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night at the Art Museum's Zoller Gallery. Nadler, a professor at the University of Mondrian. His work will be on display through Jan. 30.
'Tootsie' no drag for moviegoers
By SHAWN ISRAEL
Collegian Staff Writer
All the critical praise and audi
ence patronage the new movie
"Tootsie" has been getting is, I'm
glad to say, for a good reason. It is
one of the most upbeat, neatly struc
tured comedies in a long time and
it has Dustin Hoffman in a dress.
"Tootsie" is a slickly made movie
that works as slapstick comedy,
feminist film and paean to the art of
performing. This is quite an
achievement considering the prem
ise of the movie is the old cliche gag
in which a man impersonates a
woman.
Michael Dorsey (Dustin Hof
fman) is a 39-year-old New York
actor who is respected among his,
peers as a brilliant performer, and
known by casting directors as "dif
ficult." Dorsey can't land a job
because of his temperament.
Then one day Michael's actress
friend Sandy (Teri Garr), whom he
has been coaching for the leading
role on a network soap opera, is
turned down at the audition even
before she gets a chance to read.
Dorsey is further aggravated when
he discovers his ex-roommate, a
star on the soap, has left the show to
prepare for a role on Broadway a
role for which Michael wasn't sent
up because he's an unknown.
So what does our enraged actor
do? Simple. He decks himself out as
a woman, adopts a slight southern
twang, calls himself Dorothy Mi
chaels, auditions for the role Sandy
wanted on the soap and lands the
job. Michael at last has some steady
money and daily national exposure
and problems.
As Dorothy, Michael is patronized
by the show's sexist director Ron
(Dabney Coleman) and flirted at by
the show's pompous actor John Van
Horn (George Gaynes). Meanwhile,
he's gaining a following with mil-
French puppets
for real tonight
See the wizardry of puppetry
when the Artists Series presents
the Compagnie Philippe Genty at
8:30 tonight in Schwab Auditori
um.
Genty brings his world famous
French marionette troupe to the
University via a four-year world
tour which has won him many
awards. The cast of zany animal
creatures and "human" charac
ters puts on a typically French
production cheeky, whimsical,
and sophisticated. From the Os
trich Ballet to the black comedy of
surrealistic pieces, Genty bal
ances comedy and Kafkaesque
elements with marionettes and
back light figures.
The company makes sophisti
cated use of music parodying fa
miliar classical and contemporary
tunes in the comic and satirical
numbers and in setting the mood
with especially composed electro
nic music.
Tickets are on sale at the Eisen
hower Auditorium box office from
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. today.
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lions of viewers
As Michael, he must conceal his
other identity from Sandy. Worse,
he develops a yen for Julie Nichols
(Jessica Lange), the soap's most
popular star and self-confessed
"hospital slut," who is just coming
from an unsatisfying affair with
Ron, but only knows Michael as
Dorothy.
As Michael juggles his various
identities he learns from being Do
rothy how to be a better man as
Michael, and how to not let men
intimidate him as Dorothy because
he's a woman. Are you keeping all
this clear?
"Tootsie" handles all this compli
Box office has happy holi • ay
HOLLYWOOD (AP) The movie industry enjoyed a
happy New Year's weekend with booming theatre
business led by "Tootsie," the holiday season's big
winner
"Tootsie" led the parade of movie attractions fol
lowed by "The Toy," "The Dark Crystal," "48 Hrs,"
"Airplane II: The Sequel," "Best Friends" and "The
Verdict."
The losers were "Six Weeks," "Trail of the Pink
Panther," "Still of the Night" and "Honkytonk Man."
"Tootsie," Dustin Hoffman's comedy about an unem
ployed actor who finds stardom when he poses as a
woman, collected more than $ll million at 1;020
theatres for an impressive $ll,OOO average. The 17-day
total was almost $4O million for the Columbia Pictures
release.
Columbia had another big winner in the Jackie
Gleason-Richard Pryor comedy "The Toy," which
made $5 million in 1,508 theaters over the three days for
a 24-day total of $30.5 million. The two films, along with
the limited release of "Gandhi," provided Columbia
with a new company high for a one-week gross $2B
million for the week that began Dec. 24.
The Paul Newman drama "The Verdict" also
showed strength. Appearing on only 646 screens, it
collected $4.7 million for a 17-day total of $l6 million.
The $7,286 average placed it second to "Tootsie" in
attendance per theatre.
