4—The Daily Collegian Wednesday, Aug. 31, 1983
U.S. Cup entries test new keel
By JAMES SIMON
Associated Press Writer
NEWPORT, R.I. Faced by the success of Australia II
in the America's Cup trials, the two U.S. syndicates
worked yesterday to install wing-like devices on the keel
of practice boats so they could test the effectiveness of the
Aussie design
"somebody's worried," Warren Jones, manager of
Australia 11, said after inspecting the wing -like keel
installed on Freedom, the trial horse for the U.S. boat
Liberty.
"Just four weeks Ago every supposed expert was saying
this design is illegal, and now here is Freedom with the
winged keel and Defender is up getting modified and the
English have one on," Jones said. "It's certainly unusual,
to say the least."
Australia ll's keel is credited with helping the boat
sweep through the foreign competition with a 44-5 record
this summer. Many yachting experts feel she poses the
greatest threat to U.S. control of the Cup in decades.
The New York Yacht Club, which runs the Cup races,
Biggins ready for Cowboys
By IRA ROSENFELD
AP Sports Writer
WASHINGTON John Riggins,
warming up verbally for the first of
two regular season battles with the
Dallas Cowboys, quoted Shake
speare yesterday to show his con
tempt for the Washington
Redskins' archrival.
"I come to bury the Cowboys, not
to praise them, so let's get the
shovels," said Riggins, who ad
mitted to wanting to say "some
thing cute" to get a news
conference started.
The Super Bowl champions play
host to the Cowboys next Monday
night in the National Football
League season opener for both tea
ms.
Riggins, who ripped the Dallas
defense for 140 yards in the
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had protested the Aussie's keel design but dropped the
appeal Friday
The .foreign final's were again delayed Tuesday due to
the lack of steady wind on Rhode Island Sound. The Aussie
boat is a heavy favorite to defeat Victory 'B3 of England
and emerge as the official challenger to the Cup.
Meanwhile, Courageous defeated Liberty by 49 seconds
over a shortened three-leg course Tuesday in their battle
over which U.S. boat should defend the Cup in the final
races, beginning Sept. 13.
Liberty skipper Dennis Conner, who defended the Cup in
1980 aboard Freedom, has guided his new boat to a 29-16
record during preliminary races this summer. Coura
geous, which defended the Cup in 1974 and 1977, is 18-27
overall but has looked good in the U.S. finals.
Australia ll's keel design apparently consists of a ball of
weight at the front of the keel's bottom, which then flares
back in a wing-like design.
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wind by changing the flow'of water beneath the yacht. It
adds greater stability and turning ability in tacking duels.
Redskins' 31-17 victory in the Na
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'Money' and 'Mom': Two comedies that don't
By SHAWN ISRAEL
Collegian Staff Writer
"Easy Money"
Rodney Dangerfield has come a long way
since the days he sold lighting fixtures in
New York. Taking his jerky mannerisms
and disgusted, wise-guy one-liners into
nightclubs and doing phenomenally well, he
opened up a successful nightspot himself. In
1980, his career skyrocketed with the re
lease of the album "No Respect" (for which
he won a Grammy for Best Comedy Record
ing) and the movie "Caddyshack" (in which
his hilarious comic performance won him
new fans among college students and crit
ics). And, of course, who can forget his
numerous appearances in Miller Lite com
mercials from the past three years?
Yep, Rodney Dangerfield is not just a
talented comic actor, he's a bankable star.
Virtually anything he puts his name on will
conceivably sell, and sell big. Unfortu
nately, the latest enterprise bearing Rod
ney's name is an awful comedy called
"Easy Money," a film that doesn't give
Sesame Street deals with death
By FRED ROTHENBERG
AP Television Writer
NEW YORK "Sesame Street," where the sun
always shines, will discuss death for the first time
when it explains the loss of the program's venerable
grocer, Mr. Hooper, in a broadcast this Thanksgiving
Day.
Will Lee, the actor who played the popular Mr.
Hooper, died of a heart attack last December, forcing
the show's producers to decide how to explain the
subject of death to an audience of pre-schoolers.
Other options were considered, such as saying Mr.
Hooper had moved to Florida, "but we felt we ought to
deal with it head-on," says Dulcy Singer, the pro
gram's executive producer. "If we left it unsaid, kids
would notice. Our instincts told us to be honest and
straightforward."
After getting, input from child psychologists, head
writer Norman Stiles prepared a sensitive script that,
Ms. Singer says, will answer basic questions without
alarming children. To affirm the continuity of life, a
birth is also woven into the plot.
Big Bird, who according to Ms. Singer "represents
the resident 5-yeaf-old" on the show and "asks the
questions a child would ask," is the character who is
told that Mr. Hooper is dead.
