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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 21, 1965)
'Sandpiper Sincere Flop; Burtens Best at Kissing By KTEVK DIMEO Entertainment Editor To be free as a bird (genus Acfitin) is what Kichard Burton .should be from I.iz -at least in pictures, since she ha* seemed to do him a double bed of good at home. lint if it weren’t for her, there wouldn't he embarrassing, episo die "Sandpipers” for Burton. Of course if it weren’t for her, there wouldn't be pendulous protuber ous and flaming flesh for ogling audiences If it weren’t for those, however, there would probably be no i.iz. Whatever "The Sandpiper" is as a result, it is a sincere attempt at the unconventional in subject matter. Motif Skillful The sandpiper motif is carried through with remarkable dedica tion anil congruity. Significantly, when Burton first visits Liz (mo ther of Morgan Mason who has been forced to enroll in Burton’s -fc It*ilS^KHS_ HAMMERS! HVS Theatre M WUlMittlt Vot InrriN bill Call HMRI InU oa In Lobby Duty 12 Moo* Til 7 P M AIM At Rot Ulrica Before Pal formaara HI. Lag* Hal. (tun. Thru Thur» • p. m.) IN 12S IN rn * Hat., 1:M P m. „ 2 2J 2 M 2.21 M>d Mai, 2 pro III | 75 141 tat. * Mua. Mai , 1 pm. 2H 221 IN parochial school), 1,1/ j* mending the broken wine of the bird. The bird makes its own prison in the beach house and is never com pletely free attain The only way to tame the sandpiper, says Id/. (who is in fact the bird carnally incarnate), is to let it fly free and she lives to prove her re mark. I hough not always smooth, photography of the Kirn Novak country (Big Sur) is artful and pleasing except when the print reveals its dancing black lines (ironically, they ran come from celluloid that's the run of t h e reel). The story line abandons social convention with abandon when it has Burton desert the sham of a ministerial career and a happy marriage and compromise a nat ural. naturalistic painted paint er to compromise himself in the end. Flick Talkative It’s understandable that Martin KansohotT and his team should be a bit self-conscious about produc ing a great picture after adding nearly 2 million dollars to the Burtons’ Swiss bank account But try as hard as they do, they have just not come up with art that entertains and says something— perhaps because the movie says it too often It cannot talk itself into an artistic manifesto for moral renegades. And the cast is helpless to help Eva Marie Saint ("Exodus,” "North by Northwest”), who does well with what she has, has noth ing more than skin and bones to work with in her wronged wom an characterization Charles Bron son (“The Great Escape”) and Robert Webber are little more than dislikablc creeps. Little James Mason, as Liz’ truant bant ling, does manage to show a bit of promise in his bit of a role. Essentially, though, “The Sand piper" is the Burtons' and the Burtons arc hardly at their best. NOW PLAYING HURRYI ENDS TUESDAY <E2 rox EVEKORKENK cDONALD They Should'a Stood in Bed! The story of the tired husband... the bored wife ...the happy bachelor with the mad pad...and the big switch that began with that go-go girl in a cage! FRANK DEBORAH _ DeON Si WflTRfl«KfiRR • MflRTiN MCSHHSOGE CROCKS IN TECHNICOLOR CESAN HtRMJONt TONY JOHN MANCY . iTAr-i ROMERO' BAODELEY' BILLMcGIVER' sinatra'LOPEZ ALSO-FIRST RUN! An A C Product*** P»ctun* Cliff Robertson is WHO IS DOING WHAT TO WHO? IN x I WsqaBtfW EASTMANCOLOR mum ms UNITED ARTISTS ■ The Fun Starts When They Take Their Cloaks and Daggers Off! Contrary to the script, it is Bur ton who proves himself the ar tist, not Liz. Males might gloat that Burton should be so un-Am erican as to be stronger than his wife at least in acting. But it is only in spurts that Burton bares his genius. Most of the time it’s laying latent there on the beach j beside the hot flesh of Liz. Liz herself is only infallible when she’s smiling at Burton and may easily lead perceptive view ers to think she is thinking of after take recesses. In the love scenes, of course, both excel. Strangely enough, it's as if they'd put body and soul into practicing those scenes day and night. Truly admirable dedi cation to roles. They must have written in a few extra for good measure (and for good boxoflice action), for they come too often, too incongruous and hence lose any possible excitation value (and thus any value at all). Life was already a nepenthe for the movie role Liz plays The co mingling of hers with Burton's is similar oblivion for Burton. "The Sandpiper” should be doom ed to the same oblivion. New Yorker To Sing at SU Ronny McClean, a New York born singer and harmonica player who has made appearances across the nation, will appear in concert in the Bottomof-the-Bowl to night at 8 p.m. McClean, who prefers not to be called a folksinger. will be ac companied by Eugene’s John Bunce on guitar. The event will be sponsored by the Student Union Jazz Commit tee, and will replace the commit tee’s scheduled concert. No ad mission will be charged. wnHHK: % m TETE-A-TETE, Dick and Liz contemplate nepenthe on a beach in Big Sur in a cut from "The Sandpiper,'’ held over at the Ileilig. Thursday Feature Times EUGENE DRIVE-IN: Genghis Khan—7:15; Cat Ballou — 9:45. FOX: Sound of Music—8. HEILIG: Sandpiper—6:15, 10; Of Human Bondage—8:15. MCDONALD: Masquerade—6:15, 10; Marriage on the Rocks — 8:05. FRI. 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