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Art, antiques, crafts,
fabrics and video are just a
few examples of the visual
stimulation gracing the halls
and walls of our local
museums. With the grueling
heat of summer behind us,
slip from the chill of October
winds for a bit of the glass
bead game. With such a
range of exhibits, you are
bound to find something
satisfying.
Dealers' Choice is a
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By David Baker
FHm Critic
"Ordinary People" is any(
ordinary movie. In the Septeml
"New York, "David Denby, ir
mougn narcuy entnusiastic r<
the film "Robert Redford's
That's an oversimplification, 1
disservice both to it and to
1978 venture into austerity,
pictures deal with the disintej
upper-class Wasp family, the
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muvies are as umereni as me s
"Interiors" primarily com
with the matriarch of a pro;
York family (Geraldine Page
nominating performance) wh
'Redford has direc
attention to detail ti
People" is his deb
anyone's first film.'
when her husband of 30 years i
for another, more vibra
(Maureen Stapleton, also
nominee). Every character, si
woman, was frustrated at the rr
and grew more so until the Paj
in the depths of depression, cas
the murky, churning ocean
familv pstatp It was a h
unrelentingly pessimistic film
the viewer's nerves and never
a small amount of solace.
Hedford's movie is equally n(
but in the end, is an immensely
When the viewer leaves the t
shaken and unsettled, but alsc
having had the opportunity to
wistful and moving experience.
"Ordinary People" is set in
Illinois, an exceedingly afflue
Chicago where husbands and
each other with little more th,
the cheek, and greet their nieg
cool pleasantness that keeps tl
but simultaneously warns thi
their respective distances.
The residents of L?ke F<
themselves with afternoons al
club, evenings at dull parties
During the early part of the filr
ainmen
i
rk^chevalicr
collection of antiques, art
objects and classical and
contemporary designers'
0 A ^
iurnuure. uurrenuy on
display at Columbia
Museums, this exhibit
features the best that local
gallery collectors have
encountered over the years.
Contributing to this exhibit
are Charlton Hall of
Charlton Hall Galleries,
George Hartness of One
Thousand Gervais. Ed
"L ?r ?*i 1 ~ ISif
i at Columbia Museums ant
r iture.
>rd's fil
couples taking
"Same Time, I
Jiing but an bored partygoe
>er 29 issue of singing.4'What 1
i a repectful, even has a
?view, called presumably aft
Interiors." By including
which does a suburbanites fi
foody Allen's formance, how<
While both the fact that a
trafirtn e\( on
5.CHW.. w* a.t jove attair witl
tones of the appearance t, si
un and moon. Appearances
:erned itself fife in Lake For
sperous New in the town
in an Oscar- manicured, ev<
o falls apart been polished t<
ted with such style
hat no one could gue:
ut as a director It <
abandons her every napkin h
nt woman slid into its own
an Oscar can be whippc
ive the other picture, in the i
lovie's outset unexpectedly. 1
character, always call befc
it herself into The epitome
outside the Jarrett family,
rilliant, but is a tax attorne
that wrecked in YSL suits. !
offered even Moore), is as 01
you'd want to r
irve-racking, (Timothy Hutto
hopeful film. Lake Forest Hit
heatre, he is The Jarretts
i crmfofnl for ?' in fli
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indure such a months before
story, the Jan
l,ake Forest, their oldest sor
nt suburb of Beth's sole reas
wives greet Buck died in
an a peck on cident which (
[hbors with a Unfortunately, <
lem friendly, with Buck's den
tern to keep icy reactions t
tempted suicid
orest amuse Conrad has just
t the country month stay in
and theater. trouble getting I
n, we see two at school, both
New i
McLaurin of R.L. Bryan
Company and George
Walker of G. Walker
Gallery. Out of these four
come an array of beautiful
objects, ranging from a
porcelain Chinese fish bowl
to the sleek chaise longue of
Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe.
Dealers' Choice will continue
through Oct. 29.
