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“Has It Ever Occurred
to You That You •
Might Be Wrong?”
Star bright, America loves you 4
By JIM LOCKHART
Collegian Arts Writer
"His Picture in the Papers” by Richard
Schickel. Charterhouse, $5.95 '
With the Ration all agog over the
knight-errant from Plains, Ga., Richard
Schickel’s book, “His Picture in the
Papers,” makes for some timely and
thoughtful reading. Schickel speculates
on the status of the celebrity in America,
using as his example the life of a movie
star, Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. And by now
we should all know that it is a very short
trip from Hollywood to the White House.
book review
Fairbanks and his princess wife, Mary
Pickford, were the first national
celebrities, thanks to the rapidly ex
panding and increasingly pervasive
What's happening around town
Out of Town Concerts
Allentown: KC & the Sun- Spectrum 8 p.m. Aug. 13.
shine Band perform at the. Average White Band, Aug. 17,
Allentown Fair. Aug. 10. , Spectrum. Linda Ronstadt at
Philadelphia: Aerosmith the Robin Hood Dell West,
USG Gayline open
Homophiles of Penn State ‘ Centre County NOW (Na
have a USG'Gayline for infor- tional Organization for Wo
jnation, referrals or just to rap men) will meet at 7:30 tonight
about homosexuality. Call in the Women’s Resource
863-0588 from 7to .11 p.m. any Center. All interested persons
Tuesday, Thursday or Friday, are invited.
The Free* U workshop,
“Feminism and the Family,”
has been changed to 8:30
tonight in the. Women’s Re
source Center.
Shovel oh Viking fixed
PASADENA, Calif. (AP)
Scientists at Jet Propulsion
Laboratory said yesterday
they had regained use of the
Viking 1 lander’s vital
miniature shovel, which jam
med last Tuesday.
Meanwhile, scientists con
tinued to work to determine if
L YOUR LIFE
mass media. But while Pickford chose to
seclude herself from her public, perhaps
to maintain her ingenue.image, Fair
banks allowed himself to be swept away
by the photographers, reporters and
fans. He was the ideal star for such a
public life. Both on and off the screen he
maintained certain all-American traits:
optimism, youthfulness, belief in the
business ethic, pluck and luck and self
confidence.
But, as Schickel notes, if Americans
worship celebrities while they are on the
rise, Americans are also quick to forget
these same celebrities after the almost
inevitable fall from public favor.
Schickel says that unlike literary heroes,
celebrities are denied a third-act victory.
After a decade in which Fairbanks films
lost money, Pickford divorced him and
he turned to the bottle. Fairbanks died
and Rick Derringer at the
Auto repair workshops will
be held from 7 to 8:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday at the Women’s
Resource Center.
new activity detected in a bit
of Martian soil signaled the
work of live organisms.
For the second time in a
week, Viking l’s automated
laboratory reported test
results that scientists said
could reflect life processes
FORTH
TIMES O
Monday, August 9
Penn State Overcomers, 7 p.m., Room 110 Sackett.
Tuesday, August 10,
Alpha Phi Omega Bloodmobile, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., HUB ballroom.
Shavers Creek Nature Center, “Frogs, Toads and Snakes,” 7 p.m., Stone Valley.
Wednesday, August 11
Shavers Creek Nature Center, evening nature movie, 9 p.m., Stone Valley.
Penn State Magazine Club, 8 p.m., Room 324 HUB.
Thursday, August 12 /
Shavers Creek Nature Center, marsh walk, 6:30 p.m., Stone Valley.
Free U “Disco Dancing;” 7 p.m., Room 301 HUB.
Friday, August 13
Interlandia Folk Dance Club, 7:30 p.m., HUB terrace and ballroom.
Shavers Creek Nature Center, “Ghoulies and Beasties and Things that go bump in the
night,” 8 p.m., Stone Valley.
Saturday, August 14
Shavers Creek Nature Center, evening program, 9 p.m., Stone Valley.
