The Michigan Daily-Thursday, February 23, 1978-Page 5
ARTS ARCADE .. . a weekly roundup
Oscar Hopefuls
LOS ANGELES - The Academy of.
Motion Picture Arts and Sciences an-
nounced their nominations on Tuesday
for the 1978 Academy Awards, to be
held on April 3. Nominatigns for best
picture:,
" Annie Hall
" The Turning Point
* The Goodbye Girl
* Julia
" Star Wars
Nominees for best actress:-
" Diane Keaton, for Annie Hall
,Jane Fonda, for Julia
* Anne Bancroft, for The Turning
Point
* Shirley MacLaine, for The Turning
Point
" Marsha Mason, for The Goodbye
Girl
Nominees for best actor:
" Woody Allen, for Annie Hall
" John Travolta, for Sturday Night
Fevei
The art of selling crafts
ALBUQUERQUE - Mantled in
blankets, the Indian woman sits silently
as tourists examine the hand-mpde
jewelry she displays for sale on/the
sidewalk of Old Town Plaza.
Tourists come and go, with or without
a purchase, against a backdrop of
adobe buildings and towering moun-
tains. The patient Pueblo woman re-
mains, motionless, speaking only when
spoken to, answering questions in a few
soft words.
The stoic round-faced woman is one
of many selling their wares in similar
fashion nearly year-round in Albuquer-
que and Santa Fe, N.M.
Other vendors are seen at regularly
scheduled Indian fairs in New Mexico's
19 pueblos and in such communities as
Gallup and Shiprock, N.M., Casa Gran-
de, Flagstaff and Window Rock, Ariz.
The solitary woman, a scene memor-
able to tourists, symbolizes what has
become an international industry - the
underwent plastic surgery in Orlando
Jan. 31 to make him look like the late
Elvis Presley, will make his first public
appearance on ABC Television's "Good
Morning America" program.
"He looks like Elvis," proclaimed his
manager, Danny O'Day, who said Wise
underwent additional surgery Monday
to correct his lower lip.
"We took off some of the bandages
and everything looked good," O'Day
said Friday. "His nose was good, his
chin was perfect, but his bottom lip was
drawn in. Now it looks great, he's got
that pouty look that Presley had."
Wise, originally from Joplin, Mo.,
will go on the road with an Elvis imita-
tion act and says he will use money he
makes to establish an Elvis museum.
O'Day said Wise's guture bookings
"are looking good. But we've held off
until we show the kid. We've really had
a strong response from Vegas."
Don 'tthey grow
grapes there?
SALINAS, Calif. - John Steinbeck's
hometown, which shunned him during
his lifetime because of his writings
about his neighbors and community,
finally has decided to honor him nearly
a decade after his death.
The world-famous novelist, winner of
both the Nobel and Pulitzer prizes and'
author of The Grapes Of Wrath, Tortilla
Flat, Of Mice And Men and East Of
Eden, was luried in a family plot in
Salinas in 1969. A cemetery attendant
said at the time: "There was hardly
anyone here."
But times have changed and many of
the oldtimers, w1jo resented his work
and sympathetic views toward migrant
workers in this agricultural area, have
died. And on Feb. 27 the Steinbeck
Foundation and radio station KDON
are sponsoring events to honor the
author's76th birthday.
"For years and years, some locals
hated his guts because he told stories
they didn't want spread around the
world, and apparently a lot of it was the
truth," Dick Mason, assistant news
director of KDON, said Wednesday.
"But younger people don't look at it
so much as skeletons being exposed as
the fact that their ancestors are inter-
nationally known. You go all over the
world and mention Salinas and people
know wheresyou're from."
Public lines up as
Haldeman "tells all"
beNEW YORK - The public's thirst for
behind-the-scenes goings-on at the
White House during the Watergate
scandal apparently hasn't been quen-
ched, despite the publication of nearly
60 books.
The latest, by former White House
chief of staff H.R. Haldeman, has set
off ripples in publishing ponds.
start Monday.
On Thursday, The Washington Post
published material from the final two-
thirds of the book. Editor Benjamin C.
Bradlee would not say where the paper
obtained the partial manuscript, other
than, "We got itfrom someone whose
name you don't know, whose affiliation
you don't know."
