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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
THURSDAY, JANUARY 19. 1968
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Mickey One' Passes 'Bonnie and Clyde'
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By ELLEN FRANK
One of the most rewarding out-
comes of the success of "Bonnie
and Clyde" is a reapprisal of the
earlier works of its director, Ar-
thur Penn. "Mickey One" - a
critical success at the 1965 New
York Film Festival, but a com-
mercial failure - is thankfully
joining inthe revival at the Fifth
FOrum.
""From the Star, Producer and
Director of 'Bonnie and Clyde' "
should not be resented as an ad-
vertising lure. "Mickey One"
stands on its own, yet retains not-
able* features from Penn's "Bon-
nie and Clyde" and "The Left
Handed Gun," a late 1950's in-
terpretation of the Billy the Kid
legend, starring Paul Newman.
These three films, which Penn
himself has said are his best, all
deal with violence, particularly
the crime-pursuit-capture pattern
directed toward the individual
whom Penn consistently refuses
to call a "criminal." The direc-
tor's unique attitude toward his
heroes is capsilized by a few re-
marks in "Mickey One"
Mickey's girlfriend asks him if he
really is guilty. He replies, "What
does that mean? Isn't guilt sim-
ply the absence of innocence?"
Mickey One himself is a
strange hero. His "crime" is ow-
ing debts - but he never knows
how much he owes, why he does,
who he owes it to, and who is
chasing him. Nonetheless, he
flees, from the moment the cred-
its end to the mysterious ending
-where one has to assume he
has been caught.
At no point does Penn lose con-
trol over this long chase scene. He
sets the tone with the film's first
line - "There is no place you
can hide - you'll have to be an
animal."
The Cryonics Society of Michi-
Mickey becomes an animal - gan will hold a meeting today to
turned loose and running by in- discuss post-mortem congelation.
stinct through Detroit bars and Boyce Rensinger, science editor
Chicago nightclubs. He is very of the Detroit Free Press, John
different from Penn's other Erfurt of the Institute for Social
heroes, because he is not at all in Research and R. C. Ettinger,
conflict or even in touch with so- author of "The Prospect of Im-
ciety, the law, the establishment. mortality" will be among the
Mickey is running in a maze of participants at the meeting.
the underworld of the mob, The discussion will consider
nightclubs, sleezy hotels. He is "When should the doctor give up"
not fighting anything, he is run- and "When is death irreversible,"
ning - and he never knows from among other aspects of cryonics.
what. Those interested in attending
Penn makes this isolation mas- should call 761-4916 or 426-4037.
terfully clear. Only rarely doesM
he need bother directly stating it,
such as in the scene where Mickey Martha MacNeal Zweig, grad-
seeks protection from the police, uate of The tniversity of Michi-
who reply, "Is it a gambling debt? gan, and winner of several Hop-
Don't worry, kid - there's no wood Awards, has recently pub-
gambling allowed in Chicago." lished two poems in the January
-music
Royal Philharmonic Potential
Marred by Lacking Distinction
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The Midwest Council is a co-
operative venture of The Univer-
sity of Michigan, Michigan State
University, and Wayne State Uni-
versity. It has received substan-
tial support in the past from the
Kellogg Foundation and from the
three universities.
* * *
Two University of Michigan
professors have been awarded a
one-year grant of $46,075 by the
Carnegie Corp. of New York for
interuniversity research on resi-
dential undergraduate student
units.
T h e project's co-directors,
Theodore M. Newcomb, professor
of sociology and associate direc-
tor of the University's Residential
College, and Donald R. Brown,
professor of psychology and re-
search associate at the U-M Cen-
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Teaching, have already collabor-
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have launched residential col-
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Vaclav 'Neumann, previous' con-
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performance of the seldom heard
Sinfonia da Requiem. Composed
for the 2,500th anniversary of the
Mikado's dynasty (talk of com-
missions!), the work was even-
tually turned down by the Japanese
on religious grounds and first per-
formed in New York in 1941.
The concept of the Requiem
has come a long way from the
religiosity of Mozart's Requiem
Mass, and many of the. greatest
Requiems were composed in the
nineteenth century. Verdi's Man-
zoni Requiem dramatically explor-
ed the possibilities of both horror
and sweetness in the afterlife;
Brahms Requiem serenely sent the
deceased (and occasionally the
audience) off into the land of sleep.
Britten was one of the first to
exclude the chorus and to compose
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Without human voices, the Re-
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with Britten's twentieth century
effort to more lament the scarey
wasteland of life than promise
the eternal sanctuary of an after-
life. A mystic like Messiaen, to re-
assert the religious, had eventually
to explode in volume and quantity
the existential angst portrayed by
Britten's music.
Another aspect of Britten's
music which is typically twentieth
century can be seen in the abstract
visual connotations that the music
evokes. How well the Lacrymosa
could serve as a sound "tract for
a film on Hiroshima, or the Dies
Irae for a documentary on traf-
fic management. Nothing could
"illustrate" Mozart's Requiem.
This intends not to demean the
music, but to intimate that more
sentiment exists here than the
music admits to.
There ought to be an interna-
tional committee to limit the num-
ber of performances of Brahms
symphonies. Last night, the ex-
cesses and torpor of Brahms
Fourth were only accentuated by
a reading which lacked linear plas-
ticity and dynamic modulation.
The University Musical Society
is to be congratulated on bringing
the RPO to Ann Arbor, and chast-
ised for its failure to provide pro-
gram notes.
Penn intertwines Mickey in a
dense, circular world, where ma-
chines, the mob and even his girl-
friend seem to turn on him. The
futility of running from the un-
known is wonderfully accented by
the presentation and representa-
tion of mysterious characters,
such as the deaf mute who keeps
coming back to remind Mickey to
cotninue fleeing.
"Mickey One," well known in
Europe as the best of American
films, is in many ways superior
to "Bonnie and Clyde." It is a far
richer film, employing every pos-
sible device, including music by
Stan Getz and the noises of the
city, to stress Mickey's strange
guilt and flight.
issue of "Poetry," "Poetry" is1
considered by many poets as thej
high mark of periodical publica-
tion. Miss Zweig's poetry has fre-;
quently appeared in "Genera-
tion", the campus inter-arts mag-
azine, and in 1966, "Generation"<
presented her in a reading of hert
own work. The two poems appear-
ing in "Poetry" were read at that1
time. Much of Miss Zweig's poetry
is imagistic, and is particularly
memorable for being freshly con-
ceived and cleanly articulated.
* * *
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W. K. Kellogg Foundation of
Battle Creek to the Midwest
Community College Leadership
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''Arthur Penn has made an American
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"'Mickey One' is told in stark,fast-mov-
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