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HHf L r Wr \ ' -x ^y^.. ". ^ s , ?J Vl 'Can't st big on s< uy uaviu uatvur Film Critic The characters in Nanc (Rhoda's mom) Walker's Car Stop the Music all eat Baski Robbins ice cream, drink D Pepper, wear Lacoste shirts ai work out on AMF equipment at t YMCA. This should come as no surpri to anyone, lor the film's c vertising campaign features tie-i with each and every one of the companies, plus the Arth Murray Dance Studios, t American Dairy Associatic Bruce Jenner sportswear, t FJeischmann Distilling Compar Pinnacle Books, GAP Viewmast< Rich's, Gimbel's and, of cours ^ o r? o l-v 1 r\ m ? r\ r> ? ? y* J ? - vaadUidllCcl rvtTUI US, Willi distributes the soundtrack. When the movie ends, the view feels as if he's just seen two hou of commercials without a shred entertainment interspersed b< ween them. Thp pacf fr?r \A7 nll/nr 11 A *<V/ 1 V/i 7 T U1IW1 d 1 producer-writer-egomaniac All; Carr have assembled for this $ million fiasco includes Valei Perrine as a famous model wh( tired of being seen on billboan Steve Guttenberg as an aspiri composer who waters Perrirn plants while she's away, Bru Jenner (the Olympic go! medalist) as a klutzy midweste 'Lillie' so In turn-of-the-century London to wagging faster than a juicy s like mad when Lillie Langtry, ; girl, marked her arrival in L affair with the heir to the thr beginning. Lillie went on to do e for tl next fifty years includin that no woman had dared to do b Just how this single-minded i fVto ii lat*emr f SKr " ok/ tuv/ av>i o^jr uaij , w^iit aui shocking even the "swingers" o in "Lillie," the new Masterp beginning Sunday, June 29 at 9 35. Lillie's beauty and wit m celebrity and she quickly re, tr?n?l;ifrvl into mnnov Th*? daughter, played by Francesci funded \a part series, became U endorse a commercial produi Company paid Lillie for a serie Next week: Workshop's ' 1 llliliili^>'', * ." V"" ^ xl % " <\| | .X'.. $ v ?S>\ %x \\ \.^ ' '' , ' X ' V-.- X ?'" S* " 'N--. 5 " \ ^ v, -. | *0:;^v- > -..y x ' < SSvjSSlSjii'ljiH'SSSSIiHwMJjjix 7/age People enjoy a Valerie Perrine c top the ma Bxism and lawyer, and the Village People (Randy Jones, Glenn Hugnes, Ray Simpson, Alex Briley, Felipe Rose and David Hodo) as themselves. Each cast member is wooden, )r each is bland (save for Hodo), and \ none gives the slightest indication j of having any acting talent. Most are downright annoying, especially Perrine, with her icj fingernails-across-the-b'ackboard vnifp nnH rintfonhoiM mlint-n IIS ~ ' """ v.vv^.1^^4 f,, YY HUiJt >se UI 'When the movie ends, the *le viewer feels as if he's just in, he seen two hours of comiy, mercia/s without a shred of ?r, entertainment ..' ;e, r* h sweeping hand gestures would put er even Sarah Bernhardt to shame, rs The Village People do little mofe of than sing and swish. it- The film attempts to tell the story of how the Village People got lcl together, but there are so many an sub-plots and fantasy sequences ;20 that the main story line gets lost. >ie Walker's infatuation with split)'s screens and multiple images (at is, one point in the "YMCA" number, ng we're seeing 32 pieces of action ,?n cimnHanoniicUr^ Hnncn't - a U....U.VUI1VUMU1J / UUVOII L HVip ce matters either. Id- Most of the film's production >rn numbers are either ineptly staged andalizes sc i, nothing set tongues ads bearing her fa candal. They wagged statements such a a dazzling "country" I prefer Pears' 1 ondon by having an scandalized, one. It was only the When Lillie, w xactly as she pleased dependence, embs g a number of things surprised harder >efore. business sense. 5 >iren, quickly dubbed special train to ta nit shaking up and No mere actress h f her day, will be told But Lillie was i )iece Theatre series London Weekem on S C. ETV channel strates. She learn< to do so when she ade her an instant had ever smoked i alized that celebrity career, Lillie we fiery clergyman's teristically big wi a Annis in the Mobil- on a single race, le first woman ever to The Prince of Wal ct. The Pears' Soap Jockey Club for ;s of endorsements ? woman had crosse Theatre reviet Yhe Hobbit' T"~ mmmmmmmt A ?Pi -Jm ocktail. 9 SIC ? confetti or photographed from the worst possible angles, but "YMCA" and "Milk Shake" both have some nice iiiuiuems ana me nnale, "Can t Stop the Music," is quite exciting, though it could have benefitted from having less confetti tossed at the camera lens. The screenplay, by Carr and Bronte Woodard, presents us with the silliest dialogue since Skatetown, U.S.A., and its treatment of women is deplorable. With the exception of Perrine, every woman in the cast is there to be slapped around, taken to bed, insulted, or a combination of all three. Caution should be exercised by parents who want to take small children to see the movie. It's rated PG, but there is frontal: nudity in a shower sequence. Therej are also gay overtones in many scenes, though the picture is ' hardly the two-hour homosexual expose that advance word had indicated. In any event, Can't Stop the Music can forget about its claim to being "the movie musical event of the '80s." The best it can hope for is to be a Battlestar Galactica to the Star Wars and Close Encounters of Xanadu and Fame. * "iety mous profile and a signature under s: "For the hands and complexion, to any other." High society was ith characteristic drive and inirked on a career as an actress, she led producers with her shrewd She made headlines by hiring a ke her from Edinburgh to London, ad ever done that before. 