Hours later, Newsweek released
some of its 30,000 words of excerpts,
which will appear in two installments
beginning in Monday's issue.
Newsweek officials confirmed that the
magazine had contracted to pay
$125,000 for rights to the material.
The Arts Arcade was compiled
from the wires of AP and UPI and
by Arts staffers Pat Fabrizio, Owen
Gleiberman, Mark Johansson,
Peter Manis, Jeff Selbst and Tim
Yagle.
Diamond jubilee AP Photo
Edgar Bergen, famed ventriloquist, celebrated his 75th birthday Wednesday
night with his "family." From left: Charlie McCarthy, Bergen's radio side-
kick, son Kris, wife Frances, and daughter, actress Candace.
The Ends of Power was released to
bookstores Friday - 10 days ahead of
Times Books' scheduled publication
date - because parts of the closely
guarded book had been leaked to the
press.
Among other things, Haldeman says
in the book that he believes President
Nixon set the wheels in motion for the
Watergate break-in, that Nixon was in-
volved in the coverup "from Day One,"
and that the Soviets once proposed a
nuclear strike on China's atomic
facilities.
One New York bookstore, Brentano's,
ordered 2,000 copies for its Fifth,
Avenue store, compared with an
average order of about 75 volumes for a
non-fiction book. A clerk described
sales Friday as "steady." In Washing-
ton "people were lined up as soon as the
book hit the dock," said Jose Gonzales
of District News Co., the only local
distributor. Before half of his 10,000-
book shipment was gone, Gonzales had
called the publisher to order more.
The book was expected to reach
stores in other cities today, with the
delay blamel on problems related to
shipping some 275,000 copies on short
notice.
A number of factors are expected to
spur sales of the 352-page, $12.95 book,
which is Haldeman's account of the
Richard Nixon presidency and the
Watergate affair:
" Nixon has kept much to himself sin-
ce his August 1974 resignation. In fact,
callers to his home in San Clemente,
Calif., seeking reaction to the
Haldeman book were greeted with a
tape recording that said only, "Nixon's
book will come out in May."
, Haldeman, who worked on Nixon's
behalf for some 17 years,'was closer,
than most to the nation's 37th president.
* There was extensive media
coverage of the leak and subsequent
worries by newspapers and magazines
that had contracted for excerpts to
MENDELSSOHN THEATRE
SUN., FEB. 26, . 2&B8pm
GuestArtit Series
'I'1).eFeaturing
JAMES H.HAWTHORNE
Guest Artist-in-Residence
Wt1 e IAWed--Sat. March1-4.8pm
Power Center
A Play by Howard Sackler
Pulitzer Prize Winner Tony Award - Best Play
NYK Drama Critics'Award
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POE TAUT HOR:
The Old Ways, EarthI Household,
Regarding Wave, Turtle Island
Gary Snyder writes in his introductory note that
Turtle Island is "the old/new name for the con-
tinent, based on many creation myths of the ?
people who have been here for millennia, and
reapplied by some of them to 'North America'
in recent years." The nearly five dozen poems
in the book range from the lucid, lyrical, almost mystical to the mytho-biotic,
while a few are frankly political. All, however, share a common vision: a
rediscovery of this land and the ways by which we might become natives of
the place, ceasing to think and act (after all these centuries) as newcomers
and invaders. A tentative cross-fertilization of ecological thought with Buddhist
ideas of interpenetration is also suggested, reflecting the poet's own life with
his family and comrades in the foothills of the California Sierras.
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A break in the day AP Photo
Pope Paul VI's audience this week included members of Italy's Medrano Cir-
cus. Behind this juggler is artist Pericle Fazzini's recently-installed sculpture
of Christ.
" Marcello Mastrianni, for A Special
Day
" Richard Dreyfuss, for The Goodbye
Girl
+ Richard Burton, for Equus
Nominees for best director:
* Woody Allen, for Annie Hall
" Steven Spielberg, for Close Encoun-
ters of the Third Kind
" George Lucas, for Star Wars
" Herbert Ross, for The Turning
Point
" Fred Zinnemann, for Julia
Nominees for best supporting actor:
" Alec Guiness, for Star Wars
Mikhail Baryshnikov, for The Turn-
ing Point
" Maximilian Schell, for Julia
" Peter Firth, for Equus
*-Jason Robards, for Julia
Nominees for best supporting ac-
tress:
" Quinn Cummings, for The Goodbye
Girl
" Melinda Dillon, for Close Encoun-
ters of the Third Kind
" Tuesday Weld, for Looking For Mr.
