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Novelist to gr By Chris Hsndal National Book Award-winning novelist Tim < visit USC to discuss and read his works tomorro the Spring Writers Series. u nnen won me prestigious rsauonai dook /\ 1978 novel "Going After Cacciato," one of the tional treatments of the Vietnam War. O'Brien fought in Vietnam and was honorabl as a sergeant with seven medals. USC Writer-in-Residence William Price Fox is O'Hrien's visit. From Staff Reports The Cinematic Arts Committee of the Carolina Program Union is bringing such films as "Risky Business," "The Big Chill" and "Flashdance" to the Russell House Theatre this spring, along with animated films like Walt Disney's "Snow White" and "Watership Down." Because of budgetary problems, the committee is sponsoring films only from Thursday-Sunday for the rest of the semester. This fall, the daily film schedule will resume, said Committee chairman Charles Tuten. All films will have three showings daily: at 2:30, 7 and 9:30 p.m. Viewers will pay $1 for the daytime shows and $1.75 during the evenings. Spring begins March 22-24 with the showing of "Risky Business," an offbeat film about a teenager's adventures while his norantc Qro i\i/qu rtn vafatinn It ctarc Tr?m pui VlliO U1 V U ?* MJ V/1I T MVMVtVlIl * V UhMI V/ ? v*ai Cruise and Rebecca De Mornay. This film was the surprise hit of this past summer and is not the typical exploitation film produced just to attract teens, it's an excellent film, Tuten says. On March 25, the committee is bringing "Slapshot," starring Paul Newman to the Russell House. Newman plays an aging hockey player whose team may be sold because it's always losing. On ") Q tl-io thi>Qtr?> will chnw a Wll Itiai VII ^ y , HIV IIIV14LI V ?? unx/ .. v? classic Beatles film, "Let It Be." The music alone should attract a crowd, Tuten says. Clint Eastwood's first picture as detective Harry Callahan, "Dirty Harry," will be offered to viewers March 30. The British comedy troupe of Monty Python will star in /I "A ('Quel Marhn.c I. I > UV I I VV. w/purchase < B ?| 8*6XP 4/1/84 i/e reading in I . himself in the character's position O'Brien will enthusiastic." w as part of Sections of "Going After Ca separately starting in 1975 and earne ward for his prizes including an O Henry award, earliest fic- But even though parts of the nove is coherent as a whole. A review in t y discharged Review described the novel this w lyrical, 'Going After Cacciato' com coordinating war reportage as fine as any in Mich r?hpc* th a Hppnpr lA\/p1__r\ArliQnc n VIIVO nil u uvvpvi IV VI pvi liupj mall thing," the surrealistic effect war has "The World nightmares of the combatants... eople think a "Clearly we are dealing here v able to put American novelists would call 'ma ' 'Tkn D:? PU;ii' , i lie uiy uiiiii "The Meaning of Life" March 31 through April 1. On April 5, the show will be "Deer Hunter," starring Robert De Niro and Meryl , Streeo in an interestinc twist on the Vietnam J war, Tuten said. M April 6 is the night USC students gather up jf i all their friends and head down to Field A for the "Outdoor Film Fest." This year, Tuten Jfi said the committee will be showing "Goldf- IB inger," "The Blues Brothers" and "Dawn of the Dead," for $1. Back at the Russell House Theatre on jj April 7-8, the committee will show Walt LMsney s classic snow wnite, tne story 01 nm the beautiful young girl forced to flee her 3 cruel relative, the Queen, and live in the ||| woods with some of the funniest characters ^ ever written?the Seven Dwarfs. The following weekend, April 12-14, the theatre will bring one of the most popular jA films of 1983, "Flash Dance," to campus. P-, 4(117.1 L!_ . 9 J *11 1 1 Jk waiersnip jl?uwh, win uc snuwn <u ^ Russell House April 15. 9 "The Big Chill," a South Carolina-made film nominated for several Academy Awards ^ this year including "Best Picture," will be shown April 19-21. A The committee is also planning to sponsor X an Academy Awards night party in the Golden Spur on April 9, giving students a ^ chance to watch the Hollywood proceedings, drink beer and win door prizes. More infor- ^ mation on that will be forthcoming, commit- ( ' tee members say. 31 Cilin <-ol#??Harc arp nnw JivailaHlf* throughout campus to keep viewers aware of W the offerings this semester. * r insa?) \ jUSt 89* g Df large drink. 2nd floor Russell Selk Auditoriun He is funny, and he is achievement and possib of Vietnam." cciato" were published John Updike praised d O'Brien four short story inging to the stark facts its layers of ambiguity, 1 were published earlier, it old-fashioned in its wis he New York Times Book not a war but a post wi ay: "By turns lurid and O'Brien has also wri oines a surface of realistic "Box Me Up and Ship P lael Herr's recent 'Dispat- new novel, "The Nucl ossible only in fiction--of soon. on the daydreams and O'Brien will attend < Bookstore from 4 to 5 p.m. in Belk Auditori rith what the new South reception will follow o gical realism' ...a major Hall. to play at RH T ' PtIiivi t r'ti i : " * . mm * /{ > "The National Book Award for fiction is no s Fox said, adding that O'Brien's novel won over According to Garp," by John Irving. 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