"The Dark Crystal" was No. 2 in box office returns
'The Key' thematically poor
By BRIAN CORBETT
Collegian Staff Writer
Cinematheque's Japanese film series
makes a drastic shift in genre this weekend
with Kon Ichikawa's "The Key," playing at 7
and 9 tonight and tomorrow in the HUB
Assembly Room.
The series' two previous films, Kobayashi's
"Rebellion" and Shinoda's "Double Suicide,"
have been what film critics and theorists
consider jidai-geki or costume dramas. These
films are set in feudal Japan, usually before
1868, the time of the Meiji Restoration.
"The Key," on the other hand, is gendai
geki or contemporary drama. A loose adapta
tion of Junchiro Tanizaki's 1956 novel of the
same name, "The Key" takes a bitter, nihilis
tic look at human nature through its sexuality.
The film is visually interesting thanks to
Kazuo Miyagawa's fine cinematography and
Ichikawa's direction but thematically simple
minded and didactic. But, "for me, the theme
of a film is not so important," Ichikawa has
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said.
"The Key" is the story of a family which is
completely insensitive to the needs of its
individual members. The husband (Ganjiro
Nakamura) is worried about satisfying his
wife sexually and so goes to perverse extrem-
cation and more marvelously. Syd
ney Pollack's direction is swift and
sharp, and the clever screenplay
(by Larry Gelbart and Murray
Schisgal, based on a story by Gel
bart and Don McGuire) is full of
enough barbs and twists to keep the
viewer pretty well submerged in
hysterics for most of the film.
Perhaps even more, "Tootsie" is
a tribute to the versatility of Dustin
Hoffman, who plays as convincing a
starving actor as one might ever
hope to see on the screen, and does
an effective job as,a woman, or is it
a man playing a woman? Anyway,
Hoffman's is one of the best comic
screen roles in years. It also shows
with $5.4 million in 1,052 houses, for a 17-day total of $22
million. The fantasy features •the puppet wizardry of
Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets, and Frank Oz, the
voice of Miss Piggy and of Yoda in "The Empire
Strikes Back." '
es to retain his sexual vigor. His wife (Machi
ko* Kyo) has become dissatisfied with her
weak and unattractive husband and so begins
an affair with her husband's doctor (Tatsuya
Nakadai), who is supposedly in love with the
couple's daughter.
Ironically, the husband has steered the
young doctor toward the affair in order to
arouse his own jealousy and consequent sex
ual drive. The doctor first becomes involved
with the daughter in order to gain the family's
wealth through marriage, but he then decides
to pursue the mother, finding her more attrac
tive.
The daughter (Junko Kano), completely
neglected by her parents and played with by
the doctor, doesn't know what to do and acts
accordingly. The ending of the film is patheti
cally trite and heavy-handed, altogether miss
ing the subtle irony of the novel.
One weakness of the film is its lack of social
and psychological causes. Ichikawa presents
four equally detestable characters, yet he
does nothing in the way of confronting or
exposing the forces which have so perverted
their natures.
As it is, Ichikawa expects the audience to
accept the evil natures of his characters and
then follow the stories of their individual
deceptions.
what a dedicated, professional ac
tor he is.
Hoffman is ably supported by a
fine cast. Exceptional are Garr as
Michael's nervous actor-friend,
Lange as the troubled object of
Michael's affections and Bill Mur
ray as Michael's playwright-room
mate who has some of the film's
best lines.
Perhaps the best point I can make
about "Toofsie" is that, besides
being an expertly written, directed
and performed comedy that both
successfully examines sexual iden
tity and salutes the art of the actor,
it makes you feel real, real good.
Dustin Hoffman
Photo by Paul Chilan
Airwaves flooded
with shlock 'n' roll
As a middle-class young man in
his early twenties, I feel alienated
not• only by the formats of most
local radio stations but by the
musicians whose music is being
presented on them.
Take the state of the Soul/Funk
industry. I once loved this music,
but not anymore. If The Four Tops
were dead, they'd be rolling in
their graves. What ever happened
to the three-minute "can't-get-the
medley-out-of-my-head" songs?
Nothing featured on the radio
these days can approach the songs
that Holland-Dozier-Holland
penned for the Supremes, Martha
and the Vandellas, Tempts, Smo
key and others.
, The ballad and catchy hook
filled songs once associated with
the genre have been replaced with
a dragging bass beat and sleazy
lyrics. I can't identify with these
crotch-grinding anthems. And
quite frankly, I don't want to asso
ciate with people that have experi
enced sexual healing.
