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
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Despite their efforts, the situation gets worse.
They are finally forced to use the only sure-fire
method left: theft.
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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
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“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.
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“Monty Python and the Holy Grail”
Craziness set in the days of King
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the loyal wife and brings off her best comedy per
formance since “Barefoot in the Park.”
The film is studded with crisp, witty dialogue and
some hilarious set pieces. 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
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Baroque music played
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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
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music.
In many ways Georg Philipp Telemann
typifies the Baroque composer. Like so many
of them, he wrote an abundance of music.
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.
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