Sunday, August 15
Shavers Creek Nature Center, nature ecology walk, 3 p.m.; evening program, 9 p.m.,
Stone Valley
Thursday- Friday, August 12-13 '
GSA Commonsplace Theatre, “1984” and “Animal Farm,” 8 p.m., Room 112 Kern,
Thursday-Sunday, August 12-15
ARHS film, “2001: A Space Odyssey,” 7:30 and 10 p.m., Pollock Rec Room.
Saturday, August 14 <
GSA outdoor film, 9 p.m., Fisher Plaza.
Wednesday, August 18
Classes end.
Thursday-Saturday, August 19-21
Final examinations.
Saturday, August 28
Commencement.
EXHIBITS
Museum of Art: American Paintings and Furniture from the Permanent Collection.
Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts Juried Crafts Show, through August 15.
Prints by Pennsylvania Artists, through August 22.
HUB Gallery: Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts: Elementary and Junior
High Art, through August 13
Zoller Gallery: M.F.A. Show, Suzanne Glascock, Printmaking; Charles Moore,
Printmaking; Jan Mrozinski, Ceramics, August 16-21.
Hammond Gallery: M.F.A. Show, Anthony Herrerra, Painting, through August 7.
M.F.A. Show, Joseph Scopa, Sculpture, through Augustl4.
Chambers Gallery: Melanie Lynch, Hangings; Marjorie Johnstone, Rugs, through
August 18. - .
Kern Gallery: Aliza Thomas, Prints, through August 21. Printmakers in Art, through
August 14.
8 p.m. Aug. 22. Cheech and
Chong will perform at the
Valley Forge Music Fair 8:30
p.m. Aug. 24.
Pittsburgh: Peter Framp
ton, Gary Wright and the
Beach Boys appear at Three
Rivers Stadium, Aug. 14.
Tickets are usually availa
ble at Ticketron or National
Record Marts.
“The Lion in Winter” opens
Wednesday night at the Mill
brook Playhouse in Mill Hall
and runs til Aug. 15.
“Bells Are Ringing” opens
Thursday and runs through
Aug. 28 at the Boal Barn Play
house in Boalsburg.
Curtain for both plays is 8:30
p.m.
Off-. Campus: Cinema I.
“Murder by Death.” Peter
Sellers and .an all-star cast
parody Hollywood’s detect
ives.
UNIVERSITY CALENDAR
Monday - Saturday, August 9 - 28
UNIVERSITY SCHEDULE
alone at 56, a ridiculously early age for a
swashbuckler.
Celebrity extends beyond Hollywood
and into all forms of modern life. Abbie
Hoffman and Jeny Rubin became minor
political powers because of the personal
fame they had gained in the late 60’s. In
stant fame is showered on kidnaped
heiresses and red-hooded political
assassins. And now a presidential elec
tion will be decided by the whitest teeth
or the least number of stumbles. %
Perhaps celebrity has reached the
point where it has become nullified.
Schickel says, “Everyone is now what
' very few were only a little while ago— an
actor. Politicians and presumptive
saints, artists and critics, athletes and
murderers all are now actors.” And
you can’t tell the players without a score
card.
Coming attractions
Movies
ign up for
RUSH
During Fall Registration
or in 2038 H.U.B.
For more information
Cell 865-3455
SPECIAL EVENTS
FILMS
Cinema 11. “Gus.”
State. “Ode to Billy Joe.”
Bobby Gentry’s tune trans
formed into a movie.
Garden. “Lifeguard.” Sim
pleton plot.
The - Flick. “The Tenant.”
Roman Polanski’s eerie film
dealing with psyche interven
tion. .
Movies. “The Bad News
Bears.” Tatum O’Neal and
Walter Matthau. Little league
baseball team trying to make
it big.
The • Screening • Room.
“5.0.5.” X-rated.
On Campus. “1984”
“Animal Farm.” Orwell’s
prophecies on screen. Thurs
day and Friday 8 p.m. 112
Kern.
“2001: A Space Odyssey.”
Kubrick’s beautiful and fright
ening look at the future:
Thursday through Sunday.
Pollock Rec Room, 7:30 and
10 p.m.
—Compiled by BarbCoit