—The Daily Collegian Friday, October 1,1976
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By KATHLEEN PAVELKO
Collegian Staff Writer
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The Wine Cellar is the most intimate restaurant in State
College a place for lovers, where soft conversation goes well
with the candlelight but not with the soft rock insistently
played on the radio. Is there no place to escape canned music?
If the music could be ignored, the Wine Cellar would be a
very attractive restaurant. It is pleasantly dim—but not so
murky the menu cannot be read—and the service is unfailing
ly courteous
The problem is the food.
The Wine Cellar’s rather extensive menu is almost ex
clusively Italian. Although New York steaks and T-bones
($6.95) are included, the menu consists mostly of pasta sauces
served with a choice of fettucine, linguine or vermicelli
(spaghetti). Most entrees range from $3.95 to $6.95.
On a recent visit, we sampled the chicken cacciatore ($5.25)
and the veal parmigiana ($4.95). The parmigiana turned out to
be a lukewarm ground-veal patty covered with melted cheese
and,the Wine Cellar’s übiquitous red sauce. My companion
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My chicken cacciatore was only slightly better: a half
chicken breast, overdone, in a sauce of canned mushrooms
and tomatoes. Both entrees were served on cold platters
which made the already cool dishes colder.
Each entree at the Wine Cellar includes a side order of
spaghetti with red sauce and a choice of salad or soup. The
pasta was not overdone although it was not as firm as I
jjrefer it and the sauce, with a touch of sugar and tartness,
was quite good. The only thing wrong with the sauce is that it
appears on everything.
Dessert Mama Theresa’s ricotta pie turned out to be
ricotta filling in a pre-fob crust with frozen strawberries and
ersatz whipped cream (1.25). The other choice, cannoli, was no
better: a very hard roll of crust stuffed with an unidentified
filling that had been sprinkled with hard chocolate nuggets.
Both the espresso ($.60) and cappocino ($1.75) were served
in espresso cups, making the cappocino almost impossible to
drink. More ersatz whipped cream on the cappocino.
Despite its name, the Wine Cellar has a very limited wine
list, with about 100 per cent mark-up on the State Store prices.
Very few of the many inexpensive, good Italian wines
available in this state are on the list. Wine is also available by
the carafe, however: 17 ounces, $1.75; 34 ounces, $3.25.
The Wine Cellar’s no stars-one waiter rating reflects the
unacceptable food served by a courteous, efficient waitress in
generally pleasant surroundings.
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By LEAH BOZEN
Collegian Staff Writer
“The Man Who Fell to
Earth,” the latest film by
director Nicholas Roeg
(“Performance” and
“Don’t Look Now”), is
symptomatic of his work:
It’s complex, striking,
provocative and it falls
apart two thirds of the way
through.
Now playing at the
Movies, “The Man Who
Fell to Earth” is a
frustrating film. You spend
the first two thirds of the
film ‘ fascinated * and in
trigued by the unfolding
plot of an alien (David
Bowie) from another,
planet who has arrived on
Earth. Then suddenly,
without warning, the film
changes directions
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but tell her story in a comic
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Allen Saunders, the writer,
and Ken Ernst, the artist,
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radically and it is almost
impossible to figure out
what in hell is going on.
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Although there are unan
swered questions and
bewildering clues in the
first part of the film, these
are nothing compared to
those in the final section.
The alien travels to Earth
to get water for his planet,
which is suffering from a
severe drought. He has
brought the plans for some
amazing inventions with
him and sets up a giant
corporation to manufac
ture them, raking in the
money.
It seems that his ultimate
goal is to build a rocket
first of its kind in that form
for general circulation
newspapers.
Expected to last three
months, the sequence tells the
story of Karen Cooper, 17, a
“very attractive” high school
senior, winner of first place in
a national scholarship con
test, potential midyear
graduate with plans to accept
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planet and wife and
children.
He builds the rocket but
never gets to take the trip,
remaining doomed to an
earthly existence.
Director Roeg has com
plained that he was forced
to make unwanted cuts in
the film. This may be so,
but one gets the feeling that
it probably wouldn’t have
made complete sense even
before the cuts.
Roeg is a strong, pur
poseful director. His films
are extremely cinematic.
Even when he to com
pletely clear the obstacles
he sets up for himself, it’s
the course of the film that’s
fascinating.
Bowie, in his movie
debut, proves effective as
one of many
scholarship offers.
She also is pregnant—and some young girl who would
refuses absolutely to name be otherwise tempted to be
the father of her unborn child, promiscuous... we have a
She never will, Saunders said, great many young
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a strange fellow anyway.
With his hair dyed a deep ”
orange and his skin
possessing, an unhealthy
pallor, he projects the
loneliness and dissatisfac
tion the visitor feels. „.
Candy Clark is ab
solutely (before she is
called upon to act) as the
mortal with whom he sets
up housekeeping. Looking
very much like a young
Ellen Burstyn, she seems,*
touchingly vulnerable. ..
Because so much of “The
Man Who Fell to Earth” is
so good, its final failing is
all the more maddening
since there is more that’s
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