4 ARTS I Tk. AA.,I,; In m cia II VlvII ajIIiUIiy Wednesday, March 31, 1982 Page 5 _ __ _ _ ___ ., ,4i I : 1: 'Chariots of Fir HOLLYWOOD (UPI) - Just as in previous Academy Award ceremonies, the first half hour of Monday's show .contained nothing that was of any in- terest. Three hours later, the audience received its only surprise of the vening when Katherine Hepburn won her fourth Oscar, and then Chariots of Fire came out of nowhere to win best picture. Apart from these two winners, however, the rest of the show was fairly uneventful. When the two Hungarian producers came up to accept their award for foreign-language film, their spontaneous dance of joy was the most lively moment of the entire production. Henry Fonda's Oscar for best actor &was the most expected award of the evening; the only surprise was Jane Fonda's. long and snappy acceptance speech for her father> Fonda and Hepburn were too ill to congratulate each other Tuesday on their Academy Award triumphs as best' actor and actress in On Golden Pond. Their roles as a frail old couple facing their twilight years together in the movie curiously paralleled' their private lives as they approach the end of long, distinguished careers. Fonda, suffering from a heart con- dition complicated by bronchitis, slept late Tuesday. Hepburn, also ailing from bronchitis, remained incommunicado in her hotel room in Washington, D.C., where she is appearing on stage in West Side Waltz. Neither star was present at the 54th annual Academy Awards to savor the Oscar. Fonda watched on television from his Bel Air home. Miss Hepburn was on stage when her Oscar was an- nounced. She returned immediately to the hotel after her performance.. "We tried to call her room," said Fonda's wife, Shirlee, "but Katharine has taken the telephone off the hook." The Oscar was Fonda's first. It was Miss Hepburn's fourth, more than any other performer in academy history. Warren Beatty, nominated in four, categories, managed to come away with the Oscar for Klest director. His story of American communists caught up in the Russian Revolution also cap- tured a best supporting actress award for Maureen Stapleton. John Gielgud won the Oscar for best supporting actor for his performance as the impeccable, snobbish butler in Ar- thur. The 3% hour awards show from the Los Angeles Music Center was a trium- phant night for oldtimers. Hepburn and e,' 'Raid Fonda have almost 100 years experien- ce between them. Gielgud is 77. Honorary awards were presented to Danny Kaye, 69, and Barbara Stan- wyck, 74. Emcee Johnny Carson noted that best actor nominee Burt Lancaster, 68, was "newcomer of the year." Jane Fonda, a nominee for best sup- porting actress for her role in On Golden Pond, accepted the Oscar for her absent father. John Voigt, presen- ting the Oscar for best actress, thanked the academy on behalf of Miss Hep- burn. Raiders of the Lost Ark and Chariots of Fire led the list of winners with four Oscars each, followed by On Golden Pond and Reds, both of which won three. Here is a complete list of Oscar win- ners: PICTURE-Chariots of Fire. ACTOR-Henry Fonda, On Golden Pond. ACTRESS-Katherine Hepburn, On GoldenPond. SUPPORTING ACTOR-John Gielgud, Arthur., SUPPORTING ACTRESS-Maureen Stapleton, Reds. DIRECTOR-Warren Beatty, Reds. FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM Memphisto (Hungary). ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY-Colin Welland, Chariots of Fire. ADAPTED SCREENPLAY-Ernest Thompson, On Golden Pond. ORIGINAL SONG-"Arthur's Theme," Arthur. ORIGINAL SCORE-Vangelis, Chariots of Fire. WART DIRECTION-Raiders ,of the ers,' top Oscar winners The biggest surprise of last night's Academy Awards ceremony was that a British film, 'Chariots of Fire' won the best picture category. It also marked one of the few times that the best director and picture winners were from dif- ferent films. Lost Ark. CINEMATOGRAPHY-Vittoro Stor- aro, Reds. COSTUME DESIGN--Milena Canonero, Chariots of Fire. DOCUMENTARY FEATURE-Gen- ocide. ANIMATED SHORT-CRAC. DOCUMENTARY SHORT-Close LIVE ACTION SHORT-Violet. Harmony. SOUND-Raiders of the Lot Ark. EDITING--Michael Kahn, Raiders of VISUAL EFFECTS-Raiders of the the Lost Ark. Lost Ark. MAKEUP-Rick Baker, An American Werewolf in London. Jim m1 Best Director Warren Beatty Daily Contest winners Due to the tremendous response to the Daily's Oscar Con- test, it took all of five minutes to determine the winner. Congratulations to Stuart Wolf for answering five out of ten trivia questions correctly; and picking four-correct Oscar winners. He'll receive two passes for the Ann Arbor Theater, a Daily T-shirt, and anything else that we might find lying around. Passes to the Ann Arbor Theater will also be given to the runners up. Here are the answers to the triyia questions: 1) Wlat s Heaven's Gate? In the movie of the same name, Heaven's Gate is a roller-skating rink. 2) What were the identification numbers on the seaplane that rescued Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark? NC- 3PO (an allusion to Star Wars' C-3P0). 3) Besides Jack Reed, what other Americans are buried in the Kremlin? "Big Bill" Haywood, and Charles Ruthenberg. 4) Whose paintings are featured in Pennies From Heaven? Edward Hopper's depression paintings were the basis for much of Gordon Willis' photography. 5) Where was Sean Connery stationed in Outland? lo, a moon of Jupiter. 6) What did Lex Luthor ask for in exchange of Superman? Australia. 7) What was the title of the film being filmed within the film version of The French Lieutenant's Woman? The French Lieutenant's Woman. 8) Name three movies that had Bob Balaban in a suppor- ting role. Absence of Malice, Prince of the City, 4nd Whose Life is it Anyway? 