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Fleetwood Mac is finally down to their original number of
four, albeit not the same four, and, to celebrate, have released
a new album, Heroes Are hard to Find (Reprise MS 2196).
-The songs are equally divided between compositions by guitar-
ist Bob Welch and pianist Christine McVie. McVie's songs are
tight rhythmic pieces that have a definite melodic direction in
mind.
On the other hand, Welch's songs are essentially loose jazz
riffs that are bound into a coherent form by drummer Mick
Fleetwood and bassist John McVie. Welch's songs generally
sprawl with a loose vocal line over the riff, while McVie's
songs are structural units in themselves.
As a result, McVie's songs are more memorable; her title
song is great in all respects: a funky rhythm, a good idea,
and a good melody. Woven in between are Welch's laid-back
tunes, providing a fine counterpoint for McVie.
Fleetwood Mac is not out to startle, but consistently plays re-
laxing, tasteful rock with an understanding and sense of pro-
fessionalism that has marked the band's entire career.
-Harry Hammitt
Diane Markovitz, who will be appearing at The Ark this
weekend, recently recorded her first album, Horse of a Different
Feather, for Columbia Records.
In person, Markovitz is an
effective performer. Alternat-
ing comic monologues with her
songs-she accompanies herself
on piano-she is always enter-
taining and enjoyable.
Her record is not so success-
ful. It offers little musically-
Markovitz' melodies are usual-
ly no more than convenient ve-
hicles for her lyrics, an dherl
voice, when unstrained, has a
grating tremelo, like a cross
between Melanie and a womanI
in labor. Moreover, her comedyt
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Tickets are now on sale in the Union for a S outher Hillman Furay Band concert set for
October 2S in Hill Aud. The new band highlights John David Souther, Chris Hillman and
Richie Furay, who were formerly members of the Eagles, the Byrds and the Buffalo Spring-
field. David Bromberg will also perform.
Film industry excludes
wo-men"f, group reports
NEW YORK (Reuter) --
Filmmaking is a world without!
women, possibly as a backlash
to women's recent reluctance to
is an extension of her person- take only a supporting role in
ality, which doesn't quite come society, a feminist film confer-
ence here agreed.
across on record. When women do appear in
The album has its moments. movies, they are shown as "in-
Markovitz is capable of razor- cidental innocuous and unreal,"
Markovitz s and usually as whores or other
sharp satire-the sort of songs sex objects, often getting raped
Holden Caulfield would have written, if he'd written songs. But and beaten, the panelists com-
one right after the other, they wear thin. plained.
And this is a pity, since Markovitz does "straight" material The conference, "Filmmaking
well, too. The lyrics to "Prima Ballerina" stand as excellent U.S.A.: A World Without Wa-
poetry, and "Let Me Hold You" is a nice romantic song, the men," is running concurrently
M . s with the Lincoln Center F i l m,
kind Fred Astaire used to sing to Ginger Rogers. Markovitz' best Festival and is co-sponsored by
song, "The Streets of Montreal," is dead serious-but sadly, it the National Organization of
isn't on this album. Women (N.O.W.), the women's
Go see Diana Markovitz at The Ark-she's a fine performer. division of the Screen Actors
She's also a talented woman, who has a terrific album in her Guild and the New York Pub-
somewhere. Horse of a Different Feather, however, isn't it. lic Library.
--Brian Sutton I
about men - such as "Deliver-
ance," "Papillon," "The Sring,"
"Scarecrow" and "Serpico"' -
with few roles for women, the
panelists complained.
This may be a "subconscious
backlash to the self-exertion of
women," Hackett told the over-
flow audience of about 200 peo-
ple at the Donnell Library Cent-
er. "Film has really eliminated
women. As an actress, I'm
flailing around" (for work)."
Perhaps, "American men don't
like American women. Films :e-
flect this," film critic Haskell
said.
Filmwriter Perry noted that in
the Writers Guild, there are
some 2,830 men and less than
150 women; in the producers
guild, there are 3,060 men to
eight women; and the directors
guild has some 2,345 men to
about 20 women.
"Producers and directors say
they have their fingers on the
pulse of the audience, but they
have their fingers on their own
pulse and their own visions and
fantasies," Miss Perry said.
Top film and union executives
were invited to the even±, but
N.O.W. sponsors said none
came.
However, stockholders actions
are planned to take their com-
plaints to the source. Women
who have stock in Gulf and
Western, which owns Paramount
Pictures, are to go to sta~khold-
er's meetings and demand that
it draw up' affirmative action
programs for women to improve
their employment situarion and
their images in film. Since Gulf
and Western has government
contracts, it is bound by law to
implement such programs for
women.
Kosher Meat
Ko-op Meeting
Wed., 16, October
7:00 p.m-Hillel
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Among the panelists were
0 * * actress Joan Hackett, star of
This disc, The Foux 'Great' Toccatas and Fugues (Columbia "The Group" and the Broadway
Masterworks M32933), which contains performances of the two production "Night Watch;"j
D minor Toccatas and Fugues, the Toccata and Fugue in F Screenwriter Eleanor P e r r y,
whowroe-"David and Lisa"
and the Toccata and Fugue in C major, might well be retitled and "Diary of a Mad House-.
"Bach; Drawn and Quartered." wife;" and film critic M a II y
Four seems to be the mystical number the record's producers Haskell, who wrote "From Rev-
had in mind. erence to Rape: The Treatment'
Recorded as an avowed attraction for the quadraphonic buff, of Women in the Movies."
it represents an attempt to pour already well-established musical American films in recant:
material into a dubious mold. (The fact that there happen to years have been by, for, of ard
be four organs in the Freiburg Cathedral and the fact that
there are four "great" toccatas and fugues of J. S. Bach seem
just to "quad-incidental.")
The momentarily quartile Biggs seems rather off form, even
with the help of editing (badly done, incidentally.)
His playing, both choppy and erratic, justifies all the more
the suggested retitling. Ornaments and phrasing make no Now Accepting
stylistic sense, nor does the rationale for the entire project stated
by Biggs himself on the record jacket - the fact that Bach
"wrote just the right pieces." SPRIN G
There is no stoplist, which would have been helpful; but,
worse, there is no credit given the organ builder. Summarily rector
speaking, a record for the quadraphile made by a quadruped. Choreoa
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FRITZ LANG'S 1926
Im TF11 POLIS (at 7)
In this classic German expressionistic silent, Lang proiects us into a distant ultra-modernistic
city of the future, where the subterranean workers revolt against the capitalist rulers. Great
sci-fi, bizarre sets and fantastic camera work make this one of the most influential as well
as entertaining films of the 20's.
PRESTON STURGES' 1942
Sullivan's Travels (at 9:30)
JOEL McCREA and VERONICA LAKE star in this social comedy of a film director who be-
comes a hobo in order to research a proposed film, and through a bizaare twist of fate, ac-
tually becomes poor and downtrodden. THE HOLLYWOOD KID, short. Max Sennett.
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