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WaL ?c "* m^H Wfe^, tg_ IS cjj H 1 W 1 | p?.^^?jjBBB Moon Pie is touring the Southeast promoting i *" "? * IU Il<tl U nines. 'Reds' Revii BY DOUG BELL Film Critic ____ Historical spectacles have been "out" in recent years, which is a mixed blessing. While a good one offers the viewer a sweep and grandeur possible in no other medium, there is nothing duller than a second-rate epic? whether its subject is Cleopatra or General MacArthur. Happily, Warren Beatty's Reds is first-rate. Reds recounts the short but lively career of activist reporter Jack Reed (Beatty), whose intense left-wing sympathies made him one of the most passionate journalists in those incredibly heady years surrounding World War I and the Russian Revolution. Though his achievements? he was a prime mover in organizing a Communist Party in America and wrote the famous Ten Days that Shook the World? are given good coverage, it is his whirlwind affair and marriage to Louise Bryant (Diane Keaton) that is clearly the subject of this script by Beatty and Trevor Griffiths. As Luise Bryant,Keaton represents the liberated woman of 1917: intelligent and aggressive on the surface with a quiver of uncertainty underneath. I can't imagine an actress more suited for the part. Bryant leaves her stiflingly respectable home in Portland, 'I Budweiser HKgffigH feature Friday Br. ^ BY PETE O'BRIEN y/ a The number of original flpfe* f- ' rock 'n' roll bands in South 9 8T S -jM| Carolina could be counted on ? ML ifll one hand. Moon Pie proves f JBeTI l" i i Bti on i*s self-produced, four 'M& i,v"/K m SOng JCjJf, welcome iu nuiu Times, that the group is at writing is clever, much like HaHBi^grElvis Costello without the f F| The outstanding cut has to ' m %-?? be "Two Girls in Love." > s Duncan keeps the listener $ IH- #>> "" guessing throughout the __UHI?MJb?ill song. Is he singing about two ts new EP, 'Welcome girls in love with their ^ - W W 0 M 9 alizes tiistoricc Ore. to live a bohemian lifestyle with Reed in New York's Greenwich Village, the nerve center of most left-wing activities. Through Reed, she becomes acquainted with the likes of revolutionary Emma Goldman (Maureen Stapleton) and playwright Eugene O'Neill (Jack Nicholson), with whom she has a brief affair. DesDite manv personal difficulties, she and Heed marry in time to cover the Russian Revolution and witness the almost immediate subversion of its purpose. Reds has just been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, and is being compared to the spectacles of David Lean (Lawrence of Arabia, Dr. Zhivago)? accurately so. It has the pictorial sprawl of those films plus unabashed emotionalism that is reminiscent of Gone With The Wind itself? just substitute "The Internationale" for Tara's theme. Some critics have gone so far as to compare Reds to Citizen Kane, which I feel is going a bit too far. Whereas Beatty perhaps has revitalized an old genre (the historical romance), Orson Welles almost revolutionized the medium itself. t Still, R eds does include some subtly expressive details and one particularly successful structural innovation: the historical drama is interspersed with present-tense close-ups of aged men and women who actually knew Reed and Bryant. I3hi - t) t Pie Stresses i . rri nanty LJn r,r boyfriends or two girls in is like unless we've ex love with each other? perienced it. 4\ * Duncan's guitar gets a The song does have some workout on "Masquerader," memorable moments the opening song on side two. though, especially in the The song is about bitchy, chorus: "You know it vilifies two-faced girlsandthe guitar us all/To see the young die in solo is a frenzied romp. the squall/But the writing's Duncan tries his hand at on the wall/But the killer social commentary on must fall." l J J "Down 10 me uraveyaru. He makes references to the I haven't had the opAtlanta murders and portunity to see Moon Pie Ireland's Maze prision live yet, but I'll have my hunger strikers. chance tonight at 9 p.m. in ( the Golden Spur. I've heard The song is a good attempt good things about their live at saying something act? many say they are as significant about the world good as, if not better than, we live in, but I have dif- the Killer Whales. They have ficulty believing what a been touring all over the South Carolinian says about Southeast in support of the life in Northern Ireland. We new EP, and it would be well Americans can never worth your while to cneck imagine what life over there them out tonight. i Z Spectacle v Their reminiscences provide an illuminating contrast to the drama and, if nothing else, intensify our interest in the charactersFor its intelligence, its warmth, and its sheer enjoyableness, a great deal of credit must go to director, cowriter and star Beatty. From a physical standpoint, Reds is enormously ambitious and the performances never flag. Though it doesn't quite achieve the period authenticity of, say Breaker Morant, it does successfully suggest the fermenting of political thought and activity that peaked during those years. Expectedly, it's long-running? the biggest part of three hours. 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