ew flick simple, simply funny By JOHN WARD Collegian Staff Writer The premise is strange, the plot is scant, and the characters are given no development whatsoever. 1 But “Fun With Dick and Jane,” now playing at the . Movies, scores a comedy hit. ft- Basically, we are asked to believe that the simple little characters in those kindergarten primers have i to adulthood and.married. Dick and-Jane & Harper, played by George Segal and'Jane Fonda, | are a perfect, middle-class suburban couple. Until i the bomb falls. L Dick’s boss, a status-hungry guy not above bribing people to get what he wants, fires Dick 5 without warning. Ed McMahon, Johnny Carson’s I perennial patsy, does very well in this supporting tfole. ” The Harpers are forced to cut down heavily to get by; Jane quits the Book-of-the-Month Club and even I I gives up her skiing lessons. Dick does his part by Comedies, war movies featured locally Downtown “Fun With Dick and Jane” See today’s review. The Movies “King Kong” The story of a girl and the tallest man in her life. Flick “The Pink Panther Strikes Again” Peter Sellers returns in his fourth effort as the inept French detective Inspector Closeau. This new one is rather weak though, relying too much on gags from past films. State “The Shaggy D.A." New Walt Disney comedy about a D.A. who turns into a dog. Cinema One “A Star Is Born” Modernized Winter Term Study Hours at MISTER DONUT - GARNER ST. 2:00a.m.-5:00a.m. ☆ 2:00p.m.-5:00 p.m \ B Buy a cup of coffee, get your 2nd cup FREE WtiSter Doruifc® filing for unemployment insurance. Despite their efforts, the situation gets worse. They are finally forced to use the only sure-fire method left: theft. movie review The couple starts small, ripping off drug stores and fleabag motels. As their confidence grows, they move on to bigger things, like the telephone com pany. They want to quit, but they are tempted into one last job. They decide to rip off Dick’s former boss. This is when their best-laid plans go awry resulting in the film’s rousing climax. George Segal has played this kind of suave role before in films like “The Hot Rock” and “Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox,” and he does it ggain here with style. Fonda brilliantly deadpans her role as version of the old tale of show business success and tragedy. Barbra Streisand stars this time. Cinema Two MOVIES On Campus “Dr. Strangelove” Stanley Kubrick’s memorable 60s nuclear war satire. A notable cast includes Peter Sellers, George C. Scott and Slim Pickens (unforgettable in his bomb riding scene). 108 Forum “MASH” The fine 1970 comedy about an Army hospital during the Korean War. Elliot Gould and a forgotten young actor named Tom Skeritt are among the cast members. Findlay Rec Room “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” Craziness set in the days of King Arthur. 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For instance, Fonda takes a job as a model, and, in the space of thirty seconds, absolutely destroys an entire fashion show through her clumsiness. The film has its mistakes, however. The plot is so small it’s barely detectable, nothing more than an excuse for the film’s slapstick scenes. The characters are never developed fully; we are given the situation at the film’s beginning and Segal and Fonda deftly draw it to its conclusion, without disturbing the cardboard characters. Despite its drawbacks, “Fun With Dick and Jane” rates a definite round of applause for its swift-moving style and all-around good humor. After all, as Wednesday night’s applause indicated, two people who turn the tables on the phone com pany can’t be all bad. but slow-moving film about a law student (Timothy Bottoms) at Harvard. Pollock Rec Room “Taxi Driver” One of-last year’s best. A frenzied and powerful drama about a New York City cab driver (Robert De Niro) about to blow up the world. De Niro is superb and the ending is the goriest this side of a Sam Peckinpah film. 10 Sparks “The Way We Were” Lackluster romance story teaming Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford. 105 Forum 213 HUB. OPEN 2ND-6ND PERIODS DAILY A.K. 863-0295 1 s i§lsi © c* * u 10 m -Collegian arts Baroque music played by flute and harpsichord By MARK MILLER Collegian Staff Writer Flautist Jean-Pierre Rampal and harp sichordist Robert Veyron-Lacroix make a strong case for the transcription of music from the Baroque period and earlier for instruments different than for those for which it was originally written. Of course'this practice has been in existence for a long time, with Baroque composers transposing their own as well as their con temporaries’ works. Besides being a renowned harpsichordist, Robert Veyron-Lacroix is an eminent musicologist, having done much research on old music. He adapted five of the six pieces on last night’s program in Schwab. The flute is a lilting, high-spirited in strument and Rampal, playing a modern, metallic flute, is a kind of divine pied-piper when performing. plays the harpsichord with amazing skill and concentration. . As soon as the first work, Sonata in B minor by Handel, began, one became aware that Rampal obtains a nearly perfect tonal quality—there is virtually no sound of air. The next work, Sonata in G major by J.M. Leclair, was pastoral in nature. The duo’s performance truly fit the nature of thfs It doesn’t matter what they call it Instructors can only give tests of a narrowly limited scope the last week of classes. 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The next work on the program was Telemann’s Sonata in F minor, a piece which demonstrates why this composer’s popularity has risen in recent years. The pair’s performance was outstanding, par ticularly the last movement which is very difficult and fast. Next was the Sonata in G minor Op. 13 no. 6 by Vivaldi. The lively openness typical of Vivaldi’s music was brought out here. Its last movement, presto, was superbly executed. The Sonata in F major by J.C. Bach was next. Many of the interesting features of this later style work were presented here. The final piece was the Partita in C minor by J.S. Bach. This is an especially intense work which contains the bittersweet realization of mortality present in much of Bach’s music. It was stunningly played; the music seemed to take on its own existence apart from the performers a result of perfect playing. The duo responded in kind to the en thusiastic audience by offering two splen didly played encores: a sonata by Albenez and a lyrical rondo by Mozart. c 1976 Arby's, Inc
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