10 ordinary woman, as this lavish i Television production demoned to smoke on stage and continued ! was off stage. F"ew if any women n public before. At the height of her nt into horseracing in a charac.,, Cli/i nnnn .v,tl jjr. one uutc uci UIU1C Uldll ?I)U,UWI Her horse won ? at odds of 8 to 1. es himself led her into the hallowed a celebration ? the first time a ?d the threshold. JUS 'i> ?! ?I M IK II?IMMil MMB?W | Spotti* 'Pygmalion' ope George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, I Eliza Doolittle who is transformed into ; the 1980 USC Summer Repertory Theatre About 15 actors and actresses from acr in the annual series of four plays sponsoi Theatre and Speech through Aug. 3 at L Performances will run Wednesdays thr< days at 3. Pygmalion is the tale of Professor Englishman who wagers with a friend th seller on a London street corner, and s graceful and charming English lady fit fc drills and etiquette lessons later, the trar surprise, Higgins' simple Cockney girl thinker as a result of his coaching. Pygmalion made its premier in Engla made into the well-known musical, My such as "Just You Wait, 'Enry 'Iggins," 1 Can't the English" were developed froi musical version. Shaw's play was based on the Greek m in love with a statue of a woman he creaU for a real wife like his statue, his creatic it. Admission is $3.50 for the public, $2.! military and senior citizens and $1.50 f available at the Longstreet box office b beginning June 2. For reservations, call 2! Schubert, ice crea The Charleston Symphony string quar concert at 6:30 this Sunday on the USC music will be performed by the four < music faculty members in the Colle Department. The ensemble recently con the Dock Street Theatre, presenting Schubert and Mozart in concert. , Violinist Sarah Johnson is assistant cc Symphony and has performed with the SI the Orpheus and Omega ensembles ol principal second violin of the Charleston the Collegium Musicum de Geneva Chai and the Kio Grande String Quartet in Bra On viola will be Mark Cedel, who p< string quartet of the Universidade Fedei Natal, Brazil. He has studied and perfor received his music degree from the Curti : Carol Beyer on cell received a master lias performed with the Columbia Philha and the Cleveland Philharmonic orchest in the Charloston nrr*hf?ctr;a The Charleston quartet performance offered by the USC Summer Cultural i keeping with the theme of the series, ici sold at the performances. Audiences sh ^chairs for seating. i \ w i / I restaurant I I 1928 Rosewoi I Wed.-Sc I "Acpii II m LJ ? ? - viict IIIIUIII^III. IlLXppi I plus Students witl get in for $ | Thursdo Women's Apt Nigfc fill Women adrr All Vodka Drinks $1. Beer~?.70 (except IT1 NO COVER I ITIonday & 1 3hts ) i ? ?ns tonight j the story of the Cockney girl a cultured British lady, opens season at 8 tonight. oss America are participating red by the USC Department of ongstreet Theatre on campus, ough Saturdays at 8 and SunHenry Higgins, a well-to-do at he can take Eliza, a floweruccessfully change her into a ?r high society. Many language isformation is complete. To his also becomes an independent nd in 1914 and eventually was Fair Lady. Memorable lines 'The Rain in Spain" and "Why t) the play into lyrics for the yth about the sculptor who fell ?d. When he prayed to the gods >n came to life and he married 50 for USC faculty and staff, or USC students. Tickets are etween noon and 5 weekdays 551. j m, lemonade j tet will present a free outdoor Horseshoe. A program of light orchestra musicians, who are ige of Charleston Fine Arts lpleted its first season series at works by Haydn, Brahms, mcertmaster of the Charleston I. Paul Chamber Orchestra and F New York. Reinaldo Couto, orchestra, has performed with nber Orchestra in Switzerland zil. srformed one season with the rale do Rio Grande do Norte in med in Philadelphia, where he s Institute of Music. ?4~-. r * to/-. i wi iuusiL ul'j^i ec i rum ana rmonic, Columbia Lyric Opera ras. She is the principal cellist is the second of three events Series, "Musical Flavors." In 2 cream and lemonade will be ould bring blankets or folding, / y lounge od Drive lla" \ Hour on Wed. i o< valid ID l.OO y ?reciation it litted FREE I 25 Domestic J \ o ro i i i.n. ! i cx inick liqnt^) CHARGE uesday