRATE In dependence Day by seeing Up The Academy, the first film from the publishers of Mad magazine, anc on July 11 you can see How To Beat The High Cost Of Living. The latter comedy stars a trio of lovely ladies (Susan St. James, Jessica Lange and .Jane Curtin) and word has it that it's going to be one of the summer's biggest hits. Brian DePalma, the director who gave you Carrie, returns on July 25 with Dressed To Kill, starring Michael Caine and Angie Dickenson. Designed as an homage to Alfred Hitchcock, rpl i a Klfi ennrnop Kot?/\ J a vnuuiv ovui I1CI V C UUSLI JUt^U the picture as 1980s Psycho. ALSO ON TAP for July are: The Blue Lagoon, Randal Kleiser's steamy south seas romance starring Brooke Shields; Airplane a parody of disaster movies; Th? Mountain Men, a western starring Charleton Heston; Tulips, c romantic comedy starring Gab( \r 1 ? ? ^ - ? i\apnn ana tsernadette Peters; anc The Final Countdown, a thrillei that blends science fiction anc science fact in a story about whal might have happened had a nuclear warship been present at PoQri i""' * nuinai wi in i:rii. On August 8 and every day thereafter for week or two, I'll be in whatever theater is lucky enough to book Xanadu. It's a big budget musical that features the music of the Electric Light Orchestra and, more importantly, stars Oliva Newton-John. Be still my heart. One of my other favorites, Sally Field, will be back in the passenger's seat of Burt Reynold's black Trans Am on August 15. Smokey and the Bandit II is the first sequel in which every major cast member (Field, Reynolds, Jackie Gleason, Jerry Reed, Mike Henry, Pat McCormick and Paul Williams) will return. Also along for the ride in Smokev II is nnm DeLuise who plays, if you can believe this, an elephant's gynecologist. OTHER BKi Al'(iL'ST releases include: Caddyshack, an 18-hole comedy starring Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, Ted Knightand Rodney Dangerfield; The Hunter, a drama starring Steve McQueen; Used Cars, a comedy about dirty dealings on a used car lot 'Honeysuckle Rose, starring Willie Nelson; The Fiendish Plot oJ Fu Manchu, starring my favorite comedian. Peter Sellers; Middle Afje Crazy, a comedy starring Bruce Dern and Ann- Margret ; and the revised version of Spielberg's Close Encounters of a Third Kind, which features 2( minutes of footage not in the original. From a l ist of films this length) and this promising, it's difficult t( pi'edict which ones will become hits, but I shall endeavor to do so, just the same. Wholly Moses, Xanadu, Smokey II. Dressed To Kill. How To Heat The High Cost 0J Living, The Empire Strikes Back, Heart Heat, and Caddyshaek look like winners^ ? Reviews from page 8 AV nu AU;I\t/' II/I? A rum i\ ( \;i^i i.irvn ;i v iiiiJi .t If I remember right, it was surrealist painter Paul Klee that once r stated it took him 30 years to learn to draw like a child. Although such a ?' statement may sound absurd at first reading, what Klee was implying is j that through the collective years of education and life experience, it was i impossible to approach art with the naive confidence of a child. When i Klee first attempted to assimilate childhood gesture into his art, there f must have been a resounding air of self-consciousness; for in effect, spontaneity had been motified by knowledge, resulting in a pretentious ! facsimile of the original impulse. 5 ON THE COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION CONVENTION 3 Perhaps the most striking impression (from the convention) is one of j image. Art, or at least the teaching of it, is now a three-vested affair. Gone forever is even the slightest hint of the Bohemian. Gone are the i artists that linger over those fatal glasses of beer in passionate debate; i gone, in fact, is passion itself. Like everything else, art is business, debate is scholarly papers, passion is reduced to structural t pragmatism, and image and hype are the way of the world. C'est la vie ....vr, 1 ~ ? Al 1 ~ , uu w<ia vuc ui uic lasi tu juui nit: paiciut. , CLOSING THANKS Today marks the 30th and final installment of Aesthetica for this academic year. 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