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F^n+-.G3>r^t~ I I W V?0 B v. cy??thetic oyms 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 v * "illBI "l*v& $4 &\5> "\ i; PS IM&lili WMW?WMM8S8 sj & V 8$s .> " ^^MIH % v ; .. x - bh^S#^ ^liiillll^ - illlll illlf.:^ " " /""1W1 Sit .JHI ^jl Dealers' Choice is featui nhin/itx nnH Hmzinnnrz ' ft Redf< By David Bake Film Critic "Ordinary People" is a ordinary movie. In the SepU "New York, "David Denby though hardly enthusiastic the film "Robert Redfon That's an oversimplificatio disservice both to it and t< 1978 venture into austeri pictures deal with the disii uDDer-class WasD family. K~ I" m v movies are as different as tl "Interiors" primarily < with the matriarch of a York family (Geraldine Pa nominating performance) 'Redford has dir attention to detai People" is his d anyone's first fiin when her husband of 30 yet for another, more vi (Maureen Stapleton, a nominee). Every characte woman, was frustrated at tl and grew more so until the in the depths of depression, the murky, churning oc family estate. It was unrelentingly pessimistic f the viewer's nerves and nc a small amount of solace. Hedford's movie is equal but in the end, is an immen When the viewer leaves t shaken and unsettled, but having had the opportunity wistful and moving experu "Ordinary People is s Illinois, an exceedingly a Chicago where husbands each other with little mor the cheek, and greet their cool pleasantness that ke but simultaneously warr their respective distances. The residents of themselves with afternoo club, evenings at dull pa During the early part of th ;ainmer a xrk^chevalicr collection of antiques, art objects and classical and contemporary designers' furniture. Currently 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 Uoll n ollnriac V/iiai huii nan uunu iv-3, George Hartness of One Thousand Gervais. Ed i?/"1 > H WMmmim H **% ^IHHK -' ^mUSH r* *"-r ~ ^ I^^SgB^^HllliiiilWIiM BiRSB88KBw@|^S|^^E red at Columbia Museums ? trniturf* Drd's f: ?r couples tak "Same Tim nything but an bored party ;mber 29 issue of singing,"Wh , in a repectful, even has : review, called presumably i's Interiors." bv includi in, which does a suburbanite o Woody Allen's formance, 1 ty. While both the fact tha ntegration of an iove affair the tones of the appearance le sun and moon. Appearan concerned itself Hfe in Lake prosperous New jn the to ige in an Oscar- manicured, who falls apart been polish) acted with such st / that no one could gi ebut as a director. , 1. irs abandons her every napk brant woman slid into its lso an Oscar can be wY r, save the other picture, in tie movie's outset unexpected Page character, always call , cast herself into The epitt ean outside the Jarrett fan a brilliant, but is a tax att ilm that wrecked in YSL sui iver offered even Moore), is you'd wan! ly nerve-racking, (Timothy I sely hopeful film. Lake Fores he theatre, he is The Jar also grateful for connect," r to endure such a months be jnce. story, the it in I^ke Forest, their oldes ffluent suburb of Beth'ssole and wives greet Buck die e than a peck on cident wh nieghbors with a Unfortunat >ps them friendly, with Buck' is them to keep icy reacts tempted j e Forest amuse Conrad ha ns at the country month sta rties and theater. trouble gel le film, we see two at school, itjflHHHHHI \lmiT JL 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 V'*' *** g??gg?S3K^ " : : ; " '*; 1 - ' . ' and includes antiques, art ilm *w inu in n lrval nrnrliirtinn nf k'"o r ? ? e, Next Year," and a group of goers huddled around a piano lat I Did For Love." One family a dog named "Pippen," after the show of that name, ing a shot of one of our cultured s falling asleep during a perlowever, Bedford clues us in tc it a great deal of Lake Forest's with the theater is merely for t, sake. ices are the be-all and end-all ol Forest. It seems that every lawr wn has been immaculatelj every stick of furniture has ed to a deep, glowing shine, anc y/e and with such uess that "Ordinary It doesn't look tike in has been carefully rolled an< own sterling silver ring so that i lipped out, like a recent bab; the event that company arrive lly. But, of course, these peopl before they visit. >me of Lake Forest living is th lily. Calvin (Donald Sutherland orney who commutes to Chicag its. His wife, Beth (Mary Tyle as outwardly cheerful as anyon t to meet, and their son, Conra iutton), is a straight-A student s >t High. retts, however, simply "don in the words or uonraa. a ie1 sfore the movie picks up thei Jarretts suffer the death ( it son, Buck, a star athlete an reason for living. id in a storm-related sailing a< ich Conrad somehow survive* tely, Conrad equated his survive s demise. That, along with Beth ans toward him, caused his s juicide. As the picture open s just been released from a fou y in the hospital and is havir tting back into the swing of thinf both in his classes and on tl exhibi dazzling display of styles and materials. Although I feel a bit restrained due to association, I think I 