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Arts & Entertainment
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Wednesday, February 18, 1976
Page Five
Now
Hedy
West rings out at the Ark
By JOAN BORUS These same characteristics
. Wn are reflected in Hedy's per-
GRA\CE Hediwig West is not formances. Somehow the tradi-
someone who fades into a tional ballads of Appalachia
pleasant blur after her per- never will sound the same1
formance is finished. A strik- again. When Hedy sings a bal-
ing strong-featured woman, she lad, or is merely sitting on the
hard-edged, strung-out singing ly stuck with pins and needles.
style that is one of Hedy's trade:
marks. As she describes it, the i Interpreted by Hedy these
vocal production hits the pitch- ballads come alive again and'
es on a sharp edge, making serve as eloquent testimonialsj
them vinegary and keenly of a particular region and its
honed. lifestyle. Many of these songs
has an equally striking rawbon-
ed voice which rings with the
same immediacy on Saturday
morning as it did the night be-
fore.
Sitting with Hedy over a cup
of coffee in the Ark's kitchen
last weekend, I found how sel-
dom my thoughts wandered.
She chooses her words care-
fully, making sure they mean
what she wants them to mean.
A native of northern Georgia,
she speaks in a dialect with a
unique sound, combining both a
British clarity and the drawl
associated with the rural south.
Her words, carefully enunciat-;
ed and unequally stressed, cre-'
ate a distinctive pattern which
focuses and holds your atten-
tion.
porch, a song is never far from
her lips.
BALLAD singing became a
way to relieve the loneliness or
"filling up the wilderness" as
Hedy calls it, of these isolated,t
rural communities. Singing was'
a way of establishing contact
with your neighbor; in fact, one
of the primary criteria used to
evaluate a singer's ability in
Hedy's grandmother's time was
how far a singer "carried,"
rather than beauty of sound. Of-
ten she said she could hear a
person five miles away, singing
in order to announce his arriv-
al.
The isolated conditions of,
these towns gave rise to the,
Hedy performs these ballads!
with a fierce pride and a devo-
tion that comes only from know-
ing and having grown up with
them an an uncultivated part
of daily life. You really listen;
it's as if you hear the words forj
were absorbed unconsciously
by Hedy as a child, who heard
her grandmother sing them
constantly. Only when she was
in high school did she begin to.
record her grandmother and'
try to trace their origins.
the first time. The stark, pri- Singing and husic-making
mitive and frequently gory were and still are integral fac-
story lines come through with ets of rural Southern life. For
an intensity often lost through Hedy's grandmother, singing
stressing the ballad's melodic was almost second nature. Whe-
flow at the expense of its con- Ither she washsewing, churning
tent.; butter. For her the question of
musical ammalgamation is a
IN A SONG like "Bo Lam-' sensitive area. She is critical of
kin," for example, which tells those performers who are into'
the story of an unpaid mason "imitating the image;" that is,
and his murderous revenge, you adapting pre-conceived ideas of
really see the blood and hear what a certain musical idiom
the wails of the baby merciless- is supposedly to entail, without;
acknowledging their own roots
Ieither musically or culturally.
at OFTEN SHE finds that these
same musicians are so in love
gwiththe image that they be-
come musically intolerant when
ztage eS it alters in any way. For in-
stance, when Hedy first came
EDLANDER to New York, she often had
trouble with people who refused
trump to dummy and ruff an- to see that she was a serious
other spade, bringing about this musician, interested and pro-
ficient in idioms other than a
folk tradition.
"I was supposed to be the
little Southern country girl who
was neither educatable or chan-
geable," she recalls.
Actually, this is far from
true. A music major in college,
Hedy has always maintained an
interest in songwriting and com-
posing and has continued her
studies in Germany, studying
with a pupil of Arnold Schoen-
berg. Yet she continues to re-
turn to the music of her child-
hood, a solid core than remains
static 'as she continues to grow
and change.
VIETNAMESE SINGER
WITH ADDISS & CROFUT
NEW YORK P) - Folk
singers Steve Addiss and Bill
Crofut became acquainted with
Pham Duy, known as "the
Wo o d y Guthrie of Vietnam,"
on one of . their tours
in Vietnam. Pham Duy and five
members of his family left
Vietnam the day before its fall
but four of his children were
left behind.
