G--The Daily Collegian Friday, Jan. 5, 1979
Old time magic
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One Hundred Fourteen East College Avenue •,
Harry Blackstone Jr. will bring his
world famous magic show to a sold out
Eisenhower Auditorium tomorrow at
8:30 p.m. as part of the Artists Series.
The Blackstone Magic Show is
currently touring the United States and
has performed in virtually every major
city. The show has also made stops in
Europe, Asia, Japan and Australia.
Blackstone is carrying on a tradition
of magic that his father, the Great
Blackstone, began six decades ago.
Harry Blackstone took over the show in
1965 when his father died.-
Harry became of a member of his
father's traveling show at age seven,and
has perpetuated the mystique of his
father by using 20 of the Great
Blackstone's most famous tricks in his
act.
Through his show, Blackstone turns
magic into a theatrical production. He
has said he uses magic as a premise for
the performance and relies on audience
participation and his personality for
entertainment.
Blackstone's wife Gay will serve as his
assistant. She is pierced, stretched,
levitated, cut up and made to disappear
in the course of the show.
—by Harry Glenn
Clint Eastwood (left) is shown with Snuff Garrett who produced the soundtrack
of Eastwood's latest film, "Every Which Way But Loose."
HARD WO /FUN WORK
Orientation needs Area Chairpeople. to help work
on our programs for new students if you are an off
campus transfer Student, we need your help, es
pecially with programs for off-campus students.
Pick . up - applications in 335 Boucke or your Area
Coordinator's Office.
Deadline, Friday,
DO IT TODAY' Jan. 5, 1979
NEW CHEAP THRILLS
NEW YEAR'S SALE
$2 off
$5 off all outerwear
20% off
plus hundreds of bargain denims by
Levis, Lee, Landlubber, & Wrangler
Lemon Twist sweaters
now $9.95
all Levis and Wrangler
denims and cords in stock
new stock of Capezio and
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under new management
Clint's still tough guy!'
but smiles in 'Loose'
By 808 FRICK
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Clint Eastwood's latest, "Every Which
Way But Loose," is a break away from
the usual Eastwood flick in a lot of ways
not the least of which being he doesn't
kill anybody, , and, he says more than
"yep," "nope," and, "draw."
In his role as Philo Beddoe, a Los
Angeles truck driver and bare knuckle
fisticuffs champion of the West Coast,
Eastwood does, in fact, smile more than
in any other of his movies combined. (He
leered in the end of "The Good the Bad
and the Ugly" and smirked three times
during the course of "The Outlaw Josey
Wales.")
But Eastwood's performance is only
one element giving "Loose" the depth
that makes it good entertainment.
Though clearly to be classed as a
comedy, the story in "Loose" is wrapped
mainly around a poignant love theme,
and there is enough good natured
brawling to preserve Eastwood's image
as the toughest guy around.
The laughs provided by Philo's pet
orangutang an obvious comic relief,
but one that works beautifully and
Philo's friend Orville (Geoffry Lewis)
and Orville's feisty mother (Ruth
Gordon), are the real bright spots of the
movie, occasionally saving tedious
scenes.
The picture begins in L.A., where
Philo falls in love with budding country
western singer Lynn Halsey Taylor and
follows her east after she abruptly
leaves town. Taylor is played by Sondra
Locke, an apparent regular in Eastwood
movies since her appearance as the
wiffy sod buster in "Josey Wales."
While in L.A., Philo has managed to
offend a middle-aged motorcycle gang
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and a pair of cops who follow him fromk
town to town in search of revenge. N9C6
be confused with traditional glint
Eastwood villains; these good old boys
are harmless stereotypes, complete With
their own musical themes, that sound
gaudy whenever they appear on screOn.
His confrontations with these cldwn
men provide a kind of tongue-in-cheek
action that even at one point sharply
lampoons Eastwood's spaghetti
Westerns.
In the last 20 minutes of this fairly fast
paced movie, everybody catches up with
Philo and Philo catches up with his
somewhat promiscuous • sweetheart
Lynn and the Rocky Mountain bare
knuckle pugilist Tank Murdock, who*,
name has been whispered with, frightful
awe throughout the movie.
With all these climaxes lumped so
closely together, the viewer doesn't even
realize until he's out of the theatre that.,
Clint didn't win them all at least
in the traditional Eastwood Way.
Previous to this, with the possible' ex
ception of "Josey Wales," all Eastwood
must do to be reaffirmed as the toughest
guy in the movie is live until the fing
credits or shoot the bad guy(s) (whicM,'
of course, he always does).
Now, Eastwood is playing a much
more human hero. A welcome rglief
from "The Gauntlet" and "The En
forcer" which took his invunerability to
extremes and sorely lack'xii
credibility. Though it does have so_ nit:
problems with wooden acting and
pointless crudity, Eastwood has, in
"Loose" taken the same old gang that
appeared in his movies over the years
and done an about face from the grim
"Dirty Harry," turning out a superigT
product in a different genre.