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. I Musical By Michelle Bazemore Staff Wrtiar "The Robber i Bridegroom" opens October 13th through 19th at Drayton Hall Theater. Produced by the University > Department of Theatre and ) Speech, this lively country| western musical has received eight Drama Desk Awards, and two Tony | nominations for best actor and actress in a musical. I Robber Bridegroom "was adapted from a novella by Eudora Welty. The book and lyrics are oy Aiirea unry, 4 the music by Robert Waldeman. istf ul, i school's swimming team. Life at home is even mo Conrad, as it's becoming in< parent to him that Buck's dc its toll on his parents' mar Beth and Conrad bump into ea I halls, and sit down to dinn without being able to strike ? remnants of a conversatic ? together is dried-up, emotionl only Conrad is able to predicament. r i Eventually, the pressures ' point where Conrad takes it i ? seek the help of a psychiatri I (Judd Hirsch). The remainc details Conrad's rocky reti health,and Calvin and Beth's journey toward coping with anguish. Not one line of dialogue "Ordinary People." Many o j presented are almost pain t especially those where Cal v treat Conrad as if he was mat s couple is almost afraid to s| for fear that their words v strued and alienate hin Kedford has directed with with such attention to dete r e d 'Moore's performt near the forefront u _________________ I "?? w could guess that "Ordinary ir debut as a director. It do anyone's first film. Like d Bedford seems to have beei Ingmar Bergman. He uses s Bergmanesque dolly shots 3 through doorways into room *1 is taking place, but Kedf 's subjects with more compasi t- and Bergman combined. s, r* Bedford has also been tri choice of actors. Sutherlar 5s Hirsch's Berger are never 1 vincing, and Hutton, in his ( ts sho Another exhibition of note s a group show by USC students involving ceramics and fibers. This show is at iie 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 a more than acceptable 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 "Fiberamics," features work by numerous USC graduate students, many who exhibit not only schedul 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 in the Mississippi backHIAA/lc VY VAAIO . 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 movin extraordinary e hellish for who creates reasingly ap- moving chara ith has taken iaee. Calvin, You mav r :h other in the Moore's lonj ;r each night Gordy the we; up even the TV for greene i. Their life telling his f< ?ss, dead. And celebrities he realize their job. One celel was so star-s his name thai build to the and she was u pon himself to has been give ?t, Dr. Berger idol, she has i er of the film that is so obvi rn to mental may noi even even bumpier Moore's Be lis intellectual the House anc anyone or a fortable life rings false in emotional pi the situations telling scene ully realistic, one in which ( /in and Beth of Beth and C le of glass. The sweep over eak to Conrad cringes and u a photograph ill be misconeven further. Along with asks if she s such style and I've always il that no one easily could |nee in "Ordinary P of modern America! People" is his Beth has i< sn't look like veins. Kedi Woody Allen, us Beth's si influenced by Beth is just sveral of those bitch-godde that take us Queen in Sn< > where action >rd treats his Coupled v ion than Allen the embitt Broadway's earlier this imphant in his "Ordinary i's Calvin and forefront o; less than con- She is truly mature debut, is whole. I I;. ' / - _ r.. ' I i i f j wn 1 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 the lovely heroine 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. id' as Conrad. Still, it is Moore the most memorable and cterization in the film. i ecall that in one episode of '-running television series, itherman, who had left WJMr pastures, returned for a visit >rmer colleagues about the i had interviewed in his new ma D ^*4 nn/1 Mami Ul liy W(ta UCUIUIU, anu inai jr truck at the mere mention of t her jaw dropped four inches nable to speak. Now that Mary n the chance to work with her esponded with a performance ously of Oscar-caliber that she be nominated. th is the undisputed Queen of 1 she can't stand the thought of nything disturbing her comstyle, including her son's -oblems. Possibly the most in "Ordinary People" is the Calvin decides to take a picture "onrad. A polar wind seems to the viewer as Beth flinches, ltimately refuses to allow such to be taken. Beth's reply to Calvin when he mi i ?? u:? /in f??i nil iuvcs nun v i icvi uic wa\ felt about you"), this scene give one the impression that 'eople" places her 7 actresses.' :e water flowing through her ord, however, fleetingly shows after side so we leave knowing a person unable to cope, not a ss along the lines of the Black , dw White. nth her outstanding portrayal of ered, paralyzed sculptress in i "Whose Life Is It, Anyway?" year, Moore's performance in People" places her near the f modern American actresses, remarkable, as is the film as a