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* A Cultural Ch . Local BY JOHN VAUGHAN Entertainment Editor It's easy to ignore a museum. Oh, not the physical building? one could hardly stroll down New York City's Fifth Avenue without gazing ga up ai tne sprawling ^ Metropolitan Museum of Art, and our own USC Horseshoe would not be the same without the crown of the beautiful McKissick structure. But it's easy to ignore the intrigue of a museum as one walks by, intent on the daily schedule. I would submit that an excellent change of pace? a "pit stop" in th. en lenaiineni rai race- is a visit to a museum. Two outstanding opportunities are present in the McKissick Museums on the USC Horseshoe and the Columbia Museums of Art and Science at the corner of Senate and Bull streets. Both museums strive to present culturally diverse special exhibits in addition to regularly scheduled 9 programs and displays. And the McKissick Museum often has presentations of special interest to the university community. Currently at the McKissick Museums is an USCGr * ''Best Li BY KELLY HEMP Staff Writer Behind the scenes of ev play, there are actors stagehands? and producer ^ the scenes of The Best Little w Texas is 1971 USC gra Champion. Champion, a theater maj< graduate school at the Dallas in Dallas after graduating f received a degree from the ce Costume Design and moved 1973. After moving to New Yc made her largely unsuccessl actress, working as an extr; soap operas as well as acting A off-Broadway plays. While 1 actress, she also held a job as an office. Following her acting del was given the job of associa "Black News," a minority which was broadcast on television stateion WNEW. She joined CBS a few y assistant director to Intern; Relations. Champion then current job as associate Universal Studios, and is producer of The Best Little Texas. According to Champion, t with "polictical hypocrisy.' that u/nrks " said "a I leaves the show happy." She ange Of Pace I Muse The beaut extensive exhibit of Catawba pottery, which has brought together some of the finest examples of pottery made by the Catawba Indians living in York County. Most of the pieces on exhibit have never U - - 1 xi. _ - ' ucen : ,sM uy me general public and many date into tiie 19th century. These 60 pieces of pottery were formed by the coil actuate Pre ittle Whore IICK "it's nice to be successful." unampion sa ery successful strong possibil >, actresses, production. Ho s. And behind a producer, nol Whorehouse in she said, "but 1 duate Bonnie a salary." Cha production of or, enrolled in play that is be Theater Center Universal, rom USC. She the.play is ? mter in Set and closing of a Te to New York in in operation fc bordello had n >rk, Champion and had serv rul debut as an townspeople a on television politicians. [ in various off- Then a telev working as an and immediate ; a secretary in it. The townsjx supported it fo >ut, Champion the crusade's si te producer of The Best Litt news special, opened off-Bro; New York's months before rears later as ational Artists London for six went to her released this s producer at will star Burt R i the official Whorehouse in Tickets for tl Township Aud he play deals $17 and $14. A< ' "It's a play the Kitani Foui nd everybody play in Colui also said that available at th< ture 1 mmTmmm^ B?rtH!|^TjMHM ~ | L!I |te i ? iful McKissick Museums I method, which means they were made without a potter's wheel. They were then fired in open pits, without the use of a brick kiln. Because Catawba pottery was first produced long before the European settlement of South Carolina, this art form remains the state's oldest. Less than two weeks remain in the exhibit's run, >duces ihouse' involved in something that is iid her future plans include a ity of getting involved in film wever, her role will be that of t an actress. "I miss acting," ['m too accustomed to having mpion is now involved in the Nuts, an off-off Broadway ing developed into a film by about a historic event? the xas bordello which had been >r more than 150 years. The ever created any problems ed both the needs of the and several prominent ision journalist discovered it ;ly began a crusade against ?ople and the politicians who r so many years now joined ide. le Whorehouse in Texas first adway in 1978 and ran for two oemg movea 10 Broaaway. In 1981, the play ran in ; months. The film will be ummer from Universal and Leynolds and Dolly Parton. he play , which will be in the itorium Feb. 17-18, are $19, ccording to Mark Tucker, of ndation who is sponsoring the nbia, good seats are still > Township. Frit ZOCkl MT I /?i* 1 Ufta A - . wp***. p. 2 11^ |^9 toiiyfcn'Ti WBSMk aBBL^, r milding overlooks the US as it is scheduled to close Feb. 24. Feb. 20 