"We were advised to take the direct approach," says
Valeria Lovelace, the show's researcher. "Children
don't understand words like 'passing away.' "
Big Bird thinks that Mr. Hooper will return later, but
is told about the irreversibility of death. Big Bird's
concern then switches to his own needs.
"He's gotta come back. Who's going to take care of
Kool Jazz wraps up in Newport; Olivier studies painting for next role
NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) Thousands of
fans were delighted by "the first lady of
song" as she clucked and sang her way
through the finale performance of New
port's Kool Jazz Festival.
Ella Fitzgerald wrapped up the two-day
festival recently, breezing through Cole
Porter and George and Ira Gershwin, cluck
ing through "Old MacDonald Had a Farm"
and closing with "Mack the Knife."
About 5,000 jazz fans showed up for the
first day of the festival, which featured five
acts performing for a total of 6 1 2 hours.
Some 6,000 turned out for the final day.
"We come out for the festival every
year," said 51-year-old fan Bill Poleo of
Monroe, Mich. "It's the most beautiful jazz
singing in the country. It's got the greatest
lineup of any one we've been to."
The Chuck Mangione Quintet also head
lined the event. Also performing in the two
day event were Spyro Gyra, Tania Maria,
Oscar Peterson, Gato Barbieri and Sphere,
Rodney nearly enough opportunities to get
yuks as it could.
The story in "Easy Money" centers
around Monty Capuletti (Dangerfield), a
slovenly baby photographer who lives in a
tract suburban neighborhood in New York.
Monty smokes like a chimney, eats like
Diamond Jim Brady, drinks like W. C.
Fields and gambles more frequently (and
foolishly) than Jimmy the Greek. He is also
referred to as a womanizer, but this claim is
never really supported in the film.
Suddenly Monty's wealthy aunt (Ger
aldine Fitzgerald), who thoroughly despises
Monty for his bad habits, is reported to have
died in a plane crash. At the reading of the
will, Monty and his family learn that they
will inherit her department store valued
at $lO million provided Monty can give up
all the above vices in a year's time.
Monty grudgingly agrees to bid adieu to
his evil ways around 40 minutes into the
movie. The other 57 minutes are principally
spent on his "comic" anguish at having to
do without beer, pizza, poker with the guys
and cigars, and having to put up with
organic food, rigorous exercise, general all
around abstinence (Ugh!) and a greedy
cousin who wants him to succumb to temp
tation.
Rodney Dangerfield
the store? Who's gonna make me birdseed milkshakes
and tell me stories?"
David, played by actor Northern J. Calloway, reas
sures Big Bird. "I'll make you birdseed milkshakes
and we'll all tell, you stories. . .and make sure you're
OK."
Ms. Lovelace says the program makes the point that
every. .individual is unique. (Later in the season, an
older character will join the show, but he won't be cast
as a grocer.)
"It won't be the same," says Big Bird.
"You're right, Big Bird," says Bob, played by Bob
McGrath. "It won't be the same without him here
anymore. But we can all be very glad we had the
chance to be with him and know him and love him when
he was here."
"Sesame Street" dealt with what AU. Singer calls a
"milder version of death" when it broached the area of
loss and separation caused by Big Bird leaving for
summer camp.
Ms. Singer says that shows like these are designed to
"get into the area of feelings, without arousing anxie
ties." The Nov. 24 broadcast takes great pains to avoid
scaring kids.
"We left out what caused Will's death," says Ms.
Singer. "We have no shows' leading into the death.
There's no talk about illness or old age because, to pre
schoolers, their parents are older. We treat it all as
casually as possible."
The 15th season of "Sesame Street" begins Nov. 21.
The scheduling of the Mr. Hooper episode just hap
pened to fall on Thanksgiving Day, which pleases Ms.
Singer because parents will be home to answer follow
up questions.
the Rhode Island Youth Stage Band, George
Wein's Kool Jazz Festival All-Stars, Wynton
Marsalis Quintet and Art Blakey and the
Jazz Messengers.
LONDON (AP) Actor Laurence Olivier
has been learning tips from renowned En
glish painter John Piper before tackling his
next role.
Lord Olivier, 76, will portray the artist
Henry Breasley in a British TV version of
the John Fowles novel "The Ebony Tower,"
and filming at a chateau near Limoges,
France, begins next month.
Before starting work, Olivier took a lesson
on how to mix and apply paint, the produc
tion company, Granada TV, said recently.
"Lord Olivier says he thinks it is the best
role that has been Written for him for many,
many years," said the film's producer,
Robert Knights.
The screenplay is by John Mortimer,
"Easy Money" also features a subplot
about Monty's daughter Allison (Jennifer
Jason-Leigh, last seen in "Fast Times at
Ridgemont High") marrying a slick Hispan
ic gent (Taylor Negron), then leaving him
on the honeymoon night. Much ado is also
made of Monty's,cousin's plan to humiliate
him by introducing a line of clothes in
Monty's general sartorial style ( bowling
shirt, baggy polyester slacks and black slip
on shoes, for example) and marketing the
line as ."The Ordinary Guy Look."
