arts Cullum to star in 'Cyrano' By JENNIFER EDWARDS Collegian Arts Writer This Friday night the Artists Se ries, Center for the Performing Arts will begin another season of theater and dance with a one-night only performance of Cyrano D t e Berge rac. The play is produced by Columbia Artists Theatricals Corporation in association with Syracuse Stage. Originally produced by Syracuse Stage as part of its 11th anniversary season, the show was a smash hit. From there the production moved to the Alliance Theatre Company in Atlanta where it also received an overwhelming response. The touring company of Cyrano is just beginning a ten-week run, bringing the play to 45 cities in the United States and Canada. This performance stars Tony Award-winning actor John Cullum as Cyrano De Bergerac, “a man who has everything going for him but his looks,” said Teresa Tillson, audience development specialist for the Artist Series, Cyrano is in love with a beautiful girl named Rox anne but knows he can never win her because he is too ugly. His friend Christian is also in love with Roxanne, but he can never find the right words to tell her so. Cyrano Comics to focus on world hunger By JERRY SCHWARTZ Associated Press Writer NEW YORK The funny papers will take on a serious issue on Thanksgiving Day, as more than 100 of the nation’s most popular cartoon ists devote that day’s panels to world hunger. The idea was proposed by Garry Trudeau, whose Doonesbury often grapples with controversial issues. But Trudeau has recruited as co sponsors two cartoonists who deal in less topical fare Charles Schulz, creator of Peanuts, and Milton Can iff, who draws “Steve Canyon.” So far, 114 cartoonists have enlisted in the project, including “all of the biggest names,” and more are ex pected, said David Stamford, who edits Trudeau’s books for Holt Rine hart & Winston. “The response has been great. It looks like pretty much the entire comics page will be devoted to hun ger,” said Stamford. “It looks like it’s going to be a blockbuster,” Caniff said. Trudeau was not available for com ment. But Stamford said Trudeau who had donated proceeds from his most recent book, a cartoon chronicle of the USA for Africa recording ses sions, to African famine relief came up with the idea, and called Schulz and Caniff. The three sent out a letter to their fellow syndicated cartoonists, telling them they “could have their feature Emmy awards to be aired on Sunday night By The Associated Press PASADENA, Calif. Here is a complete list of nominees for Sunday night’s 37th annual prime-time Emmy Awards: Best comedy series: Cheers, NBC; The Cosby Show, NBC; Family Ties, NBC; Kate&Allie, CBS; Night Court, NBC. Best drama series: Cagney & La cey, CBS; Hill Street Blues, NBC; Miami Vice, NBC; Murder, She • Wrote, CBS; St. Elsewhere, NBC. Best limited series: Barbara Tay lor Bradford's A Woman of Sub stance, Operation Prime Time; Ellis Island, CBS; Masterpiece Theatre The Jewel in the Crown, PBS; Robert Kennedy and His Times, CBS; Space, CBS. Best variety, music or comedy pro gram: The American Film Institute Salute to Gene Kelly, CBS; Late Night With David Letterman, NBC; Great Performances Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music, PBS; Mo town Returns to the Apollo, NBC; The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Car son, NBC. Best drama or comedy special: The Burning Bed, NBC; Do You Remem ber Love, CBS; Fatal Vision, NBC; An ABC Theater Presentation Heartsounds, ABC; Wallenberg: A Hero’s Story, NBC. Best classical program in the per forming arts: Live From the Met Aida, PBS; Great Performances Bernstein Conducts ‘West Side Story’, PBS; Dance in America: Baryshni kov by Tharp With American Ballet Theatre, PBS; Live From the Met Tosco, PBS; The Well-Tempered Bach With Peter Ustinov, PBS. Best informational special: Cous teau Mississippi, syndicated; agrees to write beautiful poetry for i ngton and Sins. She has also worked Christian so that Christian might with the Colorado Shakespeare Fes win Roxanne. What ensues