Funk makes me paranoid. I
keep envisioning myself 10 years
from now, an insurance salesman
in a checked suit and loud tie at
Mr. C's, trying to pick up a co-ed
while dancing to this stuff.
If I listen to the radio long
enough, a country rock song will
come blasting over the airwaves.
This is when I mosey on over to the
receiver and turn down the sound.
This is the type of music in which
dressing up is paramount to enjoy
ing it.
Sorry, I'm no good ol' boy. I
don't think the South is gonna do it
again or that Alabama is a hell of a
state. Where I reside (in the
Burgh) we drive cars to work (in
the rare event that one of us is
employed). We see horses on TV
once and awhile. And once you've
heard a "I'm-a-drinkin'-cauz-my
woman-done-me-wrong" song,
you've heard them all. Above all,
cowboy hats make my head itch.
How about '6os rock, you say.
Okay, the Doors have always been
a favorite of mine, even before
Jim Morrison got fat. But I don't
really feel any need to listen to
them in the 'Bos. And I can't see
why so many young people these
days are identifying with the
group as well as the remnants of
psychedelia. Are the radio stations
of today concerned with keeping
alive the ethics of the era?
If so, why? The kind of people
this music was written for are the
same revolutionaries who have
two car garages, voted for Reagan
and are changing the system by
playing Wall Street. Folks who are
really bullish on America. (In case
you're wondering, Timothy Leary
is doing stand-up comedy and
Jane Fonda protests violence in
video games these days.)
I must admit that the punk/new
wave scene is an interesting musi
cal movement. I think it, like
country music, has a place but
not in my heart. The extremist
politics of the genre always seem a
little bit too reactionary. If I wrote
a punk song it would be titled,
"Don't Send Me on Spring Break
Again, Daddy" or "White Punks
on Allowance." It's great music if
you want to snuggle up with a
leather jacket, but not so hot to
play while reading homework as
signments.
Not to worry, though. State Col
lege radio doesn't usually play this
stuff, and what they do promote is
Ichikawa's 'The Key'
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usually the worst. Their idea of a
punker, is Pat Benatar. And they
play the The Go-Go's so much I
need a vacation from them. Lately
they've discovered this new band
called the Clash. Well, I don't want
to rock the Casbah or the boat but
these guys are passe (What hap
pened to the Sandinista days?).
Oddly enough, the band is current
ly hotter than Hermits Hermits
over in the mother country.
The lack of sincerity displayed
in such local pop outfits as WQWK
is appalling. Members of groups
such as R.E.O. Speedwagon and
Styx are 30 years old. Do they
really mean it when they sing love
songs to 14-year-olds?. If they do,
shouldn't they be arrested?
And I can't believe how the
same songs are played on the hour
every hour. Sometimes, pop songs
like Hall and Oates' "Maneater"
really catch my ear when they're
first released., But familiarity
breeds contempt. Though I leave
my receiver on FM each night
when I go to sleep, does it mean I
have to wake up to the same
composition? It's insulting to any
body without a frontal lobotomy.
The area's only saving grace is
WDFM. It does a great job pro
moting new music. But unfortu
nately, rock is featured only a few
hours a day. If you want to hear
rock on this diversified station,
you must first sit through shows
such as the Buddhist Feminist
Music Hour and Dutch Polka pa
rade. I don't want to leave a wrong
impression though, this station is
the best in the area. There is one
show, "The War Bond Show" each
Sunday night which features '4os
music. Anyone interested in
America's musical history and in
laughing owes it to himself to tune
in.
Well, I do feel alienated from
rock, but I'm not so far removed
from it that I don't have some
suggestions for the people that run
commercial radio: Surprise me by
playing some ska, or reggae or
rockabilly. (Hold the Stray Cats,
please). Shock me by mixing up
your playlist. Do some research
and find some groups that are
addressing today's social/political
problems and male-female
relationships. (Do you really have
to be adept at video games to win
the heart of a woman in the '80s?
Do you have to be a machine to be
a man of the year?)
I don't want to turn off my radio
permanently. I'm sentimental.
I've been listening to rock 'n' roll
radio ever since the unemploy
ment rate was 2%. And I'm not yet
ready to give up rock for another
form of music. I mean, wouldn't it
look pretty idiotic to cruise my
hometown in my car on a summer
night blasting Beethoven's sth?
Besides, you can't dance to it.
Joe Englert is an 11th-term En
glish major and a columnist for
the Daily Collegian.
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