Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Wednesday, September 13, 1972 Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Wednesday, September 1 3, 1972 i 1 y Who (4 By RICHARD GLATZER Parades is an anti-war movie. It is the story of a camp of A.W.O.L. prisoners. It is the story in particular of Jerry No- vik, a crazy person. Jerry seems to have always been crazy, but he goes really nuts in the A.W.O.L. camp. $e tries to kill himself many different ways. He slits his arm. He pokes out his eyes. He tries to hang himself. He makes believe he is trying to escape, and a guard shoots him. This shooting upsets the other A.W.O.L.'s very much. They re- fuse to do what the mean army officers tell them. They mess up the john. They won't crawl like cockroaches to please Sargeant Hook. Finally a lot of people get killed, and that's the end of the movie. Parades make such statements as: children are nice; war is nasty; all Army personnel are sadistic, moronic, or sick, or a combination of the thtee; the world would be nice if people were nice; and, if you're, "Al- ways looking for God," what you'll get is, "A shitty pair of underpants." The Michigan Daily sometimes has several space limitations. So what I've decided to do is list only things that I liked about Parades. List of Things I Liked about Parades 1. Brad Sullivan plays screech- ing, sadistic Sargeant Hook. Brad Sullivan has a mouth large oves a enough to suck a grapefruit. He never sucks a grapefruit in the movie. (I wish he did) But he does scream a real lot. And he does open his mouth real wide. That's a lot of fun to see. Not as much fun as watching the Ugly Face Contest winners on the Dick Cavett Show, but a lot of fun. 2. The action of Parades is always being interrupted to show us shots of the klutzy cameraman and the klutzy pro- ducer who are supposed to be making this movie. At first I thought this was intended to show us that all of this killing and blood wasn't really happening. And to give a touch of Bergman to the movie. That was pretty funny. But near the end of the movie, the klutzy photographer flinches because of all the gore he's filming. And after that we see some policemen confiscate the movie these two yokels just made. It was then that I real- ized that this gimmick was sup- posed to make us think all the action was real! That was down- right hilarious. 3. One thing I enjoyed in a different way was a scene with Captain Jinks. Captain Jinks is a real yoyo. In one scene the klutzy producer and klutzy di- rector have the Cap'n listen to a tape recording of some dia- logue from their movie. Captain Jinks listens and he laughs. "Kids' stuff," he says. I knew that was supposed to be funny, because Captain Jinks is sup- a rude? posed to be real dumb and the dialogue on the tape recorder is supposed to be real good, but I didn't laugh. Not one bit. I did enjoy that scene too, though, just like I said, but in a different way from the way I enjoyed Brad Sullivan and the klutzy filmmakers. Kaleidoscope to the rescue Problems with musical instru- ments, photography, painting, macrame, food preparation, etc. KALEIDOSCOPE to the rescue. The Daily Arts page plans to initiate this new column as a service to answer your questions about problems in the world of art. Inquiries may concern any aspect of artistic technique, equipment care, or local cultural events. If you have a question that you would like answered, write: KALEIDOSCOPE, c/o Arts Edi- tor The Michigan Daily. LYN LARSEN at the BARTON PIPE ORGAN- accompanying the 1926 Silent Film Classic "The Son of the Shi e"k" starring RUDOLPH VALENTINO plus SING-ALONG and POP-CONCERT WEDNIESDAY, SEPT. '20 at 8 p.m. MICHIGAN THEATER E. Liberty at State ALL SEATS $3,00 Advance tickets on sale at the Theater *I Y eU _ I I U. U K Sargeant Hook's mouth rnv s nn-ar i j '49 w ".2y. t J f" y Choral Union Series The 1972-73 concert season of the University Musical