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_entertainm PjPfi^Hpfe^irfBfc wtAt^UkM wau? WUM giw/JUK popular appeal, >?o?cert mttftoiraa!^ organizattoas. > The Sp<mg^<m<shav? developed wt a cult foHowfcjfcift the i&aflottear &tt<m tft old^jtevorites J^ th^ Beal groupe have wonpraisefromlargeau &v >Y^?\Vv'.<->-' &< & <hv^>xs^ '::'v': %*.=\vV '% group has performedoi&ce refcuraed to the city several times topi Hie Heartfixers are led by "Chicag has perform**! with such trnmm blu Waters and John Lee Hooker. The blues, both in an upbeat urban style a slow mode. The Ballroom doors will open at B p beginning at? p.m. Admission is $4 fo and $3 fori JSC students. Film hotc cum I All 11 MUIU OlIUI By Ooug Bell w To the average moviegoer, the name Frances Farmer will probably ring no bells. Her star shone only for a brief period in the mid-1930s. She had great potential; indeed, the great director Howard Hawks (who later discovered Lauren Bacall) said Farmer was the best actress he'd ever worked with. Only an incurable, dyed-in-the-wool film buff ? and I am admittedly one ? is likely to have seen Farmer. In my habitual late night channel switching, I've managed to catch two of her films. IN "TOAST of New York" (1937), Farmer was merely an ornament for the masculine manipulation of Cary Grant and Edward Arnold. But in Hawks' "Come and Get It" (1936), reportedly her best film, she revealed an astonishing combination of vitality, wit and beauty. A handful of movies, together with a few fruitful years on Broadway with Clifford Odet's famous Group Theater, constituted her entire career. If her spotty professional achievements have crown dim with the years, her tempestuous and tragic personal life has attracted the attention of those devotees of lurid Tinseltown tragedies. According to all accounts (including her own), Farmer was willful, heretical, foul-mouthed, violent and alcoholic. She was committed to several mental institutions by a mother she hated, and finally lobotomized. IT WAS inevitable that Hollywood, with its usual custom of digging up the bones it helped to scar and bury, would seize on Farmer's story sooner or later. Susan Blakely will soon be seen as the troubled actress in a CBS TV movie. And now Jessica Lange has rpppivpH nn fVipnr nnminotinn f/\r> portrayal in the film "Frances." A movie star "bio-pics" go, "Frances" is about average. The usual rules of dramatization are employed: peripheral characters are added, deleted and given new names. For example, the part of Farmer's lover and confidant, played by Sam Shepard, is a fabrication. And Far mer's real husband was a vapid, blond nonentity who movie buffs may remember as Leif Erikson ? not the "Dick Steele" in this film. Also, the re-creation of the Hollywood studio milieu is mundane, colorless and anachronistic. Such alterations are supposedly made in V ent Es 3r i i n?i mmm Dal _____ ?||p&SS&SK K?Si o '<5- 5- , ^iim ; 11 j in mi 1 m'i r "'M' nation s n ilp|?i?tll^ companies, HOM|e; night at The : The perfo; a^8 ba?&d evcnts m th : G^idfThP r tat some mightterm - at*' mMZmm** classical ai worlcQ pusic, dp) M fe^WKjipher lwatl Th. ,. m, present a pi >rc at USC, and has cr^^a/ P. ZZ?* wiliX -4 scheduled hi ay a local clubs. choreograpl ?nfc?1WmS who: the music of es artists as Muddy I grow tftfo classic I ? J^? ?f? nd in a guitar-heavy (Xlsotej the music ol t^., with the concert amJthelatte rthe general public ? and Ule latte > V:'; rv-VX | Another hi cess on cent Jessica Lange gives a thought? Farmer in "Frances." Lange has be film review order to give the "star" enough to fill up the screen. That seems to be the logic g ning all films of this genre: min the secondary details and make bland, so the "star" will brighter. It's a reasonable, if m brow approach, but it works o there is a credible performer \ the center spotlight. FORTUNATELY FOR "Fran there is. Lange's portrayal of F? is a tour de force, charged energy and intelligence. She givt character a considered terpretation, suggesting that ces' outer traits ? ambition, fusion, selfishness, vulgarity vulnerability ? all hinged on fundamental, almost sublir madness. Even in the first scene, in whi< shocks her hometown by denyir existence of God in a high s speech, her defiant courage s inspired by a slightly insane sei exniDitiomsm. Farmer's irreverent irrationa gradually unleashed as she seal lot tn rlor ICsl IU UUI ports land Ballet, one of the lost acclaimed dance will perform tomorrow Township. rmance is the last of four A is year's Columbia Music ? ociation Artist Series. c artistic direction of Ron Hj| Oakland Ballet has gained ention for its rich mix of ^ id contemporary dance jmber dance troupe will 1 'ograrn that has received raise. The evening's ghlight is ' 'Billy the Kid,'' \ led by Eugene Loring to Aaron Copeland. and "Daphnis and Chloe," nsuous, romantic dances, lPrfnrmoH Rnth opa tn r Maurice Ravel, with the jj, eographed by Marc Wilde - f r by Jean Paul Comelin. clas ighlight of the program is its p ral performc v??