Arts The Michigan Daily Wednesday, August 11, 1982 Page 7 Pirating jokes can be fun By Richard Campbell T HOSE EXPECTING The Pirate Movie to be a sad rip-off of the R recent smash Broadway production of Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Pen- zance are in for a big surprise. The Pirate Movie, starring Kristy McNichol and Christopher Atkins, is much closer in style, symbolism, and meaning to Frankie Avalon and Annet- te Funicello's Beach Blanket Bingo than sublime operetta., Which is not exactly a negative comment on the film. In retrospect, the better Beach Movies of the '60s were entertaining because of their absolute worthlessness ~ to society. Sure, there was a cold war and the Vietnam War, but you could always run down to the drive-in and e w 3 forget everything with Annette and Frankie. To top it off, the Beach Movies made little pretense of offering anything but this mindless entertainment. Inter- mitantly, Frankie would talk to the camera, or crack a joke that had nothing to do with the movie. It seemed obvious that the cast and crew had as much fun making the movie as the audience was supposed to have par- tying along with it. These are trying times indeed. But I find it very hard to be mad at anyone involved in 'The Pirate Movie for making a film that is designed, not so much to escape today's problems, than it is to live with them. Okay. Six paragraphs into this mean- dering narrative I'll say it straight. The Pirate Movie is not worth spending $4 Kristy McNichol (left) must fend off a shipload of pirates and the amorous advances of pirate ap- See PIRATE, Page 8 prentice Chris Atkins (right) in the pun-filled 'The Pirate Movie.' See1HPIRATE, PagesRE Ann Arbor art gallery has THEATRES 5th A., at Lbe'y 761-9700 alot more than _sENDS THURS BanrahIHanBasandsFeotalk -By Sarah Bassett r' JUST LIKE INFLATION, the name of a certain Ann Arbor art gallery should be revised upwards-from 16 Hands to 48 Hands. The original name stood for eight artistic pairs of hands belonging to the gallery's founding members. But since early win- ter, the enterprise has undergone a significant transformation. Its location is the same. The shop remains in an older cement- floored storefront on West Washington in downtown Ann Arbor. Much of the work on display seems at first glance unchanged: Hand-made pottery, weavings, jewelry and woodwork. predominate. Now, however, there are only four partners-or eight hands- actually running the business while about 20 artists have been ad- ded to the roster of exhibitors. The new contributors display their works on consignment only, a major departure from the store's long-standing status as an in-house cooperative venture. Artist and publicity coordinator Suzanne Hallett says the changes came about when half of the partners opted out. Three left town while the fourth, Richard Rice, chose to devote his time to directing Artworlds, a local center that provides instruction in the arts. It was obvious, she says, that keeping the store stocked would be too much of a burden for the four remaining members. So they decided to open their space to others working in "fine crafts." Originally, 16 Hands was a collaborative effort begun in the mid- seventies. The founding members wanted "a place to display the kind of high-quality work that intersects crafts and fine art-the fine crafts," said Hallett. "The medium is commonly labeled 'craf- ts,' but the people here make craftsmanship an art." See 16, Page8 WED-12:30, 2:40, 4:50, 7, 9:10 (R) THURS-7:00, 9:10 A DESPERATE WED ROMANCE *0s. RICHARD GERE DEBRA WINGER i AND A GENTLEMAN WED-12:40, 3:00. 5:20, 7:40, 9:55 THURS-7:40, 9:55 (R) Stained glass, pottery, and woodcrafts are on display at 16 Hands on West Washington.