Page Two, THE MICHIGAN DAILY Tuesday, February 17, 1970 Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Tuesday, February 17, 1970 35 win Nat'l. Book Awards cinema f Thirty-five books were named yesterday by the National Book Committee as nominees for the 21st National Book Awards. These Awards are made annually in seven categories of literature, "for dis- tinguished works written by Americans and published in the United States during the preceeding year." Announcements of final Award winners will be made on March 2nd in New York. Contenders in Fiction: Fat City by Leonard Gardner, Going Places by Leon- ard Michaels, Them by Joyce Carol Oates, The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford by Jean Stafford, and Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Contenders in Philosophy and Religion: Beyond Economics by Kenneth E. Bould- ing, The Unexpected Universe by Loren Eiseley, Gandhi's Truth by Erik Erikson, Love and Will by Rollo May, The Making of a Counter Culture by Theodore Roszak. Nominees in Poetry include: False Gods, Real Men by Daniel Berrigan, The Com- plete Poems by Elizabeth bishop, The Secret Meaning of Things by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Notebook 1967-68 by Robert Lowell, and On Bear's Head by Philip Whalen. Arts and Letters nominees include: An Unfinished Woman by Lillian Hellman, Alone with America by Richard Howard, Dr. Bowdler's Legacy by Noel Perrin, Voyager: A Life of Hart Crane by John Unterecker, and Reflections Upon a Sink- ing Ship by Gore Vidal. Contenders in History and Biography: Present at the Creation by Dean Acheson, The Limits of Intervention by Townsend Hoopes, Huey Long by T. Harry Williams, Zapata and the Mexican Revolution by John Womack, Jr., and The Creation of the American Republic by Gordon S. Wood. There were nominations as well in the categories of Translation and Children's Literature. Of special interest to the University of Michigan is the fact that two books on this year's list of National Book Award Nominees were published by The Univer- sity of Michigan Press. The books are Beyond Economics by Kenneth Boulding and, in the category of Translation, Andre Breton's Manifestoes of Surrealism, trans- lated by Richard Seaver and Helen R. Lane. Only four of the thirty-five books nominated were published by university presses. 'Gaily By NEAL GABLER Well, whadya know! It's an- o t h e r Coming-of-Age-in-the- Early-Twentieth-Century f iilm -that genre where the thesis, Innocence, confronts the anti- thesis, Corruption, both uniting in a synthesis, Realization. Bringing that to the screen, however, isn't as easy as it might sound. Along the way the film must be endearingly charm- ing and there is nothing more, unendearing than a film trying to be endearingly charming. The innocent this time is Ben. Harvey of Galena, Illinois. He is well past puberty and yet star- tled by the revelation that a "devil lurks in my bosom." So Ben, played wonderfully by, Beau Bridges (who looks like a youthful Senator Goodell), set off for the big city, this time Chicago, to purge the evil from his soul, an evil which, as you and I know, is only the primal passion of the red-blooded male. In Chicago he is befriended by a prostitute (Melina Mercouri) with a heart of gold (naturally), and he is too naive to recognize her profession (naturally). Lil gets him a job with the Chicago Journal where Ben encounters Life under the tutelege of vet- eran reporter and all-around character, Francis X. Sullivan (Brian Keith). Academy Oscar fno turning the century arts festival It's the same old story. How- ever, with this kind of movie as in most enterprises, there is a trick to success, and luckily, Gaily, Gaily, based on the Ben Hecht novel and now playing at the State Theater, has found it. I'll be damned if this isn't really and truly winsome. While watching it I couldn't help but- feel good. I smiled on :cue, laughed occasionally' and was generally elated. That's all very good since elation should be our reaction to this concoction. The trouble 4' with some pictures of the genre, The Reivers for example, is that the film-maker seems to have a sense of guilt in giving the audi- ence an irrelevant bit of fun. So he throws in a message guar- anteed to gum up the works. It's like putting castor oil in the coca cola. Norman Jewison, who directed, Gaily, Gaily, has more sense. He doesn't strive for re- levance. Sure, there are hints every so often, but each scene is carefully crafted so that no matter how freely the tear ducts gush, there is always an uplift at the end. For the sheer harmlessness of it all, Jewison out-Hollywoods Hollywood. As a matter of fact the film is so polished it looks as if it invented smoothness; Jewison really pours on the var- nish. But it is more than innonnces ominees j p I Positively Ends Wednesday VIlVIEN LEIGH DIAL 8-6416 smooth. It is huge as well, and although I am seldom impress- ed by logistics, the massivenness of the spectacle, with