Arts
The Michigan Daily.
Thursday, AugL
-A selection of campus film highlights
Shoot the Moon - Cagney, is only concerned with
(Alan Parker, 1981) looking good in front of the admiral.
High melodrama in California as Also starring Jack Lemmon and
Albert Finney and Diane Keaton, William Powell. (Friday, August 13;
portray a couple whose marriage is Auditorium A, 9:30).
breaking up. Half the scenes are full
of pathos, grief, and emotion; the
other half with ridiculous acting,
overblown violence, and innocuous
scripting. (Friday, August 13; MLB
3,7:30,9:30).
David Copperfield
(George Cukor, 1935)
Look at all the great films and you'll
see that they have one thing in
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of Dicken's David Copperfield. W.C.
Field, Basil Rathbone, and Lionel
Barrymore star in the classic story
of growing up in the Victorian age.
(Friday, August 13; Public Library,
7:30).
Mr. Roberts
(John Ford, 1955)
With dignity and compassion Henry
Fonda has created countless charac-
ters on stage and screen. As the
benevolent Mr. Roberts, he gamely
struggles to make a humane en-
vironment for the men on board a
merchant ship during World War II.
Unfortunately, the captain, James
Fonda
... fighting a war
Gimme Shelter
(D. Maysles, A. Maysles, and C.
Zwerin, 1970)
What could have turned out as an in-
teresting look at the Rolling Stones
Altamont concert, became instead a
demanding documentary on a
phenomenon gone out of control.
Following the promoters, stars, and
cheering crowds through the all-day
festival, the film generates not only
the excitement of the live concert
but the agony of the ensuing
tragedy. (Friday, August 13;
Michigan Theatre, 3:15, 7:00, 10:45).
- -compiled by Richard Campbell-
By Sarah Bassett
SITTING IN a backstage lounge of.
the Lydia Mendelssohn Theater, the
woman says breathlessly: "The moon
turns red on my birthday every year."
Her voice is awed, almost mystical.
She pauses for a moment, then
thrusts one arm into the air. Now she is
angry, afraid. "The moon turns red on
my birthday every year !"she cries.
With just one line, Carolyn Stanford
has exemplified her way of teaching ac-
ting.
Stanford, the director of The Fan-
tastics, a PTP producton, is a small
black woman with a certain presence
about her, a sense of confidence and
warmth. She remembers the smaller
events in life, liketherecent eclipse and
other copper-colored moons. So do the
graduate students working with her -
now that she has reminded them.
"It's difficult learning to express on
stage," says Stanford, "especially for
opera students who are trained in
singing, not in acting ... I picked that
line (from "The Fantastics") to show
them how to look around and use their
Real reggae
own experiences-like watching the
moon turn red-to express them-
selves."
Stanford, trained in opera herself,
believes actors should draw from
within their own selves when playing a
part. She feels the director should not
insist upon her own interpretations.
"I won't accept less than what
someone is capable of doing," she says,
"but I try to give direction ina way that
encourages, in a way that lets perfor-
mers know 'it's for them and not for
me."
Stanford's own stage experience is
extensive. A mezzo-soprano, she has
been a member of several opera com-
panies including New York's Mini Met,
the New York City Opera Theater, and
the Royal Opera of Ghent In addition,
she has performed recitals in Russia,
Canada, Hungary and throughout the
U.S.
For the last four years, Stanford has
taught at the University of Miami
(Florida) where she now directs both
the applied voice program and the
musical theater program.
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By Ben Ticho
I just know this is going to be a great,
concert.
Gregory Isaacs sings some of the best
reggae currently known to the outside
world (outside Jamaica, that is). He's a
veteran with a string of hits winding all
around the "dues years" he put in
around Kingston before achieving suc-
cess abroad, especially in England and
the United States.
And tonight at 9:30 he's playing
Second Chance with "special guests"
Silver Platinum.
Mr. Isaacs (which happens to be the
title of his latest release) does plenty of
political and black-oriented songs, and
activism is always a vital part of his
music. But it is for the sweeter sound of
his love songs that Isaacs is best
known; he has an oddly beautiful voice,
one in my opinion warmer than Toots or
Marley or Cliff ...
I must confess to being totally
ignorant about Isaacs lead band, Silver
Platinum, except that they're also from
Jamaica and have a reputation as being
very danceable.
Isaacs has always played with fine
musicians, though. He's done a bit of
studio work with the Dread Duo, Robbie.
Shakespeare and Sly Dunbar, as have
the virtual majority of respectable con-
temporary reggae ' groups (Black
Uhuru, Mighty Diamonds, Bunny
Wailer).
Sly and Robbie helped out on Isaac's
1979 release Soon Forward, completing
a list of studio musicians which reads
like a reggae nickname zoo: Bingy
Bunny and Bo Peep on guitar, Sticky
and Scully on percussion, Nambo and
Deadly Head on horns, Santa on drums.
(You figure them out). Isaacs presently
performs with a rhythm group called
the Revolutionaires and his familiar
vocal back-ups the Heptones.
If the "Soon Forward" number on the
recent Marley tribute Reggae Sun-
splash '81 is any indication, Isaacs
knows well how to play to a crowd, and
Ann Arbor being a city which ap-
preciates good reggae, I'd expect a
receptive audience waiting at Second
Chance.
Should reggae not tickle your musical
fancy,, there happens to be a second
great concert in town tonight. Jazz-
bluesman-multi-instrumentalist "Gate-
mouth" Brown plays-Rick's American
Cafe (611 Church; 996-2747), starting
around 9:30.
Gatemouth goes back a long, long
ways, having played violin, guitar,
harmonica and mandolin with and
without such notables as Count Basie,
Lionel Hampton, Willie Nelson, Doug
Kershaw, and Hank Williams Jr. Frank
Zappa cites him as a major influence,
which should get you interested
already.
Monroe's
suicide
examined
LOS ANGELES (AP) - County
supervisors on Tuesday ordered a for-
mal review of circumstances surroun-
ding the death of Marilyn Monroe 20
years ago, including claims that a for-
mer coroner's aide was pressured into
certifying her death asa suicide.
A Los Angeles private detective
agency and others have speculated that
the platinum-haired star was killed by
the CIA because of her knowledge,
through contacts with the Kennedy
family, of CIA death plots against
Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
District attorney's spokesman Al
Albergate said his office was gathering
information on several key points such
as the star's death certificate and
alleged missing red diary.