Goodbar
" Vanessa Redgrave, for Julia
" Leslie Browne, for The Turning
Point
Woody Allen, who received nomina-
tions for best actor, best original
screenplay, and best director, is the
only person to have received nomina-
tions for all three since Orson Welles
staged his legendary one-man show,
Citizen Kane, in 1941. Among the top
nomination-getters were Star Wars,
with 10, and Close Encounters, which
ended up with eight nominations
despite its conspicuous absence from
the "best picture" category.
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making and marketing of Indian and
Indian-style arts and crafts.
Once functional, ceremonial and or-'
namental, often traded or bartered for
supplies and foodstuffs, Indian handi-
crafts today are marketed nearly the
world over from drug stores to some of
the nation's highest prices specialty
shops.
Its dollar value is difficult to assess,
The state attorney general's office said
a manufacturer of Indian-style costume
jewelry estimated $700 million worth of
authentic and non-authentic Indian jew-
elry was sold in 1976. Another source
estimated the worth of authentic jewel-
ry sold in the peak year of 1974 to be
$750 million.
It's a living
OCALA, Fla. - Dennis Wise, 24, who
Enjoy THE GOOD COMPANY of Susan Sneider, Gabe Kaimowitz,
perhaps Meg Gilbert, even Charles Stallmqn reading The Lady Is The
Tiger and other works by hgk after 8 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 23, at the
GUILD HOUSE, 802 Monroe.
RELATIVELY SPEAKING-hgk
Two trains tunnel through my darkness
thoughts, in opposite directions.
They would end the world between them
excapt they move on different nights.
POETRY READING with
DIANNA SABBATH, GABE KAIMOWITZ,
CHARLES STALLMAN, and SUSAN SN EIDER
readings from their work
Thursday, Feb. 23-7:30 p.m.
at GUILD HOUSE
Refreshments 802 MON ROE(corner of Oakland)
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READING-Friday 8 p.m., February 24
Rackham Auditorium
Ethics & Religion, G-513 Union, 764-7442
Changes in Chile:
From Allende to Pinochet
A series of lectures and discussions on education and public
health in Chile.
Thursday, February 23
"THE UNIVERSIYBEFORE AND AFTER THE COUP"
7:30 PM, Michigan Union Ballroom
SPEAKERS:
ENRIQUE KIRKBERG, former Rector of the State Technical
University in Santiago.
CLAUDIO GROSSMAN, former member of the executive
council of the University of Chile and President of the Law Students
Federation there.
A discussion of the university reforms instituted before and during the Allende
years, the state of the siege the universities suffered after the 1973 coup, and
the institutionalization of fascist education in Chile today.
Friday, February 24
"SCIENCE AND IMPERIALISM: THE POLITICS OF
NUTRITION RESEARCH IN CHILE
AND THE THIRD WORLD"
12:00-2:00 PM, 1035 Angell Hall
SPEAKERS:
GIORGIO SOLIMANO, eminent nutritionist and former
director of Allende's free milk distribution program.
MICHAEL TAUSSIG, Assistant Professor of Anthropology,
University of Michigan.
A discussion of how U.S.-funded scientific research helps perpetuate social
inequities and the social basis of hunger and starvation in Third World countries,
taking as one example among others the research and consulting work of the
Community Systems Foundation (CSF), headquartered in Ann Arbor. CSF consists
of University of Michigan faculty and graduate students from Natural Resources,
Engineering, Education, Geography, Urban Planning and Public Health and has
worked in Colombia, Chile and Thailand with funds from the U.S. Agency for
International Development (USAID).
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MEET THE AUTHOR
One of America's best contemporary poets, Gary Snyder has been central to
the development of the West Coast poetry movement, originating with the City
Lights group in the 1950's. He is the author of numerous books of poetry and
essays, including Turtle Island, Back Country, Regarding Wave, and most re-
cently, The Old. Ways.
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