its ela- borate multi-million dollar sets, made me feel like the little boy at the carnival. Which is the way you are sup- posed to feel when you delve back into yester-year and es- cape from Nixon's America. It won't tell you what's wrong with the world, but Gaily, Gaily is fine entertainment, a n d thank heavens it doesn't aspire TmI By DREW BOGEMA Just who is this dapper stud with his cool single-breasted white suit, pinkish-red striped shirt, charcoal-scuffed bucks, mother-knitted tie, and purple- striped socks, whispering soft- lyrand melodiously through an unusually crowded auditorium with a slight Virginia drawl and quiet humility? Just who is this dandy T o m Wolfe? Is he not a man, but a left-over Greek? An immortal Homer reborn to discern and glorify the unrecognized wond- ers of middle-class and middle- brow eccentricity? A medieval epic poet reincarnated with a feel for the idiom and for style unmatched by the hack f r e e- lancers of our day? Whom else could have en- titled their art with the friv- olous sneer that is The Electric Wool-Aid Acid Test, The Kandy- Kolored T a n g e r i n e-Flaked Streamline Baby, and, T he Pump House Gang? Whom else could have dis- covered the likes of Cool Breeze, the underground motorcycle crazies of Columbus, the "Noon- day Underground" of London, or Bob and Spike, taxicab freaks turned avante-garde art collect- ors? Sunday past Wolfe graced the Creative Arts Festival gig with yet another delicious and giggle- ful series of revelations of American technological folklore. Trailing! Not on bikes, but with the down-and-out white-hairs and their septic tank crises ("Back to the Bushes For You and Your Family?") in the wilds of Northern California! Kings of the status-phere grooving on killer-do-it-yourself-h o m e-moat kits! An industry in Texas build- ing the tallest smokestack ever built, over seven hundred feet high, so high, in fact, that an engineer has to climb to the top every day with a gun sight in order to tell if the bricks were laid straight! Uniform freaks with West Point tunics! Multi- ple-shopping-bag tripsters! But where have you been Wolfe? We have suffered t h e drivel of two quite dry and col- orless literary seasons since the publication of your masterful trilogy, the one that brought legitimacy of sorts to the hip- ster, gadgeteer, and freak, clear- ly established the strung-out, run-on sentence as an art form in itself, and dethroned Mailer as the king of the so-called New Journalism. Why are you wast- 'Whisperers' to be shown The Whisperers s t a r r i n g Dame Edith Evans will be pre- sented free of charge Wednes- day, Feb. 18. The film will be sponsored by the Institute of Gerontology, the psychology de- partment and the Schools of Public Health and Social Work. It will be shown at 9 a.m. in Rackham Amphitheater; 11:15 a.m. in the Social Work Aud. and at 3:30 p.m. in the Public Health Aud. The movie depicts old age apd that which accompanies it, in a truthful and touching manner. to anything more. Ben Hecht, newspaperman, playwright, au- thor, director, cool-head, would have been proud. But what I want to know is: How come in all the time I've been living in the city I have never been be- friended by a prostitute... with a heart of gold (as if there is any other kind)? Maybe we city lads are supposed to go to the country to be taken under the wing of a farmer's .laughter. There's a movie in that some- where. A Volfe: A 'dandy freak Intellectuals defect from the 19th century image of a well- developed rational psyche, and become the new theologians and believers, not only of values but of tastes, and turn their camp- uses into monasteries. Everyone develops their own "cultural cache." The economy jusn't isn't go- ing to have room for any more managers, Wolfe says, and is likely to financially subsidize freakdom. And, as the birth rate has invisibly depreciated over the last twelve years, t h e problems of Youth Culture today will be transformed into the Age of Senility fifty years from now. We will have a ninety-two year old President. Corporations will be ever-anxious to discover th e eldie on the make. Three years ago, Wolfe says, he would have thought mari- juana would never be legalized, simply because, law enforcement agencies, unlike the 'Booze Age of Prohibition,' had tremendous moral backing. Today, however, he thinks arijuana will be legal- ized if only because "so many parents with clout are tired of seeing their sons and daughters arrested." Wolfe, however, refuses to play polemicist, ideological g a m e . He seems indifferent to politics. One senses within him a dis- taste for the simplistic radical whetoric of the day, if only be- cause of his incredible vocabu- lary, sheer sweep of knowledge, undying curiosity, and boundless optimism. Tom Wolfe doesn't tell you, plead with you, or im- plore you to do anything. This much, he says, is up to you. And one doesn't have to' pose t h e question - "What if he is right?" Just thank the cosmos that Tom