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Summer from page 9
A WEEK LATER, on June 20
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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
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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,
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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(
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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""'
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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^
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.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,
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, CLOSING THANKS
Today marks the 30th and final installment of Aesthetica for this
academic year. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the in*
dividuals at both the McKissick Museums and the Columbia Museums
> of Art and Science for their gracious assistance in providing
' background, photographs, catalogues, etc. Also the people in the Art
Department for their encouragement, criticism and discussion. And
1 Renee. for decoding my scribled copy.
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