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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1966)
Movie Warrants Grave Epitaph By HTEVE DIMKO Entertainment Editor It's an irreverent joke but the irreverence and the joke arc as lively as formaldehyde. "The Loved One," living now at the Hcilig in all it* cheap, black and white (yes, black and white) celluloid coftin, is a dead disappointment. Loved ones’ leavetaking* try to take on aspects of a serrated satire in this novel movie idea from the F.velyn Waugh novel. Tony Kichardson, who directed "Tom Jones," directs well this at least unique fuliginous farce, but to no real end. It’s too silly for bite, too stupid for savor Oh, there are a few laughs, of course "Laugh" Joyboy, Hod Steiger’s characterization of the prissy, muscle bound chief em baliner at Whispering Glades Memorial Park in Hollywood, is at least interesting. The enormity of his gastronornically gristled mother is repulsively worthy of inescapable heed. Liberace, in his sales pitch to Hubert Morse, walks away with a few good lines that are not his coat tail's And Morse makes a pretty cute kiss once. POEM CAMP Very camp, too, is Morse’s "elegy" written to his uncle Francis ilinslcy/aliaa Sir John Gielgud (who was cashiered by Megaiopoli tan Studios and hanged by his neck). Imperfectly rendered, it goes something like this (apologies to Thucydides): "They told me, Francis Hinsley, They told me you were hung (sic)— With red, protruding eyeballs And black, protruding tongue . . .” But any veritable verve throughout the production is mournfully vacant. Everyone who’s read “Candy" will no doubt notice the touch of Terry Southern who co authored this screenplay. Poor pristine Anjanette Corner, mortuary cosmetician, comes to the sudden con clusion thal tiorror of horrors there are actually MEN after her and they actually want her for more than her faithful passion for necrophilia. Youth and innocence fall prey to iconoclastic disillusionment when, in one of those familiar triangles though this one's a little more weird than you've seen before—Anjanette tangles with poet laziest, Kobert Morse (who quotes his love poetry with a plagiaris ts flair) and the elegant sexual uncertainty, Hod Steiger. HEROINE CONFUSED Our confused heroine finally completes the simile to Candy and pulls a sweets to the sweet caper Not, however, without a few eruptions resurrected even from her lecherous Blessed Reverend. Upcasting of a corpse is done by more than just a rocket; the cast is adequate enough at least to embalm the picture Some caineo roles like Tab Hunter's and Roddy McDowoll's, however, are pointless and an utter waste Jonathan Winters plays (1) the Blessed Reverend of Whispering Glades who wants to "get the stiffs off my property” by developing his RIP acreage into retire ment projects (that way there'll always be vacancies because of the uh swift turnover of occupants) and eventually resurrecting the cadavers into earth circling circuits; and (2) the brother nepotistically employed at the Happier Hunting Ground pet ceme tery; Winters is good but hardly hilarious M OK I-. ACCEPTABLE lotting Mom* play th<* stupid looking poet who pursues An janettc uas a proper bit of casting only because we re used to his pursuing that becoming Coiner from their stint together in 'Quick, Before It Melts,” Other than Rod Steiger, Sir John Gielgud and too little of Robert Morley, though, that's about it as far as the grave display of acting. Regrettably. "The Loved One” flounders because it tried too hard to live. The army oigy in the funeral parlor with what's—uh— stacked in the boxes should have been funny but wasn’t So should the use of the "America, the Beautiful” song motif. Everything should have been funnier Instead, the film's funniest part has to go down as being a brief shot of a picture of President Johnson With that horrible note, it's not hard to sec The Loved One" merits entombment plaqued with this simple epigraph Rest In Peace. Gontrum Gets Grant For German Research Peter Gontrum, associate pro fessor of German at the Univer sity, has been awarded a grant from the American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia to help support his current research in Germany. He is in Germany on a post doctoral research grant from the American Council of Learned Societies. Gontrum is on leave CONVENIENT LOCATIONS EUGENE 6th & Jefferson 296 Coburg Rd. SPKINOPIELD So. A and 8th from the University to conduct | research on the plays of Fried rich Durrenmatt and Max Frisch and their reception in Germany. Dear Customer: Here is an advance notice of the greatest sale of natural shoul der clothing. Vaughn's 2 for the price of 1 sale. Effective immed iately. SUITS Worsteds . . Sharkskins . . Dacron wools . . Many patterns and colors From 49.50 to 120.00 Now 2 for the price of 1 SPORT COATS Harris tweeds . . Herringbones . . Plaids . . a fantastic selection . . 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From 9 12 tomorrow night in the SU ballroom, the Dominions will play and—whenever they i can—give rhythm for what will be going on on the dance floor. The band is probably the best group of its knd this year. There will be no admission charge. The only other thing being carried out on campus of vague interest to the entire student body will be a mcjvie in the “Carry fin” British comedies, be- j ing carried on the screen in the SU ballroom at 2:30 Sunday aft ernoon and on the material in 150 Science at 8:30 that same eve ning. ‘Carry On’ Carried Out "Carry On, Nurse” stars Wil fred Hyde White and Terrence I.ongdon with Shirley Eaton (whose name should be familiar to all lovers of gold bodies from “Goldfinger”). The McDonald has decided to retain “ThunderbaH” until Tues day. Wednesday it will feature an other product of Walt Disney’s animalania, "That Darn Cat.” Playing with that feature film PL-3 Program f, Jd III NTi-M BRINKLEY REPORT 7:00 HTOENE CAM PI'S REPORT 7: JO Tire ART OF SEEING Repeat of presentation of Tuesday, Jan. Irt ft:MO EC ONOMICS 202 JAZZ ( ASl’AI. I>/uis ArniHtrotjg talk» hi* career V:O0 FESTIVAL; "Master <»f Santiago*' l»y Monthrrlaml. A producturn of the Bn ttfch Rroad< a«tifig Oirporatitin EzUcctlE: II Clilllli 8M HIM ll IIVI IfCllt H VlMKilfll nwivE'iii ^vjHEATRE ^ Open 7 p.m. Heaters and Rain Guards Available 2 First Run Features All Color Program) "SPY in your EYE" Dana Andrews Brett Halsey Pier Angeli - CO-FEATURE - "SECRET AGENT FIREBALL" will be a 20minutc Goofy car toon alliteratcly called “Free way Phobia.” Spying—still very much in vogue, it seems—becomes a man’s job instead of a cat's in the two films featured this week at the Eugene Drive-In. Both in color and both labeled as suspense dramas, “Secret Agent Fireball” stars the unknowns Richard Harrison and Dominique Boschero while “Spy in Your Eye” lets Dana Andrews, Brett Halsey and Pier Angeli do the trying. Success Secreted Along with the black comedy "The Loved One” at the Heilig this week is a colored comedy, “The Secret of My Success.” The three wilely women who plan to kill for bills include Shirley Jones, Stella Stevens, and Hon- < or Blackman. James Booth is ap parently the target of their affect ed affections. Meanwhile, back at the Fox and Mayflower . . . The Fox, it is speculated now, may be holding over its boxof fice blockbuster, “The Sound of Music,” until after the academy awards. At any rate, the film will stay at least until Feb. 15 now. And at the Mayflower “My Fair Lady" is still letting London bridges fall down. It stars Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn who clash on words and end up merging because of them. IMPORT CHEESE DELICACIES BEVERAGES MR. 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