The annual USC Faculty
Art Exhibit has opened at
McKissick, providing a
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1 includes antiques, art
lm 'wi
in a local production of
text Year," and a group of
rs huddled around a piano
I Did For Love." One family
dog named "Pippen,"
er the show of that name.
a shot of one of our cultured
ailing asleep during a perever,
Redford clues us in to
crreat deal of I^ikp Pnrost'c
1 the theater is merely for
ike.
are the be-all and end-all of
est. It seems that every lawn
has been immaculately
ery stick of furniture has
) a deep, glowing shine, and
i and with such
ss that "Ordinary
doesn't look like
as been carefully rolled and
sterling silver ring so that it
td out, like a recent baby
event that company arrives
3ut, of course, these people
>re they visit.
of Lake Forest living is the
Calvin (Donald Sutherland)
y who commutes to Chicago
lis wife, Beth (Mary Tyler
itwardJy cheerful as anyone
neet, and their son, Conrad
n), is a straight-A student at
>h. i
, however, simply "don't ie
words of Conrad. A few
the movie picks up their
*etts suffer the death of
i, Buck, a star athlete and
on for living.
a storm-related sailing acDonrad
somehow survived.
Conrad equated his survival
nise. That, along with Beth's
oward him, caused his etle.
As the picture opens,
t been released from a fourthe
hospital and is having
back into the swing of things
in his classes and on the
exhibi
dazzling display of styles
and materials Althnnoh t
feel a bit restrained due to
association, I think 1 can
objectively say this is one of
the finest faculty exhibits in
recent history. There is
clearly a Renaissance of
medium here, manifested in
a desire to combine and
redefine traditional and nontraditional
materials. The
effect is one of exciting
variation, whereby each
work is not only saying
something different, but also
being presented differently.
This exhibit, continuing
through Oct. 29, is clearly a
macrocosm of the experimentation
that is so
much a part of contemporary
art.
Musical
By Michelle Bazemore
Staff Writar
"The Robber
Bridegroom" opens
October 13th through 19th at
Drayton Hall Theater.
Produced by the University
Department of Theatre and
Speech, this lively countrywestern
musical has
received eight Drama Desk
Awards, and two Tony
nominations for best actor
and actress in a musical.
Robber Bridegroom "was
adapted from a novella by
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lyrics are by Alfred Uhry,
the music by Robert
Waldeman.
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school's swimming team.
Life at home is even mor
Conrad, as it's becoming inci
parent to him that Buck's dea
its toll on his parents' marr
Beth and Conrad bump into eac
halls, and sit down to dinne
without being able to strike
remnants of a conversation
together is dried-up, emotionle
only Conrad is able to i
predicament.
Eventually, the pressures
point where Conrad takes it up
seek the help of a psychiatrisl
(Judd Hirsch). The remainde
details Conrad's rocky retur
health,and Calvin and Beth's
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anguish.
Not one line of dialogue r
"Ordinary People." Many of I
presented are almost painfu
especially those where Calvi
treat Conrad as if he was made
couple is almost afraid to spe
for fear that their words wil
strued and alienate him <
Hedford has directed with si
with such attention to detail
'Moore's performsr
near the forefront o
could guess that "Ordinary P<
debut as a director. It doesi
an*mnn'c filwv* I I*
uiijuik; o ill kil Him. IjIAC VV
Bedford seems to have been ii
Ingmar Bergman. He uses sev
Bergmanesque dolly shots tl
through doorways into rooms i
is taking place, but Kedfon
subjects with more compassio
and Bergman combined.
Hedford has also been triunr
choice of actors. Sutherland';
Hirsch's Berger are never le
vincing, and Hutton, in his feai
ts she
Another exhibition of note
is a group show by USC
students involving ceramics
and fibers. This show is at
the Columbia Museums' new
Weekend Gallery, located in
the old depot behind the
museum on Bull Street. The
museum has gone all out to
revamp this space, creating
M AlAVi V. IrllCIll
showcase for regional artists.
The Weekend Gallery
is opened to any interested
artist, with information and
scheduling handled through
Nina Parris at the Columbia
Museum.
