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THE MICHIGAN DAILY rriday, September 22, 1972
The Candidate
State
Watch Robert Redford as he is
transformed before your very
eyes from a handsome, idealis-
tic, fiery attorney into a mealy-
mouthed politician! See Slimey
Political Kingmakers led by
Peter Boyle as they conspire and
manipulate 24 hours a day! Hiss
and boo as the piggy, conserva-
tive, nasty incumbent Senator
Crocker Jarmon kisses babies
and twists the Truth!
No O'Henry-type plot twists
here. The message is simple:
People in politics compromise
their ideals. Big surprise, eh?
At best The Candidate is a slick
piece of political melodrama with
smooth dialogue, some interest-
ing sequences and a good sup-
porting cast. At worst, the film
is a thinly disguised H a m m s
Beer commercial with one of the
lamest punchlines in m o v i e
history.
Don't expect heavy drama.
This film is for those who like
Redford and Boyle, who desire
some painless entertainment an
don't mind the Hamms Brex
ery's conspicuous commerci,
presence.
-ERIC LIPSO
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Where Does It Hurt
Michigan
Now picture this. There's th
big hospital, see, called Vist
Vue Hospital. The patients in th
hospital lie around all day smo]
ing cigars. They aren't ill, they'r
just taking a vacation and le
ting they're hospitalization it
surance pay for it. The medic
personnel are bona fide gra
uates of the Grace MacDonal
School of Veterinary Science an
Aluminum Storm Door Repai
The director of this hospita
played by Peter Sellers, spend
his time schtupping the nurse
paying hospital bills, persuadin
doctors to perform needless sui
gery for more money, and try
ing to elude the state medics
authorities. Sounds like a grea
idea for a Hollywood movie, eh
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weekend
Weekend Whirlwind
Local Music
ARK-Kate McGarrigle (Fri., Sat.)
BIMBO'S-Gaslighters (Fri., Sat., Sun.)
BIMBO'S ON THE HILL-Steven James Quintet (Fri., Sat.),
BLIND PIG-Boogie Brothers (Fri., Sat.)
DEL RIO-Armando's Jazz Group (Sun.)
GOLDEN FALCON-Evil Eye (Fri., Sat.)....
LUM'S-RFD Boys (Fri., Sat.)
MACKINAC JACK'S--Radio King (Fri., Sat.); Washboard
Willie (Sun.)
MR. FLOOD'S PARTY-Mojo Boogie (Fri., Sat.)
ODYSSEY-TNT (Fri., Sat.)
PRETZEL BELL-Honky Tonk Angels (Fri., Sat.)
RUBAIYAT-Iris Bell Adventure (Fri., Sat., Sun.)
Concerts
DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA-under the auspices of
the University Musical Society, in Hill Auditorium on
Sunday 4a2:30 p.m. ,
PEOPLE'S BALLROOM-Wild Boys and River City (Fri.,
Sat.); Art ensemble of CHI (Sun.); 8-12.
Drama
THE CAGE-play about the prison experience performed by
the Barbwire Theatre of California in Hill Auditorium at
8:00 (Sat.); in the League at 2:00 (Sun.)
Events
HOT APPLE HAPPENING-Michigan writers displaying, sell-
ing and reading their works at the Baldwin Public Li-
brary, Birmingham, 1:30-5 (Sun.)F
UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT
Wed.-Sat. 9:30-1:30
SUNDAY: Jam Session
3:00-8:00
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LUNCHES DAILY
* *art~7!iemma *
for-the-sake-of-money s c h t i c k
could be an allegory pointing up
current trends in the movies-
for-the-sake-of-money capital of
the world. Yes friends, art and
creativity go out the window and
on the lawn, while Hollywood
chases the big buck just like Pet-
er Sellers does. Some good laffs
in this movie from Pat Morita,
who plays a dwarf lab technician:
Otherwise, it's sick, sick, sick.
See this movie, or better yet,
don't.
-HERBERT MALINOFF
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Slaughterhouse Five
Campus
When Billy Pilgrim was young
and innocent and wide-eyed he
witnessed the bombing of Dres-
den. Later,twhenmiddle-aged and
wearing glasses he survived a
numberof other crises, butnone
which affected him so deeply as
his experience in Germany; in-
deed, they only brought Dresden
back to mind more clearly. Final-
ly, as an elderly man Billy began
to take the whole of it in stride,
and consequently his dreams be-
came more pleasant. The horror
of destruction was replaced by
the complacency of a cozy home
on the planet Tralfamadore, tot-
ally controlled by an invisible be-
ing with a soft, friendly voice.
An extreme, maybe, but so was
the _war.
