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By SCOTT PRUDEN
Carolina Life Editor
There has suddenly been a rash of films
about the advertising industry, and the opinion
coming out of Hollywood is not entirely
rosy.
The latest example is Crazy People, starring
Dudley Moore as a New York advertising
executive who suddenly gets fed up with
his profession and decides to take a new path
in the world of advertising: telling the truth.
But not just the plain boring truth.
Moore's character, Emory Leeson, manages
to tap the pure essence of each product he
takes on. Instead of "gentle, overnight relief,"
Leeson gets right to the point with his
Metimucil ad, which frankly declares "It
makes you go to the toilet. If you don't use
it, you'll get cancer and die."
Leeson is promptly committed to a mental
institution by his partner, Stephen Bachnqan,
played by Paul Reiser (Aliens, "My Two
Dads"). Leeson insists that he is perfectly
sane, but Bachman's belief in his statement
"We can't tell the truth, we're in advertising,"
won't let him accept it. The truthful
ads are rejected but, through an error, get
sent to the printers anyway.
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soon as he gets comfy with his fellow
tients, including Kathy, a universal pi
played by Daryl Hannah (Steel Magnc
Splash), Bachman returns to the mental
pital with the news that the truthful ads ;
hit and the agency wants Leeson to go
to work on them.
Leeson refuses unless his friends at th
stitution are allowed to work with him.
from there things turn into a tangle of o
geous ads and unscrupulous corpc
tactics.
Dudley Moore is a more restrained ch;
ter in Crazy People than in earlier ef
like Arthur, but he still does a fine job ii
usual befuddled male romantic lead role.
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games of imaginary volleyball, each character
reveals little quirks that make them thai
much more endearing to the audience,
George Cartelli (No Way Out) limits his conversations
to the word "hello," as well as
myriad variations on the theme, while Saabs
is obsessed with any car manufactured by
iiili Saab and continually recites information) abut
as out them to whoever will listen.
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Crazy People isn't exactly what you'd call
->lias a movie, but it does explore the attihos.|
tudes of the advertising industry, corporate
are a attitudes in general and especially how peoback
ple vfow the supposedly mentally ill.
e -n One big problem with Crazy People thai
. . the truthful ads got nrinted in the first nlace.
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irate to admit the truth, but a lot of the languagi
and statements would have never gotten inu
arac- the ads whether or not they were approve<
forts by the ad agency. No, the movie wouldn't b<
n his funny without that particular plot element
and most of the plot itself wouldn't hav<
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igton realize that the very idea of these ads appear
their ing is utter fantasy.
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>, musicians Quick said she likes the Jupiter
well. movement of "The Planets" bebe
the first cause it has a folksy flavor and is
0 perform fun to play, but she said all the
lanets" in its movements are enjoyable,
cpresses the Doctoral conducting student and
ion of the violinist David Rudge says "The
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enjoy. "It's fascinating. It has
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in C," a are something everyone can relate
hat Portnoy to," he said,
irming, very "This isn't stuffy kind of music,
sit back and Some of it ? a little bit ? sounds
like new age music. 'The Planets'
about ten is full of a lot of very different
1 it for this things," Rudge said.
tuse "The The USC Women's Chorus, a
flutes, four group of about 35 students and
d bassoons, community singers, will add to the
a base tuba, mystical feeling of Hoist's musical
tympani. picture of the planets, music prolat
other or- fessor Larry Wyatt said. Susan
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nd a Bartok that reminds you of war," Portnoy
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next fall, night at 8 p.m. at the Koger Cen'
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