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Dickey, Kuh By Chris Handal A book review. Usually it helps a person decide whethe not he wants to read a book. But for photographer Sharon Kuhn book review caused her to make her < book. "I HAD read (James) Dickey's poems review...and I kept seeing my photos read his poetry," Kuhne said. "I felt tl was a real connection." She wrote to Dickey, USC Poei Residence, telling him of her idea to coml his poetry with her photographs. She sent him 20 slides of her work. Dickey said, "The letters were so suasive that I knew I could not possiblj wrong in considering it as a possible proj It was worth doing." The project resulted in the book "Inte Sions: Poems and Photographs." "I THINK a collection like this is es tial," Dickey said. In Dickey's words, collection combines the visual and verbal am quite pleased to have this book in world." "I think the forms work well togeth< Kuhne said, adding that she vi photograghs as narratives. Dickey described her photos as both a i rative and a mystery. "That's the eleme saw in Jim Dickey's poems," she said. "It was an immediate reaction," Ku I Thn Pncttinn Plaunro From left, Robert Hooker, Eric Shaw Quir Soap opera By Leslie Dunsen A monumental event is scheduled to take place Friday at Scarlett's Restaurant in the Holiday Inn City Arttor* O /"4 /A 11 Kla V^VIHVI . Ck UUUUit YY^UVJiil? LLI 111 1 VJ 1 1 Y The wedding will take place in the t daytime melodrama "The Lunch of Our Lives." Wanda Hite, co-writer of the melodrama said Friday's show is the final performance, at least temporarily. "This episode is our big one. Barnabas Stetson and Miriam McMaster, and Marcus Sweeney III and Lily LaLewd are getting married in the I Movie insult By Robert O'Connor High school nonor student oy ciay. i - night. Does this film truly exist? Unfortunately for everyone, "Angel1 goes beyond inanity and exploitation. Ii telligence as well as a complete fabricat Written and directed by Robert O'h even be treated as a comedy, let alone a drama. , The plot of this New Worlds Pictur holes and unexplained facets, it is 3s i joyride of varied storylines and theme Donna Wilkes portrays the title_cha emotional limpness associated with fello Her performance is as ridiculous as th comes dangerously close to being an > Enterti ne partnership ror ^ te a 3wn "The letters were so persuasive that I IsnotAf I rnnlrl nnt nnccihlu ho _ iiiui i IXIIUVV i uuuiu IIUI uuuuiuiy uu in a r ' as i wrong in considering it as a possible here project." t in- - USC Poet-in-Residence bine James Dickey also per- I y be ^ iect. ;rvisaid. "I kept seeing images I was ver> familiar with. The poems were a confirma sen- tion of my vision...that these visions were the perhaps uniform." . "I the THE JOB of putting together the book was Kuhne's. Using 10 previously published ;r," poems Dickey wrote between 1957 and 1967, ews Kuhne added 25 of her photograghs. nar- Kuhne said she used her intuition tc nt I choose the photographs. "I already had the photographs on hand," she said. "It was ihne really a matter of pulling them out of m> in Dohro I onnarrl IA/-?ri rln M Uitn Hlnnn Doiailp onrl Dot in, utui u Ltupaiu, vvaiiuc ivi. line, uiciiii navwio aim uci gears up for t: double ceremony. It's going to be popul; great," Hite said. she sa She said although this is the last per- "W formance of The Passion Players in as it d "The Lunch of Our Lives," it is possi- "Th ble the soap opera will return. we wil "We're not saying that we're not we've coming back, but the cast is taking want I April off to decide what direction we come i warn to move in now that we've wc become established. We've even en discussed the possibility of a new Frid series," she said. to be ? "The Lunch of Our Lives" began its minut< run Feb. 3 as South Carolina's first receiv< live soap opera staged in a restaurant. show, Since then, the soap has grown in and eh s audience's inl special. "Angel" is just a Hollywood hooker by takes great pains in exploit Angel's double life, whi< " is a real movie that friends, is possibly the mos t is an insult to the in- history. ion of reality. 1 By day, the 16-year-old leiil, "An&el" cannot nocence with a wardrobe : serious or hard-edged hated by her school friem thood." Once the sun disa es Film has so many part of the Hollywood scu f "Angel" goes on a Angel's life is so hysteri< s to become logical. appreciate the true senility < trader with the same some entertaining input pi; >w actress Pia Zadora. but Susan Tyrrell and Cliff e movie itself, which supportive counselor and p R-rated afterschool - A murderer soon becom linmenT merpes photos, -~tX jwfci ;anBRv ' files. It's really amazing how certain photos of Jim's work with my photos." Kuhne also made the decision to print the pictures in duotones. "Duotones give a richer application of ink so it's better for the . photographs. I "They are printed in peach and copper inks...I wanted to keep a certain delicacy in the pictures," she said. > THE PEACH and copper inks not only ; give the pictures a "certain delicacy," but ; also add a timeless quality to the photographs. The photographs resemble the ^ Autho ?r at aut By Chris Handal USC students respected literar; iP?