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Dont be left out in the cold!P..Bx63 tAz contact Ed:668-1.829 Daytona Beach Fla. 32022 Jon: 668-6137 903-672-7673 Know who you ore dealing with- Member in good standing Daytona Beach Area Chamber of Commerce and Better Business Bureau 904-255-0981 or 904-255-0246 .A 11 TJ WAklhA~r1C CD AAI V licensed by Interstate Commerce Commission ICC 146261 Sub 3 'willful suspension of disbelief' when you see this movie. This is pure, unadulterated cotton candy slapstick to the tenth degree. If you're savvy, you have realized by now that this fantasy film does not start out on a particularly happy note. As the title suggests, this film is about loneliness. What's funny about loneliness? Not a heck of a lot really, but this movie makes a valiant effort to find the humorous side of a basically un- pleasant phenomenon. Martin quickly finds company in his loneliness when he meets Charles Grodin in Central Park. Grodin im- mediately gives old Steve some tips on how to be a good "lonely guy." As we see the roots of a whole lonely guy cult beginning to form, Martin's satire of the human race begins to show through. Once he has resigned himself to lonely guy status, Steve follows the advice of the expert and gets himself an apar- tment which will become "his best friend in the world." Armed with a fern to talk to, he sets up shop. Grodin gives a stunning portrayal of what a "lonely guy" should be like because he is really a bland, boring sort of person to begin with. Director Arthur Hiller plays with the subject of loneliness in an amusing, albeit obvious manner. The phone becomes a central element in the "lonely life." To subtly make this point, Hiller plans several shots in which the ominous telephone takes up about half of the screen, and Martin and the rest of the friendly apartment take up the ADRIAN'S ('T-SHIRT PRINTERY TEAM other half. Among the more humorous scenes of the movie was one which is familiar to me, in which Martin walks in to a crowded restaurant alone. As soon as he announces his solitude to the maitre d' all conversation instantly ceases. A spotlight comes on Steve and follows him to his seat, all ears are tuned in to his drink order, and also his request that everyone begin talking again. A quick, furtive glance around the theater revealed to me that, you guessed it, I was the only single party for about ten rows in either direction. I wanted to stand up and explain that I was on assignment for the Daily, and ' that I really have lots of friends, and a dog, and fish ... . The movie's redemption comes from the one great thing which saves many a dying movie: romance. Judith Ivey gives a fantastic performace as a woman who has been married to six "lonely guys" before meeting Steve. She calls herself Iris, and quickly becomes the center of Steve's life. Whereas Danielle was only good for a physical relationship, Iris is a real woman. Through a series of mishaps, Steve repeatedly loses her phone num- ber. To find her he has to resort to such tactics as calling every Iris in the Manhattan phone book. When he finds her they have a wonderful relationship - too wonderful. Iris loves Steve so much that she is afraid to love him. Which is worse, I wonder, not enough love or too much? Perhaps this film represents Martin's attempt to define what happens to "wild-and-crazy guys" gone wrong. Although it has some fun moments, it lacks a real story. It seems to depend entirely on cliche situations and gag lines. How does that go? Gag me with a Steve Martin joke.... . Although Steve can imitate a well-known singer, he cannot imitate a popular person in his film A Lonely Guy. A little dru By David Grayson THERE IS A popular attitude among film critics and en- thusiasts alike that no great literary work should be tur- ned into a movie. A bevy of films support this notion (e.g. Polanski's Tess and Strick's Ulysses) but there are a few notable exceptions which include Volker Schondorff's Thea Tin Drum, and adaptation on Gunter Grass's splendid novel. Like many of the other successes in this category, Schlon- dorff has taken extensive liberties with the text, lopping off the last third of the novel and condensing much of the first two. But Schlondorf does come up with a coherent, unified tale which cinematographer Igor Luther captures beautifully. The story is of a boy, Oskar (David Bennent), who upon' realizing his mother's incestuous relationship with her cousin, stunts his growth at the age of three and refuses t. succumb to any other responsibilities placed on a normally maturing child. All the while Europe is buckling under Hitler's Nazi regime which Oskar joins for a brief time as a member of a freak show for the German military's entertainment. The movie's and the war's conclusion coincide with Oskar's decision to return to his normal size. Subtle in its representation of artistic repression under Hitler, The Tin Drum is an interesting piece of filmmaking to, any observer who refrains-from direct comparisons to the book. The film is a presentation of Cinema Two and shows Friday night at 7 and 9:30 p.m. at Lorch Hall. 100's of Surplus Shrt 3135.50 Attention University of Michigan Students, Staff and Faculty... See the new desktop ZENITH Z-100 COMPUTER now on display at the University Cellar, 341 E. 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