In the words of Crofut, "to
help him restore a sense of
himself in these new and tragic
circumstances," Addiss and
Crofut are taking him and his
17-year-old daughter, T h a i
Hien, on their current fall tour.
AP Photo
Three Academy Award nominees: Carol Kane, up for Best Actress for her performance in
Hester Street, Al Pacino, upper right, for Dog Day Afternoon, and Maximilian Schell, lower
right, for The Man In The Glass Booth.
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HOLLYWOOD - Jack Nichol- (Tommy), Louise Fletcher
son led a parade of nominations (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's
for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), Glenda Jackson (Hedda),
Nest, which captured nine in and Carol Kane (Hester Street).
all. Other films to win multiple
nominations are Barry Lyndon, B E S T S U P P O R T I N G
with seven, and Nashville and ACTOR award noniinations in-
Dog Day Afternoon with several elude: George Burns (Sunshine
each. Boys), Brad Dourif (One Flew
For Best Picture, the nomi- Over the Cuckoo's Nest), Bur-
nations are: Jaws, Nashville, gess Meredith (Day of the Lo-
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's cust), Chris Sarandon (Dog Day
Nest, Dog Day Afternoon, and Afternoon), and Jack Warden
Barry Lyndon. For Best Actor; (Shampoo).
Jack Nicholson (Cuckoo's Nest), For Best Supporting Actress,
Walter Matthau (Sunshine the nominees are: Ronee Blake-
Boys), Al Pacino (Dog Day Af- ly and Lily Tomlin (Nashville),
ternoon), Maximilian Schell Lee Grant (Shampoo), Sylvia
(The Man In The Glass Booth), Miles (Farewell My Lovely),
and James Whitmore (Give and Brenda Vaccaro (Jacque-
'Em Hell Harry). line Susann's Once Is Not
Best Actress nominations in- Enough).
elude Isabell Adjani (The Story Many people thought Burns
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for Best Actor; many others
never thought that Miles or
Vaccaro would make it on the
Best Supporting Actress list.I
For Best Director, Robert;
Altman (Nashville), Stanley
Kubrick (Barry Lyndon), Fed-
erico Fellini (Amarcord), Sid-
ney Lumet (Dog Day Afternoon)
and Milos Forman (One Flew!
Over the Cuckoo's Nest). An-
other surprise here: manyj
thought that Steven Spielberg
would be nominated ,for his di-
rection of Jaws.
Nominations for Best Song
are perhaps the least surprising
element of this year's batch ofI
nominees: "How Lucky Can
You Get" from Funny Lady,
"I'm Easy" from Nashville,
"Now That We're In Love"?
from Whiff, "Richard's Widow"
from The Other Side Of The
Mountain, and the "Theme"
from Mahogany. Not includedI
was the title song from Lucky
Lady, which man thought a
shoo-in.
Best Original Screenplay:
Fellini and Guerra for Amar-
cord, Towne and Beatty for
Shampoo, Pierson for Dog Day!
Afternoon, Lelouch and Uytter-
hoven for And Now My Love,,
and Allan for Lies My Father
Told Me.
The major studios fared as
follows: Columbia led the pack;
with 16 nominations, followed
by Warner Bros. and Para-
mount with 10, United Artists
with nine, Universal with Eight.
MGM with six, while Allied Ar-
tists and Twentieth Century-Fox'
received four nominations each.
All in all, a somewhat unus-
ual year for Academy Awards.
The presentation of the awards
themselves will be aired on
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can be ruffed in dummy, and if,
all three rounds stand up, the'
ruff isn't necessary because the
suit has broken. Therefore it is
a slight improvement on the
above line to play two rounds of
trumps, and then attempt to
ruff a diamond, hoping that the:
defender short in diamonds has'
at most two trumps. This works
just short of 50 per cent of the:
time.
But the best line of play is to
pretend that North is declarer.
After winning the club return,
play a spade to the ace and ruff'
a spade with the ace of trumps.:
Then lead a small trump to
dummy and ruff another spade,
this time with the king. Another
small trump to dummy is fol-
lowed by a final spade ruff. The
North hand is re-entered with
the diamond ace to pull the last
trump. All that is required is a
3-2 trump break (68 per cent), I
and in the event of a 4-1 trump
break, South can safely fall
back on the 3-3 chance in dia-
monds because the situation will
be discovered in time. The total
chance of success in this line
is about 78 per cent.