is a tale tival and appeared in Genesius of passion and heartbreak, adven- Theatre’s production of Romeo and ture and romance, happiness and Juliet. sorrow. Cullum, Smythe and Gallagher To play the part of Cyrano, Cul- are starring in a new version of lum must wear an artificial nose. Cyrano adapted by Emily Frankel Nose designer Vicki Davis made from Edmond Rostand’s 17th-cen four different noses from which Cul- tury original version. Frankel (Cul lum chose one. Because of the hectic lum’s wife) wrote this version schedule of the performing compa- expressly for her husband, whom ny and the wear and tear of remov- she feels is the “grandest of grand ing the nose after each classical actors.” In her play Fran performance, Cullum travels with a kel has tried to eliminate material dozen replicas of the bird-like beak, which does not pertain to the mod- Cullum, who originated the role of era audience while retaining the old- Cyrano at Syracuse Stage, has nu- fashioned story to make the play merous other achievements. He has cleaner and clearer for her viewers, won two Tony Awards for the best Directing the-show is Broadway actor in Shenandoahand On the veteran Arthur Storch. Storch, who Twentieth Century. One of his more has been the producing artistic di memorable television perfor- rector at Syracuse Stage since 1973, mances was as Jim Dahlberg, the is also known for his direction of farmer in the controversial film The Broadway’s Tribute and Twice Day After. Around the Park. Also starring in Cyrano will be Cyrano began its ten-week tour on Marcus Smythe as Christian and Sept. 13,1985. “When shows like this Megan Gallagher as Roxanne, do tour, college campuses are a Smythe, who originated the role of very popular place for them to go,” Christian at Syracuse Stage, is best Tillson said. A college campus is one known for his appearances on tele- of the very few places that has the vision’s Guiding Light and Search facilities to accommodate a show of for Tomorrow. Gallagher is a recent this size. graduate of Juilliard whose credits This tour, however, is not limited include television’s George Wash- to colleges alone. “Most of the touch upon the subject of hunger, without being heavy handed, in their own way, without changing the char acter of their strip,” Stamford said. The idea, Stamford said, is “not to turn the (comics) page into a polemic or tract... . The real power of the thing will be cumulative, yith each artist dealing with the issue in his own way with humor, as part of a continuing story, or whatever.” The aim was to increase public awareness of the problem of hunger, but Stamford said the cartoonists also hope to have a more concrete effect. Newspapers, will be. asked, to donate space on their comics pages fo ads soliciting donations for USA for Afri ca. And Stamford said every cartoonist who had agreed to join the project had also agreed to donate his or her artwork, to be auctioned with pro ceeds going to USA for Africa. Schulz said his strips sell for as much as $l,OOO. Schulz said the response to the project did not surprise him. “I don’t see why anybody shouldn’t do it,” he said. Some cartoonists may not have had enough time. While Trudeau works less than two weeks ahead of publica tion, Schulz was within, two weeks of his Thanksgiving strip when Trudeau first called him. Some cartoonists whose stories are unfolding may interrupt their serials on Thanksgiving to talk about hun ger. Others may somehow bring the Cousteau Amazon: Snowstorm in cated; Tyne Daly and Sharon Gless, the Jungle, syndicated; A Day in the Cagney & Lacey, CBS; Veronica Country: Impressionism and. the Hamel, Hill Street Blues, NBC; An- French Landscape, PBS; Great Per- gela Lansbury, Murder, She Wrote, formances Judy Garland: The CBS. Concert Years, PBS; Missing... Have Best lead actress in a limited series You Seen This Person?, NBC. or special: Jane Alexander, Malice in Best informational series: At the Wonderland, CBS; Peggy Ashcroft, Movies With Ebert & Siskel, syndi- Masterpiece Theatre