Maybe Lana Turner had a better idea, or,
how not to get discovered at a hockey rink
j So you think that being part of a Hollywood
\ movie is all fun and glamour?
>" Not so, as two Penn State students
ij discovered last spring. As a matter of fact,
') they found it downright boring after a while.
I Students Larry Marcinko (9th-English) and
1 Jim Hayden (9th-English) managed to be
{1 hired on as extras for the filming, in John
jjstown, of the new Paul Newman flick, “Slap
fshot.” The movie deals with the world of
l hockey and the scene in which Marcinko and
5 Hayden participated featured them as ex
cited fans watching a hockey game.
I Marcinko and Hayden watched the filming
! .Jof a nude scene on ice (with actor Mike
1 Ontkean) and saw star Newman goof up
jFrom the people who brought you Batjak,
Ithe explanation you’ve all been waiting for
K; Restaurant critics aren’t the only ones who
Mask waitresses impossiblei questions. In
to “Is the asparagus fresh?” and
| “Do you have number 27 on the wine list?”
(j State College’s most popular culinary
question is “What is the origin of the name
£ ‘Cafeßatjak’?”
j The Cafe Batjak on Heister Street is one of
; the borough’s three new restaurants, but the
‘jonlyone with an unusual name.(The Canton
jj Restaurant is self-explanatory and the name
|j ‘La Souperbe’ is punningly clear.)
Since its opening a few months ago, the
Cafe Batjak has been bombarded with
queries from inquisitive diners and the
patient waitresses at the cafe deserve
awards for courtesy and good humor beyond
Music by mail: Fleetwood Mac in concert
i There’s another good concert in the offing,
| but as usual, it’s available only to those of
(I you with wheels, or who can call the Big
p Apple home.
| The popular British rock group, Fleetwood
| Mac, will appear in concert 8 p.m. Wed
a nesday, June 29, in Madison Square Garden
f. in New York City. The tickets, available by
‘To continue the tradition...’
Gentle Thursday to be shared April 28
| If you haven’t been doing it
r all year, this is your chance.
I April 28 Gentle Thursday
| will be a Day of Sharing.
Plans for Gentle Thursday
[| are well underway, with the
| band committee now
auditioning for the 10 bands
which will supply 12 hours of
music for the event.
Any band wishing to
I audition should send in a
I cassette tape or contact the
| Free U office in 223 HUB
| before April 8.
| The band committee plans
| to offer a variety of music
| bluegrass, jazz, rock and
J “even a little'disco.” All the
• bands will ofer their services
- free, in the Gentle Thursday
! spirit, and canvassing is also
j underway downtown to en
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some of his hockey playing. Newman’s goof
resulted in his double’s being called in to play
for him.
The two also said that some of the extras
enjoyed mugging at the camera, which
slowed the filming even more and got
Newman quite irritated.
But most of the shooting involved repeated
takes of a hockey game and of the fans
cheering. Hayden said that this got to be as
boring as .“writing class papers!” Even Paul
Newman appeared bored, the two said.
Boredom was not a problem for the extras
on the “Jaws” set, we think. Especially for
the swimmers.
the call of duty in answering questions about
its name.
In a probably fruitless attempt to make it
easier for them, here’s the answer.
In 1948, John Wayne played still another of
his strong-yet-gentle-men-in danger roles, in
a movie called “The Wake of the Red Witch.”
The film from the novel of the same name,
was set in the Dutch East Indies and had
Wayne overcoming the usual insuperable
obstacles. Wayne was the captain of a ship
called the Red Witch and worked for an
exporting company called Batjak Limited.
The owner of the Cafe Batjak (wjio also
owns the Candy Cane on College Avenue)
read the novel, liked the sound of the name
“Batjak,” and the mystery is as simply
solved as that.
mail only (6 tickets per person) are $8.50 and
$7.50 each. Send your certified check or
money order (plus a $1 handling charge per
order and a self-addressed stamped en
velope) to Fleetwood Mac, P.O. Box 83, New
York, N.Y. 10001.
Until then, save your pennies for that boss
’57 Chevy to get you there.
courage contributions of the
services and items which
make, Gentle Thursday work.
Gentle Thursday will begin
at 10 a.m. on the HUB lawn
and continue until 10 p.m.
There will be marshalls on the
lawn to keep down the refuse,
but no disturbances are ex
pected and not
patrolling is planned.
To get you in the Gentle
Thursday spirit, T-shirts will
be on sale Monday, April 11 on
the ground floor of the HUB.
Gentle Thursday’s come a
long-way from its origin as a
project for a Speech 200 class.
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