will mark thew opening of a new exhibit, entitled, "The Photographer's Hand." Featured will be 35 handworked photographs by 16 artists from across the U.S. Although the practice of hand-manipulated photographic images is not a recent Single BY PETE O'BRIEN Staff Writer The twelve-inch single, formerly used only by disc jockeys in discos, is making its apperance more frequently on the shelves of record stores. Although more exDensive than the traditional seven-inch with the big hole in the center, the sound quality is superior. Here are three of the better twelve-inch singles that have taken a ride on my turntable: "B-Movie" Gil ScottHeron (Arista) Scott-Heron is a poet musician with ten LP records and two books under his belt. His new single continues his concern for political affairs and especially those which affect black Americans. As he puts it, "I support everything I think is going to bring about something positive for black nf*nnlp " I 1?w* "B-Movie" takes on the Reagan Administration and apathy in America, among other things. The villins are "Ronald "Ray-gun," George "Commandante" Bush and "Attila the Haig." According to Scott-Heron, we the la UTrtlNh' Exl Staff Photo by C/ iC Horseshoe development artists are methods to expressive photography Techniques exhibition i coloring the ching, drawir on the neg explained in that accor sG( people, or a want a statesi a hero to ch heron conten< was the acto really wantec Duke was no! elected "Ray The artist accepting tha asked for a bl college cam posed to hi Right." To Reagan is ''Mad ison masterpiece/ in synthetic s< candy politicii Scott-Her withhold any when he hits His poetic ski at Johns Hopk where he Master's deg writer (his fi Vulture, was age 19, he pr< the medium thoughts. It is encour perfomer whi principles ai putting out ur music. In a Globe interv "The only t really contrib y OiT libit! I exhibit, improvi and at t the bizai McKissi' Later McKissi scrimsh animatu Jan Mi judged e works ir fourth ai Apr. 25. Febru at the ( with twc ' 1 Iwitnin i more o following Sunday day for Awards features artists, awarded Distincti Jerald IV exhibitio PEKS HAMMOND Museum Feb. li to view contemporary entitled, creating new Glass: F increase the and the potential of The 65 tempora shown in this all over nclude hand- bieing ci print, scrat- by WAA1 g and painting Associat atives. These funded, the catalogue National npanies the Arts in W i in Api udience, don't are the nan? we want struct ai eer for. Scott- thatyoui Is John Wayne '/president we "This , but since the Clash (E available, we In the gun." Clash I has difficulty records, : "the man who stayed c oodbath on our do what mses is sup- want to Dudley Do- producti Scott-Heron, unconve merely a least. Avenue reluctan The ultimate S,?mPa" lling/ A cotton P n .. band tha creative >n doesn't Many punches, and fortunate he hits hard, the two lis were honed Clash di ins University, York Cit earned his surprises ree. A gifted opening rst book, The were hi published at riach ? ;fers music as bands 1 to convey his Gang am The m aging to see a crowd v > sticks to his about th< id insists on openers, compromising their dis recent Boston empty ci ew, he said, screamii ling you can was a p ite (tosociety) j UllS "lend the works an satory character imes an element of re," according to a 2k brochure. in the semester, :k will feature a aw exhibit, an >n exhibit by USC's Isapps, the annual ixhibition of student i all media and the inual Open House on ary is a busy month Columbia Museums, > exhibitions closing he week and two pening during the * week of Feb. 21. /, Feb. 14 is the final the Guilds Juried exhibition, which works by eight The artists were ten Certificates of on last year by Ielberg, curator of ns at the Mint in n.c. ) will be the last day a special display "New American 'ocus West Virginia Glass Art Society." works by conry glass artists from the country are rculated nationlally M, The Art Museum ion and has been in part, by the Endowment of the Washington, D C. peal ideas that you eonround the principles r life consists of." Is Radio Clash" The Ipic) four years that the has been cutting one thing has onstant: these guys ever the hell they >. Their short but ve career has been ntional to say the Because of its ce to yield to record y demands, the ands out as a unique ,t answers only to its conscience. people who were i enough to ca'ch weeks of shows the d at Bond's in New y last summer were & at the sound of the acts. The bands md-picked by the md included rap like the Sugarhill d F\mkapolitan. lostly punk-oriented /asn't exactly wild e funkv sound of the The people displyed pleasure by hurling jps at the stage and rig obscenities. It >retty contradictory s??e SINCII/KS. patfc K