^ Robert Fitzge Odyssey" and 4 ; > Spring Writers ! ^ / Hall Auditoriun K? tm* w attenc English faculty I Encouraged it ESssgfc f k Eliot, Fitzgerald 1?^ % vard. There he si Wf collaborated on $ti[& & ^ "Oedipus Rex." The collabors lyricism has proc h Meadows. vUaK.y and SUP< But Fitzgerak mm mm translations of h hq finish a "mactprnipr arity, much to Hite's surprise, obsolete, there v our generation ? e never expected it to run as well ^}e ^or> id," she said. merits of Fitzge. lere is always the possibility that dignity, his mo II return with the show because had too many people saying they , . New to see more. We've had people ren er,nR l^at P every Friday for two months, so not definitely saying that this is itzgerald s d? Hitesaid. ,.n.lh5.1,t5rary * Virgil's tamous lay's performance is scheduled strictly speakin a double episode, running for 40 recapturing of i es. For $5, (he audience will Patricia Mats ; a light lunch and, after the course in Greek will be treated to wedding cake spirit of Virgil v lampagne. Showtime is at 12:05. Fitzgerald's c volume of poeti elligence, fabric: mother film in which Hollywood web of events ing itself. lifestyle. The cr; :h is devoid of parents or sensible with a menacin] t laughable plot insertion in movie and a passion f< By the time t Angel completes her outward in- obsessed with k suitable for a third-grader. She is has been a victi is because of her fictional "sain- Gorman's help, ppears, Angel becomes an integral obvious solutioi m with her prostitution. "Dramatic" ! -ally ridiculous, one almost has to killer bv roamii 3f the storyline. Dick Shawn offers homework betv aying Angel's transvestite-mentor, the depths of d Gorman are dreadful as the overly If one is foo >olice detective. forever be etch( es entangled in the undecipherable movie of all tir poems kind one might find in his grandmother's j. attic. [ Dickev said he would be haDDV if reoole I had this impression after looking at the j book. ^ "1 collect old clothes," Kuhne said. have trouble connecting with polyester suits. A. lot of the suits (that appear in the book) arc in memory of my grandmother." Dickey was so pleased with the outcome of this Droiect he said to Kuhne: "Please don't do anymore with poets, I want them (Kuhne's photos) all with my work." THOUGH NO definite plans have been made, Dickey said he wants to do another book with Kuhne. But until their next collaboration, both have enough to keep busy. "I'm involved in a number of thingsJfc Kuhne said. "I do black and white prints ana hand color them." She said she exhibits these works all over the world. "I have also formed a publishing company and I'm working with that," she said. Her company published "Intervisions" and was formed primarily to allow her to control her work. She also said she wants to publish some limited edition handbound books. DICKEY SAID he is involved with almost everything: poetry, writing a novel, doing a documentary for NBC, a children's book and writing introductions for reprints of his poetry. r to appear tograph party will have a chance to meet one of the most y translators today. raid, who has translated "The Iliac'," "The 'The Aeneid," is the third guest of the USC , Series and will appear at 8 p.m. in Gambrell 1 an autograph party from 3 to 4 p.m. in the lounge in the Welsh Humanities Building. i his early career by Vachel Lindsay and T.S. I began writing poetry while attending Harludied under Dudley Fitts, with whom he later translations of Euripides' "Alcestis," and , ntionnp " "npHinnc a t P 1 /-mi 11 c '1 anrl kllll^VUV) V/VUipUJ Ul VV/IV1IVI.J UliU ition, combining Fitts' wit and Fitzgerald's iuced translations hailed for their naturalness, :rb lyrics. i's reputation has been largely built on his lomer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey," and Virgil'^ aised his 1961 translation of "The Odyssey," e... Fitzgerald makes them (other translations) /ill not be another 'Odyssey' as good as this in md possibly not for several generations." k Times Book Review said: "One of the great aid's book is its rendering of Homer's heroic ral force and his religous spirit ? and this narrative, clarity and action." x/ i : j. h a r* a / orKtr saiu: /a poci j> iiiic coiueiiiporary asses the test of being read aloud." 983 translation of "The Aeneid" caused a stir 'orld. Time said: "Fitzgerald's rendition of introduction may offend purists. It is noA g, literal, but something more than that: zr mplicit meanings in explicit terms." en, a foreign language professor who teaches a : and Latin literature, said: "He captures the 'Orv W(*ll I think hp\ pmnathefir with Viri'il " J - --- " f o ? rareer has spanned nearly 50 years. His first ry was published in 1935. ates reality surrounding Angel's rather unconventional azed man is a stereotypical triumph, complete g motel room, Oedipus complex, necrophilia^ Dr stabbing Angel's co-workers and friends. ^ he killer, who never utters a word, becomes illing Angel, it seems as if half of Hollywood m of this man s murderous tendencies. With Angel begins a revenge campaign that has an n. scenes, such as when Angel decides to stalk the :ig the town with a gun or when she does her /een "customers," will startle the viewer into isbelief. lish enough to see "Angel," one question will jd into memory. Is there an award for the wor.^t ne? ^