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Monday, April 20, 1987
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Director Seidelman talks
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on parents,
pop-culture
By Seth Flicker
Susan Seidelman is a rare breed
of filmmaker in more ways than
one. Firstly, her past two films,
Desperately Seeking Susan and
Making Mr. Right, have been com -
mercial successes. This is unusual
enough but Seidelman has done
something even more unique: she
has kept her identity. Unlike most
filmmakers she has avoided the
Hollywood pitfall of making, what
she calls, the "generic" film. She is
a woman director making films
with a female point of view.
While still at NYU film school,
she made her first feature, Smithe -
reens, the story about a woman try -
ing to get into the nightlife of New
York, got screened at Cannes. Her
second movie, Desperately Seeking
Susan, starring Madonna and Ro -
sanna Arquette, dealt with amnesia,
a stolen pair of earrings and femi -
nist liberation. In Making Mr.
Right , her latest starring John
Malkovich and Ann Magnuson,
Seidelman experiments with sci -
ence-fiction. She's unsure of her
next venture within her three film
contract with Orion. It could be a
black comedy or a female ganster
movie ("It'll be fun to try to do
something with a little action in
it"). Whatever it is though, Sei -
delman refuses to fall prey to the
ways of Hollywood.
D: With your dad as a hardware
salesperson and your mom a tea -
cher, where did your interest in film
come from?
S: I had no interest in film
really until about 19 or 20. In fact,
I rarely went to them that much as
a kid. But I was always interested in
visual arts. I was one of those kids
who took the art tract through high
school and went to art classes start -
ing from age four or five. Then I
went to college actually as a design
major at a place called Drexsal Uni -
versity. You had to pick a major,
so I said, "O.K. I'll be a fashion de -
signer." It was my second year that
I realized that I was getting kind of
locked behind a sewing machine.
This was about 1970, 1971 and
there was so many interesting
things going on in the world and
here I was sitting behind a sewing
machine.
Really as a way just to get
credits to graduate from college, I
started taking classes in the
humanities department and one of
those classes was film appreciation
101. And I had a great teacher. It's
funny how sometimes in your life
one person can kind of turn the
course of your life around. He was
so funny and inspiring about mo -
vies that I became interested.
D: Where did you go from there?
S: Then I took film appreciation
202 and 303. By the time I got to
be a senior I knew that I liked
watching movies but didn't think
seriously about being able to make
one. I didn't even make a short film
in college...I knew that what I
thought I wanted to be, a fashion
designer, I was no longer interested
in. I applied to film school and I
got in. As soon as I started film
school I knew that this is where I
wanted to be. I made my first short
film and I knew that this is what I
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By Sherry Lichtenwalner
Those of us who don't have one
of our own and even those who do
should definately see Love Life.
The University's revival of this
1948 musical is a fabulous produc -
tion; a gala spectacle full of magic,
love, and music, complete with
show girls in spangled leotards with
feathered headpieces. This past
Thursday at the Power Center, uni -
versity students staged this first-
time revival of the Lerner/Weill
vaudeville with finesse and an un -
beatable cast.
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musical", depicts the life of Sam
and Susan Cooper and their two
children over a 150 year span, be-
ginning in 1791 and continuing to
1948. It is interspersed with vaude -
ville acts that parallel the events
that touch the lives of this family
in Mayville, Connecticut. As Sam
and Susan progress through the
industrial revolution, emancipation,
and the stock market crash, they
change and grow apart. This mu -
sical is the story of their love and
the effect society has on that love.
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cast, was headed by Sam (Doug
LaBrecque), Susan (Sharon Rosin),
and a series of vaudeville actors led
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men who carry in the vaudeville
placards before each act, resplendent
in shimmer tights and a sequined
leotard.
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around me. Of course, the woman
didn't bother to apologize, but no
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or at least yelled at her. But this
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