9) Who woke up naked in a zoo this year, copying William Hurt's performance in Altered States? David Naughton, An American Werewolf in London. 10) Rocket Used Cars. was the name of James Caans' dealership in Thief. Carl Orff, 86, dead MUNICH, West Germany the age of 5 and his very first com- (UPI)-Carl Orff, internationally positions-50 songs written in 1911 at known composer and teacher of the age of 16-were based on poetry music, has died in a Munich clinic, a by Heine, Hoelderlin and other clinic spokesman said today. He was German classics. 86. Orff, who won world fame for such Orff's Schuiwerk fuer Kinder works as "Carmina Burana" and children's school composition, who revolutionized music-teaching published in various revised editions in the 1930s with his "School Book for between 1930 and 1935, Children," died Monday, the revolutionized musical education s pokesman confirmed. with its simplicity and emphasis on Orff was one of Germany's more rhythm. famous 20th century composers. Orff's most widely acclaimed Born July 10, 1895, the son of a work, "Carmina Burana," a Munich army officer, Orff began to milestone in modern music, was fir- learn the piano, organ and cello at st performed in 1937 in Frankfurt. OE Records The Human League-'Dare' (A&M) Abba-'The Visitors' (Atlantic) At first I thought it was .funny that Philip Wright of The Human League, wants them to be "the electronic Ab- ba." Then I heard these albums and knew that no one was joking. Dare actually finds them quite close to that ideal, though The Visitors may have headed them off at the pass by going as elec- tronic as Abba are ever likely to get. And if you think comparisons to Abba reflect poorly on The Human League, then you've 'obviously misunderstood and underestimated Abba as well as The Human League. The simple and undeniable beauty of Abba was alwasy how much they could do with so little. Though their songs often sounded remarkably similar, each one had its own unforgettable tone and hook. Luckily, though they've gone through spne rather intense changes lately, they haven't lost that basic quality. Much like Hall and Oates, they've managed to protect the purity of their "Europop sensbibility and still make it work in the context of an enec- trometallic Eurodisco edge. r The Human League arrived at a remarkably similar sound from exactly the opposite direction. Coming from the dark and arty realm of Germanic elec- tronicism, they have gradually em- braced the joyous durability of classic pop. That change split, the original League, generating the stridently political and aggressive danceable Heaven 17 and the intelligent Europop populism of the present Human League. However, if you think that going pop automatically relegates The Human League to the stature of lightweights, then you might as well stop reading right here; The Human League are only for those willing to take pop music seriously. And since The Human League take pop seriously, they naturally take Abba seriously. Now, if you still think of "Fernando" and "Waterloo" when you think of Abba, that remark will probably hit you broadside, But if you have any respect for the on-the-mark sensibility that generated those pop wonders,-then you've got a good start on imagining that it wouldn't be beyond them to actually keep abreast of modern sounds. And in so doing they have reached Human League territory. Both groups put their major thrust into immediately irresistible pop hooks, which they then cloak $ in sensitive electronic arrangements. The music and lyrics always have just enough of a modern edge to keep their work from sounding vapid, but carefully avoid the self- defeating seriousness and arty coldness that so seriously hinders Simple Minds, Orchestral Manouevers, Gary Numan, Soft Cell, and so on. At the same time, both The Human League and Abba are ,every bit as danceable as any of the& above. Admittedly, most of this praise is only true about the first side of The Visitors.. The second aside finds them back to their old cabaret-cum-TV-jingle tricks. Even here, though, you really can't deny the seductive immediacy of every hook and turn, even if most of the songs are reminiscent of Julie Andrews. Damn, if "A Spoonful of Sugar" wasn't a great pop song, then' I don't know what was. Likewise, The Human League are shooting for that ultimately undeniable refrain, that totalitarian hypnotic hook. In that light, we run up against both the strengths and limitatiofis of the form. There is a transcendental populism possible to good pop music at the very same time that it is prone to a lowest- common denominator sort of jingleism. Luckily, Abba seem to be pulling them- selves away from that mentality, while Th@ Human League seem far too smart to even approach it. Which is not to say that The Human League won't use pop devices to their own end and this flirt with its most tempting weaknesses. Like all pop ban- ds, I could see either Abba or The Human League writing the new "Let's Go Krogering." And the funniest thing about pop music is that it would be hard to tell if that was their lowest debasement or their highest achievement. Of course, that is hardly an issue with these two discs-they are both highly intelligent and well-crafted affairs. That may be somewhat of a surprise from Abba, but it shouldn't be from the Human League; I think we've only seen the start of what they can do. -Mark Dighton Support the Marchof BIRTH DEFECTS FOUNDATION P375 N.MAPLE 769-1300 BARGAIN SHOWS $2.5 Before 6 PM .1 A "SHOCKING" CONTEST SALUTING hEIJ- I L 1982 COLUMBIA PICTURES COLUMBIA PICTURES' new film, SILENT RAGE, features martial arts master CHUCK NORRIS against a h AS.A..rwlw+e.wi..9- - ....., .+..J.L... 11,...,__ . "& ow *_ . t9:45 1:15