^^^R?:v : : ??? ul performance as the mentally unst en nominated for an Dscar for best ac peaks of stardom and plui lower depths of the snake-pit asylums. Lange's performance t room viewer's emotions; one speculating how Farmc might have been avertec {over- that been done, had her r imize Stanley) left her alone, them Odet (Jeffrey DeMunn; shine doned her. To simply iddle- question "Was she era nly if sufficient. Lange's p under suggests that madness i thing, dependent on r everything. ices," irmer with TuAINtES MARKS bs the torial debut of Graen jn. formerly a film editor' F'ran- Robert Altman. Tech con. tributions are all adeqi and Kovacs' photography is some sumptuous, but ?Joh mated sonorous musical score insistent. ih she M there was ever a f ig the whole value dependent school iui iiiwuut;, r ranees jeems richly deserves h rise of nomination. One can on on what Farmer herself ftf tha film lirA1*A fillf* rkMr.. VI VIIV AllllAj WC1 C OI1C CI1 Ul lity is But I think even she woul es the by Lange's performance. ice at Tow "Wj MBBm Bet wsmmiy Toi if m % Piai ft I rec< | acc $5.2 be ? is acclaimed Oakland Ballet will ure dance works that mix Muj sical and contemporary styles in 113j erformance tomorrow. call ince Champio Ijusi Keep By Forrest Brown One of the most activ* chaplain. This past Friday and S the Presbyterian Studer boogied his way through The dance is held am Muscular Dystrophy Ass Price is the only pers( Superdance, according Charlie Fitzsimons. Part him personal satisfactio students, Price said. "MY MOTIVATIONS changed over the years. v:?f thought it would be fun j was for a worthy cause." After discovering tha rigorous dance, Price sa . x- much money as he col "That second year, I sc ? JS of money I could raise, i people an opportunity tc ; People think it is exotic ? | Price said he enjoys r muscular dystrophy. able Francas "IT WARMS my heal anie francos dicapped," he said. "0S8- Being active in the Suj expand his campus minis nmetstothe "As Presbyterian Ch? frightening, meet students I wouldn't of friends from these dan Price said he has se< antalizes the Superdance in its five-yej can't help ir's tragedy FEWEK PEOPLE se< I had this or dance each year, he said, nother (Kim "The basic snirit hncn' had Clifford have fun and it's for a wo: > not aban- The chaplain said pec answer the them to donate to the dan zy?" is not "I have never had tro performance sponsors," Price said. 4 s a relative can't think of one person lothing and were sponsoring someor soring me were excited al EVEN HAVING loggc ? the direc- marathons, Price said he ie Clifford, events. for director remember that firs inical con- remember praying for th IfltP T .acvlft ? -- - ?.-?? i naven't been as tired th< consistently Price said he has colle n Barry's the past five years, is a bit too Price's dancing backgr cover many years. ilm with its ..j didn't learn hov on a single college," he said. "In g is it. Lamze _ - lernational folk dance cl er Oscar state doggers." ly speculate Price said he teaches a ? Wni?* Student Center so he can j dance class is a ni d be touched not ^ embarrassed at noi nship aterways,'' choreographed by sy Erickson to the music of Toru emitsu. rtistic director Guidi has an exjive background in classical ce, and his company is directly / , ed to the tradition of the Russian Tfc .ll.i Al. .t. At A. _!_ ? 1 dv joaiiei inrougn uie leacning ana ching of Raoul Pause. he series began with a pernance by the Scottish National hestra in November, and conled Jan. 24 with a chamber music cert by violinist Miriam Fried and list Garrick Ohlsson. The most ent event was a performance by laimed opera soprano Grace nbryonFeb. 9. * omorrow's performance begins at ,m. Tickets are $13.25, $12.25 and 25, with special student tickets at 15. Children under six years old will idmitted free. ickets are on sale at the Columbia sic Festival Association Office at \ Bull St. For more information, 771-6303. n chaplain j is dancin' e marathon dancers in town is a iaturday, Chaplain Steve Price of it Center shagged, bounced and his fifth Great USC Superdance. lually to raise money for the ociation. >n who has participated in every to the dance's 1983 coordinator, icipating in the Superdance gives n and aids him in his ministry to (for being in the dance) have said Price. "The first year, I ust to see if I could do it. Also, it i t he could indeed complete the id his new goal was to collect as ild for the Muscular Dystrophy it a goal to raise the most amount " Price said. "It's nice to give > give money to a worthy cause, and neat to sponsor someone in a aising money for the victims of rt to help someone who is han >erdance gives Price a chance to ;try, he said. iplain, it gives'me a chance to : otherwise meet&l've made a lot ces," Price said. 5n only surface changes in the ar history. em to participate in the Superf r?V>inrffk^ TKnt *? ? v vnuug^u. niai is, wc i c ^uing iu rthy cause," Price said. >ple are generous when he asks ce. uble collecting money from the 'Out of five years of dancing, I who turned me down unless they le else. I think the people sponbout it." id so many hours in the dance s does not tire too much from tbe t year. I was really tired. I ju'^ { at thing to be over. I was hurting. ise past years," Price said. cted about $3250 for the dance in ound is extensive, but it does not v to dance until I was out of raduate school, I joined an inlib. Later, I joined the Palmetto dance class at the Presbyterian ( iharehis love of dancing, ce environment to take risks and t being perfect at dancing." ,