The Michiqan Daily-Sunday, October 28, 1979-Page 3 THE JUGGLER Isaacson is 'ham'with apples at half-time By BILLY NEFF He started out with the rocks and bottles lying on the beach when he was a lifeguard. Sometimes these days he switches to peaches, tomatoes, or tennis balls. But to the audience of 105,000'that's his every home football game, Jim Isaacson is the blond kid who makes apples fly, the extrovert out in front of sec- tions 30 and 31 who juggles red orbs like nobody's business. "ONE GAME I did peaches," says the junior biology major from New Jersey. "They didn't have apples in the store. It was real juicy. I have in the past done tomatoes and squished them on my head." Apples, it turns out, are just right for biting in mid-. flight, Isaacson's specialty., Isaacson has run his one-man half-time show for three years with a difference - juggle or fumble, it's all for fun. "PEOPLE WILL boo when I drop them and I like that. I almost like it as much when they boo... I really enjoy.it. I'm a ham. I like the attention. It's fun; it's something to do that's different," he says. Half the pleasure of juggling is in the celebrity status it brings. "You meet a lot of people who come up to you and say, 'You're the juggler, aren't you?' " he says. "Some people will come up and tell me that it. was a good job." Isaacson's. act is expanding. He says he met a couple hockey players at Ilooley's last year who asked hith to juggle at their games. He was more- than willing, he says, to add to his audience. A2 theater's for kids, too Broadway's Most Honored Play of the Season' ~(Winner of Four Tony Awards r't Daily Photo by JIM KRUZ JUGGLER JIM ISAACON tosses apples yesterday at halftime. He has been performing circus-like feats at football games for three years. "SU: Budget deficienc prevented PBB diagnosis By CAROL KOLETSKY Eleven-year-old Erika Salit wants to be an actress. And until recently she would have had a hard time finding a place to develop her acting skills in the adult-oriented theater community in Ann Arbor. Three-and-a-half years ago, however, parents, teachers, and Ann Arbor Civic Theater members decided to help children like Erika who dreamed of stardom. In August 1977 the group founded the Young Peoples Theater (YPT) to provide performing oppor- tunities and theater education for children and to bring professional en- tertainment to Ann Arbor from other cities for family viewing. NOW ERIKA and other five to 18- year-olds in the Ann Arbor area have a dramatic outlet beyond their school plays. A place where they can explore their potential talent, learn, and per- form in a professional theatrical at- mosphere. The courses at YPT - taught primarily by theater professionals - include script work, character development, creative drama, musical theater, choreography, vocal techniques, lighting and set design, and stage and house management. Originals and mini-versions of major productions from melodrama to mystery to serious dramas are part of the YPT curriculum. The children are able to apply their new technical skills in the production of YPT shows. "The experience these kids are getting with tools and skills in- credibly increases their appreciation of what it takes to put on a show," said technical instructor Ron Cramer. A NEW HIGHLIGHT of YPT is its six-month-old Repertory Company, made up of 12 ten- to 15-year-olds, who, receive added in-depth performing ex- perience and training. "Its premise is like the Shakespeare companies. The same people perform and the plays are about acting," said YPT instructor and Detroit Attic Theater Director Jim Moran. "This way the kids show their acting skills to the audience - learning theater on stage before an audience is better than in a classroom." The repertory company's latest show, "The Three Musketeers," will open in two weeks and is already booked for 20 shows in the area., Now in its third year, YPT will be operating on a $75,000 a year budget, compared to a $3,000 financial base during its first year. The program has also expanded to include Brighton, Saline, Plymouth, and Ypsilanti. "THE STRENGTH in the YPT comes from the adults who organized it, because of their dedication to kids," Moran said. And the "kids" seem pleased. "I joined the Civic Theater, but there weren't enough kid's parts. Now (at the YPT) I get good instruction being a character and stuff," said Erika Salit. The courses are held at the Angell Elementary School on South University Avenue Thursdays from 4:30 to 6 p.m., Saturdays from * 9:30 ' to 12:30. Workshopsare also conducted Satur- day afternoons. The next 10-week session begins in December. EAST LANSING (UPI) - Michigan State University (MSU) says inadequate state funding of its College of Veterinary Medicine prevented researchers from diagnosing Michigan's PBB contamination disaster in its early stages. -W MSU, in a statement released in