Society will begin this Saturday with the New York Philharmonic open- ing the University's 94th annual Choral Union Series. Pierre Boulez, beginning h i s first year as a full-time music director of the New York Phil- harmonic, will conduct the fol- lowing program on Saturday at 8:30 in Hill Auditorium: Ber- lioz' "Benvenuto Cellini" Over- ture; Haydn's Symphony No. 31 ("Horn Signal"); Schumann's Symphony No. 4, and Ravel's "Daphnis and Chloe" Suite No. 2. Continuing in the Choral Union Series will be three orchestral programs: On Sunday, Sept. 24, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra under a conductor making his first appearance here - Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos - vill per- form Beethoven's "Egmont" Overture and Symphony No. 8, and orchestral excerpts from the "Ring" cycle by Wagner. Next, on Thursday, Oct. 5, the first appearance here of the Israel Philharmonic will have Zubin Mehta conducting the following program: Josef Tal's Symphony No. 2; Stravinsky's Symphony in three movements, and Dvor- ak's Symphony No. 7. On Satur- day, Nov. 4, the Royal Phil- harmonic Orchestra under con- ductor Rudolf Kempe, who also will appear for the first time here, will perform Richard Strauss' "Death and Transfigura- tion" and the Shostakovich Sym-' phony No. 1. Also included in the program will be a guest soloist, Teiko Maehashi from Japan, per- forming the Sibelius Violin Con- certo. On Tuesday, Nov. 21, a violin recital is scheduled to fea- ture Itzhak Perlman. Ko Iwasaki, cellist from Japan, will begin the second half of the Choral Union Series in a recital Wednesday, Jan. 24. A new name to concert-goers here, Iwasaki has won several outstanding com- petitions in Europe and has since concertized. there, in the F a r East and most recently in the Soviet Union. The next recital in this series will be given by George Shirley, tenor of the Metropolitan Opera Company, Sunday, Feb. 11. Clau- dio Arrau, famed Chilean pian- ist, who has appeared here 'sev- eral times,2will perform on Fri- day, Feb. 23. A special feature on this ser- ies, announced for the f i r s t time, will be the Mozarteum Or- chestra of Salzburg, performing on Saturday, March 17, the "Cor- onation" Mass by Mozart, con- ducted by the Musical Society's choral director, Donald Bryant. One hundred singers of the Fes- tival Chorus, together with Uni- versity faculty soloists, Rosemary Russell, John McCollum and Ralph Herbert, will be joined by Rita Streich, Austrian soprano, for this special feature. Conductor Leopold Hager will conduct the remaining portion of the program. The series closes with the London Symphony Orchestra un- der Andre Previn, conductor, on Friday, April 6. His program is yet to be determined. -- - -- MIDWESTERN PREMIERE ENGAGEMENT { ws G }. a FridaiySpt 1 ANN ARBOR - 8 P.M. A UAC/Daystar Presentation TICKETS: (reserved seats) $2.00 - 1.50 - 3.00 - 3.50 OUTLETS: Michigan Union, Salvation Records and Oracle Occult Bookshop (330 Maynard), and Ned's Bookstore Cross St., Ypsilanti) Sorry, no personal checks. z4 II IV I IV' SPECIAL STUDENT DISCOUNTS Moliere's Eugene O'Neill's intriguing comedy THE'GREAT DON JUAN }GOD BROWN PIOR TO.PRIOR TO B-WAYI Sat. (Mat. & Eve.), Nov 4 Sun. (Mat. & Eve.), Nov. 5 directed by directed by STEPHEN PORTER (Harvey, School for Wives, HAROLD PRINCE (Fiddler, Follies, Cabaret, Show Off, Private Lives) Zorba, Company) SHERIDAN'S SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL Fri.-Sat. (Eves.), Feb. 9-10 GORKY'S LOWER DEPTHS i+...- tam- 0 C- .3C . 14 <1 482-3300 air conditioned BIMBO'S ON THE HILL (THE OLD VILLAGE INN) OPEN 4 P.M. DAILY, including Sunday DANCE TO GSF PRESENTS A HENRY L. HOFFMAN PRODUCTION PARADES Featuring RUSS THACKER BRAD SULLIVAN LEWIS J. STADLEN DAVID DOYLE DOROTHY CHACE RUSSELL HORTON JAMES CATUSI Executive Producer HENRY L. HOFFMAN Screenplay by GEORGE TABORI Acc 4.... i ...... X1 IKI 'I A I A t"-*r:KITr I