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 ust 12, 1982 Page 7 'Fantastilcks' is American version of opera -aui is neCae wim uxo v eson 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. See 'FANTASTICKS', Page 10 INDIVIDUAL THEATRES 5th Ave of lberty 761-700 LEAVE YOU SATSUN FEELING 10 sAlye FEET TALL! :/pm RICHARD GERE . DEBRA WINGER AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN THURS, FRI-7:40, 9:55 (R) HELD OVER! 8th WEEK "ONE OF THE YEAR'S BEST" -GENE SfSKEL DIIMIR (R) THURS, FRI-7:00, 9:10 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.