There is one other line of play
that is inferior to the dummy
reversal but interesting none-
theless. After winning the club
return, cash two, high trumps.
Then lead a spade to the ace
-and ruff a spade high. Lead a
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i he ann arbor film cooperative
TONIGHT-Wednesday, Feb. 18
STOLEN KISSES
(FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT, 1968)
AUD. A-7 only
This may be Truffaut's best film, it is at least the film that
most evokes all we love about him; his lyricism, warmth.
tenderness and poetry. The story of Antoine Doinel is con-
tinued here, from being booted out of the army, through
countless jobs and his continuous search for the ultimate
treasure of every Truffaut film-his goddess woman. Jean-
Pierre Leaud, Delphine Seyrig, Claude Jade.
BED AND BOARD
(FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT. 1970)
AUD. A-9 only
The fluid ('and according to Truffaut, final) chapter of the
Antoine Doinel story finds Jean-Pierre Leaud married to the
woman of his dreams and disillusioned, as he finds that
marriage can be .ust as big a trap as school or work. Truffaut
holds Antoine up to a harsh but fair light in a film that has
some of the funniest scenes in any of his films. Claude Jade
steals the show in a smashing performance as Mrs. Doinel.
French with subtitles.
AUD. A, $1.25 single show
ANGELL HALL $2.00 double show
THURS.: THE 400 BLOWS
Opening lead: J of clubs
The traditional plan of a
declarer in a suit contract is
to ruff any losers from his hand
in d u m m y before pulling
trumps. Sometimes however de-
clarer has problems that can-
not be solved in this manner. In
that case he must reorient his
thinking and prepare to ruff
dummy's losers in his own hand.
This is called a "dummy re-
versal" because declarer's hand
assumes the role of dummy and
vice versa.
It is instructive to examine
the alternative lines of play de-
clarer has at his disposal after
East wins the club and returns
another. The simplest line is to
pull trumps and bank every-
thing on a 3-3 division of the
adverse diamonds. This has
about a 36 per cent chance of
success.
The fourth diamond in de-
clarer's hand poses a tricky
problem. Three rounds of the
suit must be played before it
When declarer cashes'his last
club, East is squeezed. Any dis-
card he makes will enable South
to win the rest of the tricks.
This requires, however, either
a 3-3 diamond break, or the
hand with the long diamonds to
have the only spade guard after
two ruffs, plus the bonus chance
of dropping the KQ of spades
doubleton or tripleton. Still this
only amounts to a total of just
over 50 per cent, and the hand
should be played as a dummy
reversal.
By CAROLYN SMITH
ACTORS IN Ann Arbor are
now heading for the road.
UAC's newest creation, Ars Co-
media,,is making history as the:
first student group to tour their:
show, The Time Of Your Life,'
7/6 Of A Play, before opening.
here jn town.
The thought of touring quite
often brings images of loneli-
ness, physical exhaustion, and
endless travel through non-de-;
script towns. But the actors
seem to enjoy being on the
road.]
Producer Norman LoPatin]
says that "touring will hope-
fully be effective in spreading
the good word about UAC and
the U of M." This week the
troupe is playing high schools
from Bay City to Southfield as
a warm-up for their opening
at Mendelssohn Theater on
Feb. 19th.
The concept of, The Time Of
Your Life seems innovative.
It consists of four one-act come-
dies culled from such sources
as Simon's Plaza Suite, Ander-
son's You Know I Can't Hear
u When The Water's Running,
You When the Water's Run-!
ning and Taylor's Lovers andI
Other Strangers. As LoPatin ex-
plained, "They aren't just four
one-act plays; there is a coher-
ent theme tracing through,'
which is the institution of mar-
riage."
Satinder Sood, a painter and
playwright, is the director of
the production. Althea Wilson,
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have much in common with it.
I'm not 52, I'm not Jewish, and
I'm not a mother. But the part
is put together from different
people I know."
In summing up, cast member
John Lawrie said, "There are'
certain drawbacks, but we've
progressed a hell of a lot the
past couple of weeks. Our per-
formance in South Lyon went
quite well. Everything's start-'
ing to jell. It takes away from
studies, but it's a good outlet."
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