Wolfe is very much freak- ily here. and MARION BRANDO IN The Great Screen Classic by Tennessee Williams and Directed by ELIA KAZAN Namned Desre" .... &.1 HOLLYWOOD .0P) - Midnight Cowboy and its two stars, Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight, were among nominees announced yesterday for Academy Awards. The 42nd annual presentations will be made April 7. Nominat- ed with Cowboy for best picture were Anne of the T h o u s a n d Days, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Hello Dolly and Z. For best actor, besides Hoff- man and Voight: Richard Bur- ton in Anne of the Thousand Days, Peter O'Toole in Goodbye Mr. Chips and John Wayne in True Grit. Nominated for best perform- ance by a starring actress: Gene- vieve Bujold Anne of the Thous- and Days, Jane Fonda T h e y Shoot Horses, Don't They?, Liza Minelli The Sterile Cuckoo; Jean Simmons, The Happy End- ing and Maggie Smith, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Nominated for best supporting actor: Rupert Crosse, The Reiv- ers; Elliott Gould, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice; Jack Nicholson, .Easy Rider; Anthony Quayle, Anne of the Thousand Days and Gig Young, They Shoot Horses Don't They? For supporting actress: Cath- erine Burns, Last Summer; Dyan Cannon, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice; Goldie Hawn, Cactus Flower; Sylvia Miles, Midnight Cowboy and Susanna York, They Shoot Horses, Don't They? Best direction: Arthur Pe nn Alice's Restaurant; George Roy Hill, Butch Cassidy and the Sun- dance Kid; John Schlesinger, Midnight Cowboy; Sydney Pol- lack, They Shoot Horses, Don't They? and Costa-Gavres, Z. Best foreign language f i1 m: Adalen 31 Sweden; The Battle of Neretva Yugoslavia; T h e Brothers Karamazov Russia; My Night with Maud French; Z Al- geria. Best song: "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie;" "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; True Grit title song; "What Are You Doing the Rest of Y o u r Life?" from The Happy Ending. Did you know that UNIVERSITY PLAYERS, that well-known, old-hat, conservative establishment the- atre has produced more than 125 ORIGINAL PLAYS in the last forty years? This co-operative program between UNIVERSITY PLAYERS and the DEPART- MENT OF ENLISH has involved such literary figures as BETTY SMITH, NORMAN ROSTEN, ARTHUR MILLER and CARL OGLESBY This week UNIVERSITY PLAYERS will present this year's PREMIERE PRODUCTION-SUSAN J. SHAW'S ESPERANZA ON FEBRUARY 18-21 IN THE LYDIA MENDELSSOHN THEATRE AT 8:00 P.M. Tickets at Mendelssohn Box Office Mon.-Tues.; 12:30-5:00 P.M. Wed.-Sat., 12:30-8:00 P.M. Phone: 668-6300 Seats: Wed. & Thurs., $1.50 & $2 Fri. & Sat., $2. & $2.50 vi ing away your talent and our pa- tience? What's coming down? And when? All we know is what he re- vealed Sunday. It's to be a con- temporary Vanity Fair, dealing in a sometimes autobiographical way with the freakines of that massatropolis we all know and love, namely, New York City. It won't be out for another year at least. It may emerge as a novel, or, then again, as non-fiction. He came not to speak of his own ambitions, however, but to present a vision of American culture. He has this incredible hunger, to "somehow encompass all of America." He also has this theory, that if you live in any town in the country for two weeks, you'll sooner or later en- counter a unique, distinctive phenomenon that is worth gett- ing into. And so he began a discussion of Youth Culture - 't'hat beast of forty fathoms" as imply the Madison Avenue creeps when they occasionally request Wolfe's presence and insight, the times, he says, when they give him the naive Cavalry lieutenant stare to the broad-shouldered rene- -Daily-Thomas R. Copi gade cowboy (the only who has come to save the day), the frightened stare that says in a glance - "Tell us what those drums mean!" - The sixties says Wolfe, saw the "real me" , phenomenon, sheer affluence, and oppressive rationalization of the economy. Unending tension caused by the conflict between the subjective nature of man's needs and de- sires and the prerequisites of the bureaucratic world-view strikes home to everyone be- cause "it doesn't take too much intellect to feel the denigrating status as an interchangeable part." Affluence, he says, has creat- ed enormous numbers of people who cop-out of the pressure to conform to the dictates of the social elite, and, instead, make their pile only to develop a status-phere of expertise, pow- er, or princely luxury. Business creeps - desperately searching for the "real-me" outside of work - look to, identify with, and emulate the swinger con- cept as developed by Hugh Hef- ner. College students turn on to dope and music and go hip. '4. 'U Feb. 17, 18-Tues., Wed. American Culture Film THE MALTESE FALCON dir. JOHN HUSTON (1941) Humphrey Bogart mixes work and romance in a unsentimental detective story. Mary Astor, Peter Lorre. #i NOW ATIONAL. 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