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
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Something New at Last
Dance, New Films Offered
By STEVE DIMEO
Entertainment Editor
While all the theaters but the
Fox and Mayflower have gone
in for something new finally, the
campus will be coming out at last
at least with an all-campus rock
'n' roll dance this Saturday night.
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
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"SPY in your EYE"
Dana Andrews
Brett Halsey
Pier Angeli
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"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.
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