The Jewel in cated; The Barbara Walters Spe- the Crown, PBS; Farrah Fawcett, ciais, ABC; Entertainment Tonight- The Burning Bed, NBC; Mary Tyler Entertainment This Week, syndi- Moore, An ABC Theater Presentation cated; The Heart of the Dragon, Heartsounds, ABC; Joanne Wood- PBS; The Living Planet: A Portrait ward, Do You Remember Love, CBS. of the Earth, PBS. Best supporting actor in a comedy Best lead actor in a comedy series: series: Nicholas Colasanto, John Rat- Harry Anderson, Night Court, NBC; zenberger and George Wendt, Cheers Ted Danson, Cheers, NBC; Robert NBC; Michael J. Fox, Family Ties, Guillaume, Benson, ABC; Bob New- NBC; John Larroquette, Night Court, hart, Newhart, CBS; Jack Warden, NBC. Crazy Like a Fox, CBS. Best supporting actor in a drama Best lead actor in a drama series: series: Ed Begley Jr., St. Elsewhere, William Daniels, St. Elsewhere, NBC; John Hillerman, Magnum, NBC; Ed Flanders, St. Elsewhere, P. 1., CBS; John Karlen, Cagney & NBC; Don Johnson, Miami Vice, Lacey, CBS; Edward James Olmos, NBC; Tom Selleck, Magnum, P. 1., Miami Vice, NBC; Bruce Weitz, Hill CBS; Daniel J. Travanti, Hill Street Street Blues, NBC. Blues, NBC. Best supporting actor in a limited Best lead actor on a limited series series or special: Richard Burton, or special: Richard Chamberlain, Ellis Island, CBS; Sir John Gielgud, Wallenberg: A Hero’s Story, NBC; Romance on the Orient Express, Richard Crenna, An ABC Theater NBC; Karl Malden, Fatal Vision, Presentation The Rape of Richard NBC; Richard Masur, The Burning Beck, ABC; James Garner, An ABC Bed, NBC; Martin Sheen and Rip Theater Presentation Heart- Torn, The Atlanta Child Murders, sounds, ABC; Richard Kiley, Do You CBS. Remember Love, CBS; George C. Best supporting actress in a come- Scott, A Christmas Carol, CBS. dy series: Selma Diamond, Night Best lead actress in a comedy se- Court, NBC; Julia Duffy, Newhart, ries: Phylicia Ayers-Alien, The Cos- CBS; Marla Gibbs, The Jeffersons, by Show, NBC; Jane Curtin, Kate & CBS; Rhea Perlman, Cheers, NBC; Allie, CBS; Shelley Long, Cheers, Inga Swenson, Benson, ABC. NBC; Susan Saint James, Kate & Best supporting actress in a drama Allie, CBS; Isabel Sanford, The Jef- series: Barbara Bosson and Betty fersons, CBS. Thomas, Hill Street Blues, NBC; Best lead actress in a drama se- Christina Pickles, St. Elsewhere, ries: Debbie Allen, Fame, syndi- NBC; Doris Roberts, Remington Marcle, Peppermint Patti, Charlie Brown and Linus will no doubt be a part of Peanuts creator Charles Schulz’s Thanksgiving cartoon panels on world hunger. subject into their stories, Schulz said. Caniff said his story involved dev astation caused by an earthquake in a Latin American country, and it was easy enough to deal with hunger on Nov. 24. It is not easy to deal with so serious a subject in comics, Schulz said. “There’s always the risk of being (Left to right) Marcus Smythe (as Christian) and John Cullum (as Cyrano) star In Cyrano presentation of the 1985-86 Artist Series. things we present are not done ex clusively for colleges and universi ties,” said Richard Martin, manager of-programming for the Artists Series, Center for the Per forming Arts. Martin is in charge of booking the shows for the season. He chooses the plays and dance companies that will perform here from a wide variety of available acts. “You get to pick and choose what seems appropriate to ij tsao accused of playing with something that’s so utterly serious . ..,” Schulz said. “(But) any time you try to say something funny, you’re risking you self, aren’t you?” And in any case, cartoonists have no other medium to use. “We got no place to go,” Caniff said. “So we have to holler in our own pig pen.” Steele, NBC; Madge Sinclair, Trap per John, M.D., CBS. Best supporting actress in a limited series or special: Penny Fuller and Kim Stanley, American Playhouse Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, PBS; Ann Jillian, Ellis Island, CBS; Deborah Kerr, Barbara Taylor Bradford’s A Woman of Substance, Operation Prime Time; Alfre Woodard, Won