If one word could be used to adequately
define my feelings about "Easy Money," it
couldn't be printed here. Let's allow two
words: sloppy and unfunny. Suffice it to say
that the film is a mess.
For one thing, the script (co-written by
Dangerfield) hasn't got one honest-to-John
well-defined character. Every part is a type
( the spacey teenage daughter, the smart
alecky kids, the clumsy groom, and so on
. . . ). Even Rodney's snide quips get lost in
the thin, uninteresting character with which
he's stuck.
'The supporting cast fares even worse
because of the badly drawn characters. Joe
Pesci, best remembered for his Oscar-nomi
nated portrayal of Jake La Motta's man
ager-brother in "Raging Bull," is so
peripheral as Monty's best friend he seems
to serve only as a receptacle for Rodney's
jokes. He really has no purpose in the story.
Negron (last seen in "Young Doctors in
Love"), as Allison's heartthrob, is so per
petually glum and inept it's difficult to see
what she saw in this loser in the first place.
Fine supporting players Candy Azzara and
Tom Ewell are also wasted in one-dimensio
nal supporting roles.
James Signorelli's direction is generally
flat and undisciplined, and the continuity is
atrocious. Worse, the writers and director
seem to have passed up a lot of good oppor
tunities for strong jokes. Most of the situa
tions aren't as played up as they should be
for such a light piece. There are a few
occasional entertaining scenes, such as
Monty mowing down a Christmas tree with
his new exercycle and a clever park bench
gag; but that's about it. The ending is also
abrupt and feels as though it were arbitrari
ly selected as the end at the last minute.
Rodney Dangerfield can roll 'em in the
aisles in beer commercials and on record
albums, but in the slipshod "Easy Money"
he has a hard time generating_eyen smqll
chuCklei: "
"Mr. Mom"
In the new hit comedy "Mr. Mom" the
author of the autobiographical television
play "A Voyage Round My Father" in which
Olivier starred to great critical acclaim in
1982.
THERMAL, Calif. (AP) Billy Steinberg
cultivates grapes in the morning and rock
'n' roll tunes in the afternoon.
The green seedless grapes grown on his
Chuck Mangione
University Readers set out for
Baltimore sci-fi convention
By HEIDI BEELER
Collegian Staff Writer
After watching them hitchhike across the galaxy last
spring with Douglas Adams' best seller, you might
think that taking their adviser's car to Baltimore would
be boring for the University Readers. Yet, with an
invitation to perform tomorrow at the World Con Sci
ence-yiction Convention, where the Hugo Awards for
science fiction are presented annually, the group is
anything but bored.
"To have our work recognized by such a prestigious
national organization is a real honor for the Readers,"
Faculty Adviser Dr. Tony Lentz said. "The students
have been performing,one or two science fiction stories
each Fall and Spring Term, so we have a close
connection with the literature. The group is excited
about making the trip."
The University Readers primarily use science fiction
stories for their performances. In addition to their
reading of the "Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy" last
spring, they've put on stories by Asimov and per
formed a story by former "Omni" magazine editor Ben
Bova at the Paracon Science Fiction Convention in
State College. Two Poe stories with science fiction
elements "The Man Who Was Used Up" and "Some
Words With a Mummy" have been chosen for
tomorrow's convention.
"Science-fiction literature is especially well-suited to
group readings, because the audience uses its imagina
tion to picture all the fantastic detail of the author's
Photo by Greg Bullock
viewer gets to see two performers right on
the cusp of stardom Michael. Keaton, the
hot comic actor who made audiences howl
with his frenetic performance in last year's
sleeper comedy "Night Shift"; and Teri
Garr, the pert ; talented character actress
who has played amiable supporting parts in
such films as "Young Frankenstein," "Oh,
God!" and "Tootsie" (for which she won an
Oscar nomination). While "Mr. Mom"
might just be the ticket for Keaton and
Garr, I can't help but wish a better film
would be the one to make them stars.
"Mr. Mom" is essentially a tired premise
given a bland, sugary execution by writer
John Hughes ("National Lampoon's Vaca
tion") and director Stan Dragoti ("Love at
First Bite"). In it Keaton and Garr are Jack
and Carolyn Butler, a happily married,
moderately well off couple with three chil
dren in suburban Detroit. They are moder
ately well off thanks to Jack's managerial
position at an auto company until, of
course, he gets laid off (or "furloughed," as
he is told).
Carolyn, having a college degree and a
few years of experience in advertising,
lands a consulting job with a prestigous firm
headed by smooth-talking Ron Richardson
(Martin Mull); who also has a yen for
Carolyn. Jack, meanwhile, has uneasily
settled into the role of homemaker and full
time babysitter.
