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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.
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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
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disservice both to it and t<
1978 venture into austeri
pictures deal with the disii
uDDer-class WasD family.
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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
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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
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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
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who falls apart been polish)
acted with such st
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ebut as a director. ,
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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
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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
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ns at the country month sta
rties and theater. trouble gel
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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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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.
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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
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d 'Moore's performt
near the forefront
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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
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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.
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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
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
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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
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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