derworks Words by Heart, PBS. Best individual performance in a variety or music program: Billy Crystal, Saturday Night Live, NBC; George Hearn and Angela Lansbury, Great Performances Sweeney Todd, PBS; Gregory Hines and Patti La Belle, Motown Returns to the Apollo, NBC. Best writing in a comedy series: Cheers I Call Your Name, Cheers Rebound, Part 11, Cheers —' Sam Turns the Other Cheek, NBC; The Cosby Show Good-bye, Mr. Fish, and The Cosby Show Premiere Episode, NBC. Best writing in a drama series: Cagney & Lacey Child Witness, Cagney & Lacey Who Said It’s Fair Part 11, CBS; Hill Street Blues, NBC; St. Elsewhere Murder, She Rote, St. Elsewhere Sweet Dreams, NBC; and Miami Vice, NBC. Best writing in a variety or music program: Motown Returns to the Apollo, NBC; Late Night With David Letterman Christmas With the Lettermans, Late Night With David Letterman The Late Night Morn ing Show, Late Night With David Letterman Late Night in Los An geles, NBC; and The American Film Institute, CBS. Best Writing in a limited series or a special: Fatal Vision, NBC; The Bur ning Bed, NBC; Wallenberg: A He ro’s Story, NBC. your theater,” Tillson said. “He buys what seems appropriate for us.” “Of the things that were avail able,” Martin commented, “this (play), was one of the things that was outstanding.” When shows appear on campus depends upon the company’s sched ule. “We end up taking events large ly when we can get them,” Tillson said. Cyrano will only be at the Univer- Stan is grand as 'Gaff's DJ quests for everything. As long as requests are in by 9:30 p.m., Stan will play them. With only four “Right now we’ll keep dancing our hours to try to please everyone, pants off,” Gran Stan, DJ at the stan formulates a program with Shandygaff Saloon, said. less danceable tunes early and Stanley Stroup, known locally as high energy later in the night. “I "Gran Stan,” has been spinning play everything from Led Zeppe the discs at the Shandygaff since iin to Madonna,” he said. By VICTORIA JAFFE Collegian Arts Writer 1979, his senior year at the Univer- j n 'Bos isn't hard to get sity. “DJs hadn’t really come into pe o pi e on the dance floor, though , their own,” Stan said. The Shan y- women con t ro l the music selection ' ga f was the first bar in State stan a list of songs to C^ le ! e M° h T Mir nr’ito dance to “The songs guys request ; added. Now almost half of the don>t want to B d f n ' e t J, he downtown bars do. “ ted .... ; Stan has seen the bar scene ‘ . . change into a livelier arena as the The high energy dance music of ’7os left and brought in the dancing ° d a/ Wlll not fo . r . S^ n . -80 s. “Music was more ballad- thinks we may be heading back to , oriented in the ’7os, with' the ex- more meaningful music He said , ception of disco, but disco didn’t that music always reflects current < get to everybody because every- events, and can also be a release - body couldn’t dance to it. Music and escape, has changed; now everybody Stan didn’t dream of becoming a dances,” he noted. Stan said that DJ, he just naturally fell into it. ; even movies have theme songs “One night the band cancelled at with a rhythmic dance beat, citing the 'Gaff and the bar manager in particular St. Elmo’s Fire,F- asked if I’d like to work. I thought lashdance, and Back to the Fu- it would be interesting to see what ture. kind of power you get.” Ray An- He claimed that people are thony gave him a box of record going crazy for nostalgic songs 5... and this 28-year-old political like the themes from Batman, science graduate from Bedford is Hawaii Five-0, and The Beverly still spinning every “Beer-Bash” Hillbillies. “As long as it has a on Wednesday, Friday and Satur beat, people will dance to it,"Stan day nights. Plans to leave State said. College are not in Stan’s near The highlight of the Shandygaff future, since he takes things is oldies, though Stan takes re- “week by week.” The Daily Collegian Wednesday, Sept. 18, 1985 sity for one night because of the audience size estimated for the per formance. “It’s hard for us