Carolyn does splendidly from the start
when, on her first day, talks down the other
executives 'who are all futilely trying to
compose a new campaign for a tuna compa
ny. Jack mixes the fabric softener in the
same cup with the detergent, inadvertently
lets the kids burn the chili and causes
several catastrophic spills in the neighbor
hood supermarket on his first few days.
As time progresses Jack's future employ
ment prospects dim. At one point he even
throws a footrace to Ron in order to, as
Carolyn says, "keep the boss happy." From
there Jack undergoes a period of depres
sion, marked by weight gain, laxened house
keeping attention and an addiction of soap
operas. He is straightened out, however, by
his increasing fear of competition of Ron for
Carolyn. Get all that?
I can't deny that Keaton and Garr are fine
comic actors, and they certainly play their
characters with spunk and earnestness.
Keaton still has his gift of spewing verbal
and physical inanities as though they were
innate reflex actions. Garr is winsome as
ever and, in a refreshing change, she
doesn't have to whine or cry in this film.
Mull does his spoiled-rich-kid role justice
with his smirky, • self-centered quips.
Christopher Lloyd ( "Taxi") is amusing in a
bit part as Jack's fellow exec who takes his
father's 1,500-acre Coachella Valley ranch
are sold in supermarkets.
His songs, such as "Precious Time" and
"How Do I Make You?," are recorded by
such stars as Pat Benatar and Linda Rons
tadt and broadcast from coast to coast. Ms.
Benatar gave him two platinum LPs for his
contributions to two of her million-plus-sell
ing albums.
"I'm kinda spoiled," says Steinberg, 33
"The combination is what I thrive on.
"I always do my best lyric writing to and
from work," he says. "Half my lyrics are
written behind the steering wheel."
He said songwriting offered a way for him
to channel his "aggressive, hostile feelings"
as a youth.
"I'm a workaholic with farming because
you can never do all there is to do," he said.
"And you can lose yourself and your prob
lems and anxieties in it. There's a lot of
work that goes into preparing every year's
grape crop."
The Daily Collegian
Wednesday Aug. 31, 1983
quite cut it
sacking badly, to say the least.
The trouble is, no one in the cast has very
strong characters to play. Worse, they're
stuck in a pat, formulated story that's more
syrupy than Mrs. Butterworth. This stuff is
old hat screwball comedy, not done partic
ularly well. Every situation in Hughes'
script is dreadfully predictable, and only
because of the energetic performances is
any of the material ever really funny.
Another setback is Dragoti's direction,
which is listless and badly conceived visual
ly. He continually employs medium range
shots which, while okay for the occasional
visual gags, don't really permit the viewer
to get too close to the characters. Needless
to say, the continual reliance on two-shots
doesn a eaton, Garr or Mull to use
their expressive ' I features very well.
The film's best scenes include a poker
game between Jack and the neighborhood
wives for food coupons and a terrific se
quence in which Jack, fearing being de
sexed by revealing himself as a homemaker
to Ron', greets him at 7 a.m. in overalls and
combat boots, and brandishing a mammoth
chainsaw. There are also intermittent
patches of good dialogue. Most of the
scenes, however, are strictly saccharine.
The end sequence, in which everything is so
neatly resolved, is revolting in its cuteness.
Cut me a bieak!
There is obviously no doubt the makers of
"Mr. Mom" mean well. For the most part,
however, they have settled for sitcom-level
situations and jokes. While some of them'
work, thanks primarily to the acting, "Mr.
Mom" is, by and large, a disappointment.
creation," Lentz said. "It's like old-time radio drama,
a theatre of the mind, but with the excitement of a live
performance too."
Of course, not all of the members can perform in
these readings at one time. The 40-plus members
jointly select stories and decide who will direct them,
and those interested can then audition for available
roles. The five students chosen to perform for the
World Con Convention are University Readers Presi
dent Michael Burns, - Vice-President Linda Martinie,
Treasurer Joe Myers, Crystal Thomas and Will Friday.
Lentz directed these stories.
The University Readers has been active on campus
for over thirty years now. Lentz said the group's
attempt to stimulate the imagination of the audience is
important.
"It's my feeling that television and film have brought
us back to a false oral tradition," Lentz said, "one with
lots of surface glitter but with little of the depth and
richness of the great oral traditions of our past. We
don't want people to be passive receivers of stories as
TV and film directors re-create them. We strive, in our
own small way, to preserve humankind's greatest
asset its ability to dream, to imagine things that
never were, to make the future possible."
The University Readers will hold an organizational
meeting Tuesday, September 6 in 222 Sparks at 7:30 for
anyone interested in the organization. Members will
decide on stories and receive information on auditions
at this time.
Teri Garr
Laurence Olivier