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By Robert O'Connor
Having been hyped as the movie to salvage
Pia Zadora's laughable film career, "The
Lonely Lady" only proves to emphasize that
Zadora is an incompetent and untalented
actress.
Harold Robbins' best-selling novel has
been adapted into a film that has no plot,
mouvauon or meaning, /vs tne nuoue cnuawoman
JcriLee Randall, Zadora's acting
abilities remain mechanical and emotionless.
The main premise involves JeriL.ee as a
writer, vowing to make her mark on the
world. Her rise to the top involves an
unbelievable marriage to a mentor twice her
age, a series of bizarre sexual relationships,
an overdone nervous breakdown and her
strange ability to withstand constant abuse
from everyone around her.
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to make the character a believable one, the
whole cast makes no effort to save the dead
movie. Bibi Besch and Lloyd Bochner appear
embarrassed or bored in their supporting
roles. Scenes are strewn together with no
connection to each other and the time and
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age sequences seem non-existent.
The movie is a catastrophe in every sense
of the word, because instead of "The Lonely
Lady" being the expected powerful story of a
young woman's rise to success, it comes off
as being a tired joke. The movie was treated
as a comedy by the audience.
Most of the movie is tasteless and cheap.
Zadora's character allows herself to be abused
beyond the limits of nomality. The principal
people in her life discard her after she
has served her purpose, but she never
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Hollywood until the last scene.
JeriLee deserves to be a lonely lady because
she is unable to escape from the situations
she builds herself. Hollywood is portrayed as
a cruel and cold world where the only real
price to success is to give up decency and happiness.
The movie's atmosphere is bitter and
negative, leaving the viewer depressed and
angry.
Zadora may never make a serious niche in
the acting world if her career continues along
this same downward slide. It is obvious that
there are no vehicles available to push the actress
into the real spotlight.
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By Kalley Braithwaita
A large Golden Spur crowd rocked tQ the
sounds of the Detectives Friday night.
The Charleston-based Detectives, a
familiar band to many at Carolina, often ap
pear at other clubs in Columbia, such as
Greenstreets, and throughout the Carolinas,
centering on college towns such as Durham
and Winston-Salem, N.C..
The band is geared mainly toward the
younger crowd, and finds college students"
most receptive to its kind of music. "We like
the new music," said bass player and singer,
Whit Pitcher. "We're moving toward New
Wave."
THE DETECTIVES showed interest in
New Wave by playing songs from the Police
and Tommy Tutone to an enthusiastic
crowd. Judging by the applause, one of the
audience's favorite selection was the Kink's
"Who'll be the Next in Line."
The dancers in the crowd enjoyed the
music, as they moved about the floor in a
variety oi interesting ways. A few audience
members thought the side show ? the dance
floor ? was the best part of the night.
But New Wave wasn't the only type of
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mostly original.
ACCORDING TO Pitcher, the group's
original music is important. Currently, the
band has about 20 original tunes, but plans
to eventually play all original music. 4iI like
to write politically oriented songs. I like the
songs I write to have a theme or a meaning,"
Pitcher said. The Detectives showed this attitude
to the public when its original song
"Neutral Zone" was recorded on Miller's
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'"Neutral Zone' is a political song about
nuclear war. I think we're moving toward a
nuclear war, and the song basically says
'Look you fools, wake-up, see what's happening,"'
Pitcher said.
The band, despite its diversity, is actually a
young group. The Detectives have only been
together since January, and are already looking
forward to possibly opening a small
recording studio in the future. The band also
plans to release an EP sometime soon.
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