to do two or three shows in a row because we don’t have the audience to fill a house two or three times,” Tillson said. Cyrano De Bergerac will be pre sented at 8 p.m. this Friday at Eisenhower Auditorium. Tickets are $l2; $lO and $8 for students and $l5, $l3 and $ll for non-students. Tom Selleck l ergerac, Graphics instructor enjoys students By ELIZABETH A. FRANK Collegian Arts Writer c. "Yes, I have bad qualities, but I won’t tell you about them,” Lanny Sommese says. " “Losing hair is one of them,” Chip Kidd quips, a junior who is in Som mese’s senior graphic design class. “Yeah, losing hair is bad for my ego, but I guess I’ll have.to live with it or without it,” Sommese responds. It is mid-morning and Sommese, head of the graphic arts department at the University and a well-known graphic artist, is being interviewed at the same time he is interacting with other people who come in and out of the studio in the Visual Arts Building. Behind a shabby sofa is a wallboard .covered with various graphic arts posters and a review of the Film Follies, the senior class’ final project of short graphic exercises that is open to the public. ; Because Kidd is up for the Creative Achievement Award, Sommese is judiciously overseeing all the details as he talks. ; Sommese says he always knew he wanted to make a living with art. In the 1950 s his parents had a friend who made $20,000 a year painting murals 'Back to the Future' and 'Teen Wolf' are the top-earning films Bv The Associated Press Rambo and the Steven Spielberg-produced Back Year of the Dragon remained seventh with By The Associated Press tQ the Futurc are the only two summer movies to $958,830. earn more than $lOO million, standing on top of the Here are the top 5 films at the box office season’s unimpressive heap. this past weekend, with distributor, weekend Cocoon rose two notches from the previous week gross, number of screens, total gross and number to gain sixth place as its 13-week gross reached $72 of weeks in release: million 1. Back to the Future, Universal, $4.1 million, 1,- The ieading films were otherwise unchanged 472 screens, $145 million, 11 weeks, from a week earlier, with Teen Wolf at No. 2on a , 2. Teen Wolf, Atlantic, $2.3 million, 1,310 weekend gross of $2.3 million, followed by Pee- screens, $22.3 million, fqur weeks. Wee’s Big Adventure with $l.B million, and Par- 3. Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure, Warner Bros., $l.B amount’s Compromising Positions holding onto million, 877 screens, $30.9 million, eight weeks, fourth with $1.5 million. 4. Compromising Positions, Paramount, $1.5 Volunteers was fifth with $l.l million, followed million, 574 screens, $7.9 million, three weeks, by Cocoon, also with $l.l million but a lower 5. Volunteers, Tri-Star, $l.l million, 764 screens, average per screen. $17.9 million, five weeks. HOLLYWOOD The time machine movie Back to the Future took first place in last weekend’s box-office gross and was gaining on Rambo: First Blood Part 11, the year’s top-earning film. Bach to the Future, starring Michael J. Fox, earned another $4.1 million during the weekend and boosted its total gross to $145 million in 11 weeks of release. ' Rambo returned this week to the Top 10 list for the first first time since July 30. The Tri-Star release starring Sylvester Stallone as the aveng ing American mercenary who returns to Vietnam earned $873,947, for a 16-week total of $147.6 million. J Soviet Jewry J Problems and Prospects Mainspeaker: J Congressman William F. dinger r * Sunday, September 22, 7:OOPM. HUB Fishbowl *L. - Yachad Penn State Friends of Israel - -k ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ ar~ Local Chapter ot the National | \ns Association of Working Women g I Meeting OPEN TO PUBLIC |j PC SEXUAL HARASSMENT OF CLERICAL | WORKERS AT PENN STATE 1 UtanYl a I ii— Speaker § Hh MICHAEL JOHNSON | Assistant Professor of Sociology g NITTANYI The Pennsylvania State University | □E Sept. 19,12-1 p.m., WESLEY FOUNDATION | 5 The Sisters of Welta Welta 3)elta .