con- nection with its 1980-81 budget request to the state Legislature this week, said the impact of the PBB crisis might have been considerably less if it had not been for the budget deficiency. "THE MOST outstanding example in recent years of the consequences of in- sufficient funding was the college's inability to respond rapidly and com- prehensively to the PBB crisis," MSU said. John Welser, dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine, said MSU's animal health diagnostic laboratory might have been able to diagnose PBB contamination and give state officials more time to respond. "If there had been proper funding, one could have expected that the college or some faculty member, working with the state Agriculture Department, should have been more persistent in their pursuit of the problem," he said. "They should have reached a more rapid and accurate diagnosis. Films From Funnel/Toronto Filmmakers The Funnel is a 100 seat film theater located at 507 King St. East in Toronto. Run by a group of independent filmmakers, the direction of the twice weekly showings at Funnel, and the films that will be represented tonight, is in the experimental genre:-filmmakers included are Rosa McClaren, Ann Gronan, R. Bruce Eloer, Frieder Hocheim and Peter Chapman. Canadian film- maker Ross McCoren (Crash And Burn) will be present after this screening to answer questions from the audience Mon: INUIT FILM SERIES (Free at 8:00) CINEMA GUILD TONIGHT AT 8:00 only OLD ARCH. AUD. ... . . . * ' *. . .pt..1Ves ;.. xapENIQG5 SUNDAY FILMS Cinema II-Shampoo, 7 & 9 p.m., Aud. A, Angell. Cinema Guild-Independent Filmmakers, Films From Funnel/Toronto Filmmakers, 8 p.m., Old Arch. Aud. PERFORMANCES PTP-Best of Broadway, "D a," 2 & 8p.m., Power Center. Pendleton Arts Center-Sterling Chamber Players, g p.m., 2nd floor, Union. Musical Society-Boston Camerata, 8:30 p.m., Rackham Aud. SPEAKERS Center for West European Studies-Bert Schiebeek, "Post-World War II Dutch Literature," 8:15 p.m., International Center. MISCELLANEOUS Greenspace-Walkathon, noon, Huron High School. Gay Discussion Group-Halloween Party, 6:00, Guild House, 802 Monroe. Committee on Ethics, Humanism, & Medicine-Registration for 4th con- ference, 8:30-3:30 daily, 209 Tyler, E. Quad. Greenhills School Auxiliary-Tour of six Historic Homes, 12-5 p.m., 850 Greenhills Dr. Mich. Pro-Choice-March in Lansing for abortion, 2 p.m., Lansing's Riverfront Park. Hillel-Workshop on the Adult Children of Holocaust Survivors; 2 p.m., 1429 Hill. Hiking Club-Meeting, 1:30 p.m., Rackham N.W. entry. WUOM Radio-"Education in China," 1 p.m. WUOM Radio-"Press Shields Law," 1:30 p.m. Mich. Media-Dickens' Great Expectatibns, 6:30 a.m., WDIV-TV. Mich. Media-A Ticket to Utopia, 6:30 a.m., WJBK-TV. MONDAY FILMS Cinema Guild-Inuit Film Series: Fishing at the Stone Weir, At the (Caribou: Crossing Place, Eskimo: Fight for Life, 8 p.m., Old Arch. Aud. Ecology Center of Ann Arbor-Nuclear Power Series: Lovejoy's Nuclear War, No Act of God, Nuclear Power in Michigan, 7:30 p.m., Public Library Meeting Room, 343S. Fifth. SPEAKERS Macromolecular Research Center-Dr. William Gergen, "Unique Aspects of the Melt Rheology of Block Copolymers," 4 p.m., 3005 Chem. Bldg. Non-Academic Career Counseling & -Placement for Graduate Studen- ts-Kenneth Logan, speaker, 5:30 p.m., 3200 SAB. Lesbian Advocates Office/Student Legal Services-"Lesbian Mother Custody," discussion, 7 p.m., Guild House, 802 Monroe. Young Workers Liberation League/County Coalition Against Apar- theid-"Racism in the U.S. and S. Africa: The Corporate Connection," 7 p.m., Trotter House. UAC-Viewpoint Lectures, Jorge Palacios, "Chile-What Happened and Why," 8p.m., Union Ballroom. Oral Biology-Dr. David Smith, Univ. of Wyoming, "Neural Coding of Gustatory Information." p.m.. 1033 Kellogg. I - C INEMA II PRESENTS 1 ANN ARItBOR 5th Avwneat Libediy St. 761-9700 Formed Fifth FmThater MONTY PYTHON'S; LIFE OF B RIAN Fri & Mon 6:30, 8:20, 10:10 Fri & Mon Adults $2.50 til 7:00 (or capacity) Sat & Sun 12:50, 2:40, 4:30, 6:30, 8:20, 10:10 Sat & Sun Adults $1.50 til 1:30 (or capacity) Midnite Shows Fri & Sat I "The crucifixion itself is treated as a sort of Tupper- ware party, and ends with o'perky little song. -Gerald Nachman SHAMPOO (Hal Ashby, 1975) Warren Beatty stars in this sex force as George, the very heterosexual hairdresser whose love for women will not allow him to say "no" to any of them. Funny, etoric, serious and artistic, this film is one of the few to make the connection between private (sexual) and public (political) morals. A tremendous screenplay by Beatty and Robert Towne (CHINATOWN) incisively probes sixties morality in the light oft the Nixon era. Music by PAUL SIMON. With JULIE CHRISTIE, GOLDIE HAWN, LEE GRANT. (110 min.) Angell Hall $1.50 7:00 & 9:00 FT f Cab Coda Mugsy appearing thru Sunday 1k Tro II I~ Iif, /1,/1 rllll 11 Iiu 1311 inlII I