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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
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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.
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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:
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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
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>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
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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
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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.,,
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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.
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'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.
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get in for $
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Women's Apt
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fill Women adrr
All Vodka Drinks $1.
Beer~?.70 (except IT1
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ITIonday & 1
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?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
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