George Roy Hill's film version
of Slaughterhouse Five gives us
Pilgrim's-or Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s
-life as a s e r i e s of random
events out of their proper time
sequences, which is the W a y
Pilgrim himself sees ithbythe
end of the film. Each event
ultimately has no more or less
meaning or importance t h a n
other eventshbut they are all to
be lived with. Hill's use of re-
peated flashbacks, and f I a s h-
forwards shuffles Pilgrim through
time and space gently, some-
times joltingly, though after a
while the process becomes te-
dious. Stephan Gellar has writ-
ten a witty, moving screenplay,
and Michael Sacks gives a good
performance as Billy. Despite
some extraneous and poorly done
slapstick and excessively stagy
sets in the dream sequences, the
picture should keep your eyes
wide open.
-DAVID GRUBER
Bluebeard
Fifth Forum
Poor Richard Burton will be
forever making pictures like this
until he stops buying diamonds
and alcohol. Bluebeard is the
same old story of the wife-kill-
ing madman, only this time its
been turned into a bitten flesh
flick - presumably to both pay
Burton's salary and obtain an
"R" rating.
By a strange twist of fate Joey
Heatherton got the lead female
role as the one girl who talks
her way out of certain death and
boredom. Heatherton, whose
voice you will immediately re-
cognize as Ernie's from My'
Three Sons, wisely tones down
her talents to keep consistent
with the levels of the other per-
formers; consequently, w h e r
there appears a brief halt to Bur-
ton's detailed activities, she dut-
ifvlly taker her clothes off.
I recommend this movie to
anyone who thinks the Old Ho.
lywood was vanished along with
its dead stars.
-PETE ROSS
Movie Orgy
Cinema II
Fri. & Sun.
The term Movie Orgy is a bit
of a misnomer, as most of the
footage is of old T.V. shows, and
it can only be considered an orgy
if you get off on Wildroot Cream
Oil commercials.
But even if you aren't sexually
aroused by this odd collection of
clips from 1950's staples such as
Robin Hood, the Lone Ranger,
The Millionare, Buster Brown, ad
infinitum, plus a number of pro-
mos for 1930's movies, old com-
mercials, and even clips from
such Classic Trash as Iswas a
Teenage Werewolf, the Movie
Orgy will give you a good idea
as to where your childhood (age
4-14) went.
New Jersey collector Jon
Davison first brought his treas-
ure-trove to Ann Arbor two years
ago, and despite the fact that it
ran for 7 hours, most of the
capacity crowd was still around
to shout for more when the
screen went dark, at 2 A.M. Since
then, additions and subtractions
have occurred, so that the pres-
ent polished product runs for 4
hours.
Sometimes you get the feeling
that having wasted much of your
life watching such stuff, its al-
most sinful to watch the reruns
of those reruns that you'd al-
most memorized, but most of the
time it's a delight to see how
really stupid everyone was then.
The original product is its own
best parody, so Firesing Theater,
move over, here comes the
Fifties.
-SHELDON LEEMON
Everything You Always
Wanted To Know About
Sex- But Were
Afraid to Ask
Fox Village
Legend has it that Woody Al-
len first conceived of filming
Sex while watching Dr. Reuben
on a late talk show. A great
idea, but how do you go about
realizing it? Allen simply de-
cided to compile six skits as
answers to various Reubenesque
questions: "What is sodomy?"
"Do aphrodisiacs work?" "What
are sex perverts?" etc., etc., etc.
The various conceptions of the
skits are often tremendously clev-
er, but once again the problem
of execution presents itself. Take
the "What is Sodomy" episode.
The idea of Gene Wilder falling
in love with a sheep strikes me
as a very funny one. But the
actual episode isn't much more
than one of those imitation-Love
Story Seven-Up commercials
stretched out for fifteen minutes.
Then too, Allen seems 1 e s s
comically sure of himself when
he's being self-consciously dirty.
Unfunny puns and double enten-
dres abound, most of the skits
just trail off towards the end,
and some of the humor is almost
kinky.
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Even so, Sex is a very funny
movie. It features: a monstrous
tit that roams the countryside
nursing people to death; a great
satire of Antonioni ("Why do
some women have trouble reach-
ing orgasm?") replete w i t h
Woody in shades and continental
clothes, sultry Louise Lasser in
a blonde wig, and Italian dialo-
gue; Lou Jacobi as a transves-
tite; What's My Perversion, with
Jack Berry as M.C. and Robert
Q. Lewis and Pamela M a s o n
among the panel members; a
final episode in which Allen plays
a sperm about to be ejaculated;
and many, many other fantastic
delights that no Woody A 11Ie n
fan will want to live without.
-RICHARD GLATZER
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L'Immortelle
Cinema Guild
Friday
Is L'Immortelle really dead?
Has she come back to haunt her
past acquaintances? Did t h e
car crash really happen? Is this
movie really about the confusion
of time? Or is it a camera-eye
objectification of a subjective vis-
ion?
Who gives a damn? Alain Rob-
be-Grillet's primary claim to
fame is Pour Un Nouveau Ro-
man, a critcial work that deals
theoretically with new directions
open to fiction writers. If only,
he'd stuck to theory! But, no,
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