The current exhibition,
called 4'Fiberamics,"
features work by numerous
USC graduate students,
many who exhibit not only
schedu
Miss Welty is a born and
bred Southerner. She wrote a
few years ago, "Fairy tales
are not innocent. They have
been to the end of experience
and back." Her story is a
classic European - style
fairy story set incongruously
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Ill LUC mi5>S>ibt>ippi uaCKwoods.
In M "The Robber
Bridegroom , we have a
fairy story, a country
western musical, complete
with a wicked stepmother
planning to do in the lovely
heroine, a hero,bandit,
lover, and a whole town
chorus to sing and dance.
The bandit lover is played
novin
extraordinary
: ucuiaii iui wno creaies
easingly ap- moving chara<
th has taken
age. Calvin, You may r<
i other in the Moore's long
each night Gordy the we^
jp even the TV for greenei
Their life telling his fo
s, dead. And celebrities he
ealize their job. One celet
WOC CA oto
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his name that
Duild to the and she was ur
)n himself to has been giver
, Dr. Berger idol, she has r<
of the film that is so obvic
1 to mental may not event
ven bumpier Moore's Bet
i intellectual the House and
anyone or an
fortable lifes
tigs false in emotional pr<
le situations telling scene i
ly realistic, one in which C;
1 and Beth of Beth and C<
of glass. The sweep over tl
ik to Conrad cringes and ult
a photograph t
be misconven
further. Along with E
asks if she sti
ch style and I've always f
that no one easily could g
ce in "Ordinary Pt
f modern American
ople" is his Beth has ice
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,wn> 11 ^ veins, neaior
x>dy Allen, us Beth's sof
ifluenced by Beth is just a
Tal of those bitch-goddess
at take us Queen in Snov
/here action
treats his Coupled wit
i than Allen the embitter
Broadway's 4
earlier this y
phant in his "Ordinary P
Calvin and forefront of
>s than con- She is truly n
ure debut, is whole.
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regionally, but nationally.
"Fiberamics" will continue
through the next two '
weekends. A closing
reception is scheduled for
Oct. 18, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
and the public is invited.
For those of you who like a
bit of movement in your art,
the 6th Annual Ithaca Video
Festival has opened at
McKissick. This festival
features 20 tapes, selected
from the yearly competition
that draws hundreds of
entries. Continuous
showings are presented
daily. Look for review and
specific times next week in
Aesthetica. A word of
warning - this ain't the stuff
TV is made of.
led
by Richard Rottschaefer, a
talented new face at USC.
The bandit woos and wins
4 l? A 1 1 -- i- -
Luc iuveiy neroine
Rosamund, played by Lori
Pierce, the southern-belle
daughter of a rich planter.
Salome is the wicked
stepmother who plans to kill
sweet Rosamund,and Susan
Reeves, a USC graduate
student, is funny and admirable
in the part. All the
while evil Salome plots
against innocent Rosamund,
her father, Clemment
Musgrove, showers his affections
on his daughter and
tries to arrange her
marriage to handsome
Jamie Lockhart.
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as Conrad. Still, it is Moore
the most memorable and
:terization in the film.
ecall that in one episode of
-running television series,
ttherman, who had left WJM
pastures, returned for a visit
rmer colleagues about the
had interviewed in his new
>rity was Redford, and Mary
ruck at the mere mention of
ner jaw dropped four inches
lable to speak. Now that Mary
I the chance to work with her
esponded with a performance
msly of Oscar-caliber that she
>e nominated.
h is the undisputed Queen of
she can't stand the thought of
ything disturbing her comtyle,
including her son's
)blems. Possibly the most
in "Ordinary People" is the
alvin decides to take a picture
rnrad. A polar wind seems to
le viewer as Beth flinches,
timately refuses to allow such
0 be taken.
leth's reply to Calvin when he
II loves him ("I feel the way
elt about you"), this scene
[ive one the impression that
tople" places her
actresses.'
' water flowing through her
*d, however, fleetingly shows
ter side so we leave knowing
1 person unable to cope, not a
along the lines of the Black ,
v White.
h her outstanding portrayal of
ed, paralyzed sculptress in
'WhoSP IJfp Tk It An\m/nv'>"
. "V ' "J
ear, Moore's performance in
eople" places her near the
modern American actresses,
emarkable, as is the film as a