£, # proudly announce their “outstanding” •& # Fall 1985 Pledge Class: * #■ S Lisa Aburachis Caryn Lindsey . «j> ;-V Chris Banasiak Anne Lusk 7T Jody Caroselli Toni Lynn 6 Kate Curran Joy Macaffee TT - fci Carolyn Doring Karen Meyer +s* JT Lynne Faller Kim Montgomery 4^ V Andrea Gettig Kristina Olson Ja. V Jane Gerlach Lisa Rhodes ]T Becky Havadich Maribeth Roman & Stacy Hughes Debbie Rusnak IS* t» Lisa Josef Jodi Spiller IT Carol Kellner Debbie Staulder 4s, 7*“ Kathy Kistler Teresa Troup Carol Kleban Traci West 2 # 5 Congratulations to a class with “class” 4 jL SjL ® 0154 on walls. “I thought that was a lot of money,” he says. Since he was in high school, Sommese has been doing free lance work. At the University of Florida where he received a bachelor of design degree, he had a wonderful painting instructor, which made him decide to spend an extra year there getting a bachelor of fine arts degree in paint ing. He arrived at the University after leaving the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and took a cut in pay because his freelance accounts and assistantship paid so well. “I think, with some exceptions, teaching is very rewarding,” he says, adding that, like everything else, it has its highs and lows. Though he prefers the highs, Sommese tends to evaluate himself on the basis of the least competent student he is teach ing rather than the best. “There are a number of people who will be good no matter what I do,” he explains. “Three or four students will be in the middle and two or three I can help a lot.” In fact, Sommese says he wants every senior to get a job. “I’m a competitive person. I want the pro gram here to be the best.” To indicate the program’s success, everyone in the class of 1984 has a job. Producing quality graphic designers is a must because Sommese claims the market is flooded with them. “Hey, did you see this?” Sommese says to Kidd, pointing to a small graphic illustration of Charlie Chap lin on a page from the April 1, 1985 issue of Time magazine, which is posted on the wall. Sommese explains it was done by Dave Herbick, one of his old students. Anywhere from 45 to 65 students apply to the graphic arts program when they are sophomores, he notes. About 24 students are chosen and generally six to eight drop out be cause it is too rigorous for them. Yet, for those who do stay, the teacher/student experience proves rewarding. “He!s great teacher,” Kidd says. “Without him this place would be nowhere.” The respect seems to be mutual. “I find my stu dents more interesting than the fac ulty. I find artists boring. I don’t socialize with them,” he says. “I think I’m a pretty social per son,” he adds. “ Tonight I have my pool league and the town volleyball league.” • Hofbrcw • • gives you over • l 45% more pizzo • • than Domino's Hi • A A J ★ UUed. Special large For the price of a q medium! A J ★ We accept Domino's Coupons ? ★ Collegian Coupons W & F £ J ★ Pay for Pizza, not national advertising £ • • 5 Hofbrau Pizzo • • express • : 234-9000 : A ‘Comparison by uugt. of Lg. Plain and Lg. Pepperoni A “No pain, no gain” is his motto. “If you’re competitive and achieve well, you should be rewarded,” he says. And the rewards at Penn State are not directly proportional, he states. “I prefer the corporate model do what you’re hired to do or you’re fired.” Sommese sees himself as the kind of guy who works day-to-day, doing the best he can and adhering to the work ethic. “I grew up in a work ethic situation,” he explains, “and I tend to get very uncomfortable when I’m not working.” In his spare time, he collects chil dren’s illustrated books, metal wind up toys and board games. “I have 100 board games on the living room walls from floor to ceiling and another 300 stored in the basement,” he says, explaining that he likes them for their graphic design. Yet, in the end, it is his work that commands most of Sommese’s atten tion. “In Washington, D.C. or New York City they would charge ten times what I do,” he adds. 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